<p>No cellphones
No iPods
Gym has to be for all 4 years of high school UNLESS you take at least 2 varsity sports…In which case you can skip taking gym senior year
No tank tops (and while it’s no Florida, New York gets HUMID)
No hair of unnatural colors (that one we dismiss though)
If you’re caught in the hallways without a pass you get detention
As a club, our GSA cannot observe the Day of Silence, however, individually, they can observe it.
If you park in a spot that you’re not supposed to park in and get caught (e.g. Juniors parking in Senior spots, Seniors parking in teacher spots), even if there are NO OTHER PARKING SPOTS, you can’t drive to school anymore. You have to park across a street on this weird road.</p>
<p>^Yeah I’m pretty much convinced that my high school functions like a middle or elementary school. They used to give out prizes for those dumb paragraphs too…</p>
<p>Take Health for half a year.
Take Speech for half a year.
Health and Speech are the most useless classes ever. And in my school, we don’t learn anything in those classes. They are just study halls with stupid grading systems that dropped my GPA. </p>
<p>We only have to take PE for 1.5 years. I took half a year online and did some marching band.</p>
<p>Take oral communications for a quarter
Gym counts in the GPA</p>
<p>What was really amazing was that we use to be required to wear IDs hanging around our necks, and you would get detentions if you were caught without them. Then as of 2005, this policy was discontinued!</p>
<p>We don’t even have a parking pass. Supposedly, we are supposed to get a parking form and free sticker, and are not allowed to park in the special, smaller, teacher lot. They aren’t really enforced, though, based on my experiences from the few times I drove to school.</p>
<p>Haha, you guys have some ridiculous rules. </p>
<p>We haveee:</p>
<p>– Two-finger rule. You can’t wear a shirt with straps thinner than two of your fingers. (Tank tops are basically out…)
– Pinky rule. Skirts or shorts have to go lower than your pinky when your arms are relaxed. (Not really ridiculous, imo. But people get around it all the time.)
– Assignment notebooks that we have to get signed before going to the bathroom? (I dunno, do most schools still have hall passes or something of the sort? I figure that in most schools, teachers consider the students mature enough to just leave and go to the bathroom whenever.)
– Some rules about distance at school dances…? And pretty strict dress codes for Homecoming/Prom dresses.<br>
– So, I never thought this was weird until I was somewhere with a bunch of people from other states, but my school system doesn’t have F’s. It’s just A, B, C, D, E (failing)… which seems logical, right? I dunno; I never thought it was too crazy. Haha but from what I’ve heard from other sources (not from anyone in my school system), the rationale behind this grading system was supposedly some bull about “F” being bad for kids’ self-esteem.</p>
<p>Self-esteem and kids complaining about it is so annoying. We had one kid in elementary school who had a poor time controlling his anger (read: couldn’t), and blamed it on a poor self-esteem. Naturally, the school had to “accommodate his concerns”, so he rarely got in trouble for stuff he should have.</p>
<p>And on-topic, since I seem to be addicted to derailing tonight, we have the same dress-code rules that Poseur’s HS does, hall pass rules that never, ever get followed, and ‘Saturday School’ for people who are tardy three times or break other rules (such as the dress-code or the speed limit signs in the parking lot). Saturday school is a joyous four-hours wasted on the weekend doing absolutely nothing, since concentrating on homework is nearly impossible when you want to be sleeping. Compared to most other schools, though, our policies are not ridiculous.</p>
<p>Edit: Forgot about the ‘No games’ rule, which is the biggest joke ever. Honestly, a quarter of the people on computers at any given time are playing games, and this is even higher for the younger classes. No one ever gets caught, and although the punishments for doing so aren’t pleasant, they aren’t frequent enough to have any discernible effect on anyone’s actions.</p>
<p>If you forget your ID (which lets you in the school) or aren’t wearing it properly: 1st offense: Warning, 2nd Offense: ISS, 3rd Offense: OSS </p>
<p>And they’re pretty serious about it too. Oh… and no games during online classes, even if 80% of everyone’s classes don’t start for another 2 weeks. </p>
<p>No one may bring you food for lunch during the day… if they do you can’t eat it. </p>
<p>Other than that, I can’t think of much.</p>
