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People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Rule: No duct tape ON clothing.

Reason: Some girls thought they could get past the "no ripped jeans" rule by covering the tears with duct tape. It became a "fad" and everyone started doing it so it got banned. A kid in my AP literature class found a loophole and MADE an entire outfit out of red and black duct tape. I mean Shorts, A TShirt AND a jacket and SHOES. When the school tried to suspend him they couldn't because the rule Was " No Duct Tape ON clothes" It said nothing about clothes made OUT OF duct tape... He won the argument and even wore the outfit a few more times to Say "F***k you " to the school and principles lol .

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328points

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Nice cuppa tea 3 years ago

Future lawyer there

167points

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People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones 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.

Final score:

319points

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IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago

Good for your dad.

169points

Redditor SoLe123456’s thread went super-viral on the r/AskReddit subreddit. At the time of writing, in less than a single day, it already racked up 70.6k upvotes (and counting!). What’s more, the thread got over 34.7k comments and 400+ awards, showing just how many dumb school rules there really are on Planet Earth.

Nobody’s saying that rules aren’t needed. They’re incredibly important! They help create structure where needed, give us clarity, and provide us with a sense of security. This last one, security, helps us focus on what’s important. Without it, you’d constantly be living in a state of anxiety which will affect your performance at school and, later on, at work. In case you need further proof, just take a look at how much anxiety the Covid-19 pandemic introduced and how it affected your schoolwork and ability to concentrate.

My highschool had "coordinates", not a uniform. But they stopped selling the shorts like a decade before I started there... So me and a bunch of buddies tracked down used pairs and started wearing them.

Next year, shorts were banned outright... So me and a bunch of buddies on the rugby team started wearing skirts, because the rules said skirts were acceptable, but didn't specify gender. So you had a bunch of guys with hairy, hairy legs walking around in skirts we deliberately hiked up a little to show some thigh.

Shorts were allowed again in a week.

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Final score:

301points

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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 3 years ago

These people (the ones in skirts - not the school) are genius.

199points

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I got Saturday school for missing a day of classes when I was 16. Seems reasonable, except I missed to go complete my US citizenship and officially become a citizen alongside my mom (it took us 12 years to go through the legal process, btw. Whole other issue). I had a note from my mother as well as a signed official Federal form they give you to explain to school/employers why you were absent. Apparently the only acceptable absence excuse was illness. I got punished for becoming a citizen

Final score:

282points

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Nice cuppa tea 3 years ago

What a way to welcomw you into the country as a citizen

195points

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People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones "Don't damage school property" sounds reasonable enough until you get detention for staining a chair after suddenly getting your period.

Final score:

256points

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

Now thats bs, you can't help that

180points

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But! And there’s a big ‘but’ here! Not all rules are created equal. Not by a longshot. They have to be fair. They have to make life easier. They have to make sense. And some ‘rules’ fail on all counts, making us ask, why the ever-loving-frick they even exist at all if they only work to make everything more difficult. Can’t the teachers realize that they don’t make any sense??!?

Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as creating the perfect set of rules. It’s just not doable. However, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t attempt to make life better for students and teachers alike. Perfection is a process. A process of constant growth and improvement. And that means letting some rules go the way of the dodo. Though, that’s a bit unfair to the dodo—I’d pick the bird any day of the week over most of the rules featured in this list.

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Different staircases for boys and girls.

Final score:

243points

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mulk 3 years ago

WTF???!!!

106points

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones 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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Final score:

241points

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Kat 3 years ago

I would give extra points for creativity

164points

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People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones 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.

Final score:

232points

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Powercat 3 years ago

Good thing I don’t have children because I don’t think I could put up with the kind of bullshit school staff is pulling 😑

74points

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Rules (and their consequences) have to be communicated very clearly, they have to be enforced consistently, and they must be timely. However, at the core of our need for rules is the fact that they’re supposed to solve a specific problem that we have. If instead they create additional chaos, demotivate students and teachers alike, and make people wonder why they’re in place at all, they’re awful rules. Get rid of them.

What’s more, rules can’t be created in a metaphorical bubble. The people who will be affected the most ought to at least have a say because they might notice some glaring flaws that would otherwise be ignored.

#10

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Early 2000s our school banned mp3 players with the reasoning, they would make us anti social.

As protest, we blocked the access to the teacher's lounge by silently stand there reading books and shush-ing every Teacher trying to get past, while also making a petition to include books in the ban, since obviously they too made us anti social.

Final score:

219points

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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 3 years ago

Okay, but their reaction was awesome.

164points

#11

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones "Zero Tolerance"

Just means that if someone starts a fight with you, you fight back as hard as you can. You're going to get suspended for defending yourself anyway, might as well make it worthwhile.

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Final score:

213points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

If my daughter defends herself she knows she won't get into trouble at home even if she gets suspended.

175points

#12

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones 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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Final score:

212points

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

Hwhat

61points

Furthermore, you can’t expect rules to be perfect the moment you make them. They have to be improved and adapted over time. Yes, it’s difficult, exhausting, and everyone would rather just get on with it, but on the other hand, the rules we live by form the foundations of our lives. We deserve rock-solid foundations, not fractured ones.

Don’t hold on to a rule, regulation, or school-life structure just because you’ve gotten used to it and because it’s been the way things have always been done. Think about better alternatives. Adapt, otherwise what you’ll end up with is a bunch of rules that people remember not because of how awesome they sounded on paper but because of how incredibly dumb and flawed they were in reality.

#13

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones In high school, the supervisor told the prefects and head girls to break up girls hugging in the hallways .I went to an only girls school and teachers discouraged girls from hugging each other. Apparently they thought that it encouraged 'lesbianism'. smh.

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Final score:

209points

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PjandBolt 3 years ago

First of all, lesbianism is perfectly normal and should be treated that way. Second of all, girls hugging doesn't always mean their lesbians. I am sick and tired of people thinking that any two people showing affection means that they're together. Affection is normal in every relationship.

83points

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#14

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Skirt had to be a certain length. That's not the dumb part. If a teacher thought it was too short you had to KNEEL SO THEY COULD SEE WHERE THE HEM CAME TO ON YOUR LEGS. Was this a Christian private school where old male teachers were making middle school girls kneel on the floor to check their skirt length? Why, yes it was. I never wore skirts, so I was spared, but God, I hated that school.

Final score:

205points

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CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago

I...

56points

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#15

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones 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.

Final score:

199points

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

They should've sued.

158points

#16

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones No coloured bras. I went to an all-girls school and we wore uniforms and the top was a light colour and very see-through for some reason (so it was easy to tell if you had a pink bra on for example). The weird thing was it was always the male teachers who called students out for breaking this rule.... yikes

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Final score:

194points

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Art Tomboy 3 years ago

Pedo alert! ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

184points

#17

I spent 2 years in a private christian school where girls could not wear skirts or dresses unless it covered their whole legs all the way down to their feet. We were between 3 and 8 years old and that rule was meant to make sure boys wouldn't have any sexual temptation. This is not a joke.

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Final score:

191points

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Coleonema 3 years ago

"We were between 3 and 8 years old"

159points

#18

Guys were free to wear pants in cold days but girls had to wear a skirt no matter how cold it was

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Final score:

190points

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

Us too. We were allowed to wear stockings, which i despised. And the skirts were short and would blow up in the wind.

