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What is the stupidest school rule you've ever had to deal with? (kbin.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I've got 2, both from middle school:

No card games: Like, why? I even had a classmate who during one period didn't exercise on PE. Perhaps due to previous sickness, I don't remember. As he wasn't the only one, he played some card game with others. The PE teacher noticed it, took that card deck, AND FUCKING RIPPED IT IN HALF. How much strength does that...? Anyway, I remember he cried, I'd say rightfully so. "You are supposed to pay attention!" Pay attention to what, people running?
Card games were even banned during breaks, not just free classes. What's the problem? Teachers didn't care if someone was beating the shit out of someone else with a chair, they didn't care if someone was playing with a butterfly knife, but card games? "That's dangerous for the youth."
No smartphones: I mean, not even during breaks, except for "A" classes. A classes had the "better" students. The weirdest stuff here was that I haven't taken the phone with me to school. After all, why? I could break it, I'd have no use for it and I lived 2 minutes away from school. But, when it came to collecting them, no one believed me. "Everyone has a phone nowdays, so you'll either give it to me, or I'll have to search your bag." Thankfully, after a week our class teacher finally understood that I in fact do not carry a phone with me.

Or perhaps I could also add something from elementary school. I have no idea what rule it would break though:

Some girl reported me (a boy) for apparently having a mascara. Our teacher then searched my bag, as if it was a grenade. I did in fact not have it.
And no, she didn't report me stealing a mascara, just me having one as a boy. And the teacher took that seriously.

[–] altima_neo 15 points 7 months ago

They come up with some serious bullshit in school.

I got lucky in that they didnt care about cards when I was in middle school. Wed be playing poker, California speed, etc. I rememeber wed be in woodshop when all the equipment was in use, so wed just play card games to pass the period. Or during breaks between classes. And especially the last day, it was a free for all for some reason. Testing was all done, teachers had nothing else to teach. Wed just go to each class like normal, and just hang out playing card games, getting our yearbooks signed, etc. But this was the 90s, before anyone had cellphones or gadgets.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some girl reported me (a boy) for apparently having a mascara. Our teacher then searched my bag, as if it was a grenade.

Which of the former(?) Confederate states did this happen in? Sounds like a grenade might have been okay with them if you'd had one, they're manly enough.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you're going to be surprised. Slovakia, central Europe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

A little surprised but I know we don't have a monopoly on dipshittery here in the land of pickup trucks with pink rubber scrotums flapping in the wind. Just seems that way sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I literally have the opposite experience with the phone thing lmfao

at some point I had a calculator (one of those slick 1990s casios) in my pocket, that king of looked like a phone. When I was passing one of the admins, I actually thought she thinks I have a phone in my pocket, so I gestured to it to say it's a calculator which she misinterpreted as me somehow boasting that I got a phone, so she was like "Oh so you got a phone, so what? Everyone does nowadays"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

And I thought that my school is weird. Well, maybe I should reconsider that