Unreasonable school rules

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We had one prick of a teacher who insisted on everyone wearing full uniform no matter what the weather. Now this was grand during the winter when it was cold, but in the summer when it started to heat up it was torture. Small class room full of 16 year old lads who had to wear heavy woolen jumpers even when it was 20 degrees + outside. Course the prat of a teacher ponced around in a short sleeved shirt while we melted. God he was a grade A cuntbag.

SpaceTime

DazMarz wrote: »

Sharing razors between people is a great way to spread blood-borne diseases (such as AIDS). Fúcking idiots for having a "communal" razor. Fúcking hell.

Fair play to you for not using it!

You really wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a law suit over someone getting Hep C, HIV or any of a range of blood-to-blood transmissible infections.

I'd have phoned the HSE.

SpaceTime

NormalBob Ubiquitypants wrote: »

I drove to school for some of 5th and all of 6th year. Beginning of 6th year I got called into the principal's office over my attitude in school. Literally the second day in September at this point. He said he had a "few choice words" for me and proceeded to rant at me for 10 mins, the vice for the same before I finally found out the problem. I had reversed into a car parking spot so the car was pointed out towards the exit. This showed my unwillingness to be there and my eagerness to leave. Seriously. I thought I was being practical.
At the debs I had a few choice words for them, mostly involving 4 and 5 letter words.

I'd leave him a card for a good psychologist!

If you did that in a business context HR would have you off for counselling!

Skatedude

Not be allowed to go to hospital when the Christian brothers break your fingers using a yard stick

SpaceTime

I have to say though my experience of Irish primary school and lower levels of secondary wasn't good.

I was mostly schooled in France and the US and it was a huge culture shock here really.
I just used to get shouted at and shouted at a day by several teachers. I actually couldn't understand one of them. She was from Kerry and I wasn't used to the accent / dialect. She used to go completely nuts at me and then mock my voice when I didn't understand her.

Took me months to figure out WTF she was saying.

I also remember being held upside down over a trash can / bin when I was over here for a year in senior infants.

In general though those kinds of Irish schools made me really self-conscious, stressed and nervous. I used to constantly lobby to get my parent to leave the country, that's how much I loved the school system lol

The school I did my last stint of Irish education was great tho. Very chilled.

FloatingVoter

^ Being made to sit in the rubbish bin was standard crap at primary school. But not very educational.
The idiot teacher who got the chief class clown to bring his desk up front and sit it facing the class was a moron. This was meant as a punishment for him. We then had her doing Irish grammar rubbish and mini-me sitting beside her distracting the room.
Closely followed by the idiot who taught making you sit beside the girls if you weren't paying attention was a punishment. We were 13. Getting within an inch of a girl is a bloody lottery win.

The_Valeyard

SpaceTime wrote: »

I have to say though my experience of Irish primary school and lower levels of secondary wasn't good.

I was mostly schooled in France and the US and it was a huge culture shock here really.
I just used to get shouted at and shouted at a day by several teachers. I actually couldn't understand one of them. She was from Kerry and I wasn't used to the accent / dialect. She used to go completely nuts at me and then mock my voice when I didn't understand her.

Took me months to figure out WTF she was saying.

I also remember being held upside down over a trash can / bin when I was over here for a year in senior infants.

In general though those kinds of Irish schools made me really self-conscious, stressed and nervous. I used to constantly lobby to get my parent to leave the country, that's how much I loved the school system lol

The school I did my last stint of Irish education was great tho. Very chilled.

From what Ive heard of French public schools, you had a lucky escape here.

EyeSight

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Something along those lines is the popular opinion.

You also have said drapery stores scaremongering to the public about mass unruly behaviour being only preventable by the school forcing you to pay for expensive school uniforms that only they can provide.

If you insert the words "defense contractors" "terrorism" "government" and "drone missiles" you get the same thing on a slightly larger scale.

I went to some rough schools where everyone was a target. Not once did anyone get bullied for the jacket that they wore. It's 100% scaremongering.
I've no idea why the jackets have to be so expensive. Also why do the uniforms have to be so stiff and uncomfortable? Why not some comfy slacks and a tshirt?

