What's The Dumbest Rule Your School Had?
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About 2 decades ago when I was 18, my high school Dean tried demanding my keys. I refused. He threatened to break my window to gain entry to my vehicle. I looked at the officer stationed at my high school and said "You heard that, right?" Looked back at the Dean "That's destruction of property. If you do that, you'll be paying for a new window and I will want you arrested and prosecuted." It surprised and amused/excited the cop because he didn't like the Dean. What had I done? Had my regular cigarette and a can of coke on my drive to school and the Dean happened to notice that I smelled like cigarette smoke. He was trying to enforce the "no tobacco products on school grounds" and "right to search vehicles in our parking lot" rules. Legally, both were completely unenforceable.
The university I work at has a "no tobacco on campus" rule. The admins who created the rule got a nasty surprise from the campus police when informed by campus police that the campus police couldn't actually enforce that in private vehicles.
@@60sSam my dad was a cop. Whenever the government came up with some daft new directive he'd laugh and just say there's no possible way to enforce that and they know it.
"He threatened to break my window to get entry to my vehicle" wow I didn't know people were so fucked up
They successfully searched my car because Chrysler made minivans had a quirk where the keys to one opened pretty much all of them so one of the teachers who had the same year car as me just used her key to get in. I removed the middle seats because i liked having pizza circles in my car with friends. I got in trouble for not having the seats installed in my car. I got in trouble because a removable seat was removed in my own car after a teacher broke into my car.
There was no justice or clever retribution. I just ignored her request.
@@dylanmorgan5589 dang, with a car “quirk” like that I would be surprised if Chrysler didn’t face a frick ton of lawsuits for that
I went to 3 different schools in my childhood.
One of them had a strict no playing policy.
We had a playground, small rides and all.
But we weren't allowed to use it.
Reason?
Some kid fell down from a slide and broke his arm like 10 years before...
One kid does something and a school goes crazy. A themepark wouldn't ban rides just because one broke. Some schools are so dumb, and you are supposed to go to school to become smarter.
@@landlordofthewoods6001 And also, people need a break from constant learning to refresh their brains and stay awake. Besides, they're children, let them be innocent
Feels bro.
@@jasburgerThey put a concrete floor instead of rubber what do they expect?
It’s that kid’s fault
When I was in school we went on a field trip to a local pizzeria and arcade. The food was *terrible*. Really the only reason to go at all was because of the arcade. We were banned from actually playing in the arcade because the school felt it would be unfair to kids that didn't have enough money for the arcade. So we had terrible pizza AND had to sit and stare in envy while other kids went in and played the games.
Then why not just go to a pizza place rather then an arcade? It defeats the purpose.
“it would be unfair to kids that didn’t have enough money” bro who brings money
wait Schools now make u pay if u want snacks from the cafeteria so why is it unfair when it comes to games?
I prefer good food to bad food
We had something somewhat similar. We had a trip to go to the beach but we couldn't go in the water or play in the sand.
My old school made getting to class unnecessarily difficult. There was a drop off line that was super inefficient. After a certain time you couldn't drop off your kids. That ment you if you waited in the line for 10 minutes you would have to go all the way around the school to get to the front office. Then you would be written up for being late. By the time you got to class you could be 10 minutes late because of this. They would also close the car line 3 minutes early so the older kids that worked there could get to class.
Also, even if you were in the building, as soon as it was time for class you would have to go to the office and get a ticket for being late. One time I was literally walking into class and the teacher sent me to the office just to get the dumb ticket.
This made my mom so mad that one day when we were considered late, she stormed into the school and yelled at the office for 15 minutes about how unfair and inefficient the system was.
I never understood why schools punish students for being late...if someone is/was late then it's usually something out of their control. And I know this comment is a year old but did they get rid of the rule?
@@shinysoda6 Unsure. Only went to that school for a year, but I don't really think they'll have changed anything. The staff in that school were some of the worst I've seen, and I don't think they care a whole lot about the students.
@@sundayswithjj158
My school actually has something similar, I never understood why they made the students get those slips because they second you gave them to the teachers they would immediately throw them away so it's literally just a huge waste of paper. At least the main office is pretty close to (most) of the classrooms but still. What's the point of the slips?
@@shinysoda6 Not really sure. My classroom in that school was on the second floor, and the office was on the 1st floor on the opposite side of the building. Definitely was a waste of time when I had to go to the office.
@@shinysoda6are you a time traveler?
Girls were absolutely not allowed to wear pants even when it was below zero. Waiting for the bus was pure torture.
Sounds like your school wanted them to get frostbite or hypothermia.
@@lovelydolltime8006 sounds like their school thinks it's the 1920s
RIP them if that school was in uk or poland cuz well um uk and poland's winter's are mostly well lets just say cold
Ah yes, the dreaded p a n t s ✨
That's just misogynistic
Anyone “telling on” another kid received the same punishment. I assume they wanted to fend off kids whining about every little thing, but I reported being physically harmed and I had to sit inside with the bully during recess. That went well. Bullying got out of control because no one wanted to be punished for reporting it.
Wow,this just shows how dumb schools are at handling bullying
This just encourages kids to take justice into their own hands
This is because A: the teachers are bored and want a show every now and again or B: they just don’t wanna deal with it. School is horse crap.
Encouraging kids to grow into the kind of adults who will see something wrong and won't do shit about it because they don't want to be treated like a "tattle-tale" and a "snitch."
As long as they didn't try to punish anyone who then tried to handle problems in their own way, but we all know how that usually goes!
The last year that I was in middle school the male students at the high school I was set to attend the next year staged a mass walkout to protest the rule that all male students must wear dress shirts, tie, dress pants and dress shoes every day. The dress code was instantly changed to allow nice blue jeans (No tears, heavy wear marks, no patches) polo style shirts with a t-shirt, a pocket t-shirt could also be worn if it was a dark color and with a regular t shirt under it and dark colored tennis shoes (like converse high tops). My first day of high school I wore new jeans, new hightops, and a blue polo shirt. I was stopped by a teacher right after I got off the bus and was told I could not wear that, I needed a dress shirt, tie, dress pants and shoes. I informed her that the dress code had been changed the year before and she informed me that the dress code had been reinstated over the summer break. Cue mass walkout on the first day of school, completely disrupting orientation and class assignments, the administration relented.
