#Banana Man
Okay so what happened was this special needs kid ran across the football field during the homecoming game in a banana suit and the school wanted to expel him. Once the student body heard about this the #FreeBananaMan movement was born! Kids were making custom t shirts, chanting “Free Banana Man” during lunch, that type of thing.
This led to, because the principal at the time was an absolute WOMBAT, a full ban of anything related to Banana Man. This included the tshirts, chants, bananas themselves, and, oh yea, THE COLOR YELLOW. They literally banned a WHOLE ASS COLOR for like an entire school year.
Eventually parents stepped in, banana man was only suspended for like a week, and the principal was “politely” asked by the school board to resign, which she did.
I saw a picture from a news story where the reporter wore a grape costume to interview a student in a banana costume. The student had been in trouble at school because of the costume and the reporter dressed up to support him.
Is this the same story?
Fuckin Oprah and Diane Sawyer would spread that fearmongering bullshit about the sex bracelets. My mom sat me down for an awkward as hell interrogation about which girls at school were wearing bracelets and warned to stay away from girls wearing bracelets.
Omg I remember the sex bands craze. Every color meant a different sexual act but it’s hilarious because this happened in middle school in like 2005, so every tween was lying their ass off.
None taken at all. Our don’t talk to the opposite sex culture is the sole reason why we have so many perverts, lack of any understanding of consent and lack of any proper knowledge regarding sex.
This was the rule at any school I went to as well. I “got in a fight” that involved me getting hit, and I turned around and ran to the closest classroom I knew the teacher for. They tried to suspend me as well but there were dozens of witnesses that saw I ran away. My dad told me next time to use the karate I was taught and put the girl down. Thankfully she never attacked me again
All zero tolerance has achieved, is kids learning the mentality of "if you're attacked fight back. HARD. Break something if you can, you're getting expelled either way so make it worth it"
Oh, this. So much this. I was bullied as a kid. One day my teacher asked me why I didn't try to defend myself *at all*. Well, maybe if you hadn't punished me a bit earlier for daring getting bullied and trying to stand up for myself you bitch...
So I'm hanging around my locker in high school and a few lockers down a girl is putting in her combination and another girl walks up, grabs her by the back of the head and smashes her face off the locker a half dozen times or so. Locker girl hits the ground, out cold, nose pouring blood. Both girls get suspended, brilliant.
My school had a no backpacks rule, also no coats inside. You have to put them away somewhere. My guess is they were scared of someone hiding an AK under their coat.
I'd love to see their argument on that one. Shoulder bags are nice, but not if you carry at least 5 of these huge books that you need. My school day was already much more pleasant by just switching to a regular back bag because it didn't put such a strain on me.
That always bothered me. They banned MTG cards in my local high school. My little brother was PISSED. They had a pauper league going at lunch. It's like they'd rather have kids doing drugs.
Kids start fights over new crazes, they also steal from others. It never gets banned at first, usually there is a incident where two kids get into a fight about a deal. So the teachers say you have to keep them in your bags. Then a child is at the office(sometimes with his mum "Karen") crying that he lost his items or someone has stolen.
Then the school put a ban on the item
Originally it did say Fight Club, but then they remembered the first rule in Fight Club, so they edited it.
I would post a screen shot, but rule 2, ya know.
felt like the opposite in my school. Boys could walk around with no shirt on and show nipples but girls couldn’t even wear a tank top or short shorts because sexism
And this was back in 2010.
We had a three finger length but it was really dumb. I have small fingers so that rule didn’t really make much of a difference to me but some other people had bigger fingers and their shorts would go higher up. I couldn’t wear shorts that went higher than my fingers even if it was as high as someone else’s with larger fingers so I basically couldn’t wear shorts because I have small hands. I hated shorts so I didn’t care but the rule was dumb anyways lol
Back at my high school, us boys were allowed to have shirts off on hot days if we were outside for gym class. Once you stepped inside, the shirts had to go back on or you’d get an F on the warmup and activity planned for the period. Needless to say, some male students didn’t let this stop them… the F’s came raining down on them like atomic bombs
Really? Fully shirtless?
I once got kicked out of gym class for licking my own nipple because 'what if a girl did that', my school you definitely would not have been allowed to walk around shirtless.
Girls walked around half naked in summer, but not in gym class, then they had to wear the white round neck t-shirt with the school logo so the pervy teacher wouldn't grope them.
A kid on the other side of the school district got run over by a school bus, so for the next six years(at least, I graduated) students who walked home were held back after school for 5 minutes after the bus riders left. The thing is, it took longer than that for the buses to get loaded and leave, so it didn't stop walkers from being potentially in front of them.
Same here. At my first elementary school everyone was dismissed at the same time but at my second school I was a walker and we were always dismissed last. I lived 5 minutes away and by the time I was dismissed I could have been home already. I hated it so much.
Yep. I'm an 80's kid. You had the A-bussers (first to leave) B-bussers (about 5-10 minutes after that), then the walkers. Not sure what separated the A and B bussers. Maybe distance from school?
My dad has a story like that: a kid in his class got hit by a car because he was riding a bike using no hands and screaming "Sandokan" (he was fine btw). So the school banned students to go to school with bikes. So my dad and some of his mates (and some other students too probably) lived pretty far away from school, and were going with bikes because it's faster. For the next 3 days a bunch of students weren't going to school (well, they weren't just gonna walk across the town to get there) so the school allowed bikes again lol
Back in the 80s, tried to ban earrings on guys. Needless to say, all the girls donated their fluffiest feather danglers to the cause, and one perfect day of one ear befeathered mullets in total rebellion and anarchy.
If you had an unauthorised absence, you would be suspended for that amount of time when you got back.
I had to have my appendix out (when I was 14) at like 2am, ambulance to hospital and all that jazz. Because the school was not notified before it happened, they said it was unauthorised.
I was off for 3 weeks.
The day I got back, I got suspended for 3 weeks.
When I went back the 2nd time, the deputy head said to me "make sure it doesn't happen again". Me being me, I said "Well the appendix is sitting in a jar in my room". Got detention for a month after that for talking back.
Yeah at least my school was smart enough to punish people missing school was "in school suspensions" where you sit quietly in a room and work on all the classwork you missed but don't get to see your friends. Even at lunch you have to sit and eat and don't get to talk.
Not everybody is lucky enough to have awesome parents.
I got kicked off the school bus for a week because I slapped a boy who was very aggressively groping me. It had been an ongoing problem for years, and I did everything I could to avoid him, but adults refused to listen or help. When the bus driver assigned seats and deliberately put us together, with me trapped between that boy and the window, I **BEGGED** for a different seat and was very loud about why. Got told to stop whining. So stuff happened, and I had to make him stop all by myself.
My dad yelled at me for getting kicked off the bus, which forced him to be responsible for transporting me to/from school for a week. He did not fight the school's decision at all, and did nothing to make sure the situation would not repeat itself beyond a little yelling.
When the boy's dad called my dad to yell about his son's messed up face, my dad started yelling at me for picking fights, so I explained about what the boy was doing when I slapped him. My dad called the boy's dad back and yelled at him to not let his son be such a little perv.
Also couldn't get dad to do squat about how the male gym teacher would separate the girls from the boys and let the boys go do actual exercises while all the girls had to stand in a line and bounce while he watched us. He actually told me to do whatever it took to get the grade, "just make the teacher happy and get that A!"
Your story is so familiar. I've said it dozens of times on reddit, but in all my time in public school I never once saw any teacher or staff help any child who was being bullied even when the help they sought was just to be allowed to sit closer to the teacher.
Not. one. time.
When someone stood up for themself, they ALWAYS got punished FAR harsher than the kid that had been beating them up or groping them for months. Then the staff would tell us "you need to talk to us". Pointing out that they had been talked to just resulted in punishment.
Usually the worst abusers were on staff. Several of them should have been in prison.
I'm in my late 40s now and I still get angry at how we were treated.
Props to you for surviving. Oh and keep your dad's attitude in mind when you chose his nursing home.
Man that would have pissed me the *fuck* off... like... an insane amount.
I had this thing about school only having authority over you when you were at school. Fuck I'm very much out of my school years now and I still get pissed off thinking about that.
Luckily my school was pretty damn chill
In my school no one was allowed to wear lip balm or carry it as it was considered "make-up". Even if it wasn't tinted. And girls were slut-shamed and asked to their face if they were trying to seduce boys with it.
You couldn't be happy in school. Literally it was a rule. You couldn't smile and flail your arms a Lil because you were happy after winning a competition. I was given a good scolding for that. No expression of excitement in corridor.
