Due to some legal requirements, my old high school rule book had a rule stating that possession of a nuclear bomb was a 10 day suspension. In addition to whatever the FBI, CIA, ATF, etc. would do to you. In addition to this, mine did the closing bathroom thing. We looked up the geneva convention, and found that banning water technically violated the genva convention, and thus the school was technically commiting warcrimes. Speaking of warcrimes, during a lockdown drill the chemistry teacher told us to weaponize the chemicals in the closet on any terrorist that entered the building.
Why do people say BS like this. The Geneva Convention only applies during armed conflicts and occupations and only applies to active participants. It doesn't apply to schools and their teachers/administrators. Schools have a duty of care and that can be expressed by pointing to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and other common sense legal obligations without having to look at the damn Geneva Conventions like an idiot while thinking you have the school in a gotcha moment.
the one fight my son got in in school he was defending a special needs kid who was being picked on. Got a call from the teacher who saw it and, per her description, he "stepped in front of the kid, told the bully to stop, and when the bully responded by punching him in the face, he kicked the bully between the legs." Lucky for him, the principal at that school was great and he got in no trouble whatsoever under the self-defense policy that had "just gone into effect" - it wasn't supposed to be a thing for another two weeks and he should've been suspended for a minimum 3 days. Regardless of the school's take when he got home, my wife and I took him out for ice cream and his choice of dinner, the whole time reinforcing that he did the right thing by standing up for the defenseless: especially considering that once he stopped the bully from being aggressive, he also stopped entirely rather than pounding on the kid. Love my son so much.
Has a friend that was suspended for a week when she showed up at school with a blonde streak in her hair. She was not allowed to return untill her hair was all a "Natural Colour." Her Mum took her to the seaside for the week! Also had a dress code rule that your skirt must touch the floor when you kneeled. If it didn't, you had to go to the office there they sewed a strip of crepe paper on the hem and you had to wear it all day. Thankfully that was relaxed by my senior year.
@@francinetitherington4060 "your legs might be distracting, so we're going to tape this loud *crinklecrinklecrinkle* WHAAAAAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY?! SPEAK UP! I SAID WE'RE DOING THIS SO YOU DON'T CAUSE A *crinklecrinklecrinkle*" Flawless
I dyed (bleached) my hair for the first time in 10th grade and my principal literally followed me halfway through the school to grab my shoulder and tell me to go to her office. She sat me down to tell me that I can’t have my hair dyed blonde because it’s not “a natural color”. It IS a natural color, just not for my people. She told me I needed it “gone” by tomorrow. Obviously I didn’t dye my hair back Black because it would have killed my hair and she eventually got over it. I was not the first person to have unnatural colors in my head, there were plenty of girls with Pink hair that never got pulled aside from what I can tell.
I heard some places actually do that in Japan. It's stupid cause Asians actually can have natural lighter hair like brown and red, I myself have family members with auburn hair (and I kinda wish I was one of them).
@@TheReelReesePodAsians can be naturally blonde, although it's astronomically rare. We can naturally have any natural colour, it's just black is very common not our only one. Melanesians can also be naturally blonde, and Sub-Saharan Africa has higher rates of albinism than elsewhere.
i got a detention once, for some asinine reason i cant even remember. they put a desk in the office, had me sit at it ALL DAY, and told me i was not allowed to do ANYTHING. not even school work, just sit in the chair. doing nothing. for an entire school day. the receptionists felt bad for me, an adhd kid with autism, being forced to do that. they called it purgatory.
so like they made u do the ONE THING your brain cant do? (and most likely intentional) that has to be illegal SOMEWHERE (cause last i checked torture is literally illegal)
School staff: 'you have to have a doctors note to go pee more than 3 times a year' The local doctor: 'I regret to inform you that, unlike yourself, student is in fact human and must be allowed access to the bathroom as needed.'
@@raymondstandley8760 Due to legal Bureaucratic BS I had to get a Doctor to sign off on the fact that I _exist_ and he literally wrote in the report "He thinks, therefore, he is." Along with a bunch of other smarmy stuff that achieved the goal of saying I exist.
My son's elementary school had a zero tolerance policy on bringing knives to school. My son was sent to juvenile (ARRESTED) for having a plastic knife in his backpack to cut up his apple. Yes, this was the plastic cutlery set that are given out from fast food restaurants...
@@aresthemighthimselfno that doesn’t happen I think. You are arrested for the “crime” in this case bringing a PLASTIC KNIFE TO CUT A APPLE and you wait then get sent out I think. Idk I never will go to prison so.
Not my school, but my daughter's. School said that her asthma inhaler has to be locked up in the office of the school nurse -- who was only there 3 days a week. You can't breathe, kid? Sorry, the nurse isn't here until tomorrow. Add to that, it was a big, spread-out school with several buildings. So they expected her to walk potentially several hundred yards (often in very high heat and humidity) while she was having trouble *breathing?* Hell, no. We got her a doctor's note and she carried her inhaler in her bag.
My school had the same rule. They expected me to walk across the entire building while having an attack so bad I was seeing stars. Thankfully once I explained how stupid that was to the dean, they let me keep it in my backpack
@@corey5613 because the school district is too cheap to pay for a full-time school nurse for every school. So the nurse splits their time between two schools.
You’re definitely the best of these story creators. You actually take the time to read them yourself instead of using an AI voice, and you even give your input, unlike these lazy creators that just have an AI read the text and that’s the whole video
My daughter's school wasn't *that* bad, but she did get suspended for "ganging up" because she was defending herself and a friend helped defend her. There's video of the fight; this girl attacked my daughter in the hallway unprovoked, and my daughter used the minimal amount of force necessary to end the fight (just like I taught her), and because her BFF jumped in to defend her it was determined not to be self-defense. All three girls were suspended despite only ONE girl being the obvious aggressor. It was later determined that this girl attacked my daughter because she was told my daughter was talking $#!t about her (she wasn't) by someone who *didn't like my daughter's boyfriend.* Some people's kids...
@Illusion517 Both of my daughters were assaulted at different times and in different ways. Both times the Juvenile Court got involved. #1 had her contact lens drops replaced with bleach. Fortunately another student was decent enough to warn her before she put them in her eyes. The girl was made to copy all the information on the label of the bleach bottle 25 times. #2 went to the aid of a friend who was being physically assaulted. Friend's back was badly injured, requiring physical therapy. Daughter was knocked unconscious resulting in a minute or so of amnesia, and had her lip split. 25 years later, she still cannot remember being hit, only waking up on the floor. The school whined that they could only suspend him for 3 days, so we parents called the cops and filed joint charges. Kid got 60 days in Juvie. The judge didn't quite call him a liar, but she did say "I believe these girls. I don't believe you, young man."
too bad some people in backward countries can't afford them. hell not even middle class or well to do can get them because good lawyers are hella expensive and won't do anything cuz corruption ig? i'm bad at phrasing things
@@NaveeSeal That’s why my grandparents decided to retire in South Carolina instead. It’s only somewhat better. The area between Savannah and Charleston is still horribly sprawled with hardly any center of population and hundreds of thousands of dispersed residents and their lawns that swamps were drained to keep green.
You know, for an institution that's supposed to help kids develop their brains so they can live a better life, the faculty seems awfully content to not use theirs.
That's cuz they don't have any. I swear, the majority of random people could make a school, run a school, or work at a school, better than 95% of the braindead morons that do it already, and those are the random people those braindead morons taught. Can't help that half of the teachers are depressed 90 year olds that just want to retire and the other half don't know how to open a PDF.
According to John D. Rockefeller, you know, the guy that literally invented the entire public school system in place today, the point of said institution is the exact opposite of what you just stated. He said, and I quote; "I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers". He didn't want kids to prepare for the future, he wanted to train them to be working slaves.
I heard once of a school confiscating a friend's laptop.. and getting sued for grand theft... it was a braille screen laptop for a blind kid, and the school broke it. It was brand new, and they'd only just started getting rolled out in the country. He was approved for blind aid tools, and this laptop had all several of his school books that did not have a physical braille version loaded.
i’m also completely blind, so I can chime in on this one. First of all, that school that committed Grandtheft should be closed down permanently. Those braille note taker’s cost around 6 to 10 grand apiece. Second, about the whole zero tolerance policy thing, I went to two different schools for the blind in two different states. Being 100% respectful and having zero tolerance policies for everything was pretty much the way it went. I wanted to be a teacher so I could enforce those sort of rules, but teachers at both of those schools even thought I was harsh despite the fact that they were the ones that made the rules.
@@TubsOnWheels101 They can probably hear the video, had an app to read out text such as the comments, and also voice to text exists. Probably there's even more apps for blind people so they can use their phones, hell, someone might've just typed it out for them even.
My old middle school banned drawing stuff in class because there was this kid who was special needs but got zero tolerance because he kept making a series of drawings about threatening to take over the school with "fart bombs"
About why nurses seem to be talked about more in these threads, I dont have a conclusive answer, but from my own experience I noticed that alot of school nurses are basically the dregs of the medical industry. I worked as a janitor for many schools and i can confidently say, with proof, that 40% of the nurses were hired purely because no one else applied and schools are legally required to have one.
My school nurse became the religion teacher because I guess my school thought having 800 students ages 1-18 made it too small to need a full salaried medical staff. She ended up being the second worst religion teacher I remember from that school. I liked that class when they had good teachers, but the last one left because they don’t pay teachers well at all there.
A kid hit me, I pushed him, and then they started punching me so bad I had to be checked out for a broken nose. Both of us got 3 days suspension. Worst part? Had I hit them instead of pushing them, THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A MORE SEVERE PUNISHMENT. My school not only had it so that you both got in trouble for fighting, but that your punishment was determined by how severe the other person’s actions were.
My elementary school had a rule where if you talked at all during lunch everyone in your grade would have to stand by a wall during recess, until one genius thought of the idea that if everyone’s just talking then the school would stop enforcing that rule, which actually worked
Actually, someone has died from a rule like that. Ryan Gibbons died from an asthma attack when he couldn't come inside from recess and get his inhaler fast enough because he was forced to keep it locked in the office. He apparently tried to carry a few on his person, but they were all confiscated. I was terrified this would happen to me if they took my inhaler, so I always hid it in my backpack and only took it in the locker rooms or in a bathroom stall if I needed it.
I had to do the same things. No carrying of any sort of medication on you, even in highschool. I always had a little Altoids tin that had some ibuprofen, one extra of each of my morning meds (ADHD and such, admittedly it makes sense I wouldn't be able to carry those) and Tylenol also an inhaler, chapstick, etc I was always super prepared for everything, and I still try to be that way. I had everything in that bag from snacks and gum to first aid, to condoms and dental dams, to like every school supply you could ever need during the day (3 hole punch included). I carried a hiking backpack 😅 Edited for grammar mistakes
That’s how it was for me too. My mom told me that I had to pretend I didn’t have my inhaler at all and only take it out if I absolutely needed it, because the school even said that they would take it if they saw it. Its so stupid.
My school has Zero Tolerance when it comes to- get this- MENTAL HEALTH! If any of the faculty caught wind of a student with any suicidal thoughts, they would get outright expelled. This happened to my older sister her freshman year of high school. It is super hard for her to apply for a college due to the 3 month gap in her school record between schools. It also happened to a friend of a friend two years ago, as well as it almost happening to me once when I was put into an institution after getting extremely close to… y’know… attempting. Meanwhile a Senior who was arrested for sexually assaulting a 10 year old boy got off with a slap on the wrist and not even jail time
Wow, this video really highlights how out-of-touch some school administrations can be. The rule about closing all bathrooms for a week is especially ridiculous-how did they expect students to manage? It's a great reminder that we need to question and challenge illogical rules.
Better yet, there should be one national code for school rules that ~~petty little dictators~~ school officials are not allowed to change, modify, or selectively enforce.
@@UnderEmbers there is one correct response to having the bathroom withheld: prove that you can only be stopped from accessing the bathroom, not from relieving yourself. preferably on the person responsible of lack of access.
My School also had the rule to Suspend everyone involved in a Fight regardless of if they were the Instigator or the Victim... They Suspended a kid that was viciously Bullied (and his Bully) because the Bully punched him...the Victims Father was one of the Provinces NASTIEST Civil Lawyer and Sued the Unholy Howling HELL out of the School, School Administration and School Board for Suspending the VICTIM of an Assault instead of calling the Police to report the Assaulting a Minor...he also called CPS and the Police on the School for failing to stop the high number of fights that happened... The Principal who created the No Tolerance Policy was forced to Retire (15 years early) and Permanently Barred from holding ANY position of Authority in ANY School in Canada...I don't know how much money he was awarded by the Court but it was a bundle...
I will never understand how it is legal in America to require a hallpass to go to the toilet or revoking rights to use the bathroom because in any sane country (sorry america) that is seen as against human rights for natural bodily functions and can be dangerous to hold in as well
Straight up, I know people who have soaked chairs in kindergarten because they weren't allowed to leave for the restroom. These really strict rules undoubtedly have untold stores of trauma they've inflicted in kids, I'm sure.
There was this one guy, don’t exactly remember when, a few centuries ago, who died, because he wasn’t allowed to leave the room during a bankett with the king. His bladder ruptured and he died. Some school really try to recreate that.
In middle school, bandanas were banned because they were “gang affiliated.” One poor new girl had a cold & was using an old bandana as a handkerchief. The assistant principal yelled at her in the hall over it, making her cry.
"No bending paperclips." I made a book carrier entirely from paperclips. It wrapped around the books, connected into a square at the bottom and top (for rigidity), and had a handle on two sides for easy carrying. Getting the books was as simple as unhooking the paperclips on one end. It definitely infuriated every admin who saw it; they'd stare daggers at me as I walked down the hallway.
Oh, I forgot the "after-school electives are required" rule. Yes, you _had_ to take at least one after-school elective. Shut that one out of my brain because it was so stupid.
"No retaliation" Basically, you were told not to fight back if someone assaulted you. The whole "two wrongs don't make a right" bs and half the time the one who struck back in defense was usually punished harder than the one who started it.
What that tells me is, if someone attacks you, fight back harder because you're going to get in trouble either way and you may as well send a message to anyone else who might attack you.
When I taught in a middle school they had that awful rule so any time I caught a kid being bullied I would immediately put a stop to it and 100% go to bat for the victim, even if they fought back. I was bullied all growing up with no one standing up for me so I'm not about to let that slide, from kids or admin.
Definitely, i was one of those kids who were tormented and *I* got the punishment when i had enough and decided to deal with the issue the school staff were purposely ignorant of.
