School Rules That MAKE NO SENSE... 

My school had this absolutely insane rule: by using the school’s wifi on your phone, “the school has the right to search or modify its contents.” This *apparently* included deleting game apps and installing spyware on that poor student’s phone.

My school tried to ban backpacks for being "too baggy" Can probably guess how well that rule went with everyone still wearing them.

Teacher calling parents: "Yeah this is ■■■■, we need to ask you to pick up ■■■■, because he is distracting the lesson and refusing to stop no matter how much we insist. Yeah he was drinking water"

Being in college has made me realize just how ridiculous everything in school before was

In 7th grade, we were that class. The one who always got into trouble and had a class lecture with the principal every other week. It got so bad to the point we had set times to go to the bathroom (A rule still enforced at that school btw). One of the girls really needed to go, but the teacher would let them because ppl would skip class and hang out in the bathroom, but it's always that one time they actually have to go. The teacher thought she was bluffing, but when she actually peed herself, he had like this whole apology to the class. Some bathroom rules changed after that, but it still kinda stayed the same after.

Yeah I remember a rule I had in high school that banned bookbags and forced everyone to put their stuff in their lockers instead. So if you didn't bring exactly everything you needed, you'd either carry around more than necessary (which is made harder without a bookbag), or go back to your locker and get whatever it was you needed. Apparently the rule was made to prevent students from bringing in things they aren't allowed to like drugs or weapons. While I kinda(?) got that at first, the rule just falls apart when you realize pockets exist. And especially the fact that when I completely forgot my locker code and wasn't allowed to have a bookbag, I bought a "laptop bag" instead, which was almost the same thing anyways, actually was ALLOWED, and you can definitely store some pretty bad things in there so what was the point of the rule then?? And yeah, while most of the teachers didn't enforce this rule, a handful of them did!

As a middle school teacher, most school rules fall into one of three categories: 1. Rules that only exist because a handful of students fuck everything up 2. Rules from state requirements or administration that teachers hate just as much as students 3. Rules from teachers going on weird power trips - usually in needlessly strict schools

My elementary was probably the worst, they had that "no tolerance" policy. One time I was beaten by some kid and I didn't throw a single punch, I got detention and he got off scot-free. They were also TERRIBLE at picking teachers, as some were rude, power-hungry, terrible at teacher, and a few were even sexist or racist. Truly the tale of a cruel world.

the most offensive rule-ish thing that i had in my school was after our rehearsal for our choir concert, it was the big end of the year one so the rules were more strict. there were also student helpers who would let you do stuff and i asked to go to the bathroom and i waited for like an hour (idk what they were doing in there) and nobody batted a single eye… but when i went out there all the girls bathrooms were closed so i just came back in and they suspected me for doing something or idk??? they said “you took a minute” like a mean ass teacher… and i was the good kid

When I was in high school we would have assemblies at the beginning of the year and go over the dress codes. One rule we had was that underwear must be worn. My sophomore year I stood up in the middle of the assembly and asked if random underwear spot checks were going to be performed? The next year that rule was deleted from the student handbook.

Both my middle and high school had some very strict rules, except that my middle school was more strict. They had nearly every rule on this list, no cell phones in class, no hats or hoods except if it's for religious reasons, dress code that was strict on girls, food being strictly forbidden in class (depends on the teacher with water bottles), and a lot of other dumb rules school would have. But my middle school had a weird rule where we're not allowed to use our backpacks to carry our stuff. And we used hall passes until the teachers started using this app to track who's using the restroom once they started distributing iPads to the students. When I got to high school, I found it weird that everyone was using their backpacks to carry their shit and how there was no dress code. However, I find it weird how in both of my schools, when you finish an exam, I have to wait until everyone else is done or until the end of class. I'd rather chill in the cafeteria or the hallways than to sit there in awkward silence. I'm currently in College so when I'm done with an exam, I'm out of there. I like how much freedom you have in college. Going to class is optional, if you need to piss you could get up and leave without asking, and you get to take classes that you're actually interested in.

I had lunch detention as a prize for being quiet in class. They'd put on a movie though, so it was hype.