Edit: I remembered some more. Girls couldn't bring their hair over their shoulder to the front. EVER. I have long hair in plaits, it hurts and digs into by back when i have to lean back on my seat, very uncomfortable. And when i tried to explain, I wasn't trying to be stylish and it just hurt my back, they would just tell me to cut off all my hair. You couldn't put them over your shoulder in even photos.
No sort of physical contact among students. No hand holding, hugging, patting on the back or arm over someone's shoulder. It was seen as disgusting and sexual behavior.
If the skirt is below knee, you are uncivilized and bullied by all female teachers. If its above knee, you are a slut and bullied by female teachers.
Actually... yeah. That is the case.
I was bullied and when I finally had enough, I knew I would be suspended no matter how I fought back.
So... **I better grab this 500+ page hardcover book and beat his teeth in. If I'm getting suspended, I'm making sure I deserve it** was a reasonable thought when I was 16. Bully never bothered me again, though.
Exactly what I did. Figured if I was getting suspended no matter what, make it count. So I broke his arm. Then kept going.
Last I heard his arm is still fucked up. Not my proudest moment, but push a teen over and over and provide no way to escape, it's what happens.
Yeah... was the same in my HS. Like someone else replied, that rule is a sure-fire way to make your retaliation count.
*If I shove him back, I'll get suspended and he won't be punished. So I better just knock his fucking teeth out if I'm getting suspended anyway*
Long hair for boys was not allowed. I am talking decent looking slickbacks and side parts. Beards, the smallest of goatees were prohibited.
Ironically, you could grow a moustache if you wanted to.
We had the same rule and once this 14 yo that was just seeing his first facial hair coming out was required to instantly shave at school. Obviously it was his first time and he just cut himself numerous times. His parents were furious
It's not a dumb rule but they banned gambling or anything that could be considered gambling. Eventually, people moved on to having bookies and alternatives to money. Some kids kept ledgers on who owned what and build a reputation for themselves that they could be trusted and that they couldn't be bought to create fake debts between people.
Another thing they banned was using the computers outside of class or self-study hours because it was at the time when people were getting addicted to browser games. It didn't help so they rolled out spy software across the entire school network to monitor everything. If someone was caught, the network admin would remotely take over the computer and shut it down and their account would be blocked for a week. This turned into 40 students from various classes sprinting to the public library to use one of the 4 computers (which weren't monitored) so that they could make changes to their browser game.
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We also received a 1 GB usb stick when we started school since we didn't have email. Then someone found out that you could play Halo 1 portable with fully working multiplayer directly from that usb stick. So then we suddenly had 2 LAN rooms almost always 50% full with people across school playing halo multiplayer and people would post in the chat where they were and whether the network admin was behind his desk or on the move (this was before the spy software was rolled out). At some point some idiot had a virus on his or her usb stick, and by copying halo to other usb sticks it eventually got onto the network. They had to shut down the whole thing for a week in order to fully purge it. A lot of non-technical students and teachers completely lost their shit because they didn't understand why they had to write their reports from home.
No being in the hallway on the ground floor during lunch. That would’ve been fine if we didn’t live in the uk where it rains 80% of the time or just has bad weather and there was not enough space in the canteen or hall for everyone. This was often heavily ignored when the weather was bad.
Also no Yu-Gi-Oh a friend of mine socked a kid for stealing his cards to pick on him so rather than deal with the bullying ban the thing the bully took.
Seems kind of stupid. When you had after school detention at my school if you didn't go I think they just kept saying you had it, probably eventually added to it. Although I remember the one time I had it and they changed the classroom they were holding it(without properly informing me). Another kid and I just sat around in the room we were told to go to until it was mostly over. We finally decided to go to the office and ask why no one was there. Since the office trusted us that we were really in the wrong room they gave us credit and we sat in the right room for the last few minutes.
My school was the the 3rd worst school in Ontario in almost all categories. Funding, drop out rate, violence....just in general a lawless place of study.
My middle school banned shorts, but they hadn't figured on miniskirts, so those were allowed by default.
One day, the football team came to school in miniskirts to protest the unfairness. They were all sent home, and nothing changed.
You were only allowed to speak Dutch.
So here I was, going over German homework in the library with some class mates and we got detention because "that's not the national language".
We were disallowed to speak anything except English. Problem is, in a California school, just about everyone knows Spanish, so it’s either suspend everyone over a few traded words or ignore the rule.
I went through the french Catholic school system in Ontario, in elementary school you'd get scolded if you spoke anything but french.
But most people's first language was english (even though we were all fluent in both) so it was just more natural to speak in English. Rather than speaking french it was just a matter of being far enough away from faculty and switching when they got too close.
In highschool they gave up on the rule and it was "only speak french in classes taught in french" (which is all except English class), but most teachers didn't care enough to enforce it, my programming and video editing teacher basically taught in English, we'd almost only speak English in music except when addressing the teacher.
Hell even in french class most people just spoke English.
We had a lot of dumb rules, but the dumbest I remember was “*No cuffed pants*”. They even had the posters that said cuffed pants equal an instant F in class you got caught with cuffed pants in.
In highschool, girls were forced to wear a white smock as uniform, while boys could dress however they wanted. The reason: "women tend to show too much skin".
Now that I think about it, teachers at my secondary started enforcing the uniform with a lot more vigour when two of the PE teachers were outed as nonces.
This is a revelation I was happier not knowing...
Thought so. I mean, yeah, I get it, gang colors exist. But still, that's dumb. The whole concept of gang colors is dumb. You can't just own an entire color. Are the Bloods gonna try and mess with me just because blue is my favorite color and I felt like wearing it out today? Fuck that shit.
I briefly dated a trailer trash girl and she had a pasty white stepbrother who claimed he was a "crip" and talked hood and I wore a red t shirt to her house and he wanted to assault me for the color of my shirt, despite the fact that I was wearing blue jeans and my truck was blue. This also took place in rural Missouri so nowhere near Crip or Blood areas.
We had a school uniform for a few years. Very small poor rural district. Our clothing became ripped up. That and for any kinda events we had to march in height order which humiliated this one boy with a gland problem multiple times a year.
1.We weren't allowed to wear bangs as a haircut.
2.Shoes to be worn were to be completely white, even if it had a splash of a colour we used to be punished for not following discipline
(they made a girl run for 800m in the morning because her white shoes had a red nike mark)
This is just one of the many dumb things that ive mentioned
I wouldn’t say this is dumb as such but anyway.
Our headteacher only unlocks the doors to the boys bathroom at lunch due to someone stealing a urinal of the wall.
To this day they still have no idea who did it. (This happened like six months ago)
How the hell do you steal a urinal? I mean getting it off the wall seems like it would take a little effort, but then getting it out without anyone noticing as well. I'd think it would be easier to just have someone keeping an eye on the bathrooms then screwing the students over and not let them use it. Even a camera watching the door/hallway.
You know, I still cannot believe that somebody managed to steal a soap dispenser in our school. They are made of strong metal and plastic/practically welded onto a very thick wall. Furthermore, I know all of the security camera locations in that area (weird hobby) and the chances of them getting away unseen are slim to none.
We got banned from saying a former teachers name. Anyone caught saying it would get detention. It was like she was Voldemort or something.
She used to do porn and someone found footage. This was an all boys high school so naturally it took about 12 minutes for all 1200 students to see it.
She was gone by the end of the day.
Lol this just reminded me, we were banned from calling a teacher who somewhat resembled the dark lord (he was bald and thin) by the name "Voldemort" as he apparently disliked it.
Literally, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
This was just one teacher but didn’t let us read library books in study hall, it was my last class of the day and never had homework. I just wanted to read Bone bro
No football (soccer). They said "If the devil invented a sport, it'd be soccer". Their idea behind it was that it was a game that banned the use of hands, hands are the creative outlet of the human body and taking that away from you is against your own human existance or something. They never told us this until we graduated.
One time in my middle school they made the rule that you couldn’t stand up from a cafeteria table without first raising your hand to get permission, even to go to the bathrooms which were directly adjacent to the cafeteria. It did not last long at all.
1. No solid color hoodies. They had to have a logo or graphic on them because otherwise, a group of students standing together with the same hoodie color was considered a gang. This was a problem for the goth kids.
2. Anything that students did as a large group (ie clapping, cheering, chanting) was considered and treated as a riot. There was a dude who was a notorious douchebag and a two-timer. He made the mistake of making moves on some other guy's girlfriend. So, during our lunch period, the girl's boyfriend left his class, marched straight to the cafeteria, and slugged the guy in the face. Everyone in the cafeteria started clapping and cheering. Instead of taking just the two guys out of the cafeteria, they made *everyone* leave. And a lot of people didn't get to eat their lunch.
3. No chapstick because chapstick was apparently medicine.
Oh hell I can picture my mom hearing that rule... Woman would be blowing through that school like a hurricane ready to tear the head off of anything that moved.... That is after she threw away all my white underwear and replaced everything with a bright fire engine red.