That stuff was implemented right after I got out of school. Geez... I remember once I slammed a kid's head in a locker, because he decided to jump on me and start trying to physically harm me, so I threw him off me and he got shoved into the locker so I thought shutting the door on him would help end things... anyway whatever I was doing it was because I was being ATTACKED, so I kind of don't care what happens to my attacker, I'm just going to try to end the attack. I actually kind of deserved it because I was messing with the guy, but what I was doing was in no way violent. I don't have any complaint about him turning around and swinging on me actually. I mean I didn't LIKE it but it was understandable. What was crazy was that the next day I was pulled out of class to go talk to the principal, and that guy that swung at me was in the office with his dad, who was raising hell with the principal about getting me kicked out of school for "beating up" his son. I didn't even punch the guy, I just kind of restrained him, wrestled him around and shoved him off me, then hit him with the locker door, which is a big light piece of metal, and while it probably doesn't feel the greatest it's got to be less painful than a punch. Anyway, to get to the point... the principal asked who started the fight, and the other kid said "well I did but anonamatron..." "ok, so YOU started the fight" "yeah but he.." "so YOU started the fight. So YOU will be suspended for three days, anonamatron, go back to class and don't bother people anymore please." Oh man the face of that kid's dad.. that dad was pissed off. But really, I agree with the school. I did some stupid shit but I wasn't being violent or fighting. I think I deserved a detention or something, but the school policy was that if you start the fight, you're the one in trouble. It's not violence to use force to defend yourself. Another time I was in a bar at a rock concert and these three big tall bully guys were shoving everyone into the mosh pit. I like the pit but I wasn't in the mood to get in at the moment, and these guys shoved me in. I took a step back and resumed watching the show. They shoved me in again. I turn around and scream "what the fuck is your problem?" and shove one of them back. I can feel this was a big mistake because these guys are all like half a foot taller than me and there are three of them. I'm there with a friend, but he's elsewhere in the crowd. I'm not going to be bullied though, so I don't back down. Just as they're about to descend on me the bouncers strike, and drag all of them out of there. They thanked me for getting them to start a fight (I mean I'm the one that shoved them back and there was nothing more than posturing after that, but I guess they could see the fight brewing) so they had a reason to throw them out. After the show they were still laying on the sidewalk... If I was in school with three guys cornering me and I got in trouble for "fighting"...? Geez... ridiculous. The real world punishes the aggressor.
That’s the thing, the whole “ignore and they will stop” is also total bull. If your ignore they will either 1. Keep doing stuff and doing worse until they get a reaction or 2. Take advantage of the fact that you will sit there and take disrespect
Oh, this video unlocked some of my core memories… In elementary school, in the later years I sat on the upper floor, meaning we had to all use one staircase to go down to recess. We’d have to wait at the top of this staircase for about a minute every time so the teacher could check they weren’t missing anyone. Not that much of a problem, as only one or two classes would have recess at the same time. The problem came that there were classrooms next to that staircase, and apperantly there were complaints about noise while kids were going down to recess, because we were kids going down to recess, obviously we weren’t church mouses. Then the school decided to ban ALL TALKING while going to recess. If you thought this wouldn’t work because we were young kids, you’d be correct! The stupidest part of this rule is that while all teachers enforced it, they only did so on the other classes. If you got caught talking by your own teacher, you’d get a stern look. If another teacher caught you, you’d be missing 5 minutes if your recess. I remember a girl bumping into me while we were waiting, saying sorry really softly, and I whispered: it’s fine. We both had to wait on our recess, and we also had to stand apart, otherwise “it wasn’t a punishment”. That school also had some weird rules around healthy eating. In my country, it’s normal to bring in food on your birthday to celebrate with your class, usually a thin slice of cake, some popcorn, etc. The school decided that you could only bring in unhealthy treats if you’d asked your teacher for permission, but every kid just asked for permission and nothing changed, because I don’t think the teachers had any ground to say no on. In the last year, they also got lots of new rules about what kind of food you could bring in for lunch as part of a health program, but the rules were so strict my mother actually said: “this is how kids develop anorexia.” There were so many complaints apperantly, that the school backpedalled the very next day.
Where I lived, the administrators were already professionals at ignoring parents who tried to raise hell because they would do it for a bunch of really stupid reasons as well.
9th grade, they banned hats in classrooms. The reason stated was "they could be used to conceal weapons or drugs." However, backpacks were still completely unrestricted. Brilliant.
My school technically had the same rule, though part of the rule was because the teacher couldn't see your face to tell if you were paying attention, but it wasn't strictly enforced. Like some teachers would tell you to take off the hat, and others couldn't care less as long as it wasnt a distraction. I always would stash my hat in my bag
Idek how in the world they expect you to hide a weapon in your hat. That’s complete bullshit. That’s like saying I can’t use my pockets cause I could be concealing an AK-47 in there
As someone who used to attend school in Australia, where hats are necessary for kids to wear due to high skin cancer rates, that's just so bloody asinine.
My high school had two rules I remember. 1) no band tees. 2) girls HAD TO wear short shorts for gym. Those things barely cover your backside. I refused to wear them. I refuse any shorts at all, and would only wear sweatpants. The school tried to give me after school detention. I was a bus student and lived 13 miles from the town the school was in. My father was livid that they forced me to miss the bus. He was even more livid when he heard why I was forced to miss it. He threatened legal action against the school for trying to force me into shorts. He even went as far as to call the teachers and principal "perverts who like looking at children". I got to wear my sweatpants!! He also insisted that I wear band tees to annoy them.
@@nelsondawson9706 Well yes and no. He did do good some times but he also caused a lot of trouble for our family. He was a big part of the reason I was tormented by my classmates throughout my entire time in school. While he was ''protecting" me in a way he was actually trying to keep me from building any bonds outside our family unit. There were some suspicions about his motives throughout our small town.
I'm glad my school doesn't have so many shitty bureaucracy, you can bring most sportswear as long as it has the school approved colors (and even themselves sell them)
At my school, we were required to stand and recite the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance, and we had to make a prayer to god EVERY DAY. This took about ten minutes out of my second period class each day, which would always cause us to have to do a lot of make up work by the end of the year, because we basically had to lose and entire period of time each week. My math teacher absolutely DISPISED this rule, and for good reason, he would teach during the time we were supposed to be doing the whole deal, leading to us actually having a year where we didn't have to speed through a bunch of lessons at the end of the year. Because he was a teacher for all grades at the high school, i was excited to see him next year for math class, but when i showed up to his classroom on the first day of junior year, there was a different teacher. THE SCHOOL HAD LITERALLY FIRED HIM BECAUSE HE WANTED TO ACTUALLY DO HIS JOB.
As a parent who has a daughter with asthma I would give the school hell if they did not allow her to have her inhaler on her. Not only would I tell her to keep it on her anyways, I would have her doctor write her a note explaining why they are stupid and if they did try and take it away I’d file a police report for child endangerment. You don’t play chicken with asthma.
I went to a rather... peculiar private school during grades 5-9. The school was kindergarden through 9th grade, a total of 86 students. No homework assignments allowed in any grade. We had one mandatory "nature day" a week. All teachers had to be certified in "Non-violent communication". The school was a "parent owned collective", meaning all parents owned a small part of the school. But the strangest rule though was that lunch (this was in sweden, so free lunch for everyone) was home cooked vegetarian food only. Not all children in the school were vegetarians, so eventually some of us older kids got frustrated that we never got to eat meat, so we started collecting signatures to petition for *one* day of getting a meat option per week. The result became a funny compromise because the older students who started the petition had to start taking "home skills" class as part of the mandatory Swedish curriculum at the time anyway, and what better way to do that than to literally have these 13-14 year olds cook for the entire school once a week and if they decided they wanted to add a meat option for that day they were free to do so under the condition that there still would be a vegetarian option as well. It turned out to work surprisingly well, and all parties were fairly pleased with the compromise.
@khazanys easy enough, they dedicated time in the school day to study and practice under teacher guidance. the reasoning for no home work is that we generally don't expect adults to "bring work home". Human brains can only really concentrate so much and children, just as adults, should be entitled to their free time to recover from the day. and if you wanted to practice stuff at home during this free time you were free to do so, but it was not mandated by the school.
For story 32: I've had a crappy nurse before. I suffer from chronic migraines. I've had *multiple* nurses deny me ibuprofen or tylenol because i was faking it, or I just wanted to get out of my class. I didn't i was in pain. This one in my middle school said she wouldn't give me pain medication anymore for my *chronic* migraines.
My school also had the, "If you get punched in the face you will be suspended for being in a fight," rule. Basically: "Okay, let's put the bully and the kid he's bullying in the same detention room during recess; that'll solve the problem."
My school was worse. As someone who's been bullied, sometimes it'd be ONLY ME in detention for being on the RECEIVING end of the bullying. Their idea was that the victim should "just ignore them", and that if I didn't, I'd get in trouble for "retaliating". I'm a grown man now, and still trying to unlearn that all that bullying was my fault.
In my old middle school (and high school), if you were basically punched in the face, you were sent to what they called an "alternate education campus", which was basically just a small building on the other side of town where every time you entered the building, they would use a metal detector on you to make sure you weren't concealing any weapons. I mainly know this because I got sent there once for getting punched in the face
@@ngarcia103 oh, yeah. i've had similar experiences. I don't remember why I got in so many detentions or the alternative in-school-suspensions during my later years of high school. None of my bullies physically assaulted me, but they did constantly provoke me into displaying even a little bit of anger. I am autistic, evidently, and I think I was taught to repress my rage at some point in my life. Anywho, there was one moment in my life according to my dad where I was suspended. Not for being a victim or retaliating, but basically channeling Captain America without knowing it. According to him, I was in a line along with other classmates one day and I saw a bigger kid bullying a younger kid. So, I simply walked over to him and gave a swift punch to the gut which instantly knocked the gut to the ground. Then I returned to my place in line as if nothing happened. I was rewarded with ice cream by my dad while my mom was furious at what I did. I really wish the "heroic" me still existed, because I hate the me that stays uninvolved with anything unless it personally provokes me. I honestly feel like a coward these days, because I never follow up with my warnings. The saying of "their bark is worse than their bite?" Well, that very much applies to the current me.
Story 79 makes me pretty mad. I knew some of the special ed kids in my high school, and for the most part, they were some of the nicest, most tolerant people in the school. I got along with some of them better than I did the others. Plus, they deserve to be able to have friends too.
@@acanadian4785 my school was kinda like that, but it was also common for 5-6 people to gang up on a bully if it came to a fight. A student from another school at a football game once tried to fight a scrawny asthmatic kid, and somehow ended up getting beaten by several of the band kids
I didn’t even think about it, but my middle school sucked 1: You couldn’t start eating and talking unless everyone was completely quiet, and no talking during the last 10 minutes of lunch 2: Boys were not allowed to have jewelry, or any other “feminine clothing” 3: You must wear a belt. You must tuck in your shirt 4: You get 2 minutes to go to the bathroom 5: If you refused to comply, office staff would forcibly *drag and carry you* to the office. This happened to me way too many times
I was a teacher, I’m sure some of my old students would have things to add to these stories - but on the nurse line. I sent a student to first aid, she had a fever (which was the first indicator for a bad flu that was going around) she was feeling really unwell and wanted to go home. After about 30 mins, she came back to my class, told me she had been put in the first aid room and didn’t see anyone after that, so she came back. I let her sleep on the floor in my jacket at the back of the class. An HOUR later, I got an email from the nurse to tell me that my student had left first aid, and told me that I shouldn’t be diagnosing students (I just said she might have a fever). I told her that I knew the student had left as she had been in my class, and saying that she may have a fever wasn’t a diagnosis, it was an observation. She didn’t like me because I criticised the fact that no one at the school, including her, were qualified to run a school first aid room. It forced the school into sending her for further training. Too bad she never seemed to use it. I had students (especially the boys) ask to not go to first aid, that they just wanted to let me know that they weren’t feeling well
0:50 all the zero tolerance policy teaches kids is that if someone is hitting you, you go down on them right back. If you're gonna get suspended for it, at least make it worth your while
And a quick Google shows just about all standard colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, white, and grey) being affiliated with different gangs. There are more than just the red 'bloods' and blue 'crips'.
The no boys and girls sitting next to one another. A pair of siblings should have kept doing that to get the parents involved. That way the school has to explain why a brother and sister can't sit together.
Wow lol. I’m in eighth grade and if my future high school has that, me and my twin sister could do that lol. I doubt my future high school would have that kind of rule though.
My past school banned paper and pencils in the cafeteria. Not because of vandalism but because "people kept leaving them in the cafeteria!" I was like 1 of 3 people who even brought paper and pencil to lunch I hated that school.
Dumbest rule my HS had was zero tolerance for fighting, so stupid a kid was expelled after getting jumped by 6 guys and spending 2 weeks in the hospital. His parents sued and won and the zero tolerance rule was quickly and quietly changed.
I actually went to a Catholic secondary school when I was younger. They didn't force us to pray, we just had to sit in silence while the religious people prayed. All we had to do was be respectful. We were allowed to use our phones after the bell went at the end of the day (as long as we weren't in the classroom.)
Thank you for a report that was not based in malice. It sounds as though you were reasonably respectful and that you don't spend your adult years raging. Cheers. PS - I'm sorry your post got largely ignored. This topic seems to be a magnet for people who want a fight. That may have been why they kept running afoul of all their authority figures too.
9:32 Period Appropriate Paints? You mean LEAD paint? heck if old enough, Arsenic paint. I thought we banned LEAD paint from being used for any reason...
Okay, Story 31. That. Is. Fucking. Illegal. Not allowing a person to access basic necessities is considered a crime and torture. Doing that to a minor would add child endangerment onto that charge and that would go out to the whole staff for being accomplices to torture and child abuse, technically. Oh yeah, torture and child abuse (if it really was that bad at your school) could be added as well if the staff was that unlucky. Unfortunately, charges cannot be pressed anymore but that is definitely something
My elementary school basically said that when if someone is being bullied, the onus is on the victim to "just ignore it", otherwise the victim would be in trouble for retaliating, while the bully got nothing. I got in trouble WAY too often for being on the receiving end of such bullying.
That is insane in my school I think everyone has a lesson on a specific day and my school even created this thing to recognize bullying and then to stop it
Worst rule my school enforced? No tank tops or shorts above the knee. For context, I was living in the Mohave Desert in BFArizona, where it was normal to be 90-110* F for the the majority of the year. From 6th grade up I had to live in that hell hole, it was torture. Also, the “no tank tops” rule wasn’t applied to the boys. I guess an exposed female shoulder or kneecap was too distracting for the boys. That was 20 years ago, and now my child is about to enter 6th grade. We were recently given a “dress code” for next year and, despite being in a completely different-predominantly liberal-state, the rules are still more or less the same. Note, these are US public schools with no required uniforms. I had hoped by now they would be teaching the boys impulse control and stop blaming their bad behavior and grades on “girls distracting them”. Pathetic. Edit to add, we weren’t allowed to wear sandals or flip-flops either. They also had some issue with hats and bandannas, so no one was allowed protection from the blinding Arizona sun. Not entirely sure what they had up their asses, but I’m fairly certain the “no tank tops or shorts” rules were only enforced because the teachers were pervs, and the bullshit reasons that “exposed girl shoulders and kneecaps were somehow distracting the boys” was purely an excuse they used to not provoke the male teachers. Either way, I hate that the rules were only enforced for the girls. When it’s 90+ degrees and the school is more concerned with the “distractions” of boys, despite it being at the detriment to the comfort of girls, it a major issue. It says a lot about the lack of progress towards equality in the US. As a female student it pissed me off that I had to suffer through running a mile and other P.E. outside because normal exercise clothes might tempt a boy to act out. As an adult it pisses me off more when you factor in the insulting implications that all the boys were simply too stupid and primitive to handle the “irresistible urges brought on by exposed shoulders”.
