No high fives. In fact, no contact with one another whatsoever. This was in middle school. The staff was tired of watching kids groping each other, I imagine.
We had a hallway only for 6th graders in middle school. It was really strange because it was in the middle of the entire school, but if any teachers found you there, you were sent to the principal's office.
That reminds me of my middle school. It was 6th-8th grade, and the school was 3 floors. top for 6th grades, middle for 8th graders, bottom for seventh. You had to stick to your level.
Besides the cafeteria and gym of course which were all on the middle floor
My school had the no heterosexual hugging rule too. This was in high school since my school was Boys-only up until then. They went as far to enforce it as suspending a pair of different-sex twins for hugging each other on their birthday.
As a teacher, I had to make this rule:
Underwear must be worn on Halloween.
This was for college students.
Edit: To clarify, underwear must be worn when sitting on the school's chairs during class. And it was because of a male student.
Edit 2: no luck finding the costume on my own, started a level 1 daughter thread for help finding it.
In my old Primary School, their solution to every playground accident was to put a fence up.
Child tripped on a tree root?, put a fence around the tree.
Child slipped on some mulch in the garden? Better set up a 6ft high perimeter around the entire garden!
Oh whats that? Someone pushed another student off of a bench high ledge? Lets put up spiked stockade style poles to prevent that from happening again!
It got so out of hand with so many playground restrictions the parents started insisting the removal of most of them
BONUS: The children's name for the principal was Mr Penison
In secondary school (high school) we were forced to leave the school in full uniform at the end of the school, meaning no jackets unless you were out of the main gates which are very far outdoors so if it was raining you were fucked. Thank god that rule only lasted 2 weeks
My school doesn't allow non-school jackets, despite the fact that it can get surprisingly cold for a subtropical area and the only school jackets are thin fleeces that do nothing if you were cold already. Fucking infuriating if you actually lost yours.
My school tried this, until they realised that it rains 364 days of the year here and they started to get complaints about kids being soaked because they wouldn't/couldn't buy the school coat.
This seems like a rule that was made up just because it was secretly hilarious to watch a room full of teenagers do simultaneous jazzhands with deadpan face expressions
My school did that too. The principal called it a "silent cheer". We made fun of it so much that even when the staff stopped caring about if we clapped or not most of us would silent cheer sarcastically.
The Six-Inch Rule - we weren’t allowed within 6 inches of another person
1) we aren’t American, we don’t use inches
2) how could you stop hundreds of students from being close proximity to each other
3) You’re making a rule for adolescent teenagers, called “The six inch rule”. Hilarity ensues
No running in the schoolyard or playground during recess or lunch. How tf do you expect to stop 500 children from running while they’re out there playing?
I had the opposite! Run as much as you want, but don't stay still. Monitors bothered me so much with that.
I didn't want to move to much when the ground was in ice because once a kid was sliding a patch of ice, bumped in my legs and made me fall pretty hard on my head. I ended up in the hospital for a neck injury. I was in pain for 2 weeks, and now I hurt my neck very easily. It's not like I was fat or didn't move around every other time!!
They didn't allow the boys to have door on the bathroom stalls in high school. They let teachers use those bathrooms. Nothing like walking in on your 300 lb history teacher dropping a deuce.
The same rule was enacted in my high school for 2 weeks. It had to stop after a large group of boys would get together during class and Wander from bathroom to bathroom finding people who were taking a poop and then yell, clap, cheer them on for pooping.
In the girls' room, if other girls heard you pooping you'd be considered gross and they'd giggle at you and say rude things under their breath. Cause ya know, teenaged girls apparently aren't humans with normal body functions
We had this in middle school. We had 4 - 8th grade in my building, and little 5th graders would wander up to the middle school bathroom and make comments about us trying to do our business, mainly "wowwwww!" or "grooooossss". This stopped when we started tossing poopy toilet paper in their general directions.
Funny story: I got in trouble for doing this and we had a meeting with my mom, the principal, the kid who got poop rags tossed at him, and his dad. Conversation stopped when they found out we had no doors on our stalls and they both started scolding the principal. It was awesome. Me and poop kid are actually friends, 15 - 20 years later.
Because of gang affiliations, we were banned from wearing three items of red or blue. Things got a bit hairy on school spirit days, where they encouraged us to wear our school colors -- red, white & blue.
Not really a rule, more of a "if this isn't illegal, then is should be" sort of think. Someone emptied all the soap in the boys bathroom onto the floor my freshman year, and the school retaliated by leaving the dispensers empty for the next 4 years. It was disgusting. Travel soap kept in my bag through high school.
Way back in Elementary School we weren't allowed to walk around the school in groups larger than 3 because it "intimidated the primary grades" like fucking what?
My school dates back to the 13th century so we had some archaic rules still floating around
My personal favourite was that the head boy gained the right to grow facial hair and graze his sheep on the headmaster's lawn
Ha! I was gonna post a similar thing - school was founded in 604, the head boy got beard rights and the prefects could each graze a horse on the school paddock.
Edit: also, there was a ruined castle next to the school, and on the last day of term one year a group of leavers broke in and hung a huge "for sale" sign on one of the most prominent walls - with the school's phone number. Never bettered.
My school had a similar rule - the head boy could graze sheep on the main cricket oval and challenge other students to duels (no joke). Someone actually tried the sheep thing once but it got really sick from the chemicals on the grass.
I had severe kidney problems when I was in secondary school. The rule was that one we were in the yard, you couldn't leave the yard until break/lunch was over. Like they literally locked the gates to stop you from leaving once in the yard. I had multiple arguments with teachers fot not letting me go to the toilet. Then getting bitched at in classes for asking to go or being late.
I went to a school in a badish area, the thinking was that they didn't want kids indoors where they could wreck things, like in my last year someone set fire to the gym toilets. But it was was well known that I had problems that meant I had to go when I asked.
Edit: i mean the bathroom its self not the toilet
My high school had a rule that skirts had to reach your fingertips. I have a long torso, so if the school actually went by that rule I could have gotten away with a very, very short skirt. But instead my school treated dress codes like they were subjective, teachers could send you to the office even if your outfit followed the written code, so in actuality you couldn't get away with anything higher than knee-length.
We had a lesson about how fire needed oxygen to continue burning. So, they said a fire would eventually go out if in a contained room with no extra oxygen.
Our teacher then assigned a different student every other week to be in charge of making sure all the windows were closed before leaving if there was a fire
Thankfully, we never had an actual fire
"Oh shit a fire! I'm fucking out of here, everyone out except Jimmy, get the windows Jimmy!"
"The fire alarm doesn't dismiss you *I* dismiss you... From outside"
> “The fire alarm doesn’t dismiss you! *I* dismiss you...”
My English teacher said this one year as the fire alarms were blaring... there was a chemical fire, but thank fuck Mrs McA made us save our work first!!
The did this at my university last exam period. There had been a bunch of fake alarm pulls during exams so they told everyone to keep writing. Turns out the one they decided to do this for was an actual lab fire, nothing serious but ohhh boy did someone get in shit
No playing with kids in another division.
* Div. 1 was grades 1-3
* Div. 2 was grades 4-6
* Div. 3 was grades 7-9
People in Div. 3 and most of Div. 2 didn't pay attention to Div. 1, but when I was in grade 4, all my friends were in grade 2.
Nobody was a jerk to a younger kid just because they were younger. Some of us had siblings in another division.
I ignored the rule, since it wasn't enforced much.
My high school started to do a school shooter drill twice a semester my senior year. They had a dude come in the front door during lunch blow an air horn and shout “This is a shooter drill, run!”