I mean what did they think eould happen?
@@JaelinBezel Yes similar to my HS, dress trousers were preferred, but the boys could also wear brand new, clean White Jeans--the only colour of Jeans that was allowed.
Did they seriously think you guys would just roll over and forget?
At my elementary school, there were a bunch of stupid rules such as:
1. You couldn't drink water from the water fountain for more than 3 seconds. This was a rule until 5th or 6th grade when they finally installed outdoor water fountains. Needless to say, I rebelled against this rule in 2nd or 3rd grade.
2. No wearing red unless it was red ribbon week. Again, I rebelled against this stupid rule on several occasions, probably too many to count.
3. When I was in 5th grade (and only when I was in 5th grade, since this stopped being a rule when I was in 6th grade), we had to sit "boy girl boy girl" (which explains itself). This meant I couldn't sit next to my friends when I was 10 years old.
4. Each class was assigned to a certain table at lunch beginning when I was in 4th grade. Prior to this stupid rule, you could sit at whatever table you wanted to.
Now for some stupid rules when I was in middle school:
1. No changing for gym in the restroom stalls. I always broke that rule every single day in 7th and 8th grade since I wasn't going to let any of the other girls see me getting changed for gym class.
2. My 8th grade math teacher banned listening to music while doing online work until this March (due to the pandemic).
3. Another rule put into place by my 8th grade math teacher was no wearing perfume. I broke that rule at least once in 8th grade.
Rule #4 for your elementary school, I understand the pain
I think the perfume rule is for people with asthma. I remember I was in debate class last year and some kids started wearing/spraying axe body spray in class, I had to leave because I couldn’t breathe
Rule #4 applied to my elementary school throughout my whole time there, and in middle school when I was in 6th grade (not sure if that rule continued applying to 6th graders afterwards, or just when I was in 6th grade). In elementary school, there was another table for the students to sit if their parents went to school to eat lunch with them.
I mean, my sibling can go into sensory overload from too much perfume, so I wish we had that rule.
A assistant teacher when kids were lining up for water he would say (very fastly) 1 2 3 that's enough for me
The dumbest rule In my school was: You couldn't defend yourself. They straight up expected if you were getting the crap kicked out of you to walk away and find a teacher. Yeah hey guys I know the 3 of you are busy beating me up but can you stop so I can walk away and find a teacher? No? Ok.
And my school, if you did defend yourself... it's assault and you got arrested by the SRO.
@@AlphaGametauri bully: literally has a gun
you: punches them in self defense
school: *iTs AsSaUlT*
@@ProfessionalBugLover I know, it's fucking stupid. My mom always told me if they hit first, hit back. I don't care it you get suspended.
I'll teach my kids the same
Student: *brutally dies a long and painful death*
School: *does nothing*
Student: *tries to protect himself*
School: REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Oh holy shit... This is pain. I was in a school that has something like that. Like, if someone start to beat you up, you should just start screaming for help, while trying to escape. Even though the first reaction would be... Well... At least try to catch the hand of the agressor? And more to that, that school had really good sound isolation, so if bullies caught you in the toilet or in an empty class... Good luck to scream, no one will actually hear it! (I wasn't bullied (I was more of a bully myself and I regret it), but some of my classmates got in such situations
At least once a week someone had to go to the nurse because they were beaten up and the school was like "Uhm, well... You still can't fight back, because you might injure the bully even more then he injured you")
SO FKING DUMB!
My elementary school had lockers but they didnt have locks on them
The dumb part
You were not allowed to put a lock on your locker
That's how things get stolen so good thing it wasn't enforced
No fucking kidding, lol locks keep honest people in check. How does a school like that be so ignorantly weird?
Why buy lockers if you can’t let students lock them????
@@morganv7895 because my school doesn't understand the point of lockers
Should've gotten a bank vault to protest
To be fair, you could loose they key to your lock.
Here’s one my school had and a rule for a nearby school. My school unexpectedly decided to create a no cell phone policy. No cell phones at any time during the day, including at lunch. There was a big problem though- our high school sports league had a strict rule that if it was over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) they were not allowed to hold practice for student safety. Due to this, many days we would not know whether or not practice would take place until an hour or two before the end of the school day. Because of this, those of us who did not have cars had to let our parents know what time they needed to pick us up from school. However we could not use cell phones to contact them due to the no cell phone policy. After a few days of this craziness happening, every athlete who had this kind of situation walked into the front office to use their phone. About 25 students came in to use the phone at once and it took over half of a class period for everyone to do so. The school immediately reversed the rule.
A nearby Christian school had a strict “Christianly Conduct” rule inside and outside of school. Students were supposed to be “ambassadors of Christ” outside of school and students were required to report students that were not. If they were reported, you had an expulsion hearing with the administration. There was a student turned in for listening to gangster rap in his car outside of school and he was expelled for it.
holy shit
This is invasion of privacy and is illegal
@@supremecrayonmuncher4159 Which one?
@@megaascension2748 the second story that isn't related to phones
That bullying does not happen in this school, reporting it is akin to accusing the school of lying.
SERIOUSLY my school does nothing but atleast they don’t punish you for telling a teacher about it
Teachers wouldnt do shit about bullying in my high school you had to beat the shit outta the bully to get them to stop.
“Are you calling me a liar?” D-:<
“Yes. And the bruises prove it.” x_o
@@KnakuanaRka no this school has a strict anti bullying policy, we had a word with Billy and he says you started the fight so you and only you will be on suspension also this is going on your permanent record
@@lukearoo I think those permanent records aren’t actually permanent, but yeah, that’s BS; only listening to one side? I was just making a jab about the original comment.
