<p>The most ridiculous/unintelligent/incomprehensible policies at my school are as follows:</p>
<li><p>Starting this year, homework grades “have to be representative of the student’s knowledge of the material.” - aka - If you don’t do your homework at all, you don’t get zeros, because the teachers “can’t possibly know if you didn’t know the material, so a zero would be ‘unfair’.” Seriously. Not only that, but at the end of the semester, all of your “zeros” either become “n/a” so they don’t affect your grade at all, or they replace them with your final exam grade. The reason this is ridiculous [on top of the fact that they think a zero is “unfair” for not doing any work] is that people who regularly do their homework and happen to get like an 80 on it or something will most likely end up with a lower grade than the people who slack off. This is seriously messed up.</p></li>
<li><p>We have 3 one-way halls. Not only is this just plain old ridiculous, but our school is enormous and to avoid going the wrong way down the hall, you’re rerouted around the whole school and pretty much are late to class all the time. Also, EVEN IF your locker is the LAST one on the end of the one-way hall, if you try to reach around and go 1 foot into the hall the wrong way to get to your locker, you get effing detention and in serious trouble. Instead, you’re forced to walk like 1/4 of a mile around the school to go around from the other side.</p></li>
<li><p>Our parking passes are 70 bucks and 90% of the parking spaces are SUPER far away from the entrance.</p></li>
<li><p>Starting with the freshman class this year, they have basically none of the usual requirements to graduate. My senior class of 09 had TONS of requirements, making it basically impossible to take classes that you actually want. The way our schedules work, we can only take 24 classes by the time we graduate, and 19 of those are required classes. 5 classes we get to choose? over 4 years?! w t f . And almost any class that anyone would want to take has a prerequisite course, which you have to take the year before. However, we only have open spaces in our schedule for JR and SR years, there’s 2 JR year and 3 SR year. And anyone who takes more than 2 years of foreign language, or more than one year of fine arts classes has basically no open classes. Yes my school is messed up.</p></li>
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<p>/rant</p>
<p>Sorry I am seriously upset with my school and have an extreme case of senioritis on the 3rd day of school.</p>
<p>edit - Oh yeah, I wanted to see everyone else’s school’s ridiculous policies too :D</p>
<p>All I hafta say is that your school policies suck lol. They don’t seem fun at all.</p>
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<li><p>Seriously, what the heck. </p></li>
<li><p>My MIDDLE SCHOOL used to have 4 one-way halls. They were a PAIN and we’d always get yelled at for trying to go five feet in the other direction.</p></li>
<li><p>Since last year, our parking lot was cut in half to put a new main building there. I guess, in exchange for 50% of our parking spots, we got spots near our school. Dunno if that’s good or not. </p></li>
<li><p>Required classes seem legit enough for my school(4 years of english, 3 of math, 2 of sciences, etcetc normal stuff). I’ve been able to take band and spanish and still had room to choose which science courses i wanted or what level math/english. Only thing that sucked is now my super senior year AP/Honors schedule is interrupted with a “P.E.” because my school requires 2 years of P.E. And there’s this ■■■■■■■■ Health class thing for freshman that I tested out of first chance I could ;P</p></li>
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<p>1 sounds like it would be fantastic. I think it’s perfectly reasonable for a student to have the option of opting not to do the homework and having that percent of the total be replaced by the final exam, whereas a less… confident student could opt to work diligently and be certain. Seems like the best of both worlds. Of course, this is coming from someone who never did the homework and pwned most finals, so I might have been helped more than some people…</p>
<p>2 is stupid.</p>
<p>3 is cheaper than my school’s, so quit complaining. $70 / 180 days of school / 6 hours of school = less than $0.07 per hour of parking, and that’s assuming you never stay after or show up early.</p>
<p>4 is yeah, stringent requirements are a drag. Students at my school get a total of 6 electives, more if they drop their foreign language or drop math (since many started in middle school).</p>
<p>Interesting. Your school sounds like the opposite of mine. They just made a new policy of giving zeros automatically to any late work, it doesn’t cost anything to get a parking place, and the freshman class has way more requirements. I’ve never heard of “one-way halls” it sounds like downtown with one-way streets.</p>
<p>We don’t really have that many “ridiculous” policies…the only one that I REALLY dislike is the uniform policy (at a PUBLIC school, no less). And I never have to deal with that again. ^_^</p>
<p>^ Lol, I agree that the policy is… convenient, to say the least, if only for people who don’t do their homework. However, I can hardly say that it’s “fair” [whatever that means] for someone who doesn’t do their homework to get a significantly higher grade than someone who does.