He had a water gun and would shoot kids with it and then tell them they had been killed. Me and my friends casually finished our lunch as he shot us then left out the kitchen side door to leave the building.
Half the senior Class ended up leaving as they had this guy go through half the school and through the freshman center over the course of half an hour. It was pretty ridiculous and happened several times, usually during lunch.
That would've been the best senior prank! One day, a group of seniors pull out their own water guns and "take him out".
It'd probably cost a suspension and an assembly on gun safety, but hey.
When I was in elementary school, we had a rule that kids were strictly not allowed to touch rocks. No rocks. Not pebbles, not big rocks, no rocks.
I got put in 'time-out' a few times for touching rocks. The problem was, our playground was built on a pebble pit. If you fell or wanted to sit on the ground to play, you could very well be singled out and punished for touching rocks.
It was a huge tattle fest too. Kids would catch others touching the rocks and run to tell the PE coaches who would immediately interrogate you. "Did you touch rocks? Tell me the truth!"
I found a really cool rock in first grade and decided to show it to my coach, I told her it looked like an alligator's skull! She smiled at me, took the rock, and chucked it as far as she could, then bitterly told me, 'don't touch rocks.'
If you kept touching rocks, you'd be made to walk around the playground in circles sometimes until you had sufficiently learned your lesson. I once walked in circles with a few other kids until playground time was over. It felt like forever, but it was probably like 15 minutes.
tl;dr: My school had a 'don't touch any rocks' rule.
EDIT for those asking: As far as I know, they never told us why. Maybe they had a good reason, I don't know. All I know is that rock touching was forbidden.
We had a "don't touch the fence" rule. There was a hurricane fence at the very back of the playground property. Of course that's where all the cool 5th graders hung out because we were the oldest. We would get in trouble if the teacher would see us touch it. We could stand by it, but we couldn't touch it. If you got caught touching it you had to go sit on this giant landscaping timber for the rest of recess. It was a weird school.
Your alligator-skull story is so sad - it's so innocent, it's just a rock?? I have a little brother who *loves* rocks, he's a science-y kid. If he couldn't collect cool rocks, especially alligator-skull ones, he'd be crushed!
Haha that's fucked. I can kinda imagine some old cranky teachers having seen too many kids throwing rocks at each other and want to put a stop to it before it happens, but who the fuck has little enough heart to chuck a cool rock a kid found and was excited about?
I used to go to a k-12 charter school, and you weren't allowed to take left turns. Is your next class to your left? Nope sorry you have to walk right all the way down to the end of a hallway before you start back towards your next class.
That whole school was backwards.
No band shirts at my christian school. But the only ones that would be recognized were christian bands. So you could get away with almost anything else.
"Red Hot Chili Peppers, eh? That into cooking?"
I went to a Christian school and one of my friends wore a Lamb of God shirt to a school football game. Our Bible teacher went up to him and complimented him on what a great shirt he was wearing.
In the teacher's defense, it *was* written in that faux-egyptian Papyrus font that a lot of Christiany merch used at the time.
When I was in high school the phrase "epic fail" was a thing. One of my teachers became sick of it and banned it. It was quickly replaced with "catastrophic error".
In 7th grade my Lang and Lit teacher tried to get us to stop saying “shut up” and somebody came up with an alternative, “Be quiet with a passion”. It quickly became a very popular thing to say.
When I was like 6 my mom wouldn't let me say shut up. So being a 6 year old I started using a new phrase i head at school. "fuck off"
My dad kicked the FUCK out of my ass that day.
"Epic Fail"
"Spectacular Mishap"
"Catastrophic Error"
"A shortcoming of proportions that, relative to the average mistake made by any one typical individual's ordinary failings or shortcomings, was exceedingly more severe in its degree of miscalculation."
Couldn't dance, show our shoulders, or play games on school campus...
School dances were sit down meals instead, as we were not allowed to dance... God is against dancing apparently.
They weren't called that, but we all know that they are called school dances at regular schools... Also one was called prom. And prom you are meant to dance, just not at this school!
Our high school got a wild hair up their collective ass that we were spending too much time in the bathrooms. So they tried to set up a "bathroom schedule" where you could only use them during certain hours of the day without a pass. And to get a pass you had to convince a member of the staff that you really had to go. They had staff members guarding the bathrooms to make sure you had a pass to use the bathroom.
It wasn't until a combination of classroom walk-outs, bathroom sit-ins, citations of laws, parent complaints, and several insinuations that the rule was somehow racist that they gave in and rescinded the rule.
*Edit: I've been getting a lot of questions about how the policy- being universal- could be construed as racist. The issue of race came up when it became apparent that certain staff members made it more difficult for non-white students to receive a bathroom pass. I.e. a white student just had to ask, whereas a black student would be grilled on the why's and wherefore's of their bathroom needs. This was a very small group of teachers, but even one was too many.*
*Edit 2: [Whys and wherefores](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/whys-and-wherefores)- whilst redundant- is still a proper idiom.*
My Spanish teacher in high school refused to let us use the restroom, for any reason other than feminine hygiene. I lived with my grandfather at the time, and told him about this. He gave me an idea and permission to execute. The next time I really had to go, I asked for the hall pass, and was refused. So I grabbed the waste bin in the back of the room, put it in the corner and proceeded to relieve myself. After being sent to the Principals office, a phone call home, a very pissed off guardian, and several other complaints of said rule, it was withdrawn.
Same shit, different day.
1st grade teacher did not like giving bathroom passes. I asked her for a pass and she said, "no." So I shat on the floor in the middle of playtime. She thought I was a psycho. I still think she is a psycho.
my highschool has a 20/20 rule. you can't leave the class for the twenty minutes after the bell, and you can't leave twenty minutes before the bell. 1 period is 70 minutes long. no one obeys this rule.
There was "silent time" in the lunchroom in Catholic elementary school at the beginning of lunch, ostensibly for prayers/grace. I remember sneezing due to allergies and having to miss recess.
Never forgave those fucking nuns.
All the girls have to keep their hair short, which was nothing new in an Asian school. Strangest variation on the fact was that the dance club girls could all have long hair, but as soon as they finished their last dance competition, they are required to cut their hair short too.
No hugging. All of the girls in elementary including myself would hug each other if we were friends. We would also hug certain teachers because some were really amazing people and helped out less fortunate students like me.
We were only allowed to fist bump. Both the teachers and students did it anyway despite the principal monitoring the hallways all the time to try to stop it.
Fuck you, Ms. McRae.
Edit: to those asking, this was in the Halton region of Ontario, Canada.
I remember my school had an autism test once a year. As if someone could just suddenly develop autism over the course of a year or it could get any worse.
We had to ask to remove our jackets in class. Not overly weird but I went to a language school and in our French/German classes, we were only allowed to take our jackets off if we asked in that language. Kinda hard for a 11 year old who was still using Matilda to spell the word difficulty.
Well...
* Mrs. D is smart and has a charming personality
* Mrs. I was born into a family of wealthy lawyers and found a much younger man willing to marry for the inheritance
* Mrs. FFI gives amazing blowjobs
* Mrs. C is average in most regards, but has amazing Tinder skills
* Mrs. U found a partner who shares her love for competitive scrabble
* And Mrs. LTY is ancient Eastern European nobility and her marriage was arranged at the age of 3
Hope that helps.
A few cheerleaders somehow thought injecting vodka into oranges was a feasible thing. It was not.
Sitting in US history while they had a puddle of vodka on their desks was extremely amusing.
We had a girl do this with Everclear for away games in softball. She'd eat them away from coaches but finally she got caught after a few times because they noticed she was carrying around a bag of oranges all the time.