77points

#19

At my high school, girls could not wear sandals or shoes that showed toes because, “toes make boys think of babies”. And babies made boys think of sex, and naturally sex is the devil.

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Final score:

181points

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tail_bite 3 years ago

how would the teachers exist then? huh?

102points

#20

my high school decided to ban women’s athletic shorts one day which was ridiculous for many reasons. the next day every girl showed up in athletic shorts & the rule was removed by second block

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Final score:

175points

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Aurelia! 3 years ago

Reverse boycott!

79points

#21

If you throw snowballs, you get a one day suspension. The first long weekend after a snowfall everyone would throw snowballs to get an additional day added to the long weekend.

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Final score:

171points

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Ooooomangos 3 years ago

That’s smart

77points

#22

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones You have to wear your tie all the way home. Some sad bastard teachers would stand on the main road away from the school and try to hand out detentions in presumably their own time

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Final score:

163points

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Kat 3 years ago

What?

77points

#23

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Banned all backpacks / bags on campus. Students were expected to somehow carry everything they needed in hand.

This was especially challenging if you had a non ideal locker placement.

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Final score:

160points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago

I'd like to know the reason for that.

90points

#24

‘No ripped jeans’

They enforced it to the point that when I fell in school, scrapped me knee and ended up needing stitches (obviously ripping my jeans in the process). They still dragged me to the office to suspend me for the day because me jeans were ripped. I was left there, stitched up, blood drying on my jeans as the vice principal yelled at me that my outfit was “inappropriate”.

Add on: I went to a private school outside of the US, we had a doctor on call so he stitched me up at school, notified my parents and gave the okay on me going back to class. The vp didn’t notify my parents I was getting suspended for the day until after I went home and told them myself.

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Final score:

159points

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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago

There is stupidity and there is this! I don't even know what that should be called...

116points

#25

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Girls weren’t allowed to show their ankles. The dean had a pack of socks in her office she would give the students and make them wear. Only girls tho. This was the 2000s.

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Final score:

149points

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Oh, those salacious ankles!

115points

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#26

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones In grade school, we weren't allowed to play on the playground equipment when it snowed. Eventually, were weren't allowed to play with snow or even go near it- I got in trouble for sitting in snow.

This was in Minnesota where it snows half the year. Recess basically consisted of milling around the blacktop for thirty minutes.

Final score:

140points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)

I remember one day in primary school it hailed so much, we had never seen so much hail before. Our teacher let us outside (after it stopped) and let us play with the piles of ice. It was so much fun. Never experienced anything like that again.

90points

#27

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Can’t be standing around in groups more than 4 “gang mentality”

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Final score:

139points

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Sum Guy 3 years ago

My gang was 7-9 strong back in high school.

65points

#28

Girls were not allowed to wear cycling shorts under their PE skirts. They wanted us to wear these dark green PE pants, basically just underwear and it was gross. My year protested, we said shorts or nothing and they backed off. This was 20+ years ago and it's totally different now, girls wear what they want for PE.

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Final score:

134points

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Art Tomboy 3 years ago

So you sit on a millimetre of the chair?

36points

#29

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones No farting in class.

They would say "if u need to fart then go to the toilet" but then 9 times out of 10 if u asked to go the toilet they'd say no

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Final score:

129points

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mulk 3 years ago

ahahah... this picture (funny meme)

69points

#30

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones One particular professor at my university would lock the door a minute after class began. If you had to leave to go to the bathroom, you couldn't get back in.

Somehow this ancient fossil is still teaching and pulling similar stuff.

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Final score:

129points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago (edited)

We have classrooms that have these hotelroom locks. You can only open it from the outside with a staff pass (it opens normally from the inside). If a student needs to go out for a moment for whatever reason, I need to leave the door open or they can't come back in. I usually teach with the door open anyway, but there are times when it's preferable to close the door. And with these classrooms I just feel I can't. I hate them. What's wrong with a simple key? -- Also, I've locked myself out more than once, because I'd left my pass on the desk. With a key you can just go back in because you couldn't lock the door, but with these rooms I need to find someone to let me in to grab my pass. Grrr ...

46points

#31

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones We weren’t allowed to wear thongs. I don’t know how they caught people who did tbh

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Final score:

126points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago

So staff looked at all the girls' butts to check for panty lines? Not creepy at all. Nah-uh. /s

124points

#32

No leaving the dorm unless it's for a fire alarm.

I went to boarding school from the age of 7. That rule meant we couldn't get out of our dormitory to have a wee in the night. We had a plastic tub one of the girls brought in and went in that. Then we had to smuggle the tub to the bathroom in the morning without matron seeing. Stupid bloody rule!

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Final score:

126points

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CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago

I can't imagine the smell ;-;

61points

#33

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones No beads. Apparently they thought beaded jewelry was gang related?

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Final score:

124points

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James016 3 years ago

Who is “The Beadfather”?

80points

#34

Women's thighs are not allowed to touch a chair.

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Final score:

124points

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

How am i supposed to SIT

150points

#35

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones They outlawed bracelets because there was an article in a magazine somewhere saying they advertised what sexual acts you were open for based on their colour.

Then someone tried to outlaw wrist watches for the same reason.

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Final score:

123points

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

This kind of crap is always brainless to ban. if you take away something you 'think' is serving that purpose, and it actually was, they just come up with something else.

75points

#36

You had to wear your ID around your neck on a rope thing.

Then the chokings started.

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Final score:

123points

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Aurelia! 3 years ago

that got dark really quickly

117points

#37

"No Satanic Drawings"

What qualified as Satanic was anything the teachers or faculty deemed as such, including the Star of David

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Final score:

119points

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

Augh!

46points

#38

In high school, hair length on men and stubble. Look, a bunch of 15-16 year old guys are going to have a bit of stubble no matter how thoroughly we shave. Forcing us to go to the principal's office to dry shave nearly daily is freakin absurd.

rjjm88 Report

Final score:

118points

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THE DOG LIFE 3 years ago

That's horrible!

45points

#39

Elementary school principal banned talking at lunch. If you were caught talking or even signing to someone, you had to go sit by yourself on a folding chair with no table.

There was once my mom came to eat lunch with my older sister and I. The principal was like " Oh you should go eat out in the hallway with your daughters" and she was like "nah, I'm gonna sit here with my daughter and her friends and talk to them and enjoy their presence" (usually if a parent came for lunch the student could invite one friend to join, unless you had siblings. Then it was too many people so you couldn't invite a friend). Anyway, one of my older sister's friends whispered to my mom that she was going to move so she wouldn't get in trouble for talking. THIS WAS A NINE YEAR OLD.

passatcar Report

Final score:

118points

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Kt 3 years ago

Thats a crazy rule. Lunchtime was supposed to be for socialising with friends!

98points

#40

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones We once had a rule that we could only go to the bathroom during class. Not in the breaks. Only during class.

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Final score:

115points

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Black Pug Puppy 3 years ago

What was the point of this

83points

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#41

We were not allowed to put our coats on until we were outside

During winter when we would have a storm, we had to go outside in the rain to put our coats on or face receiving a detention if we put them on in the corridor

Final score:

113points

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

First case of pneumonia will break the budget for the next ten years.

67points

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#42

Dumbest Rule: Zero tolerance for fighting. This meant both the kid who started the fight AND the kid who got beat on were both suspended. If the kid who got beat on just took it, he was just sent home for the rest of the day. If he dared to fight back, he was suspended for a week just like the kid who started the fight. Here's the truly stupid part: The school administrators couldn't explain how this led to MORE BRUTAL fights.