When I first went to my middle school, I read the handbook. (Don’t ask why I don’t know either) and it said “no capes” and I’m just curious what happened...
(Edit): I just found out that stocking are also banned? Like the socks that go to your knees?
Edna Mode must've been the principal!
@@Chanteuse66 bruh i thought that as soon as I saw that (assuming Edna Mode from the Incredibles)
@@CatMasksSideChannel Me too; that was a classic line! 🤣
Were people trying to become captain underpants?
I could see no masks 👹 wigs or disguises. That's a safety issue, security. When you have a larger school or 100s of students youd need that.
I swear, over half of these rules act as though adult life is some kind of dystopian fantasy land...
Oh wait
I wish I could argue with you
My high school also had an attendance policy where 18 year olds had to get parental permission on file before being allowed to sign ourselves out (not sure on legality as this was in the USA, not Canada) or at least that’s what I was told when I tried to sign myself out in the middle of the day for a doctor’s appointment when I was 18. Thank god my grandparents lived less than 5 minutes away from the school and my grandma was home so she could come sign me out and I wouldn’t end up being late.
I was pretty livid though, because that was the first I’d heard of it
No, it's not legal for the school to refuse to let an 18 year old sign themselves out. 18 means adult, and they can't hold an adult without their permission. Odds are good that the secretary was just being a four letter word I'm not sure I can use.
Our uniform regulations were so strict. They included a particular colour and style of sock.
Anyone who supported this policy should be blinded.
Short skirts, long socks... Mhm....
Sure you don't live in an anime?
Montv3 it was a boy’s school 😛
Went to private school and had to wear only khakis and polos, specific color socks-not very strict and shoes, for girls certain skirt lengths, and guys certain hair lengths and no facial hair, really wasn’t that bad though
In middle school, when we went on a field trip to an amusement park, the teachers tried to force us to pay the charter bus drivers. $1 per student. I simply refused. Seriously, I either just didn't bring 1s that day, or lied about it. It's not a student's job to pay a bus driver, even on a field trip.
Its like tiping the waiters
@@ftferlo8868 That's a bit different, but still pretty scummy. The waiter isn't paid a livable wage, and they're directly providing a service to you, as part of an experience you're going to pay for. The school ordered the buses and organized the field trip. It's not the students' (kids) job to provide a tip to a bus driver.
Would've been worse if they charged you after the field trip was over and threatened detention
I feel so glad rn that my school has literally no rules apart from like killing each other or smth. However, I used to go to an incredibly strict school and here are some of the incredibly stupid rules they had:
-At lunch time you weren’t allowed to bring your own lunch no matter what, you HAD to eat the whole lunch they gave you at school, which was also expensive. I remember that one we had some fish and a girl went up to one of the teachers and told them she was allergic to the fish, they called her a lair and forced her to eat it. To sum it up, she was driven to the hospital because she had such a serious allergic reaction.
-Another time, we had mashed potatoes for lunch with sausage and I didn’t really like the sausage but I had to eat it anyway. The next lesson was french and we were singing a song, I felt really sick by then and could barely breathe, I felt so queasy, and guess what? They teacher SCREAMED at me for not singing and told me she’ll call my parents and give me detention if I don’t, and then she was mad at me for throwing up on the floor :/
-Another rule was that you couldn’t go to the toilet at all, the only times you could was at break time which was two times a day, the toilets were really crappy too - there were like two stalls and the doors were REALLY low, so whenever you were peeing someone would peek over the door to get a look at you. I remember at least 15 kids wet their pants during lessons because of that shitty rule.
-On the playground there was this fake grass which for some reason you weren’t allowed to run on. If you were caught running on that fake grass you immediately got two detentions. Once a guy was chasing me around with a worm and I ran onto the grass on accident, and OF COURSE I got those detentions while the boy didn’t even get told off.
-Finally, there was a rule that you had to pay full attention to the teacher. Yeah okay, but like you couldn’t even COUGH or SCRATCH YOUR BACK because “you weren’t paying attention”. I once picked up my pencil in second grade and the teacher, who was a man, stopped the lesson to tell me that I had to sit on the “naughty spot” (a small dirty mat on the floor which you sat on for like 10 minutes and it gave you an automatic detention) because I “was bored”. Then this guy called Samuel began to very loudly throw his pencil around and didn’t get told off at all because “he’s a boy and boys get bored easier than girls”.
At my school there’s a rule where your not allowed to bring around a backpack that can actually fit your things (even if it was a tight fit) but you WERE allowed to bring around school-issues drawstring bags, which could barely fit a few books, much less enough supplies for multiple periods. Heck, you could barely fit enough for one. And this is different from last year, where we were allowed to bring around our backpacks, for what I assume was covid purposes, but I still don’t understand why they wouldn’t just let us bring our regular backpacks
bEcAuSe YoU cAn PuT dRuGs iN bAcKpAcKs
“The bell doesn’t dismiss you, I do” 🤦🏽♀️
Lord have mercy on that teacher 😂
Such a stupid rule 😑🤬
Always thought that was a teacher specific rule. I've had one or two try that. They tend to stop when half the class needs/requests hall passes.
“You don’t teach us the indian guy on YT does”
That backfired in my school so badly, it's almost hilarious
Battle Legend Ashley same here that’s why I said have mercy on that teacher 😂😂
Student proceeds to get bitched out by the next teacher for being late to their class.
As a tree I have no rules. Sooooo
lol, respect the trees 🌳
How does one become a tree
Neither do we nessies.
Well they do have a few rules...