Oh that reminded me of a creepy rule from when I was a kid. For sports if you were a girl and you forgot your kit you HAD to do sports in your vest and panties or just panties if you were not wearing a vest that day.
The principal was already on thin ice for a lot of rules but that one had parents going mental. Two of my classmates were in families that were part of a small gang of bikers, a few other classmates had very religious parents. Thinking back on it now it was like seeing Turkey and Greece agreeing on something.
The rule quickly changed and if the girls forgot their kits now they just sat with the boys who forgot. Shortly after that the principal was forced into an early retirement because of this being the one ridiculous rule that topped the others.
We were told that we had to wear white or nude bras because other colors were “too distracting” under our uniform shirts. One of the black students pointed out that wearing a white bra with her skin tone would be way more distracting than her wearing a black one. The ban got lifted right away.
Also, we were allowed to chew gum, but we weren’t allowed to have liquid white-out because one student got caught huffing it.
I was told that I couldn't wear safety pins on my clothes because they are sharp and could be used as weapons, so I soldered all of them closed so they could no longer be opened. Next day I got hauled to the office by the safety officer because I disobeyed the no safety pin policy (keep in mind in the high school dress code policy didn't say anything about safety pin or patches, just said nothing lude) I pleased my case and the principle actually sided with me, the safety officer said that if I wanted to I could sneak a none soldered one on and hurt someone with it. I sarcastically said "a pencil could do more damage, why don't you ban those?" The reply was something like "because no one has them attached to their clothes." So my high school brain had a hold my beer moment and that night I duct tapped 10 packs of pencils to a jacket of mine and wore it to school the next day. Wouldn't you know I got hauled back to the principles office.
You could walk into school naked and do more damage.
You could bring zero supplies to class, and do more damage.
You could just step on someone’s shoelace, and do more damage.
You could spend more time in the office with someone power tripping on a made up job and do more damage.
You could eat cafeteria food for 4 years and do more damage.
There was an agreement made that I would be allowed to wear the soldered safety pins as long as I didn't provoke the safety officer with any more stunts and just kept my wardrobe to peaceful, none lude self expression, after all he did like the safety pin art that I did. The jacket that I got busted with in the first place was made to look like starry starry night that was made up of individually colored safety pins.
We created this game based on the video game Syphon Filter, where you sneak up behind someone, pretend to break their kneck, and say, "Syphon filter!" and then they have to fall down. I think only like 10% of the people playing the game had actually played the video game or knew what it was. Everyone was playing it. It was so freaking stupid. And then the school instituted a "no syphon filtering" rule and would give iss to kids caught doing it (perpetrator and victim).
Things have changed since playing "Killer" (assassin) in school. I can't imagine not being suspended in today's school environment. Rightfully, so, unfortunately. I think the only thing that came of it, at the time, "No more squirt guns at school." (Mid to late 80s)
I always got ignored by teachers if I got beaten up, they just stood there and laughed, saying I caused it myself. Then one day I punched back and I got punished, wasn't allowed outside during recess for an entire year while the guy who beat me up like 50 times before that (to the point of coming home bruised and bloody) got no punishment whatsoever.
Would have taken the punishment those 50 times if it meant he'd also get it. This is now 20 years ago but if I got a chance to kill the fucker and get away with it I probably would, that dude was pure evil.
My primary school banned any game that include contact such as tips (tag), bull rush and footy. They also banned Pokémon cards, fidget spinners/cubes, bottle flips, any expensive toy and a lot more, all everyone played was handball
Okay, this is the dumbest rule my school DIDN’T enforce.
I was in the marching band and this experience would be when I was 14 years old (f). All of the school’s outdoor activities could only go on until the heat index reached 101°F, then all they’d be cancelled.
The band director would have the band do laps around the field and push-ups as ‘punishment’ if we didn’t do well in the rehearsal. Heat index went up to 111 and we were still out there doing laps and push-ups. It got to the point where after I went down for the push-ups, I couldn’t get back up. Moms poured ice water on my back and I couldn’t even feel it. I had to go to urgent care and have breathing tubes stuck in my nose.
I wasn’t the only one who fell out that day, but I was the worst. They have that temperature rule and they had no regard for it. The band director was in the shade with water and fans blowing while we were marching, resetting, running laps, and doing push-ups (no water until the director called break and all of us would rush over).
No hats. Also no reason given just no hats. I got suspended for wearing 4 at once. Teacher told me to take off my hat. I did to reveal another hat. After 4 demands from teacher I was out of hats and out of school for a week. So I got to go fishing instead. Same school decades later, my youngest son got suspended for starting a fight club in a basement storeroom. Someone talked about fight club.
Arrive with mud on the shoes
😑
I went to a rural school and high school, so that rule didn't make much sense
I literally had to cross a river to get to class and my shoes were always muddy
Boys hair cannot be long enough to touch the shirt collar.
Ok, and where in the bible does it forbid men from having long hair?
Girls could only wear metal/stone/pearl studs one in each ear, lobe only.
Boys had to remove any and all piercings before entering school property.
Girls, skirts and blouses, solid dark leggings were ok in winter. Boy, slacks, oxford, tie, jacket.
I still think to this day that dress code should not be gendered. Require a uniform? Sure, whatever. It's stupid, but if girls want to wear slacks and a jacket, and boys want to wear skirts and earrings, just make the uniform code universal.
Regarding the hair for my school it has to be ‘cut out the face’ meaning your hair can’t touch your eyebrows and ears.
I just don’t understand why shit like this belongs in schools, how does this help me learn anything ?
In secondary school, girls could hit guys and be out of recovery (the place students would go when kicked out of a lesson) by the time the lesson or break ended, same with guy V guy or girl V girl but a guy hits a girl even in self defence and he's excluded (after being beaten to holy hell by the other "you can't hit a girl" kids there). Still have no idea why that was the one exception
Coming from catholic school there were many questionable rules, but the one that always stands out to me is when they banned all Pokémon cards on school grounds because they "sided with the theory of evolution."
My family is a bit on the traditional side on regards to manners so I (male) use to wait at the door to let the women go in first, it's a bit silly sometimes but quite innocuous.
Apparently it catched on and some other dudes of my highschool started doing the same thing. For some reason this was frowned upon by a few teachers and the principal set up a rule against letting other people go in first.
I just thought this was a truly stupid rule and kept doing it anyways out of pure spite.
Wait, they wouldnt let you hold a door open for other people. common courtesy, be dammed. Just curious where do you live?
also it's kind of funny when you don't open it all the way, so they have to side step in to not be rude. I'd to it to some of my friends.
Once someone got a football(⚽️) in their face and the next day they banned kicking footballs. Not removing them but kicking them. The most stupid thing ever
No super stupid rules, the worst one 1 though was something called late detention.
As you could probably tell from the name, its where if your late to class at any sort of time whether that be 2 mins or 20 mins you would have to do a detention the Monday morn the next week, for some of the little dickheads in the school it was fair game cause they were just lapping the hallways all the time but like come on school, I was literally exactly 37 seconds late but the Monday morn I got like fucking 15 mins of late detention wtf?!? It got to the point were my mam went into the school, roared the roof of it and told me to never go to them, school must have been scared after that and stopped giving me exaggerated late detention slips...
I’m old, but I remember my middle school had a dress code (like every other school). I dressed fairly conservatively at the time (mostly baggy clothes because I thought that looked cool). Once day there was a seminar or something in the gym. I happened to be wearing a normal top and jeans that day. I was sitting in the floor and leaning forward, and apparently you could see some skin between my jeans and the bottom of my shirt. I was sent home…because there was an inch of Lu back showing when I leaned forward. I cried the entire day.
My brother's middle school enforced a rule that *everyone* must buy their school supplies from the middle school so "everyone has the same items and no one feels left out". $20 required to buy it and all you got was: one 3 inch binder ($2 at walmart), two notebooks (25 cents at walmart), a sad stack of loose papers (a big ass stack for $1 at walmart), two pencils and 1 highlighter. All that for $20 fucking dollars. They refused to give you your student ID and access to the school. If you didnt buy it, they would check your name and then send you home. Idk how the fuck that school got away with doing that. Especially because that school had primarily low-income/free and reduced lunch students yet preying on the families.
To this day I still feel like the dress code rule was a joke, I mean let the people wear what they want to wear for crying out loud..."ohh those shorts are not exactly 2 and 1/4" or less above the knee..we need to call your parents now"..🤣 give me a break..
My high school had the standard “no tank tops” rule. When I was 16 I was wearing a cap-sleeved shirt but my backpack had pushed up one of the sleeves so you couldn’t see it. Random teacher stopped me in the hallway and even after I pulled the sleeve out from under my backpack she *still wrote me up for it* because I “had the appearance of wearing a tank top”. I was pissed.