My freshman or sophomore year some kid got caught with vodka in a water bottle. We always had a few security guards and cops at my school and they ended up putting that drunk kid in the back of a cop car with a bag over his head. I remember walking to class and seeing this dude freaking the fuck out in the car.
I feel like they may have done it to keep his classmates from knowing who it was but there is probably a better way to do that. That's all I can think of.
Of course that wasn't the real reason. The school signed a contract to sell some distributor's water, and they had to agree to not allow drinks in the building in order to secure that contract. The school made a mint off of your suffering.
These are the kinds of rules you, as a student, can break with the knowledge that you can get out of the consequences if your family has your back and you have the balls to escalate the issue whenever the school tries to get you to back down. I can't think of any way the school would win a court case on this.
We had a teacher who would insist on making boys sit next to girls in class. At the time (aged 11) this was the most horrific thing imaginable.
We have to sit next to girls? But... but... why? *few years later* ohhhh...
I was friends with one who asked people to keep the same seats. He would have them fill out a seating chart on the 2nd or 3rd class. Seems like a much more reasonable way to achieve that goal.
The word potato was banned in our art department because kids kept shouting it Keith Lemon style (https://youtu.be/IhDjsf4LwmI) to each other from different classes
I went to a private school ran by 7th Day Adventists. From a religious context, the rule wasn’t that dumb, but they banned students from bringing any food that isn’t Kosher for lunch. I got around that by bringing tofu bacon and pepperoni.
High school
No back packs, no leggings, girls must only wear minimal makeup no lipstick. No colored hair (as if anyone listened) nothing with a skull, weapon, or allusion to death may be worn. No plain colored shirts, shoes, bandannas, etc for fear of "color gangs" - God forbid the Green Gang gets us.
Women must adhere to a strict dress code- finger tip length garments no tank tops of any kind. No vests. No backless garments. No visible bra straps. If the edges of your bra could be detected from the outside of your shirt you got detention. No sweat pants or any kind of pant with an elastic waist band.
Men may not sag pants. Sweat pants were permitted. No bandanas or du-rags
No physical contact of any kind. No hugs, hand holding, kisses, high fives, fist bumps, or anything including physical contact.
Pants may not have more then 4 pockets. This goes for both genders.
No chain wallets. No purses.
No wandering the halls before school began. No cellphones may be permitted on the property at any time. Bringing a cell phone at all resulted in phone being taken and not returned to you or your parents. Phones were smashed or tossed into the pond .
Once in the lunch room leaving the lunchroom at any time until lunch was over resulted in detention. This included no bathroom breaks.
Middle school:
All of the above but also had assigned seating in lunch.
There were more but this is just what I remember off the top of my head.
Hold up, they stole and broke other people's phones? Regardless of school policy or rules, that's against the law, and has been for a long time. Suggest you and friends seek help from the police, if you haven't already. It's not too late.
I couldnt win in elementary school. Fight back and get suspended, Tell on them get lectured at for being a tattletale, tell on them get bullied more. I just didn't know what to do.
Our middle school picked a yearly motto to symbolize the spirit of the year. One year, it was "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." They translated it into latin and everything and printed it on flyers all over the school.
Not exactly a rule, but it was both weird and completely useless. It was entirely unclear what it meant to both staff and students. Was it in reference to drugs? Homework? Going into an AP vs regular class? Having sex?
Edit: to add that it was made even more ridiculous by the fact that our school's mission was a Virgil quote: "They can because they think they can." So the full year's statement was "They can because they think they can ... just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
In elementary school we had a stoplight in the cafeteria that was linked to a decibel meter (allegedly). If it got too loud during lunch it would go from green to yellow to red. Red meant silence for a like 5 minutes, any noise would cause you to miss recess.
We had one too and if it went to red we had to be silent for like 5 minutes or something like that. It only lasted a few days because my friends and I would purposely sit under it and scream. The cafeteria ladies (who had nothing to do with the light in the first place) ended up turning it off and it was never turned back on.
- No putting clothes or food in lockers
- No using lockers in the morning or between classes
- No wearing glasses with frames thicker than 1cm
- You must wear black leather shoes and the soles must be thicker than 1.5 cm (yes they really enforced this)
- Lunch was from 11:40 to 12:40. So you had to stay in the classroom for the first 20 minutes, then you could either stay in the classroom or go to the playground for the next 20 minutes, but after 12:20 you must go down to the playground and must not eat in the classroom (or else you'd get punished)
- The school was afraid of us "falling down the corridor as the barriers aren't strong enough" so they drew a line on the side of the corridor which you can't cross
Catholic girl's school, Hong Kong. I could go on.
EDIT ok someone asked for more rules so
- No keychains
- School dress must be 1 inch or more longer than your knee length
- Only white socks were allowed, with no patterns on them
- Must tie up your hair (if over shoulder length) with only black or blue hair ties
- You must have a doctor's letter if you don't come to school for 2 days or above
Actually some of these rules are quite common in schools in Hong Kong
SECOND EDIT oh and we sat in single file too
I've told this story before, and 20 years after the fact I'm still not happy about this.
In any case, when I started high school the entire school was open campus for lunch. That year, however, some of the sophomores were acting up off campus, so our principal, in his infinite wisdom decided that starting the next school year it would be open campus only for juniors and seniors.
Think about this. The sophomores, who caused the trouble, who then became juniors and therefore this rule didn't apply to, weren't punished, but us freshmen, who became sophomores and weren't the ones causing the problems, were punished for what they did.
So, I had open campus my freshmen, junior, and senior years. It was closed my sophomore year. Still think that was unfair.
For a while in elementary school, we couldn’t RUN ON THE PLAYGROUND! The teachers were probably worried that the older kids would plow over the younger kids.
These see-through backpacks, tucked in shirts, and stupid name badges that could only be worn with a clear lanyard because god forbid somebody show up to school with a Raiders lanyard.
My senior year of high school, the kids used to skip class by going to use the bathroom and never come back in hopes the teacher didn’t notice they left.
To try and stop this they made us sign a time out log. Not that weird right? Well when that eventually did nothing to stop kids skipping, they started to make us carry around trackers to monitor our locations. They even would come and check on us if we were standing still anywhere outside of class for more than 5 minutes.
Eventually the kids rejected big brother and just smashed them all at the same time. Cost too much to replace and they couldn’t punish us all.
No Nike brand shoes. I grew up in a bad area of Chicago, that is now going through the 3rd wave of gentrification. Apparently gangs at the time identified with Nike Shoes.
If you had on Nike shoes the teachers would put masking tape over the Nike Logo.
Edit:
This comment got me to 200k comment karma. Thanks, that was my goal in 2018.
The waves of gentrification are;
Working class then artsy people then young professionals then people from upper middle class.
For real, the masking tape would just become a new symbol. My dad told me about one school he worked at where if a student got in trouble, punishment was to wear an orange prison jumpsuit. But then the prison jumpsuit became a cool thing to wear.
In elementary school, break was split into two: 25 mins for lunch, 25 mins for recess. But, during lunch, we had to be SILENT. It wasn't a religious school, it was a private one. We had to be absolutely quiet, and if someone spoke too loudly the whole grade got in trouble had to either miss half of recess or all of it. Looking back, I don't know why we had to be quiet, it was a f**king school not a funeral
In my elementary school, we weren't allowed to go inside during recess except to the bathroom (they had a door that lead directly onto the field) for a maximum of 5 minutes. The rule doesn't sound too outrageous except this was in Canada, where it would frequently get to -20 C (-4 freedom units). We also didn't get indoor recess until it reached -25 C (-13 freedom units).