Final score:

112points

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tail_bite 3 years ago

well easy they wanted to be suspended from the place

39points

#43

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones "No fighting", enforced by punishing the kids who were getting hit.

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Final score:

110points

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Caroline Nagel 3 years ago

My theory is that people in power admire bullies and think that those who are being bullied deserve it.

85points

IAN KELLY 3 years ago

That really is the only explanation for their behavior isn’t it

12points

Uber Mensch 3 years ago

Like heck. If I'm going to get punished, too, then I'm doing enough damage to my attacker so it doesn't happen again.

3points

Ooooomangos 3 years ago

This happened in my science class earlier this year

2points

Definitely_Nate 3 years ago

B*tches

1point

Steven Daino 1 year ago

There idea is that first they take there brains out, then they get the idea to punish the victim so they will not want to get bullied. This makes no sence because noone wants to be bullied anyway.

0points

Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago

I had a related experience in my daycare when I was about 6. I said something rather mean to another kid during recess, and the supervisor told that kid to sit down because I said something rude - I got away scot-free. I never thought I'd be mad about not getting in trouble, but...

0points

Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

Did yall know that they're gonna pass a law that makes it so that you wont get punished for bullying? Guess I'll just die then :l

0points

Robert Robi Z 3 years ago

Because you deserved to be beaten up, you somehow triggered it. The bully is the true victim. He must be helped and felt sorry for.

0points

#44

My primary school had this wierd obsession with safety. When we played dodgeball the boys had to throw with their non-dominant hand while the girls got to throw full force. And we could get detention for going where the teachers couldn't see us. But the worst rule by far was that we weren't allowed to run on the playground, I'll never forget the time my teacher literally said, "the playground is no place to run."

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Final score:

110points

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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 3 years ago

Ugh. Another sexist school that thinks men are always more athletic than women. I hate people who think like this smh.

84points

#45

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones My friend nearly got suspended for wearing a trench coat, it was the Late 90s, probably didn't help that he had long hair, was shy, and weird

FlyinBrian2001 , unsplash Report

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107points

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Ray Martin 3 years ago

America - thanks to the worshipped 2nd amendment, teens have easy access to lethal weapons, but as long as they can't get trench coats everything will be fine

95points

#46

Candy canes were outlawed because you could sharpen them to a point and use them as a shiv.

I went to school in rural Washington. We were definitely weren’t somewhere that shankings were to be expected

MisterComrade Report

Final score:

102points

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Powercat 3 years ago

What about pencils? 🤔

112points

#47

It wasn't really the rule that was dumb but the reason for it. In my last year of high school, the school issued a rule that all students had to wear student IDs. If you didn't, you had to immediately go and pay for another ID. While you can see how many students may have saw this a way to skip class, the reason for this was the school shootings that happened the previous year.

The reasoning was that it would be easier to spot who is a student and who is not a student to then see who has malicious intent.....except that most shooters were students....so....

Seiko_Enohara Report

Final score:

98points

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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago (edited)

I was expecting to read they wanted to use the school ID as a dog tag to make it easier to identify shot students or something. Glad for the clarification in the last paragraph - but yeah, that won't prevent a shooting at all.

68points

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#48

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Not really a rule, but the toilet paper Holders are OUTSIDE of the Stalls on a wall. So you have to calculate before taking a dump how much you need and hope that it was enough

Final score:

97points

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Nice cuppa tea 3 years ago

Probably just led to everyone taking more than they need, causing the waste that they were trying to prevent in the first place?!

118points

#49

If you were caught on your phone they’d take it until the end of the week. you’d get it back at half 3 on friday. parents went mental and a few even came together and sent bills through for part of the phone bills, they ditched that rule after 2 weeks.

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Mimi777 3 years ago

At my HS school they would return them to you at the end of the day, that was reasonable but I’m sorry end of the week doesn’t sound reasonable if kids have extra curricular activities and go places after school and need a phone or a way to contact their parents.

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#50

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones My school made it compulsory to wear uniform in online classes

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mulk 3 years ago

but only the "top"... ^^

106points

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#51

A few weird ones and their reasoning behind making them:

- Girls weren't allowed to wear tops with spaghetti straps because they could be easily cut with scissors.
- No tube tops either, because they could easily be pulled down
- No bra straps showing whatsoever, because it was considered indecent
- No soft drinks with actual sugar because if it spilled it would make a sticky mess. Diet soft drinks were fine because they wouldn't get as sticky
- No beverages of any kind (only in certain classrooms, depending on who the teacher was. Not like, computer labs where it was obvious drinks shouldn't be allowed, I'm talking like...random math or history classes based on who your teacher was, whereas the same class taught by a different teacher, it was allowed), because f**k you if you're thirsty.
- No shirts from the company "Billabong" because it says "bong" and that's a drug reference
And last but not least, because this one is a really funny one and I'm hoping someone from my class sees this and can confirm:

No wearing the Alice in Wonderland joint smoking caterpillar shirts that we designed for homecoming week because that's absolutely not a paintbrush. This one makes sense...no idea how it got approved.

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

Seems like the person coming at you with scissors should be the one punished. What the heck is wrong with bra straps? 50% of the populations is female. Just get over it.

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#52

Many many years ago when the Simpsons first came out, my school banned Bart Simpson t-shirts that said "Underachiever". It just sent the wrong message to students!

So I wore my "I'm Bart Simpson, Who the hell are you" T-shirt instead.

....until they banned that one too.

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Stephanie IV 3 years ago

What about an EAT YOUR SHORTS shirt?

16points

#53

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones When I was in Junior school (UK boarding school in the 80's), we were not allowed to say OK as it was considered slang and not befitting the young ladies and gentleman that we should aspire to be.

We also had to have a comb and a hankerchief on us at all times.

On top of that, we weren’t allowed to have our hands in our pockets because, ‘it looks slovenly’.

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#54

'Students must keep their hair short'.

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Coleonema 3 years ago

One stupid rule that most schools seem to follow

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#55

I was wearing a regulation uniform jacket in a classroom during winter that had no heating. The teacher demanded I remove my jacket and I refused because I was cold. She sent me to the head mistress.

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

The the head mistress sent you back to class, and when the teacher asked you why you were back, you answered "she says you will be fired next time".

0points

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#56

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Rubix cubes were banned.

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Ian Milne 3 years ago

What a bunch of squares

55points

#57

No hot drinks. Rumour said it was because the principal burnt himself while drinking something so he banned it

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Anonymous 3 years ago

The principal will be the next Kim Jong Un

28points

#58

You could only go to the bathroom twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

Mind you this is from 8-3 and you had to get a new pass every week and keep it the whole time or you couldn’t use the bathroom.

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Bet the diabetics loved that. I don't know how it is for Type 1, but my average is 1 to 1½ hours.

28points

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#59

"No body armor of any kind"-The hell was we gonna get body armor? Most of us barley could afford to go to school. The fact that this was a rule also makes me wonder what the f**k happened to make them institute this.

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Paul Aguilera 3 years ago

there was a student shooting in school but was hard to take down cause he was wearing armor. so to help police take down a student shooter, no students can wear armor. we're keeping them safe lol

2points

#60

No running shoes on the new gym floor - playing floor hockey barefoot is painful.

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René Kok 3 years ago

We had no black shoe soles to prevent black stripes on the gym floor.