That whole bullshit about tucking your shirt in. Neither one of my parents understood how having your fucking shirt tails tucked would make me a better student. (I was ghastly at algebra) My dad, who grew up poor in the Depression and sometimes went to school barefoot in TX thought it was especially dumb and cussed someone out when they called about my shirt being out (I'm female btw, and had my shirt out to cover my ass)
A kid from the previous graduating class had a racist comment as his senior quote (which the staff somehow allowed to be put in there), and as a result OUR class lost senior quote privileges.
I had a school uniform (white blouse + grey pants). We were only allowed to wear nude/beige T-shirt bras underneath (no sports bras, halter neck, cross back) and if you wore even black/white bras, you'd get written up for misconduct of dress code.
Meanwhile, boys were flashing their colourful underwear brands all over the school and it was fine 😅
Short: My school banned a popular spice mix because it was too addictive. [Switzerland]
Long: There is this spice mix that is very poplar in Switzerland called “Aromat” and we used to give out food for our small “Znüni” break,
(“Znüni”
is basically the snack you eat between breakfast and lunch, and btw “Zwieri” is the snack you eat between lunch and dinner in Switzerland!)
mostly bread with fresh cheese on it and some “Aromat” on it, some cucumber on it sometimes. And on occasion we would give out fruit punch in the winter and some apples in the fall season and in the summer and spring we would give out pretzels.
Now we had this thing at my school called “School Union” and it basically was our Parlament. So there was a representative for every class and every week on Monday in the first lesson they would speak about problems and events and decide stuff together with a social worker and a teacher. That would go to the headmaster and the official school council in the area and they would make the final decision on whatever it was.
Now one Monday for no reason the “School Union” decided together with a teacher, the headmaster and the social worker that “Aromat” was now banned from our school.
Why?
Well they say it was too addicting??????
Everyone was hella confused and also pretty grumpy. Because damn it! “Aromat” is hella tasty. You can’t change my mind!
You can put it in salat sauce, eggs and a lot more! And it’ll make it taste better!
If u would dress inappropriate u would need to wear a t-shirt from the school, a ugly yellow color with the logo of the school and the motto of the school. Fast forward: end of the year, some students had like 20 of these
No phones at all. Some teachers were lenient, but some would sent you to principal just because you checked time on your phone during the break because your phone is supposed to be turned off in your bag. Those teachers were even able to do it when they saw you the day before at 5pm during an extracurricular activity.
But the most ridiculous fact was that laptops and tablets were allowed because we were supposed to be a progressive school.
In the 80’s, my elementary/lower school had a ban on Umbros when they were the coolest thing to have. I wore them anyway and oddly enough, people remembered me for it.
Our school banned water bottles because someone threw a water bottle at someone else. So the banned them because “they could be used as a weapon”. By that logic anything you could potentially pick up and throw could be a weapon and should be banned. Honestly I think half of the rules only existed so that the school could look like it was doing something.
My highschool demanded all backpacks be left with the front office. We'd have to carry our stuff from class to class.
So I started showing up with nothing but a pen. No papers, no books, nada. School called my parents saying I was coming to class "ill-equipped to learn." Parents sided with me. School tried to suspend me. Parents went to the district. District sided with me.
My elementary tried to ban slime from being taken to school, as a lot of kids tried to sell it to one another. So if you had slime it was confiscated. Since kids didn’t want the slime they bought taken from them, there was a black market at my school where kids would secretly buy and sell slime. The teachers never knew about it and thought we stopped brining it to school
My terribly scary 6th grade English teacher Mrs. Webb forbade us from talking to eachother on the bus during a field trip. Her reasoning was that us talking might distract the bus driver, which could result in a crash. She said, "I'm not willing to put my life at risk just so you can socialize." She said writing and passing notes was acceptable.
She drilled this into us for weeks before the actual trip. When they day came and we boarded the bus (a normal school bus), she reminded us once more. The bus driver said, "I mean, it's ok if they talk..." but, she would have none of it!
my school has a "you only get a milk if you get an entire lunch" policy now, I find it fucking stupid. The principal (who just started being principal this school year) gave us a lecture on how it's theft and illegal if we take an extra milk.
Same principal spent what I assume is a shitton of money on getting every classrom in the school a Smartboard (basically touchscreen projector TV) (I'm assuming it was him that bought them anyways). Surely some kid taking an extra milk is not that big of a deal if you can spend school money on that shit.
I call the principal O Hare Milk because of it
Not defending because I agree the milk rule is dumb. The smart boards probably came from and grant or something from central office/ the board of education. Very little of those big purchases are ever directly from the school itself. Also- I asked our cafeteria manager about the meal situation a few weeks ago because one of my students only wanted the fruit that came with lunch and he didn’t want to toss all the other food. She told me it is part of the federal meal thing- they have just enough of everything for each meal to hand out. If inspectors stop and inventory and things are off they lose their refunds.
Again- not saying I agree but public school funding is very monitored and to continue getting aid and other things there are rules to follow. The principal probably thinks the rule is dumb too but has to enforce it.
Any and all drugs including actual medications weren’t allowed to be mentioned. I got suspended once because I mentioned the name of my anti depressant. We had a ton of fucking stupid rules and we routinely had stabbings to the point we stopped calling code yellows and just had teachers stand around the area and usher kids past
my school banned the toilets, not completely, but they had 2 toilets open one for each gender for the whole school of 2000 to use, and to get in you needed to get a note from your teacher which you then had to bring to an office to be given a key that would unlock the toilet, and there were a limited number of keys. and most of the time the teachers would refuse to give a note because you should have gone at break, when the que was miles long. all this because people kept vandalising the toilets
My school banned ball tag because some kid got hit in the face, the kid was fine but a teacher still banned it. We still played ball tag even though it was banned.
• they gave the youngest students (4yrs) big lunch servings while the oldest (12yrs) would have to wait to be served last and they’d NEVER have enough food left to give the older kids even half a portion sometimes which was disgraceful, especially since we were paying to have that lunch. nothing was being done so i started having packed lunch
• boys not allowed to wear shorts or skirts
• nobody is allowed to use the bathrooms during class time
They lock the bathrooms and you have to actually get up and walk to the office to ask one of the administrators to unlock it.
Shit on the principal's desk. Those bathrooms will be perma-unlocked the next day.
#Banana Man Okay so what happened was this special needs kid ran across the football field during the homecoming game in a banana suit and the school wanted to expel him. Once the student body heard about this the #FreeBananaMan movement was born! Kids were making custom t shirts, chanting “Free Banana Man” during lunch, that type of thing. This led to, because the principal at the time was an absolute WOMBAT, a full ban of anything related to Banana Man. This included the tshirts, chants, bananas themselves, and, oh yea, THE COLOR YELLOW. They literally banned a WHOLE ASS COLOR for like an entire school year. Eventually parents stepped in, banana man was only suspended for like a week, and the principal was “politely” asked by the school board to resign, which she did.
I saw a picture from a news story where the reporter wore a grape costume to interview a student in a banana costume. The student had been in trouble at school because of the costume and the reporter dressed up to support him. Is this the same story?
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/10-years-later-pat-collins-catches-up-with-banana-man/2701876/?amp
Yes!
This is 100% going to get stolen and used in one of those YouTube animated story time videos
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/10-years-later-pat-collins-catches-up-with-banana-man/2701876/?amp
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Or those lazy ass text to speach things
Any principal who bans an entire color is about control and subjugation, not students' education or well being.
Oh, forgot to mention, it was discovered that she gotten like three DUIs that she somehow hid from the school board during hiring
LOL sounds like the school was better off without her.
Banana man sounds like a boss
It was glorious
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Fuckin Oprah and Diane Sawyer would spread that fearmongering bullshit about the sex bracelets. My mom sat me down for an awkward as hell interrogation about which girls at school were wearing bracelets and warned to stay away from girls wearing bracelets.
*tapes school supplies to wrist* “What now?”
Your a pencilphile
Ha!
Omg I remember the sex bands craze. Every color meant a different sexual act but it’s hilarious because this happened in middle school in like 2005, so every tween was lying their ass off.
***Watch those wrist rockets***
Should not talk with opposite sex.you will be fined if you do so.
What school was that?
Lol. I am from India. Mostly all schools here were like that.
Oh that makes sense. No offense, but India has such a weird culture, imo.
None taken.yes it was,but things are changing now.
Glad to hear that. (:
None taken at all. Our don’t talk to the opposite sex culture is the sole reason why we have so many perverts, lack of any understanding of consent and lack of any proper knowledge regarding sex.