1. They must move upon force, such as wind, shaking upon a kite in the said tree, etc...
2. They must loose their leaves in the fall and through winter, regrowing them in the spring
3. They must have water, and sunlight
@@envoxity9544 ok, I shall attempt to follow the sacred rules
In my middle school, the first year I was there, they put in a rule that you had to walk counter clockwise around the school to avoid people pushing and things like that. However, this also meant that if you had a class that was back clockwise direction, you had to go around half of the school to get to said class. We only had 3 minutes to get to class and they expect us to go to the bathroom if we have to, and get to our class? It takes 3 minutes just to use the bathroom, and then when you ask to go, they sometimes say that you should have gone before class. Some teachers would make exceptions to this rule, and would let you get to your class if it was a short distance away, but most would enforce the rule and tell people to turn around if they tried to go the other(incorrect) way.
in my middle school, they blocked the quick way to classes because ‘people kept pushing and shoving’. yeah, it really worked. totally didn’t make it almost impossible to geet through the literal hundreds of kids in a cramped hallway
We lost the ability to go to the bathroom by ourselves because kids wouldn’t stop skipping class and vaping.
Classroom hall passes were also removed and official passes became harder to obtain. Security had to escort you to the bathroom, follow you into the sink area, and escort you back.
We also got vape sensors when we returned from junior year that let out silent alarms, so the capers would open non-alarm fire windows and get cellphone fans to try and remove the smoke.
That horrible, horrible electric smell.
This is proof that we need a show where Gordon Ramsay goes around fixing up schools in a reality TV show styled after Kitchen Nightmares
"The pizza is bloody cold and expired!"
I love that series
That would be really funny to watch.
Horrors of Education
I need that
My 4th grade year, the school implemented an "audio stoplight" that would sound an alarm when things were too loud. They put this in the cafeteria and hallways, and basically said, "If you trigger the alarm and get caught, detention." So naturally, being the rebellious child I am, I clapped my hands really loud next to the mic, and triggered the alarm in the hall. This, in turn, triggered every alarm in the hallway, because they picked up the other alarms. This caused children to scream, which in turn caused more alarms across the entire building, which caused more screams, etc. At the end of it all, the entire staff was filled with the rage of a thousand Suns, and I shit you not, they put up a wanted poster for "The Troubled Individual whom triggered the alarms across the building," and offered a 5$ reward for outing this individual
The hero we never knew we needed.
I had the stoplight audio thing but not in the hallways it was only in the cafeteria and if it goes off silent for 5 minutes completely and that's almost impossible for a bunch of 11 to 5 year olds and if it ended up going off again silent for the rest of lunch and people talking lose their recess
They made a wanted poster!?!?
@@brid1889 yep
😂😂😂😂😂 What happened?
Pretty sure that 'rule' about paying $15 to get your phone back is illegal. Any teacher or principal who carried out such a policy could be charged with theft and/or extortion. Not a good thing for an educator to have on their record. It can result in a cancelled teaching certificate as well as criminal charges.
Phone ransom
We had to speak English at all times. Whenever we were caught speaking in Filipino, we got fined... Or sent to the quadrangle in groups to reflect on our actions. We were all lined up without much supervision, so as an act of rebellion, we would tak in Filipino. Repeat offenders were sent to the principal's office.
If I may ask what is a quadrangle and why the hecc couldn’t you speak Filipino
This would be better if it's English time.but just remind them of they forgot or something.
@@fiery114 just as it says on the tin, quadrangle is a rectangular area. We usually hold our morning assemblies there since it is spacious. Hm, that school used to be known as the no. 1 "english speaking" school in the district. It's so stupid. Iirc, our grade average for English was always in the high 90s, whereas we were only at around 70-80 for Filipino.
@@NirYuZy this was an entire decade ago. I just remember how stupid the rules were. The only time we could speak Filipino was for Filipino subject.
@@mingming4983 I didn't realize your comment was 1 year ago lol and glad my school wasn't like yours and did they change that rule?
There are way to many school polices born from some sad middle aged teacher/ staff's need to assert dominance.
I don't mind them, like, I'm going to be something in life, you hate yourself, I'll let you win this one buddy
“Use your indoor voice outside” they built the playground right next to the building with classes that kept the windows open. Same school got angry if my friends brought out paper and pencils and drew which in turn, kept us quiet.
I found out the secret way to get awards at my elementary school. My elementary school had a thing called Peace Awards. Peace Awards basically was a thing that they took your picture and you wrote a quote or something and they would pin it to the wall and make all other students mad as hell because they wanted to be the God of the wall. Basically the secret rule was that the kid that least wanted to be on the Special Wall of Superiors would be classified as basically a near god among men. By having 0 interest in being on the wall I literally covered the entire Hallway. Basically every day a new kid would be chosen and because I literally did not care about the wall at all my picture was taken every single day and it looked like that episode of Sponge Bob where Sponge Bob was employee of the month forever. After a year an a half of only me being on the wall the parents got mad and believed I was being treated far better than their kids and their kids deserved to be on the wall more because they are the best kids ever and the parents threw such hissy fits that the peace wall was removed. Because parents could not be peaceful and started a war to get their kids on the wall of peace the peace wall got taken down and me being the only one who owned that wall for a year and a half who actually did not care about being on that wall or not just was like why can't you get along. I may have exploited that rule a bit too much. Basically the secret was never talk about the wall and when walking down that hallway never look at the wall. Basically fallow the 1st Rule of FIghtclub and you were good.
I was allowed to make snowmen in elementary school. But I was discouraged from doing it, not by teachers but by classmates. Basically, I would make a snowman and by the end of recess, the snowman would be pushed over and smashed. It's not that my classmates didn't like snowmen, they just found it very amusing to destroy my snowmen and make me sad.
Just put rocks in it
@@moonowo legend
Should’ve answered with snowballs
That one about no bottles in your hand sounds really dumb, and I'm just imagining a kid awkwardly holding their backpack up trying to tilt it enough that the bottle in the side bottle pouch can be drunk from without having it their hands, because if they use their hands their bottle will be thrown out.
Ik this comment is a year old but my friend got yelled at after doing a bottle flip. He then picked up the bottle (to put it on his desk like every normal human. I rarely see people standing up mid class and going to get their bottle lol.) and then he had to go to the principals
For the bottle flipping kid, we just had a bottle flipping competition. It was tournament style. 5 dots on a piece of paper. Highlighter starts on the middle dot. Each time you land a flip you move it one dot closer to the other person. When you mad a flip with it on the final dot you win. Teacher helped organize the event and keep track of the bracket. It was awesome
A friend of mine a couple years ago, have no idea which friend one of them talked to school with me a lot so it was probably him but it also may have been one of the girls, they said that they were allowed to wear hoodies but it couldn’t have an actual hood. I guess it looked edgy or shady? Idk. They kept up the act for a while but eventually got caught.