24points

#61

I got detention for pooping more then 10 minutes but I have serve stomach cramps and I asked why and they had no answer.

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Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago

Oh poop.

8points

#62

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Playing cards at lunch was prohibited because it "promoted gambling".

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

We'd have rioted

15points

#63

Conservative Christian College. A group of us played Age of Empires one weekend. They didn’t like it and called a meeting. Everyone involved got misdemeanors on their records. There was nothing in the handbook about it being against the rules. The only person that didn’t get any punishment was the son of the president even though he was just as involved as the rest of us. Was quite interesting explaining the write up on my record when I transferred. “You got a misdemeanor for what?!”

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Nice cuppa tea 3 years ago

But how can you get punished for something you do outside of school? Was it a boarding school?

28points

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#64

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones In the late 90s in my elementary school Pokémon cards were banned.

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

When stuff like this was banned at my school it was to stop kids fighting over trades and to prevent theft.

37points

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#65

The dumbest one I suffered was in the early 90s my junior high banned all jackets and jacket like clothing in class because there was a story about how some kids in an inner city school had brought guns to class in Starter jackets. Keep in mind that my junior high school was in a medium sized college town, not anywhere with an actual “gang” problem. The school also had a terrible climate control system and was always cold.

The rule was really absurd, you couldn’t wear jackets or hoodies but pullover hood less sweatshirts were ok, as were sweaters. The rule was finally revoked after we had a fire alarm incident in the middle of February that had the whole school standing outside for 45 minutes in freezing weather while the Fire Department checked for whatever had set off the alarm.

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36points

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Cain Hargreaves 3 years ago

My middle school had the "no hoodies or hoods" rule. And it extended to everything with a hood. Yes, even that furry scarf with ears on the hood and pawprints on the ends. No hoods!

4points

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#66

After 9/11 they made us wear school ids on our shirt or hanging from a lanyard around the neck.

For some reason they decided it would be smart to also put each students medical history on the back.

Mine just had “nosebleeds” written in cursive

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lucy dale 3 years ago

isnt putting a students medical history in an easily accessible place a violation of HIPPA?

40points

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#67

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones Took all the doors off the men's room bathroom stalls because of vandalism for 2 months.

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35points

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Art Tomboy 3 years ago

Literally defeats the point of a stall

22points

#68

People Are Sharing The Dumbest Rules That Their Schools Ever Enforced, And Here Are 50 Of The Most Mind-Boggling Ones No slow dances at the prom.

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Candace Alagappan 3 years ago

Then technically it shouldn't be called prom...

24points

#69

We were not allowed to have facial hair at all.

Like to the point where the principal would walk around during lunch with razors and shaving cream and do "Stubble checks".

Absolutely ridiculous and he would send tons of us to the bathrooms to shave during lunch, no matter how small the stubble was.

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Like, dude, hair grows.

18points

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#70

They installed vending machines and later banned pocket change, so if you wanted anything from the machine you had to get it in the morning before classes started, or just get it cheaper in the shop next to the school.

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35points

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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago

Just go to the shop. Vending machines are rented and if there isn't enough money made from them then the company that supplies them will investigate, see the dumb rule and remove the machines

6points

#71

you had to have black shoelaces. no dark blue, no white, no grey. only black.

there was also the rule your tie had to be a minimum length. so sometimes one of the assistant head teachers would come in and measure the length of your tie with a ruler.

smcsleazy Report

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H Edwards 3 years ago

Yeah, because we always tried to make our ties as short as possible for some reason!

6points

#72

Dildos were banned. The school never thought they would have to print those words. You would think it was a given. Until a senior bought 100 dildos and snuck them around the school every day for 2 weeks straight

GreenPandaPower Report

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32points

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Katherine Boag 3 years ago

This is fair haha

33points

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#73

I was sent to the principle in elementary school for getting a drink of water out of line (as in we walked down the hall in a formation and we had designated water drinking stops). To this day I still remember the principal asking angrily well what if every one started getting water without permission? And I still don’t have an answer.

Final score:

31points

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Draco Malfoy 3 years ago

the world would descend into chaos obviously

15points

#74

No unnatural hair colors.

Except for Lily, who dyed her hair the school color (maroon). It was dark enough to argue it was a weird red/brown, but it was clearly maroon and I think she got away with it because it was “school spirit”

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Vic 404 3 years ago

Good for Lily !!

17points

#75

The new Principal made a "morning round-up" rule where anyone arriving to class after the last bell had to go to the cafeteria and listen to a lecture about not being late for class. This took about an extra 15 minutes, making the students even more late to class than they would have otherwise been. Needless to say, everyone hated it, even the teachers. That principal didn't last long...

LiveTrash Report

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Jaded Queen 3 years ago

Lucky, we weren't even allowed entry into the school. Even after just one minute, literally. Not kidding

6points

#76

If found with socks lower that the knees: warning, 3 warnings: detention

needless to say I got a couple of detentions

Bannanas_suck Report

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28points

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

So tall girls are just sol?

19points

#77

We had an up staircase and a down staircase. You could only go up the up staircase and only go down the down staircase. If you were caught going the wrong direction on either staircase, you would get some kind of warning/strike.

I will admit that it did help from keeping the stairs get congested in between classes, but it was a huge pain in the ass if you had a class right next to the up staircase and had to go downstairs for your next class, because the down staircase was way at the other end of the floor,so you basically had to book it to your next class.

Another stupid rule was only having three minutes in between classes. I went to a huge highschool, so you basically had to speed walk or jog to classes that were far. And with the whole staircase issue mentioned above, it resulted in people being late for class constantly.

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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 3 years ago

We have all these rules. I think it just causes even more havoc. You have 800 students trying to come up the one staircase you can use after lunch; that won’t end well.

14points

#78

I got in trouble for humming to myself in the bathroom and told I was disturbing another class

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27points

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cybermerlin2000 3 years ago

Should have replied "That wasn't humming... but it soon will"

10points

#79

At the end of the school day, buses were not allowed to depart until the flag was lowered on the flagpole outside the main entrance and properly stowed.

Back2Bach Report

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27points

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Harrison Miller 3 years ago

I feel like the Principal was a Trump supporter... or maybe just a bigot.

4points

#80

So many... You weren't allowed to wear a coat or a backpack (always freezing with tons of books), no card games at all, 5 minutes between classes (sprawling 1 story building barely leaves time to pee)

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Kennedy Johnson 3 years ago

I hate Unnecessary rules!

4points

#81

We weren’t allowed to share cough drops, and you had to have a note to have them at all. This was apparently because they were considered “medication.”

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26points

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whodunnitfan2013 3 years ago

They're considered drugs at my school, basically. Just like Tylenol or other OTC painkillers, like for girls on their periods.

13points

#82

Went to school during the time where health and safety suddenly started going crazy, they introduced a "no contact under any circumstances" rule i.e no touching another person, we were like 6 or 7 years old. Suddenly one day not only is tag suddenly illegal, but they actually enforced it, I remember one day like 70% of the schools population was pulled off of the playground and made to sit on the floor in the hall, for the crime of just playing the games that children play.

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25points

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MangleTangle 3 years ago

This was always a rule

3points

#83

"Don't play on the golf course. "

Our tiny community got a burst of cash in the 70's due to having mineral rights on land with oil. It was amazing some of the things we had access to for a school in the plains in Montana: computer lab, ceramics, photography, and a freaking laser! They also bought the grade school a miniature golf course in the center of the play ground.

