Unreasonable school rules

The Singing Beard

What were the most unreasonable school rules you can remember from your school-going days?

I was in secondary school from 2003 to 2008, (inclusive).

In my school, the front door was for staff and visitors only, if a teacher caught you going in this door, you had to go back out the front door, around the school and in the back or side door.

Drinking was completely forbidden in classrooms. If you even took a sip from your water bottle in class, the bottle would be seized and not returned until the end of the day.

Wearing any coats other than the €80 school coat was forbidden. If you were even seen by staff on the way to school with it on, they'd find you and take it from you. If if was a cold day, tough.

If you were between classes and had to send a text message some teachers would slither like a serpent and take the phone from you. Even if you were not in a class.

If you were late to school (even if it was the school bus drivers fault / traffic) you still got detention.

Was my school abnormally fascist or did anyone else have similar experiences? It wasn't a Christian Brothers School btw.

Stheno

The Singing Beard wrote: »

If you even took a sip from your water bottle in ass,

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Wow are you a contortionist?

Riskymove

I certainly wouldn't be seizing any bottle out of your ass anyways

Sir Arthur Daley

No smoking in the class room.

I Heart Internet

It's a wonder you made it out alive OP.

K.C

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In fairness they probably have a point there

davo2001

The Singing Beard wrote: »

Drinking was completely forbidden in classrooms. If you even took a sip from your water bottle in ass

What kind of sick, twisted school did you go to?!

wazky

That the lads couldn't wear skirts.

The Singing Beard

Tried to get the ass part edited before the lot came on

Philo Beddoe

The Singing Beard wrote: »

Was my school abnormally fascist or did anyone else have similar experiences? It wasn't a Christian Brothers School btw.

It was definitely just your school. I've never heard stories of a school as reminiscent of the Warsaw Ghetto under the Third Reich as yours.

KeithM89

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

No smoking in the class room.

You mean 'No smoking in the ass room'.

Jimoslimos

Fire alarm goes off.

Teacher: Stay seated, I wasn't informed of a scheduled fire-drill today

The Singing Beard

Philo Beddoe wrote: »

It was definitely just your school. I've never heard stories of a school as reminiscent of the Warsaw Ghetto under the Third Reich as yours.

Godwinned already :-p

frozenfrozen

The Singing Beard wrote: »

What were the most unreasonable school rules you can remember from your school-going days?

I was in secondary school from 2003 to 2008, (inclusive).

In my school, the front door was for staff and visitors only, if a teacher caught you going in this door, you had to go back out the front door, around the school and in the back or side door.

Drinking was completely forbidden in classrooms. If you even took a sip from your water bottle in class, the bottle would be seized and not returned until the end of the day.

Wearing any coats other than the €80 school cost was forbidden. If you were even seen by staff on the way to school with it on, they'd find you and take it from you. If if was a cold day, tough.

If you were between classes and had to send a text message some teachers would slither like a serpent and take the phone from you. DVDs if you were not in a class.

If you were late did school (even if it was the school bus drivers fault / traffic) you still got detention.

Was my school abnormally fascist or did anyone else have similar experiences? It wasn't a Christian Brothers School btw.

wow how did you survive not being able to wear your own coat or text in school.
Good thing you made the distinction that it wasn't a christian brothers school as with abuse of that nature it's really hard to tell the difference.
I can't imagine a world where a student wouldn't be allowed to send texts

You really must have gone to an abnormally fascist school

Talib Fiasco

Our school took pride in disciplining the students by lunchtime detention every day. Talking out of turn once would get ya in there...it was almost like that Simpsons episode where Skinner and them eat the children in detention :P

In other local schools detention was seen as a severe thing of sorts but if your name was called out for detention in our school it was almost like an regular roll call.

Sometimes the principal would spend the bones of 5 minutes just before lunch time calling out students names. In first year you might take it serious for a week or two because they'd threaten a phone call home for missing but it was all a bloody joke anyway.

ComputerKing

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Fire alarm goes off.

Teacher: Stay seated, I wasn't informed of a scheduled fire-drill today

That happens in my school still but even when there isn't a fire drill some teachers make us stay in the class room and then they leave them self's.