For me, it wasn’t a school rule but rather than class rules. I had this teacher in grade 10, kids would always be on their phones in class, so everyone had to put their phones on the class’s counter. And I was seated on the opposite side of the room, so I had to carry my 3 notebooks (I liked to draw, write stories and then a notebook for class) and pencil case every single day out of my bag.
There was also this other class in the same grade. The class was fine but as I said I liked to draw. Every single class let me draw after I finish my work, but this teacher didn’t like that, so I couldn’t draw in her class. I always finished my work early so I’d just sit there, staring at my drawing/writing book for the rest of class mostly every day. This is why she’s my least favorite teacher. 16 yr old me was an angry but quiet child in her class. I think there was when I was called “silent but deadly” (all high school kids are weird for giving me that name)
Isn’t a hoodie without a hood a seater?
My high school wanted to do a fundraiser (I don't remember what it was for) and someone got the bright idea that in order to "encourage" students to donate to this fundraiser, they would play Hanson's song "mmmBop" during every passing period and the entirety of lunch every day until the goal was reached. They called the event "Stop the Bop".
Rather than motivating us to donate, it had the opposite effect and students absolutely refused to participate out of protest. Finally staff members, and in particular the cafeteria workers, pitched a fit and they canceled the event without reaching their fundraising goal.
Edit: I just found out that at least 2 other high schools in the area did the same thing.
Sound canceling headphones clutch
I'm not a student, I'm a kindergarten teacher, but we had rules such as:
No talking in the hallways
No devices in class
Once you sit down in the cafeteria you can't change your seat
No yelling in class
and the last one:
No playdough in the school. (One of the students made a knife out of playdough and threatened to stab someone. Another student ate the PlayDough.)
2:53 at my primary school you pretty much couldn’t run on any playground that wasn’t grass/fake grass. The unfair thing is that in K-2, the biggest playground which was proper grass, you could go to at recess and lunch any day. But in 3-6 you had to go to this other playground, and only certain grades could go on certain days. And the worst part is that that playground never got any sun, and was fake grass with sand. So if you slipped over on it (which was REALLY easy), you’d burn your legs and arms pretty badly.
Some stupid rules will most likely be removed due to the pandemic.
my school had "if you even throw one fist to defend yourself after being attacked, you're suspended as well" tbh in my school that just encouraged the nasty kids to attack people anyway as "i can get other kids in trouble by forcing them to have to defend themselves" yet it was still a rule even after i left that school
The parents could sue the school in that first one
That zero tolerance policy where you would get expelled could ruin somebody who did nothing wrong, but a bully punched them. Getting expelled would be something that would cause you not to be able to get into a good college. Plus a last resort school wouldn't be the best
Teachers end up acting more like prison guards than educators. Of course, our schools are modeled off of factory-work conditions. And the preference they show for sports comes from the English colonial days, when they needed strong, healthy young men to go to the colonies. So, instead of education, English schools started focusing on sports, and we continue that tradition to this day. It's all ridiculous. I intend to homeschool my future adopted children, because I know for a fact that I can give them a superior education that includes critical thinking skills, diverse extracurricular activities, and global studies...and do all of it without treating them like my prisoners.
This is so true
Make sure they have friends their own age though when my sister was homeschooled she didn’t really have any friends
It's stupid here where sports ARE way too encouraged leaving the smart kids to the bullies in primary but switching around in secondary like wtf now the sports kids are behind and smart kids Way too ahead
don't home school ur kids, they will end up having no social skills and friends, but I guess its ur choice at the end of the day
@@seansteinberg3827 Um, I went to school, and I ended up with no social skills and no friends. I went from an outgoing, extroverted 4 year-old to a child who could not speak one word to a peer. I learned to hate my world and the people in it, all while keeping my education at a backwards level as the teachers played prison guard and repeated information I had already understood years before. School culture is toxic, and even if they're accepted socially, I don't want my kids learning what their peers will teach. I will ensure that they get proper, supervised socialization through clubs, community sports, and other extracurricular activities. I can't believe that society thinks school is the only way to be socialized, or even that it's a healthy form of socialization. Kids develop cliques. They bully. They hold default popularity contests. It's just not the kind of environment I want my children spending 8 hours a day in.
My school will in no circumstances whatsoever let you wear a jacket that isnt a school jacket, plus our school has strict uniform rules. Also my friend wore an oversized playboy hoodie for gym and she got shouted at for the hoodie being too big.
Here's some experiences that I had.
In primary school, we had an open wooden playground with just a few basic things. It was basically a mini obstacle course, but there wasn't anything dangerous in it, just a few balance ropes close to the ground a few stumps. It was pretty old, and there wasn't much to do, so we were pretty excited when it got re-constructed into something new. The new playground was pretty nice, but it was surrounded by a fence. It became super limited, only occasionally letting one class play on it at a time as a rare reward. And my old primary school barely ever kept their promises, no matter how many times the students would remind them, we sometimes just didn't get to go because they would "forget". Another annoying thing about the playground was that there was a team's ship within the fence area. You see, our town was right by the ocean so we had 4 groups with our own colours named after ships, so we had these small wooden boats all over the school area repressing each one. From what I remember, Endurance (red) had their ship hidden away, and these mini ships were big enough to fit in a person so they were fun to play in. Endurance was the team that always won every sport event in our year group, as the teams weren't equally spread. Even though I didn't really like endurance because of that, I still got mad that their ship was no longer accessable, it was unfair.
Another rule in my primary school that was annoying was the amount of times we got to go to the bathroom. The times we got to go were extremely limited, I even remember someone having an accident in year 3 because of it. The funny thing is that everytime I went to a new secondary school, the bathroom rules got more and more loose, so why young kids had the most limited bathroom access still baffles me.