A majority of the playground was concrete squirrels, turtles and a whale. These looked like a lot of fun to play on for a kid. We couldn't touch them. We couldn't get near them. We couldn't land our star wars figures on them, incorporate them in our games in any way or even walk near them when running from someone playing tag. Once in PE we got out the clubs and played a few rounds in my entire time in school. Other classes never even got that.

After about 30 years, during a student clean up, they got some of the upper level high school kids to take hammers to them and pulverized them.

"Don't let your underwear show."

This was directed at the girls when Madonna was in fashion. One school official went to war on visible bra straps. While no girls even attempted copying Madonna, this official was making a preemptive attack. She made announcements and would bust girls in the halls.

About this time the Varsity boys basketball team got new uniforms. Rather than spend money on the other teams, their old uniforms were given to the junior varsity girls team. Jerseys with huge arm and neck holes made for 17 year old boys where now being worn by 15 year old girls. Girls that were as active as possible and in public. If they pose for a picture, you could almost not see their bras. While playing the front of the jerseys flopped from side to side. At least one cup would be visible at any time. Suddenly girls basketball got a lot more popular.

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25points

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Ian Koch 3 years ago

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM WONDER WHY?

14points

#84

No clothes from Hollister or Abercrombie and Fitch or you get suspended for 3 days.

I went to a private school and those stores had clothes that worked in the dress code guidelines. So, school starts, then a month after school starts, they decide a&f is too pornographic or whatever and told us we would get suspended for wearing anything from those stores. I didn't have any from there, because they were too expensive.

I get making a rule like before people shop for school clothes (for a strict, religious private school, even though it's silly). Students' parents refused to go buy new clothes after already buying new ones. A friend of mine got suspended for 3 days for wearing a red polo, because it had whatever tiny embroidered logo was on it.

jo_bo_bo Report

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25points

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Nicky 3 years ago

A&F got sued for $22 million for discriminating against minority employees, putting them in the stock room instead of in front where the customers were, on the grounds that their clerks were "models" and minority employees weren't attractive enough/off-brand. Look this up.

19points

#85

That if you say/do anything back to your bully it becomes a mutual conflict and isn't bullying, so if they start calling you slurs and making you feel bad every day and you call them stupid once or twice the school probably won't help. Also dress code required school branded hoodies... they were 50 dollars. If you wore a non school hoodie you got in school suspension

wowthatfood Report

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24points

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Kt 3 years ago

Yeah, the cost of 'school branded' uniform is a joke. You want kids to wear something with your logo on it? Make it affordable then. The PE kits are like £50 for a tshirt and shorts. Luckily my school never bothered about this but my sister spends a fortune on my nephews school clothes because of it.

19points

#86

They banned plain red and plain blue shirts

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I am avoiding my homework 3 years ago

Why?

9points

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#87

Prom was a mandatory lockdown for the night in order to avoid students going to parties after prom.

Prom was held at various house parties across town instead.

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22points

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Mimi777 3 years ago

Why do they care what students do after they leave the event ?

19points

#88

My friend is an administrator at a private school in NJ and the faculty has to sign in and out of the bathroom using Google sheets.

9am, 10 minutes, M-F

no__ragrets__ Report

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21points

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Cara Strong 2 years ago

Google sh*ts

1point

#89

Yoyos. Somehow it became a thing in high school and, well, eventually they got banned.

dolphinandcheese Report

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21points

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Raven Sheridan 3 years ago

Yoyo's are a gateway toy. Next thing you know, you're strung out on hula hoops!

30points

#90

There were certain staircases assigned to each grade to use. Like we couldn't go down certain staircases because "tHoSE are THE kinDERGARTEN and GRaDE 1 STAIRS", even if the stairs were not in use by them at the time

my elementary school had a whole lot of other cultish behavior lol. It was an over the top Catholic school

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21points

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huewrld 3 years ago

my middle school had this, but only because the 7th-grade classrooms are on one side and the 8th-grade classrooms are on the other, so there were designated staircases for each grade. we also had the designated up-stairs and down-stairs from #80- the up-stairs were on the sides (the 7th- and 8th-grade stairs) and the down-stairs were in the middle (in front of the cafeteria and extracurricular classes, the ones that both grades can attend)

3points

#91

“No spaghetti straps“…this was enforced from kindergarten to the end of elementary school

edit: I just remembered, each grade had a different section of the school yard and they couldn’t cross the “line” separating them. This really sucked because only kindergartens and grade 1-3 could use the play structures.

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21points

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Ashley Conover 3 years ago

My parents had me in a Lutheran School in second grade. I was more shocked by the fact that I grew up LDS. The only thing any student from second grade on would be able to spend recess on was the lawn with one tree. You had no toys to play with such as soccer balls, Etc. I would go and either stand or sit by the tree by myself. Note.. No longer active in that faith

3points

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#92

I went to school in the 90's and the school banned us from having pagers.

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20points

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JessG 3 years ago

Understandable

4points

#93

"No watches during exams", because it could be a smart watch and it's to hard too differentiate between those and normal ones.
I mean, it wouldn't be a big problem if there actually were working clocks in every room. Hm.

Na-thanos Report

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19points

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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago

We have that rule at my school as well, and it's not that bad. I usually just project an online clock on the SmartBoard (we have clocks in the exam rooms, but they're high up and usually a minute or two wrong). Problem solved.

12points

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#94

A kid went to the hospital after falling from a wall. Then the school painted yellow lines around the school as a border which the kids weren’t allowed to cross.

So the teachers had to stand guard and make sure no one crossed it.

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16points

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Crusade Boi 3 years ago

Sounds like a certain European country back In The Cold War hmmmmmm

0points

#95

We weren't allowed have personal drinks in classroom unless we had doctor's note.

jadakissed143 Report

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16points

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BlueRasberry 3 years ago

"hey Dr steven i need you to sign this so i can drink water"

6points

#96

No shorts allowed between some day in October and some day in usually March/April (maybe May even). It was a K-8 school. We live in a 4 season area. It's hot in the summer, cooler in the fall/spring, and can sometimes snow but is usually just cold during the winter. It was a stupid rule.

chris_0909 Report

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15points

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Helen Haley 3 years ago

This was probably made to protect the less fortunate kids. The ones whose parents would send them to school in anything. Including shorts in winter.

7points

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

Holy...when I was at school in Germany in the 70s and 80s, almost nothing was forbidden - we had snowball fights in the winter, played ballgames in summer, gathered in groups, most of the boys had swiss army knives in their pockets...

24points

Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

Lucky

1point

pecan chewy 3 years ago

Throughout secondary school we were made to shower completely naked. We weren't allowed to take towels in or cover ourselves. We were watched going in and had to prove we'd got water on us when we came out. The boys showered in shorts. Not a great experience for girls in different stages of puberty on a weekly basis!

17points

Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

Something tells me the staff are 🎶peeerrveeertsss🎶

0points

bryguy 3 years ago

These are so weird, but even weirder is how just last month (Apr 2021) Florida lawmakers pass a Bill that legalizes Teen Genital Inspections if they are suspected of being trans. This is to "allow young girls the chance to prove their skills in sports." WTF! A teacher/coach is actually allowed to inspect your childs gentiles and there is nothing legally you can do about it. And we are supposed to just have faith that isn't going to be abused horribly?

14points

Nudge 3 years ago

WTF????

