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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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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.

[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.

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

4zn76tysfajdxp

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

No riding in the toilets

Ffs like

Definitely not a Christian Brothers school either, then.

Monkeysgomad

Harry Prickly Stooge wrote: »

Definitely not a Christian Brothers school either, then.

Ahahah

Owryan

We used to play a game where a volunteer/victim had their school jumper ripped down the front and turned into a cardigan.

The school banned the game. They also banned the game where we lined a corridor and ambushed the 1st years.

DEFTLEFTHAND

We had a one way system which was rigidly enforced. It got ridiculous at times, for instance you might have needed to move one classroom down the hall but you'd have to go the whole around the school to adhere to the system.

Tin Foil Hat

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.

"You've got to wear this exact, prescribed, uncomfortable outfit all day everyday for the next fourteen years"

Bang_Bang

Don't know if this has been posted before, but my kids are not allowed to run in the playground during lunch break. The excuse is that a child my fall and the school will be taken to court for a large money extraction exercise.

seamus

ComputerKing wrote: »

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.

No doubt the kind of teachers who are terrified of their students. They think that if they lead the students outside they'll lose control of them.

Bang_Bang wrote: »

Don't know if this has been posted before, but my kids are not allowed to run in the playground during lunch break. The excuse is that a child my fall and the school will be taken to court for a large money extraction exercise.

This started when I was in primary school, that's late 80s/early 90s. This is an actual unreasonable rule. You're letting children out to play, but they're not allowed to run. That's literally all children want to do when they go outside. No wonder we've an obesity epidemic when you're discouraged from exercising when you go outside.

My secondary school were relatively serious about their dress code but you'd never get punished for breaking it on a single instance. In 4th/5th/6th year I was always clashing with one priest over ear piercings and growing a little shmig. We never got along since 1st year anyway, but he was one of the few who took school pride and the uniform way too seriously.

I remember having a whinge about it to my Dad one day and how I was thinking of just ignoring him and refusing to removing the piercings or shave off the shmig to try and make a stand. My Dad's response was, "Look, he's a wanker, but this is hardly Mahatma Ghandi standing up against the Brits. Just try to stay out of his way for the next 18 months and then you can do whatever the hell you like when you've left".

Manzoor14

My school were unreal strict re dress code as well. Full uniform had to be worn at all time, including our warm acrylic jumper, even in hottest weather! Shirt tucked in and top button done all the time and black loafers were considered as runners. Shoes must have laces. Was ridiculous.

No jackets or hoodys between classes either. Not ideal when the school was basically 4 separate buildings. It wasn't inconceivable to have to move between buildings 5 or 6 times a day. If it was lashing rain, you were soaked each time due to not being allowed to wear a jacket!

mfceiling

Stand up when another teacher came in to the class.

Stop and stand to one side to let any teacher in the corridor pass.

Only grey socks and grey shirts...white shirts after 3rd year.

Knock the teacher's door and wait for them to give you permission to enter.

Friday afternoon was detention - Saturday morning detention for serious misconduct.

Just checked the school website recently and saw the boarding fees are now over £15,000 a year!!

Monkeysgomad

mfceiling wrote: »

Stand up when another teacher came in to the class.

Stop and stand to one side to let any teacher in the corridor pass.

Only grey socks and grey shirts...white shirts after 3rd year.

Knock the teacher's door and wait for them to give you permission to enter.

Friday afternoon was detention - Saturday morning detention for serious misconduct.

Just checked the school website recently and saw the boarding fees are now over £15,000 a year!!

Alot of these rules people have