What are unethical practices schools still use? 

I disagree with your opinion on homework. Home is home, school is school. You shouldn’t be making kids do ANY homework. It’s been proven to not do anything, and is just annoying. The whole point of time out of school, whether after school, or on the weekends, is to be time off school.

Punishing the whole class when one person does something wrong.

My high school didn’t just prohibit phones in class, but went as far as to install signal blockers so that devices not on the school WiFi could not get signal. This is a big safety hazard as well as super unethical, as people couldn’t even play phone games at lunch or anything. I looked it up after making the discovery (a tech teacher accidentally admitted to the devices’ purpose) and turns out those devices are illegal under federal statute. The cafeteria was a massive health hazard too. My school did a lot of illegal things.

I’m surprised this didn’t come up, but school lunch debts. That’s a thing here in the US. It’s similar to the person who mentioned their grades and diplomas being held until their parents could pay their overdue fees. I can’t imagine the cold heartedness required to withhold food from a kid who can’t afford it or harass their parents until they pay up. Yet another way we make being poor as painful as possible in this country.

Did you know that "homework" was originally created as a punishment for delinquents, bullies, and other people who misbehaved? Yea, now its for the good people to suffer _and the bullies to provide extra suffering_

At my school it isn’t even a zero tolerance of fighting back. I was the victim of someone else attacking me, and still ended up getting the same punishment as the attacker because and I quote “a teacher had to break up the fight”. Keep in mind I didn’t even hit back but the sole fact I was involved in it got me 2 days of suspension

Due to my autism, I was the "problem child" at my school. I was constantly bullied mostly by students, but I have a feeling a teacher got involved once. Most teachers would scold me for tattling, then do absolutely nothing about it. They try to railroad me out by having parent teacher conferences without my parents. It got to the point where my parents hired a child service person to make sure I was being taken care of properly because I would outright cry when I had to go to school because I was terrified by it. Worst school ever, so if you ever think if sending your child to Olivia Park elementary, then don't.

Story 4: it's worse if you have a developmental issue like adhd, that causes you to need more time for certain tasks. Especially if you're supposed to compensate, because "you're so smart, just stop being lazy" Especially if your parents and teachers don't know how hyperfocus works and use it as an argument for why your claims, that you just can't do better is a lie. Oh, and unless the school psychologist decides that your disorder is severe enough, you aren't allowed to ask for help as that's considered "refusal to work"

On the homework part, I think my Biology teacher marked the entire class. He sent us 63 biology exercises to deliver to him next week. What's the issue? Next week was *exam week.*

I’ve always excelled in academics and the teachers know it. one time my teacher tried to get me to answer incorrectly so she asked a question with no right answer and when I said there wasn’t a correct answer she got mad, yelled at me, and gave me 3x as much homework which she knew was busy work because I was able to do it perfectly fine. Another story is when one time a girl fell unconscious in PE due to dehydration, the teachers did nothing and a male student called 911 and saver her life with CPR but he got suspended for s**usl harassment.

here's one, I never heard in this, Favoritism I've had multiped teachers single me out. but this one is just awful But here's the one that makes my blood boil to me. when i was in four grade, my school had a new teacher, she was nice, but would never do anything about bullying, I was bullied, the other kids would single me out, and not me participate with them. because I was the weird talkative kid. The teacher didn't like me because, I am part native, not fully, I can pass as white. but this teacher somehow found out I was part native and never did anything to stop the bullying towards me. she actually singled me out, because I brought my lunch to school, we were going on a field trip and wouldn't let me take my lunch with me or eat it, because my mom didn't pay for the "special" lunches they were giving out, but other kids could eat they're packed lunches, My mom pulled me out early after a horrible bullying incident that the teacher refused to accept as real. and told me to stop making up stories about her students. so yeah,

The 1st story is relatable, I had an uncle who was running on a track. He was overweight and got pushed too hard on the track and actually ended up dying because of it. He was only 13, so obviously I never got to meet him. I believe it was a heart attack or something.

After school kids just want to unwind, just like adults. But yeah…let’s make them do all the even math problems on three pages of the text book.

I have ADHD and need to eat/sleep well in order to even function. My high school had me getting up at 5:00 am, I couldn’t eat breakfast cause I would feel sick if I ate that early, ONTOP of ADHD and the fact that teenagers circadian rhythm makes them fall asleep later in the night and wake up later in the morning. looking back now it is a miracle I even got good grades. I wasn’t medicated for my ADHD back then either. I was aware I was in a bad state. I even told myself multiple times “I wonder what it’s like for people who are fully aware.” Schools are a freaking torture and the way they operate nowadays should be considered crimes against humanity.

One time, my foot was hurting like as if I was walking on stones but I double checked and because stones typically go in my shoe a lot, my gym teacher thought I was lying. I’m not someone who would fake pain and it has been the first time I ever got a doctors note.

Corporal Punishment, not only is it still legal in some states but it's actually be brought back in states where it was illegal before even though it's been proven to cause long term harm to kids and have zero benefits over and over again. It should be illegal EVERYWHERE and it's infuriating that there are still people who defend this barbaric practice.

story 18: i personally experienced this. Straight out of college it was winter, so no one was hiring teachers for the current year, but there were plenty of schools taking applications for the next year. So i applied at a job fair and was immediately accepted by a school in a nearby town around 30mins from where i lived to teach, what i thought, was a couple of higher level science classes. They didn't tell me that I would be teaching 5 different classes until a week before school started. So i had 1 week to try and prepare a couple weeks of lessons for 5 different subjects. I lasted four months because of the insanely massive workload. I was teaching a number of classes that the state says is illegal to subject any teacher to, let alone a first year teacher. In addition i was the first physics teacher the school ever had and had to pay for almost everything to set that class up. For those four months I was so swamped with work on top of all the prep and grading that I was getting 2 hours of sleep a night, including weekends, for 4 MONTHS. One day I just couldn't do it. My health had deteriorated to the point that I had lost 20lbs, felt weak/faint all the time, and would always feel nauseous. The stress also got to me because the administration refused to punish students. If you sent a student to the office, they were just told by the prinicpal to behave and sent back. I feel confident that if I had kept that up for the entire year I would be dead from exhaustion. Humans need sleep. studies on mice show that about 2 weeks of 0 sleep will kill them. I wasn't getting no sleep but you don't enter REM sleep until a couple of hours after you fall asleep, so I wasn't getting much or any of that, and REM is known to be the most important part when it comes to memory and attention. The day I quit, I went to bed and woke up 2 days later. not even joking, I slept for 40 hours straight.

In 3rd grade I was bullied by one specific kid almost everyday and he basically set my life in a downward spiral. I tried telling teachers and adults like they told us too but all they did was make him miss some recess. I had class with him in 6th grade as well and nothing really changed until I took matters into my own hand and hit him. Then they finally switched his class. From my experience what they teach you in school about bullying is complete Bs and the to really stop a bully is to fight back, the teachers won’t help. Messi Hierapolis is only person I truly hate.