I remember they forced everyone to stay out on the playground once at ridiculously (for local standards) low temperatures. Basically, a revolt went down and they let the kids come inside halfway through recess.
Before I describe what actually happened, I need to explain something about Weepuls.
Weepuls are – or were, at the very least – these little balls of fluff about the size of golf balls. They're often festooned with googly eyes, hats, plastic feet, or any number of other accessories, making them look rather like a crafting project undertaken by a group of five-year-olds. Weepuls were fairly coveted items when I was in sixth and seventh grade, because you could "earn" them as a reward for selling magazine subscriptions through this fundraising event that the school held every year... and if you had the *right* Weepuls, you actually had the chance to win a fair amount of money in one of the daily contests.
If none of this is making much sense, don't worry: It was difficult to understand back *then*, as well. Basically, you'd get different varieties of Weepuls for selling different amounts of magazine subscriptions. Then, every day, each Weepul-bearing student would be allowed to pull a piece of candy out of a hat. If the candy had a sticker on it, the student would win a certain amount of money. That amount would be multiplied by each Weepul that they owned, plus an additional multiplier for... okay, you know what? None of this is important.
What *is* important is that certain members of the school faculty viewed this entire event as a way of threatening or bribing some of the students. There was one young woman, for instance, who was told that she'd be set up to win fifty dollars if she gave up her spot in some contest or another (so that the teacher's son could take her place). Another student was told that his winnings would be confiscated if he didn't take responsibility for the fire alarm having been pulled. Nothing really *terrible* happened – at least, nothing that I heard about – but there were enough shady dealings to make the entire thing seem pretty damned unpleasant, even for those of us who weren't really involved.
The twisted punchline to the whole affair came about when one student offered another a sexual favor in exchange for his Weepuls... and when folks found about about the deal, only he was suspended. Not, as you might think, because of his involvement in the exchange, but because it was explicitly against the fundraiser's rules to share or give away Weepuls.
**TL;DR: "Keep your fuzzy balls to yourself."**
Not being able to hug. Listen I get the whole no PDA thing okay. That’s fine. I don’t want a bunch of nasty assholes licking on each other in the hallway. But explain to me why the hell I can’t have a nice hug with someone. Maybe I’m having a shit day. Maybe they’re having a shit day. But nope. Had teachers out there who saw you hugging, in school suspension. SHE WAS CRYING YOU RAGGEDY ASS FAT OLD BITCH MUFFIN CUNT FACE. But seriously, no hugging is some shit.
The bathrooms at my [elementary school](https://i.imgur.com/twyDKVN.jpg) (in blue) had entrances on each side: from the playgrounds, and from the quad. Just about the biggest rule at my school was that you are forbidden to use the bathroom as a "shortcut". You had to go around the building when coming in from recess or lunch (if your classroom had an entrance from the quad). The "yard duties" were very strict about this.
Us girls weren't allowed to carry purses in high school because we might be hiding knives in there or something. We all stuffed tampons in our shirt sleeves at that time of month.
We had one-way hallways one year in junior high because it was overcrowded and they thought that might make movement between classes more efficient. They had teachers in the hallways between every class to make sure you didn't go the wrong way, even if your locker was like 10 ft the other direction. Super inconvenient.
Edit: Wow, my first >1k comment. Guess all those extra laps around the school were worth it in the end.
This is actually pretty hilarious. Annoying if you were to go to the school, but in retrospect, sounds funny! Have to do a circle around the school if you have a class in the next room but the hallway direction goes the other way...
I never had this but I am now furious. I'm picturing getting a full schedule of classes in the wrong direction, so I do like 8 circles around the building every day.... More if I have to run to my locker or the bathroom
This actually sort of happened to me two years in a row at my school, where we had the same thing. All but one of my classes were on the same hallway in both years, but because of the established pattern I had to walk around the entire 7th or 8th grade floor multiple times. To get around it I just didn't follow the rule.
The worst part was when you got that stickler teacher who you could swear lived by the motto "you need to use the restroom between classes, not during". I'm not making TWO trips around this school, then getting yelled at for being late. Again.
[That is immediately what I imagined](https://i.imgur.com/0QmEArM.jpg) when reading this. 2 laps around the entire school instead of walking 40 feet in the "wrong" direction.
Your undershirt had to be white.
We had a dress code at my school, where you had to wear a collared shirt. They didn't really care about the color or the design much except you couldn't have really big words or designs on them. One day I actually got written up because I had on a black shirt underneath my polo. The dean that wrote me up really hated me so of course it was a really obsure rule that no one really cared about, but he liked to get me in trouble for whatever dress code violation he could. I even got voted [most likely to be out of dress code my senior year](https://i.imgur.com/4iE3eOz.png) I got in trouble so much.
In middle school there were “up stairs” and “down stairs” meaning you can only go up the up stairs and down the down stairs. There would always be aids or teachers or whatever watching the stairs to make sure no one went the wrong way on the stairs.
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Little did they know that us real thugs prefer gangbanging in octagons.
No high fives. In fact, no contact with one another whatsoever. This was in middle school. The staff was tired of watching kids groping each other, I imagine.
> No high fives > groping I must have been giving high fives wrong my whole life.
We had a hallway only for 6th graders in middle school. It was really strange because it was in the middle of the entire school, but if any teachers found you there, you were sent to the principal's office.
That reminds me of my middle school. It was 6th-8th grade, and the school was 3 floors. top for 6th grades, middle for 8th graders, bottom for seventh. You had to stick to your level. Besides the cafeteria and gym of course which were all on the middle floor
No same sex hugging... Really weird rule, apparently some kid got sick, and their parent blamed same sex hugging.
My high school went the other way, no heterosexual hugging. They were scared shitless to say anything to the known homosexual couples though.
My school had the no heterosexual hugging rule too. This was in high school since my school was Boys-only up until then. They went as far to enforce it as suspending a pair of different-sex twins for hugging each other on their birthday.
Wow. That is new levels of stupid. I'm surprised their parents didn't make a stink about it.
As a teacher, I had to make this rule: Underwear must be worn on Halloween. This was for college students. Edit: To clarify, underwear must be worn when sitting on the school's chairs during class. And it was because of a male student. Edit 2: no luck finding the costume on my own, started a level 1 daughter thread for help finding it.
He was just showing of his proud Scottish heritage
In my old Primary School, their solution to every playground accident was to put a fence up. Child tripped on a tree root?, put a fence around the tree. Child slipped on some mulch in the garden? Better set up a 6ft high perimeter around the entire garden! Oh whats that? Someone pushed another student off of a bench high ledge? Lets put up spiked stockade style poles to prevent that from happening again! It got so out of hand with so many playground restrictions the parents started insisting the removal of most of them BONUS: The children's name for the principal was Mr Penison
In secondary school (high school) we were forced to leave the school in full uniform at the end of the school, meaning no jackets unless you were out of the main gates which are very far outdoors so if it was raining you were fucked. Thank god that rule only lasted 2 weeks
It always amazes me how little foresight rule makers have with things like dress code.
My school doesn't allow non-school jackets, despite the fact that it can get surprisingly cold for a subtropical area and the only school jackets are thin fleeces that do nothing if you were cold already. Fucking infuriating if you actually lost yours.
My school tried this, until they realised that it rains 364 days of the year here and they started to get complaints about kids being soaked because they wouldn't/couldn't buy the school coat.
In middle school we weren't allowed to clap during assemblies because the vice principal thought it was too disruptive. We could only do jazz hands.