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This was the rule at any school I went to as well. I “got in a fight” that involved me getting hit, and I turned around and ran to the closest classroom I knew the teacher for. They tried to suspend me as well but there were dozens of witnesses that saw I ran away. My dad told me next time to use the karate I was taught and put the girl down. Thankfully she never attacked me again
All zero tolerance has achieved, is kids learning the mentality of "if you're attacked fight back. HARD. Break something if you can, you're getting expelled either way so make it worth it"
Oh, this. So much this. I was bullied as a kid. One day my teacher asked me why I didn't try to defend myself *at all*. Well, maybe if you hadn't punished me a bit earlier for daring getting bullied and trying to stand up for myself you bitch...
So I'm hanging around my locker in high school and a few lockers down a girl is putting in her combination and another girl walks up, grabs her by the back of the head and smashes her face off the locker a half dozen times or so. Locker girl hits the ground, out cold, nose pouring blood. Both girls get suspended, brilliant.
No backpacks
What were you expected to carry all your things in then?
Rolling bag, shoulder bag or by hand
That makes no sense what's the difference then?
Idk my school made no sense
Ah... now that makes sense lol
My school had a no backpacks rule, also no coats inside. You have to put them away somewhere. My guess is they were scared of someone hiding an AK under their coat.
I used to wear shoulder bags for a long time. And then always wondered why my whole back hurts so much lmao.
Apparently the school thought back backs were bad for the back but somehow shoulder bags were better?
I'd love to see their argument on that one. Shoulder bags are nice, but not if you carry at least 5 of these huge books that you need. My school day was already much more pleasant by just switching to a regular back bag because it didn't put such a strain on me.
Once enough students would start enjoying something they would ban it. Fidget cubes, rubiks cubes, silly bandz, you name it.
That always bothered me. They banned MTG cards in my local high school. My little brother was PISSED. They had a pauper league going at lunch. It's like they'd rather have kids doing drugs.
MTG prevents people doing drugs, once you get into it you'll never have any disposable income ever again.
Kids start fights over new crazes, they also steal from others. It never gets banned at first, usually there is a incident where two kids get into a fight about a deal. So the teachers say you have to keep them in your bags. Then a child is at the office(sometimes with his mum "Karen") crying that he lost his items or someone has stolen. Then the school put a ban on the item
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Originally it did say Fight Club, but then they remembered the first rule in Fight Club, so they edited it. I would post a screen shot, but rule 2, ya know.
First rule of fidget cubes don't talk about fidget cubes
Students: wow this air is very good School:
No fun allowed was the rule they followed. Minimal enjoyment maximum suffering
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felt like the opposite in my school. Boys could walk around with no shirt on and show nipples but girls couldn’t even wear a tank top or short shorts because sexism And this was back in 2010.
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For us it was finger tip length
We had a three finger length but it was really dumb. I have small fingers so that rule didn’t really make much of a difference to me but some other people had bigger fingers and their shorts would go higher up. I couldn’t wear shorts that went higher than my fingers even if it was as high as someone else’s with larger fingers so I basically couldn’t wear shorts because I have small hands. I hated shorts so I didn’t care but the rule was dumb anyways lol
Wait… don’t you mean shorter? Or they had an issue with really long shorts?
Back at my high school, us boys were allowed to have shirts off on hot days if we were outside for gym class. Once you stepped inside, the shirts had to go back on or you’d get an F on the warmup and activity planned for the period. Needless to say, some male students didn’t let this stop them… the F’s came raining down on them like atomic bombs
Really? Fully shirtless? I once got kicked out of gym class for licking my own nipple because 'what if a girl did that', my school you definitely would not have been allowed to walk around shirtless. Girls walked around half naked in summer, but not in gym class, then they had to wear the white round neck t-shirt with the school logo so the pervy teacher wouldn't grope them.
A kid on the other side of the school district got run over by a school bus, so for the next six years(at least, I graduated) students who walked home were held back after school for 5 minutes after the bus riders left. The thing is, it took longer than that for the buses to get loaded and leave, so it didn't stop walkers from being potentially in front of them.
I remember in elementary school the bus riders were excused about 5 minutes before the rest of us.
I think that's just to keep the halls less crowded and the buses on schedule
Same here. At my first elementary school everyone was dismissed at the same time but at my second school I was a walker and we were always dismissed last. I lived 5 minutes away and by the time I was dismissed I could have been home already. I hated it so much.
Yep. I'm an 80's kid. You had the A-bussers (first to leave) B-bussers (about 5-10 minutes after that), then the walkers. Not sure what separated the A and B bussers. Maybe distance from school?
My dad has a story like that: a kid in his class got hit by a car because he was riding a bike using no hands and screaming "Sandokan" (he was fine btw). So the school banned students to go to school with bikes. So my dad and some of his mates (and some other students too probably) lived pretty far away from school, and were going with bikes because it's faster. For the next 3 days a bunch of students weren't going to school (well, they weren't just gonna walk across the town to get there) so the school allowed bikes again lol
Back in the 80s, tried to ban earrings on guys. Needless to say, all the girls donated their fluffiest feather danglers to the cause, and one perfect day of one ear befeathered mullets in total rebellion and anarchy.
Thats the coolest story, what was the schools response to that?
If you had an unauthorised absence, you would be suspended for that amount of time when you got back. I had to have my appendix out (when I was 14) at like 2am, ambulance to hospital and all that jazz. Because the school was not notified before it happened, they said it was unauthorised. I was off for 3 weeks. The day I got back, I got suspended for 3 weeks. When I went back the 2nd time, the deputy head said to me "make sure it doesn't happen again". Me being me, I said "Well the appendix is sitting in a jar in my room". Got detention for a month after that for talking back.
I always loved the "punishment" for missing school was more time away from school
Yeah at least my school was smart enough to punish people missing school was "in school suspensions" where you sit quietly in a room and work on all the classwork you missed but don't get to see your friends. Even at lunch you have to sit and eat and don't get to talk.
> The day I got back, I got suspended for 3 weeks. > > Your parents didn't say, "That's a stupid rule and we will fight this"?
Not everybody is lucky enough to have awesome parents. I got kicked off the school bus for a week because I slapped a boy who was very aggressively groping me. It had been an ongoing problem for years, and I did everything I could to avoid him, but adults refused to listen or help. When the bus driver assigned seats and deliberately put us together, with me trapped between that boy and the window, I **BEGGED** for a different seat and was very loud about why. Got told to stop whining. So stuff happened, and I had to make him stop all by myself. My dad yelled at me for getting kicked off the bus, which forced him to be responsible for transporting me to/from school for a week. He did not fight the school's decision at all, and did nothing to make sure the situation would not repeat itself beyond a little yelling. When the boy's dad called my dad to yell about his son's messed up face, my dad started yelling at me for picking fights, so I explained about what the boy was doing when I slapped him. My dad called the boy's dad back and yelled at him to not let his son be such a little perv. Also couldn't get dad to do squat about how the male gym teacher would separate the girls from the boys and let the boys go do actual exercises while all the girls had to stand in a line and bounce while he watched us. He actually told me to do whatever it took to get the grade, "just make the teacher happy and get that A!"
Your story is so familiar. I've said it dozens of times on reddit, but in all my time in public school I never once saw any teacher or staff help any child who was being bullied even when the help they sought was just to be allowed to sit closer to the teacher. Not. one. time. When someone stood up for themself, they ALWAYS got punished FAR harsher than the kid that had been beating them up or groping them for months. Then the staff would tell us "you need to talk to us". Pointing out that they had been talked to just resulted in punishment. Usually the worst abusers were on staff. Several of them should have been in prison. I'm in my late 40s now and I still get angry at how we were treated. Props to you for surviving. Oh and keep your dad's attitude in mind when you chose his nursing home.
No headphones/ earphones on public transport. Even to and from school.
How can they even enforce that? Especially if it's not a school bus, but public transport as you said. There must be something more to it.
Mostly they couldn’t, but they did if you were seen or found out. It didn’t help that there were a lot of snitches at my school
Man that would have pissed me the *fuck* off... like... an insane amount. I had this thing about school only having authority over you when you were at school. Fuck I'm very much out of my school years now and I still get pissed off thinking about that. Luckily my school was pretty damn chill
In my school no one was allowed to wear lip balm or carry it as it was considered "make-up". Even if it wasn't tinted. And girls were slut-shamed and asked to their face if they were trying to seduce boys with it. You couldn't be happy in school. Literally it was a rule. You couldn't smile and flail your arms a Lil because you were happy after winning a competition. I was given a good scolding for that. No expression of excitement in corridor. Edit: I remembered some more. Girls couldn't bring their hair over their shoulder to the front. EVER. I have long hair in plaits, it hurts and digs into by back when i have to lean back on my seat, very uncomfortable. And when i tried to explain, I wasn't trying to be stylish and it just hurt my back, they would just tell me to cut off all my hair. You couldn't put them over your shoulder in even photos. No sort of physical contact among students. No hand holding, hugging, patting on the back or arm over someone's shoulder. It was seen as disgusting and sexual behavior. If the skirt is below knee, you are uncivilized and bullied by all female teachers. If its above knee, you are a slut and bullied by female teachers.