My high school was reasonable compared to the hellhole some of these stories depict. The only bullshit about the otherwise relaxed dress code was shorts needed to be authorized after winter. It was ok in march with summer temperatures, but september/october arrives with temps almost as high during the afternoon, and you were forced into long trousers. That's in a city full of concrete that's also next to a river, where the sun is outright lethal. Humid weather, a really strong sun, and long trousers don't go well together. It's the only thing that actually annoyed me about the derss code though. It was otherwise fine and I could follow it effortlessly. Just black or blue bottoms and a plain white or school designated T-shirt. The school T-shirts were dropped eventually, but it was still fine to wear them if you had them like I did. If you went with the plain white T-shirt, there was a place that sold the school's logo so you could stick it into your T-shirt. If you wore a skirt, you had to wear shorts below, but I think that makes sense anyways, besides, skirts weren't that popular in the first place, myself only seeing a few girls wearing them. Still, not being allowed to wear shorts when the heat went back up in summer. That's plain stupid if you ask me. And no, I was not gonna wear a skirt. They have no tactical advantage whatsoever, which is something I always disliked about a lot of clothing personally, especially skirts, skinny jeans, and short shorts, like only covering half of your thighs. My choice for a while was cargo trousers for winter, and cargo or oversized denim shorts when I could, and it still is, despite not being in high school anymore. Cargo pants have the mobility, cold resistance, and durabilitybfor any situation. All I know is that, if the world is ending, and I need to run at full speed, my clothes won't be a problem for that, unlike crappy skinny jeans, which would never allow me to unleash the full power of my spine breaking thighs. Even then, despite how relaxed the dress code was, most didn't care, and the only one that actually followed it to the letter was me (afaik at least), which kinda made me into a model student alongside my scores. If you know me, you know who I was.
@@Sarah-gm9tq honestly, after all I’ve learned and seen throughout the past couple decades, I’ve sort of come to the same question, and, personally I find it a super tangible theory. Given the staggering amount of publicized “relationships” (aka statutory/unfair power dynamics) between teachers and their students, it makes more sense than entire schools full of teenage boys who get so horned up over girl shoulders that they turn in to brainless animals with no self control or ability to do their lessons and assignments. I find it highly offensive towards all genders. Basically, girls are forced to have their clothing policed, teaching them that their comfort (and therefore their *own* ability to get the best education) doesn’t matter at all, because they’re not boys. And apparently society has decided that boys are so utterly stupid and incapable of self control that schools have deemed them all potential rapists if they catch a glimpse of a girl shoulder?!?! Either way, it’s not a good look.
Years ago my daughters school sent a newsletter to all the parents. It said they were going to send anyone home if they came to school wearing any gang colors. Parents would be called, etc.. So I compiled a list of all gang colors in North America. Not so surprisingly, it covers just about every color and color combination you can imagine - including black, white, grey, and even clear (see through). I sent this list to the principal, the superintendent, and all members of the school board with a note that I 100% fully support their policy and expect them to enforce it for ALL gang colors. Not to my surprise at all, the policy had been abandoned before the first day of school began.
We had the first female football player in the history of our high school get expelled a semester and a half in for bringing a full water bottle of vodka. She got called to the office cause the SRO heard about it and because I tutored her in two classes she gave the bottle to me, I very quickly threw it away. We also had drug dogs search the school either weekly or biweekly.
I had a principal in my highschool saying that "recess time is useless and a waste of time, if you students really wanted it, I'm gonna add up every 10 minutes you waste everyday, so that at the end of the year, we'll add a couple of full days" Mind you, this was not in the US, but in Italy where school function in a much different way from the US. The students stay in the same classroom all day (except for PE and laboratories) and the teachers are the ones that change classrooms every 1, 2 or 3 hours. You also get to choose a specific course, and in mine every school day lasted 6 hours. All the other courses instead had 2 days of 6 hours and 3 days of 7 hours (from 8am to 3 pm). Students always debated if it was better to have 2 recess times (one from 10:10 to 10:20 and one from 1:10 to 1:20), in which my course was excluded from the second, or just 1 that lasted 20 min (from 11:05 to 11:25) for everyone. During recess, students were free to roam the school so that we could use the bathrooms and the vending machines for snacks. We don't have a school cafeteria or even just lunch in general. At best, for a couple of years, our school let a nearby pizzeria's staff to enter the school during recess so that they could sell us pizza slices. The principal i was talking about at the start basically abolished everything. She kicked out the pizza, decided we should have 1 recess that lasted 10 min and no free roaming, only one student per class at a time with a specific ticket that gave you the permit. Thank God that was my last year and now it seems everything kinda changed back because of protests but idk the details afterwards.
I'm not American it's interesting that in America the rules seem to be dictated by the school or some school board, while here in Europe each teacher has their rules they make. And also we have no concept of "passing period" or lockers, we always carry our books with us, and also "dress codes" are crazy, the entire concept of a dress code is crazy to me
Schools hate bags because you might have a weapon. That’s why most places force you to have a clear or mesh backpack. It’s dumb how far they’ll go though.
Mine told me to split my 50 pound book load over two backpacks and carry them both on my back one atop the other. How is that going to fix their problem of assigning 50 pounds of books to a 4th grader? The books were in braille, for clarification. Also, they were trying to avoid allowing me a rolling suitcase for a backpack because then all the other kids would use one and "That's not fair".
49:50 Not allergic to smells, but strong smells bother me, really bad. A perfume in a closed up car ride because it's winter and we need the heat and can't open the windows? I get nauseous. Same for cologne and car fresheners...
My school(s) learned pretty quickly to take situations dealing with myself and my siblings seriously when they otherwise would brush it off (I’m talking about bullying and not fully following a 504 plan). It’s one of the few times my mom’s Karen tendencies came in handy. If I remember right, my little sister had one teacher that was being inconsiderate and unhelpful after my little sister was in the hospital again. My little sister was/is a damn good student, hard worker and does well in classes. Teacher wouldn’t give any extensions despite there being a medical note. Administration and that teacher did not have a good day when my mom went to the office about that…
I an atheist, experimented with religion in high school and decided to practice wiccan for a while as it was more worshiping and looking after the earth rather than a specific deity (from what I read, please don't come for me). The RE teacher was Catholic and once went on a tangent about how wicca was fake and disgusting as it worshipped witchcraft. My class, who knew I was practicing, turned to me then told off the teacher. It made me back off religion as a whole. This was in the UK. The teacher was later bullied by almost the whole school when a fb group was discovered of kids talking crap out of her and wanted her sacked. Not because of me but she hated almost all religions other than her own and was generally nasty to everyone. She also had a weird obsession with dolphins.
My middle school had one absolutely moronic rule that I single handedly got changed. We had to walk in one direction in the halls. On paper, these rules can decrease chance of collision. In practice? You were walking into a wall of students entering and leaving the main loop towards PE. The fix? Reversing the loop so the wall of students was on the other side where there wasn’t a hallway. And that’s why implementing a rule like that requires thought.
"COME BACK HERE" "NO" "NUH UH COME HERE" "NEIN" "STOP SPEAKING GERMAN" "WHY" "CAUSE YES" "NO" "SHOTGUN" "THATS NOT APART OF THE SCRIPT" "NOTHING WE SAID WAS APART OF THE SCRIPT DUMBASS" "OH RIGHT" "ARE WE JUST SAYING WHAT SOME RANDOM DUMBASS ON THE INTERNET IS TYPING RIGHT NOW" "NO" "OH OK" what happened 2.0
This just reminded me that I briefly went to an intermediate elementary school (3-5 grades) and we had 10 minutes for lunch and no one was allowed to speak, at all. The principal would stand at the end of the long lunch table we all sat at and make sure no one talked. But then, at the end of the 1st quarter, that same principal took every single kid who made Honor Roll (all A's for every class) to McDonald's for like 2 hours. He bought everyone a meal- either Happy Meal or Value Meal, whatever we wanted, on his own dime, and then we got to play in the outdoor play place. It was amazing, although it was the hottest day I've ever experienced at 112°F! I moved across the country soon after that event but still remember how nice the principal turned out to be outside that prison-esque cafeteria at school!
Not my school, but a religious middle school my high school friend went to. Some rules i can remember on the top of my head are: 1. Boys sit in the front half of the class and girls in the back half, because boys one day must lead girls in family 2. Girls may not sing in presence of boys, since girl's voice will stir lust in boys 3. Boys may not look to girl's face unless it's necessary, since it'll stir lust in boys
As a Muslim, I hate it when schools treat boys like the "better" gender, but also as mindless bimbos who can't control their lust in presence of a woman. I'm a boy, and I have my gripes with the way girls dress in high school, and I agree with some things in that dress code (please bring full clothing back in fashion), but the reasons are just so dumb. I can look at a woman's shoulder without frothing at the mouth. Trust me, a majority of boys (at least that I know) can handle being in the presence of a girl going through her "minimal clothing" phase, (but that still make me uncomfortable)
In my high school, my principal, in the peak of british summer (it’s hot), BANNED FANS. Because they were “causing a distraction”. All the teachers and students thought the rule was stupid, and we never looked at our principal the same after that.
In my middle school, one teacher got fired for pulling a kid to not leave the classroom. This caused my head teacher to BAN students TOUCHING in any way.
Where I live, all the schools have to do a fire drill every year. In my high school in each class I had a map of the route you had to take to evacuate in case of a fire. One year we just took the obvious route of going out to the main door because literally the class we were in was in front of it. When we returned to class the principal came and scolded us for going through the main door. Apparently we had to go to the playground, which was on the other side of the high school, in fact our class was the furthest from that. And I find it even more stupid because there were doors in the hallways that closed automatically in case of fire to separate areas. How were we supposed to go if the doors were closed? The only path that could be followed was the emergency stairs, which lead to the main door.
Couldn’t listen to music outside while your walking to class. The stupid security guard blocked me from going to class and I had to go to the office all the way on the other side of the high school campus and missed half the class I was heading to. Thankfully some parents complained and they stopped enforcing that stupid rule.
I was in first grade in 1965-1966 school year, and at recess, due to the tv show, the most popular form of play was Batman. Our school banned it, never said why, just "No more Batman"
My highschool banned going to the WC during classes. That's normal, I know, but not even for girls on their periods. This sucked because it was a school for 16 year olds and above, so that was a huge deal. Then, as everyone who needed to go to the toilet in the last 3 hours had to go at once during break, they thought everyone went there to vape and so it was banned for good. So "someone" happened to kick open every toilet in the entire school. Those remained broken for the rest of the year and never closed again.
46:10 Fun fact: Considering where many biblical events took place, you can't draw most people from the bible cause they were likely a bit tanner than the average white or peach colour person. Heck a few of Noah's sons were probably forbidden images at that school.
It seems like education should be the point of schooling. These schools are teaching something, but it is not something any legislator will decide can be rewarded by a useless test. With all of the emphasis one everything except actually fostering a learning environment that has been shown within the past 50 years to be effective, one might get the idea that administrators and higher get rewarded for all of this non-education-relevant behavior, that compliancy is the goal of education. There are so many great teachers that are not allowed to do the education part of their job it's ridiculous.
In my elementary school, we had to recite the pledge, sing "America the Beautiful," "Star Spangled Banner" and have a moment of silence. This was public school. Girls were not allowed to wear shorts, but boys could. Girls couldn't wear skirts above the knee. 59:30
@@sharonrinkiewicz3940 The Supreme Court ruling that prevents public schools from forcing children to say the Pledge of Allegiance, that has been in effect for probably at least eighty years. I’d imagine that if word ever got out beyond your hometown, you’d soon see representatives from some organization like the ACLU.
@@sharonrinkiewicz3940 A court case from the '40s where the State Board of Education lost to Barnette. The Supreme Court ruled "the First Amendment protects students from being compelled to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools".
Our middle school has a stupid way to enforce “3 bathroom uses during class a day!”. They have us use an online pass that has to be approved by a teacher, which half the time you’re waiting for 20 minutes and the other half you’re just trying to make the pass, with it saying that “hall traffic limit has been reached”
The elementary school I went to during 3rd grade was extremely athletic focused and had extreme rules against candy. Now this was the year I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and got a 504 plan set up. One day I brought a bag of m&ms to school in my medical bag to snack on. During PE my blood sugar started to drop so I started to snack on the m&ms when my PE teacher saw this happening he went over to me and started to yell and swear at me as if I had committed some great crime I shortly after got sent to the principals office to call my mom. She was not happy with them After this incident they went on to break my 504 plan 15 different times and we had to resort to reporting them to the state because nothing was happening
My middle school segregated us by gender at lunch, and we were punished for months for being “too loud” in the cafeteria so we were forced to sit silently 1 or 2 students per table. There were way more girls than boys, so some girls would be exiled to the boys side. Also pencils were banned for a month because of the “Charlie Charlie challenge”
thank you for such a great channel, especially with this long form content. my internet has been MIND NUMBINGLY SLOW and videos like this are what is keeping me sane, since I can just minimize the window and just listen with minimal interruptions since it only needs to load the audio (for clarity not all browsers do this, but it's a feature of the browser I am using)
I went to an Anglican High School where the school dress code is even enforced on public transport before and after school by Transport Monitors and School Staff; if a student is caught breaching school dress code on public transport they got a verbal warning for the first offence and a demerit after the second offence. If a student got 3 demerits they get after school detention.