And how can they say it’s “unfair” to give a zero for something that wasn’t turned in?! Hello?!</p>
I suggest you calm down and play a game of pacman… ;)</p>
<p>I skimmed through your rant, and your last policy sucks, but I can barely choose some classes I want to take as well…but for me, I have no classes I want to take, and all the classes are the same to me (boring), so I’m fine…lol.</p>
<p>2/3 I kinda skimmed as “w/e”, but sounds like a pretty big deal.</p>
<p>And as for #1, why complain? Like, that means hw doesn’t count towards your grade…for the love of god, you don’t have to DO hw! </p>
<p>I’d literally do something pretty insane for such a policy, because my hw grade average was under 30%~40% in every subject (except PE…LOL).</p>
<p>I admit it does sound a little unfair, but it makes sense to me. That’s because I’m biased towards hw…</p>
<p>However, I can hardly say that it’s “fair” [whatever that means] for someone who doesn’t do their homework to get a significantly higher grade than someone who does.</p>
<p>Turn it around. Is it fair for someone who’s smart enough to learn the material without the busywork to get a significantly lower grade than someone who isn’t just because they viewed the assignment as unecessary (and then proved themselves right by getting a high score on the final)?</p>
<p>how about Drivers ed counting in gpa. What a joke. u people may think it’s easy but not at my school. I rather take Chem than DE. again Got a higher grade in Chem as well.</p>
<p>Seriously dude, no one has a ton of choice in their HS classes. That’s what college is for. :)</p>
<p>I agree with MelancholyDane though…I always hated doing HW. If I could’ve not done it under that policy, I don’t know that I ever would have done homework.</p>
<p>In fact, in my Econ class, I don’t know that I ever did a single homework assignment but I did so well on the final I ended up with an A.</p>
<p>my HS we choose all courses (except english and you have to take alg, geometry and bio/chem) and you get to choose all your teachers too which is nice</p>
I’m not even talking just about busywork. Basically anything other than an enormous project or a term paper does not count.
Btw I view almost all assignments as completely pointless because I learn the material easily and during class, but still, part of school is sucking it up and doing the work.</p>
<p>Just for the record, lol, I plan on not doing any homework… I just think the policy is kind of silly.</p>
<p>My proudest academic moment is still AP English 11. English is one of my strongest subjects but I was in the B+ range after the four quarters because I refused to do annotations or other busywork but aced the tests and timed essays. Nevertheless, I got a 117 on the final exam (post-curve, of course, but still the highest in the school) which pushed my average over the magic 93.5 mark, spitting in the proverbial faces of the harder-working English students who couldn’t write or analyze as well. My finest hour. :)</p>
<p>^This was what I loved about philosophy. Least amount of busywork I’ve ever received..and what we did get was awesome (like the logic puzzles during our logic unit).</p>
Paper. Mentioned in my things that are now moot.</p>
<p>Ok obviously most of you fail to see my point of view.
I support the policy because I’m one of those who doesn’t “do” homework/busywork simply because it’s a waste of my time. But technically, why should I get a higher grade for not doing work, when somebody who actually tries ends up worse?</p>
<p>With a local college… if you miss the due date for any two consecutive assignments you are dropped… no matter if it’s the last day of school. Which is even more difficult online. </p>
<p>We have others, but I can’t think of them right now.</p>
<p>This probably won’t help you very much, but my school doesn’t have any crazy policies. They don’t let us carry backpacks to class, but that’s not a huge problem. Of the possible 32 classes during high school, only 16 are required to graduate. Of course, all students must take more than that, so it’s not really as easy as it looks. </p>
<p>One-way halls are just dumb. What you should do is get a group of friends, hold hands in a big line, and walk down the hallway the wrong way. Count how many people you clothesline.</p>
<p>I’m glad my school has free parking. We don’t even have to register vehicles or anything. As an added bonus, there are only 7 rows of parking, each with maybe 25 spaces. So no spot is really that far from the door. But I usually walk to school, so I don’t have to worry about it that much.</p>