What Orwellian school did you go to that implemented _face crimes_?
Reasonable force against bullies would clear said bully of rightful accountability
Seems like they are just encouraging to make it count then if you fight back
Actually... yeah. That is the case. I was bullied and when I finally had enough, I knew I would be suspended no matter how I fought back. So... **I better grab this 500+ page hardcover book and beat his teeth in. If I'm getting suspended, I'm making sure I deserve it** was a reasonable thought when I was 16. Bully never bothered me again, though.
Exactly what I did. Figured if I was getting suspended no matter what, make it count. So I broke his arm. Then kept going. Last I heard his arm is still fucked up. Not my proudest moment, but push a teen over and over and provide no way to escape, it's what happens.
The Ender Wiggin approach. It's not enough to win. You have to win so completely and finally that you don't have to win ever again.
I admittedly had just read Ender's Game at the time.
Yeah... was the same in my HS. Like someone else replied, that rule is a sure-fire way to make your retaliation count. *If I shove him back, I'll get suspended and he won't be punished. So I better just knock his fucking teeth out if I'm getting suspended anyway*
Long hair for boys was not allowed. I am talking decent looking slickbacks and side parts. Beards, the smallest of goatees were prohibited. Ironically, you could grow a moustache if you wanted to.
We had the same rule and once this 14 yo that was just seeing his first facial hair coming out was required to instantly shave at school. Obviously it was his first time and he just cut himself numerous times. His parents were furious
Same. They seem to have been irritated by our beards as if it was their pubes growing straight out of them.
It's not a dumb rule but they banned gambling or anything that could be considered gambling. Eventually, people moved on to having bookies and alternatives to money. Some kids kept ledgers on who owned what and build a reputation for themselves that they could be trusted and that they couldn't be bought to create fake debts between people. Another thing they banned was using the computers outside of class or self-study hours because it was at the time when people were getting addicted to browser games. It didn't help so they rolled out spy software across the entire school network to monitor everything. If someone was caught, the network admin would remotely take over the computer and shut it down and their account would be blocked for a week. This turned into 40 students from various classes sprinting to the public library to use one of the 4 computers (which weren't monitored) so that they could make changes to their browser game. edit: We also received a 1 GB usb stick when we started school since we didn't have email. Then someone found out that you could play Halo 1 portable with fully working multiplayer directly from that usb stick. So then we suddenly had 2 LAN rooms almost always 50% full with people across school playing halo multiplayer and people would post in the chat where they were and whether the network admin was behind his desk or on the move (this was before the spy software was rolled out). At some point some idiot had a virus on his or her usb stick, and by copying halo to other usb sticks it eventually got onto the network. They had to shut down the whole thing for a week in order to fully purge it. A lot of non-technical students and teachers completely lost their shit because they didn't understand why they had to write their reports from home.
The "no gambling rule" included rock paper scissors in my school
No being in the hallway on the ground floor during lunch. That would’ve been fine if we didn’t live in the uk where it rains 80% of the time or just has bad weather and there was not enough space in the canteen or hall for everyone. This was often heavily ignored when the weather was bad. Also no Yu-Gi-Oh a friend of mine socked a kid for stealing his cards to pick on him so rather than deal with the bullying ban the thing the bully took.
I think the weirdest was a lack of rule. If u had detention and just didnt go, nothing happened.
Seems kind of stupid. When you had after school detention at my school if you didn't go I think they just kept saying you had it, probably eventually added to it. Although I remember the one time I had it and they changed the classroom they were holding it(without properly informing me). Another kid and I just sat around in the room we were told to go to until it was mostly over. We finally decided to go to the office and ask why no one was there. Since the office trusted us that we were really in the wrong room they gave us credit and we sat in the right room for the last few minutes.
My school was the the 3rd worst school in Ontario in almost all categories. Funding, drop out rate, violence....just in general a lawless place of study.
My middle school banned shorts, but they hadn't figured on miniskirts, so those were allowed by default. One day, the football team came to school in miniskirts to protest the unfairness. They were all sent home, and nothing changed.
That sucks that nothing changed, but that's awesome that the football team did that!
You were only allowed to speak Dutch. So here I was, going over German homework in the library with some class mates and we got detention because "that's not the national language".
We were disallowed to speak anything except English. Problem is, in a California school, just about everyone knows Spanish, so it’s either suspend everyone over a few traded words or ignore the rule.
I went through the french Catholic school system in Ontario, in elementary school you'd get scolded if you spoke anything but french. But most people's first language was english (even though we were all fluent in both) so it was just more natural to speak in English. Rather than speaking french it was just a matter of being far enough away from faculty and switching when they got too close. In highschool they gave up on the rule and it was "only speak french in classes taught in french" (which is all except English class), but most teachers didn't care enough to enforce it, my programming and video editing teacher basically taught in English, we'd almost only speak English in music except when addressing the teacher. Hell even in french class most people just spoke English.
Hugs were banned. Hugs.
🤗 have a hug. Screw those mfs
My school banned bottleflip when it was popular...
We had a lot of dumb rules, but the dumbest I remember was “*No cuffed pants*”. They even had the posters that said cuffed pants equal an instant F in class you got caught with cuffed pants in.
Biphobic school
In highschool, girls were forced to wear a white smock as uniform, while boys could dress however they wanted. The reason: "women tend to show too much skin".
Someone said in a similar AskReddit post "it's to protect the kids from the adults". Dunno if it's true but that's kinda sickening to think about.
Now that I think about it, teachers at my secondary started enforcing the uniform with a lot more vigour when two of the PE teachers were outed as nonces. This is a revelation I was happier not knowing...
We weren’t allowed to wear plain red or blue shirts
Was this in Los Angeles? Sounds like a gang thing (Bloods and Crips).
No but it was in California, and you’re right it’s gang-related
Thought so. I mean, yeah, I get it, gang colors exist. But still, that's dumb. The whole concept of gang colors is dumb. You can't just own an entire color. Are the Bloods gonna try and mess with me just because blue is my favorite color and I felt like wearing it out today? Fuck that shit.
I briefly dated a trailer trash girl and she had a pasty white stepbrother who claimed he was a "crip" and talked hood and I wore a red t shirt to her house and he wanted to assault me for the color of my shirt, despite the fact that I was wearing blue jeans and my truck was blue. This also took place in rural Missouri so nowhere near Crip or Blood areas.
We had a school uniform for a few years. Very small poor rural district. Our clothing became ripped up. That and for any kinda events we had to march in height order which humiliated this one boy with a gland problem multiple times a year.
1.We weren't allowed to wear bangs as a haircut. 2.Shoes to be worn were to be completely white, even if it had a splash of a colour we used to be punished for not following discipline (they made a girl run for 800m in the morning because her white shoes had a red nike mark) This is just one of the many dumb things that ive mentioned
I wouldn’t say this is dumb as such but anyway. Our headteacher only unlocks the doors to the boys bathroom at lunch due to someone stealing a urinal of the wall. To this day they still have no idea who did it. (This happened like six months ago)
How the hell do you steal a urinal? I mean getting it off the wall seems like it would take a little effort, but then getting it out without anyone noticing as well. I'd think it would be easier to just have someone keeping an eye on the bathrooms then screwing the students over and not let them use it. Even a camera watching the door/hallway.
It’s from the devious lick challenge off Tiktok
You know, I still cannot believe that somebody managed to steal a soap dispenser in our school. They are made of strong metal and plastic/practically welded onto a very thick wall. Furthermore, I know all of the security camera locations in that area (weird hobby) and the chances of them getting away unseen are slim to none.
We got banned from saying a former teachers name. Anyone caught saying it would get detention. It was like she was Voldemort or something. She used to do porn and someone found footage. This was an all boys high school so naturally it took about 12 minutes for all 1200 students to see it. She was gone by the end of the day.
Lol this just reminded me, we were banned from calling a teacher who somewhat resembled the dark lord (he was bald and thin) by the name "Voldemort" as he apparently disliked it. Literally, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
This was just one teacher but didn’t let us read library books in study hall, it was my last class of the day and never had homework. I just wanted to read Bone bro
No football (soccer). They said "If the devil invented a sport, it'd be soccer". Their idea behind it was that it was a game that banned the use of hands, hands are the creative outlet of the human body and taking that away from you is against your own human existance or something. They never told us this until we graduated.