I also had some weird rules in my secondary schools. During P.E., we had to wear our uniforms, which were annoying af. We couldn't have any coats during winter, or any jumpers from home. We either went out with the school jumper (which was super heavy and did nothing to keep us warm) or go out in short sleeves and shorts during the winter. So many people were too cold to move and no amount of warm ups were able to keep us from freezing. And our uniforms were black, which attracts heat and made us overheat during the summer. One time, I warned my PE teacher that I couldn't stay out in the sun too long or else I would get ill, but I was still forced to do it and I was ill for the whole weekend and the next Monday, and the teacher still didn't believe me. And no amount of sunscreen is gonna help me from getting ill.
Once you leave the school grounds you should leave the rules there. If the school tried to tell my kids what they can and can't do off school hours tell them to take up with my lawyer.
Agree. Unless it’s rules related to school given chromebooks, homework, or in the case of remote school online classes all school rules should leave rules in the school. I’m not gonna follow stupid rules I don’t care about at home and I doubt my parents would even bother trying to make me.
I'm very, very glad that I went to schools run by people who were, generally, sane. About the only rule we had that I can think of that was really disliked was the rule that you couldn't have visible sodas. And the issue was more that it was enforced only randomly, some teachers/admins would enforce it, others didn't care. People got really pissed off since one teacher whose classroom was on the hall to the lunchroom would stand outside during passing periods and force students on the way to lunch to dump their sodas in the trash. I know that got a bunch of complaints to the admins. I think they moved him to a different room the next year.
My school had a rule that we couldn’t run during recess. So my class just started walked to the very end of the school field and most people followed us and when the bell rand we walked SO slow and wasted a bunch of time
Good ol' malicious compliance. No better way to make folks regret establishing an idiotic rule.
In our school they band shorts on guys cause the were "to reveling" so I just wore a skirt for the entire school year until they removed it
Amazing
My class, and only my class, was banned from saying "Shut up." We worked around this by saying "Up shut." Some kid also started a trend in our grade of wearing sweatshirts backwards (this was the same kid who started the "up shut" thing. He was pretty cool). We were also banned from doing that, for some reason. Fifth grade was weird.
Edit: I thought of another one. My brother's friend quoted his little brother and said "Sawwy" rather than "Sorry". The entire grade started chanting this once during lunch, they all had to sit on the hill for ten or so minutes during recess. The name of my brother's club was also banned. They were called the "Lit Club", because saying "lit" was cool back then. They had to change to the Pie Club. Both of those things happened when my brother was in fifth grade. Fifth grade is weird, I rest my case.
My whole primary school (elementary/middle school if you are American) could not say shut up I was in year 6 (5th grade I think) and the despised head master miss (f/t)ucker stopped half the lesson because some said shut up in retaliation to insults
Honestly, why do schools try to crack down on trends?
At this point teachers are just discord mods
My school once got tired of the locker rooms being so messy that they would pick up clothes left on the locker room floors and you had to PAY to get them back. Also every Friday they'd donate lost and found stuff to charity. So yeah, the paying crap ended after a couple of months..
I got 2:
1. Elementary School, I was in my school special Ed program. All of the Special Ed. Kids were confined to one small side of the school yard (it was really big and there were only like 30 special Ed kids) while the general Ed had the rest of the yard. We were not allowed to go near the other side. I never knew why until I brought it up to my mother last year. Apparently, the parents of the general Ed. Kids didn’t want their kids to play with us. So the school divided us up in the school yard.
2. High school prom, the school made it so that prom was on a SUNDAY. And they still required us to come in to school the next day or else we wouldn’t be allowed to walk during graduation. The reason: parents in previous years complained to the school about their kids staying out all weekend after prom to party. Even without the day, the prom was still mediocre at best.
Mine has a couple of weird rules.
if you tie your hair you must have a white ribbon tied at your hair. You will be required to buy one from the school.
No plastic mineral water bottles allowed to be brought into the classroom.
No using the elevator in the school (we have 7 floors and have ro climb the stairs if you have a class at the library at seventh floor)
My school has uniforms. We must wear curriculum uniforms on Wednesday and if you don't there's a 70% chance that the teachers will call you up to the stage and ridicule you and others who didn't wear the uniform. Ask you to say your name and ask you the reason why you didn't wear it and announce it. If you're in the first or second class. You'll be ridiculed further.
Schools fucked up
How does your school have 7 floors? Holy fuck
@@Can_OfSodapop its a relatively new building so they decided to make it like a tall building since they didn't really have a lot of ground to work with.
Climbing stairs everyday is a pain. The seniors have it rough, climbing 5 floors everyday to go to class in the morning and all students are forced to go to the canteen to eat. Then go back up the stairs to their class again. I'm on the fourth floor. Not looking forward to next year
Damn, that sucks
@@onioncheeks7640 Well at least your school doesn't have 30 floors.
@@lovelydolltime8006 I'm VERY thankful for that holy hell your legs must be broken or muscular by now
-In my church group, one of the teachers told us we can’t pray with our hands balled up (like begging for mercy) cause something about the devil. We all hated her cause she looked down on us and just didn’t know how to deal with 13 yr olds who are there on a Wednesday night, 2 hours after school ended. She actually got fired cause my friend complained to her grandma, and she wrote a letter on her and the group leader fired her.