My school had a couple of really bad rules. The one I experienced the most was the "zero tolerance" fight policy. If someone hits you, and YOU don't inform staff IMMEDIATELY, that's a fight. Instigator gets 3 days out of school suspension (which for some reason in my district meant you had to re-register for school if you wanted to keep your credits for the year), victim gets 3 days of lunch detention or in-school-suspension. Sometimes it didn't matter if you were on your way to inform staff. Almost matteted if you swung back, so this just encouraged *actual* fights to get violent (especially once the cops, stationed at the school because of shootings elsewhere in the country, told us to always defend ourselves regardless of the school's rules). But, having a quiet place to eat lunch wasn't the biggest deal (and honestly, neither was the week-long suspension if you had three ISS's in one quarter; like, a kid's parents are going to be just as mad about a 3-day suspension as they will be about a 7-day one). Attendance policy was equally "preparing you for the workforce"; late three times? Detention. Unexcused absence two times, or two instances of tardy detention? Next one's suspension, duration varies. If that happened three times in one semester, you did not recieve credit even if you had perfect grades. Lastly, most blood-boilingly, dress code. For dudes? Mostly reasonable. No sports jerseys without a shirt underneath if the jersey would otherwise expose your stank ass armpits. For everyone? Stupid rules that weren't the end of the world. No hats or sunglasses indoors (I live in a desert, if admin prevented kids from protecting themselves from the sun, each and every one of the staff involved would be swirlied or worse by angry parents), because it's somehow "disrespectful". Yeah, whatever. Hats are bad, but letting kids in poverty go without lunch or walk around school with holes in embarrasing parts of their clothes is fine. No bandanas for any reason worn anywhere, because "gang activity". No confederate flags anywhere for any reason.... which just caused the country boys to park across the street and flip around their belt buckles. No chains or anything with spikes, regardless of size. Supposedly for safety, which I could see, but the people being targeted for enforcement of this rule were always the outcasts. But for girls it was so very bad. Started out with "no shirt or bra straps with less than two inches of width", progressed to no shoulder exposure, then to shorts and skirts having to end no higher than your fully extended fingertips with your arms at your side, then to explicit banning of any cleavage showing and "girls may not wear booty shorts". So guys starting wearing booty shorts and wearing low-cut shirts in protest, which worked. There wasn't a problem with students screwing on-campus. Like it happened every so often, but nobody got caught. You know what there was? More than a few creeps amongst the teachers in the decade leading up to these rules. Here's a thought, school admin: Don't fucking hire pedophiles. While I'm sure we'll see a day soon in the US where predators are protected by law (with the way things are going), it is the moral obligation of everyone in the school system to ensure those kids are safe. Which includes due investigation of claims about staff, adult or otherwise, and passing over a potential hire if the vibes are creepy.

Shoutout to that kid in middle school that bought like 10-15 of the same hat and brought them all to school so that whenever one got confiscated he could just pop on another 😂. Dylan you were kinda a legend looking back. Also in elementary school we weren’t allowed to be in groups larger than 3 on the playground for like half a year. They said that it was loitering and gave us a “Gang Mentality”. This is for 4th graders in the whitest, primarily Jewish, most middle-upper class neighborhood

I go to a school with uniforms and here’s the dress code: -have a belt with shorts and pants -no hoop earrings -skirts can’t be four inches above the knee -no bracelets -shirts tucked in -no necklaces that aren’t religious -no makeup It’s a nightmare because they’ll check you every day lol Also thankfully I have multiple uniform things so I don’t have to wash things every day

I had same 15/15 rule. When I got to freshman year, my school did passes that if unused you could use as extra credit. Problem was they only gave you like 4 for the semester and if you needed to go after using your 4, you had to borrow from someone else or not go. Uniforms from 7th to graduation(even the bandalooms brackets were banned). No laptops allowed. Phones silent and put in backpacks. Weren’t allowed to take anything to the bathroom with us when permitted to go, so girls had to get creative with hygiene products, especially in male teachers classrooms. No food/drink. Saturday school if you got in trouble. ACTs on saturdays. If you were on a sports team, you had even more rules to follow. You can’t play/are punished for getting a D or less in a class(at least my coach). We even had a stupid attendance rule that you couldn’t miss more than 10 days in the year when it related to school activities. I had to fight with principal on this despite being a straight A student with perfect attendance as I missed a lot due to participating in multiple school organizations. They went so far as to install alarms ad camera on all the doors to catching kids ditching. We weren’t allowed to have any open food/liquids coming in to school and had backpacks checked+metal detectors+scanned. Even had my jug of water for softball taken away. Some school rules are really dumb and the lengths they go to to get people to comply is even worse. Schools are training for prison.

there was a rule in my middle school where we couldn't drink anything unless if it was clear 💀💀 and in my high school, theres a school-wide rule where we can't even use the bathroom if one person is already in the bathroom, and even then we can't go if it's the first or last 10 minutes of class 😐

i remember having this insane class rule: Anytime that we would use our phones during any period (like idk, a time that aint in a classroom) they would have to make us go to their wifi where they can straight up *EDIT OUR PHONES TO THEIR WILL.* and it's so damn annoying because my games that i play at home, are f*cking deleted and replaced with some school sh*t i don't want. (edit, they could also put spyware on the phone, so if a new student came in, you're agreeing to the fact that "The school has the right to search or **modify** it's contents, including deleting game apps and installing spyware.)