Slightly off topic, but in regards to homework. While project managing on a Uni course I asked the team to come up with anything they like for a narrative over the weekend. This required no work. Go out and live your life and make it up on the spot if they like, on Monday. The trick I wanted to introduce them to was pulling information and inspiration from day to day life. They play an MMO all weekend? Great! What did they do? Raids, level up, get a rare drop? Jump around the fountain in the city? It doesn't matter. You can include and introduce and more importantly, merge different experiences together. This is a tough one for people to grasp since schools in the UK destroy any imagination or creativity required for primary research. The complete antithesis of autonomous learning. What usually happens is students start to worry and panic that they don't know what they should be doing. That there might be a trick. Sound familiar? Every student suffered from a form of PTSD that results from Narcissistic bullying. I can never condone the existence of the current UK educational system because it is designed to forge factory workers, of which we no longer need. The support involved causes contradictions in what is expected of students and causes these issues where students don't know what to do. The support, genuine, is required. However the UK education system was built on the foundation of modern slavery. It needs a complete overhaul. Instead of University being used to expand the learning capabilities of its students, instead it first has to address and dismantle the trauma of everything before that point. Especially since a majority of the information gained is false by that point. Trying to explain why cheating is a good thing, why being wrong is a good thing, why arguing is a good thing, why sitting on your ass picking your belly button is a good thing, is almost impossible. Without first disassembling the damage done by school. It hurts me to know this, but enthralls me to think how effective lessons can be created. Most importantly, it starts by communicating. Sharing experiences and ideas with others as a way to cross reference and analyze. Therapy, in a sense, but building a relationship with yourself rather than an external source.

Going to school before zero tolerance policies swept the school system was rough till you learned how to fight, but I'm so glad that wasn't a thing till I was almost out of school. Never once got in trouble for fighting in school. Definitely helped that I was a great student. Closest I ever came to getting in trouble for a fight was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I was sitting next to one of my teachers when some kid that picked on everyone tackled the girl I had a crush on and started hitting her or making her hit herself, I forget now. Before the teacher could react I sprinted across the playground, tackled him off her, and proceeded to give him a taste of his own medicine. Ended up having more time than I should have because my ferocity completely stunned that teacher. I ended up spending a little bit of time in the office after recess while they tried to contact my parents unsuccessfully. I got sent home with a letter and got a "red card" for poor conduct, which was almost impossible to do. Mom saw the letter that night, asked me what happened, and I was rewarded and praised. The next day at school, the teacher who witnessed the whole thing had told the story and argued my case. Apparently, I went so far as to threaten to leave if I was punished. Red card and letter were promptly ripped up and thrown in the trash by said teacher. The other kid was suspended for a week. Got another good one put this comment is too long already. Lol

Story 19: it was a one off, due to some school reforms, but no one in my year could fail our a levels (Abitur in Bavaria). I have adhd, which was "treated" by blaming every problem it caused on me being lazy. To this day I don't know if I deserve having my a levels, especially since I failed uni. Even knowing that most of my problems were caused by untreated adhd, it feels like no matter how hard you work, you don't deserve anything good you worked for.

15:09 also from Quebec and I’m so happy were talking about this. My brother was horrified when he saw that his teacher had to be at school for zoom. It was funny at first, hearing my little brother curse in French, but then it became kind of sad. First story: my story is graphic, but I personally think that P.E should be optional. I have dyspraxia. In the sense of the word, it means a difficulty to plan or antisocial a movement, but I personally explain it with “my brain takes more effort and energy to make a movement. Doing said movement also takes energy, therefore, i use more energy than most people”. Being in the mere presence of sport balls made me panic to no end. In primary if I didn’t want to be there, the teachers let me, because they could see that I was different from the rest and that I was probably special needs. In high-school however, I had to participate in Acrogym (pyramids, basically, but less stable and more acrobatic). I was put in a group of 5, while everyone else was placed in groups of 4. Because of this we had to do one more pyramid than the rest. I couldn’t be a carrier due to a poor back and scoliosis, but couldn’t be flyer because my over-active survival instincts would kick in and tell me “don’t do this, you’re going to hurt someone and yourself”. The same year, basketball. I kept getting hit because I couldn’t get out of the way fast enough or, on the opposite end, would get out of the way if someone threw a ball at me. I was hospitalized once because I was too exhausted to play and got hit in the right side of the face, shattering my *new* glasses into my eye and fragments of my teeth into my gums. It left me half blind and the interior of my mouth still hasn’t healed. We live in Canada, so there was no hospital bill, but my parents still had to pay for another pair of glasses. P.E should be optional. If you don’t want to do sports or exorbitant physical activities, then you should have the choice not to. Instead of giving sports to play, give me survival tricks, I don’t want to learn about a game I don’t care about!

My physical therapist specializes in sports medicine, he said most coaches know nothing about conditioning, which causes so many injuries

Revoking bathroom breaks. I remember that well - and painfully. Additionally, every bathroom where a child was caught doing drugs, graffiti-ing, or having sex was shut down until there were no more student bathrooms. This includes the one student bathroom with wheelchair accommodations. Physically disabled students were forced to go through the humiliating and long process of traveling to the front office, asking an official to use the staff room, and then traveling all the way back to class. The rest of us had to sprint across campus for the one open bathroom - until that was shuttered, too. Eventually, the only way for anyone to use the restroom was to ask the teacher and have them *walk with you* to unlock the door.

I was told by a teacher early on that you should only have as much homework time a nigh as your grade level x10. So at 1st grade, 10 minutes. 6th grade, 1 hr. This actually made me quicker at homework because I though less hard about it and for the most part my homework time did follow this trend throughout my entire required education. It also made it easier to spend a little time on a project a day, since I would work on it until around the "cutoff" and then continue the next day. For any of you teachers out there, I recommend trying to give as much homework as this, taking other classes into account of course.

12:42 I know a woman who works at a school with a room like that. She and her coworkers call it the blue room, because of the color of the padding. They also have something comparable to crowd control equipment and padding "armor." This particular school takes on the particularly violent children in the region. She says that they tend to calm down after a few minutes in the blue room and then are let out again. If I recall correctly, the children are usually more of a threat to themselves than others, but many have posed a hazard to students and faculty. So, in the interest of public safety, the blue room was devised. My mother is a teacher, and while she does not work at the blue room, I would want her to be able to protect herself in such a scenario. If the blue room is how this is accomplished, then I think it is acceptable. Obviously, there is potential for abuse of this facility, but that is not what I am advocating.

The grammar one doesn't surprise me. I remember about half the kids going into high school didn't understand "should have" as opposed to "should of", let alone anything with an apostrophe. Grammar is easy to learn if the kid reads for recreation, as I did, but many kids find that boring and are fine with bad grammar until high school.

I can relate to the burnout statement. In junior high, I would have homework that would take 4-5 hours to complete per day. I had no free time other than watching a youtube video as I ate (under the table with headphones as phones were not allowed at the table, but you couldn't leave the table until homework was done). To say that it was depressing is an understatement. Hours of trying to understand just to end up with a 70 on that piece of homework. Over and over. Homework just made me feel stupid even though I was in pre-ap classes. For all of high school, I did things last minute and with very minimal effort. I stopped caring. I've been out of school for 2 years, and I still do not look forward to college. I'm so tired of it.

I was bullied in 2nd grade and I kept telling the office about it daily. The office said that they will let the parents know about the kids that kept calling me names, kicking, punching me, etc. I would start to get stress headaches because of this and I already had a problem with going to school in the past because I had diagnosed agoraphobia. It would have gone away if the office told the bullying stopped sooner. The bullies didn't stop untill one day I was stabbed with a pencil. I went to the office and they said and i quote "You are faking it, you just picked a scab. I know these kids and they wouldn't do anything wrong." but you could clearly see the graphite from the pencil on my shirt. Later my mom called the police and told them what happend. The police went up to my school and told them that I wasn't faking it and the school needed to tell the parents immediatly. The school refused and claimed that it went against some privacy policy the school had. The police officer ended up calling the parents himself. Apparently the school wasn't telling the parents of the children who were bullying me even after I reported them on many occasions because of the privacy policy that the school had. The worst part of it all, I still have agoraphobia and I still have a problem going places like school, the store, arcades, and the skating rink. The stress headaches thankfully went away and so did the bullies near the end of 4th grade.

Its always really bothered me when special needs kids get away with violent behaviour just because they’re disabled and ‘don’t know any better’. I have a special needs brother myself who had really bad behavioural issues growing up. But my mum dealt with it properly and while it took a long time, these days he is very well behaved. If you let these kids behave like that then they’re going to remain that way even though they could have been taught from a young age that that kind of behaviour is unacceptable.

