<p>Maybe I go to a lenient school but I can't think of any ridiculous rules really. Our dress code is almost non-existant, we have almost no PDA rules, the late policy is quite lax. So I'm not really complaining. </p>
<p>Once last year they tried to implement a policy that all classrooms had to be locked during lunch, but that one kind of failed.</p>
<p>I hate my school's late policy. Four unexcused lates = suspension.</p>
<p>You manage to get around it if you know some teachers who like you though. Had about 40 lates in a semester once.</p>
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Public, in south TX.</p>
<p>Our school district (elementary , middle, AND highschools) has a rule that if you miss more than ten consecutive days of school, you get kicked out of the district.. o.0</p>
<p>I know, I'm a mom - but I CANNOT stand the rules that D's school implemented this year...NO backpacks in class, NO coats or sweaters allowed in class, video monitors in the halls, no leaving campus. The backpacks/coats/sweaters rule is to restrict the possibility of guns/drugs in the classroom - but, hello? I think if the students were that desperate to carry drugs or weapons, they could do so without a backpack. We are a public school in a smallish town in North Dakota...AND the coats/sweaters CANNOT be worn during fire drills - the students have to evacuate the building to the outside IN WINTER. We can get to 30 below here - actual temperature.</p>
<p>lolololol and people at my school were getting upset because starting last year we weren't allowed to listen to music (iPod and such) on campus.</p>
<p>there are no backpacks allowed in the hallways....</p>
<p>and girls are not allowed to have huge bags/purses b/c they could be used for transporting books during the school day.</p>
<p>and there is a really strict dress code. to ensure that it is implemented correctly the school is kept at 65 degrees during the winter time. and 60 degrees during summer. which means that it is pretty much freezing all year around.</p>
<p>lol hotpiece
"and girls are not allowed to have huge bags/purses b/c they could be used for transporting books during the school day."</p>
<p>oh i didnt know school books werent allowed in school?!?!??!</p>
<p>ahaha and omg that is so mean with the temperatures... poor you</p>
<p>No D's. Anything below a 70 is an F ... they USED to have D's, then one day they decided that people weren't trying hard enough to pass their classes...</p>
<p>thats good sydney. at many schools a 70 - like 78 or so is a D so you get those as Cs instead</p>
<p>Wow, I guess my school is really lax compared to others. </p>
<p>However:</p>
<p>Every cut gets you a detention after school, and many people are marked cutting by mistake or marked present by a teacher when they were absent, which resulted in having cuts for the rest of the classes for that day. It takes a long time to clear a cut and people serve detention for cuts they don't have. </p>
<p>You have to call your parents even if you have a minor cut or something of the sort. </p>
<p>Every freshman has to take gymnastics for gym and are graded on their ability to perform; let me just say that a 80% of the people were never meant to be gymnasts EVER. </p>
<p>We can hug and make out as much as we want. People wear whatever they please - very liberal in that sense. We can go outside and eat all the time except for snow days.</p>
<p>oh, and i completely forgot</p>
<p>every freshmen has to take dance in gym class. the dances include the tango, salsa, waltz, polka, etc. and then you are graded on your ability. </p>
<p>every sophomore has to take "sophomore swim" where they swim every day in gym for 3 months... and it really sucks if you have soph swim during the winter months.</p>
<p>logisticswizard, are you talking about pope john?</p>
<p>my school has uniforms, with specific types of socks that are impossible to find anywhere (thank god we just got knee socks that you can order from the uniform company). (now, this is only if you dont wear knee socks): they have to be completely white, fold over, I think it's crew length or something? i have no idea, and you can't show any of your ankle (because obviously that's so provocative..). or you get a detention. </p>
<p>my friend was wearing flip flops (we can't wear sandals, boots, etc with our uniform) at 3:45 (our school ends at 3:00) outside one of the buildings, waiting for her ride, the principal walked by and saw her and gave her a detention for wearing flip flops OUTSIDE 45 MINUTES AFTER SCHOOL ENDED. </p>
<p>If we have away games, we can wear a school/sports sweatshirt and sweat pants, but only ones that are green/navy blue and are from the school. I was in the art room and it was really hot, so i rolled up my sweat pants to about 3 inches under my knee, the principal came in to talk to the teacher, saw me, and gave me a detention because my pants were rolled up so I looked "disorderly".</p>
<p>Our principal is such a jerk. She tries to make examples out of people by giving them detentions for ridiculous things that aren't even rules. Nobody actually does anything bad at my school so that's the only way she can give anyone a detention</p>
<p>yeah, pope john. why? is that where you go?</p>
<p>We have a bunch ...</p>
<p>3 tardies = absence</p>
<p>5 tardies in one six weeks period results in AC (in school suspension, but they call it alternative classroom, which is also what they call special ed ...) Consequently, there is a six week waiting list to get into AC.</p>
<p>we just recieved the 4th and 5th "R's," which are apparently respect and responsibility - failure to abide by these can result in suspension. There is an itemized list explaning what those "Rs" equate to and it includes such offenses as not studying at home, putting your head on a desk, reading your book, etc</p>
<p>Parking - not allowed to pull through, violations result in either a $10 fine or towing ($150 to reclaim) they do not distinguish between these two and do whichever they wish. There are gates around the campus, which they lock during school hours. The parking contract that you have to sign gives them permission to search your vehicle without cause, now that doesn't seem too bad but another rule is that you are required to lock your car, so if they search it, they break into it (I have seen the parking attendants with slim-jims and crowbars)</p>
<p>They require participation in science fairs (and get mad when no one does a real experiment), but they do not even recognize the existance of some of the clubs/teams. Such as the quiz bowl team which has made state for several years in a row.</p>