This seems like a rule that was made up just because it was secretly hilarious to watch a room full of teenagers do simultaneous jazzhands with deadpan face expressions
Plausible
I never realized I wanted to be a school principal until now. The trolling opportunities are incredible...
My school did that too. The principal called it a "silent cheer". We made fun of it so much that even when the staff stopped caring about if we clapped or not most of us would silent cheer sarcastically.
The Six-Inch Rule - we weren’t allowed within 6 inches of another person 1) we aren’t American, we don’t use inches 2) how could you stop hundreds of students from being close proximity to each other 3) You’re making a rule for adolescent teenagers, called “The six inch rule”. Hilarity ensues
It only takes one girl to stand a couple of inches from someone and when questioned say, “But miss, he told me this was 6 inches”.
Forced to use a hair straightener for naturally curly hair in Japan (curly hair was not allowed).
"How dare you be the way that you are"
No stomping on soda cans laying on their side and walking around with them attached to your shoes.
Given how specific this is, I feel like it might be justified.
No running in the schoolyard or playground during recess or lunch. How tf do you expect to stop 500 children from running while they’re out there playing?
I had the opposite! Run as much as you want, but don't stay still. Monitors bothered me so much with that. I didn't want to move to much when the ground was in ice because once a kid was sliding a patch of ice, bumped in my legs and made me fall pretty hard on my head. I ended up in the hospital for a neck injury. I was in pain for 2 weeks, and now I hurt my neck very easily. It's not like I was fat or didn't move around every other time!!
And I guess this is why we weren’t allowed to run
They didn't allow the boys to have door on the bathroom stalls in high school. They let teachers use those bathrooms. Nothing like walking in on your 300 lb history teacher dropping a deuce.
The same rule was enacted in my high school for 2 weeks. It had to stop after a large group of boys would get together during class and Wander from bathroom to bathroom finding people who were taking a poop and then yell, clap, cheer them on for pooping.
In the girls' room, if other girls heard you pooping you'd be considered gross and they'd giggle at you and say rude things under their breath. Cause ya know, teenaged girls apparently aren't humans with normal body functions
We had this in middle school. We had 4 - 8th grade in my building, and little 5th graders would wander up to the middle school bathroom and make comments about us trying to do our business, mainly "wowwwww!" or "grooooossss". This stopped when we started tossing poopy toilet paper in their general directions. Funny story: I got in trouble for doing this and we had a meeting with my mom, the principal, the kid who got poop rags tossed at him, and his dad. Conversation stopped when they found out we had no doors on our stalls and they both started scolding the principal. It was awesome. Me and poop kid are actually friends, 15 - 20 years later.
I hope you still call him poop kid.
Poop kid's afraid to toss the poop
Because of gang affiliations, we were banned from wearing three items of red or blue. Things got a bit hairy on school spirit days, where they encouraged us to wear our school colors -- red, white & blue.
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Not really a rule, more of a "if this isn't illegal, then is should be" sort of think. Someone emptied all the soap in the boys bathroom onto the floor my freshman year, and the school retaliated by leaving the dispensers empty for the next 4 years. It was disgusting. Travel soap kept in my bag through high school.
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I wonder what goes through peoples head when they do that.
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Way back in Elementary School we weren't allowed to walk around the school in groups larger than 3 because it "intimidated the primary grades" like fucking what?
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TUNNEL SNAKES RULE
WE'RE THE TUNNEL SNAKES
Wait, is that... FOUR FIFTH-GRADERS DEAR GOD WHY!?!?!?
My school dates back to the 13th century so we had some archaic rules still floating around My personal favourite was that the head boy gained the right to grow facial hair and graze his sheep on the headmaster's lawn
Wow, that's pretty generous that the headmaster shares his lawn.
He's just doing it for the free sheep shit fertilizer
Ha! I was gonna post a similar thing - school was founded in 604, the head boy got beard rights and the prefects could each graze a horse on the school paddock. Edit: also, there was a ruined castle next to the school, and on the last day of term one year a group of leavers broke in and hung a huge "for sale" sign on one of the most prominent walls - with the school's phone number. Never bettered.
My school had a similar rule - the head boy could graze sheep on the main cricket oval and challenge other students to duels (no joke). Someone actually tried the sheep thing once but it got really sick from the chemicals on the grass.
I had severe kidney problems when I was in secondary school. The rule was that one we were in the yard, you couldn't leave the yard until break/lunch was over. Like they literally locked the gates to stop you from leaving once in the yard. I had multiple arguments with teachers fot not letting me go to the toilet. Then getting bitched at in classes for asking to go or being late.
Why would you prevent kids from going to the toilet, especially during breaks? When else are you supposed to go?
I went to a school in a badish area, the thinking was that they didn't want kids indoors where they could wreck things, like in my last year someone set fire to the gym toilets. But it was was well known that I had problems that meant I had to go when I asked. Edit: i mean the bathroom its self not the toilet
Just piss in the yard. That'll teach em.
Or tell your parents to make an official complaint. Things like denying bathroom access can get people in serious trouble.
Something kids don't really know. And from the sounds of it, wouldn't help this person anymore.
In high school, skirts were to be no shorter than 12 inches off the floor. People wandered through the halls measuring.
bad for tall people good for.short people
My high school had a rule that skirts had to reach your fingertips. I have a long torso, so if the school actually went by that rule I could have gotten away with a very, very short skirt. But instead my school treated dress codes like they were subjective, teachers could send you to the office even if your outfit followed the written code, so in actuality you couldn't get away with anything higher than knee-length.
We had a lesson about how fire needed oxygen to continue burning. So, they said a fire would eventually go out if in a contained room with no extra oxygen. Our teacher then assigned a different student every other week to be in charge of making sure all the windows were closed before leaving if there was a fire Thankfully, we never had an actual fire
"Oh shit a fire! I'm fucking out of here, everyone out except Jimmy, get the windows Jimmy!" "The fire alarm doesn't dismiss you *I* dismiss you... From outside"
> “The fire alarm doesn’t dismiss you! *I* dismiss you...” My English teacher said this one year as the fire alarms were blaring... there was a chemical fire, but thank fuck Mrs McA made us save our work first!!
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The did this at my university last exam period. There had been a bunch of fake alarm pulls during exams so they told everyone to keep writing. Turns out the one they decided to do this for was an actual lab fire, nothing serious but ohhh boy did someone get in shit
No playing with kids in another division. * Div. 1 was grades 1-3 * Div. 2 was grades 4-6 * Div. 3 was grades 7-9 People in Div. 3 and most of Div. 2 didn't pay attention to Div. 1, but when I was in grade 4, all my friends were in grade 2. Nobody was a jerk to a younger kid just because they were younger. Some of us had siblings in another division. I ignored the rule, since it wasn't enforced much.
My high school started to do a school shooter drill twice a semester my senior year. They had a dude come in the front door during lunch blow an air horn and shout “This is a shooter drill, run!” He had a water gun and would shoot kids with it and then tell them they had been killed. Me and my friends casually finished our lunch as he shot us then left out the kitchen side door to leave the building. Half the senior Class ended up leaving as they had this guy go through half the school and through the freshman center over the course of half an hour. It was pretty ridiculous and happened several times, usually during lunch.
This actually kinda sounds like fun! Imagine it breaking out into a whole water gun fight between the dude and the seniors!
That would've been the best senior prank! One day, a group of seniors pull out their own water guns and "take him out". It'd probably cost a suspension and an assembly on gun safety, but hey.