GLaDOS

The Singing Beard wrote: »

In my school, the front door was for staff and visitors only, if a teacher caught you going in this door, you had to go back out the front door, around the school and in the back or side door.

We had that rule as well, always seemed a bit odd to me.

No long hair (all boys school). Don't see the problem if it's kept clean and tidy.

The Singing Beard

frozenfrozen wrote: »

wow how did you survive not being able to wear your own coat or text in school.
Good thing you made the distinction that it wasn't a christian brothers school as with abuse of that nature it's really hard to tell the difference.
I can't imagine a world where a student wouldn't be allowed to send texts

You really must have gone to an abnormally fascist school

I know you're just gagging for thanks.

Stop twisting my words.

I said wearing coats ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL .. My 10 Euro Penneys one was adequate, but apparently against the school rules to be seen with school uniform and non schol jacket.

What's the harm in whipping out a phone in the corridor between classes? Does it disturb a lesson?

Talib Fiasco

ScienceNerd wrote: »

We had that rule as well, always seemed a bit odd to me.

No long hair (all boys school). Don't see the problem if it's kept clean and tidy.

Ahhhh the hair...our school tried to put a ban on fancy hairstyles such as getting lines in our hair or mohawks or what have you. Getting highlights or tips in your hair was a big crime in their eyes. Even gelling your hair spiky was frowned upon. Many a day the vice principal would come over to me and many more lads and try to order us into the bathroom to wash out the gel...f*ck that for a laugh

The Backwards Man

Threads like this make ebola look like a good thing.

RayM

When I was at school, shoes had to be black. It didn't matter how respectable a pair of brown shoes looked - you might as well have turned up in a pair of white runners. I got away with wearing black runners for two years because, from a distance, they looked a bit like shoes.

Frosty McSnowballs

No riding in the toilets

Ffs like

Lyaiera

There was of course no smoking allowed, but of course there were spots where everyone went to smoke. The deal was you put the fag on the ground and hide it with your foot when the teacher walked past, and all was grand. Some teachers took pleasure in making sure they stood nearby long enough for your cigarette to burn away. Others would randomly pull someone out and send them to the principal for smoking. It was all about the yin and yang between student smokers and teachers...

Until a teacher abandoned all protocol. He told us to smoke away, no bother, he'd never report any of us to the principal just to be sure to hide them if another teacher walked past. In return we had to listen to him talk to us about giving up smoking every few days, even though he was happy for us to smoke away while he talked. He brought pamphlets about giving up, he loaned out books about quitting, he'd even sort people out for chewing gum if they had gone off them for a few days (chewing gum was also banned in the school.) In the few weeks he was patrolling that part of the yard he cut the smoking rate of students more than any other teacher who'd walk up and down and glare at you. He was a thoroughly decent gentleman who was well respected and I still remember him 15 years later.

Buona Fortuna

The main corridor ran past the posh front entrance. There was a foyer there with all the awards and cups, the school charter and motto (from 1552) in a display case.

Only masters and sixth formers were allowed to use it. Everyone else had to walk the long way round the whole school.

Anyone caught got a good dose of "never did me any harm".

Stepping Stone

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Fire alarm goes off.

Teacher: Stay seated, I wasn't informed of a scheduled fire-drill today

Yup. Had this one, sitting in biology in the lab, in the science wing. Eventually when the fire brigade turned up he decided to check what had happened. Fire in the chemistry lab.

All the doors, bar the front door by the principals office were locked during class time. In the event of fire (see above), he vice principal had to leave his office and unlock the door in question.

We also had a very strict no coats/ jackets in the classroom rule, which was fine, but there were no cloakrooms/ hangers/ etc and they delayed assigning lockers until November one year. Constantly got notes home about it until my mother rang the school one day asking where exactly I was supposed to put it. No notes for me after that, my classmates (and I suspect the entire student body) continued to get notes.

I was lucky enough with the school I went to in my town, some of the other schools were ridiculous. Most of them would suspend students seen smoking in uniform. One insisted on students being clean-shaven to the extent that one guy was sent home in the afternoon despite shaving that morning. They had a razor and told students they weren't allowed back in til they shaved with it. I didn't hang around with anyone weak-willed enough to go along with using a communal razor thankfully.