My school had so many security / police calls during my freshman year that they added scanners that you were forced to walk through and get bag checked, but then they made kids late to class by like 20 to sometimes 40mins-1hr, so they started picking and choosing who would get scanned and who they'd left walk all the way through no scan / bag check, but the bathroom still got set on fire twice, & it was funny.

Teacher: no eating in class! Also the teacher: eating a whole McDonald’s storage room while we are doing a test

Honestly respect to the person who wore a fursuit at ur school, they could have died of heat stroke but still survived

My history teacher has this really cool thing that he does called a Social Contract. Essentially, it's a list of privileges thought up by the students and reasonable things that can take them away. Example: you can eat in class as long as there are no messes that aren't cleaned up. Example 2: you can sit where ever you want as long as nobody is moved to the 'safe seat' Example 3: no homework on Fridays unless there's 0s in the gradebook (only applies to his class) ------------------------------------------------- In the school there's a way of punishment called BIST (I have no idea what it stands for) Some kids act up: I see your having trouble doing what I asked, can you please do what I asked even if you don't want to (warning) Kid does it again (safe seat)(seat apart from the other) Kid does it 3rd time (buddy room)(room next door) Kid does it 4th time (cool down room)(room where you cool off, write down what you did wrong, and sit for the rest of that period)

I went to a school with a uniform (normal in the UK) and the dress code was insane. You weren't allowed to wear jackets/coats that were certain colours or materials (absolutely NO denim allowed) and they even controlled what colour socks and hairbands you could wear. I remember one kid getting detention for wearing red socks because it's all she had that was clean that day. Absolutely ridiculous.

At one of my old high schools, there was this stupid rule called, "Sweep", which meant that if a student was late to a class, and didn't have a late pass or a teacher or staff member excusing the lateness of the student to the teacher, the student was essentially sent to the sweep room, where they basically did nothing until their next class, lunch, or going home, (depending on what time of day it was), because they wouldn't allow you to do anything, not even school work, and you couldn't talk either in there.

the funny thing is, is that school is teaching us Human Rights. Like Pissing, Shitting, DRINKING AND EATING, wearing what you want; yet they make us suffer for 6 hrs bc we’re “being a distraction” 🤓

What I eventually just started doing was ignoring the stupid rules. It was probably only beneficial cause the principal liked me, so when I got sent to him he would send me to my theatre teacher and I got to hide out in our big ass theater and is mostly the reason I now have a deep passion for performance!

I got a detention one minute from the end of the day for saying a single word to my friend absolutely insane.

the excuse my teachers had for not letting kids use the bathroom was "you should've gone between classes" we get 2 minutes..

If The Duck ran a school it would definitely be the best school, maybe the best PLACE on earth.

One of my teachers has a rule that you can’t go to the bathroom unless it’s an ABSOLUTE emergency, and if so, he will fucking whip out a TIMER, and however long you’re in there you have to stay after class. Traumatic

One of my school bathrooms is just locked constantly. No reason to it, it just is. I think it's cause most of the weird shit happens in that bathroom, but it'll be unlocked for like two days then be locked for like three weeks. It's wild.

About the lunch detention thing, I actually got one because I was talking with my friend in my SPARE TIME after both of us finished our work. My friend didn’t get one too. Eventually, the teacher realized what actually happened and let me go once I got to the classroom. There were other kids there too. But they had to stay since they were actually goofing off during class.

A few stupid rules that my schools had: - When you were playing sports, you had to play by the official rules (including handball, which was really annoying because before that tule, kids made up a ton of different rules and ways to play). You had to sit with your class at lunch (in elementary school). And each class would only get one table and each class was literally 25-35 kids. - Almost all my teachers in middle school had a rule that you could only leave class to use the bathroom 3 times a semester or else your grade went down. The classes at my school were literally an hour and 45 minutes long. - If you got lunch detention, you got to skip the lunch line. And then like half the kids started claiming that they had detention to skip the line, and nobody stopped them. - No phone. At all. Not even during breaks. If you had to call you parents about pick up or something, you had to wait until you got off campus. - All shorts and skirts had to be knee length or more. - You weren’t allowed to skateboard to school. - No doodling during class. Apparently it meant that you weren’t paying attention. That’s just some of the stupid rules that they had, but this comment is getting way too long, so I’ll just leave it there.

I'm so glad that my hs wasn't strict about dress codes or rules involving food and water, all it was was no shirts promoting violence, no open toed shoes, and the minimum length for pants had to be where the line touches the tip of your middle fingers. And tank tops were allowed as long as they weren't spaghetti strapped. Before that in elementary and middle school I was forced to wear uniforms until my last years there when the rule got removed, in middle school we weren't allowed to wear hooded jackets and water bottles had to be clear. Boys weren't allowed to bring backpacks into the bath rooms and if you wanted to have a snack in class you had to get a special pass the day before, and for some odd reason my math teacher had a rule where kids could only use the bathroom twice a week.