7points

Monika Nagyova 3 years ago

What the F uck is wrong with those lawmakers? The parents need to step up to protect their children. I'm horrified.

4points

Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

THAT IS TERRIBLE! SO IM SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED ABOUT BEING A TOMBOY??

1point

Axolotl King 3 years ago

That is so f*****g messed up...

1point

Don't Look 3 years ago (edited)

well, this is not accurate at all. Check out the actual bill. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1475/BillText/c1/PDF

0points

BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago

The stupidest school rule I've heard is, "YoU cAn'T sHoW yOuR sHoUlDeRs Or BaCk sInCe ThEy DiStRaCt ThE bOyS!" Any boy distracted by normal body parts so much that they can't focus on school should not be allowed around girls

7points

Kat 3 years ago

We weren't allowed outside during breaks. There was a shop across the street from school and they didn't want us to go there. Everyone who went out had to write down his/her name and class when getting in. So half the shool went out on every break and they couldn't handle the amount of people wanting in when the bell started ringing. All of them were extremely late for classes and the teachers started to complain and so it stopped.

5points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Back in the 1950s, my dad's high school said all boys had to come to school in a tie and jacket. My dad and his buddies came to school in a tie, a jacket, and their blue jeans, and an undershirt. Three days later, the rule went back to "something clean is fine, thanks".

4points

Amanita muscaria 3 years ago

Haha!

1point

Kira Okah 3 years ago

Our secondary school had mandated school underwear - white striped with the school colours, unavailable anywhere but the exclusive school shop. This wasn't like vest and shorts type underwear, this was bra and knickers type underwear. The PE teacher (all of ours were female) had to be in the room when we changed and would give detention if we weren't in school underwear. Oh, and the bra sizes didn't go above a 34 band or a C cup, so tough if they were too small for you.

4points

Bow, I’m a Slytherin 3 years ago

That’s so very wrong.

2points

Random Anon 3 years ago

You know it's no wonder there are a lot of people with mental disorders looking back now. Bullying was rampant and the schools did diddly squat. A single bully can terrorize a lot of children.

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Tabby_Sohee 3 years ago (edited)

My middle school had rules that girls weren’t allowed to wear leggings, or tank tops. Reasonable enough. But - they definitely should have thought themselves through. My friend asked the assistant prin. why we weren’t allowed to wear tank tops. A grown-a** woman told the 11 year old, “girls’ shoulders are too distracting to boys and it’s unfair for them to have to deal with their hormones because you can’t dress correctly.” Also, when I asked a different assistant prin. about the leggings rule and if it would be okay if we wore sports pants over the leggings: “No, your legs are still highly distinguished and those curves are the reason you have to watch out -“ here he laughed. Yes. He. I was in sixth grade.

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LuckyL 3 years ago

My daughter is only one, but when she goes to school and has to deal with rules like this, I will go absolutely mad at the school and probably start a rebellion. I don't get why parents tolerate something like this

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Lynne Stark 3 years ago

I went to Seattle Public Schools. Girls were not allowed to wear pants if any kind. If it snowed we wore pants under our dresses to come but had to take them off for school hours. Only in 7th grade, were we allowed to wear pants or jeans

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Octavia Hansen 3 years ago

In my school, guys were wearing T shirts of everything . . . beer, marijuana, sexy women promoting cars, bands and drinks. My dad had a sense of humor -- one day gave everyone in the family a shirt of the Playboy bunny head but no words. As a girl wearing it, I was called to the office. Not my brother. Mom was called to the school, no explanation. As I was walking back to class, still wearing the shirt, I could hear mom yelling: "YOU HALTED MY DAUGHTER'S EDUCATION FOR A SHIRT? WHEN YOU BUY HER CLOTHES SHE'LL WEAR WHAT YOU WANT!" Thanks Mom!

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Did i just read a post about school rules in 1900??

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Amanita muscaria 3 years ago

I'm guessing Umbridge???

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MauKini 3 years ago

20 years ago my school banned the homepage of the university of sussex.. because of the word "sex" in it... Smart move.

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

Heh. I've seen a high school called Squalicum...

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labaguette🥖️‍🥖️‍ 3 years ago

Some of these are weird, but I can understand others. Like the one with the cough drops, I understand the reasoning behind it but I still think it might not be quite right.

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Mimi777 3 years ago

They didn’t allow ripped jeans at my HS, they made you cover them up with duct tape. No spaghetti straps as well, you could wear Bermuda shorts but nothing shorter. There were a few others that I don’t remember anymore.

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denzoren 3 years ago

We had a few strange ones. I went to three different schools: 1. No walking on the grass (I know right) if you did it was a 3 day suspension. 2. No running during recess (this was for kids). 3. We had uniforms so your shirt always had to be tucked in...always (not strange but it was annoying). Bonus: The first job I had made up the rule of "no huddling". We were a department with about 9 persons and during lunch we would all gather in one cubicle and eat together...they thought it promoted "talking about management badly" lol

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Memere 3 years ago

I experienced the 'no huddling' at the office too! The head of HR would cruise around the entire 3 story building at lunch hour & check to make sure no one was eating lunch in their cubicle. And when 3 of us from HR started using our lunch break to walk together, he & the HR manager changed our lunch times so we couldn't walk together!

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Anna Banana 3 years ago

Not technically a rule, but I remember teachers going berserk any time somebody yawned, even though it's virutally impossible to supress a yawn. I guess their egos just couldn't take it that their teaching style wasn't the most exciting in the world.

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JennyLaRue 3 years ago

In the Uk where uniforms are common, we weren't allowed to take our blazers off without permission. During the summer months you had to keep it on during breaks until the headmaster gave an announcements that people were allowed to remove them - that announcement always seemed to arrive about a month after the weather hit summer temperatures. This is the same headteacher who banned crisp packets and made people decant their crisps into tupperware so they could bring their snacks to school.

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JessG 3 years ago

I understand those rules, however, they really should have been more aware of the warm temps for the jacket thing

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Duchess Raven Waves 3 years ago

So many nefarious things going on here

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Don't Look 3 years ago

Too many of these are about defiance. Also, it's now extremely clear why American children don't get decent education. The schools don't have time or the ability to teach anything. Kids would rather run around trying to be as belligerent as they can without dire consequences.

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Angela Jester 3 years ago

80's in South Georgia - Girls weren't allowed to wear shorts. We could wear clam diggers, which stopped just past the knee. We spend most of the year above 80*F and 80% humidity. We had to layer tank tops, we couldn't wear just one. By the time my daughter went to the same school, you could wear shorts that went past your fingertips, but no tank tops and no leggings, even with a tunic top. She's got a full hourglass figure, and she was told not to wear shorts that were within the rules because they were still distracting to the boys on her.

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Alethia Nyx 3 years ago

My school developed a zero tolerance for any sort of pushing, not just fighting, but any sort of pushing or silly teenage play fighting. But it wasn't out of the blue, it was after a couple of boys were half play fighting half really fighting, and one boy tipped backwards his head hitting a lock sticking out. He was in an induced coma for I think 2 months and had to learn to walk, talk, and write again. It wasn't for no reason but was way over the top.