That rule about "Being suspended for defending oneself against bullies" is absolutely stupid. "Oh we don't know who started the fight and we don't care so both or all of you get suspended and we don't have to dirty our hands with investigation to make sure only the true guilty ones are punished, we have no proof and don't care to find any that so and so is guilty of being a bully and that so and so mentioned they were being bullied." It's crazy that this neglect and absolute arrogance is from schools. Just sweep issues under the rug so they don't have to deal with it. That lack of care and empathy for kids who tried to get help but the adults in the school failed to acknowledge it and when a fight does happen the bullied kid defending themselves gets punished along with the bully, that should not happen. Self defense should not be punishable. If adults can get away with the Self defense plea why can't kids? Why do kids defending themselves get punished? Where's the damn justice in that?

Oh I have a lot of stories. I grew up in a small religious school (it was more like a cult thinking back.) for my entire life up till eighth grade. Besides the constant brainwashing, 2-3 hour sermons on really painful and rickety bleachers every week, and very low budget building, the teachers and school itself made me so mad. 1) You got in severe trouble for asking any questions about the religion whatsoever because it was “doubting” and they refused to answer you. They just took away your recess. I think it was because they didn’t know either. 2) collective punishment was RAMPANT. 3) I had a really toxic friend who manipulated me and even went as far as to STALK me for half a year, but the school literally wouldn’t let me not be friends with her. If I tried to tell her to leave me alone, then boom, recess gone. My mother had to come tell them off after I came home crying every day. 4) The school gave me major anxiety since I was in a high stress environment for 7-8 hours a day, and all of that ended up manifesting in me being a kleptomaniac in like- 1st grade. Some of the teachers/the principal at the time basically told me that I was going to grow up to be a criminal and burn in hell. I was in 1st grade. Wtf. 5) I also nearly got expelled for drawing a picture of a teacher passing out because she looked in the mirror. It was like a newspaper style comic of the teacher being ugly and I drew it because she accused a friend and I of cheating after giving us permission to work together. She failed us. However the school thought I would be a danger to the teacher after this (it wasn’t a violent comic) and the entire school board, principal, and pastor had a meeting with my parents like a court and gave us a verdict after hours of sitting down. I had very protective parents (in a good way) so they always restricted my technology use. I hated this at the time, but when I was younger I didn’t have internet access, and I only played stuff like Mario and pokemon. Now I’m really grateful since I know the internet would have scarred me for life at that age. Anyway, the school blamed my behavior on “violent video games” and said my parents failed at raising me. My dad got pissed and walked them through how he monitored my screen time and everything, and how I read books more than played games. They didn’t have an argument after that. 6) I can only really focus when I’m drawing and listening at the same time, and I was striving to be an artists, so it was good practice to draw. I got recess taken from me and extra homework for doodling during lessons. 7) different school, same small town, same cult/religion. My brother went to this school. A teacher asked him why he liked reading and he said it helped him escape the world for a while when he got sad or anxious. She told him he was going to do drugs one day. I think that’s all. I go to a different school now and it’s much better.

-Deliberately assigning homework: Even in the adult world many countries are aware of the importance of work life balance and are passing labor laws such as "right to disconnect" which make it literally illegal for an employer to contact you outside of work hours with the expectation of a response. But with children especially higher grade were a student's teacher often don't collaborate with each other it is often expected for a kid to continue schooling at home every day, often for several hours and it not even that rare to have so much homework that to do it all a kid has to actually cut into their sleeping time to complete it. Not to mention these kids are still expected to do chores, meet family obligations and possibly even have a part time job. Deliberate homework is actually cruel I.M.O. -Permanent records: The primary purpose of school is to be a place of learning (yes I'm aware it also function as child storage so both parents can work and pay taxes as well as a facility to groom children to conform to society's "norms" in some countries). Almost nothing is "innate" in humans, we actually have to learn almost everything from how to walk and count to how to interact with others. Much of that learning is through trial and error as well as experimentation and it dosn't help that brain is still going though significant development and restructuring even into one's mid twenties. The point is that you are a almost completely different person at 20 then you are at 5 and having something you did that you couldn't even fully comprehend let alone truly understand how it could be "wrong" effect literally the rest of your life is absurd (especially when the decision can be arbitrary with no real evidence or due process whatsoever). -Zero Tolerance: The real world isn't a computer program or a utopia. Almost nothing is ALWAYS the wrong thing to do or ALWAYS the right thing. There are times where a certain level of violence really is the best answer for example (if that wasn't the case, we wouldn't have military or police or even immune systems). Also, it teaches that there is no room for flexibility, compromise, forgiveness or understanding and that it's dangerous to try new things because mistakes are unacceptable. These are terrible lessons that are detrimental to forming relationships and for society as a whole. Everyone makes mistakes, but especially when they are learning something and for kids, that "something is still pretty much everything.

My views regarding home work: As other people have said, you spend about 8 hours a day in school, when you get home that should be your free time to do what you want not to do more school work. One of my friends in Elementary school actually lived so far away that by the time he got home all he had time for was to eat dinner and go to bed. I went to his house once for a sleep over and that's literally what we did, it was NIGHT when the bus dropped us off at his house. Not only that but the way our school buses work, I don't know if it's like this in every district, but the kids that got dropped off last in the afternoon were also the kids that got picked up first in the morning. That means when we got off school this kid and his brother spent more time on the school bus than they did at their own house. I spent the night on a Friday because I was not allowed to have sleep overs on school nights so I did not experience how gawd awful early in the morning they had to wake up to get ready for School. I did however call my parents to ask if I could stay till Sunday because we got to their house so late literally all we did the night before was eat dinner and go to bed. So if I hadn't stayed the extra day I would have just gone home without actually spending any real time with my friend. I never went over to his house again after that though cause my parents didn't want to drive out there every time and were surprised he that was even still part of our school district with how far out in the middle of no where their house was. When I was working in theater a lot of the back stage crew were mostly teenage girls and I had kids doing home work in our green room during literally any free moments they had not working on the play. Even when it was the middle of summer vacation I had kids doing home work during their off time. These kids had no real free time because they were constantly doing home work. This one girl some how had assignments from a teacher she hadn't even met in person yet because they're assigning kids home work over e-mail before the teacher even meet their students. When I was in school teachers never even assigned home work over the week end or vacations, the idea of home work over summer vacation was a completely foreign concept to me. I think kids should have ZERO home work, if they have work they couldn't finish during class or choose to do extra work for extra credit fine but it shouldn't be required because these teachers have no idea what the kid's home life is like, what assignments they got from other classes, everything they need to do should be able to be accomplished in the class room.

