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Aggravationstation ,

No facial hair. 15 year old me hated that he had to shave his sweet nu-metal chin goatee.

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Taint nation just wasn’t the same afterwards

Aggravationstation ,

Taint misbehavin’

QuantumBamboo ,
@QuantumBamboo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Snowball throwing was banned because a nephew of a friend of a friend of a teacher was supposedly blinded by one. Same school had an assembly that informed us that listening to heavy metal would make us want to kill our friends.

maynarkh ,

listening to heavy metal would make us want to kill our friends.

Maybe they mixed up cause and effect there

Hamartiogonic ,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

Yeah, it’s well known that you can’t listen to heavy metal if you haven’t killed anyone yet.

colonial ,
@colonial@lemmy.world avatar

Snowball throwing was banned because a nephew of a friend of a friend of a teacher was supposedly blinded by one.

FWIW, this can actually happen, although I still think that’s an overbearing rule. One of my younger siblings had a teacher who was blind in one eye - ice shards from a snowball when she was in elementary.

Purple_drink ,

I got in trouble for doing homework at school. Because it was meant to be done at home.

0_0j ,
@0_0j@lemmy.world avatar

Lol Nerd

tetris11 ,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

I loved doing my homework at school. It was so easy to concentrate, all the textbooks were there, and then afterwards you have whole evening to yourself at home to watch whatever you want without any guilt or stress

BlitzoTheOisSilent ,

Was in an AP English class, and we were given a book on AP format for writing essays and such (think proper way to cite sources, alphabetize authors, other grammatical and formatting rules, etc). The class was given an example handout and told to group up into fours and go over the handout, finding mistakes and such based on the book previously mentioned.

When we went over it as a class, every group found basically every mistake except one. Every group missed this one mistake, and none of us flagged it because the book we were supposed to base all of this off of stated that it, in fact, was not a mistake. Since it was a graded assignment, we started debating with the teacher that since everyone didn’t flag it, and the book we were given said it was actually correct, we shouldn’t be penalized for it.

The teacher, however, refused, stating that it was incorrect based on AP formatting standards. Students even showed her, in the book we were given, where it said that the “mistake” was in fact correct. She refused to budge, and arguing continued.

The discussion ended when she (the teacher) finally said, “I’m the only one in this room with a Master’s degree in English, you got it wrong, I’m not hearing further debate on this,” and took the points off from all of us.

Same thing happened with a math teacher (who was an absolute piece of shit, literally everyone including the staff hated him, but that’s for another time). Everyone got a problem wrong, and when he went over it, several students pointed out the answer we all got was correct based on how we were initially shown how to solve the problem. He pulled the same “I’m the only one here with a degree in mathematics, so none of you are getting the points for it because you’re just wrong.”

Several students went to other math teachers and showed it to them, who in turn went to the piece of shit and not only pointed out that he was wrong, but the head of the math department was basically demanding either the points be restored or the question thrown out. The next class he went on a long spiel about how “after conversing with several of my other academic colleagues, it was brought to my attention it was a poorly designed question, and thus I will be removing it from all of the tests.”

Just fucking admit when you’re wrong, all you’re teaching us with your fancy degrees is that you’re a prick and to resent authority figures.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Just fucking admit when you’re wrong, all you’re teaching us with your fancy degrees is that you’re a prick and to resent authority figures.

This is correct; there is a section in the Aviation Instructor’s Handbook about this. It is important for a teacher to establish themselves as a subject matter expert, you absolutely should appear knowledgeable and competent. There are ways to do this wrong. For instance, if you don’t know something, just make shit up. If a student asked a question I didn’t know the answer to, I had a go-to technique for handling it: I would turn it into a lesson on aviation reference materials. “What book would you look for that in? Let’s see if we can go find it.” Another way to undermine your own credibility is to insist you’re right no matter what. Your students WILL see through that and it WILL undermine your credibility.

And it’s one thing to pull that shit when you’re a high school English teacher and you’re not responsible for anyone else’s safety. A flight instructor is not only a teacher, but also sometimes the only qualified airman on the plane. “I don’t want to fly with you anymore, you scare me. A real expert pilot doesn’t have to pretend to know what he’s talking about.”