As someone with misophonia the no eating in class bit is a godsend. If someone is eating something in the classroom even if it isn't anywhere near me I cannot pay attention because I gotta shut my ears or wear headphones or I will go insane.

I actually had a uniform as early as KINDERGARTEN. It was a whole vest, button up shirt, clip on tie, dress pants AND shoes. It got more lax as I got into middle school so I only had to wear a polo and some black Adidas (they still forced you to come in black shoes and there were some exceptions) but it was still annoying.

as a person who graduated during a pandemic, went to a mental hospital 3 times, the "no phones" policy being reinforced for my school because of a person who snitched causing it and having virtual learning on top of all of it, i can relate

Bless my sixth grade teacher. She was the best teacher I ever had during my time when "school rules" were a thing, but she still had one strict rule that everyone in class had to follow: ABSOLUTELY NO CLICKING PENS. She would straight up kick you out of class for 10 minutes if she found out you were clicking your pen. At least she had the transparency to say it was a distraction for her, not for the class.

In my school, there are a few rules/ridiculous things that happened. At one point, for some reason was problems in the bathroom, (later found out it was because older grades where shoving hall passes down the toilet and making them flood.) And it got to the point where we had to sign a list before the bell range to use it AT ALL during class. It was fine until they banned bathrooms entirely. You could only go if it was an absolute emergency, AND you had to use the one in the nurses office. They let us use them now, but that rule was ridiculous. Dress code is ridiculous too. One of my friends had to borrow my jacket not to get sent to the office since she got dress coded, which makes plenty sense since she was wearing a very short shirt. But my other friend who had a long sleeve shirt on, that didn't even show skin, got dress coded for it being "too short". Another rule, we have some ridiculous hallway thing where we can only go one direction because it will apparently " cause less fights". I've already seen plenty of them, and it just makes getting to class harder. I just barley make it to my classes because they are far apart, and being late has consequences too, like detention, referrals, etc.

At the high school I went to I was actually able to give the “no hat” rule the middle finger for a entire week. The reason is due to the aftermath of the brain surgery I got (goodbye seizers) and a doctors note I tapped to the bottom of the visor. Also at the college I went to everyone was actually allowed to wear next to any kind of shirt they wanted (sleeveless is one I wore quite often) as long as the image on it wasn’t a no no (i.e. swastika). And pants still needs to be at minimum even with one’s longest finger when standing up (and at one’s waist not hanging down so far you could see another person’s underwear🤢) otherwise just like the shirt anything goes. Nowadays though I bet it became stricter with how things are lately.

my school just added this rule and they never announced it so I found out yesterday. It’s a school holiday week and I needed to go back to pass up a form to the general office so they’ll pass it to my teachers. The guards at the gates never allowed me entry and said “vice-principal made a new rule. No uniform, no entry.” Excuse me I walked a long distance in slippers and long pants on a hot day just to hear that? I was frustrated while walking back home. I’m tryna pass up a piece of paper, it ain’t like I have a class that day. Plus, I look embarrassing. And they said “whenever you wear uniform, you’re representing the school.”. So, they’ll be monitoring me- One thing, I’m gonna be sweating to death as “you can’t tuck out your shirt.”. Like I just want to tuck it out cuz it’s uncomfortable to me. They literally punished a student in a mall for having their shirt untucked. This school is so strict even when you ain’t in school.

My high school math teacher wouldn't let people go to the bathroom if it was "close" to the end of class. "We have 15 minutes of class left, I think you can make it." And he's now the principal, but thankfully I graduated before that happened. And our school had the no hats rule, but got rid of it last year. Hoods are still not allowed. Phones are only allowed at the teacher's discretion and you have to have a hall pass to go places during class now, and classrooms are to be locked during class time. I'm glad it wasn't as bad as what some of you guys had to go through. It's pretty laid back at my high school.

I remember in my school we had a room where kids had to wait for their parents because my school didn't allow us to use the bus until Grade 4. In this room we just sat in desks and wait. No phones, no fun, just waiting.

"Like im not going to fucking cream my pants over some shoulder" had me laughing my ass off.

most of the time when you ask to go to the bathroom after the break, they often ask "why didn't you go during break?" like bro how am i supposed to grab my stuff, go to the bathroom, and travel to a class in 3 minutes and not be late?