My private catholic middle school had the same rule mentioned in the first story. Once it backfired on me. It was a mad hot day and my school had to go to church so we walked out in the hot sun to church like 50 or so steps away. I was kinda sick at the time so that and the heat didn’t mix very well. In the middle of mass,I felt like fainting. Long story short: I went to bathroom and almost fainted,other girl joined me and we walked to the office,again in the hot sun. When we reached the office i fell upon the cot they had there,I felt so tired. Don’t really know why that happened but the lady in office and I figured it must have been the heat that triggered that reaction and little 7th grade introverted me wanted to yell at this lady to let us take off the blazers when we wanted cause this is Florida. It can get mad hot here I literly almost fainted over not being able too. This happened to a boy in my class next year actually. Poor lad burst into tears. I wonder if they still have that rule. Hopefully not;for those who didn’t have such extreme reactions to heat,it was torture nonetheless
At my middle school we weren’t allowed to bring backpacks into classrooms(safety reasons), wear hoods or hats (also for safety reasons), or use our phones. In the same district’s high school all of those rules were lifted. Why would hoods/hats and backpacks be any less dangerous in a high school. I would think it would be more dangerous, as high schoolers look more like adults, so if an intruder came into school it would be less obvious.
3:01 My school separated us in elementary school. Grades 5,4 and K had the same lunch period. There’s two sides of recess yard (basketball court and handball court). The kindergarteners get a handball court. 4 and 5 get the basketball court. Then grades 1,2 and 3 had lunch together. My class hated them cause our classroom faced the recess yard so we would try to take a test while 6-9 year olds yelled
When I was in school, there was a rule that after the first class starts, it was compulsory for the children to hold their breath for 37 seconds. A girl even got suspended because she could not hold her breath for 37 seconds because she had Asma.
What???
Several people ( both Student and Staff) my school thought that it was literally illegal to have a phone in school.
The actual rules were that the phone could not be visible during school hours. Witch is somewhat more reasonable. Can't have your stuff stolen if nobody knows you have it.
During my first two years of high school, you weren’t allowed to choose your own seat at lunch after the first week of school. If you had a buddy in a different section of the lunch room, you were out of luck because you couldn’t get up and talk to them and you couldn’t talk loud. Then when you do behave and are quiet, the teachers think that you are scheming something.
Dorito bags used to have temporary tatoos as prices for the kids, so my catholic school banned the tatoos
What students did instead was put on the tatoos on their shoulders, legs, abdomen, chest, and upper arms. And then we would show them to each other while changing for PE class, fun.
when I was in elementary school, I had this rule:
you can't hold doors for other people unless you had a patrol belt.
yep. That was an actual rule
Back when I was in elementary school, they banned harmless Pokemon cards, but not loud fidgets spinners for some reason. Not even the light-up ones. They also banned competitions and mini-clubs, because some kid cried during a fake cheerleading competition, and some kids started a fight in a mini-club.
In middle school, there's this annoying rule where you have to walk on the left if you're going up the hallway, and the right if you're going down it to "make things less cramped". Almost everyone goes the same direction, so it only made things more cramped.
No backpacks, AND no going to your locker in between classes except for lunch. Everyone had to carry all of their books at the same time and a lot of people dropped them.
So many of these are lawsuits waiting to happen
22:40 At least they got shaving cream. At my high school, if you were caught with facial hair, the deans would give you the cheapest razor blade and make you go shave without any shaving cream whatsoever. It was really funny to watch them get handed razors. There was even one time in either year 12 or 13 (11th or 12th) where all the boys on my year level got really good quality razors because they were terrible at following the rule. This was done at senior assembly. One of my mates got a razor and didn't want it so he gave it to me. Best free quality razor gift ever lol.
There were a lot of toilets in the school. But on breaks we were only alowed to the one near the cafetaria. The whole school. So much toilets not used. Me and my friend were going to an other toilet because we were bullied by some girls and didn,t want to see them. One teacher saw us near the forbidden toilets and she became extreemly mad? So weird. I acted like i didn't knew we weren't alowed there. 5 minuts later we were going there again 🤣 Stupid rule. But lots of free toilets for us 😄
As much as I hate public school, I’m glad I never went to a private school or wore a uniform. (Absolutely no offense to those who did as students often have to control where they go!) Most kids in my state are only in private or charter schools just so their parents look wealthy or popular
My school had this “Pax” thing, I think it meant peace in Latin, the Teacher or TA would bring on their two fingers, almost like the hunger games with two fingers, but they would always be in the air, no mouth touching. They would continue to be like that until everyone was quite and raised their hands in pax... Most of the chill teachers didn’t give a fuck.
The whole dress code is easy to make look riddiculous by the boys - wear a kilt. My company had rules about men wearing full lenght trousers at work, but it was usually scroching heat and we don't work in any type of dangerous environment, just the office, so going there in the summer was a nightmare. Since there were no regulations for skirts, all of guys agreed to wear kilts.
Needlless to say, the trousers' length regulations were rebucked within a week.
In terms of the funding one, the sports teams all had new jerseys every year and the school had TWO football fields, but the ceramics class teacher literally had to ask each student to pay $20 to get enough clay for us. The football games and other sports games were all announced on loudspeaker every morning but unless you were in an art class you didn’t know there was an art show. My class had to sell some of our pieces at the show to afford new glazes. And to top it all off the graduation speech the principal gave was all about how good our sports teams were-when less than a third of the class even cared about sports.
We couldnt bring backpacks into class either, the amount of fricking times i almost dropped my goddamn water bottle... EVERYONE hate that rule, but then you got used to it.
Edit: the no hoodie rule, i never had it. But i swear, if my school had it. I would have detention every. Single. Day. I always wore a school hoodie. God i loved that thing.
Same with the hoodie thing, but except for one of my friends who wore a hoodie every day because all her shirts were pink. She hated pink lol
@@marshallhorizons4562 im a tomboy so i understand lol
We had the backpack rule AND you weren’t allowed to go to your lockers in between classes except for lunch. You had to carry all of your books everywhere.
Almost got a referral for wearing a hoodie (referral meant I got written up and suspended for 2 weeks) with the hood up. They couldn't even give a valid reason why I couldn't, everyone knew me for wearing a hoodie and a few even named me "the school shooter" for wearing them all the time lol. It was a running joke and some of the admins knew this and some either didn't care or threatened to write me up. But I knew they always walked a certain hallway everyday so I just avoided those hallways at those specific times. I hated that rule
I hated that in middle school. According to my brother who’s going there now backpacks are allowed. I can’t believe it’s taken an otherwise decent school so long to figure out that kids should be able to have backpacks in class if they want.