Your students are smart, capable scholars and they should be respected as such. It’s remarkable how many people are in education professions that don’t get this.

Toribor ,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

Yeesh. I’ve had teachers that will give points back if all (or nearly all) students get a question wrong on a test because they know it’s more likely their own failure than the students. Maybe the question is confusing or poorly worded, maybe the material wasn’t covered or it’s too difficult with the amount of time available.

andrewta ,

not really a school rule but it is one they tried to push on my mom when i was in elementary school.

i was the tiniest kid in class and my mom wanted me to take karate lessons. to give me some self esteem. the teachers tried to tell her the only thing it would do would make me want to get into fights. but somehow playing football would have been completely ok. so a high impact physical sport where you grab people and throw them to the ground is ok… as long as there is a ball involved. but giving a little kid some self esteem in an environment that encourages restraint and self control is not ok.

this was sometime around 1982-1985 i forget exactly what year.

moronic way of thinking.

grasshopper_mouse ,
@grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world avatar

My high-school math teacher made us all submit our work in these tiny notebooks that were like less than half the size of an American standard notebook, with unlined paper. He would write the homework problems on the board and then you had to copy them into the tiny-ass notebook and then hand write all your work on the single tiny-ass page, he would fail you if you used more than one page or side of a page because “One page is all the room you need to work out a problem.”

I am really horribly bad at math and even writing numbers down is hard for me, sometimes i can’t even read what I wrote, so being forced to write them even smaller was a nightmare. I barely passed his class. Plus he was just a total dick in general to anyone who struggled in his class, and most students did (it was already the math class for dumb people), and we could all tell he didn’t want to be there.

I hope he’s miserable whenever he is now.

nudnyekscentryk ,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

But why? Did they collect the notebooks to check the homework?

grasshopper_mouse ,
@grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world avatar

Yup, you had to take the page out and turn it in.

nudnyekscentryk ,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

Well in such case I can see little rationale behind that

Anticorp ,

My algebra teacher was an ex Army Airborne Ranger who hated kids, and probably people in general. Whenever I asked a question because I legitimately didn’t understand why a formula worked the way it did, he would tell me to shut up. When i finally protested and said “I can’t shut up because I don’t understand!”, he made me stand outside the door to the classroom for the rest of the period.

BigLgame ,

I had a teacher like this senior year, finally one time when she made me stand outside I just went out to the parking lot and drove away and never went back to that school. Switched to a virtual program and passed that way.

Anticorp ,

Wow, that’s wild. There were no virtual programs when I was in high school, so that wasn’t an option for me. It wasn’t until several years later that colleges started offering remote learning programs by sending VHS tapes in the mail. Haha.

BigLgame ,

Yeah it was the early days of that kinda thing, went from a c-d student to an A student right away. Should’ve been working that way the whole time for me.

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    Zahille7 ,

    What the fuck even happens in a dorm meeting? “Keep it down, don’t smoke inside, drink responsibly”?

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    Zahille7 ,

    That’s actually insane

    dutchkimble ,

    Mr Miaggi approves

    evasive_chimpanzee ,

    I guess this is less of a regulation and more of an individual teacher. I had a math test that was multiple choice, with space in-between each question to do the work. I did everything correctly for a particular problem, including writing down the exact correct answer, but I circled the wrong multiple choice answer. There was a minus sign instead of a plus sign for one of the terms, and I just missed it.

    When we got the tests back, and it was marked wrong, I asked the teacher if I could still get points for it because I clearly actually did the math right. The teacher said that only the multiple choice answer I circled mattered, so I still got points off.

    The next test was 5 pages with 5-ish questions on each page. The front of the last page only had 1 question, so I wrongfully assumed that was the last problem on the test, but there were 3 problems on the back. I only noticed this when I went to turn it in, and with the teacher watching, I just circled 3 answers at random. It turns out, I somehow circled the correct answers, but the teacher marked them wrong because I didn’t actually do the work; I just got lucky.