I’ve dealt with similar things to the first story, and it’s even worse when you are the one dealing with it. I have ASD, a mental disorder, and near the end of 2nd grade I was so stressed out I couldn’t move my legs. I ended up just dragging myself around and staying with the school counselor most of the time. A lot of people bothered me about this, but the most notable instance was one time when I was going somewhere. A teacher was in the way and told me to get up and walk. When I explained that I couldn’t, she clearly didn’t care and pushed me harder, until she started counting from ten threatening to take me to the principals office, so I went as fast as I could and managed to go away before she reached 0. Worst part is to this day, I can’t remember who it was, so she got off scot free..

i was SA'd in the hallway at my first high school. reported it to a dean, she conducted a title 9 "investigation" where a state worker or something interviewed me, i gave him all the details and told him it happened in the hallways RIGHT in front of a camera so they could pull the footage, he interviewed the guy, the guy said he didnt do it, and the case was shut down. no footage pulled, nothing. that kid sat next to me in class for the rest of the year. also want to note that it was a horrible school overall, the day after i left there were 10 fights (one armed with a g*n), cops choked a kid on the floor till he fainted, administrators ran over a SPED kid with a school issued golf cart... twice... in a row... EDIT: forgot to mention i also reported my ex-partner to the school for hitting me, biting me, scratching me, and c*tting my neck, and they gave us a No Contact Contract (school-level restraining order) EDIT 2: the theater teacher is a p*do, multiple girls have reported him for touching/talking to them inappropriately and he STILL works there because they can't find a replacement EDIT 3: i have a diagnosed disability, and my 504 plan stated i had extra time to get to class, but i had multiple teachers mark my grades down and mark me tardy (or ABSENT) on attendance if i was 2 or 3 minutes late EDIT 4: there was a substitute teacher in my choir class one day, and i was wearing a jacket over a crop top, but i had the jacket unzipped since i was overheating. the sub called me over and i KID YOU NOT this lady says "youre such a beautiful young lady, but you shouldnt be exposing yourself that much or the boys are gonna do something youre not gonna like." i told a different substitute teacher that i had a preferred name, and she said "god made man and woman, satan is the enemy, ill be praying for you."

I didn’t have any homework which was great. You had your assignments at school and if you didn’t finish everything you were supposed to do that day, you had homework. That works well for further studies because you don’t just get random assignments that you have to do. I’ve written a lot of papers throughout school and doing that + finding sources has been very helpful

In elementary School, the principal hated me, because we had mandatory health checks before we were enrolled. I insisted on being there and I was uncomfortable. My mother sent him out, because he didn't have to be there. I was in first grade or so, when some older boys started harassing me during lunch. I was very shy at the time. The principal was the first teacher I found and when I told him, he told me to go away because it was his break. My mother was pissed off. I've been doing judo for over a year at that point and she told me to punch the boys. I didn't and the principal tried getting me in trouble for it. Another, older, teacher defended me and I didn't get in trouble. My 7th/8th grade Math teacher was a bad teacher. If you didn't understand her explanation and ask her, she would say that you didn't listen and explain it the same way. She would randomly call on studends and pressure them if they didn't know the answer. I'm actually good at math, but I didn't understand anything with her. That was also my first and only F i had in an exam

In my school the only activity that was available outside of class was the school choir. Because they had the rule that everybody needed to either take a activity or being basically in detention for the time that meant we had the choice of singing in a choir or detention. Later their argumentation against offering other activities was that too many kids already were taking part in the choir so other activities wouldn't be offered as it would have been likely that not enough pupils would take part in those. So either they really thought that all those kids choosing the choir actually liked singing in a choir that much and did not choose the choir in order to not be detentioned or they used the situation as a poor excuse to continue without any change instead of at least trying to improve.

I remember when I was in middle school, I would get heavily sleep deprived (4.5 hours of sleep on average!), we went to a doctor and he said that WASNT normal an he said to go to sleep at 10pm. I got punished for not doing my homework every single day: in school, at home, by smart students, etc. These were tough times. I’m in high school now, I sleep 4 hours a day, but 14-16 hours on weekend. I have school on Sundays:(

For the "Some people do not deserve to teach" sentiment, I ABSOLUTELY agree. Had a physics "professor" in my first semester of uni and he was AWFUL. He definitely knew the subject, he just didn't know how to stay FOCUSED on the material, and instead he would talk about religion, drama, politics, and other stuff that has nothing to do with physics, and then for homework he assigned this evil money-scraping service called WebAssign (which, I had to pay $100+ for, despite already buying the textbook for a similar price), which automatically grades answers with no professor feedback. Worse is that if your answers were like a 1000th of a number off or not formatted EXACTLY how it wants it, it takes points off. That guy really does not deserve to teach at all

I've got 2 stories. Back when I was in grade 1, I ended up slipping on a carpet and breaking my nose. What did the school do? Literally nothing. My teacher took a while to actually get me to the nurse, thinking my injury wasn't major/not there at all. Once I did go to the nurse though, I essentially got no support, having to go through the rest of the day with it. When I got home, my older brother was furious, along with my mom. I was promptly taken out of the school, in which I went to a MUCH better school. This second one isn't too much a story, but moreover just a general issue in my school district. My schools never had actual nurses or anything, mostly just people they got off the street. It's probably the reason for the first story. Thinking back on it, my mom should've sued the school.

17:00 actually, homework has been demonstrated to have either no effect on performance or a negative effect. It was invented as a punishment and should 100% be removed.

I used to get in trouble a lot in school too in physical education (we weren’t allowed to choose our classes). The teacher always told me I wasn’t trying and that I was too slow when I ran. Went to the doctor about it years later and found out I had exercise induced asthma, and that they were pushing me too hard. I guess I’m lucky I didn’t get an asthma attack, but that would’ve served them right

My school is divided into two parts: the middle school and the high school. The high school is great, but the middle school is basically hell. The kids aren't allowed to touch each other, no matter what; it happened multiple times when I was there that one of my friends would be upset, and I'd give them a hug, and then I'd get yelled at. Once somebody said something really hurtful to my friend, and he ran off the soccer field crying. I of course followed and was consoling him - aaaaaaaand got yelled at for giving him a hug. The kid who hurt him recieved no punishment. Another time, one of my friends was so upset he was wailing and hyperventilating and cowering away from the teacher trying to wrangle him, and the rest of us got in trouble for trying to help him. Ironically, I got sexually assaulted twice, and the teachers gave both kids like one day of detention and a talking-to. One of the guys who SA'd me had it absolutely out for me, and he ruined my fucking life in the last few months of school. Lies, slander, threats, harrassment, physical and sexual assault, as well as false claims of me doing all the same things to him. And on my friends too because they were associated with me. And nobody stopped him. So yeah. That sucked. Glad I'm in the high school portion now - the teachers are younger, nicer and more competent here. In fact, they've praised me for the same things the other teachers punished.

My secondary school didn't have doors on the bathrooms, only the cubicles, if you walked down the halls to get water from the water fountain or send something over to another teacher you could hear people peeing or doing other business, often in classes and sometimes exams you would hear the hand dryers blowing or the cubicles locking, I get it was to stop smoking but it only ever made what should be private known to everyone walking past if the halls were quiet edit: the woman in the first story should be taking that issue up with a lawyer not the superintendent

5:00 so i have a similar story of something that happened in a nearby school to mine but spread over to others. Long story short, two kids did something in the same bathroom stall, it was recorded and sent to lots of people even in different schools (literally possession and distribution of cheese pizza but thats not the point), anyways the kid who recorded it is arrested, and in this peculiar case the girl gets away with it because she said it was grape (even tho explicitly in the video she says “wheres my 20 dollars?”) keeping her safe while getting the guy arrested Anyways I have a second story: Probably not illegal but wrong in most peoples morals. Absolute horrid lunch policy where you were forced to sit with your class in one or two tables, your teacher walks you to lunch, they have to call your table up to get food one at a time, removing almost half of your lunch time. This was way past elementary school. Third story: Kid starts fire in bathroom, school does nothing to investigate. A little funny note was that me and my friends went around interviewing people and trying to figure out who did it, problem was we never thought about anyone past our grade and it was some random person that we didnt know, but at least we sorta helped them. Im not the one to usually beg for likes but if im satisfied with the amount of likes ill add another story

Sad part of teaching in school is unless you go to a very wealthy private school, the only teachers you get will be the ones who couldn't get any other job with their degrees, so school teaching for them is the last option available just so they can earn a living. This results in all literally all teachers doing just the bare minimum just for the paycheck at month end. Hence negligence is very prominent.

