<p>Ours are free too…we have to provide proof of DL and insurance, and current registration. Then we give them our license plate number, car make and model, and they give us our sticker. :)</p>
<p>My school has a few bad ones</p>
<ul>
<li><p>A surveillance system!</p></li>
<li><p>You can’t leave to go to the bathroom 10 minutes before class ends, or first 10 minutes of period</p></li>
</ul>
<p>I laughed at the one-way halls. That is really stupid; I’ve never heard of such a policy (but from a couple other posts, I guess this is common?) :D</p>
<p>I have the same stupid requirements at my school. It’s so ridiculous: I’m taking Art I my senior year! :(</p>
<p>jbvirtuoso, some kids in my school block this one hallways by holding hands. Last year, every day, as my lunch period was ending and everyone was going one way down this hallway, these 4 kids held hands and started walking the opposite way. It would cause the hall to get all backed up. It would have been funny if it wasn’t making everyone late for class. I started taking a different route to my next class.</p>
<p>Wow, good luck at that school.</p>
<p>Our cell phone policy. If they see it you’re automatically suspended for a day. Offense 2 is three days, offense 3 is 5 days, and offense 4 can get you expelled.</p>
<p>^ Ew, that sucks, but seriously, can’t students put their phones away for a couple hours. It is sad that youth today has become so dependent on techonolgy<em>Says Rob, who has a massive addiction to CC</em></p>
<p>Well, I go to an all-boys school, so there is this “no female admissions” policy in effect. Isn’t that crazy?</p>
<p>That’s really it lol. There’s a few uniform policies that get annoying, but nothing completely ridiculous.</p>
<p>Wow these policies are outrageous. And I thought I had a sucky school.</p>
<p>For example, most teachers at my school don’t care if you use your cellphone/iPod in class. Also, our yearly parking pass in only $15. :p</p>
<p>^ Ours is $100. >.<</p>
<p>ours is $1.00! kinda symbolic, I guess…</p>
<p>-No cell phone/iPod. They take it away.
-No Uggs are allowed in the school. Also, no hooded sweatshirts, even if they are school ones (it’s a uniform school.)
-Increasing our Religion classes to five days a cycle from four, which takes up study periods.
-A bunch a teachers were fired only so that a bunch of new ones could be hired.</p>
<p>That’s all that I can think of, for now. During the school year I recall thinking a lot of things were ridiculous, but I can’t really remember since school hasn’t been in session, and there’s been other things to think about. More new policies should be in affect,though, as the school is getting a new President.</p>
<ul>
<li>stupid gym and health required for 2 years, so I didn’t have enough spaces for the classes I actually wanted.</li>
<li>no cell phones either</li>
</ul>
<p>^4 - count them, FOUR - years of Physical Education are required for high schoolers in New York State - and unlike ANOTHER state I could mention (coughFlorida), we can’t get out of gym by taking it ONLINE. We also are required to take health for half a year.</p>
<p>Seriously; what the h***, Florida. That’s like taking a class called Introductory Oil Painting where the only materials used are textbooks and multiple-choice tests.</p>
<p>^ 
woo Florida. I totally took one of my phys ed classes and life management classes online, school (private) did require me to take one at the school though. However, even better deal in this department is the IB schools where all physical education classes are waived period (at least at the one down the street). i didn’t know online was not an option everywhere.</p>
<p>MelancholyDane, you’re really <em>proud</em> of refusing to do annotations? I would hate to have an arrogant guy like you in my class.</p>
<p>I hate busy work, but I do it anyway. A teacher’s a teacher, and you do what they ask you to. You aren’t better than other students, or exempt from homework, just because you’re smarter than them.</p>
<p>I didn’t ask to get credit for doing them or ask for exemption, did I? I play by the same rules as everybody else. I simply have a wider perception of what constitutes importance to my education than “a teacher’s a teacher and I do what they ask me to.” </p>
<p>Besides, I really hate the idea of writing in books.</p>
<p>We don’t have so many ridiculous policies as we do stupid administrators, horrible schedules, and poor rule enforcement.
Beginning of the year is rolling around, and here’s a typical rule that will be broken and punished: Tank top (camisole) with bra strap showing. It’s obviously not that bad a rule, because some girls are C cups and have the craziest cleavage… Yuck.
By the end of the year, however, they become so lax that a girl wore two camis with lace on top of each other all day and a teacher actually came up, put her hand on her shoulder, and walked away (to congrat her on something). I got in trouble for wearing a skirt shorter than my fingertips (when I reached down), too, and then a slutty girl was wearing shorts that were basically underwear a week later…</p>
<p>We have ■■■■■■■■ faculty.
Oh, and during john Hancock day, where we’re allowed to go sign yearbooks, no classes, and there are activities and a concert at the end of the day, we were separated into grade. Yep. I was stuck with 7th graders and my grade for an entire day that was “supposed” to be fun. It was ■■■■■■■■.
Miss Tits (Miss Marion, our VP) is hopefully leaving this year… she did all this, I swear.</p>
<p>Didn’t know there were so many FLVS PE/Health haters…I love it
(I took the PE Req. at school and Health/LMS online, btw)</p>
<p>MelancholyDane, I like your thinking. </p>
<p>My school doesn’t have any ridiculous policies, but the enforcement of common policies is what’s really ridiculous.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Most schools have a no iPod/cell phone rule…fine. My school is selective about enforcing this one. Some days an administrator will look right at you with a cell phone/iPod and say nothing, the next day they’ll grab it.</p></li>
<li><p>Certain walkways are blocked. The point is to not have people aimlessly wandering around the school during lunch (in order to catch those that try to skip classes during other lunch hours) and in the process we all get stuck in the cafeteria area. Sometimes they will yell “go back to the cafeteria or patio” and we’ll pretend to walk back in that direction, but instead we’ll just walk around the other side of the school. Quite inefficient.</p></li>
<li><p>Drop Everything and Read (DEAR). To improve FCAT scores, they want to get more people reading so every day during a different block at a certain time, they’d announce that we’d have to drop everything and read for 15 minutes…and it couldn’t be a textbook! This was a huge hindrance to APs and other higher level courses that didn’t have to worry about the FCAT because it would always interrupt our lesson. Some teachers would enforce the mandatory “write a paragraph about what your read” BS, most would just ignore it.</p></li>
<li><p>There are a lot of new policies for 9th and 10th graders required to improve FCAT scores that hinder real learning in the process which basically include tons of course restrictions and requirements to take lower level courses. I’m just glad I’m not in that position right now.</p></li>
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