<p>This week has been labelled "Hall Nazi" week and it's ridiculous. I'm just wondering if your school has this ridiculous hall pass system that was just implemented this week for no reason. We have a pretty new Principal and VP (2 years of experience at our school between them) and out old admn. was really loved and respected by the school while the new one just abuses its power.</p>
<p>So this week...if we have to get something out of our locker or go to the bathroom, we MUST have some sort of a hall pass, which has never been needed before. EVER. Now, it's getting ridiculous since the principal and vp seem to be everywhere in the school at the same time monitoring the hallways and escorting people w/o a hall pass back to class. it's so funny bc the teachers are even tired of it. In my classes today, the
"hall passes" have been: a banana, trash can, HUGE 4' x 6' world domination flag, water bottles, and tiny pieces of paper signed by ourselves. And something more ridiculous...the VP asked someone for a hall pass DURING time in between the bells today and also told people they were walking too slowly when we still had 4 mintues. </p>
<p>It's a pretty bad sign when teachers and students alike fear and mock the admn. Even though playing cards have jsut recently been banned, my stats teacher encourages us to play....and in calculus we snack on animal crackers and whenever the admn comes in, everyone just covers them up with papers. Today my govt teacher was rolling her eyes while talking to the VP (outside the doorway) and my anatomy teacher was listening and tihnking that it was funny about how we thought the principal was frightening, how he looked like a murderer, his duck-like walk, and the vp's waddle. My English teacher laughs at cartoons about the admn drawn on her board and has made fun of the principal's usage of words on the intercom ("Good afternoon I am now making an administrative announcement made by me...")</p>
<p>Before this hallway Nazi phase, there was a parking nazi thing where the vp would go outside and check every single car and licesnse plate to make sure each parking spot had the registered car. There was also the "goal phase" in which whenever the principal saw us, we had to tell him 3 goals of our goals for the day.</p>
<p>...really, is a school's administration allowed to be so ridiculous in trying to establish "power"?</p>
<p>Haha, we have all of the above (other than the goal think..). It isn't really inforced though. I find the whole system silly. If someone has to use the restroom during class, they can get up at a time that causes the least disturbance and walk out, rather than have to interrupt class, ask the teacher, get a pass, have the teacher mark their grade down (yeah a couple of my teachers do this), etc. I despise teachers who do things like this, that don't contribute to education at all. My chem teacher has finished lectures five minutes early and told the class to sit down and not say a word; he then yells at anyone who looks at the clock. About then I say something like "but how are we interupting class when you aren't teaching anything?" I could go on for hours aobut how many dumb school policies just hurt education. Why the hell am I forced to take computer apps, where I learn to make excel files when I've known the material for years? Amazing administration for you. The best profs I've ever had encouraged people to get up and go to the cafe to get a slice of pizza if they get tired during lecture. Oh well, 1 more semester.</p>
<p>You don't have the worst of it. We have hall passes, ID cards, board-hall passes, administration doing tardy sweeps, at least 12 school police on campus daily..</p>
<p>wow my school has none of that. We have an open campus and people can go down the halls and off campus any time they want. What do you do about free periods? (or do you not have those either?)</p>
<p>Our hall passes are made for every class, it's pretty much the teacher's id card and they all hang it by the door so you just grab and go whenever appropriate. I've been in the hallways without them before, and nobody noticed though. We have the parking registration checked too-esp. cuz it costs $50(or was it $60?) a year to get a parking spot. Our school doesn't have free periods. For Freshman and Sophomore year you have to have 7 classes, and in Junior and Senior year 6 classes. If you have a free period, you're supposed to be off campus(or in the library).</p>
<p>At my school the hall pass rules depend on the teacher... some of my teachers give us 2-4 hall passes for 9 weeks and other teachers don't really care and let you go as long as you tell them... In the past our school will pick random days and play "wipe out" over the intercom after the tardy bell rings.. All the teachers close their doors and if you get caught in the hall you are given a ridiculously long assignment to do.... As for the car restritions... You are only able to drive to school as a jr. or sr... you have to register and put a thing in the window to indicate that you have payed and registered.... then every so often they will check in the windows and if you don't have it then your car gets towed... we don't have free periods...</p>
<p>wow that's really weird because the EXACT same thing happened in my school. We got a new principal 3 years ago and every year he enforces more and more rules. I got screamed at + detention for walking down the wrong hallway to get to the cafeteria and I'm a senior. My freshman year I did whatever the hell I wanted without anyone bothering me. </p>
<p>When you go into my cafeteria you first have to sign in by computers to make sure you're not cutting, then when you leave you need a pass (Makes NO sense that you need a pass to leave the cafeteria). Our lines to get IN to the cafeteria are about 100 students, It takes about 8 minutes to get in, ridiculous. </p>
<p>Our principal is just enforcing these crazy rules and regulations, good thing I only have 5 months left. </p>
<p>Oh, and if you wander the hall without a hall pass you are escorted into a room for the rest of the period. Very bad if you're late to class for some reason or if it's your free. </p>
<p>Our "hall monitors" are the most annoyin people i've ever encountered, two of them are actually retarded...which is weird...but they have a little phone that one hit will call the dean.