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Definitely_Nate 3 years ago

My old school when I was in 4th grade made sit down eat and shut up for 20 minutes straight giving us 10 F*CKING MINUTES TO EAT

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Sarah Grape 3 years ago

my elementry school said 'no running on the playground bark, run in the field' then said 'you can only use the field for soccer and walking laps' they had a literal paved path around the edge of the field and administration would count your laps with a bar code as you walked during recess. you also couldn't enter the school grounds before 8:00. the bell rang at 8:15. I knew a family who lived nearby that would host kids in their house if their parents worked early

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M Dream 3 years ago

prisons

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rynn 3 years ago

The only time you were allowed to go to the bathroom was at lunch.

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Tacocat 3 years ago

My weird school rule was no leggings. Because sometimes they are see-through. If you choose to wear them, your shirt better come down to your fingertips, just like the requirement for shorts, skirts, and dresses. We were also banned from figit spinners, because they were "distracting and could be used as weapons".

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Nudge 3 years ago

fidget spinners....weapons.....I don't understand

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Batwench Premium 3 years ago

My cousin went to a Catholic Girls School and they weren’t allowed to wear patent shoes as “ it reflects underwear”.

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Mary 3 years ago

I would like to hear what on earth the people who came up with those stupid rules were thinking....

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Bernd Herbert 3 years ago

During my school days some 20 years there were none of those! In Germany that is

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IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago (edited)

I wet to a primary school in the early eighties where the principal banned leg warmers and crimping our hair.

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

My school banned finger guns so people didnt get hurt, cause ya you can fire real bullets with ya fingie. They also have a late start on mondays so u can sleep in but then they dont serve breakfast because you had 2 extra hours to eat at home when those 2 extra hours are supposed to be spent sleeping so Monday is just full of starving kids raving for lunch

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Kyan 3 years ago

these were fun to read

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Viv Hart 3 years ago

Who comes up with all these dumb rules? Surely it should have been discussed at PTA meetings?

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Voit 3 years ago

Our high school librarian didn't want us in the library, touching books or borrowing them. She was only concerned that we might damage them... (Hawaii 2006)

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

Oh in elementary school we had a book event thingy and they were giving out Dr Seuss books. So there was this one specific Dr Suess book I wanted to get so I got in line and when I got to the front of the line they said, "Oh these books are only for 5th graders sorry" I was in kindergarten at the time. The book was "Oh the Places You'll Go" btw. Long story short I got the book :) And I read it by myself :)

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Tracey Sharp 3 years ago

I once got punished in Primary School for jumping in puddles without gumboots..

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Sasy 3 years ago

So glad I went to an all girls public school with uniforms in the 80s. I still think school uniforms are preferable, everyone is the same, no more expensive shoes clothes, no drama over how you look etc.

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A. Jones 3 years ago

Pretty much all my schools (k-12) I went to had skirts and shorts had to be at about to knee length. They were all public schools, never wore skirts just jean trousers. Modesty was a big thing, but the 2nd part gets weirder. Weirdly they were very relaxed on hair styles and piercings. Seen a few peeps with Mohawks, dyed hair, and piercings.

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Nudge 3 years ago

sooooo happy to be homeschooled

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Hollysmom 3 years ago

Any and all of these would make me just want to drop out and get a GED

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Jocelyn 3 years ago

you're not allowed to kill yourself on school grounds. and every school shirt(not the uniform ones) were required to be black, yellow, gray, or white. also if you leave during the day you can't return

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Terry Tobias 3 years ago

What did they do to you if you killed yourself? Suspension?

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

Most of those rules are legitimate riot/protest/lawsuit material.

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Broken Angel 3 years ago

If someone beat you up, and you fought back, you were the one who got in trouble. If you just sat there and didn't fight back, you would get in trouble. Basically, if you started the fight, you would be fine, but if you were the one getting attacked, it was an instant detention... seems reasonable.

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Satirical Duchess 3 years ago

honestly I think any school uniform is absolutely ridiculous. my school every student is issued a POM card (stands for "Pride of _______" the blank is my school name though so I won't include that obv) if you lose it and your parents don't approve it it's instant dt if you get three points it's instant dt. but the things are so insane. yrs 7-9: no make up; 10-11: light make up (foundation, pale eye shadow); skirt on the knee, not above not far below; socks below knee and certain colour (boys ankle socks only and no make up); tie a certain length and right house colour; top button not showing; one earring per ear; no other jewellery unless religious and very specific rules for watches and shoes. there's probably other things just on uniform alone I could talk about so if you want to know more then just ask :)

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Ambar 3 years ago

i just found out today that my school banned google hangouts so, we couldn't send invites anymore. but hey, we got gmail but still!

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Nudge 3 years ago

try google chat, it's the new version of hangouts

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Susan Trevaskis-Owen 3 years ago

In Jr High: No going to your locker during your lunch break, except for during the first 5 minutes of said break. No idea what the reasoning behind that was. In high school, bandannas were banned because I dunno too gangish even though we had no gangs? The ban was announced on a Thursday, most of us wore bandannas in protest on Friday, the principal announced it was "Bandanna Day" and by Monday it was largely forgotten. Oh! And not a ban or rule exactly, but in 7th grade the principal saw me reading a Stephen King novel & made me bring a note from home showing I had parental permission to read it. My mom & I both thought that was ridiculous--she had never even once told me that I couldn't read whatever I wanted to read--but she did give me the note.

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Xylle Flora 3 years ago

My school's computer room had a stupid rule where the bathrooms were only for teachers. That was already a bit stupid but then the closest bathroom was about ten minutes away.

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Daria Z 3 years ago

Unbelievable. Our school in Russia (late 90s-00s) had no such ridiculous rules or restrictions.

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Reyes 3 years ago

My school also had a couple of weird rules, first of all. When I was 10, I was talking with one of my friends, I was making a joke. and like *any* sane person he laughed and bumped me in the shoulder, then one of my teachers started giving me a lecture about how violence and bullying is not ok. There is also another rule when I was 13. I wanted to apply for boy's volleyball, and to my surprise, I only found a girl's volleyball, I asked why there was no Volleyball for boys and it turns out my school won't be doing BOYS (not girls!) volleyball. As much as many other boys were disappointed. Turns out my school is a little bit sexist if you ask me.

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3 years ago

The weirdest rules I remember are from my old school. We weren't allowed to wear spaghetti straps or flip flops. This was because it was in Phoenix, Arizona and the hallways were outside. Rattlesnakes and scorpions frequently got on campus.

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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago (edited)

Catholic girls school. At all other Catholic girls schools in the city, their shirt collars were such that they could wear ties with their school plaid. That started as a thing at our school a number of years before I went there. At the tailors where our uniforms were made you could buy a few when you got your uniform. No no, no. The nuns had the shirt collar changed to what was called a Peter Pan collar which you can't wear a tie with. Ties weren't ladylike.

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JessG 3 years ago

I went to a similar school with Peter Pan collars, but we were also allowed the other kind, girls didn't want to mess with a tie

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Carol Emory 3 years ago

During the last two years of high school, our principal was a man that had a Doctorate in Child Psychology. He insisted on being called Dr....not Mr. He would gripe at students that were eating in the hallways during the lunch hour saying he didn't want trash or spills. Fair enough...but it became an obsession almost to the point of harassment. Then came a year when he went from class to class to ask how we could improve the school only to actually use it to boast about how wonderful of a job he did. "We've accomplished a lot this year!" He'd brag. Then a voice from the back of the room said "Yeah..we have clean hallways." With that, he picked up his book and walked out of the room. It took everything the teacher could muster not to burst out laughing before the door closed. Seems the teachers didn't like him much either.