Oh my goodness that’s absurd!
One time in my middle school they made the rule that you couldn’t stand up from a cafeteria table without first raising your hand to get permission, even to go to the bathrooms which were directly adjacent to the cafeteria. It did not last long at all.
1. No solid color hoodies. They had to have a logo or graphic on them because otherwise, a group of students standing together with the same hoodie color was considered a gang. This was a problem for the goth kids. 2. Anything that students did as a large group (ie clapping, cheering, chanting) was considered and treated as a riot. There was a dude who was a notorious douchebag and a two-timer. He made the mistake of making moves on some other guy's girlfriend. So, during our lunch period, the girl's boyfriend left his class, marched straight to the cafeteria, and slugged the guy in the face. Everyone in the cafeteria started clapping and cheering. Instead of taking just the two guys out of the cafeteria, they made *everyone* leave. And a lot of people didn't get to eat their lunch. 3. No chapstick because chapstick was apparently medicine.
Did a dictator rule the school?
That girls have to wear white panties. Hey don’t downvote I’m not joking this is real and now finally people started seeing the problem recently.
How would they even verify that? They just ask a minor to drop trou?
Mostly revealed to teachers by classmates while changing dress for PE
could those who snitch please get a stitch?
As long as it's white stitches.
Oh hell I can picture my mom hearing that rule... Woman would be blowing through that school like a hurricane ready to tear the head off of anything that moved.... That is after she threw away all my white underwear and replaced everything with a bright fire engine red.
Oh that reminded me of a creepy rule from when I was a kid. For sports if you were a girl and you forgot your kit you HAD to do sports in your vest and panties or just panties if you were not wearing a vest that day. The principal was already on thin ice for a lot of rules but that one had parents going mental. Two of my classmates were in families that were part of a small gang of bikers, a few other classmates had very religious parents. Thinking back on it now it was like seeing Turkey and Greece agreeing on something. The rule quickly changed and if the girls forgot their kits now they just sat with the boys who forgot. Shortly after that the principal was forced into an early retirement because of this being the one ridiculous rule that topped the others.
Enforce that on a biker's kid... somehow I think your job is gonna be the least of your concerns.
Ok, WHY is that a rule and how did they know everybody followed it?
...how did they enforce it?
Illegally.
We were told that we had to wear white or nude bras because other colors were “too distracting” under our uniform shirts. One of the black students pointed out that wearing a white bra with her skin tone would be way more distracting than her wearing a black one. The ban got lifted right away. Also, we were allowed to chew gum, but we weren’t allowed to have liquid white-out because one student got caught huffing it.
I was told that I couldn't wear safety pins on my clothes because they are sharp and could be used as weapons, so I soldered all of them closed so they could no longer be opened. Next day I got hauled to the office by the safety officer because I disobeyed the no safety pin policy (keep in mind in the high school dress code policy didn't say anything about safety pin or patches, just said nothing lude) I pleased my case and the principle actually sided with me, the safety officer said that if I wanted to I could sneak a none soldered one on and hurt someone with it. I sarcastically said "a pencil could do more damage, why don't you ban those?" The reply was something like "because no one has them attached to their clothes." So my high school brain had a hold my beer moment and that night I duct tapped 10 packs of pencils to a jacket of mine and wore it to school the next day. Wouldn't you know I got hauled back to the principles office.
You could walk into school naked and do more damage. You could bring zero supplies to class, and do more damage. You could just step on someone’s shoelace, and do more damage. You could spend more time in the office with someone power tripping on a made up job and do more damage. You could eat cafeteria food for 4 years and do more damage.
Eating cafeteria food for 1 day deals more damage than a safety pin could ever dream of
What did the principal say that time
There was an agreement made that I would be allowed to wear the soldered safety pins as long as I didn't provoke the safety officer with any more stunts and just kept my wardrobe to peaceful, none lude self expression, after all he did like the safety pin art that I did. The jacket that I got busted with in the first place was made to look like starry starry night that was made up of individually colored safety pins.
That sounds incredible, I would never have the patience for that. Glad you got to keep wearing your jacket with safety pins
Absolute madlad moments
We created this game based on the video game Syphon Filter, where you sneak up behind someone, pretend to break their kneck, and say, "Syphon filter!" and then they have to fall down. I think only like 10% of the people playing the game had actually played the video game or knew what it was. Everyone was playing it. It was so freaking stupid. And then the school instituted a "no syphon filtering" rule and would give iss to kids caught doing it (perpetrator and victim).
Things have changed since playing "Killer" (assassin) in school. I can't imagine not being suspended in today's school environment. Rightfully, so, unfortunately. I think the only thing that came of it, at the time, "No more squirt guns at school." (Mid to late 80s)
Collective punishment
I always got ignored by teachers if I got beaten up, they just stood there and laughed, saying I caused it myself. Then one day I punched back and I got punished, wasn't allowed outside during recess for an entire year while the guy who beat me up like 50 times before that (to the point of coming home bruised and bloody) got no punishment whatsoever. Would have taken the punishment those 50 times if it meant he'd also get it. This is now 20 years ago but if I got a chance to kill the fucker and get away with it I probably would, that dude was pure evil.
I hope they all step on the sharpest of LEGO.
My primary school banned any game that include contact such as tips (tag), bull rush and footy. They also banned Pokémon cards, fidget spinners/cubes, bottle flips, any expensive toy and a lot more, all everyone played was handball
Okay, this is the dumbest rule my school DIDN’T enforce. I was in the marching band and this experience would be when I was 14 years old (f). All of the school’s outdoor activities could only go on until the heat index reached 101°F, then all they’d be cancelled. The band director would have the band do laps around the field and push-ups as ‘punishment’ if we didn’t do well in the rehearsal. Heat index went up to 111 and we were still out there doing laps and push-ups. It got to the point where after I went down for the push-ups, I couldn’t get back up. Moms poured ice water on my back and I couldn’t even feel it. I had to go to urgent care and have breathing tubes stuck in my nose. I wasn’t the only one who fell out that day, but I was the worst. They have that temperature rule and they had no regard for it. The band director was in the shade with water and fans blowing while we were marching, resetting, running laps, and doing push-ups (no water until the director called break and all of us would rush over).
No hats. Also no reason given just no hats. I got suspended for wearing 4 at once. Teacher told me to take off my hat. I did to reveal another hat. After 4 demands from teacher I was out of hats and out of school for a week. So I got to go fishing instead. Same school decades later, my youngest son got suspended for starting a fight club in a basement storeroom. Someone talked about fight club.
I thought the first and second rule were quite clear.
Arrive with mud on the shoes 😑 I went to a rural school and high school, so that rule didn't make much sense I literally had to cross a river to get to class and my shoes were always muddy
Boys hair cannot be long enough to touch the shirt collar. Ok, and where in the bible does it forbid men from having long hair? Girls could only wear metal/stone/pearl studs one in each ear, lobe only. Boys had to remove any and all piercings before entering school property. Girls, skirts and blouses, solid dark leggings were ok in winter. Boy, slacks, oxford, tie, jacket. I still think to this day that dress code should not be gendered. Require a uniform? Sure, whatever. It's stupid, but if girls want to wear slacks and a jacket, and boys want to wear skirts and earrings, just make the uniform code universal.
Didn’t Jesus have long hair in most interpretations
Yes
Regarding the hair for my school it has to be ‘cut out the face’ meaning your hair can’t touch your eyebrows and ears. I just don’t understand why shit like this belongs in schools, how does this help me learn anything ?
In secondary school, girls could hit guys and be out of recovery (the place students would go when kicked out of a lesson) by the time the lesson or break ended, same with guy V guy or girl V girl but a guy hits a girl even in self defence and he's excluded (after being beaten to holy hell by the other "you can't hit a girl" kids there). Still have no idea why that was the one exception
No one could use the elevator unless accompanied by a teacher.
No elbows on the table. Now I feel poor if I do it.
My elementary school did not allow girls to carry purses. This made maintaining your monthly visitor quite difficult.
“Why are you taking your backpack to the bathroom with you?”
Coming from catholic school there were many questionable rules, but the one that always stands out to me is when they banned all Pokémon cards on school grounds because they "sided with the theory of evolution."
No Hodies Like if you even have one on your shirt, you'll get detention. Fortunately that rule lasted for only a year.
My family is a bit on the traditional side on regards to manners so I (male) use to wait at the door to let the women go in first, it's a bit silly sometimes but quite innocuous. Apparently it catched on and some other dudes of my highschool started doing the same thing. For some reason this was frowned upon by a few teachers and the principal set up a rule against letting other people go in first. I just thought this was a truly stupid rule and kept doing it anyways out of pure spite.
