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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.

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Monkeysgomad

Harry Prickly Stooge wrote: »

Definitely not a Christian Brothers school either, then.

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4zn76tysfajdxp

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

No riding in the toilets

Ffs like

Definitely not a Christian Brothers school either, then.

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

[Deleted User]

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 ?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 (?)

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.

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?

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.

[Deleted User]

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.

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.

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".