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GirlFriday 3 years ago

We had to turn all "medication" into the office upon arrival at school with a note from our parents or doctor on how we could use it. This means that if you had cough drops, tylenol, tums, etc. you had to take it to the head office with a note. Start coughing? You have to get a pass from a teacher, go to the principal's office, explain why you needed a cough drop, have the secretary determine whether or not you need one, open the cabinet, find YOUR box, read your note, call your parents, and then give you one cough drop. Then you could return to class. Now, imagine if you have period cramps and have to do this for some Advil...

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JessG 3 years ago

This is an appropriate rule, and probably made for good reason, i.e. some kid/s ruined it for everyone

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Mifa 3 years ago

My middle school banned water bottles because someone brought in vodka. They lasted a week before the protests got to them. In fifth grade we had to put our backpack up at the beginning of the day and get if everything you needed. (If you forgot something, you were out of luck.) it was supposed to prepare us for middle school. Well *screw* you, in middle school we were allowed to get our stuff in between classes.

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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 3 years ago

Our school doesn’t let you dye your hair, but you are aloud to get a fake tan until you literally look like an orange.

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Well yeah they can’t police your skin color.

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Fred Burrows 3 years ago

I had a pocketknife in my pocket since age 9. Got in fights in and out of class . Spit loogeys on the hall ceiling and engaged in the occasional food fight. Mostly I just got a 30 minute detention .

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Art Tomboy 3 years ago

For some reason my comments are Bieng upvoted through the roof thanks guys 😊❤️👍🏻

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DC 3 years ago

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JessG 3 years ago

Rules are in place for reasons. Admittedly, some of these rules are ridiculous, but not all of them. Adults have had rules/laws since the first "civilized" societies emerged. There will always be people that disagree with some rules or laws, thus, face punishment. That's how it is, that's how it's always been. Want to change some? Do something about it, be proactive, that's how civilizations work

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ADHORTATOR 3 years ago

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

Lucky

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pecan chewy 3 years ago

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

Something tells me the staff are 🎶peeerrveeertsss🎶

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bryguy 3 years ago

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Nudge 3 years ago

WTF????

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Monika Nagyova 3 years ago

What the F uck is wrong with those lawmakers? The parents need to step up to protect their children. I'm horrified.

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

THAT IS TERRIBLE! SO IM SUPPOSED TO BE SCARED ABOUT BEING A TOMBOY??

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

That is so f*****g messed up...

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Don't Look 3 years ago (edited)

well, this is not accurate at all. Check out the actual bill. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1475/BillText/c1/PDF

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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago

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Kat 3 years ago

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

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Amanita muscaria 3 years ago

Haha!

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Kira Okah 3 years ago

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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 3 years ago

That’s so very wrong.

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Random Anon 3 years ago

You know it's no wonder there are a lot of people with mental disorders looking back now. Bullying was rampant and the schools did diddly squat. A single bully can terrorize a lot of children.

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Tabby_Sohee 3 years ago (edited)

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LuckyL 3 years ago

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Lynne Stark 3 years ago

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Octavia Hansen 3 years ago

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Vicky Z 3 years ago

Did i just read a post about school rules in 1900??

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Amanita muscaria 3 years ago

I'm guessing Umbridge???

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MauKini 3 years ago

20 years ago my school banned the homepage of the university of sussex.. because of the word "sex" in it... Smart move.

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

Heh. I've seen a high school called Squalicum...

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labaguette🥖️‍🥖️‍ 3 years ago

Some of these are weird, but I can understand others. Like the one with the cough drops, I understand the reasoning behind it but I still think it might not be quite right.

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Mimi777 3 years ago

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denzoren 3 years ago

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Memere 3 years ago

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Anna Banana 3 years ago

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JennyLaRue 3 years ago

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JessG 3 years ago

I understand those rules, however, they really should have been more aware of the warm temps for the jacket thing

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Duchess Raven Waves 3 years ago

So many nefarious things going on here

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Don't Look 3 years ago

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Angela Jester 3 years ago

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Alethia Nyx 3 years ago

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Definitely_Nate 3 years ago

My old school when I was in 4th grade made sit down eat and shut up for 20 minutes straight giving us 10 F*CKING MINUTES TO EAT

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Sarah Grape 3 years ago

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M Dream 3 years ago

prisons

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rynn 3 years ago

The only time you were allowed to go to the bathroom was at lunch.

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Tacocat 3 years ago

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Nudge 3 years ago

fidget spinners....weapons.....I don't understand

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Batwench Premium 3 years ago

My cousin went to a Catholic Girls School and they weren’t allowed to wear patent shoes as “ it reflects underwear”.

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Mary 3 years ago

I would like to hear what on earth the people who came up with those stupid rules were thinking....

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Bernd Herbert 3 years ago

During my school days some 20 years there were none of those! In Germany that is

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IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago (edited)

I wet to a primary school in the early eighties where the principal banned leg warmers and crimping our hair.

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 3 years ago

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Kyan 3 years ago

these were fun to read

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Viv Hart 3 years ago

Who comes up with all these dumb rules? Surely it should have been discussed at PTA meetings?

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Voit 3 years ago

Our high school librarian didn't want us in the library, touching books or borrowing them. She was only concerned that we might damage them... (Hawaii 2006)

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Axolotl King 3 years ago

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Tracey Sharp 3 years ago

I once got punished in Primary School for jumping in puddles without gumboots..

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Sasy 3 years ago

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A. Jones 3 years ago

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Nudge 3 years ago

sooooo happy to be homeschooled

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Hollysmom 3 years ago

Any and all of these would make me just want to drop out and get a GED

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Jocelyn 3 years ago

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Terry Tobias 3 years ago

What did they do to you if you killed yourself? Suspension?

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

Most of those rules are legitimate riot/protest/lawsuit material.

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Broken Angel 3 years ago

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Satirical Duchess 3 years ago

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Ambar 3 years ago

i just found out today that my school banned google hangouts so, we couldn't send invites anymore. but hey, we got gmail but still!

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Nudge 3 years ago

try google chat, it's the new version of hangouts

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Susan Trevaskis-Owen 3 years ago

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Xylle Flora 3 years ago

My school's computer room had a stupid rule where the bathrooms were only for teachers. That was already a bit stupid but then the closest bathroom was about ten minutes away.

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Daria Z 3 years ago

Unbelievable. Our school in Russia (late 90s-00s) had no such ridiculous rules or restrictions.

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Reyes 3 years ago

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3 years ago

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Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago (edited)

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JessG 3 years ago

I went to a similar school with Peter Pan collars, but we were also allowed the other kind, girls didn't want to mess with a tie

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Carol Emory 3 years ago

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GirlFriday 3 years ago

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JessG 3 years ago

This is an appropriate rule, and probably made for good reason, i.e. some kid/s ruined it for everyone

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Mifa 3 years ago

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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 3 years ago

Our school doesn’t let you dye your hair, but you are aloud to get a fake tan until you literally look like an orange.

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Well yeah they can’t police your skin color.

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Fred Burrows 3 years ago

I had a pocketknife in my pocket since age 9. Got in fights in and out of class . Spit loogeys on the hall ceiling and engaged in the occasional food fight. Mostly I just got a 30 minute detention .

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Art Tomboy 3 years ago

For some reason my comments are Bieng upvoted through the roof thanks guys 😊❤️👍🏻

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DC 3 years ago

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JessG 3 years ago

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