4:55 funny thing: There’s this dude named anthony in my class and he goes to the bathroom every frickin period. He makes it so obvious that hes doing it to waste time. He gets there 20 minutes before school starts and when it hits 8 am he goes. They literally had to make a sign out sheet 💀

Bro my middle school was hella strict you couldn't go to the bathroom 5 minutes after the period started 💀💀💀

TLDR, my school is dumb as heck. Bruh my school makes us either write an essay, or copy a prewritten one down twice. The prewritten one literally has most of the time, nothing to do with what actually happened. Picture this. You are walking down the school hallway, and two teachers tell you to stop talking so loud. You stop. 30 seconds later, another pair of teachers chew you out, and say stuff like, "If YoU wErE iN oUr GrAdE, i WoUlD gIvE yOu A lUnCh DeTeNtIoN!!!!" and then they let you off. Next week, you go to study hall to complete a math check-in, and then you get called for a lunch detention. You get confused, and then you are told that the same group of teacher that were chewing you out, gave you lunch detention, and didn't tell you. This happened to me. Now imagine this, you want to sit with your friends at lunch, but you have to sit with your class. (bruh it's 7th grade why???) so you make a deal with the teachers that you could sit in an empty table. Eventually, you are told that you are not allowed to sit there anymore, as they are bringing in more classes. Understandable, right? 1 week later, the extra classes stop going to the cafeteria. We ask to move back, but nope. That spot is used for in case teachers need to sit there. No one has sat there in the past 2 weeks. WHAT CHANGED!? Lastly, imagine this. A group of dumb 7th graders go do something dumb at commons, and then the teachers block off the area they did it at because they can't see it, (complete lie) but only for the 7th grade. Next year, the same group of kids that caused the trouble, could go to that area to hang out as they pleased, but the new 7th graders, me have to deal with the consequences of their actions. EDIT: Forgot to add, the school gives us uniform hoodies, and won't let us use the hoods.

For the no hats rule, the students kept complaining (and probably to the parents to) of the power hungry teacher who kept getting students in trouble for hearing a hat while heading outside (our hands could be full with other sports equipment or when putting on outdoor shoes). Eventually managed to get the rule changed that your allowed to put on your hat once you left the classroom hats where allowed

My school has this thing where instead of using a physical hall pass, we had to go through this website and make a digital hall pass so we could go. Keep in mind, we all got laptops from the school, but it was so weird to have to go through your backpack just to get your laptop out and make a pass. And the pass only lasted around 3 minutes, so you had to rush to the bathroom and back just to not have the teacher on you.

I remember a rule back in elementary school that we couldn’t have pencils in the hallway or in our pockets, they had to be well hidden. And that quiet cup thing in the cafeteria they did in elementary school where they flicked the lights off was so dumb. Asking kids to be quiet at free time is asking for trouble. I remember it was like Green, blue, orange and red. If the whole class got to red, they had to throw their lunch away and put their heads down, it was basically if we didn’t want to be quiet, we risked being denied food.

At my old school we used to come in at 8 o'clock and leave at 14:25 pm. On Thursday's & Friday's we had that detention bs where they keep you for 2 hours (if you came to school late or anything against their shitty policy , even if it's just a few minutes late than you have to sign your name in on a list) & and if you talk in that 2 hours to someone with you in detention they add 35 or 45 minutes more and than you can finally go home!!! and what's crazy is that in that amount of time they give you work to do like doing (schoolwork/homework) or just cleaning the school and than you even still have to come in on Saturday's for extra classes from 8pm , 9pm or even 12pm than you get to leave at 4 pm especially when it's exams . 🚮

My school has this system called "Paw Passes" which are passes to go to your locker, get water, to charge your chromebook, and even to got to the fricken BATHROOM. I'm out here having to hold in my bladder for 3 hours, and we only have 8 of these passes. And your charged one even when you turn them in for bonus, WHY ARE THEY CHARGING ME IF I DON'T HAVE IT. And if you run out, or lose it, you get an infraction for leaving the class.

In Australia, a school rule is "no hat, no play" and in my school, they were soooo strict with uniform. If u didn't have a hat in my high school, u would have to get a uniform pass and if u didn't have a note when getting one, u would also get a detention. We would get detention over SOCKSSS

4:05 So that kinda reminds me of something that happened when I was like 8 or 9 so there was a sub, like as a sub they were fine but they implemented like a weird thing, they gave out these like card things where if your bad you lose points or if your good you gained points or something like that (I don't 100% remember but it was kinda like that) so later into the day I *really* needed to piss and the sub said that they'd need to take a point off cause for some reason you'd also lose a point if you went to the bathroom. and so for some reason me at that time really didn't wanna do points so I hid it in my desk, like I'm not sure if other schools have desks like that but if you didn't the desks at our school were hollow and had a cubby that you could put stuff in, and so I hid my card in my desk pretending to not be able to find it and I raised my hand and told her I couldn't find it and she said I couldn't go so lets play a game, what did young me do? A. Nothing and sat at my desk B. Went anyways despite her saying no C. cried my ass off D. Pissed my pants If you guessed D you'd be correct, for 2 main reasons. here were the pros and cons for me when I was thinking of doing it. Pros get to take a piss get to leave school Cons pants are dirty so yeah, I pissed my pants and I got to go home early and for the rest of the day I stood home and played kirby. definitely one of my best memories of school.