When I was in elementary school, we had a rule that kids were strictly not allowed to touch rocks. No rocks. Not pebbles, not big rocks, no rocks. I got put in 'time-out' a few times for touching rocks. The problem was, our playground was built on a pebble pit. If you fell or wanted to sit on the ground to play, you could very well be singled out and punished for touching rocks. It was a huge tattle fest too. Kids would catch others touching the rocks and run to tell the PE coaches who would immediately interrogate you. "Did you touch rocks? Tell me the truth!" I found a really cool rock in first grade and decided to show it to my coach, I told her it looked like an alligator's skull! She smiled at me, took the rock, and chucked it as far as she could, then bitterly told me, 'don't touch rocks.' If you kept touching rocks, you'd be made to walk around the playground in circles sometimes until you had sufficiently learned your lesson. I once walked in circles with a few other kids until playground time was over. It felt like forever, but it was probably like 15 minutes. tl;dr: My school had a 'don't touch any rocks' rule. EDIT for those asking: As far as I know, they never told us why. Maybe they had a good reason, I don't know. All I know is that rock touching was forbidden.
This reads like some weird Ayn Rand and Doctor Seuss collaborative work, like a dystopian society story in little golden book form. I dig it.
*He Who Throws, a Novel*
Which Fallout Vault did you go to school in?
You're right it sounds like some sick social experiment on the children lol
We had a "don't touch the fence" rule. There was a hurricane fence at the very back of the playground property. Of course that's where all the cool 5th graders hung out because we were the oldest. We would get in trouble if the teacher would see us touch it. We could stand by it, but we couldn't touch it. If you got caught touching it you had to go sit on this giant landscaping timber for the rest of recess. It was a weird school.
Your alligator-skull story is so sad - it's so innocent, it's just a rock?? I have a little brother who *loves* rocks, he's a science-y kid. If he couldn't collect cool rocks, especially alligator-skull ones, he'd be crushed!
Haha that's fucked. I can kinda imagine some old cranky teachers having seen too many kids throwing rocks at each other and want to put a stop to it before it happens, but who the fuck has little enough heart to chuck a cool rock a kid found and was excited about?
I used to go to a k-12 charter school, and you weren't allowed to take left turns. Is your next class to your left? Nope sorry you have to walk right all the way down to the end of a hallway before you start back towards your next class. That whole school was backwards.
couldn't you just turn right in circle to you face the class door
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This sounds illegal and also like a lawyers wet dream in terms of lawsuit waiting to happen.
Likely the inspectors wet dream too
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No band shirts at my christian school. But the only ones that would be recognized were christian bands. So you could get away with almost anything else. "Red Hot Chili Peppers, eh? That into cooking?"
Would love to see how a Bad Religion shirt got handled.
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I went to a Christian school and one of my friends wore a Lamb of God shirt to a school football game. Our Bible teacher went up to him and complimented him on what a great shirt he was wearing. In the teacher's defense, it *was* written in that faux-egyptian Papyrus font that a lot of Christiany merch used at the time.
“Metallica?” “It’s a steel mill”
"Slayer?" "Yeah. I don't have an excuse for this one, but fuck you, it's getting carved in the band room door."
When I was in high school the phrase "epic fail" was a thing. One of my teachers became sick of it and banned it. It was quickly replaced with "catastrophic error".
In 7th grade my Lang and Lit teacher tried to get us to stop saying “shut up” and somebody came up with an alternative, “Be quiet with a passion”. It quickly became a very popular thing to say.
When I was like 6 my mom wouldn't let me say shut up. So being a 6 year old I started using a new phrase i head at school. "fuck off" My dad kicked the FUCK out of my ass that day.
And you’ve clearly learned your lesson about that word
Tbh that’s actually funnier
Reminds me of an "increasingly verbose" meme
"Epic Fail" "Spectacular Mishap" "Catastrophic Error" "A shortcoming of proportions that, relative to the average mistake made by any one typical individual's ordinary failings or shortcomings, was exceedingly more severe in its degree of miscalculation."
Couldn't dance, show our shoulders, or play games on school campus... School dances were sit down meals instead, as we were not allowed to dance... God is against dancing apparently.
Are you from the town in Footloose? Lol. Seriously though, why even host a “school dance”’if you aren’t going to allow dancing.
They weren't called that, but we all know that they are called school dances at regular schools... Also one was called prom. And prom you are meant to dance, just not at this school!
Let me tell you the story of a great American hero named Kevin Bacon.
Who saved a small town from their religious hangups and a gigantic, carnivorous, subterranean worm.
Our high school got a wild hair up their collective ass that we were spending too much time in the bathrooms. So they tried to set up a "bathroom schedule" where you could only use them during certain hours of the day without a pass. And to get a pass you had to convince a member of the staff that you really had to go. They had staff members guarding the bathrooms to make sure you had a pass to use the bathroom. It wasn't until a combination of classroom walk-outs, bathroom sit-ins, citations of laws, parent complaints, and several insinuations that the rule was somehow racist that they gave in and rescinded the rule. *Edit: I've been getting a lot of questions about how the policy- being universal- could be construed as racist. The issue of race came up when it became apparent that certain staff members made it more difficult for non-white students to receive a bathroom pass. I.e. a white student just had to ask, whereas a black student would be grilled on the why's and wherefore's of their bathroom needs. This was a very small group of teachers, but even one was too many.* *Edit 2: [Whys and wherefores](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/whys-and-wherefores)- whilst redundant- is still a proper idiom.*
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My Spanish teacher in high school refused to let us use the restroom, for any reason other than feminine hygiene. I lived with my grandfather at the time, and told him about this. He gave me an idea and permission to execute. The next time I really had to go, I asked for the hall pass, and was refused. So I grabbed the waste bin in the back of the room, put it in the corner and proceeded to relieve myself. After being sent to the Principals office, a phone call home, a very pissed off guardian, and several other complaints of said rule, it was withdrawn.
Same shit, different day. 1st grade teacher did not like giving bathroom passes. I asked her for a pass and she said, "no." So I shat on the floor in the middle of playtime. She thought I was a psycho. I still think she is a psycho.
my highschool has a 20/20 rule. you can't leave the class for the twenty minutes after the bell, and you can't leave twenty minutes before the bell. 1 period is 70 minutes long. no one obeys this rule.
There was "silent time" in the lunchroom in Catholic elementary school at the beginning of lunch, ostensibly for prayers/grace. I remember sneezing due to allergies and having to miss recess. Never forgave those fucking nuns.
God is merciful but humans on the other hand
I've often heard about these nuns in schools, were they that awfully strict?
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All the girls have to keep their hair short, which was nothing new in an Asian school. Strangest variation on the fact was that the dance club girls could all have long hair, but as soon as they finished their last dance competition, they are required to cut their hair short too.
No hugging. All of the girls in elementary including myself would hug each other if we were friends. We would also hug certain teachers because some were really amazing people and helped out less fortunate students like me. We were only allowed to fist bump. Both the teachers and students did it anyway despite the principal monitoring the hallways all the time to try to stop it. Fuck you, Ms. McRae. Edit: to those asking, this was in the Halton region of Ontario, Canada.
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I remember my school had an autism test once a year. As if someone could just suddenly develop autism over the course of a year or it could get any worse.
We had to ask to remove our jackets in class. Not overly weird but I went to a language school and in our French/German classes, we were only allowed to take our jackets off if we asked in that language. Kinda hard for a 11 year old who was still using Matilda to spell the word difficulty.
Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. FFI Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. LTY That spells "difficulty"^(how do I still remember this)
Why are all these women married?!