I honestly think this applies equally to school, and to real life. Most jobs/ and school shouldn't start before the sun gets up, or directly after either for the smartalics out there. I understand certain security and related tasks should have a night shift, especially for the night owls. But my thoughts are school encourages lack of sleep just like work, and most of us don't live close enough to walk or drive for only a couple minutes. If everything shifted to reasonable hours, and pay, everyone else would adapt. No more 24 hour nonsense. Oh and no weekend work, or working holidays bullshit either. People think school/life balance is trash, employers are fricken scammers at work/life balance.

Our schools' headmaster was one of those people who let even the smallest amount of power get to their head (we called him Mr Toad). One day he announced one assembly that, starting next week, no toilet breaks during lessons. For some reason this p*ssed all the students... and staff (yes, they were banned too). Word spread that some of us were going to empty out a water bottle onto out crotches on the way to assembly. Didn't need to in the end because the Teachers had apparently done just that after we had left for the day. Wonder why I hated school so much.

In regards to homework, sometimes my teachers would give us classwork that was due the next day. So if we worked hard, we could finish it all in class. If we didn't finish in class, we'd take it home as homework I think this system is pretty good, as it teaches time management, and basically lets the student choose if they're going to have to work on it at home or not. It also gave you the chance to ask the teacher for help with the work while you were still in class. Only issue is, often the work was organised with the hardest questions at the end, so chances were high that you'll get stuck on the last problems at home with no teacher to help

I think that the worst thing to ever happen to me in school was during gym in middle school, when I slipped and fell onto a basketball in a way that sprained my knee. Teacher came over, asked me to get up, saw me limp so badly I was going to practically fall over again, and decided I was fine. I hope that when I came in the next class with a leg brace she felt at least a bit terrible. Similar thing happened when I sprained my thumb in elementary school, but I just chalk the recess aids brushing it off as "young kid who is clearly distressed from having a clumsy day comes to you crying, mostly lamenting about how clumsy they are" God, I wonder why I was so skeptical when my tutorial teacher brushed off my bruised shoulder after I tripped between classes.

Best math teacher I ever had didn't count homework towards your grade, just the tests. His logic was if you can ace the tests, you didn't need the homework. The homework was just to teach you how to do the math for the tests.

I was burnt out in high school and didn't even know it. It was a private college preparatory school and they would give us an ungoldy amount of homework, on top of that we had to participate in sports. In addition to that, most of the students boarded, so to "keep us busy" they would have half a day of school on Saturdays. I'm still dealing with the consequences today, 8 years after I graduated highschool.

The sports stress thing is usually about money. Schools get additional money from winning sports competitions. And as far as coaches like the ones in the story are concerned, the students are just a resource for the school (not individual students) to bring in that competition money, graduate and not be the school's problem anymore while a new crop of students arrives every year.

I have a story that always infuriated me. So, I attended a JNROTC (aka military) charter school for 9th grade. This girl in my band class at least one grade higher, and another student (male) got locked in the band closet by the other students taking turns holding the door shut. I'm standing in the back with my instrument waiting to just put it away. When they finally let them out, the girl immediately starts asking who was holding the door shut. "Was it x?! Was it y?!" Turns to me, and I kid you not, yells, "Was it this n*****?!" (This is a good time to mention I'm black and she's white). I just blank out, only remembering one minute I was holding my instrument, next minute, I'm pushing her into the wall, leaving a sizable hole in it. School gives me out-of-school suspension, while she gets in-school suspension. As someone who does value education, I felt that was so unfair, as she instigated it, I reacted (poorly). At the very least, give us both in-school suspension.

My school is rather generous with homework, we get 20 minutes of reading every weekday, and every two weeks a project based on one or two subjects, which we get two weeks for. You also get a choice between three options for the projects.

I can relate so hard to the one hit by the disabled kid. When i was in second grade i was playing with some stuff alone and this boy with some kind of agression problems came up to me and started changing/disrupting the thing i was building. I calmly told him no and repaired it a few times and then he got mad and hit me over the ear which really hurt. When i crying told the teacher she pretty much said that they know he is like that so they wont try to do anything about it or talk to him. I never felt safe around him for the next 8 years we were in the same school

Deciding, who's to be the example and who's the lost cause. Example needs to be more than perfect. Slightest issue, school bus late, punch a kid in self defense, they get chewed out publicly so everyone knows how not to behave. Lost cause can go around skipping classes, stealing schoolbooks, beating up others, nothing happens. They're told to stop, but that's about it. And don't forget the people, who call you names, mock you, tell you to off yourself, but "you're too sensitive", and "they mean it well", and "how about you improve yourself first?"

I want all teachers on the US to collectively agree to not use any of their own funds to do what is needed in class. No buying materials from your pocket, use what the school gives you If all that is is 3 sheets of paper, tough, you get 3 sheets of paper for all the kids to use. And what are they going to do, fire all of the teachers in the US and pray that anyone is willing to waste their life for a terrible job with more cost than actual pay? No!

Even with that “£300 a year for being badly behaved” I would still pick to be well behaved every single time.

My school was really good about university applications. They made everyone apply to the sixth form, but it was more so you had a backup in case your other options fell through. This happened to at least one student: he accepted an apprenticeship, but it turned out to be a straight job that the company illegally listed as an apprenticeship so they could pay someone less. Everyone also got UCAS applications for university, but iirc colleges and apprenticeship orgs would also look at those applications.

I think a lot of teachers don’t understand how many extracurriculars a lot of the students are involved in. I’m in involved in Film Club (my high school has one of the best AV tech courses in the state btw) Theater, choirs, and Boy Scout. I usually get home around anytime from 9-11:30 every night. My high school encourages every one to do as many extracurricular activities as they can but still give out shit tons of homework

I'm of the personal opinion that Homework is mostly the teacher being either lazy or just bad at thier job. And less opinion and more fact: Teachers who give a lot of Homework, have students whose grades are worse than teachers who give thier students little or no homework. As someone who didnt do thier homework unless it meant doing a presentation, in which it was the only case(s) where i did (very dilligently i may add) did do my Homework, the amount of Homework given inversely correlated to my grades in that class. With German, Media & Math having the worst grades while Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English & History having the best (In that order, from worst to best). (There also was Music, Gym (Ungraded due to Disability), Art, Ethics, Religion & WAT (Economy, Woodworking, Cooking, IT (WAT means Wirtschaft Arbeit Technik which means Economy Work Technology)) I'm also of the personal opinion that the only cases where homework should be handed out is in case of Analytical/Exploratory assigments and Presentation of self-choice class related research topics. As the rest should be done in school, and nowhere else. Students NEED thier free time or thier performance WILL suffer. Even if you give them homework, as an exhausted student is a student whose learning capabilites are severe reduced. Simmilarly to how you're not supposed to Drive while Sleepy or Rest while sick.

I think story 5 or 4 talked about only 1 hour of recess. I don't mean to one-up people but, my school only gives 40 or 20 minutes. Edit: We never were allowed bathrooms breaks outside of our short recess. There are 2 toilets for each sex, while our school has 400 students. Edit 2: 11:49 Again, sorry for one upping, but I remember a poetry competition every year in my school, and everyone made a poem. Most of the badly behaved kids were like a hivemind, all friends with eachother. I used to choose which poem I liked the most, not even paying attention who made it, but the badly behaved kids voted for other badly behaved friends. Every year, the podium was only badly behaved kids. While I'd see amazing poems just left out. I bet those 2 kids who win every year have earned more than 200 Brazilian Reals in gifts.