Kid: TEACHER SOMEONE IS CHOCKING! Teacher: YoU dOnT HaVe a HaLl pAsS! Me: Arguing The teacher at every point: But you dont have a hall pass

My school doesn't have rules this terrible, we get to choose to eat in classrooms, and the only detention is after school. Also, I wore 25 hats this week and the only distractions were people worrying about my neck, so it's a rule most schools shouldn't have. That bathroom rule is the same at my school though, but since I rarely go to the bathroom and I don't just walk around the halls for half an hour, the teachers ignore the bathroom/hallway rules for me because I don't give them a reason to exist. That crosswalk rule, my school has inverted, they very much require us to use crosswalks, and they even upgraded the safety at the crosswalk to reduce the risk of people getting run over.

Australians remember the trauma of "No hat, no play". For all of the year that wasn't June-August, all primary schoolers needed to wear a bucket hat at recess. You didn't have one, you were to sit in "the shade" (sheltered sitting area outside classrooms), where the only things you could possibly do was eat lunch, play cards, or absolutely screw-all.

The thing I _did_ like about uniforms is that you never had to plan outfits. You have maybe 3 uniforms, wash them once or twice a week with the rest of your clothes, and don't ever have to think about it.

My school had a rule that you cant say "yo" or "sup" because "its the satanic internet people's language" I ain't capping

At my old school you got lunch detention for one day for not doing homework... and someone smacked someone so hard in the chest they were sent to the ER and now have heart problems. That got a whole 3 days of lunch detention. Wow chill out school that's too far!

As for the bathroom rule I have legitimately threatened to pee in the trash can and would usually let me go. Also in middle school we had a no coats rule or hooded sweatshirts there excuse because it could be weaponized. I live in a very cold climate in the northern United States so winters were miserable.

I actually had a rule like that “lunch detention” one in my transfer middle school, but ironically I got it as a reward. I got to sit in a bouncy chair that looked like it was made out of rope webs which was incredibly bouncy but also hecka uncomfortable and sit in a closet looking room by myself in awkward silence while the teachers talked on the phone in the teacher’s lounge outside the closet, and I got this as a reward for good behavior.

For me, it wasn't the schools fault, but the school boards fault. I gotten into a fight once because someone go out in a game and thought I was out of the game, so he jumped around me. I pretty much chased them about 75 feet and stopped seconds before they tripped and hurt themself. Someone thought I hit them and pushed me into 2 others. 1 of them tried to break it up, but instead of going in the middle and breaking it up, they grab my back and try to break it up. While the person who pushed me and the other person I was pushed into start punching my left side of my face. It took a few seconds for me to realize, so I fight back. The teacher at the time didn't do anything to break it up, and got at me and the one who pushed me. Go to office, wait for receptionist to stop jacking off with a photo of her husband, send me to nurse because right above my left eye was bleeding. Then we explain both of our sides to the 8th grade principal. Principle calls both parents of me and other student. Principle says that I caused it, just to find out I had nothing to really do with it. Principle forgets to tell punishments, Mom arrived, other students parents not there before nobody cares about their kids in USA other than your non-blonde Christians with a Mexican father. Principle corrects himself about the call to my mom and I get checked up and etc. This was on a Friday, so next Monday, principal forgets about my punishment, I get told to go back downstairs outside to see the principal, just to get ISS. And by ISS, I mean where you are bored for half of the time, be anti-social while everyone else breaks the rules, occasionally hear people in the hall yelling "FREE (NAME)!". It was bad as teachers would give you the work after 5-7 hours, about 5 minutes before they day ends. About almost 2 weeks later and I can't go to the school dance because of ISS. Though it wasn't on my record, it meant I couldn't go to it, so I had suicidal thoughts and depression for about 2 hours, thought of causing an autrocity, forget any of it ever happening because I apparently have brain damage, and my mom ended up calling the school because I was permitted to use the schools main phone to call home to let her know, receptionist is now jacking off with a photo of her ex-husband or someone, eventually gets to me and I get to call, so back to my mom calling school when I got home, she explained how the school board's were dumb. Now to the main part, the school board would rather have a students skull caved in, stomped on, brutally damaged or fractured than for me to fight back in self defense. Even though he one who pushed me gotten 2 days of out of school suspension. This is American schools at their finest, even after several mass-shootings where in Malls, there are 2 or 3 gunstores and only one book when someone gets lucky when buying a microwave, just to get Garry's Mod for Dummies.