Grayditch

Teachers measuring the grips of the shoes with rulers.

The school was getting destroyed with dirt one winter, but we didn't think they'd actually get the rulers out and make you take your shoes off.

Weird.

frozenfrozen

The Singing Beard wrote: »

I know you're just gagging for thanks.

Stop twisting my words.

I said wearing coats ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL.. My 10 Euro Penneys one was adequate, but apparently against the school rules to be seen with school uniform and non schol jacket.

What's the harm in whipping out a phone in the corridor between classes? Does it disturb a lesson?

It's hardly fascism is it?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

"The class shall line up outside the class, with the class captain at the front, and vice captain at the back and the rest of the class in alphabetical order."

One of the strictist teachers in the entire school actually made us do this on day one of first year when most of us didn't know anyone else. It took about 10 minutes and said teacher never asked to do it again.

I Heart Internet

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

"The class shall line up outside the class, with the class captain at the front, and vice captain at the back and the rest of the class in alphabetical order."

One of the strictist teachers in the entire school actually made us do this on day one of first year when most of us didn't know anyone else. It took about 10 minutes and said teacher never asked to do it again.

Kind of a good way to break the ice. Get people talking, using their names and co-operating.

He may have been a genius (?)

Richard Hillman

You were not allowed to walk from class to class with a jacket or hoody on. Fair enough if it is in class but when travelling to another was stupid. I think there was a €1 fine.

Riskymove

a one way system was introduced in corridors


meaning silly times to get to and from a toilet or to classrooms which were very close by

BetterThanThou

My principal in secondary school couldn't stand when males had unnatural hair colours. He said it was a rule that applied to both boys and girls, but the girls never got pulled up on it. You could have whatever hairstyle you liked, a mohawk, a mullet, shaved, dreadlocks, but if the hair colour wasn't a naturally occurring hair colour, he'd constantly hassle you to change it. To get back at him, I cut my hair into a mullet and dyed it the brightest shade of ginger that could still be considered natural that I could find.

Aglomerado

If students forgot their ties they had to report to the secretary to rent one for the day for 50p.

Only senior students allowed inside during lunch break. Juniors had to stay in the gym or outside.

Talib Fiasco

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

No riding in the toilets

Ffs like

Not being allowed to ride the teachers in the toilets was especially a big buzz kill...no wonder our teachers were so tense and angry

cherryghost

Had a goatee in school and was confronted by the principle to shave it off in adherence to school 'dress code'. I proceeded to grow a full beard in the following weeks. Parents were called and all!

jimgoose

There are all kinds of ridiculous rules in place in schools, because they are full of all kinds of ridiculous young people for who's sorry arses the adults in the facility are responsible. When you turn 18 and become responsible for your own sorry arse, you may decide which silly rules you take seriously and which you do not. In the meantime, hand me that water-bottle and coat and report for your baytin' at my office in ten munites. :cool:

Jimoslimos

Stepping Stone wrote: »

Yup. Had this one, sitting in biology in the lab, in the science wing. Eventually when the fire brigade turned up he decided to check what had happened. Fire in the chemistry lab.

All the doors, bar the front door by the principals office were locked during class time. In the event of fire (see above), he vice principal had to leave his office and unlock the door in question.

Ah yes, I also remember padlocks on the fire exits. I think the reason was to stop latecomers being let in the back whilst the principal was keeping an eye on the front, but I shudder to think what might have happened had there been any sort of fire. Corridors were narrow enough and were a constant source of uneven scrums between 1st and 6th years during change of class.

FloatingVoter

Yes, they had some crazy rules in my school.

I'd tell you all about them except I didn't bother turning up and went shooting pool with the alcoholic English teacher and some girls from the convent.

I'm sure they had a rule about that too but I never had a chance to ask.

FloatingVoter

Richard Hillman wrote: »

You were not allowed to walk from class to class with a jacket or hoody on. Fair enough if it is in class but when travelling to another was stupid. I think there was a €1 fine.

You do know that every teacher reading this with a gambling and/or drink problem has just had a Sudden Bright Idea.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Kind of a good way to break the ice. Get people talking, using their names and co-operating.

He may have been a genius (?)