@@oSamiSrzonah if my kid gets suspended for that I’m pressing legal charges on the school and the kid I don’t take that bullshit hell I’d take my kid outa that school
Can I tell you all this DOOZY in my school? Basically we have to wait 15 minutes once class starts to create a pass to go to the nurse's office, or another classroom, OR THE DANG BATHROOM!!! Then 15 minutes before class ends, you can't go anywhere until the bell rings. I have six classes in my school. So that means once you add all those fifteen minutes up, THAT'S 180!! Oh, and that's not even the end of it. Some girl on Friday told me and a couple of other girls, one of who I think is below my grade level, "Oh, you can't be in the bathroom because you're not supposed to be here." Excuse me, but YOU DON'T KNOW THAT!!! We have this thing where we have to create digital passes if we wanna leave the classroom for some reason. And guess what?? IT. DON'T. MAKE. THE. CUT. SOMETIMES!!!! That's why when I wanna go somewhere outside of class for some reason, I basically just ask one of my teachers to create that digital pass or write a pass for me on paper. And this is what really irritates me. Because let's say that I have an appointment with a doctor, an eye doctor, or a dentist for some reason on a school day and during the time I'm at school. So naturally, the office will call one of my teachers and then that teacher tells me I can leave so I can get to my appointment. And if I get paused while heading to the office because I don't have a dang pass, I'll mentally flip. But yeah. The 10/10 rule at my old school was a pain in the hide sometimes, I have no trouble admitting that I wasn't comfortable with it. And don't get me wrong. I loved Saline and still do. But it wasn't as painful as a 15/15 minute rule, for six classes STRAIGHT, and creating a digital pass that just doesn't live up to someone's expectations. Thanks for coming to my UA-camTalk.
I have ibd+ibs (irritable bowel disease/sundrome) and any teacher who has told me I can’t go to the bathroom I have disliked. Story time. One day my teacher was sick or smth so we had a sub. But this sub was the most unusual person I’ve ever met. I went to a french teaching elementary school, 80% French 60% English. Our teachers wouldn’t have much of a problem with us talking in English, just remind us most of the time. Certain times during the day were “only in French” times and you weren’t allowed to talk in English in them at all. This sub showed us a schedule of the day, with our only in French times starred. He then asked us why they were started and we all said cause they are only in French. He then said “No, those times are NO TALKING”. My class, reluctantly went along with it. Later, he asked us to take out a book and start doing some French reading, pretty normal. We read for about 15-20 mins (in dead silence) before he told us we were doing something else. We all went to put our books away and get ready for the next thing. He then went on a rant about how we had to keep our books on our desks because not doing so was a sign of disrespect to him and his beliefs. The whole class thought that it was dumb, so we told him that it didn’t make sense. After a solid 10 minutes of this we just gave up and started doing math. In French. I’m dead silence. (From a workbook) Me being the dumb kid that I was didn’t know much French and asked a desk mate what one work meant. She told me and I went back to my math. The whole interaction took maybe 8 seconds. At the end of the math period the teacher went on another rant about how some people were disrespecting the no talking rule. During this lengthy discussion one kid asked to go to the bathroom. Our teacher said no “because we are having a class discussion” I then realized I had to go (ibs/ibd sucks) so asked him. He said no and I assumed it was cause he didn’t know and thought I was just another kid. Almost immediately after he told me no I went up to him and told him about my condition. He still didn’t let me go. Went anyways. My entire class thought he was a d*ck and mostly knew what I had and stuck up for me. I got sent to the principals office. Overall, it was a pretty shitty situation (pun intended)
Uniforms! PUBLIC school system. Why? Teachers were sick of teens saggin' (waistband of pants below their hips, usually showing off their underwear). The school system wanted high schoolers to know how to "dress properly" for interviews and such once they graduated AND to prevent bullying. Okay, seems fair. Except... 1 - They started the uniforms with KINDERGARTEN children! (The year my oldest started school, actually. Following year, those in K and 1st wore them, next year, K, 1st, and 2nd Graders, etc.) Side Note: Bullying still happened. A group of SECOND graders (7 and 8 yr. olds) were bullying one little girl for not wearing her yellow button-down shirt that day. Apparently it was a thing all the girls in that class agreed on the day before. 2 - They were STRICT with colors. (4 colors for button-down shirts, 2 for sweaters, 2 for pants, 2 for shoes, 2 colors for socks, and 1 color for jumpers.) 3 - The first FIVE YEARS, there wasn't a store within a 50-75 mile radius who had uniforms in stock past AUGUST. August is when kids here start the school year here! Your kid grows a size or two during the year? Their pants look like capri's and their long-sleeved shirts suddenly become 3/4 sleeved and short-sleeved shirts became tank tops...and both also became crop tops. Yeah...that's "professional" looking. They gain or lose a significant amount of weight? Even worse. We won't get into shoe sizes here (which happened - THREE TIMES - to my son in one school year. School is 9 months here, with a 3 month summer vacation.) 4 - Going K to 12 (13 years of school in the U.S.), yep...that meant...it took TEN YEARS (K through 9th grade) before the kids who "needed to know how to dress" actually HAD to dress "properly". 5 - The year after my oldest graduated? They stopped doing uniforms. But it was the same thing again. That year's new Kindergarten class could wear whatever they wanted, but 1st graders and above were still stuck in uniforms...next year, K and 1st graders could wear whatever, etc. *P.S.* Uniforms were also deemed as a "good thing" - by the school board - because it meant parents would save money and wouldn't need to do laundry as often. (Yeah, here we go again...) 1 - Uniform items were NOT cheap. Cheapest item was often a pair of $10-$15 shoes from the dollar store, but those rarely - if ever - lasted the whole year. (Oh, and they still needed "regular shoes" for gym day/recess, too.) 1 full uniform? Easily $100-$125 for boys, $125-$150 for girls. 2 - While the schools did have spare uniforms for kids whose families were in various government assistance programs, it was first come, first serve...and the schools never even bothered to tell the parents! Kids from poorer families were constantly getting dress coded for not being in uniform, when their parents couldn't afford the uniform! 3 - Even families that COULD afford all the uniform bits and pieces could still usually only get 1 or 2 "full" outfits per kid. (We are in a middle class area, having 2-4 kids is normal). 4 - Exactly HOW did the school figure having to wash "play clothes" AND uniforms was saving us money? We now had to do TWICE the laundry! Including using twice the electricity, twice the water, and twice the laundry soap...never mind fabric softener...since - of course - the material used for the uniforms didn't allow for washing with regular old jeans and t-shirts/hoodies. WORST. RULE. EVER!
@@Bruce_P-Z Exactly! All of my kids have now graduated...but I'm still pissed about it. I mean, the clothes alone were expensive, add in a typical year of school supplies (paper, pens, pencils, notebooks, folders, etc.)? It was easily $300+ (getting just ONE "uniform" along with all of the other stuff needed) per child.
An actual example now: by the time I was in my last year of secondary school, our school was still instilling a very strict rule about disallowing students from bringing in electronics, unless they had a medical condition to allow them in. This was 2014 and the principle herself wouldn't bend this rule for us - a year level with the most students that year persuing visual arts class that needed access to computers both inside and outside of class - with the belief we couldn't be trusted with devices that have access to the internet to complete our work. All the while, she put a good chunk of the school funds into giving the year 7s that enrolled that year tablets that they were trusted to complete their homework on, and even allowed them access to their own wifi. That woman trusted uninterrupted screentime & unlimited internet access in the hands of prepubescent children still figuring out morals than she did to students that were legally adults in this point in their lives that were taking on advanced assignments for their final grades. That rule ended up being dropped after I graduated and all year levels were permitted to bring in laptops of tablets to work on.
I understand kids are crazy and need to be contained because of the fact that their minds are not developed, but I swear these rules are part of the reason kids resent authority. Also legally, at least in the United States, teachers need to know where every kid is at any given time so hall passes make sense. Edit: “American” schools are so strict? Man I live in America and my schools only had basic rules for dress code like “no super short shorts. No vulgar imagery.” Other than that it was normal stuff. Except for middle school. Fuck those staff.
My school has a rule where you have to put your phone in a bin and wait till the end of class to get and your parent would have to write an email to the school if you didn’t have phone
We have something similar at my school. We have to put our phones in these pockets on the back wall during class, with the tradeoff that we can use them any time that we aren’t in class.
my old high school had a rule a few years before I joined that girls had to wear a skin colour or white bra. If you got caught wearing a coloured bra you got detention I believe. My mum's friend constantly got caught violating this rule and eventually all the girls got together, took off their bras and made a pile in front of the school. A rule they had when i was there was no one could wear undershirts, at all. it was an Australian winter, 5 degrees, and we only really had biker jackets. I got yelled at for wearing a black thermal undershirt and got told I was a bad student. I've never been suspended and the only detention I ever got was not wearing my sports shirt for three days in a row
'skin coloured bra' first of all WHY DOES THAT EXIST...NEVER MIND THE PEDOS IN SCHOOLS, AIN' WE GON TALK ABOUT WHY SOMEONE THOUGHT 'i know LETS MAKE A BRA THAT MATCHES YOUR FUCKING SKIN'
This one is very mild A bunch of us played a YuGiOh game on the Nintendo DS. One day one kid wanted to play another. A refused so B decided to slam As face into a desk allegedly. The next day that YuGiOh game was banned from the school. Older me understands now wanting to avoid future conflicts, but Younger me was like "Couldnt you just ban the one kid who was stupid enough to go full WWE? Why do we all gotta suffer cause he's an idiot?"
well thats probably due to teacher frustration, they're only human and can handle so much annoying crap before they start losing their professional composure. (My senior year teacher in my emotional/add class threw out a troubling student, she said after his dad had to come and withdraw him.. "That kid was a pain in my ass." under her breath which I heard it lol. I replied "Me too, Mrs. doe, me too."
Due to some legal requirements, my old high school rule book had a rule stating that possession of a nuclear bomb was a 10 day suspension. In addition to whatever the FBI, CIA, ATF, etc. would do to you. In addition to this, mine did the closing bathroom thing. We looked up the geneva convention, and found that banning water technically violated the genva convention, and thus the school was technically commiting warcrimes. Speaking of warcrimes, during a lockdown drill the chemistry teacher told us to weaponize the chemicals in the closet on any terrorist that entered the building.
Fucking bullshit
God forbid students have hobbies :/
I can probably guess but what year was this?
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Why do people say BS like this. The Geneva Convention only applies during armed conflicts and occupations and only applies to active participants. It doesn't apply to schools and their teachers/administrators. Schools have a duty of care and that can be expressed by pointing to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and other common sense legal obligations without having to look at the damn Geneva Conventions like an idiot while thinking you have the school in a gotcha moment.
the one fight my son got in in school he was defending a special needs kid who was being picked on. Got a call from the teacher who saw it and, per her description, he "stepped in front of the kid, told the bully to stop, and when the bully responded by punching him in the face, he kicked the bully between the legs." Lucky for him, the principal at that school was great and he got in no trouble whatsoever under the self-defense policy that had "just gone into effect" - it wasn't supposed to be a thing for another two weeks and he should've been suspended for a minimum 3 days. Regardless of the school's take when he got home, my wife and I took him out for ice cream and his choice of dinner, the whole time reinforcing that he did the right thing by standing up for the defenseless: especially considering that once he stopped the bully from being aggressive, he also stopped entirely rather than pounding on the kid. Love my son so much.
W kid
The girl whom they forced to dye her hair is insane, like “you must modify yourself to conform” is so dystopian.
Has a friend that was suspended for a week when she showed up at school with a blonde streak in her hair. She was not allowed to return untill her hair was all a "Natural Colour." Her Mum took her to the seaside for the week!
Also had a dress code rule that your skirt must touch the floor when you kneeled. If it didn't, you had to go to the office there they sewed a strip of crepe paper on the hem and you had to wear it all day. Thankfully that was relaxed by my senior year.
@@francinetitherington4060 "your legs might be distracting, so we're going to tape this loud *crinklecrinklecrinkle* WHAAAAAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY?! SPEAK UP! I SAID WE'RE DOING THIS SO YOU DON'T CAUSE A *crinklecrinklecrinkle*"
Flawless
I dyed (bleached) my hair for the first time in 10th grade and my principal literally followed me halfway through the school to grab my shoulder and tell me to go to her office.
She sat me down to tell me that I can’t have my hair dyed blonde because it’s not “a natural color”. It IS a natural color, just not for my people. She told me I needed it “gone” by tomorrow.
Obviously I didn’t dye my hair back Black because it would have killed my hair and she eventually got over it. I was not the first person to have unnatural colors in my head, there were plenty of girls with Pink hair that never got pulled aside from what I can tell.
I heard some places actually do that in Japan. It's stupid cause Asians actually can have natural lighter hair like brown and red, I myself have family members with auburn hair (and I kinda wish I was one of them).
@@TheReelReesePodAsians can be naturally blonde, although it's astronomically rare. We can naturally have any natural colour, it's just black is very common not our only one. Melanesians can also be naturally blonde, and Sub-Saharan Africa has higher rates of albinism than elsewhere.
i got a detention once, for some asinine reason i cant even remember.
they put a desk in the office, had me sit at it ALL DAY, and told me i was not allowed to do ANYTHING.
not even school work, just sit in the chair. doing nothing. for an entire school day.
the receptionists felt bad for me, an adhd kid with autism, being forced to do that. they called it purgatory.
so like they made u do the ONE THING your brain cant do? (and most likely intentional) that has to be illegal SOMEWHERE (cause last i checked torture is literally illegal)
@@sparrowEP i didn't get my diagnosis until after i graduated, another failing of the system, but they HAD to have known
@@drakostheemeraldswordsman8691 they probably just didnt want to tell ya so they can do more dumb shit like this with no consequences
Talk about legal grounds for a lawsuit SHEESH
If That sh*t happened to me I’d say f*ck this and leave, consequences be damned
School staff: 'you have to have a doctors note to go pee more than 3 times a year'
The local doctor: 'I regret to inform you that, unlike yourself, student is in fact human and must be allowed access to the bathroom as needed.'
Sarcastic/passive aggressive doctor's notes MUST be more of a thing
@@raymondstandley8760 Due to legal Bureaucratic BS I had to get a Doctor to sign off on the fact that I _exist_ and he literally wrote in the report "He thinks, therefore, he is." Along with a bunch of other smarmy stuff that achieved the goal of saying I exist.
Also - massive OSHA violation.
Jgdalksabc
I would go regardless of doctors note or lack there of.
Its better to pee in the sink then sink in the pee.
My son's elementary school had a zero tolerance policy on bringing knives to school. My son was sent to juvenile (ARRESTED) for having a plastic knife in his backpack to cut up his apple. Yes, this was the plastic cutlery set that are given out from fast food restaurants...
well, did you bail him out? (Im european I dont know how juvie works)
@@aresthemighthimselfno that doesn’t happen I think. You are arrested for the “crime” in this case bringing a PLASTIC KNIFE TO CUT A APPLE and you wait then get sent out I think.
Idk I never will go to prison so.
Has to be against some law, false imprisonment ahh!
@@Thankedsphere99 idk
Sue now
Not my school, but my daughter's. School said that her asthma inhaler has to be locked up in the office of the school nurse -- who was only there 3 days a week. You can't breathe, kid? Sorry, the nurse isn't here until tomorrow.
Add to that, it was a big, spread-out school with several buildings. So they expected her to walk potentially several hundred yards (often in very high heat and humidity) while she was having trouble *breathing?*
Hell, no. We got her a doctor's note and she carried her inhaler in her bag.