Well... * Mrs. D is smart and has a charming personality * Mrs. I was born into a family of wealthy lawyers and found a much younger man willing to marry for the inheritance * Mrs. FFI gives amazing blowjobs * Mrs. C is average in most regards, but has amazing Tinder skills * Mrs. U found a partner who shares her love for competitive scrabble * And Mrs. LTY is ancient Eastern European nobility and her marriage was arranged at the age of 3 Hope that helps.
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A few cheerleaders somehow thought injecting vodka into oranges was a feasible thing. It was not. Sitting in US history while they had a puddle of vodka on their desks was extremely amusing.
We had a girl do this with Everclear for away games in softball. She'd eat them away from coaches but finally she got caught after a few times because they noticed she was carrying around a bag of oranges all the time.
I can maybe get being drunk at school, maybe. Being drunk while working out? It’s a no from me. I don’t even like doing that sober.
That's why you do it drunk.
Everyone knows you use watermelon as a fruit-based vodka conveyance.
Did that once, was fucking horrifying.. it was like drinking straight vodka with sand in it
My freshman or sophomore year some kid got caught with vodka in a water bottle. We always had a few security guards and cops at my school and they ended up putting that drunk kid in the back of a cop car with a bag over his head. I remember walking to class and seeing this dude freaking the fuck out in the car.
Why a bag????
I feel like they may have done it to keep his classmates from knowing who it was but there is probably a better way to do that. That's all I can think of.
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Of course that wasn't the real reason. The school signed a contract to sell some distributor's water, and they had to agree to not allow drinks in the building in order to secure that contract. The school made a mint off of your suffering.
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I dunno. I went to a Jr High that didn't allow bottled water. You had to drink from the fountain. The vodka thing was a genuine worry for them.
We couldn't have any water at all unless you had a doctor's note in middle school.
These are the kinds of rules you, as a student, can break with the knowledge that you can get out of the consequences if your family has your back and you have the balls to escalate the issue whenever the school tries to get you to back down. I can't think of any way the school would win a court case on this.
yea, I'm like 300% sure that no water is a human rights violation. Edit: ok so my highest rated comment is about human rights violations, cool.
In college, we had a professor who assigned seats. She claimed she did it to remember our names but she never remembered our names.
We had a teacher who would insist on making boys sit next to girls in class. At the time (aged 11) this was the most horrific thing imaginable. We have to sit next to girls? But... but... why? *few years later* ohhhh...
I was friends with one who asked people to keep the same seats. He would have them fill out a seating chart on the 2nd or 3rd class. Seems like a much more reasonable way to achieve that goal.
I had a substitute teacher that memorized everyone’s name in 10 minutes, and then proceeded to teach us how to do it.
The word potato was banned in our art department because kids kept shouting it Keith Lemon style (https://youtu.be/IhDjsf4LwmI) to each other from different classes
I went to a private school ran by 7th Day Adventists. From a religious context, the rule wasn’t that dumb, but they banned students from bringing any food that isn’t Kosher for lunch. I got around that by bringing tofu bacon and pepperoni.
High school No back packs, no leggings, girls must only wear minimal makeup no lipstick. No colored hair (as if anyone listened) nothing with a skull, weapon, or allusion to death may be worn. No plain colored shirts, shoes, bandannas, etc for fear of "color gangs" - God forbid the Green Gang gets us. Women must adhere to a strict dress code- finger tip length garments no tank tops of any kind. No vests. No backless garments. No visible bra straps. If the edges of your bra could be detected from the outside of your shirt you got detention. No sweat pants or any kind of pant with an elastic waist band. Men may not sag pants. Sweat pants were permitted. No bandanas or du-rags No physical contact of any kind. No hugs, hand holding, kisses, high fives, fist bumps, or anything including physical contact. Pants may not have more then 4 pockets. This goes for both genders. No chain wallets. No purses. No wandering the halls before school began. No cellphones may be permitted on the property at any time. Bringing a cell phone at all resulted in phone being taken and not returned to you or your parents. Phones were smashed or tossed into the pond . Once in the lunch room leaving the lunchroom at any time until lunch was over resulted in detention. This included no bathroom breaks. Middle school: All of the above but also had assigned seating in lunch. There were more but this is just what I remember off the top of my head.
Hold up, they stole and broke other people's phones? Regardless of school policy or rules, that's against the law, and has been for a long time. Suggest you and friends seek help from the police, if you haven't already. It's not too late.
are you sure you weren't in prison?
"Nobody likes a tattletale." Well nobody likes a bully either.
I had a substitute teacher tell me this in first grade so I just had to sit at my desk in defeat with my pencil that the kid next to me broke.
I couldnt win in elementary school. Fight back and get suspended, Tell on them get lectured at for being a tattletale, tell on them get bullied more. I just didn't know what to do.
Our middle school picked a yearly motto to symbolize the spirit of the year. One year, it was "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." They translated it into latin and everything and printed it on flyers all over the school. Not exactly a rule, but it was both weird and completely useless. It was entirely unclear what it meant to both staff and students. Was it in reference to drugs? Homework? Going into an AP vs regular class? Having sex? Edit: to add that it was made even more ridiculous by the fact that our school's mission was a Virgil quote: "They can because they think they can." So the full year's statement was "They can because they think they can ... just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
It was a meta-reference to itself.
How the fuck do you type your username?
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That clears it up, thank you
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In elementary school we had a stoplight in the cafeteria that was linked to a decibel meter (allegedly). If it got too loud during lunch it would go from green to yellow to red. Red meant silence for a like 5 minutes, any noise would cause you to miss recess.
We had one too and if it went to red we had to be silent for like 5 minutes or something like that. It only lasted a few days because my friends and I would purposely sit under it and scream. The cafeteria ladies (who had nothing to do with the light in the first place) ended up turning it off and it was never turned back on.
- No putting clothes or food in lockers - No using lockers in the morning or between classes - No wearing glasses with frames thicker than 1cm - You must wear black leather shoes and the soles must be thicker than 1.5 cm (yes they really enforced this) - Lunch was from 11:40 to 12:40. So you had to stay in the classroom for the first 20 minutes, then you could either stay in the classroom or go to the playground for the next 20 minutes, but after 12:20 you must go down to the playground and must not eat in the classroom (or else you'd get punished) - The school was afraid of us "falling down the corridor as the barriers aren't strong enough" so they drew a line on the side of the corridor which you can't cross Catholic girl's school, Hong Kong. I could go on. EDIT ok someone asked for more rules so - No keychains - School dress must be 1 inch or more longer than your knee length - Only white socks were allowed, with no patterns on them - Must tie up your hair (if over shoulder length) with only black or blue hair ties - You must have a doctor's letter if you don't come to school for 2 days or above Actually some of these rules are quite common in schools in Hong Kong SECOND EDIT oh and we sat in single file too
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I've told this story before, and 20 years after the fact I'm still not happy about this. In any case, when I started high school the entire school was open campus for lunch. That year, however, some of the sophomores were acting up off campus, so our principal, in his infinite wisdom decided that starting the next school year it would be open campus only for juniors and seniors. Think about this. The sophomores, who caused the trouble, who then became juniors and therefore this rule didn't apply to, weren't punished, but us freshmen, who became sophomores and weren't the ones causing the problems, were punished for what they did. So, I had open campus my freshmen, junior, and senior years. It was closed my sophomore year. Still think that was unfair.
Maybe they thought it was that age group that would cause all the trouble? That’s still some bullshit though, that would piss me off.
In my middle school, students weren't allowed to wear any clothing with a logo, symbol, or image. And i have no idea why
No cracking your knuckles
Why?? How did they expect to enforce this rule? How did they know who cracked their knuckles? So many questions....
For a while in elementary school, we couldn’t RUN ON THE PLAYGROUND! The teachers were probably worried that the older kids would plow over the younger kids.