At my hs (I'm a sophomore in college rn) they had rly weird biases and bathroom rules. So classes are 45 min long, there were 3 lunch periods (4th, 5th, and 6th with 9 total), and the passing period was 5 min long. Bathrooms were locked during passing period and the schools rule was "15 before and 15 after" which ment you couldn't go to the bathroom 15 min before the end of class or 15 min after the start of class (except for lunch but good luck bc then the line was out the door). This left a 20 min gap during every class where you COULD go to the bathroom. Then you gotta deal with teachers in the middle of a lesson plan or if it was a teacher who would even LET you go. This is the only hs in my town fyi. Then we hit dress code... So I got coded for my stomach showing like half an inch bc my backpack rode the back up, I never wore makeup and wasn't popular (this IS relevant btw) on the other hand I had classes with some girls who wore shirts that showed their navel and never got coded, full makeup popular girls. Not to mention the guys who wore their jeans around there ainkles (bit dramatized bit you definitely could see thier boxers) and tank tops where the arm was all the way to their hips... Also teachers celebrated teen pregnancy. Tbh there was a girl in my MIDDLE SCHOOL who had a baby though. Couldn't drink the milk either, unless you wanted food poisoning, and the water bottles cost a dollar. I grew up in a small town in Texas.... Man shit was crazy, and I didn't even touch on the kids who brought guns to school or the bomb threat; or the crazy ppl just in the town. I was top 25% in graduation bc only 400 graduated from my class. God the shit I could tell ppl

In my elementary school we weren’t allowed to fight back to bullies, I was bullied a lot and I finally got tired of it in fourth grade, I punched the girl in the nose (didn’t break it). I went to the office later and they asked me why I would do that. I said “I will not talk until my dad is present.” (My dad teaches self defense classes and always tells me to say that if anything happens) I didn’t get expelled after my dad had a talk w the principal.

Short little story of my own. My school dsictrict is considered "prestigious" and has some of the highest educational rates in the state. Around 17:50, you said that 12th graders (seniors) should get 1-2 hours of homework MOST nights. I am no where near being a senior, being only in 8th grade. Luckily I get tons of work done in school, because kids in my grade... I don't know how they manage! These kids have atleast an hour a night. I get much less because I absolutely grind in school. But yeah, just thought it was funny that we do so much more work, it's ridiculous. Luckily were well educated and the special education kids aren't harassed. Good counselors, etc. That's all.

You know when I was in eighth grade I had 5 hours of homework per night

shaming students for clothing and uniform, or simply having uniform in general. I live in the UK and my secondary school had a great uniform. comfiest thing ever, polo shirt with a soft jumper and black trousers. it looked smart and was practical and affordable for this countryside, rural school. then comes along our new headteacher from a grammar school (usually expensive school for people who passed a special test) and she immediately changed the uniform from around £50 to £120 to make sure "we have pride in our school". A shirt, a jumper, a blazer and LIGHT GREY trousers. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO FIND LIGHT GREY TROUSERS? the blazer alone was £40 and was horribly made, my shoulders never fit in it and i couldn't cross my arms but if you're seen without a blazer or an incredibly scratchy jumper that's a detention! it was god awful and we had to ASK PERMISSION to take our blazers off in the humid, horrific summer heatwaves. So glad my mum pulled me out of there before i burnt out completely because it was a nightmare for my autistic growing brain.

My school was TERRIBLE with dealing with bullying. They would always blame the victim for reacting / retaliating; claiming that they should have "just ignored" them. It's taken me years to unlearn that it was my fault that I was being targeted by the people who bullied me.

There was a kid in my son’s school who was an upstanding student and got into a little trouble, one time. A teacher responded by telling him that he ruined his chances in life, and that beautiful child then killed himself. It was horribly tragic. His mother is also a teacher at this school and a wonderful person herself, never blaming the condescending teacher for her son’s response to his shaming. Children are fragile. Protect them and encourage positivity as often as you can. None of us are perfect, and a mistake should not have to define a young person’s entire future. 😔

i relate with the first one. you even have to record how many steps etc.. from a health app or a damn fitbit. im walking fast and participating in activities, is that not enough? and i got a breathing problem and my shins are bad so there is a lot of pain involved.

These reasons are why homeschooling is 10 times better

Thx for the new content can't wait to watch it 😊

Got a few stories from school, but don't mentally feel like I can talk about all of them, but I'm gonna give a general idea of a few of them. Would not listen to me about bullying, even after snapping in 6th grade and started to self harm. When that did start happening, I got told not to tell others (aka students) because they may think it's okay to do so, or some shit like that. But they couldn't tell I was struggling unless I vocalized about it (knew that because there were other times when I'd relapse and they wouldn't notice, or notice when i was mentally struggling) - Next year, I was out for a week with the stomach bug, and the day before I came back I relapsed. I told friends, they told the school, proceeded to get yelled at by the nurse and counselor for 1) telling others 2) not doing school work while I was out, despite me being "well enough for games" 3) "hiding things going on at home". I'd like to mention that I've had several run ins with these two, primarily the nurse, because of stuff I've said to others, ranting about my thoughts and all- and they then proceeded to tell me "I'm a danger to myself/others, and cannot go back to class/to my friends, and have to stay with them until a gaurdian can pick me up or its time to go home." It. fucking. sucked. Later that year I relapsed, can't really remember a lot about it, besides going to my therapist with both of my parents next to me talking about the experience and about it. And then, of course, there was the time I was almost passing out in PE, got sent to the nurses office, and the nurse basically said "you know this wouldn't be happening if you weren't over weight. And I think you're just making a scene, or trying to get out of class." Needless to say I have horrible trauma now, especially when it comes to medical professionals, and wish i would have spoken up more and defended myself more when I was younger. But due to home life-which wasn't exactly abusive, but it just- caused a lot of issues- I never had a good speaking voice, and just bottled up things. It's worse in today life, because all my suppressed medical issues-such as my physical disabilities and mental disabilities-are coming to life, my anxiety is so bad that i can't get a job, and I can't exactly tell medical professionals all my details due to this anxiety and worry thanks to media. (main being that im only like this because im over weight, and once I slim down everything will magically be better.) and...yeah. That's on american school systems suck, and now i have trauma.

I have so many school stories. I was bullied horrifically in school, I have a genetic disorder that causes me to look a bit different cosmetically than my peers; as well as a learning disability. I was punches, pushed into lockers, had full powerade bottles thrown at my head in the halls, etc. I was even intimately assaulted by a special education student on multiple occasions in the hallways and people would record it rather than help because they thought it was funny. This story has to do with with one of the many powerade bottle incidents. The one time I fought back was when I told a kid I wasn’t target practice after he threw something at me. The teacher monitoring the hallways stayed seated as she asked him why he did that and as the kid straight up walked away from her she just continued reading her book. When I yelled after the kid again that I, quote, “am not f-cking target practice”, she proceeded to get out of her chair to get in my face to tell me that “I will not swear *at* her”. I proceeded to then actually swear at her and I was sent to the principal’s office where I was told that harassment was going to be put on my record. This woman watched a kid throw a full powerade bottle at me and let him leave, but when I swore at him without physically retaliating I got an academic warning for harassment. Worst part is that this type of interaction with teachers was far from my first. I hate the public education system in America and I hate the zero tolerance policies.

And these are reasons I'm so so glad to be done with high school now

My school would have “seclusion rooms” where teachers would throw kids in there and lock them in solitary confinement in a 15-square-foot room. They were also caught doing abusive restraints on the students, resulting in those practices being illegal nationwide. This was a public school, by the way.