My school had the same rule. They expected me to walk across the entire building while having an attack so bad I was seeing stars. Thankfully once I explained how stupid that was to the dean, they let me keep it in my backpack
I would have sued
@GiordanDiodato had the school said one single solitary word to her about it, there would have been hell to pay.
Why the heck would a nurse only be at the school 3 times a week?
@@corey5613 because the school district is too cheap to pay for a full-time school nurse for every school. So the nurse splits their time between two schools.
You’re definitely the best of these story creators. You actually take the time to read them yourself instead of using an AI voice, and you even give your input, unlike these lazy creators that just have an AI read the text and that’s the whole video
Personally, if my child got assaulted and the schools only reaction was to suspend them, I would be contacting a lawyer
My daughter's school wasn't *that* bad, but she did get suspended for "ganging up" because she was defending herself and a friend helped defend her.
There's video of the fight; this girl attacked my daughter in the hallway unprovoked, and my daughter used the minimal amount of force necessary to end the fight (just like I taught her), and because her BFF jumped in to defend her it was determined not to be self-defense. All three girls were suspended despite only ONE girl being the obvious aggressor.
It was later determined that this girl attacked my daughter because she was told my daughter was talking $#!t about her (she wasn't) by someone who *didn't like my daughter's boyfriend.* Some people's kids...
@Illusion517 Both of my daughters were assaulted at different times and in different ways. Both times the Juvenile Court got involved. #1 had her contact lens drops replaced with bleach. Fortunately another student was decent enough to warn her before she put them in her eyes. The girl was made to copy all the information on the label of the bleach bottle 25 times.
#2 went to the aid of a friend who was being physically assaulted. Friend's back was badly injured, requiring physical therapy. Daughter was knocked unconscious resulting in a minute or so of amnesia, and had her lip split. 25 years later, she still cannot remember being hit, only waking up on the floor. The school whined that they could only suspend him for 3 days, so we parents called the cops and filed joint charges. Kid got 60 days in Juvie. The judge didn't quite call him a liar, but she did say "I believe these girls. I don't believe you, young man."
I'm glad the only thing my school gives a fk about is getting the right pants and shirt.
@Illusion517 My school would have been like, "why didn't you just ignore them?"
too bad some people in backward countries can't afford them. hell not even middle class or well to do can get them because good lawyers are hella expensive and won't do anything cuz corruption ig? i'm bad at phrasing things
Once i had my copy of Fahrenheit 451 confiscated because it wasn’t approved.
Oh the irony.
Is Captain Beatty part of your administration? 😱
This is the definition of IRONY
Let me guess, Florida?
-signed from Georgia, where we wouldn’t do such a stupid thing… _yet_
@@DiamondKingStudios living in Florida is a skill issue (/j)
@@NaveeSeal That’s why my grandparents decided to retire in South Carolina instead.
It’s only somewhat better. The area between Savannah and Charleston is still horribly sprawled with hardly any center of population and hundreds of thousands of dispersed residents and their lawns that swamps were drained to keep green.
You know, for an institution that's supposed to help kids develop their brains so they can live a better life, the faculty seems awfully content to not use theirs.
That's cuz they don't have any. I swear, the majority of random people could make a school, run a school, or work at a school, better than 95% of the braindead morons that do it already, and those are the random people those braindead morons taught. Can't help that half of the teachers are depressed 90 year olds that just want to retire and the other half don't know how to open a PDF.
FR
According to John D. Rockefeller, you know, the guy that literally invented the entire public school system in place today, the point of said institution is the exact opposite of what you just stated. He said, and I quote; "I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers". He didn't want kids to prepare for the future, he wanted to train them to be working slaves.
It's about teaching obedience and conformity
@@JadedDragon662 and thats why it sucks
I heard once of a school confiscating a friend's laptop.. and getting sued for grand theft... it was a braille screen laptop for a blind kid, and the school broke it. It was brand new, and they'd only just started getting rolled out in the country. He was approved for blind aid tools, and this laptop had all several of his school books that did not have a physical braille version loaded.
i’m also completely blind, so I can chime in on this one. First of all, that school that committed Grandtheft should be closed down permanently. Those braille note taker’s cost around 6 to 10 grand apiece. Second, about the whole zero tolerance policy thing, I went to two different schools for the blind in two different states. Being 100% respectful and having zero tolerance policies for everything was pretty much the way it went. I wanted to be a teacher so I could enforce those sort of rules, but teachers at both of those schools even thought I was harsh despite the fact that they were the ones that made the rules.
This was America, tell me, please, as an American i know that this had to be in America because of how stupid this was.
@@djhorn5769how did you type this, watch the video, read that dude's comment, while being totally blind?
@@TubsOnWheels101 sadly not in America.
@@TubsOnWheels101 They can probably hear the video, had an app to read out text such as the comments, and also voice to text exists. Probably there's even more apps for blind people so they can use their phones, hell, someone might've just typed it out for them even.
My old middle school banned drawing stuff in class because there was this kid who was special needs but got zero tolerance because he kept making a series of drawings about threatening to take over the school with "fart bombs"
Did he call himself Silent but Deadly?
I heard that
😂@@Gyropathic
@@GiordanDiodatono you didn't.
@@Thankedsphere99 no I've heard that story from Reddit.
About why nurses seem to be talked about more in these threads, I dont have a conclusive answer, but from my own experience I noticed that alot of school nurses are basically the dregs of the medical industry.
I worked as a janitor for many schools and i can confidently say, with proof, that 40% of the nurses were hired purely because no one else applied and schools are legally required to have one.
I feel so lucky to have competent nurse.
My school nurse became the religion teacher because I guess my school thought having 800 students ages 1-18 made it too small to need a full salaried medical staff.
She ended up being the second worst religion teacher I remember from that school. I liked that class when they had good teachers, but the last one left because they don’t pay teachers well at all there.
@@Deleted_CatSame
Zero tolerance *HAS TO BE* the dumbest rule of all!
My school did away with that and you know what happened only the people who started the fights got in trouble and not the person defending themselves
Yep all it taught me was that I have to seriously harm my fellow students in a fight as a posed to just protecting my self.
A kid hit me, I pushed him, and then they started punching me so bad I had to be checked out for a broken nose. Both of us got 3 days suspension. Worst part? Had I hit them instead of pushing them, THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A MORE SEVERE PUNISHMENT. My school not only had it so that you both got in trouble for fighting, but that your punishment was determined by how severe the other person’s actions were.
It's unrealistic, unreasonable, and unfair.
Because it was never properly enforced.
My elementary school had a rule where if you talked at all during lunch everyone in your grade would have to stand by a wall during recess, until one genius thought of the idea that if everyone’s just talking then the school would stop enforcing that rule, which actually worked
Actually, someone has died from a rule like that. Ryan Gibbons died from an asthma attack when he couldn't come inside from recess and get his inhaler fast enough because he was forced to keep it locked in the office. He apparently tried to carry a few on his person, but they were all confiscated. I was terrified this would happen to me if they took my inhaler, so I always hid it in my backpack and only took it in the locker rooms or in a bathroom stall if I needed it.
@@frosted_glaceon5513 he was Canadian? That's a wrongful death lawsuit in the US.
There are anywhere from 100's to 1,000's of child deaths at schools over stupid stuff like this but the big coverup was in place.
I had to do the same things. No carrying of any sort of medication on you, even in highschool. I always had a little Altoids tin that had some ibuprofen, one extra of each of my morning meds (ADHD and such, admittedly it makes sense I wouldn't be able to carry those) and Tylenol also an inhaler, chapstick, etc
I was always super prepared for everything, and I still try to be that way. I had everything in that bag from snacks and gum to first aid, to condoms and dental dams, to like every school supply you could ever need during the day (3 hole punch included). I carried a hiking backpack 😅
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That’s how it was for me too. My mom told me that I had to pretend I didn’t have my inhaler at all and only take it out if I absolutely needed it, because the school even said that they would take it if they saw it.
Its so stupid.
He should have just gone in, would you rather die or get detention
My school has Zero Tolerance when it comes to- get this- MENTAL HEALTH! If any of the faculty caught wind of a student with any suicidal thoughts, they would get outright expelled. This happened to my older sister her freshman year of high school. It is super hard for her to apply for a college due to the 3 month gap in her school record between schools.
It also happened to a friend of a friend two years ago, as well as it almost happening to me once when I was put into an institution after getting extremely close to… y’know… attempting.
Meanwhile a Senior who was arrested for sexually assaulting a 10 year old boy got off with a slap on the wrist and not even jail time
Wow, this video really highlights how out-of-touch some school administrations can be. The rule about closing all bathrooms for a week is especially ridiculous-how did they expect students to manage? It's a great reminder that we need to question and challenge illogical rules.
Better yet, there should be one national code for school rules that ~~petty little dictators~~ school officials are not allowed to change, modify, or selectively enforce.
None of these are bad lol y’all are so soft
@@UnderEmbers there is one correct response to having the bathroom withheld: prove that you can only be stopped from accessing the bathroom, not from relieving yourself. preferably on the person responsible of lack of access.
My School also had the rule to Suspend everyone involved in a Fight regardless of if they were the Instigator or the Victim...
They Suspended a kid that was viciously Bullied (and his Bully) because the Bully punched him...the Victims Father was one of the Provinces NASTIEST Civil Lawyer and Sued the Unholy Howling HELL out of the School, School Administration and School Board for Suspending the VICTIM of an Assault instead of calling the Police to report the Assaulting a Minor...he also called CPS and the Police on the School for failing to stop the high number of fights that happened...
The Principal who created the No Tolerance Policy was forced to Retire (15 years early) and Permanently Barred from holding ANY position of Authority in ANY School in Canada...I don't know how much money he was awarded by the Court but it was a bundle...
He dropped this 👑
Not a big fan of lawyers usually, but this one has my respect!
DOUBLE YOU LAWYER 🔥🔥🔥
@@Deleted_Cat More like 'He dropped this 🔱', he's a Lawyer remember, all his Friends are in Low and Infernal Places...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
This was good, but I feel like the punishment was too harsh...
The Principal literally had his entire life destroyed.
I will never understand how it is legal in America to require a hallpass to go to the toilet or revoking rights to use the bathroom because in any sane country (sorry america) that is seen as against human rights for natural bodily functions and can be dangerous to hold in as well
Straight up, I know people who have soaked chairs in kindergarten because they weren't allowed to leave for the restroom. These really strict rules undoubtedly have untold stores of trauma they've inflicted in kids, I'm sure.
There was this one guy, don’t exactly remember when, a few centuries ago, who died, because he wasn’t allowed to leave the room during a bankett with the king. His bladder ruptured and he died. Some school really try to recreate that.
@@lijuanzhou6971Tycho Brahe is the first person to come to mind.
Remember that the US voted no to making food a human right in a UN vote in 2021
Because children don't have rights in this country. Serious.
"No eating in class"
Meanwhile...
The teacher having a whole 5-star meal and we can't even have a crumb💀💀
not in the US lol
@@GiordanDiodato it is in the us, my school has the same thing
In middle school, bandanas were banned because they were “gang affiliated.” One poor new girl had a cold & was using an old bandana as a handkerchief. The assistant principal yelled at her in the hall over it, making her cry.
why do schools associate hats and shirts with gangs
Puny Americans, get on our level.
@@The_Random_Drawing shut up.
Could have used a COVID-19 mask for that or the principal could have thought it was a custom homemade mask.
@@The_Random_Drawing ok europoor
"No bending paperclips."
I made a book carrier entirely from paperclips. It wrapped around the books, connected into a square at the bottom and top (for rigidity), and had a handle on two sides for easy carrying. Getting the books was as simple as unhooking the paperclips on one end. It definitely infuriated every admin who saw it; they'd stare daggers at me as I walked down the hallway.
Oh, I forgot the "after-school electives are required" rule. Yes, you _had_ to take at least one after-school elective. Shut that one out of my brain because it was so stupid.
@@Mavendowbut there fucking electives and after school hours
Imitate, innovate, improvise!
"No retaliation" Basically, you were told not to fight back if someone assaulted you. The whole "two wrongs don't make a right" bs and half the time the one who struck back in defense was usually punished harder than the one who started it.
What that tells me is, if someone attacks you, fight back harder because you're going to get in trouble either way and you may as well send a message to anyone else who might attack you.
When I taught in a middle school they had that awful rule so any time I caught a kid being bullied I would immediately put a stop to it and 100% go to bat for the victim, even if they fought back. I was bullied all growing up with no one standing up for me so I'm not about to let that slide, from kids or admin.
Definitely, i was one of those kids who were tormented and *I* got the punishment when i had enough and decided to deal with the issue the school staff were purposely ignorant of.
That stuff was implemented right after I got out of school. Geez... I remember once I slammed a kid's head in a locker, because he decided to jump on me and start trying to physically harm me, so I threw him off me and he got shoved into the locker so I thought shutting the door on him would help end things... anyway whatever I was doing it was because I was being ATTACKED, so I kind of don't care what happens to my attacker, I'm just going to try to end the attack.
I actually kind of deserved it because I was messing with the guy, but what I was doing was in no way violent. I don't have any complaint about him turning around and swinging on me actually. I mean I didn't LIKE it but it was understandable.
What was crazy was that the next day I was pulled out of class to go talk to the principal, and that guy that swung at me was in the office with his dad, who was raising hell with the principal about getting me kicked out of school for "beating up" his son. I didn't even punch the guy, I just kind of restrained him, wrestled him around and shoved him off me, then hit him with the locker door, which is a big light piece of metal, and while it probably doesn't feel the greatest it's got to be less painful than a punch.
Anyway, to get to the point... the principal asked who started the fight, and the other kid said "well I did but anonamatron..." "ok, so YOU started the fight" "yeah but he.." "so YOU started the fight. So YOU will be suspended for three days, anonamatron, go back to class and don't bother people anymore please." Oh man the face of that kid's dad.. that dad was pissed off.
But really, I agree with the school. I did some stupid shit but I wasn't being violent or fighting. I think I deserved a detention or something, but the school policy was that if you start the fight, you're the one in trouble.
It's not violence to use force to defend yourself.
Another time I was in a bar at a rock concert and these three big tall bully guys were shoving everyone into the mosh pit. I like the pit but I wasn't in the mood to get in at the moment, and these guys shoved me in. I took a step back and resumed watching the show. They shoved me in again. I turn around and scream "what the fuck is your problem?" and shove one of them back. I can feel this was a big mistake because these guys are all like half a foot taller than me and there are three of them. I'm there with a friend, but he's elsewhere in the crowd. I'm not going to be bullied though, so I don't back down. Just as they're about to descend on me the bouncers strike, and drag all of them out of there. They thanked me for getting them to start a fight (I mean I'm the one that shoved them back and there was nothing more than posturing after that, but I guess they could see the fight brewing) so they had a reason to throw them out. After the show they were still laying on the sidewalk...
