<p>Our school is getting stricter by the day---</p>
<p>No cards and dice, hats, mp3 players, cell phones, etc. - they just began cracking down on this stuff hardcore.</p>
<p>Since it's a larger school, it's hard for them to control you with hall passes and the like, but they're sensitive to cuts and skips and tardies.</p>
<p>We can leave sick from the nurse's office a total of 4 times throughout each year.</p>
<p>It seems that the harder they try, the more we go out of OUR way to break the rules. Teachers take our cell phone if it goes off in class, so we call THEIRS and embarass THEM in the middle of class. They say no mp3 players and the like, so we snake wires through our hoodies and do everything possible to undermine the rule. Hall passes? Fakes galore. Student IDs? Fakes. Bus passes? FAKES. Parking lot permits? Fakes!</p>
<p>Rules at my school only apply to minorities and academically challened students. I never have to report to study hall and can do whatever i want. Other students recieve detention for doin practically nothin wron at all. Teachers even admit that this double standard exists. Perfect example of this was when some kid who is an A student started makin wierd noises in the cafeteria. They were pretty loud and the teachers heard him. Then this black kid made the same noises and recieved 1 days of ISS</p>
<p>My school is ridiculously lenient compared to some of yours.</p>
<p>No security.
No hall passes.
Off-campus privileges for juniors and seniors.
Only banned objects are weapons (real and fake) and illegal substances.</p>
<p>Most of your schools sound like jails! When I was in school, all years (secondary school in Ireland is basically equivalent to grades 7-12) could leave campus at lunchtime, we didn't have hall passes or any of that. We were allowed personal CD/MP3 players as long as they weren't used in class, just no mobile phones. No smoking while in school uniform, and no detention for 4th-6th year (sophomore year up). We had a uniform, with a proper catholic-school (calf-length) skirt and my school was all girls :(...</p>