    I complained, and to their credit, the teacher relented and gave me the points.

    altima_neo , (edited )
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    In middle school, we had some militaristic gym coaches. Youd think we were in boot camp or something? They have very specific rules that had to be followed to a T.

    You had to wear briefs, no boxers allowed. If you did have boxers, you had to have briefs under them.

    You had to wear the school gym uniform, no exceptions.

    The provided shorts were super short, so you could also wear sweats, but you had to wear the shorts underneath them.

    You had to have your shirt tucked in.

    You had to form a line in your designated spot and wait on the playground for the class to start before the gym coaches would arrive to take attendance. This was in the SoCal heat.

    During attendance, the coach would also inspect your uniform. Youd have to show the band of your briefs and shorts to show compliance with the rules.

    You had to use the gym shower, no exceptions. God that was awful and awkward.

    You break enough rules and youd collected “non-strips”, like a demerit, which would earn you detention.

    All that hubub and all we ever did was run laps on the field. We used the gym once or twice, but I cant even remember what we did. All the attendance, uniform crap, and shower took up most of the period.

    Its no wonder I hated gym class and exercising after dealing with that shit. It wasnt till I hit my 30s that I realized I quite enjoyed working out and hiking.

    wuphysics87 ,

    All the pants, underwear, and shower rules dude sounds like a pedo

    altima_neo ,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    It’s was actually two dudes who ran the class. One was a bit more chill but the other was straight out of Full Metal Jacket.

    Delphia ,

    The underwear rule could have more to do with accidental flashing if the uniform shorts have very short legs.

    altima_neo ,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    He always said it was for support, as boxers don’t offer any.

    claycle ,

    Perhaps, but middle-schoolers genuinely stink to high heaven, especially after P/E. I think one can imagine more obvious/less conspiratorial reasons for showers being mandatory.

    klemptor ,
    @klemptor@startrek.website avatar

    Yeah fuck gym class. I actually think it’s super important for kids to be active but the way it’s implemented, especially at the junior high and high school levels, is asinine. And your situation sucked, what a stupid amount of bullshit!

    I was a habitual skipper of gym class from about grade 2 until I graduated high school. I’d only participate enough to get a D, and some marking periods I misjudged and got an F. The only times I didn’t try to skip were when we had the weight room, because I actually liked that. But failing gym class had exactly zero impact on anything in my life. My dad gave me the whole “I’d be disappointed in you, but I’ve learned not to have expectations so you can’t disappoint me” schpiel, which whatever, emotional manipulation was my parents’ bread and butter, so I didn’t really care. Other than that, no repercussions at all.

    BlitzoTheOisSilent ,

    Yeah, I remember one of my teachers (I think my high school biology teacher) chastising us a bit one day because most of the class would come from PE before hers. She was complaining that we smelled like sweat and working out and all that.

    But we weren’t allowed (or given even close to enough time at the end of the PE class) to use the showers. You basically showed up, had until the second bell (about 5 minutes after the first) to be in the gym ready to go, you’d run/play/workout/whatever for almost an hour straight, and then be given at most 5 minutes to change and go to your next class.

    No shit we stank, and when we asked why we couldn’t use the showers, we were told there was no way for us to be monitored in there, so it left too many opportunities for misdeeds and shit.

    altima_neo ,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    Our showers were strange. It was basically a wide hallway with showerheads along both walls. And considering how strict my gym coach was, he’d have everything on a schedule and timed. So everyone would go to the locker room at the same time, get undressed and hit the shower at the same time. We had to have a towel wrapped around our waists. Then wed have to all wait at the showers exit for everyone to finish, and only then would we be released back into the locker room.

    JCPhoenix ,
    @JCPhoenix@beehaw.org avatar

    No talking during lunch. This was in a public elementary school in the early/mid 90s, at the first school I attended through second grade. Literally the only school I attended that was like that. It was so fucking stupid.

    Of course, kids tried to talk to their friends, whispering and such. I got in trouble once because a teacher saw me whisper to my friend who asked me a question and so I got moved to sitting with older kids I didn’t know for the rest of the lunch period. That was the first time I got in trouble at school, so I was crying.