If I was in school with three guys cornering me and I got in trouble for "fighting"...? Geez... ridiculous. The real world punishes the aggressor.
That’s the thing, the whole “ignore and they will stop” is also total bull. If your ignore they will either 1. Keep doing stuff and doing worse until they get a reaction or 2. Take advantage of the fact that you will sit there and take disrespect
"Hell, if we're all gonna get suspended just for being here anyway, might as well join in on the action"
Oh, this video unlocked some of my core memories…
In elementary school, in the later years I sat on the upper floor, meaning we had to all use one staircase to go down to recess. We’d have to wait at the top of this staircase for about a minute every time so the teacher could check they weren’t missing anyone. Not that much of a problem, as only one or two classes would have recess at the same time. The problem came that there were classrooms next to that staircase, and apperantly there were complaints about noise while kids were going down to recess, because we were kids going down to recess, obviously we weren’t church mouses.
Then the school decided to ban ALL TALKING while going to recess. If you thought this wouldn’t work because we were young kids, you’d be correct! The stupidest part of this rule is that while all teachers enforced it, they only did so on the other classes. If you got caught talking by your own teacher, you’d get a stern look. If another teacher caught you, you’d be missing 5 minutes if your recess.
I remember a girl bumping into me while we were waiting, saying sorry really softly, and I whispered: it’s fine. We both had to wait on our recess, and we also had to stand apart, otherwise “it wasn’t a punishment”.
That school also had some weird rules around healthy eating. In my country, it’s normal to bring in food on your birthday to celebrate with your class, usually a thin slice of cake, some popcorn, etc. The school decided that you could only bring in unhealthy treats if you’d asked your teacher for permission, but every kid just asked for permission and nothing changed, because I don’t think the teachers had any ground to say no on. In the last year, they also got lots of new rules about what kind of food you could bring in for lunch as part of a health program, but the rules were so strict my mother actually said: “this is how kids develop anorexia.” There were so many complaints apperantly, that the school backpedalled the very next day.
Having to bring in unhealthy treats is insane bro
Getting punished for having manners by saying sorry and it’s fine is crazy too I swear some schools are crazy
Damn...Some of these schools wouldn't last a day where I live. Parents would complain way too much about the stupid rules.
Where I lived, the administrators were already professionals at ignoring parents who tried to raise hell because they would do it for a bunch of really stupid reasons as well.
9th grade, they banned hats in classrooms. The reason stated was "they could be used to conceal weapons or drugs." However, backpacks were still completely unrestricted. Brilliant.
what they expect: i have gun and drug in hat
reality: i have in backpack
My school technically had the same rule, though part of the rule was because the teacher couldn't see your face to tell if you were paying attention, but it wasn't strictly enforced. Like some teachers would tell you to take off the hat, and others couldn't care less as long as it wasnt a distraction. I always would stash my hat in my bag
Idek how in the world they expect you to hide a weapon in your hat. That’s complete bullshit. That’s like saying I can’t use my pockets cause I could be concealing an AK-47 in there
The only gun you can easily hide with a hat is a tiny cheap single shot airsoft pistol weaker than throwing a pebble.
As someone who used to attend school in Australia, where hats are necessary for kids to wear due to high skin cancer rates, that's just so bloody asinine.
My high school had two rules I remember. 1) no band tees. 2) girls HAD TO wear short shorts for gym. Those things barely cover your backside. I refused to wear them. I refuse any shorts at all, and would only wear sweatpants. The school tried to give me after school detention. I was a bus student and lived 13 miles from the town the school was in. My father was livid that they forced me to miss the bus. He was even more livid when he heard why I was forced to miss it. He threatened legal action against the school for trying to force me into shorts. He even went as far as to call the teachers and principal "perverts who like looking at children". I got to wear my sweatpants!! He also insisted that I wear band tees to annoy them.
Dad for the win
@@nelsondawson9706 Well yes and no. He did do good some times but he also caused a lot of trouble for our family. He was a big part of the reason I was tormented by my classmates throughout my entire time in school. While he was ''protecting" me in a way he was actually trying to keep me from building any bonds outside our family unit. There were some suspicions about his motives throughout our small town.
I'm glad my school doesn't have so many shitty bureaucracy, you can bring most sportswear as long as it has the school approved colors (and even themselves sell them)
Sexiest schools...
At my school, we were required to stand and recite the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance, and we had to make a prayer to god EVERY DAY. This took about ten minutes out of my second period class each day, which would always cause us to have to do a lot of make up work by the end of the year, because we basically had to lose and entire period of time each week. My math teacher absolutely DISPISED this rule, and for good reason, he would teach during the time we were supposed to be doing the whole deal, leading to us actually having a year where we didn't have to speed through a bunch of lessons at the end of the year. Because he was a teacher for all grades at the high school, i was excited to see him next year for math class, but when i showed up to his classroom on the first day of junior year, there was a different teacher. THE SCHOOL HAD LITERALLY FIRED HIM BECAUSE HE WANTED TO ACTUALLY DO HIS JOB.
lemme guess, school in the southern US?
@@GiordanDiodato Just an evangelical religion-based school anywhere. Los Angeles in this regard would be no different from Chattanooga.
Good school u get to pray that’s good
@Samopps No the fuck it's not
@@Samopps You get to pray in public schools, too. The difference is that you are not forced to put on a semblance of praying or risk expulsion.
As a parent who has a daughter with asthma I would give the school hell if they did not allow her to have her inhaler on her. Not only would I tell her to keep it on her anyways, I would have her doctor write her a note explaining why they are stupid and if they did try and take it away I’d file a police report for child endangerment. You don’t play chicken with asthma.
I went to a rather... peculiar private school during grades 5-9.
The school was kindergarden through 9th grade, a total of 86 students. No homework assignments allowed in any grade. We had one mandatory "nature day" a week. All teachers had to be certified in "Non-violent communication".
The school was a "parent owned collective", meaning all parents owned a small part of the school.
But the strangest rule though was that lunch (this was in sweden, so free lunch for everyone) was home cooked vegetarian food only.
Not all children in the school were vegetarians, so eventually some of us older kids got frustrated that we never got to eat meat, so we started collecting signatures to petition for *one* day of getting a meat option per week.
The result became a funny compromise because the older students who started the petition had to start taking "home skills" class as part of the mandatory Swedish curriculum at the time anyway, and what better way to do that than to literally have these 13-14 year olds cook for the entire school once a week and if they decided they wanted to add a meat option for that day they were free to do so under the condition that there still would be a vegetarian option as well.
It turned out to work surprisingly well, and all parties were fairly pleased with the compromise.
I love this! How did you practice skills without homework though? Esp math and foreign language
@khazanys easy enough, they dedicated time in the school day to study and practice under teacher guidance.
the reasoning for no home work is that we generally don't expect adults to "bring work home". Human brains can only really concentrate so much and children, just as adults, should be entitled to their free time to recover from the day.
and if you wanted to practice stuff at home during this free time you were free to do so, but it was not mandated by the school.
@@khazanysStudies show that homework doesn't actually help if the school has dedicated practice time during class.
Lol I love how schools give you homework, oblivious to the fact that HOMEWORK WAS LITERALLY MADE AS A PUNISHMENT
Basically home school, but not actually home school.
For story 32: I've had a crappy nurse before. I suffer from chronic migraines. I've had *multiple* nurses deny me ibuprofen or tylenol because i was faking it, or I just wanted to get out of my class. I didn't i was in pain. This one in my middle school said she wouldn't give me pain medication anymore for my *chronic* migraines.
My school also had the, "If you get punched in the face you will be suspended for being in a fight," rule.
Basically: "Okay, let's put the bully and the kid he's bullying in the same detention room during recess; that'll solve the problem."
My school was worse. As someone who's been bullied, sometimes it'd be ONLY ME in detention for being on the RECEIVING end of the bullying. Their idea was that the victim should "just ignore them", and that if I didn't, I'd get in trouble for "retaliating".
I'm a grown man now, and still trying to unlearn that all that bullying was my fault.
@@ngarcia103so basically by that logic you could have walked up to said bully and punch them and they couldn’t retaliate without being suspended
In my old middle school (and high school), if you were basically punched in the face, you were sent to what they called an "alternate education campus", which was basically just a small building on the other side of town where every time you entered the building, they would use a metal detector on you to make sure you weren't concealing any weapons.
I mainly know this because I got sent there once for getting punched in the face
@@mayoraeryn NGL that sounds like school prison. But we had metal detectors for the whole school so idk.
@@ngarcia103 oh, yeah. i've had similar experiences. I don't remember why I got in so many detentions or the alternative in-school-suspensions during my later years of high school. None of my bullies physically assaulted me, but they did constantly provoke me into displaying even a little bit of anger. I am autistic, evidently, and I think I was taught to repress my rage at some point in my life. Anywho, there was one moment in my life according to my dad where I was suspended. Not for being a victim or retaliating, but basically channeling Captain America without knowing it. According to him, I was in a line along with other classmates one day and I saw a bigger kid bullying a younger kid. So, I simply walked over to him and gave a swift punch to the gut which instantly knocked the gut to the ground. Then I returned to my place in line as if nothing happened. I was rewarded with ice cream by my dad while my mom was furious at what I did. I really wish the "heroic" me still existed, because I hate the me that stays uninvolved with anything unless it personally provokes me. I honestly feel like a coward these days, because I never follow up with my warnings. The saying of "their bark is worse than their bite?" Well, that very much applies to the current me.
Story 79 makes me pretty mad. I knew some of the special ed kids in my high school, and for the most part, they were some of the nicest, most tolerant people in the school. I got along with some of them better than I did the others. Plus, they deserve to be able to have friends too.
We had a no tolerance policy for bullying in my high school. The student body would literally shun the bullies
We do too but they never actually stop you from being bullied
in that case, if the consequence is the same, why not make it worthwhile?
Did it work?
In my school they also had a “zero bullying policy” but the people in the office bullied the teachers
@@acanadian4785 my school was kinda like that, but it was also common for 5-6 people to gang up on a bully if it came to a fight. A student from another school at a football game once tried to fight a scrawny asthmatic kid, and somehow ended up getting beaten by several of the band kids
I didn’t even think about it, but my middle school sucked
1: You couldn’t start eating and talking unless everyone was completely quiet, and no talking during the last 10 minutes of lunch
2: Boys were not allowed to have jewelry, or any other “feminine clothing”
3: You must wear a belt. You must tuck in your shirt
4: You get 2 minutes to go to the bathroom
5: If you refused to comply, office staff would forcibly *drag and carry you* to the office. This happened to me way too many times
I was a teacher, I’m sure some of my old students would have things to add to these stories - but on the nurse line. I sent a student to first aid, she had a fever (which was the first indicator for a bad flu that was going around) she was feeling really unwell and wanted to go home. After about 30 mins, she came back to my class, told me she had been put in the first aid room and didn’t see anyone after that, so she came back. I let her sleep on the floor in my jacket at the back of the class. An HOUR later, I got an email from the nurse to tell me that my student had left first aid, and told me that I shouldn’t be diagnosing students (I just said she might have a fever). I told her that I knew the student had left as she had been in my class, and saying that she may have a fever wasn’t a diagnosis, it was an observation.
She didn’t like me because I criticised the fact that no one at the school, including her, were qualified to run a school first aid room. It forced the school into sending her for further training. Too bad she never seemed to use it. I had students (especially the boys) ask to not go to first aid, that they just wanted to let me know that they weren’t feeling well
how did she get that job
@@GiordanDiodatoikr how did the nurse get that.
@@GiordanDiodato5e school probably hired the first applicant they saw because they are legally required to have one.
If that was my school they would've just given me an ice pack.
@@Thankedsphere99 or salt water in a cup
0:50 all the zero tolerance policy teaches kids is that if someone is hitting you, you go down on them right back. If you're gonna get suspended for it, at least make it worth your while
whats next? "people in gangs breathe so if u breathe thats gang affiliation you get detention"?
Don’t give them ideas!!!
And a quick Google shows just about all standard colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, white, and grey) being affiliated with different gangs. There are more than just the red 'bloods' and blue 'crips'.
That would probably not happen because that would make the teachers part of a gang
@@129140163 aaaaand shit just saw a school somewhere in asia just did that
real
People in gangs are alive, so if you are alive that's gang affiliation.
The no boys and girls sitting next to one another. A pair of siblings should have kept doing that to get the parents involved. That way the school has to explain why a brother and sister can't sit together.
Wow lol. I’m in eighth grade and if my future high school has that, me and my twin sister could do that lol. I doubt my future high school would have that kind of rule though.
Good idea... Though it wouldn't work in Alabama.
@@MeepChangelinglol
That's disgusting and harmful. That school needs legal action
My past school banned paper and pencils in the cafeteria. Not because of vandalism but because "people kept leaving them in the cafeteria!"
I was like 1 of 3 people who even brought paper and pencil to lunch
I hated that school.
Dumbest rule my HS had was zero tolerance for fighting, so stupid a kid was expelled after getting jumped by 6 guys and spending 2 weeks in the hospital. His parents sued and won and the zero tolerance rule was quickly and quietly changed.
With all the stories of evil/incompetent school nurses, I'm glad my private middle school was next to a health clinic, negating the need for a nurse.
i love your pfp
@@totallynotpakka thanks!
@@totallynotpakkaCan't help but Luke at it!
@@oliverer3SAAAAANS! YOU AND YOUR PUNS! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE - Papyrus, probably
I actually went to a Catholic secondary school when I was younger. They didn't force us to pray, we just had to sit in silence while the religious people prayed. All we had to do was be respectful. We were allowed to use our phones after the bell went at the end of the day (as long as we weren't in the classroom.)
Thank you for a report that was not based in malice. It sounds as though you were reasonably respectful and that you don't spend your adult years raging. Cheers.
PS - I'm sorry your post got largely ignored. This topic seems to be a magnet for people who want a fight. That may have been why they kept running afoul of all their authority figures too.
@@intercat4907I agree, as long as they don’t MAKE you pray it shouldn’t be a thing where you should be mad
9:32 Period Appropriate Paints? You mean LEAD paint? heck if old enough, Arsenic paint.
I thought we banned LEAD paint from being used for any reason...
This was my first thought as well, mainly lead.
The government banned lead paint for use in 1978. I don’t know what the rule is for historic buildings, but I don’t think it’s much different.
@@thekarlkeeper8727 turns out, yes if a building is deemed historic lead paint may be used or even required
www.hud.gov/sites/documents/lbph-20.pdf
They are more referring to the colors, lead and arsenic paints aren’t even made anymore let alone sold or legal.
Its called making the kids dumber so that they listen more to the shit you are forcefeeding them everyday.