4:07 In my old school all you had to do was sign out, you were allowed to just walk out as long as you signed out but then I moved to a different school and you have to ask permission there.

At the middle school I went too we had to do a hall pass and there was a sign out and sign in times, this would be implemented at the beginning of the school year because for smell of vape and smoke in the bathrooms. (I never smelled this ever at the beginning of the year, but I have a weak sense of smell. So I don't know for sure.) And here's a rule, "You can have holes in your pants that show your thighs." A lot of people did that and a lot of people got dress coded for that, like everyday. I never got dress coded for it though because I just wore casual clothing. No hats unless religious. Hoodies and sweaters were fine as well.

The no eat no drink rule is really funny when your teacher talks about humanism, basic needs for survival and about nutrients

When I was in 8th grade, I got 3 lunch detentions that school year. The 1st and 3rd ones were for not bringing back a signed homework note after failing to do my homework, but the 2nd one was for flipping off one of my classmates who was laughing at me for having my earbuds confiscated because I was listening to music in class despite having been warned in the past not to do it (I was listening to "The Sharpest Lives" by My Chemical Romance when I got in trouble that day on Tuesday, 2/4/2020). Since my 4th period science class was after lunch, I was assigned to serve the detention the next day and the day after that. The next day, Wednesday, 2/5/2020, there was a substitute teacher for my science class and all of the other people who were assigned lunch detention that day skipped the detention once they found out we had a substitute that day. I was the only one who decided to serve it because I didn't want to get into any more trouble than I was already in and I got to draw for the entire 40 minutes of my lunch detention. I skipped school on 2/6/2020 because I had an orthodontist appointment that day, but when I came back on Friday, 2/7/2020, I showed up to serve my 2nd day of lunch detention only to be told that I didn't have to serve the 2nd day of the detention because I was the only one who served it on 2/5/2020. Meanwhile, all the other kids had to serve an extra day of lunch detention for skipping it. 3 years later, it's still one of my favorite life stories to tell. I served out my detention, and in the end, I got an honorable mention.

6:32 i had exams on saturday which was the annual exam as social studies in last month march which my exams ended on 20th after my birthday was 22nd

4:32 my hall pass accidentally fell into the toilet when I was going diarrhea along with my ID card and the lanyard (which we could not get our own and they were like barbed wire). It was sixth grade. We had ids and the rule was you could not go in the halls plus in my orchestra class they were all stolen so we couldn’t go to the bathroom and the sign out sheet was stolen too so I said to the teacher “I can either go there or I could go here.” She let me go after I got the seat a little wet.

My " lunch detention " was being alone on a nother table. I cried until some highschoolers came and took me to recess

As an Australian who used to attend a primary school some time ago: if you didn't have a hat, that's it go to a shelter or under a roof 😔

So my sixth grade teacher doesnt allow hoods or hats, but one day, i wore my hood. And why did i do that? Because i got a haircut and hated it. So my excuse for wearing a hood was "i got a sunburn on the back of my neck and i need it to be covered". It was fkin January. I somehow got away with it.

The main reason why you have to ask to go to the bathroom (this is just in my school) is to let the teacher know where you are incase there was a fire or some emergency. It can also be because they're about to teach something important and necessary for future classes and they REALLY don't want you to miss that.

My school had a system where you would have to use passes to go to the bathroom and you would have only a certain amount of passes each trimester. They said it was to “help teach us to manage stuff” or whatever. I only used a few a tri and it didn’t really affect me but some kids would use up all of them in like the first few weeks of the tri, probably to mess around or something cause ain’t not way the need to use the bathroom that many times.

there was this one kid at my school who would literally have a small water bottle at the ready for math class cuz in that class we werent allowed to go to the bathroom and he would stick his youknowwhat into it and piss cuz he had bladder issues. luckily the school realized the kid was coming back home with his bladder bursting and changed the teacher

At my chinese class before, you couldn't use the bathroom during class OR EVEN DRINK WATER. You had to wait for break to use both of them and it's like 5 minutes so you instantly forgot u need to drink water or use the bathroom because you busy talking with your friends. Then you have to wait another 45 minutes to use the bathrooms. They changed that rule which is extremely good.

Lunch detention at my school was no lunch and no recess you just miss it all and sit in the principals office for the whole lunch period 😭 😭 😭

Bro my school has the weirdest rules when it comes to uniform. Hoodies are sold, but you can't wear the hood, no matter what.