<p>You can’t have phones out at any time, but sometimes teachers will allow them for another reason… yesterday the teacher was looking at someone’s phone to see if she could approve it for the activity and the owner hits the wrong button on getting it back and porn pops up and the teacher about faints.</p>
<p>Have to catch the bus in 10 minutes, bye everyone!</p>
<p>I think I’m just really mad at my school right now, but we have many ridiculous things.</p>
<p>–Back in middle school, one teacher would not allow students to wear jackets into her class, even though it was freezing. We had to pile them on the radiator outside her class.</p>
<p>–If you want to take APUSH, you have to take AP Lit simultaneously. I’ve already taken AP Lit through the ISD, and scored a 5 on the test, but I have to take it again if I want to take APUSH. Grr.</p>
<p>–The seventh and eighth graders at my school are not allowed to eat together. They have the same lunch period, but eighth and seventh graders are not allowed to sit at the same tables.</p>
<p>–Surprise! The school has decided that you have to take another health class before you graduate–and an art class–and two PE classes! Oh, and we’re switching to trimesters, so your time to take these classes has been reduced! Enjoy!</p>
<p>Oh, man, I’ve written many an angry blog post about my school.</p>
<p>Maybe the policies aren’t as ridiculous as some of the other ones on here, but they irritate me to no end.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this is a “policy” but our school sucks. There are 81 seniors with 61 GPA’s in a ridiculously competitive environment. Each person constitutes more than 1% of the class. A 3.9 cannot guarantee top 10%; a 3.6 is top 50%.</p>
<p>^We don’t even have passes. I guess that’s one of the few benefits of going to a small, mediocre school with no resources in NoOne’sEverHeardOfUsville.</p>
<p>But due to the fact that anyone with a car and license can park at the school, it takes half an hour to get out of the parking lot each afternoon. :(</p>
<p>^ Our school only has 500 parking spots and almost 4000 kids now. About half of them would be able to drive to school, but there aren’t enough spaces.</p>
<p>When I was in high school we used to always have to wear our student IDs around on our necks every day. If you forgot to bring your student ID you either had to shovel out $15 and purchase a new one - even if you still had the old one at home - or get a 10-day suspension.</p>
<p>However, we had regular arsonists who would set fires in the broom closets (at least three times a week). They would only get 3-day detentions.
The local fire department hated us. </p>
<p>Speaking of fires, apparently it’s a fire hazard to chain the doors shut on a school. My high school apparently never got that memo as every last door was chained shut except for one.</p>
<p>Skirts must hit two inches below the knee. </p>
<p>If you can fit more than one finger between your waistband and your skin, your pants are too loose.</p>
<p>No open-toed shoes. (open-toed shoes are hazardous. Chained doors are not. Remember this.)</p>
<p>If you’re tardy to class more than three times you have to attend Saturday school. If you miss more than two Saturday school sessions, you’re expelled even if you have no previous disciplinary record. </p>
<p>Scoring a 1000 on the SAT (old SAT) was considered a huge accomplishment and was rewarded.
Graduating at the top of the class… not so much.</p>
<p>Our principal lied about his college diploma and was exposed, courtesy of the Washington Post, for never even attending college.
However, if a student is caught telling less than the truth to a teacher - for any reason, that’s an automatic 5 day suspension.</p>
<h2>^^ditto, PlattsburghLoser that is HORRIBLE!!!</h2>
<p>Aghh I HATED one-way halls with a passion!!!</p>
<p>I’m homeschooled now, but one thing that I had a SERIOUS issue with at my old school (and I know that this occurs at most schools around the country, too) is that the district allowed its teachers to offer assignments and extra credit assignments for things the student had to pay for. Going to football games, plays, buying a box of kleenex, etc. I finally got *!$$3# and talked to my principal about it, and she REFUSED to change the effing policy! Eventually a teacher and I teamed up and we got the policy changed, but it here is how it ended up:</p>
<p>teachers can offer these assignments, but only if they offer a dual, ACADEMIC assignment for the same amount of credit. </p>
<p>WTH?! So, they expect me to do ACADEMIC, actual work while the rest of the kids go to the party store and buy a box of kleenex for the same amount of credit?!!! F-you!</p>
<p>Other than that, yeah, my school wasn’t too bad :)</p>
I guess that’s one of the few benefits of going to a small, mediocre school with no resources in NoOne’sEverHeardOfUsville.</p>