Okay, Story 31. That. Is. Fucking. Illegal. Not allowing a person to access basic necessities is considered a crime and torture. Doing that to a minor would add child endangerment onto that charge and that would go out to the whole staff for being accomplices to torture and child abuse, technically. Oh yeah, torture and child abuse (if it really was that bad at your school) could be added as well if the staff was that unlucky. Unfortunately, charges cannot be pressed anymore but that is definitely something
5:00 plot twist: they’re siblings/cousins/related
Screw you, school! Lemme sit with my brother so I can kick his ass in Mario Kart!
The school are paranoid of Inbreeding.
My elementary school basically said that when if someone is being bullied, the onus is on the victim to "just ignore it", otherwise the victim would be in trouble for retaliating, while the bully got nothing.
I got in trouble WAY too often for being on the receiving end of such bullying.
That is so dumb, did you switch schools or atleast tell your mom about it?
Do schools WANT us to be depressed and insecure and weak now?
Thank God I'm in a school which is against bullying and "respects all"*
That is insane in my school I think everyone has a lesson on a specific day and my school even created this thing to recognize bullying and then to stop it
Worst rule my school enforced? No tank tops or shorts above the knee.
For context, I was living in the Mohave Desert in BFArizona, where it was normal to be 90-110* F for the the majority of the year. From 6th grade up I had to live in that hell hole, it was torture. Also, the “no tank tops” rule wasn’t applied to the boys. I guess an exposed female shoulder or kneecap was too distracting for the boys. That was 20 years ago, and now my child is about to enter 6th grade. We were recently given a “dress code” for next year and, despite being in a completely different-predominantly liberal-state, the rules are still more or less the same.
Note, these are US public schools with no required uniforms. I had hoped by now they would be teaching the boys impulse control and stop blaming their bad behavior and grades on “girls distracting them”. Pathetic.
Edit to add, we weren’t allowed to wear sandals or flip-flops either. They also had some issue with hats and bandannas, so no one was allowed protection from the blinding Arizona sun. Not entirely sure what they had up their asses, but I’m fairly certain the “no tank tops or shorts” rules were only enforced because the teachers were pervs, and the bullshit reasons that “exposed girl shoulders and kneecaps were somehow distracting the boys” was purely an excuse they used to not provoke the male teachers. Either way, I hate that the rules were only enforced for the girls. When it’s 90+ degrees and the school is more concerned with the “distractions” of boys, despite it being at the detriment to the comfort of girls, it a major issue. It says a lot about the lack of progress towards equality in the US. As a female student it pissed me off that I had to suffer through running a mile and other P.E. outside because normal exercise clothes might tempt a boy to act out. As an adult it pisses me off more when you factor in the insulting implications that all the boys were simply too stupid and primitive to handle the “irresistible urges brought on by exposed shoulders”.
Yep. My assistant principal had a habbit of coming up and touching the girls on the shoulder to "see how wide our sleeves were". He was a perv.
My high school was reasonable compared to the hellhole some of these stories depict. The only bullshit about the otherwise relaxed dress code was shorts needed to be authorized after winter. It was ok in march with summer temperatures, but september/october arrives with temps almost as high during the afternoon, and you were forced into long trousers. That's in a city full of concrete that's also next to a river, where the sun is outright lethal. Humid weather, a really strong sun, and long trousers don't go well together.
It's the only thing that actually annoyed me about the derss code though. It was otherwise fine and I could follow it effortlessly. Just black or blue bottoms and a plain white or school designated T-shirt. The school T-shirts were dropped eventually, but it was still fine to wear them if you had them like I did. If you went with the plain white T-shirt, there was a place that sold the school's logo so you could stick it into your T-shirt.
If you wore a skirt, you had to wear shorts below, but I think that makes sense anyways, besides, skirts weren't that popular in the first place, myself only seeing a few girls wearing them. Still, not being allowed to wear shorts when the heat went back up in summer. That's plain stupid if you ask me. And no, I was not gonna wear a skirt. They have no tactical advantage whatsoever, which is something I always disliked about a lot of clothing personally, especially skirts, skinny jeans, and short shorts, like only covering half of your thighs.
My choice for a while was cargo trousers for winter, and cargo or oversized denim shorts when I could, and it still is, despite not being in high school anymore. Cargo pants have the mobility, cold resistance, and durabilitybfor any situation. All I know is that, if the world is ending, and I need to run at full speed, my clothes won't be a problem for that, unlike crappy skinny jeans, which would never allow me to unleash the full power of my spine breaking thighs.
Even then, despite how relaxed the dress code was, most didn't care, and the only one that actually followed it to the letter was me (afaik at least), which kinda made me into a model student alongside my scores. If you know me, you know who I was.
Makes me wonder are these rules for the children or the adults sake
@@xTrivago911xSpine breaking thighs! 😂❤
@@Sarah-gm9tq honestly, after all I’ve learned and seen throughout the past couple decades, I’ve sort of come to the same question, and, personally I find it a super tangible theory. Given the staggering amount of publicized “relationships” (aka statutory/unfair power dynamics) between teachers and their students, it makes more sense than entire schools full of teenage boys who get so horned up over girl shoulders that they turn in to brainless animals with no self control or ability to do their lessons and assignments.
I find it highly offensive towards all genders. Basically, girls are forced to have their clothing policed, teaching them that their comfort (and therefore their *own* ability to get the best education) doesn’t matter at all, because they’re not boys. And apparently society has decided that boys are so utterly stupid and incapable of self control that schools have deemed them all potential rapists if they catch a glimpse of a girl shoulder?!?! Either way, it’s not a good look.
Years ago my daughters school sent a newsletter to all the parents. It said they were going to send anyone home if they came to school wearing any gang colors. Parents would be called, etc..
So I compiled a list of all gang colors in North America. Not so surprisingly, it covers just about every color and color combination you can imagine - including black, white, grey, and even clear (see through).
I sent this list to the principal, the superintendent, and all members of the school board with a note that I 100% fully support their policy and expect them to enforce it for ALL gang colors.
Not to my surprise at all, the policy had been abandoned before the first day of school began.
Haha! That's crazy! You presented them the full-scale of what they were about to implement!
no clothes because gang members wear clothes
We had the first female football player in the history of our high school get expelled a semester and a half in for bringing a full water bottle of vodka. She got called to the office cause the SRO heard about it and because I tutored her in two classes she gave the bottle to me, I very quickly threw it away. We also had drug dogs search the school either weekly or biweekly.
I had a principal in my highschool saying that "recess time is useless and a waste of time, if you students really wanted it, I'm gonna add up every 10 minutes you waste everyday, so that at the end of the year, we'll add a couple of full days"
Mind you, this was not in the US, but in Italy where school function in a much different way from the US. The students stay in the same classroom all day (except for PE and laboratories) and the teachers are the ones that change classrooms every 1, 2 or 3 hours. You also get to choose a specific course, and in mine every school day lasted 6 hours. All the other courses instead had 2 days of 6 hours and 3 days of 7 hours (from 8am to 3 pm). Students always debated if it was better to have 2 recess times (one from 10:10 to 10:20 and one from 1:10 to 1:20), in which my course was excluded from the second, or just 1 that lasted 20 min (from 11:05 to 11:25) for everyone. During recess, students were free to roam the school so that we could use the bathrooms and the vending machines for snacks. We don't have a school cafeteria or even just lunch in general. At best, for a couple of years, our school let a nearby pizzeria's staff to enter the school during recess so that they could sell us pizza slices. The principal i was talking about at the start basically abolished everything. She kicked out the pizza, decided we should have 1 recess that lasted 10 min and no free roaming, only one student per class at a time with a specific ticket that gave you the permit.
Thank God that was my last year and now it seems everything kinda changed back because of protests but idk the details afterwards.
I'm not American it's interesting that in America the rules seem to be dictated by the school or some school board, while here in Europe each teacher has their rules they make. And also we have no concept of "passing period" or lockers, we always carry our books with us, and also "dress codes" are crazy, the entire concept of a dress code is crazy to me
Schools hate bags because you might have a weapon. That’s why most places force you to have a clear or mesh backpack. It’s dumb how far they’ll go though.
Mine told me to split my 50 pound book load over two backpacks and carry them both on my back one atop the other. How is that going to fix their problem of assigning 50 pounds of books to a 4th grader? The books were in braille, for clarification. Also, they were trying to avoid allowing me a rolling suitcase for a backpack because then all the other kids would use one and "That's not fair".
They could just check the bags...
@@KayPrescesky how tf is using a rolling backpack unfair in the first place?!
My old school forced the kids to walk with their hands behind their backs... at all times
Prison?
49:50 Not allergic to smells, but strong smells bother me, really bad.
A perfume in a closed up car ride because it's winter and we need the heat and can't open the windows? I get nauseous.
Same for cologne and car fresheners...
My school(s) learned pretty quickly to take situations dealing with myself and my siblings seriously when they otherwise would brush it off (I’m talking about bullying and not fully following a 504 plan). It’s one of the few times my mom’s Karen tendencies came in handy.
If I remember right, my little sister had one teacher that was being inconsiderate and unhelpful after my little sister was in the hospital again. My little sister was/is a damn good student, hard worker and does well in classes. Teacher wouldn’t give any extensions despite there being a medical note. Administration and that teacher did not have a good day when my mom went to the office about that…
As long as they keep them under control, parents with Karen tendencies are very very good parents
I an atheist, experimented with religion in high school and decided to practice wiccan for a while as it was more worshiping and looking after the earth rather than a specific deity (from what I read, please don't come for me). The RE teacher was Catholic and once went on a tangent about how wicca was fake and disgusting as it worshipped witchcraft. My class, who knew I was practicing, turned to me then told off the teacher. It made me back off religion as a whole. This was in the UK. The teacher was later bullied by almost the whole school when a fb group was discovered of kids talking crap out of her and wanted her sacked. Not because of me but she hated almost all religions other than her own and was generally nasty to everyone. She also had a weird obsession with dolphins.
Dolphins are notoriously sadistic
What is fb
@@Thankedsphere99 most likely FaceBook
@@lazyryan3766 ty
@@Thankedsphere99 fakecillan book
My middle school had one absolutely moronic rule that I single handedly got changed. We had to walk in one direction in the halls. On paper, these rules can decrease chance of collision. In practice? You were walking into a wall of students entering and leaving the main loop towards PE. The fix? Reversing the loop so the wall of students was on the other side where there wasn’t a hallway. And that’s why implementing a rule like that requires thought.
"they are students not cars" to whoever created that rule
The image of a director chasing a random dude for half a mile just to tell him to take his fucking hat off is hilarious.
I actually respect this guy.
A man of focus, determination, and sheer will...
*And* threatening to _call the cops_ - like, there's taking a dress code too far, and then there's shit like this.
"COME BACK HERE"
"NO"
"NUH UH COME HERE"
"NEIN"
"STOP SPEAKING GERMAN"
"WHY"
"CAUSE YES"
"NO"
"SHOTGUN"
"THATS NOT APART OF THE SCRIPT"
"NOTHING WE SAID WAS APART OF THE SCRIPT DUMBASS"
"OH RIGHT"
"ARE WE JUST SAYING WHAT SOME RANDOM DUMBASS ON THE INTERNET IS TYPING RIGHT NOW"
"NO"
"OH OK"
what happened 2.0
This just reminded me that I briefly went to an intermediate elementary school (3-5 grades) and we had 10 minutes for lunch and no one was allowed to speak, at all. The principal would stand at the end of the long lunch table we all sat at and make sure no one talked. But then, at the end of the 1st quarter, that same principal took every single kid who made Honor Roll (all A's for every class) to McDonald's for like 2 hours. He bought everyone a meal- either Happy Meal or Value Meal, whatever we wanted, on his own dime, and then we got to play in the outdoor play place. It was amazing, although it was the hottest day I've ever experienced at 112°F! I moved across the country soon after that event but still remember how nice the principal turned out to be outside that prison-esque cafeteria at school!
Not my school, but a religious middle school my high school friend went to. Some rules i can remember on the top of my head are:
1. Boys sit in the front half of the class and girls in the back half, because boys one day must lead girls in family
2. Girls may not sing in presence of boys, since girl's voice will stir lust in boys
3. Boys may not look to girl's face unless it's necessary, since it'll stir lust in boys
I'm surprised the school didn't ban girls in order to prevent lust in boys
Sounds like the whole "men can't control themselves" bullshit. Someone at that school needs a hard drive check and a date with a woodchipper.
Sounds like were a few rules away from requiring the girls to wear burkas and only speak when spoken to.
Bro what, that's literally afghanistan 💀💀
As a Muslim, I hate it when schools treat boys like the "better" gender, but also as mindless bimbos who can't control their lust in presence of a woman. I'm a boy, and I have my gripes with the way girls dress in high school, and I agree with some things in that dress code (please bring full clothing back in fashion), but the reasons are just so dumb. I can look at a woman's shoulder without frothing at the mouth. Trust me, a majority of boys (at least that I know) can handle being in the presence of a girl going through her "minimal clothing" phase, (but that still make me uncomfortable)
In my high school, my principal, in the peak of british summer (it’s hot), BANNED FANS. Because they were “causing a distraction”. All the teachers and students thought the rule was stupid, and we never looked at our principal the same after that.
Queensland Australia currently bans mobile phones across every primary and high school state-wide.
In my middle school, one teacher got fired for pulling a kid to not leave the classroom. This caused my head teacher to BAN students TOUCHING in any way.
Where I live, all the schools have to do a fire drill every year. In my high school in each class I had a map of the route you had to take to evacuate in case of a fire. One year we just took the obvious route of going out to the main door because literally the class we were in was in front of it. When we returned to class the principal came and scolded us for going through the main door. Apparently we had to go to the playground, which was on the other side of the high school, in fact our class was the furthest from that. And I find it even more stupid because there were doors in the hallways that closed automatically in case of fire to separate areas. How were we supposed to go if the doors were closed? The only path that could be followed was the emergency stairs, which lead to the main door.
Schools train your brain, and it's honestly baffling how those individuals in charge of said establishments can't do the same.
I love listening to your videos when I'm playing some mind numbing game thanks for the awesome content!
Couldn’t listen to music outside while your walking to class. The stupid security guard blocked me from going to class and I had to go to the office all the way on the other side of the high school campus and missed half the class I was heading to. Thankfully some parents complained and they stopped enforcing that stupid rule.
I was in first grade in 1965-1966 school year, and at recess, due to the tv show, the most popular form of play was Batman. Our school banned it, never said why, just "No more Batman"
My highschool banned going to the WC during classes. That's normal, I know, but not even for girls on their periods. This sucked because it was a school for 16 year olds and above, so that was a huge deal. Then, as everyone who needed to go to the toilet in the last 3 hours had to go at once during break, they thought everyone went there to vape and so it was banned for good. So "someone" happened to kick open every toilet in the entire school. Those remained broken for the rest of the year and never closed again.
47 is literally illegal, it is just illegal, no way around it🤬
The problem with things being illegal is it doesn't mean they stop happening.
