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rynn
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rynn • upvoted 21 items 3 years ago
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I wasn’t allowed to test my blood sugar in class (type 1 diabetic). Some teachers didn’t care but most made a fuss about it. “Go to the nurses office if you need to do that, it’s a distraction to everybody and other students might get freaked out by the needles” even though it was just a little prick that nobody could ever even see, and none of my classmates ever complained. Told my parents about the rule, my dad got furious and told me to do it anyways, and that I have absolutely nothing to worry about as far as getting in trouble at home goes. So to me, this was free reign to stick it to the f**kers at school. I tested every class, more than I needed to, just to spite them. Eventually I got sent to the office and my principal called my dad. Dad showed up, and I’ve barely ever seen him as furious as he was that day. He was cursing, yelling, tearing papers off of walls. I was never, ever, ever bothered about it again.
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Girls MUST have a male escort them to prom as their date. If your date bails, you can't enter. We were an all girls school. Many of us had zero guy friends. Finding dates was hard. I remember one year a girl's boyfriend dumped her when everyone was starting to show up for photos. She showed up at the venue, mascara running, begging the principal to let her go in. Principal wouldn't let her. One of the senior homeroom teachers ended up calling her nephew and said, "I need you to put on your suit and get here ASAP." He showed up with flowers and everything. So like... it was salvageable but totally avoidable. The worst part? It wasn't always a rule until one year a group of girls went as friends and kept "stealing" other people's dates. Way to punish everyone forever because of one group of bi**hes.
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Toilet paper rationing. This was in 1997/98, btw. Apparently the high school girls room was going through too much toilet paper so the dean, a woman, stood outside the door and distributed a few squares of 1-ply institutional toilet paper to us as we went in. If she noticed toilet paper on the floor, our ration got cut down. If we asked for more for...bigger jobs...we were told to saved it for home. There were several episodes of girls stuck in stalls until friends could beg for more TP because of period messes or unexpected bowel incidents. The dean wouldn't even hand it over--she would go in the bathroom and pass it a few squares at a time over the door. If you didn't catch it as it fell and it landed on the floor, well, that's your fault and you're not getting more. If you used more than she thought necessary, tough luck, go to class with blood/sh*t on your body. It took about a week of extremely angry parents coming to the school and calling both the school and the school board, but we finally got our toilet paper back, unlimited. How did we celebrate? By TPing her car, of course.
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"Don't damage school property" sounds reasonable enough until you get detention for staining a chair after suddenly getting your period.
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I got a suspension for holding a stick. The phone call with my mom went something like this (only slightly dramatized): School: Mrs. TheQueq, your son has been suspended. Mom: Oh my goodness, what did he do? S: He was holding a stick. M: Did he hit someone with it? S: No. He was just holding it. M: ...Did he threaten to hit someone with it? S: No, just held it. M: Did he refuse to put it down when you asked? S: No, no, he was very cooperative. M: So... what did he do wrong? S: He held a stick. M: And I should be upset about that? S: Absolutely, you know we have a zero tolerance policy. M: Right... well, I'll talk with him. As you might guess, I did not get in trouble at home.
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We suddenly one day weren’t allowed to stand in circles during recess because, and I quote “we could be dealing drugs.” I will add that for the years prior we had been standing in circles no problem. Next recess, we stood in a triangle, cue principle going apes**t. Next day we stood in a square, principle kept us inside for a week. And threatened us all with detentions if we did it again etc. I believe their idea was open ended circles so they could see what we were doing. Still stupid.Show All 21 Upvotes
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People-Share-Dumbest-School-Rules
Girls MUST have a male escort them to prom as their date. If your date bails, you can't enter. We were an all girls school. Many of us had zero guy friends. Finding dates was hard. I remember one year a girl's boyfriend dumped her when everyone was starting to show up for photos. She showed up at the venue, mascara running, begging the principal to let her go in. Principal wouldn't let her. One of the senior homeroom teachers ended up calling her nephew and said, "I need you to put on your suit and get here ASAP." He showed up with flowers and everything. So like... it was salvageable but totally avoidable. The worst part? It wasn't always a rule until one year a group of girls went as friends and kept "stealing" other people's dates. Way to punish everyone forever because of one group of bi**hes.
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Locked the only boys bathroom because someone wrote on the wall in sharpie. It wasn't even anything rude or inappropriate either. It was just the word "hi" or something like that. Didn't unlock the door until one boy wet himself and parents threatened to sue.People-Share-Dumbest-School-Rules
I got a suspension for holding a stick. The phone call with my mom went something like this (only slightly dramatized): School: Mrs. TheQueq, your son has been suspended. Mom: Oh my goodness, what did he do? S: He was holding a stick. M: Did he hit someone with it? S: No. He was just holding it. M: ...Did he threaten to hit someone with it? S: No, just held it. M: Did he refuse to put it down when you asked? S: No, no, he was very cooperative. M: So... what did he do wrong? S: He held a stick. M: And I should be upset about that? S: Absolutely, you know we have a zero tolerance policy. M: Right... well, I'll talk with him. As you might guess, I did not get in trouble at home.People-Share-Dumbest-School-Rules
"Don't damage school property" sounds reasonable enough until you get detention for staining a chair after suddenly getting your period.People-Share-Dumbest-School-Rules
We suddenly one day weren’t allowed to stand in circles during recess because, and I quote “we could be dealing drugs.” I will add that for the years prior we had been standing in circles no problem. Next recess, we stood in a triangle, cue principle going apes**t. Next day we stood in a square, principle kept us inside for a week. And threatened us all with detentions if we did it again etc. I believe their idea was open ended circles so they could see what we were doing. Still stupid.
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