Man I have an awful one for you. The high school I went to had a requirement of 1 hour of homework a night per class, 2 if you were in AP classes. (advanced proficiency, basically college level classes without college credit) Now my high school only had 5 periods a day, so most students only had 4 classes-That is still 4 hours of homework a night. Some students, such as myself, could and would take up to 7 classes a day however! So potentially a student could have upwards of 14 hours of 'required' homework. And don't get me started on required work over holidays and breaks.... School started at 7am, and released at 2pm. If you had extra classes or after school clubs and activities, you stayed until 4pm. If you had sports activities, you stayed until 6pm. Best case scenario, a student who was part of track wouldn't be getting their homework done until minimum 1am, assuming they stopped to eat, and that'd result in no free time and probably only 4 hours of sleep. There was simply no way a student could do everything they wanted to and get their homework done and keep their grades up. And of course if your grades fell, you were banned from all school-related things, like your clubs, your sports, prom, school trips, even participating in concerts for the music students-Which mind you was a huge part of their music class grade to begin with, so it turned into a very nasty cycle there. Luckily, most teachers also agreed this requirement was bullcrap and would assign very stupid things as homework. Usually it was re-read whatever notes we took in class or something of the sort, or just general 'study'. Some teachers, however, were absolute jerks and did assign some awful homework. I sadly had a math teacher that assigned us 50 questions a night to ensure it was an hour's worth of work. I was so thankful when I graduated and never had to go back to that awful place.

Highschool was a nightmare for me. Pressure was INSANE. ICU (independent study units, aka our last big assignment before the exam) were so fucking stressful. God forbid you do extra curricular stuff. I had 2 major break downs in high school that I can remember, in grade 11 and grade 12 from just pure stress. And I was a really good student. But it was too freakin much that I couldn't take it anymore. You can't expect kids to have good social connections, good mental health, extra curriculars, and for a lot of us a job, and STILL expect homework daily, studying for exams, AND a major project COMPLETLY DONE AT HOME. Some classes it was all in class, those teachers were amazing. But omfg. Ms. Q. Fucking mandalas for religion class. I can't even remember what shit we were doing I think it was stations of the cross- draw like 12 SECTIONS, WRITE UPS ON ALL OF THEM, AND!!!!! You BETTER colour it PERFECTLY and have COLOURS THAT HAVE MEANING!!!!!!!! I will NEVER forget that project because it was the worst project I've ever done. I learned NOTHING. I cried so much. It was ridiculous amounts of pressure. God I hated that stupid thing. I burned the fucker after I was NOT keeping it.

i remember when i was in preschool and my dad always taught me “if someone pushes you, you push them right back” kind of thinking. during class one of the annoying boys there punches me in the arm, 6 y/o me not taking any shit hit him right back. when the teacher noticed, she tried to make us both apologize, annoying kid reluctantly said sorry but i wouldn’t budge. my dad told me that if someone hits me i hit them back, so in my mind i didn’t do anything wrong i was just doing what my dad told me so i felt like i had nothing to be sorry for. i ended up being sent to the principle’s office and i can’t really remember the rest but yeah.

School sucks, like I can get bullied and nothing happens to them but when i defend myself “OoOoOh nOoOoOoO can’t have that”

Thankfully i seemingly go to a rather good school district, least never experienced much of a bad side. Though i have experienced some bad things with teachers, or subs, its not something super crazy (but, there was one teacher that spawned alot of funny stories just because how poor she acts, like giving dating advice on a student, even though she has like e divorces already. )Although, there is probably 2 or 3 teachers in my school that are creeps from what i heard.

So a few of my own stories growing up... not sure how much of really counts as "unethical" but it is certainly outdated and should be changed. School should start at a later time: I was actually put into special ed because my teachers thought I couldn't read. In reality I was just tired because my English class was first thing in the morning and I was barely awake. I wasn't struggling to read, I was struggling to stay awake cause all I wanted to do was go back to sleep. I have some undiagnosed form of insomnia because I have always struggled with staying awake during the day and getting to sleep at night. I didn't even realize that was the problem till I was an adult because no one ever asked me, they just assumed without ever talking to me what the problem was and decided I couldn't read. My parents did actually try to defend me to the school telling them I was reading fine at home and I was actually reading above my grade level. I didn't even know I was in special ed for THREE YEARS because again no one talk to me about it. The only thing I knew was they moved me into a different class room where the work was a lot easier which I thought was a good thing at the time. Less work sounded fantastic to a kid but if I had known why I wouldn't have been so happy about it. I found out from a kid who was bulling me that I was in "the dumb kids class" and then asked my parents if that was true. That's when they told me that my teachers thought I couldn't read and they were given the choice to even have me held back a year or put me in special ed. They choose special ed. If had known what was going on, if anyone actually bothered to talk to me I probably still would chosen special ed if I'm really being honest because I was a kid with no understanding of how that choice would effect my future but at least it'd be my own stupid decision instead of everyone else making choices for me based on things that weren't even accurate in the first place. Maybe if they talked to me my insomnia could have been caught and treated early on instead of still dealing with it as an adult. P.E. is kind of an unethical practice that shouldn't be required. The original reason for P.E. being a requirement in schools was to prepare kids for the draft which isn't even a thing anymore in the U.S. Even if the draft was still a thing that seems very wrong to train CHILDREN to be soldiers. That's the real reason P.E. exists. It shouldn't even be called P.E. which stands for Physical Education because it has nothing to do with education. Your Physical Education is actually learned in entirely different class called Biology. P.E. is just forced physical activity for no reason. Especially in Elementary School where kids already have an outlet for physical activity, it's called Recess. P.E. is just that but without the fun. Recess is just for fun, kids can pretty much play however they're comfortable playing but in P.E. everyone is expected to do the same thing at the same pace and kids who don't do as well as others get bullied. Plus there are kids who just aren't interested in sports. And it's usually only the male students who get harassed because we're expected to be interested in sports and people can't comprehend the idea of a boy not wanting to play. Especially me when I was always the tallest kid in my class, I was already 6 feet tall by the time I was 10 or 11 years old so I constantly had coaches harassing me to try out for teams every year. And here's another reason that P.E. should not be a requirement in schools... it's already not under certain conditions. If you have an injury that makes you unable to participate you can sit out class, if you have a disability that makes you unable to participate you don't have to take the class, if you're home schooled you don't have to do P.E. no other class has these types of exceptions where you can get out of doing the required work. And I have one for how they treat teachers too. So in high school, I had a Drama teacher who my Jr. year transferred to another high school in a different county to be closer to her daughter and grand kids. She came back my senior year, she still lives in an entirely different school district but she HATED working there. The school she transferred to had really strict rules for teachers as well as students. She wasn't allowed to wear any more than 3 articles of red clothing and they counted her shoe laces as separate items so when she came to school one day wearing a red shirt and red shoe laces they made her take her shoe laces off because she was wearing too much red. There is a reason the rule exists, there was a gang in that area that is known for wearing that color but they're also known specifically to wear red bandanas not just any random red clothing and they're all mostly teenage boys not a grown adult woman with grand kids. On top of the clothing restriction she also didn't have keys to her own classroom. She was only allowed so much time to be in the class room after school hours so she had to hold a lot of rehearsals outside due to the fact she was not allowed in the class room. Only the custodians at that school had keys to the class rooms and they had to be there to let teachers into the classes. My dad was a custodian at my high school but our teachers all had their own keys, letting them into their classes was never part of my dad's job but if he worked at the school my drama teacher transferred to, he would have had more rights than the teachers did. She also could not hang anything on the walls in her class room. There was a bulletin board in there and there was nothing on it because she wasn't allowed to use it. In my drama class room there were posters all the way around the room from every show she directed during her time there. The teacher who replaced her the year she was gone kept that tradition going so there's 3 posters up there that aren't her shows but it kept going when she came back all the way until she retired about 4 or 5 years ago. And I know she's retired because I still keep in contact with her on FaceBook and went to her retirement party along with a bunch of other students many from my class who I knew, a few older people who graduated before I knew her and even some of her recent students from that year were there so it was a big mix of former students. That's how you know when you actually have a good teacher when a bunch of students from different decades all gather together to celebrate her. I think a couple of the people there weren't even from our school but were in fact kids from the other high school she only spend 1 year at. The one that was so bad she'd rather take a long commute from a different school district than continue to work there. And it's a shame because she was probably the best teacher that school ever had only for them to treat her like a criminal. She never had any problems with the students there who were also treated like criminals but the school board had pretty much given up on their students and teachers without even really trying. A lot of times teachers don't like the things they have to enforce either, the good ones at least. Bad teachers just mindlessly enforce rules and let the power they hold over students go to their heads. But the good teachers actually inspire their students to do better. I thought I'd end on that one cause it's not all the teachers fault that the education system is as messed up as it is.

once I got punished for correcting the teacher. He told me to stop showing off and go back to my seat and failed me on my next assinment

When I was doing my MAP tests to show how good I was in English, math, etc, there was a party with a Kona ice truck and games if your lexile score (a kind of point system for your ability to read and write)increased by x number of points. I was (and still am) that geeky kid who loves books so I have had a high school/ college level lexile score since third or fourth grade, so I didn’t increase my score by x points because there was nowhere TO go. Naturally, I had to sit in a dark classroom and listen to the fun going on around me while all I could do was cry.