46:10 Fun fact: Considering where many biblical events took place, you can't draw most people from the bible cause they were likely a bit tanner than the average white or peach colour person.
Heck a few of Noah's sons were probably forbidden images at that school.
I always think about how if Jesus visited America today, he would be discriminated against and assumed to be a terrorist.
We try to make God in our image even though we are made in his
It seems like education should be the point of schooling. These schools are teaching something, but it is not something any legislator will decide can be rewarded by a useless test. With all of the emphasis one everything except actually fostering a learning environment that has been shown within the past 50 years to be effective, one might get the idea that administrators and higher get rewarded for all of this non-education-relevant behavior, that compliancy is the goal of education. There are so many great teachers that are not allowed to do the education part of their job it's ridiculous.
In my elementary school, we had to recite the pledge, sing "America the Beautiful," "Star Spangled Banner" and have a moment of silence. This was public school. Girls were not allowed to wear shorts, but boys could. Girls couldn't wear skirts above the knee. 59:30
Wow what about _West Virginia v. Barnette_
@@DiamondKingStudioswhat was that? Never heard of it.
@@sharonrinkiewicz3940 The Supreme Court ruling that prevents public schools from forcing children to say the Pledge of Allegiance, that has been in effect for probably at least eighty years. I’d imagine that if word ever got out beyond your hometown, you’d soon see representatives from some organization like the ACLU.
@@sharonrinkiewicz3940 A court case from the '40s where the State Board of Education lost to Barnette. The Supreme Court ruled "the First Amendment protects students from being compelled to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools".
This podcast always brings a fresh perspective. Keep up the great work!
Our middle school has a stupid way to enforce “3 bathroom uses during class a day!”. They have us use an online pass that has to be approved by a teacher, which half the time you’re waiting for 20 minutes and the other half you’re just trying to make the pass, with it saying that “hall traffic limit has been reached”
By any chance do you go to a school with “EAST” as its second word?
17:50 trauma creates unforgettable memories. Thats why I vividly remember being in a hospital bed at 7 weeks old.
"We can _only_ color them _white_ *or* _Peach?_ Easy! I'll just draw Princess Toadstool! Her name _is _*_Peach_* after all!"
You'd get suspended for being a little shit. Trust me.
"you can't put a lock on your locker"
then W H A T S T H E P O I N T
11:00 dude, that is literally in a diary of a wimpy kid book, like word for word
Which book is it?
@@white_booked9049 the third wheel I think
The elementary school I went to during 3rd grade was extremely athletic focused and had extreme rules against candy. Now this was the year I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and got a 504 plan set up. One day I brought a bag of m&ms to school in my medical bag to snack on. During PE my blood sugar started to drop so I started to snack on the m&ms when my PE teacher saw this happening he went over to me and started to yell and swear at me as if I had committed some great crime I shortly after got sent to the principals office to call my mom. She was not happy with them
After this incident they went on to break my 504 plan 15 different times and we had to resort to reporting them to the state because nothing was happening
Did the state do something?
@@tupiaraykegaya7053 I personally don’t know since this was a long time ago but I’m sure the state reprimanded them
My middle school segregated us by gender at lunch, and we were punished for months for being “too loud” in the cafeteria so we were forced to sit silently 1 or 2 students per table. There were way more girls than boys, so some girls would be exiled to the boys side.
Also pencils were banned for a month because of the “Charlie Charlie challenge”
wait PENCILS? WHAT THE FRICK DO YOU WRITE IN MATH?
Write with*
I completely forgot charlie charlie existed
thank you for such a great channel, especially with this long form content. my internet has been MIND NUMBINGLY SLOW and videos like this are what is keeping me sane, since I can just minimize the window and just listen with minimal interruptions since it only needs to load the audio (for clarity not all browsers do this, but it's a feature of the browser I am using)
I went to an Anglican High School where the school dress code is even enforced on public transport before and after school by Transport Monitors and School Staff; if a student is caught breaching school dress code on public transport they got a verbal warning for the first offence and a demerit after the second offence. If a student got 3 demerits they get after school detention.
Never did I expect to see Wreckfest in the background of a story reading video.
Great video btw!
"If you're getting bullied, we'll suspend the bully, AND you."
That’s a pretty dumb rule if you’re the victim
@@KendallHazard That's what I kept saying
It was because they just didn't want to deal with the situation, so it was "better for everyone" to suspend all parties involved
@@oSamiSrzonah if my kid gets suspended for that I’m pressing legal charges on the school and the kid I don’t take that bullshit hell I’d take my kid outa that school
Can I tell you all this DOOZY in my school? Basically we have to wait 15 minutes once class starts to create a pass to go to the nurse's office, or another classroom, OR THE DANG BATHROOM!!! Then 15 minutes before class ends, you can't go anywhere until the bell rings. I have six classes in my school. So that means once you add all those fifteen minutes up, THAT'S 180!! Oh, and that's not even the end of it. Some girl on Friday told me and a couple of other girls, one of who I think is below my grade level, "Oh, you can't be in the bathroom because you're not supposed to be here." Excuse me, but YOU DON'T KNOW THAT!!! We have this thing where we have to create digital passes if we wanna leave the classroom for some reason. And guess what?? IT. DON'T. MAKE. THE. CUT. SOMETIMES!!!! That's why when I wanna go somewhere outside of class for some reason, I basically just ask one of my teachers to create that digital pass or write a pass for me on paper. And this is what really irritates me. Because let's say that I have an appointment with a doctor, an eye doctor, or a dentist for some reason on a school day and during the time I'm at school. So naturally, the office will call one of my teachers and then that teacher tells me I can leave so I can get to my appointment. And if I get paused while heading to the office because I don't have a dang pass, I'll mentally flip. But yeah. The 10/10 rule at my old school was a pain in the hide sometimes, I have no trouble admitting that I wasn't comfortable with it. And don't get me wrong. I loved Saline and still do. But it wasn't as painful as a 15/15 minute rule, for six classes STRAIGHT, and creating a digital pass that just doesn't live up to someone's expectations. Thanks for coming to my UA-camTalk.
The skipping rule sounds like something right out of Diary of a Wimpy Kid 😂
I have ibd+ibs (irritable bowel disease/sundrome) and any teacher who has told me I can’t go to the bathroom I have disliked. Story time. One day my teacher was sick or smth so we had a sub. But this sub was the most unusual person I’ve ever met. I went to a french teaching elementary school, 80% French 60% English. Our teachers wouldn’t have much of a problem with us talking in English, just remind us most of the time. Certain times during the day were “only in French” times and you weren’t allowed to talk in English in them at all. This sub showed us a schedule of the day, with our only in French times starred. He then asked us why they were started and we all said cause they are only in French. He then said “No, those times are NO TALKING”. My class, reluctantly went along with it. Later, he asked us to take out a book and start doing some French reading, pretty normal. We read for about 15-20 mins (in dead silence) before he told us we were doing something else. We all went to put our books away and get ready for the next thing. He then went on a rant about how we had to keep our books on our desks because not doing so was a sign of disrespect to him and his beliefs. The whole class thought that it was dumb, so we told him that it didn’t make sense. After a solid 10 minutes of this we just gave up and started doing math. In French. I’m dead silence. (From a workbook) Me being the dumb kid that I was didn’t know much French and asked a desk mate what one work meant. She told me and I went back to my math. The whole interaction took maybe 8 seconds. At the end of the math period the teacher went on another rant about how some people were disrespecting the no talking rule. During this lengthy discussion one kid asked to go to the bathroom. Our teacher said no “because we are having a class discussion”
I then realized I had to go (ibs/ibd sucks) so asked him. He said no and I assumed it was cause he didn’t know and thought I was just another kid. Almost immediately after he told me no I went up to him and told him about my condition. He still didn’t let me go. Went anyways. My entire class thought he was a d*ck and mostly knew what I had and stuck up for me. I got sent to the principals office. Overall, it was a pretty shitty situation (pun intended)
Uniforms!
PUBLIC school system.
Why?
Teachers were sick of teens saggin' (waistband of pants below their hips, usually showing off their underwear). The school system wanted high schoolers to know how to "dress properly" for interviews and such once they graduated AND to prevent bullying.
Okay, seems fair.
Except...
1 - They started the uniforms with KINDERGARTEN children! (The year my oldest started school, actually. Following year, those in K and 1st wore them, next year, K, 1st, and 2nd Graders, etc.) Side Note: Bullying still happened. A group of SECOND graders (7 and 8 yr. olds) were bullying one little girl for not wearing her yellow button-down shirt that day. Apparently it was a thing all the girls in that class agreed on the day before.
2 - They were STRICT with colors. (4 colors for button-down shirts, 2 for sweaters, 2 for pants, 2 for shoes, 2 colors for socks, and 1 color for jumpers.)
3 - The first FIVE YEARS, there wasn't a store within a 50-75 mile radius who had uniforms in stock past AUGUST. August is when kids here start the school year here! Your kid grows a size or two during the year? Their pants look like capri's and their long-sleeved shirts suddenly become 3/4 sleeved and short-sleeved shirts became tank tops...and both also became crop tops. Yeah...that's "professional" looking. They gain or lose a significant amount of weight? Even worse. We won't get into shoe sizes here (which happened - THREE TIMES - to my son in one school year. School is 9 months here, with a 3 month summer vacation.)
4 - Going K to 12 (13 years of school in the U.S.), yep...that meant...it took TEN YEARS (K through 9th grade) before the kids who "needed to know how to dress" actually HAD to dress "properly".
5 - The year after my oldest graduated? They stopped doing uniforms. But it was the same thing again. That year's new Kindergarten class could wear whatever they wanted, but 1st graders and above were still stuck in uniforms...next year, K and 1st graders could wear whatever, etc.
*P.S.*
Uniforms were also deemed as a "good thing" - by the school board - because it meant parents would save money and wouldn't need to do laundry as often.
(Yeah, here we go again...)
1 - Uniform items were NOT cheap. Cheapest item was often a pair of $10-$15 shoes from the dollar store, but those rarely - if ever - lasted the whole year. (Oh, and they still needed "regular shoes" for gym day/recess, too.) 1 full uniform? Easily $100-$125 for boys, $125-$150 for girls.
2 - While the schools did have spare uniforms for kids whose families were in various government assistance programs, it was first come, first serve...and the schools never even bothered to tell the parents! Kids from poorer families were constantly getting dress coded for not being in uniform, when their parents couldn't afford the uniform!
3 - Even families that COULD afford all the uniform bits and pieces could still usually only get 1 or 2 "full" outfits per kid. (We are in a middle class area, having 2-4 kids is normal).
4 - Exactly HOW did the school figure having to wash "play clothes" AND uniforms was saving us money? We now had to do TWICE the laundry! Including using twice the electricity, twice the water, and twice the laundry soap...never mind fabric softener...since - of course - the material used for the uniforms didn't allow for washing with regular old jeans and t-shirts/hoodies.
WORST. RULE. EVER!
and this is the worst way I have heard of to do uniforms by far... WHAT THE HECK? just implement uniforms or get rid of them for all grades at once.
@@Bruce_P-Z Exactly!
All of my kids have now graduated...but I'm still pissed about it.
I mean, the clothes alone were expensive, add in a typical year of school supplies (paper, pens, pencils, notebooks, folders, etc.)?
It was easily $300+ (getting just ONE "uniform" along with all of the other stuff needed) per child.
Of course it's sexist uniforms too
11:48 any stealing worth 1000 dollars and up is grand larceny which is a huge felony
An actual example now: by the time I was in my last year of secondary school, our school was still instilling a very strict rule about disallowing students from bringing in electronics, unless they had a medical condition to allow them in. This was 2014 and the principle herself wouldn't bend this rule for us - a year level with the most students that year persuing visual arts class that needed access to computers both inside and outside of class - with the belief we couldn't be trusted with devices that have access to the internet to complete our work. All the while, she put a good chunk of the school funds into giving the year 7s that enrolled that year tablets that they were trusted to complete their homework on, and even allowed them access to their own wifi. That woman trusted uninterrupted screentime & unlimited internet access in the hands of prepubescent children still figuring out morals than she did to students that were legally adults in this point in their lives that were taking on advanced assignments for their final grades.
That rule ended up being dropped after I graduated and all year levels were permitted to bring in laptops of tablets to work on.
Random unrelated thing. I accidentally clicked this video with a finger joint while coughing
I understand kids are crazy and need to be contained because of the fact that their minds are not developed, but I swear these rules are part of the reason kids resent authority.
Also legally, at least in the United States, teachers need to know where every kid is at any given time so hall passes make sense.
Edit: “American” schools are so strict? Man I live in America and my schools only had basic rules for dress code like “no super short shorts. No vulgar imagery.” Other than that it was normal stuff.
Except for middle school. Fuck those staff.
My school has a rule where you have to put your phone in a bin and wait till the end of class to get and your parent would have to write an email to the school if you didn’t have phone
We have something similar at my school. We have to put our phones in these pockets on the back wall during class, with the tradeoff that we can use them any time that we aren’t in class.
@ oh that’s what my school has I just didn’t know how to explain it
my old high school had a rule a few years before I joined that girls had to wear a skin colour or white bra. If you got caught wearing a coloured bra you got detention I believe. My mum's friend constantly got caught violating this rule and eventually all the girls got together, took off their bras and made a pile in front of the school.
A rule they had when i was there was no one could wear undershirts, at all. it was an Australian winter, 5 degrees, and we only really had biker jackets. I got yelled at for wearing a black thermal undershirt and got told I was a bad student. I've never been suspended and the only detention I ever got was not wearing my sports shirt for three days in a row
'skin coloured bra' first of all
WHY DOES THAT EXIST...NEVER MIND THE PEDOS IN SCHOOLS, AIN' WE GON TALK ABOUT WHY SOMEONE THOUGHT 'i know LETS MAKE A BRA THAT MATCHES YOUR FUCKING SKIN'
This one is very mild
A bunch of us played a YuGiOh game on the Nintendo DS. One day one kid wanted to play another. A refused so B decided to slam As face into a desk allegedly.
The next day that YuGiOh game was banned from the school. Older me understands now wanting to avoid future conflicts, but Younger me was like "Couldnt you just ban the one kid who was stupid enough to go full WWE? Why do we all gotta suffer cause he's an idiot?"
My middle school had a rule if you said “Gyatt” or “Skibidi Toilet” you would get a red card and responsibility room visit. 😅
I kind of like this rule.
well thats probably due to teacher frustration, they're only human and can handle so much annoying crap before they start losing their professional composure. (My senior year teacher in my emotional/add class threw out a troubling student, she said after his dad had to come and withdraw him.. "That kid was a pain in my ass." under her breath which I heard it lol. I replied "Me too, Mrs. doe, me too."
W rule tbh duck that gang shit that is so gay tbh
I see zero issues with this rule. Sounds like they are saving a generation
lol that’s a pretty nice rule.