<p>We have an awesome auditorium with accoustics that are better than many performance halls. We are not allowed to use it. (actually, we are, but we have to rent it for a minimum of 3 hours at $300 an hour and hire a professional technitian to oversee the lights even if they are not used - this is if it is for a school related event like when our theater class put on a play that we were required to pay admissions to and attend during school hours)</p>
<p>To check out a book from the library, you have to have a student ID card, which we have to pay for. If you do not have an ID card, you have to bring your English teacher with you.</p>
<p>We have an entire period (attendance is compulsory) that has the sole purpose of tutoring for the TAKS test. Seniors are exempt from this test if they passed it as a junior (and most do as it is very simple)</p>
<p>GPA calculating - we inflate GPA by an extra .5 after weighting it. It is possible to have a higher GPA by taking all regular classes which are not weighted and Athletics than a person who takes only classes that are weighted. </p>
<p>There are a lot more, but you get the idea. Oh and I go to a public high school in Texas</p>
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Our principal is such a jerk. She tries to make examples out of people by giving them detentions for ridiculous things that aren't even rules. Nobody actually does anything bad at my school so that's the only way she can give anyone a detention
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<p>Hah, sounds like my old english teacher. She was okay, but she went a little crazy with the detention thing - one day she came in, and she was like "I have the power to give detentions now!" and proceeded to give them out for anything that annoyed her. I accumulated 5 detentions in about two months, didn't go to any of them - i'd just lurk around outside of the school instead of actually going - one of the teachers tried to make me go, but i made a big deal about how i had drivers ed and couldn't be bothered staying after school (they had called the wrong phone number anyway when they wanted to tell my parents, so i said it wasn't my fault that my parents didn't know). I actually just threw one of the detention slips on the floor after school, it got kicked around a bunch, then the teacher that had given it to me just picked it up and threw it away without hunting me down or anything. I was threatened with suspension for missing them, but then the school year ended and everyone forgot about it. If I remember correctly, my detentions were for:
- 3 tardy slips over the course of 3 quarters
- Saying 'it wasn't me' when she asked who had thrown something
- Saying 'why!?' after she gave me the detention for saying 'it wasn't me'
- "talking to other students during class" when I had actually raised my hand and was trying to ask her something.
- i forget what the rest were for.
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<p>Us too - it's so annoying! And then they give out first place, second place, etc, and make it part of our grade! It's not a science fair if it's mandatory - it's a stupid class project.</p>
<p>Wow, you guys are making my school sound like the most reasonable place ever. The only rule at my school that I really hate is that we're only allowed to waer school related jackets (and there's no such thing, so if you're cold you have to wear a school swetshirt or fleece or whatever). We're a uniform wearing private school, so I can see how maybe in the classroom this might be a good idea, but my friend got his jacket taken up by a teacher standing by the elevator confiscating seniors' jackets as we returned from off campus lunch (and it was a cold day...by texas standards at least)</p>
<p>Also, now that I'm a senior, I can get around a lot of the rules such as no cell phones, no ipods, etc. In 2 of my electove classes they dont say anything, and the only thing you can get in trouble for in my calc class is talking. Nothing else-listening to ipod, text messaging(obviously not on quizzes and tests tho), playing psp, eating pizza-is against the rules. Also with the jacket rule and other rules, there are only 2-3 teachers that really care, and if you know which classes you can get away with these things in, you'll be ok.</p>
<p>AP US History/Modern Euro require participation in National History Day; any AP history class that does not do so (World History, Economics, Psychology) must have a minimum af fifteen papers or five major projects per semester. AP Government's idea of a project is spending 100 hours/semester on a political campaign (and fifteen papers).
Otherwise all is well in APs; however, the lower-level classes across all subjects have far more homework to equal the amount of time put in to an AP class.
School policy includes a dress code, but it is seldom enforced; one girl came to school wearing a fishnet, skirt (w/o panties) and a bra...and nobody did anything about it. The only time that the code is enforced is with capes or hats, which are not permitted at any time. Electronic devices of any type (including most calculators) are banned, and the security force (25 members) are quite strict about the usage of cellular phones in the halls (3 warnings=two day suspension). Open campus is permitted for all students, despite nine diffrent attempts to either limit it to seniors or kill it altogether have failed. However, only seniors are allowed to do pranks (releasing rats in the halls, starting food fights) without punishment. Cut laws are a farce, particularly for seniors; one senior had 42 cuts of band and math during the same day and 11 consecutive full-day unexcused absences in this semester alone; he remains unpunished, and unfortunately is my band section leader. Of course, if I take a single excused absence, I am rewarded with a punishment. (This usually happens only to freshmen across the board in academic classes; a variation on this happens in band if one is a freshman, sophomore, or junior not in the most talented group.)</p>
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The parking contract that you have to sign gives them permission to search your vehicle without cause
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<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not legal to have students sign away their constitutional rights against unwarranted search and seizure in a public school. Lockers, I know schools have the power to search since it's school property. However, cars, while parked on school property, are still private property which to search without a warrant is unlawfully entered...</p>
<p>boys cant wear jeans, but girls are allowed to wear black jeans (not blue ones though)</p>