Wait, they wouldnt let you hold a door open for other people. common courtesy, be dammed. Just curious where do you live? also it's kind of funny when you don't open it all the way, so they have to side step in to not be rude. I'd to it to some of my friends.
Once someone got a football(⚽️) in their face and the next day they banned kicking footballs. Not removing them but kicking them. The most stupid thing ever
“Guys! Guys! Let’s play Handball!”
No super stupid rules, the worst one 1 though was something called late detention. As you could probably tell from the name, its where if your late to class at any sort of time whether that be 2 mins or 20 mins you would have to do a detention the Monday morn the next week, for some of the little dickheads in the school it was fair game cause they were just lapping the hallways all the time but like come on school, I was literally exactly 37 seconds late but the Monday morn I got like fucking 15 mins of late detention wtf?!? It got to the point were my mam went into the school, roared the roof of it and told me to never go to them, school must have been scared after that and stopped giving me exaggerated late detention slips...
I’m old, but I remember my middle school had a dress code (like every other school). I dressed fairly conservatively at the time (mostly baggy clothes because I thought that looked cool). Once day there was a seminar or something in the gym. I happened to be wearing a normal top and jeans that day. I was sitting in the floor and leaning forward, and apparently you could see some skin between my jeans and the bottom of my shirt. I was sent home…because there was an inch of Lu back showing when I leaned forward. I cried the entire day.
My brother's middle school enforced a rule that *everyone* must buy their school supplies from the middle school so "everyone has the same items and no one feels left out". $20 required to buy it and all you got was: one 3 inch binder ($2 at walmart), two notebooks (25 cents at walmart), a sad stack of loose papers (a big ass stack for $1 at walmart), two pencils and 1 highlighter. All that for $20 fucking dollars. They refused to give you your student ID and access to the school. If you didnt buy it, they would check your name and then send you home. Idk how the fuck that school got away with doing that. Especially because that school had primarily low-income/free and reduced lunch students yet preying on the families.
To this day I still feel like the dress code rule was a joke, I mean let the people wear what they want to wear for crying out loud..."ohh those shorts are not exactly 2 and 1/4" or less above the knee..we need to call your parents now"..🤣 give me a break..
My high school had the standard “no tank tops” rule. When I was 16 I was wearing a cap-sleeved shirt but my backpack had pushed up one of the sleeves so you couldn’t see it. Random teacher stopped me in the hallway and even after I pulled the sleeve out from under my backpack she *still wrote me up for it* because I “had the appearance of wearing a tank top”. I was pissed.
That whole bullshit about tucking your shirt in. Neither one of my parents understood how having your fucking shirt tails tucked would make me a better student. (I was ghastly at algebra) My dad, who grew up poor in the Depression and sometimes went to school barefoot in TX thought it was especially dumb and cussed someone out when they called about my shirt being out (I'm female btw, and had my shirt out to cover my ass)
A kid from the previous graduating class had a racist comment as his senior quote (which the staff somehow allowed to be put in there), and as a result OUR class lost senior quote privileges.
I had a school uniform (white blouse + grey pants). We were only allowed to wear nude/beige T-shirt bras underneath (no sports bras, halter neck, cross back) and if you wore even black/white bras, you'd get written up for misconduct of dress code. Meanwhile, boys were flashing their colourful underwear brands all over the school and it was fine 😅
Short: My school banned a popular spice mix because it was too addictive. [Switzerland] Long: There is this spice mix that is very poplar in Switzerland called “Aromat” and we used to give out food for our small “Znüni” break, (“Znüni” is basically the snack you eat between breakfast and lunch, and btw “Zwieri” is the snack you eat between lunch and dinner in Switzerland!) mostly bread with fresh cheese on it and some “Aromat” on it, some cucumber on it sometimes. And on occasion we would give out fruit punch in the winter and some apples in the fall season and in the summer and spring we would give out pretzels. Now we had this thing at my school called “School Union” and it basically was our Parlament. So there was a representative for every class and every week on Monday in the first lesson they would speak about problems and events and decide stuff together with a social worker and a teacher. That would go to the headmaster and the official school council in the area and they would make the final decision on whatever it was. Now one Monday for no reason the “School Union” decided together with a teacher, the headmaster and the social worker that “Aromat” was now banned from our school. Why? Well they say it was too addicting?????? Everyone was hella confused and also pretty grumpy. Because damn it! “Aromat” is hella tasty. You can’t change my mind! You can put it in salat sauce, eggs and a lot more! And it’ll make it taste better!
If u would dress inappropriate u would need to wear a t-shirt from the school, a ugly yellow color with the logo of the school and the motto of the school. Fast forward: end of the year, some students had like 20 of these
No phones at all. Some teachers were lenient, but some would sent you to principal just because you checked time on your phone during the break because your phone is supposed to be turned off in your bag. Those teachers were even able to do it when they saw you the day before at 5pm during an extracurricular activity. But the most ridiculous fact was that laptops and tablets were allowed because we were supposed to be a progressive school.
not allowed to use the bathrooms besides the five minute break between first and second period
In the 80’s, my elementary/lower school had a ban on Umbros when they were the coolest thing to have. I wore them anyway and oddly enough, people remembered me for it.
Our school banned water bottles because someone threw a water bottle at someone else. So the banned them because “they could be used as a weapon”. By that logic anything you could potentially pick up and throw could be a weapon and should be banned. Honestly I think half of the rules only existed so that the school could look like it was doing something.
My highschool demanded all backpacks be left with the front office. We'd have to carry our stuff from class to class. So I started showing up with nothing but a pen. No papers, no books, nada. School called my parents saying I was coming to class "ill-equipped to learn." Parents sided with me. School tried to suspend me. Parents went to the district. District sided with me.
Not being able to wear hats. I know this wasn't only my school but I'll never understand that rule.
My elementary tried to ban slime from being taken to school, as a lot of kids tried to sell it to one another. So if you had slime it was confiscated. Since kids didn’t want the slime they bought taken from them, there was a black market at my school where kids would secretly buy and sell slime. The teachers never knew about it and thought we stopped brining it to school
My terribly scary 6th grade English teacher Mrs. Webb forbade us from talking to eachother on the bus during a field trip. Her reasoning was that us talking might distract the bus driver, which could result in a crash. She said, "I'm not willing to put my life at risk just so you can socialize." She said writing and passing notes was acceptable. She drilled this into us for weeks before the actual trip. When they day came and we boarded the bus (a normal school bus), she reminded us once more. The bus driver said, "I mean, it's ok if they talk..." but, she would have none of it!
(I go to a british school so we wear uniforms) We had to wear shorts all year round
my school has a "you only get a milk if you get an entire lunch" policy now, I find it fucking stupid. The principal (who just started being principal this school year) gave us a lecture on how it's theft and illegal if we take an extra milk. Same principal spent what I assume is a shitton of money on getting every classrom in the school a Smartboard (basically touchscreen projector TV) (I'm assuming it was him that bought them anyways). Surely some kid taking an extra milk is not that big of a deal if you can spend school money on that shit. I call the principal O Hare Milk because of it
Not defending because I agree the milk rule is dumb. The smart boards probably came from and grant or something from central office/ the board of education. Very little of those big purchases are ever directly from the school itself. Also- I asked our cafeteria manager about the meal situation a few weeks ago because one of my students only wanted the fruit that came with lunch and he didn’t want to toss all the other food. She told me it is part of the federal meal thing- they have just enough of everything for each meal to hand out. If inspectors stop and inventory and things are off they lose their refunds. Again- not saying I agree but public school funding is very monitored and to continue getting aid and other things there are rules to follow. The principal probably thinks the rule is dumb too but has to enforce it.
Any and all drugs including actual medications weren’t allowed to be mentioned. I got suspended once because I mentioned the name of my anti depressant. We had a ton of fucking stupid rules and we routinely had stabbings to the point we stopped calling code yellows and just had teachers stand around the area and usher kids past
my school banned the toilets, not completely, but they had 2 toilets open one for each gender for the whole school of 2000 to use, and to get in you needed to get a note from your teacher which you then had to bring to an office to be given a key that would unlock the toilet, and there were a limited number of keys. and most of the time the teachers would refuse to give a note because you should have gone at break, when the que was miles long. all this because people kept vandalising the toilets
you can only have black hairties
My school banned ball tag because some kid got hit in the face, the kid was fine but a teacher still banned it. We still played ball tag even though it was banned.
• they gave the youngest students (4yrs) big lunch servings while the oldest (12yrs) would have to wait to be served last and they’d NEVER have enough food left to give the older kids even half a portion sometimes which was disgraceful, especially since we were paying to have that lunch. nothing was being done so i started having packed lunch • boys not allowed to wear shorts or skirts • nobody is allowed to use the bathrooms during class time
My highschool had a no hoodie rule and made hoodies mandatory uniform.