    Never understood why we couldn’t talk. I think because it’d eventually get too loud in there? Which, who cares? Didn’t matter; family moved and I switched schools. Where it was totally normal and acceptable to socialize during lunch.

    sidekickplayah ,

    HOLY SHIT! Mine had the same stupid-ass rule! It was the mid 2000s for me, and I managed to get myself in trouble ONCE. The yard duties told me that I had to spend the rest of my lunch in the multipurpose room instead of getting to leave for recess. And you know what I did? I sure as hell didn’t stay. I snuck out as discretely as I could because even at my small age, I knew that rule was bullshit. Never got caught, but I’m still salty that I even got in trouble in the first place. Thanks for reading.

    SeaJ ,

    Did you live in the South per chance? My school had the same policy in Louisiana.

    JCPhoenix ,
    @JCPhoenix@beehaw.org avatar

    Nope, this was in the Midwest! Missouri, to be somewhat more specific. I do know our principal (who I didn’t mind) was often in the lunchroom. Maybe she was from the south? No clue.

    SeaJ ,

    Write each vocabulary word 20 times if you have to go to the bathroom during class. Not a great policy for seven year olds and resulted in several accidents (including me).

    We also could not talk to each other during lunch at all. Paddling was also still allowed.

    shikitohno ,

    Don’t ask the gym teacher with the German last name, blond hair in a buzz cut and a swastika tattoo on his arm if he was actually a Nazi, or he’d give you detention. Probably not a formal school rule, but people still got detention for it.

    Varyag ,
    @Varyag@lemm.ee avatar

    But was he???

    Anticorp ,

    If it looks like a Nazi, and it quacks like a Nazi, it’s probably a Nazi.

    Death_Equity ,

    The only way to know for certain is trepannation via procussive excision.

    Honytawk ,

    Nah, have you ever seen a non-Nazi with a swastika tattoo?

    And I don’t mean those Hindus with a mirrored swastika.

    EmoDuck ,

    It’s going to be a maze

    wuphysics87 ,

    Shaving. I was obstinate enough about it they ultimately gave up. A coach would pull you out of lunch and hand you a razor. Fuck that. I’m not doing it. What are you gonna do? Shave me yourself?

    tetris11 ,
    @tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

    guy, right? or do they enforce this for girls?

    sexual_tomato ,

    What are you gonna do? Shave me yourself?

    They put you in a tiny cubicle in a room where you do your work and nothing else in total silence for the entire school day. Or send you home unexcused.

    BlitzoTheOisSilent ,

    My dad’s trade school had this rule back in the 70s/80s. If you showed up and weren’t clean shaven, you had to pay $0.25 for a disposable razor and small little pouch of shaving cream. If you refused, you were sent home for the day.

    He had a teacher that he said was really well liked among the students, former Marine who I think served in Vietnam. The guy had a coconut carved into a monkey’s head on his desk, and he’d tape a cigarette in its mouth. But he had some odd rules and, according to my dad, could be a scary dude at times.

    Like, if he caught you yawning, he sent you out of the class because “You aren’t full awake, and therefore didn’t prepare for class properly with a proper night’s sleep.”

    If the class got off track, or really pissed him off, he’d either: A. Lift one of those old-school metal drafting tables off all four of its feet and slam it back down, causing a HUGE boom sound that got everybody’s attention, or, B. He’d drop-kick the coconut monkey head down the hallway before returning to the class.

    xmunk ,

    Just wait till you get hired by a large corporation. It boggles the mind how idiotic bureaucracy can be.

    Spacemanspliff ,

    Twice I’ve found myself working in the corporate world and the amount of busy work and needless things completely boggled my mind.

    xmunk ,

    I was working at a small agile company… we were acquired by an ogre because we were so profitable. Our parent company has been trying it’s damnedest to reduce our profitability with as many bullshit policies as it can manage.

    sibannac ,

    Lose your punishment stamp card? We’ll assume it was full and get the next card(it went green, blue, then red.) and detention essays. Fill or lose another card double the previous punishment. I burned the cards I got and handed the ashes to the principal at the end of the year.

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