I had lunch detention for fighting on the bus for 3 days and ngl talking to the wall was worth it

5:10 fr we have that in my school like bro i didn't need to go at lunch, and its not my fault i cant control my bladder 💀

In my Florida public high school we weren't allowed to wear shorts at all (outside of PE class), except on Wednesdays. In freaking Florida, where it's 95°+ with 100% humidity pretty much 360 days out of the year. In my Florida middle school that apparently wasn't run by power tripping psychopaths who thought heat stroke was awesome, shorts were allowed all week long but they had to be a certain length. Which seems way more reasonable than "NO SHORTS AT SCHOOL EVER EVEN THOUGH YOU LIVE IN A TROPICAL JUNGLE STATE....eeeexcept for Wednesdays, because we all know Wednesdays are the designated day for shorts" like wtf?? Never could understand the shorts thing, especially the randomness of only allowing them one certain day a week. I would have had an easier time understanding the reason for the rule if the rule was just "no shorts" because you could argue they were trying to get us used to workplace dress codes or whatever. But "no shorts except on Wednesdays" that's so random, I mean why not Fridays since a lot of workplaces do "casual Friday" and maybe it was their idea of conditioning kids into adulthood. But fuckin Wednesday? 😂😂 I'm 40 years old now and nobody has ever been able to explain that old rule to me. Wouldn't surprise me if Orange County FL public high schools still had the rule either 😄

I like how Ducks mom and dad are drawn as humans and his friends and teachers are too and, birdie is the same 💀💀💀

0:19 my school is literally a pleasure to have lunch with the teacher😂

1:14 this actually happened to me. I got a cut I wasn't expecting, it was *really* short and I had to cover it with my jacket. My teacher told me take it off and I was like "ummmmm no"

My school probably has such a bad school drill. Basically, we need to walk in an orderly fashion, and can’t even talk. Like, it’s not like the fires attracted to noise or some shit. And also, we need to go onto our oval (which is a big patch of grass) , which, grass is probably the most flammable object outside of buildings besides from gas and wood

7:08 I remember we were watching a movie and we had a sub so I pulled out my laptop, put the brightness all the way down and volume too and they told me I couldn’t use it. I don’t want to watch some goofy movie let me do unfinished work.

2:53 wash my uniform everyday never heard of it 💀

The only one school rule that I found ridiculous was boys in our school shouldn't have long hair. Not only that, the hair has to be above the eyebrow, not touching the ears and not touching our uniform's collar at the back. Funny thing is, a lot of people don't go by that rule and still has hair that's long. Fun fact, if one's hair is long the teacher will cut it themselves in school. Does my teacher want all boys to get a bowl cut or something? 😂

3:09 “you acutally”💀

Or the teachers who keep us in class after the lunch bell or last bell for dismissal at the end of the day, you know how much time you have to get through the lesson, it's your fault that you're not finished and it isn't even your class period anymore.

My school blocked the whole internet, and since I need to use the internet to work, I'm screwed

The no eating rule is understandable because most teachers will have to clean up the crumbs after class, which they most likely do not want to do.

For me, we’re only allowed to go to the bathroom if it’s an emergency but you could just say it’s an emergency and the teacher will believe you, even if that’s not the case so that kind of backfires

The no-hats thing always pissed me off. To this day, I wear baseball caps and never take them off indoors. 🧢

my school used to have a no hats rule like every other school. it was because its harder to reconise someone with a hood so it can be dangors (espetuly from cameras). but they added a mental health Friday rule where you could wear hats (no hoods) every Friday. then they changed it to whenever you want! I'm happy they realized that a lot of people like hats and changed it (still no hoods tho but that's resnoble)

I'm not American but I hear the SAT and ACT tests are indeed most commonly done on Saturdays as they're not technically mandatory for all students (though a lot of post-secondary schools require them). I never had to do an exam on Saturday in high school but my school now has them then sometimes (I rarely have exams and never a Saturday one though).

The reason why they gave you the sidewalk rule is probably because they either 1. Cared about your safety a little too much or 2. They have strict school policies because the principal is a idiot or 3. They want you to feel like a useless weakling

One of the teachers I had had this rule where you could only use the bathroom either 2 or 3 times a week. This would be perfectly fine if it was my highschool, where we would only have each class 3 times a week. Nope, this was elementary school. And one of those elementary schools where you had one teacher the whole day. This meant I had to hold in until either a class-wide bathroom break, which was about 1/4 the way in, halfway in during lunch, or another bathroom break 3/4 in. It was balanced out by the bathroom breaks, but I had another teacher who used a smimilar limited bathroom uses in a week, but also with that stupid ass power trip mentality of "You go during lunch or you don't go at all" god i hate those people. People say little kids are stupid but being mad at them was the proper reaction to that shit. Even a 6 year old can understand when something is truly unfair. Edit: Oh, and then those people get so butthurt when you piss yourself because you used up you bathroom passes for the week. Principal finally intervened about 2 months in. Took his damn time too.