Silly policy or rules your school had

[Anonymous]

What is some silly rules or policy your school had or your kids school has?

When I was in high school 2008-2012, we they will give us detention it only lasted 10 minutes, so it pretty much meant, either you would wait an hour for the late bus to take you home, or you will walk home.....

[Anonymous]

The rule that everyone had to attend the stupid pep rally on Fridays at school before big games. They should let the kids that want to leave early. I absolutely hated sports and pep rallies and could walk home except they posted the SRO outside so you couldn’t leave. Absolutely ridiculous and such a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

My kid’s middle school won’t allow students to take their backpacks to classes - stupid! The kids have way too much to carry now in their hands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is some silly rules or policy your school had or your kids school has?

When I was in high school 2008-2012, we they will give us detention it only lasted 10 minutes, so it pretty much meant, either you would wait an hour for the late bus to take you home, or you will walk home.....

That seems like a brilliant way to use a small amount of teacher time, and have a meaningful consequence.

[Anonymous]

Except who is going to watch the kids for a full hour so they can wait for the late bus? That’s not cool for the teachers and wastes their time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except who is going to watch the kids for a full hour so they can wait for the late bus? That’s not cool for the teachers and wastes their time.

These are high schoolers. No one needs to watch over them while they wait for the late bus (or walk home).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except who is going to watch the kids for a full hour so they can wait for the late bus? That’s not cool for the teachers and wastes their time.

You went to the library after so the Liberian but they always stayed after.

[Anonymous]

Over the summer, they announced that backpacks must be kept in lockers and that no bags of any would be permitted in class. The principal was very uncomfortable when parents started asking if girls were expected to carry period products and just set them on their desks throughout the day. The policy died before the first day of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except who is going to watch the kids for a full hour so they can wait for the late bus? That’s not cool for the teachers and wastes their time.

You went to the library after so the Liberian but they always stayed after.

This reminds me of a dumb policy DCs school has; the library closes at 4, which is long before the activity busses leave. And they also close the library all day during testing so no students can use it for anything else at any time of the day.

[Anonymous]

No students except 1st grader can use the hallway near them at dismissal. It has a slop that connects 1st and 2nd floor so it’s great for students with heavy wheeled backpacks, and it’s very close to cafeteria, but they all have to go take stairs from the other side if they aren’t 1st graders.

[Anonymous]

I graduated from a public HS in the Midwest in 2002. Yes the area was very conservative. With that being said:

Dress code: no facial hair for guys, no dyed hair, no piercings other than 1 ear piercing for girls, no sweatpants or athletic pants, no flip flops, no shorts between October 1-May 1, no coats, jackets, or hoodies on inside the building, no clothing that could show a bra strap.

No applying makeup during the day unless you were in the bathroom.

No hugging or holding hands and definitely no kissing!

The school had a central courtyard off the cafeteria that was supposed to be open before school and during study halls/free periods for juniors and seniors … it was never open other than when parents/community members were in the building and then they pretended students could use it all the time.

[Anonymous]

My kids' Elementary school: no running on mulch.

My high school, late 90s: much of the same rules as the PP above, plus no water bottles or drink containers anywhere except in the gym or at sports practice. We had a big culture of secretive drinking during the school day. There were no enforced rules about carrying about dip cups, though...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids' Elementary school: no running on mulch.

My high school, late 90s: much of the same rules as the PP above, plus no water bottles or drink containers anywhere except in the gym or at sports practice. We had a big culture of secretive drinking during the school day. There were no enforced rules about carrying about dip cups, though...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids' Elementary school: no running on mulch.

My high school, late 90s: much of the same rules as the PP above, plus no water bottles or drink containers anywhere except in the gym or at sports practice. We had a big culture of secretive drinking during the school day. There were no enforced rules about carrying about dip cups, though...

Oh yeah definitely no water bottles/drinking! Some teachers were more lax about that one. But if you were caught with it in the hallways they’d make you throw it away completely. At the time most people were using single use water bottles or soda bottles so it wasn’t as big of a deal but imagine today if a principal caught a kid with a Stanley and made them throw the whole thing away.

[Anonymous]

Lots of kids bring clear alcohol in water bottles. I have a good friend and his middle school class was asked to NEVER return to a field trip location because kids were drunk out of their minds and caused damage to the location. Good times.