In the same idea as story 9 when I tried getting an apprenticeship the careers advisor kept pushing college A but if I was going to college I would have chosen college B (same travel time for me but got me away from the kids who bullied me, I ended up going to college B as I couldn’t get support getting an apprenticeship from said careers advisor) turns out college tuition which averages between £6,000 and. £9,250 annually she got % per student SHE put forward and on a 2 year course she got paid for both years enrolment

just like also with story 10 and also in the UK, teachers unless they get to know a student will bunch all the children with special needs together and they will make everyone go mad. all the hyperactive ones will cause the quieter ones to lose it on them and the worst thing is that after a while the teachers just give up and don't try to handle them anymore it made going through school hell also when it comes to not letting you fight back against bullies it sucks even more when the school prides themselves on their "mental support" yet they let students who were diagnosed with something and "eligible for support" get away with bullying other special needs children to the point where they can get off free with the victim being suspended for it. i did have a bunch more stories to add to this comment about wheel of names and a terrible point system alongside my schools rival school having a sketchy homework system but i accidentally refreshed and lost it so reply to this comment if anyone wants to hear them

requiring life-saving medicine (in my case, inhalers and epipens) to be kept in the nurse's office. especially when the gym teacher for some reason thought it was a good idea to make 3rd graders run several miles as a WARM UP about a quarter mile and down a steep hill from the school . this same gym teacher was also very reluctant to let us get water. there was also one time when there was a physical therapist in the gym class to test 1 specific kid to see if they needed physical therapy, and my second grade teacher knowingly lied to him and said that kid was me. turns out I did need physical therapy, but the PT still wasn't there for me. and in middle school every time I got bullied (which happened a lot), the principal made ME apologize to the bullies for telling on them and in 3rd and 4th grade, the school was testing to see how it would affect students if we didn't have homework, and it went very well, but then that test didn't transfer into middle school, so we were all extremely overwhelmed by the workload in 5th grade (yes 5th grade is middle school where I live) as for the first issue, I'm now in high school, and the stupid rule still applies, but I now keep a duplicate of everything in my bag now that I'm typing all of this out, I'm now realizing how fucked up my school system is, especially at the elementary school level

The second dumbest thing that my school did (after a shooter response) was increase the number of classes in the schoolday, per trimester (which is also worse than semesters). Junior year of high school, I had to take ceramic and almost retook a math class even with a free period because we had 6 per tri, 18 a year. The classes felt so rushed and incomplete because they were so short, but luckily most of the teachers were gracious enough to not split the skies and the earth with the homework they'd assign. The ISAT schedule days felt better because they doubled the length of classes but only used every other one per day, we actually had enough time to get to the meat of the lesson, finish it, and get help if we needed it after. The first dumbest thing was banning opaque backpacks in response to a shooter. The middle school next to us had a shooter, so they evac'd to our high school while police came in. Day ended short and being watched over by some buff and some portly dudes with some of the best looking M4s I've seen in person. Next two days were called off as well because it was a "traumatising event", but when we came back next week they had banned backpacks and everyone had to carry their stuff with makeshift objects such as grocery bags, purses, boxes, tied onto a plank, a duffel bag, a microwave, I even seen a Little Tikes car, a gumball machine on wheels, and a RIFLE CASE, which they even said wasn't against their rule. It got revised eventually to make everyone use clear backpacks, and they handed them out for those who didn't buy one themselves. They were unwieldly, small, and fragile, and turned sharp if they broke. They kept this rule for over a year and even had a student president candidate campaign on getting rid of the rule.

What you are overlooking about coaches: This was schools... they know the kids will move on in a few short years. Why should they care about breaking these kids early?

Here in the U.S.,I feel like teachers are one of the most unsung jobs. Like if you agree

My school board did something incredibly stupid in regards to funding. They spent 1,600 some dollars on a wall for the softball team. (Lemme remind you- we are not good at softball). Meanwhile, we had our most loved teachers asking parents to send in basic calculators for math and flour for the cooking/baking class. Just pissed me off. Pissed a lot of people off. Then a similar bit of favoritism happened. It was the XC team’s first go at State (which was a huge thing for us, and we’ve been qualifying for State since), which was over 13 hours away. They wanted to send us there on a rickety old schoolbus. Meanwhile, they were willing to buy a charter bus for the football team. (We Sucked at football, incredibly so). Said bus would drive them 30 minutes away to *districts*. Not State, **districts**. Loves the school, hated the people running it.

16:30 homework in some interpretation of its orgins started as a form of punishment. Like writing lines on a chalk board used to be a thing. But other version have it as ways to just practice so they weren't mandatory.

Weird of you to put an image of a gender inclusive bathroom when saying “unethical.” As a trans person this makes me not want to support your channel. We all deserve to use the bathroom.

Stopping kids from saying first

When I was in fifth grade, one of the teachers (not mine) would assign homework to the point that my friend, according to my mom, was staying up late to 10:00 p.m. to finish it. This was in the name of "preparing [the kids] for junior high". Of course, junior high was nothing like that, although there were some teachers who would assign massive amounts of work to "prepare [kids] for high school". My high school was college prep level, so it depended on class load, but.. really, even with a bunch of advanced classes, it wasn't horrible nightly, like we were told. Then, like clockwork, there were teachers who would assign obscene amounts of homework to "prepare [kids] for college". I went to college for computer engineering. There was a lot of work, yes, but studying took more time than anything else. Our teachers were so concerned with having us do homework that they never really taught us how to study. It was a circus of "preparing us" for massive amounts of work in the next level of the education system without actually preparing us for the next level of the education system.

bro, the first one is so true. I was in swim team yesterday, and I overheard one coach telling the little ones to "Keep swimming, even if you're drowning, just keep swimming."

My time with school in Elementary and Middle was horrible to say the least. Hears a few off the top of my head that I haven't tried to forget. Elementary school, teacher had a policy where if the students behaved or did well they got a plastic link added to the link chain on the wall. And you could trade those links in for toys etc. The bad part is that if the teacher confiscated something from a student like Yu-gi-oh cards or bakugan, then instead of getting them back later like a normal teacher should and would she would give them out as rewards. (This was like 1st or 2nd grade) jokes on her I forgot stuff in class and while she wasn't there stile my cards back. Middle school teachers did nothing about the bullying, and I had my glasses thrown across the class room and broken and the book slapped out of my hands by a kid. I didn't even do anything, but when we got to the Vice principles office she gave me In school suspension because the kid said "he had a look in his eye like he was going to attack me." The Vice principle no longer works there apparently. She was horrible and that school in general did nothing to stop bullying, stopped letting boys have bathroom breaks for a while cause some idiot kept drawing on the stall walls, and apparently some kids were doing drugs in the stalls. Hated that place, still flip it off anytime I have to go by it.