My school started on those school jackets for 150 euro when i was in 6th year. We didn't need to buy them as we only had 8 months left(maybe less at this point). But they decided the ban on all other jackets/hoodies should still stand for us.... Even if people were getting bullied cause of their jackets, you think a bunch of 18 year olds would be ok with it for a few months

languagenerd

The more I think about it, the more I question what the point of being so strict with the uniform was. I already posted in this thread about not being allowed wear school coat/scarf inside the building or the school tracksuit outside it, but my school were ridiculously over the top with uniform-related discipline in general.

You were allowed a necklace, by the rules, but it had to be tucked under your shirt collar collar. I remember teachers walking around the room telling you to tuck your necklace in if it had come loose (not talking about big yokes either, mostly small chains). Only one ring and one pair of small earrings - you'd be told to take extra ones off - and there were certain teachers who'd send students to their office for wipes to clean off any make-up they were wearing. As if that affected our education in any way...

We also had to have plain back shoes - so I wore plain black neat canvas shoes for while (flat, black laces, black soles), until they decided overnight that they had to be leather. So I bought a super-ugly pair of black leather granny shoes and adorned them with horrendous brightly-patterned laces. Apparently they were neater and more acceptable than the plain tidy canvas ones... :rolleyes:

Just accepted it at the time, but seriously, what was all that in aid of? What were they trying to achieve?!

ianobrien

My secondary school wasn't too bad. There was one stickler for rules and he got it into his head to clear out the official unofficial student smoking room. The room was small, dark and quite popular. One day he entered the room, ranted about smoking being banned and the principal wanted the smoking room closed. By all accounts, the silence was broken by the principal saying "Cop on! I never said that". The principal was having a quick fag with some students, and discussing last weekends soccer results.

The rest of the teachers were alright. Some knew all the students nicknames and used them. They generally treated us as adults and spoke rather than shouted so never really had discipline issues. The place is closed now.

cloud493

When I was in boarding school (it was a protestant school, but I didn't give a crap since I was 15 at the time) but they were really shocked when my mum mentioned to them one day I was catholic. I was then banned from prayers ( which was prayers and morning announcements) and the prayers in the evening, and religion classes. Bet they thought it was a terrible punishment, but it meant I got a load of free periods :cool:

ivytwine

Deleted User wrote: »

...Never did get a replacement copy of my book but I did take great enjoyment in sitting in every free class I had that he supervised reading whatever book I'd brought with me that day.

I remember we had a replacement principal in 5th year- she was a right little Hitler. Anyway, her thing was anytime you got a free class, you had to study the subject you were supposed to be having at that time. Anyway, one week to our summer exams, and our Maths teacher was out sick. Some HDipper came into supervise. I pulled out my Irish book (Irish was my shakiest Honours subject) and she started giving out to me.

I patiently explained to her that I was not going to start doing a pass subject that I felt fairly ok about when I could actually be studying an honours one I didn't. I wasn't much of a hard woman in school but I refused to back down on it. Such nonsense, actually discouraging someone from studying. Anyway I won, she gave up :P

This thread is bringing back sooo many memories. Those substitute lads when the teachers' strike was on were great craic. We used to torment them! :P

In my weaker moments, I almost pity them. Then I just remind myself, they're trying to teach- Bart Simpson

Tin Foil Hat

languagenerd wrote: »

The more I think about it, the more I question what the point of being so strict with the uniform was. I already posted in this thread about not being allowed wear school coat/scarf inside the building or the school tracksuit outside it, but my school were ridiculously over the top with uniform-related discipline in general.

You were allowed a necklace, by the rules, but it had to be tucked under your shirt collar collar. I remember teachers walking around the room telling you to tuck your necklace in if it had come loose (not talking about big yokes either, mostly small chains). Only one ring and one pair of small earrings - you'd be told to take extra ones off - and there were certain teachers who'd send students to their office for wipes to clean off any make-up they were wearing. As if that affected our education in any way...

