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ShadowCatEXE ,
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Not a rule, but I got in trouble by jumping near a brick wall. The school I went to had bars on the bottom windows, and kids used to jump off the wall and hang off them. During recess, I was jumping beside the wall, and got yelled at.

It was a catholic school. Most teachers were garbage. Except this one Australian teacher. He was awesome.

meanmon13 ,

My highschool insisted t-shirts were designed to be tucked in and thus anyone wearing a t-shirt had to have it tucked in or be sent home. I have always worn button-up shirts untucked and they didn’t seem to have a problem with that…

Anticorp ,

That’s really odd, since it’s pretty much the opposite. Button up shirts are usually designed for tucking, and T-shirts for wearing untucked.

LordJer ,

I attended a Catholic high school. One of the rules was that if you did not serve detention within a week of it assigned you could face suspension. During my school’s weekly mass a friend next to me cracked a joke. And I burst out quietly laughing. The assistant principal, sitting in the pew behind me, scolded me then gave me 7 hours detention. This was a on a day before a long weekend so it was physically impossible for me to serve all 7 hours within a week. My parents were called in and the school informed them I was facing suspension. My dad ask what I did to warrant to 7 hours detention leading to the suspension. The assistant principal said well he laughed during mass. My dad looked at me then looked at the assistant principal. He sigh and said “that’s fucking stupid”. My dad then turned around and walked out of the office. Days later at school the assistant principal said they were going to show me leniency. Removing the suspension charges.

son_named_bort ,

Sophomore year of highschool my school had a new attendance policy where if you miss more than 4 days of class you automatically failed the class unless you did after school detention for each day of class pass 4 that you missed. What made the rule stupid was that there were no excuses allowed, so that if you were sick for 5 or 6 days you’d either fail or have to do a bunch of after school detention. The school changed it the next year to allow for excused absences, which is what it should’ve been to begin with.

Anticorp ,

This is the kind of shit that made me lose all faith in school administrators. Extreme mandatory attendance rules have absolutely nothing to do with curriculum, and everything to do with money. They - almost without fail - disproportionately impact disadvantaged students. I’m lucky that I finished on-campus college before they implemented mandatory attendance at college too, or I would have outright failed. There were so many times that I’d have to miss class because I got stuck at work. I would cram extra hard for tests when that happened and still pass with good grades. But under the new rules I would have failed all of my classes.

sramder ,
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“Students may not bring anything inappropriate to school.”

maynarkh ,

Yeah I’ll leave my penis at home

sramder ,
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I pointed out that you could stab someone in the eye with a pencil making a basic tool of learning into a wildly inappropriate object. It was really rough doing all my work in crayon ;-)

Rhusta ,

I was taking classes at a community college around I wanna say 2011 or 2012. Teachers didn’t want you to use phones during class because they didn’t want you to cheat or be distracted, but there was a big push from the administration to get students to buy digital copies of the textbooks (I assumed because physical copies can be sold used and that was eating into their profits). But reading the digital textbooks on your smartphone was in direct conflict with the no phone policy. So the workaround they found was to say, “phones are not allowed but tablets are ok and encouraged” (which is silly because a tablet can do anything a phone can do). To add confusion around this time phone manufacturers were exploring with making bigger and bigger screens, meanwhile tablets were exploring being more portable, so there was ambiguity in the distinction between the two both in function and physical dimensions. So how did they determine what devices were allowed and which ones were banned you ask? They landed on an arbitrary dimension of 7 inches. Anything smaller than 7 inches was a phone and was clearly being used to cheat, anything larger was a tablet and was an instructional tool. Teachers were given rulers to measure devices and if you were caught using a device smaller than 7 inches you would be disciplined for academic dishonesty. Mind you we also had laptops that also were not viewed as an issue, the school had free WiFi everywhere on campus, and we had apps like fb messnger for messaging and Skype and google voice for phone calls and also access to just Google, so there really was no distinction in mechanisms for academic dishonesty or for distractions between the two.

SuperSpruce ,

Imagine if this rule was still around and you brought a foldable

TeNppa ,

As soon as you close it up, it would be taken away

Vej ,

No backpacks. We had to have all of our books and class work on us at all time due to poor locker placement as the school was being renovated.

But hey, messenger bags were 100% fine. What the fuck.

Catsrules ,

Have you seen the videos of students bringing anything but backpacks in opposition to this.

Vej ,

No, but I want to now. I’m glad I am out of school for this reason.

mub ,

Most of them are stupid especially when related to uniforms. Example: jumpers must be worn in class even if in a heatwave. (I kicked off about this and they amended but the fuss was unbelievable). Coats off at the door even if it is cold and raining. You have to put coats on once you have left the building. Insane.

NorthWestWind ,
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My school cannot do anything on Sunday except Christian fellowship. One time there was a competition on Sunday and one of the teachers is needed to guide the students, but got denied by the school.

(Before you ask me why did I attend a Christian school, it’s because other schools that are not Christian sucked academically)

SuperSpruce ,

I’m sure I can think of more but I remember an assignment in middle school where I could type it out or write it out by pen, but if you wrote it in a pencil, you get a zero.

VinesNFluff ,
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The school where I did the equivalent of elementary/middle school education had a strict “absolutely no hats” rule.

I have no clue why, but if you were caught wearing a hat (or cap or…) you’d get into trouble. First time a warning and you take it off. Second time they take the hat away from you and return it after seven days. Third time you get suspended.

yukichigai OP ,
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My high school had a "no hats indoors" rule and even that was regarded as dumb. No hats at all? Screw you if you wanna keep the sun out of your eyes I guess?

TwanHE ,

They tried to ban phones in the hallways and cafeteria, while only providing online schedules which could change at a moments notice.

Ban went into effect, no one complied. Ban was lifted next week.

Interstellar_1 ,
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No hats. Toques are allowed, everything else is banned. Thankfully it was not enforced.

yukichigai OP ,
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No hats. Toques are allowed, everything else is banned.

It's always rough when a gang of Chefs take over a school.

stick2urgunz88 ,

In elementary school, we were only allowed to have up to 8 people at each lunch table. One day we sat 9, and all got detention for it.

whoisearth ,
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Teachers are not allowed to finger prick a diabetic child to check their blood sugar. Hell, teachers aren’t allowed to remove a fucking splinter.

I’m in Ontario, Canada. Fear of liabilities have made us a brain-dead society.

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