I like lockers they can be really useful if you get a good location and all but man I’m so glad I can carry my bag around.
Everytime I read/hear one of these lists I want to check the school rules at the local ones around here and sue them for any that violate basic rights, which a lot of these do.
There’s a rule in my school called restrictive movement. It’s basically a rule where no kids are allowed to leave the classroom under any circumstances (unless a teacher is with you). Even if you’re without a teacher, but you have a pass *sigh* you still couldn’t go anywhere. You would be taken to the office and/or be written up immediately. You can't go to a different class (even for something important), go to the bathroom, or even go home. I know kids wander the hallways, fight, or vandalize school property while smoking weed, but do you have to punish everyone just because of a few people?
Definitely had that rule in the first photo. Teachers only cared about the uniform, not teaching or well-being on the students.
I love the snow ball rule cause then it would imply that everyone needs to throw like tyler rogers
18:56 my school was the same once u were 18 u could sign urself out any time but id u did it b4 u lunch u didnt get credit for the day but they would call ur parents and tell them theyd let u leave cuz legaly they had but theyd snitch b4 u could make it home also i graduated in 2008 Massachusetts
My school still has this dumb rule where during passing period, you aren’t aloud to go to the bathroom, get a drink from the water fountain, ect. You were to go straight to your next class, and you weren’t aloud to leave the room until 10 minutes into class. If you asked before then, the teachers would have to refuse. You were only aloud to go outside of the room before those 10 minutes were over if it was an absolute emergency..
TL;DR - during passing time, kids were forced to go straight to their next class and could only leave the room after 10 minutes have passed
When I went to school, we had to have three pens because 'We may lose one.' If you had one or two pens you got an instant demerit and detention. However, I once forgot all my pens and got no punishment.
In my high school there was a rule that said :" Students are not allowed to open the windows even ,if they are legally adults."
Apparently it was a "duty" of the teacher. Needless to say that nobody followed that rule and that our teachers would support us.😂🤣
My college: can't graduate without passing your swim test. 😑😑
HS for Freshman/Sophomore year: NO ICP MEMORABILIA (due to a group a Juggalos grouping together to play hackysack, though admin thought they were being a "Gang")
Received detention for having the top button of my shirt unbuttoned. Also received detention for my shirt not being fully tucked in
21:19 I don't get these rules presumably trying to prevent romantic interactions but forgetting that GAY PEOPLE EXIST.
Big banner that said "Proud of our drug free school" right over the bathroom where drug deals went down every morning. I lived in a middle class area.
That kind of reminds me of when a guy from my AP English class in grade 12 wrote their satire on vaping in our school. There was one line that went something like "I saw construction work being done in the hallway. They were finally taking the toilets out of the vape rooms."
@@copyj8187 Epic line there.
20:24 "He then told me that his rules superseded the law"
What the fuck
:O
So he admitted to breaking the law. Kind of stupid if you ask me
16:19 In HS the only colour of jeans the lads could wear were brand new, clean White Jeans.
god my primary school had a rule when i was in kindy-year 3 where you weren’t allowed to bring toys to school? like bro it’s a primary school people are gone bring toys- then in year 6 fidget spinners were banned
This one makes sense of why it's there
What? Never heard of primary school kids bringing toys to school.
22:00 In my school we couldn't talk at all for the entire year during lunch (We were in recces though) and it'll probably be the same again. My class even went as far as making our own kind of sign language
A school near mine had this rule where you’d get kicked out if you’ve ever had surgery for ANY REASON.
We had a series of more and more insane lunch seating rules. It started with going by class. Then it alternated boy / girl. After that they assigned specific students to seats to split up known friend groups as much as possible.
The goal was to make it quieter in the lunch room. It did the opposite. We just all yelled across the room to our friends. They instituted a no talking rule for lunch. We ignored that, as we weren't talking, we were yelling.
Well there was the rule that we had to *GO* to school....so yeah I'd say that that was a pretty dumb rule.
Edit: I would have broken *EVERY* one of those rules, then laughed and ran when the fuckers tried to punish me.
I wasn't paying full attention so the one about the catholic school not allowing backpacks not even for the chance of guns, I thought I heard "pants" instead and didn't properly check and was like "ok makes sense they're concerned you can hide alot of things in pants"
quarantine clothing freedom is frying my brain
😆😂🤣xD Oh, what quarantine has done to our culture.
In 4th grade, my school made us wear vests on the playground. They said it was to prevent people from breaking the rules, and if a lunch monitor saw you break a rule you would have to put the vest away and you couldn't play. Kids could easily just take another vest and go back on, and no staff would notice. Everyone hated this rule, mostly because the vests were filthy and were never cleaned, so it eventually drove a lot of people, including me, into just staying in the lunch courts and getting no exercise at all.
I remember this one rule my middle school had
We couldn’t use our phones at lunch not even to text our parents if there going through tough times and we wanna see if there alright
dude JUst imagine this. You get snow stuck on your gloves, And then get in trouble for throwing the snow cause sombody tripped next to you.
No clear plastic bottles.
This is to stop people sneaking in alcohol.
The teachers are spreading an eye infection.
Joke's on you, since my water bottle is made out of metal.
When it snowed, just WALKING through the snow could get you in trouble.
All girls school. Lots of crazy rules. One principal abolished the "Interact Club" which was there to interact with other schools, especially Boys' schools. The reason? Coz boys and girls would interact and develop romantic relationships.
Another principal had an aversion to pants/trousers. Sure, we had our uniform which was a white frock, but trousers werent even allowedin after school or club activities. When there were dramas or skits, we were discouraged from having male charcters, unless absolutely necessary.
Some event organizers got in trouble for having guys in the auditorium late in the evening , installing the technical equipment necessary.
Wow the rules are horrible. We can't take purses in 5he bathroom even if us girls had period🔴. But I always took my purse in the bathroom
We also had boys in our class when this was announced.