While being a very intellectual woman, she most certainly was not a genius (far too blinkered and unable to think outside the box) and not the kind of teacher that would care about breaking the ice.

Santa Cruz

cherryghost wrote: »

Had a goatee in school and was confronted by the principle to shave it off in adherence to school 'dress code'. I proceeded to grow a full beard in the following weeks. Parents were called and all!

You were an embarassment to all the other girls who were able to manage their facial hair

P_1

Nothing major bar the blatant sexism of female students being allowed to have as many piercings as they wanted but woe betide any male student who got one.

Pointing out that particular bit of hypocrisy was a doozie

The Singing Beard

FloatingVoter wrote: »

You do know that every teacher reading this with a gambling and/or drink problem has just had a Sudden Bright Idea.

Do that's most teachers then :-p

FloatingVoter

P_1 wrote: »

Nothing major bar the blatant sexism of female students being allowed to have as many piercings as they wanted but woe betide any male student who got one.

Pointing out that particular bit of hypocrisy was a doozie

Did you point it out by unzipping and letting the Prince Albert out for some air ?

Turtyturd

cherryghost wrote: »

Had a goatee in school and was confronted by the principle to shave it off in adherence to school 'dress code'. I proceeded to grow a full beard in the following weeks and then shave the shape of a goatee into it. Parents were called and all!

This is how I was hoping that story would go.

EyeSight

Richard Hillman wrote: »

You were not allowed to walk from class to class with a jacket or hoody on. Fair enough if it is in class but when travelling to another was stupid. I think there was a €1 fine.

years ago our schools heating completely broke for about a month in December. But the "No jackets allowed inside the school" rules were strictly enforced (not for the teachers though)

We also had no drinking anything in class, only allowed use the toilet at lunch etc.
Looking back, I didn't hate going to school so much, it was the petty unreasonable rules i hated

Ihatecuddles

No make up or nail varnish.

Hair had to be tied up at all times.

Toilets were only open during lunch break. Girls used to ask the teacher for the key in the middle of class, he'd say no, if he was young/new they'd shout 'I HAVE TO CHANGE ME TAMPON, SIR!!'

No going to your locker except for during lunch.

Skirts had to be below the knee, otherwise you'd be told to lower it. Most girls just had it rolled at the waist to they'd unroll it again, whereas some girls had theirs cut so they were made to buy a new one.

NeonCookies

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Fire alarm goes off.

Teacher: Stay seated, I wasn't informed of a scheduled fire-drill today

This happened in our school too. Teacher goes to "check what's going on" leaving us in the classroom and runs back into the class looking flustered after smelling smoke in the corridor and tells us to evacuate. Someone had set fire to a bin in the toilets.

Weren't allowed to yawn with our mouths open in primary school.. Was asked why I do it recently and couldn't believe I still close my mouth.

Monkeysgomad

The Singing Beard wrote: »

What were the most unreasonable school rules you can remember from your school-going days?

I was in secondary school from 2003 to 2008, (inclusive).

In my school, the front door was for staff and visitors only, if a teacher caught you going in this door, you had to go back out the front door, around the school and in the back or side door.

Drinking was completely forbidden in classrooms. If you even took a sip from your water bottle in class, the bottle would be seized and not returned until the end of the day.

Wearing any coats other than the €80 school cost was forbidden. If you were even seen by staff on the way to school with it on, they'd find you and take it from you. If if was a cold day, tough.

If you were between classes and had to send a text message some teachers would slither like a serpent and take the phone from you. DVDs if you were not in a class.

If you were late did school (even if it was the school bus drivers fault / traffic) you still got detention.

Was my school abnormally fascist or did anyone else have similar experiences? It wasn't a Christian Brothers School btw.

Im still in school, were not allowed in a door thats just for teachers also theres a pin on it, we have to swipe our card to get into school ourselves, we arent allowed wear any coat except school one (€120), no drinking anytime besides lunch, no txting except lunch no phone calls at all, no wearing scarves at all even when it was -5, only du barry shoes, only school socks detention if you wore any others, and yes if we wrre late to school due to bus driver/a crash/traffic/ or your own fault after school detention. Oh and for one teacher if u made more than 5 spelling mistake in irish hw that also was grounds for detention. So no i dont think youre school was that strict