ridiculous! I miss our old principal that nobody ever new his name</p>
<p>Anyway, those are pretty common, so thats nothing odd. And unique hall passes are nothing new, even though it seems as if your teachers do that to mock the admin. I've had toilet seats, a locker door, a toy football, etc. </p>
<p>Now that goal thing.....thats weird. And the parking thing sucks, but thats understandable. </p>
<p>Anyway, we had a horrible admin. also. But it was more a district thing, as our superintendent SUCKED. She cut out collaboration day, which every wednesday gave students time to have meetings and work on their respective courses etc. together or have workshops and gave the students a chance to sleep in until 10 am (now you can see why we missed those). And they started charging students ~$275 a semester for "bus passes" for the school buses, which was so unexpected, since the years before, they were free, as in most places. These are just a couple examples. Anyway if you guys are so against this, do what we did. Our school of ~4300 students walked out. Plain and simple, during our break between classes, all the students walked out (except those anal, finger in their butt, cant miss a class or get in trouble kids). It was empowering seeing a sea of kids chanting, voicing their opinions etc. It was great. (we're on campusactivism.org if you need proof). </p>
<p>The thing is, there used to be friendship and respect between the students and the old principal and vp since the administration trusted the students, yet still had authority. It's sort of been an unwritten code of conduct that if the students are giver more freedom, they'll behave better. We've never had hall passes before...except in middle school.</p>
<p>...until we got the new admn. And so I don't think they understand that we will probably behave better if they didn't make these radical chagnes to establish their so called power.</p>
<p>That's funny Karido. I miss the old principal so much...everyone loved him! He came to a football game this year and everyone was chanting his name and saying hi while our new principal was jsut standing by himself. We don't have hall monitors...just the principal and vp who just seem to be EVERYWHERE at the SAME TIME.,</p>
<p>dukeofhazard...wow. I don't think my school would walk out...probably jsut the 160 seniors. I would have liked to hear the panic in the district office. What we did do once was after the senior girls "ladies is pimps too" shirts got banned, we jsut put small pieces of tape marked "censored" over the "pimps" and made huge signs that were related to pimps and had the whole senior class support the "pimp movement" during a pep rally. Even the teachers supported it and wante "teachers is pimps too" shirts.</p>
<p>Our school organized a walk-out once also. It circulated through AIM, E-mail etc. and it was all organized to happen. THen that day it was sooooo cold that only 3 students left and sat in a circle holding hands. It was so funny, very ineffectual obviously ;(. Mr. Kinder (our Principal) didn't care. </p>
<p>Btw, Calla that "pimp movement" is funny as hell, what a good idea ;p. </p>
<p>We had hall passes until two years ago too, and teachers gave you some really weird / big stuff. My economics teacher would have us drag a chair through the hallway, making even a 20 second walk take like 2 minutes... don't even mention being seen carrying a chair into the bathroom. Other teachers had you take large flags, etc. Now we have to wear these lame ID's around our necks all day, like military dogtags.</p>
<p>Our school has a bunch of hall pass rules that are never enforced. Sure you're supposed to have a pass, but the principal doesn't really care as long as you're actually going somewhere for an actual purpose. We have free buses and free parking, but the parking is interesting. It's an unmarked gravel area, and when the principal was hired, he spent the morning driving around it finding cars that weren't in straight east-west lines and making the kids ("License plate YND 447, please come to the office. Now.") move their cars. He announced that there would be no more warnings. On day 2, he towed over 30 cars and took them to another town -- in a school of 300 kids, at $50 per tow. People almost walked out. The second day, he towed five. The third, two. He has towed one more in three years. And now we can get out of the lot; we couldn't before. Not all rules are bad. On the other hand, the sheriff's drug sniffing dogs once vandalized a teacher's car and found only dog food, but that's another story...</p>
<p>Oh, yeah...the pimp movement was really funny....since the principal and vp walked into the pep rally and tried to get us to shut up, did not succeed, and then gave up and left the gym and never returned.</p>
<p>Also, the principal compared the word pimp to the Nazi Swastika, which offended many people.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, the result of the walkout was the Superintendent being fired and us electing a better, newer one. Us Seniors aren't able to reap all the benifits right now, but it will def. help out the future generations.</p>
<p>We are supposed to have hall passes anytime we are out of a class but if you are in good graces with the admin(or as the unfavored kids call us, the a$$ kissers) you don't need one. We too got a new administrator this year and during the second week of school I was walking through the hall, leaving school(I leave at 10:30), with no pass and this new admin stopped me and was interrogating me for a pass. I was like "No, I don't need a pass. I leave now." He was like "Everyone needs a pass at all times."... I was like "Except for me because I am leaving the school-- not skipping class. If I wanted to skip class I'd write myself a note and leave school." (because my parents have a letter on record at the school which states that I am allowed to sign their name legally) So, we walked to the office where I straightened the situation.</p>
<p>A while later, I was getting in my car and he was out there trying to catch skippers(which we are having a big problem with). He told me to go back in the school now and never to skip again. I was like "No, I'm leaving. Remember when you stopped me in the hall...." He was like "Yeah, we went to the office, right?... I remember" The next day I talked to the principal about his actions and how I was late to my college class because of his ignorance.... he hasn't bothered me since.</p>
<p>We are getting ID cards next year(I won't be there thankfully) and they are installing scanners at all the doors which will keep track of where kids are. Crazy. They will have pictures on them with name, grade, emergency info, etc. A waste of money, really.</p>
<p>the only thing that has happened here recently is after years of having a closed campus policy that no one enforced.. they started enforcing it. They plan to put up gates to prevent people from leaving. I should leave a note asking if it's against the fire code to have the parking lot completely locked off. I mean sure.. I'm all for the school burning to the ground but I don't think they would be. When they first started this crap, right after thanksgiving, some sophomores brought grills to school and made lunch. It was pretty yummy</p>