We also had to have plain back shoes - so I wore plain black neat canvas shoes for while (flat, black laces, black soles), until they decided overnight that they had to be leather. So I bought a super-ugly pair of black leather granny shoes and adorned them with horrendous brightly-patterned laces. Apparently they were neater and more acceptable than the plain tidy canvas ones... :rolleyes:

Just accepted it at the time, but seriously, what was all that in aid of? What were they trying to achieve?!

Nothing. It's control for the sake of control. Believe it or not, some people get a kick out of acting like little tin pot tyrants.

Remmy

cloud493 wrote: »

When I was in boarding school (it was a protestant school, but I didn't give a crap since I was 15 at the time) but they were really shocked when my mum mentioned to them one day I was catholic. I was then banned from prayers ( which was prayers and morning announcements) and the prayers in the evening, and religion classes. Bet they thought it was a terrible punishment, but it meant I got a load of free periods :cool:

that's weird. I didn't think protestants had a problem with catholics attending prayer services. Maybe it's a private school thing.

zcorpian88

Wasn't really any strict rules in my secondary school, it was a vocational school that was famous for having students that ran amuck in the place.

If you got detention, students just didn't go and if anything was said about it the student would just doss school for days on end until it was forgoten about.

Some didn't wear uniforms and got away with wearing normal clothes which annoyed me to no end.

Basically if you were one of the arsehole rough students, ya'd get away with murder.

Only rules I hated is that if there was classes I thought were irrelevant I wasn't allowed to skip them, I wasn't a fan of PE or religion, hated sport, not due to being unfit, I am actually fairly fit, I just hated football which all the lads loved playing. If I got caught dossing it I'd have got detention. I seemed to get away with it though, for a long time we had PE first thing in the morning, so I'd have a lay in and walk into school and be there for regular classes at 10:20. One day I got caught, I arrived in like a minute early and got caught while the PE teacher was bringing the lads in off the pitch, bulls**ted her and told her "I had a dentist appointment and I left my note in my mam's purse, I'll bring it tomorrow" next day came and when I seen her on the corridoor I had to duck in somewhere and hide. Ever since I always timed my arrivals well so I'd be in class the second the bell went off, never got caught.

As for religion, that subject went out the window when I was like 12 or 13. There was no exam for it then so for me that was home early time, and I'd be doing "Mission Impossible" trying to escape out the door at 3:20 rather than 4:00. I seemed to get away with dossing those classes because I was somewhat liked compared to the other students that spent most of their school lives raising hell. That would have been about 95% of the students. The place made headlines during and after my time at that place, a complete hole!

Digital Solitude

Wow my school is so lax compared to some of these stories, my school trousers are a pair of black chinos and I wear a hoody in a stay in my shirt during the school day...

Timekeeping is very strict though, we get cards if we're late for a class, 5 in a term result in a suspension, regardless of why you were late. If we're late for school we're locked outside until the principal let's us in

The Adversary

In my school the people who were quiet and put the head down were always punished more severely if they broke a rule than the wasters who would get away with everything because the teachers had basically given up.

It used to bother me so much until I complained and it was sorted out :P

is mise spartacus

The Adversary wrote: »

In my school the people who were quiet and put the head down were always punished more severely if they broke a rule than the wasters who would get away with everything because the teachers had basically given up.

It used to bother me so much.

Same in my school

ozmo

On radio today - 25 kids were taken from a school (not sure where - outside Dublin I think) by their parents and put into another...
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Must have been something very Unreasonable with that school going on there - missed the whole piece - anyone know the story behind it?

djflawless

Got a week suspension for a bit of a musical hole in 2007
To be fair, it was 1 of them surprise attack, crouching tiger hidden skidmark thing

The_Valeyard

ozmo wrote: »

On radio today - 25 kids were taken from a school (not sure where - outside Dublin I think) by their parents and put into another...
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Must have been something very Unreasonable with that school going on there - missed the whole piece - anyone know the story behind it?

Any more on this?

who the fug

The sister boarding school banning tipex thinner but not nail varnish remover