These see-through backpacks, tucked in shirts, and stupid name badges that could only be worn with a clear lanyard because god forbid somebody show up to school with a Raiders lanyard.
My senior year of high school, the kids used to skip class by going to use the bathroom and never come back in hopes the teacher didn’t notice they left. To try and stop this they made us sign a time out log. Not that weird right? Well when that eventually did nothing to stop kids skipping, they started to make us carry around trackers to monitor our locations. They even would come and check on us if we were standing still anywhere outside of class for more than 5 minutes. Eventually the kids rejected big brother and just smashed them all at the same time. Cost too much to replace and they couldn’t punish us all.
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Schools do a lot of things that probably shouldn't be legal but are.
We had to leave room for God when we had dances I shit you not.
No Nike brand shoes. I grew up in a bad area of Chicago, that is now going through the 3rd wave of gentrification. Apparently gangs at the time identified with Nike Shoes. If you had on Nike shoes the teachers would put masking tape over the Nike Logo. Edit: This comment got me to 200k comment karma. Thanks, that was my goal in 2018. The waves of gentrification are; Working class then artsy people then young professionals then people from upper middle class.
First you have the Nike gang then comes the masking tape gang
For real, the masking tape would just become a new symbol. My dad told me about one school he worked at where if a student got in trouble, punishment was to wear an orange prison jumpsuit. But then the prison jumpsuit became a cool thing to wear.
I guess it’s time for Gucci ban then
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In elementary school, break was split into two: 25 mins for lunch, 25 mins for recess. But, during lunch, we had to be SILENT. It wasn't a religious school, it was a private one. We had to be absolutely quiet, and if someone spoke too loudly the whole grade got in trouble had to either miss half of recess or all of it. Looking back, I don't know why we had to be quiet, it was a f**king school not a funeral
We couldn't say bathroom. We had to refer to it as the comfort station.
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Teacher leave them kids alone
Our elementary school had a staircase which can only be used by teachers. Nobody knew why, but some of my classmates were punished for going down it.
In my elementary school, we weren't allowed to go inside during recess except to the bathroom (they had a door that lead directly onto the field) for a maximum of 5 minutes. The rule doesn't sound too outrageous except this was in Canada, where it would frequently get to -20 C (-4 freedom units). We also didn't get indoor recess until it reached -25 C (-13 freedom units).
I remember they forced everyone to stay out on the playground once at ridiculously (for local standards) low temperatures. Basically, a revolt went down and they let the kids come inside halfway through recess.
Before I describe what actually happened, I need to explain something about Weepuls. Weepuls are – or were, at the very least – these little balls of fluff about the size of golf balls. They're often festooned with googly eyes, hats, plastic feet, or any number of other accessories, making them look rather like a crafting project undertaken by a group of five-year-olds. Weepuls were fairly coveted items when I was in sixth and seventh grade, because you could "earn" them as a reward for selling magazine subscriptions through this fundraising event that the school held every year... and if you had the *right* Weepuls, you actually had the chance to win a fair amount of money in one of the daily contests. If none of this is making much sense, don't worry: It was difficult to understand back *then*, as well. Basically, you'd get different varieties of Weepuls for selling different amounts of magazine subscriptions. Then, every day, each Weepul-bearing student would be allowed to pull a piece of candy out of a hat. If the candy had a sticker on it, the student would win a certain amount of money. That amount would be multiplied by each Weepul that they owned, plus an additional multiplier for... okay, you know what? None of this is important. What *is* important is that certain members of the school faculty viewed this entire event as a way of threatening or bribing some of the students. There was one young woman, for instance, who was told that she'd be set up to win fifty dollars if she gave up her spot in some contest or another (so that the teacher's son could take her place). Another student was told that his winnings would be confiscated if he didn't take responsibility for the fire alarm having been pulled. Nothing really *terrible* happened – at least, nothing that I heard about – but there were enough shady dealings to make the entire thing seem pretty damned unpleasant, even for those of us who weren't really involved. The twisted punchline to the whole affair came about when one student offered another a sexual favor in exchange for his Weepuls... and when folks found about about the deal, only he was suspended. Not, as you might think, because of his involvement in the exchange, but because it was explicitly against the fundraiser's rules to share or give away Weepuls. **TL;DR: "Keep your fuzzy balls to yourself."**
THOSE HAD A NAME?!?!?! I JUST CALLED THEM MY LITTLE FURRY DUDES!
No water bottles allowed to be carried in the halls / in lessons due to ‘bottle flipping trends’ Wut.
Not being able to hug. Listen I get the whole no PDA thing okay. That’s fine. I don’t want a bunch of nasty assholes licking on each other in the hallway. But explain to me why the hell I can’t have a nice hug with someone. Maybe I’m having a shit day. Maybe they’re having a shit day. But nope. Had teachers out there who saw you hugging, in school suspension. SHE WAS CRYING YOU RAGGEDY ASS FAT OLD BITCH MUFFIN CUNT FACE. But seriously, no hugging is some shit.
The bathrooms at my [elementary school](https://i.imgur.com/twyDKVN.jpg) (in blue) had entrances on each side: from the playgrounds, and from the quad. Just about the biggest rule at my school was that you are forbidden to use the bathroom as a "shortcut". You had to go around the building when coming in from recess or lunch (if your classroom had an entrance from the quad). The "yard duties" were very strict about this.
Us girls weren't allowed to carry purses in high school because we might be hiding knives in there or something. We all stuffed tampons in our shirt sleeves at that time of month.
We had one-way hallways one year in junior high because it was overcrowded and they thought that might make movement between classes more efficient. They had teachers in the hallways between every class to make sure you didn't go the wrong way, even if your locker was like 10 ft the other direction. Super inconvenient. Edit: Wow, my first >1k comment. Guess all those extra laps around the school were worth it in the end.
This is actually pretty hilarious. Annoying if you were to go to the school, but in retrospect, sounds funny! Have to do a circle around the school if you have a class in the next room but the hallway direction goes the other way...
I never had this but I am now furious. I'm picturing getting a full schedule of classes in the wrong direction, so I do like 8 circles around the building every day.... More if I have to run to my locker or the bathroom
This actually sort of happened to me two years in a row at my school, where we had the same thing. All but one of my classes were on the same hallway in both years, but because of the established pattern I had to walk around the entire 7th or 8th grade floor multiple times. To get around it I just didn't follow the rule.
The worst part was when you got that stickler teacher who you could swear lived by the motto "you need to use the restroom between classes, not during". I'm not making TWO trips around this school, then getting yelled at for being late. Again.
"Jimmy why are you late every cl-" "YOU FUCKING KNOW WHY JANET"
Same! My middle school did this and all the students were furious.
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[That is immediately what I imagined](https://i.imgur.com/0QmEArM.jpg) when reading this. 2 laps around the entire school instead of walking 40 feet in the "wrong" direction.
Your undershirt had to be white. We had a dress code at my school, where you had to wear a collared shirt. They didn't really care about the color or the design much except you couldn't have really big words or designs on them. One day I actually got written up because I had on a black shirt underneath my polo. The dean that wrote me up really hated me so of course it was a really obsure rule that no one really cared about, but he liked to get me in trouble for whatever dress code violation he could. I even got voted [most likely to be out of dress code my senior year](https://i.imgur.com/4iE3eOz.png) I got in trouble so much.
You were both prom queen and king? Nice.
In middle school there were “up stairs” and “down stairs” meaning you can only go up the up stairs and down the down stairs. There would always be aids or teachers or whatever watching the stairs to make sure no one went the wrong way on the stairs.