Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?
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My sixth form is full of fucking ass.
It's a great sixth form, and I love it to bits but that's what makes the cracks that do show all the worse.
To get to the sixth form, you had to hit 5 C s or above.
One of my best mates got Well above that, despite his learning issues, he put his problems aside and worked a great deal for them.
They cut him, despite him meeting the requirements.
Another friend of mine failed literally every GCSE she took. Ds and Es everywhere. Her mum gets a little bit angry, she's right in the sixth form. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy she's in, but fuck, why not him?
It's a great sixth form, and I love it to bits but that's what makes the cracks that do show all the worse.
To get to the sixth form, you had to hit 5 C s or above.
One of my best mates got Well above that, despite his learning issues, he put his problems aside and worked a great deal for them.
They cut him, despite him meeting the requirements.
Another friend of mine failed literally every GCSE she took. Ds and Es everywhere. Her mum gets a little bit angry, she's right in the sixth form. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy she's in, but fuck, why not him?
Mine tried to force me to do AS french a year early having only scraped a b in GCSE French the previous year. That went well and I eventually won.
Had to get parents in once which culminated in banning an IT teacher from talking to me. Not a great loss as I could do a damn site more with computers than she could (and i'm really not great with computers)
Gave me an absolutely dire English teacher who never marked anything ever. Self teaching for three years was fun.
Refused to set science one years leaving me with two of the worst teachers and a group full of absolute douche bags. getting moved out off that took sodding ages.
All in all when I came out with the best results in the school bar one it was despite their teaching - not due to it.
Then I got to college and had one teacher who'd just left an all girls school which forced kids to stand up when a teacher entered the room. She gave it a shot, lost the ensuing argument, where I was reasonably polite, then instead of dealing with it herself reported me to her boss who had to give me a good dressing down for 40 minutes whilst I was supposed to be doing coursework.
Then I got the exam timetable from hell for my AS exams and unsuprisingly screwed up the third exam on two days. Now History probably won't predict me an A despite the fact I only missed ity by 2.5% and they were predicted it all of last year. Jerks.
English education woot woot.
Had to get parents in once which culminated in banning an IT teacher from talking to me. Not a great loss as I could do a damn site more with computers than she could (and i'm really not great with computers)
Gave me an absolutely dire English teacher who never marked anything ever. Self teaching for three years was fun.
Refused to set science one years leaving me with two of the worst teachers and a group full of absolute douche bags. getting moved out off that took sodding ages.
All in all when I came out with the best results in the school bar one it was despite their teaching - not due to it.
Then I got to college and had one teacher who'd just left an all girls school which forced kids to stand up when a teacher entered the room. She gave it a shot, lost the ensuing argument, where I was reasonably polite, then instead of dealing with it herself reported me to her boss who had to give me a good dressing down for 40 minutes whilst I was supposed to be doing coursework.
Then I got the exam timetable from hell for my AS exams and unsuprisingly screwed up the third exam on two days. Now History probably won't predict me an A despite the fact I only missed ity by 2.5% and they were predicted it all of last year. Jerks.
English education woot woot.
well lets see the vending machines were locked during lunch hours and they had us go to school in the middle of a huge snow storm then tried dismissing early to save their but all it did was led to was hysteria in the bus loop
There isn't much.
The daughter of the school principal is in the same class I am so she is the favorite among the teachers, we were graded from 0 to 20 and my class had to do a power point presentation on a topic that we learned in class, both me and her choosed generations, the thing is that she didn't do anything, she just opened her book and got the information that was there (names of the generation, in wich time period it existed and the basic stuff), when she showed her work the teacher (who is always kissing ass to the daughter of the principal) the teacher complained that it was a copy paste of the book she got a 17 out of a 20. When I did my work I included all sorts of information and talked about many different things that weren't even mentioned on our book (or in wikipedia) but when I showed the work my teacher game me a 16 but the only thing that I did wrong was write the wrong name under a famous president photo.
Every year the school ask parents for money, I am ok with that because the school could use that money,but the money that could be used to fix toilets and other stuff was used for buying some games that ended up not being used by anione or broken.
My school's math teachers every year make a games contest, the games were cool and fun and when I decided to join I lost in the first game (I was ok with that I was beaten by someone really good that deserved to win) but when I talk to a girl that was helping with the event she tells me that I wasn't going to play again and that I should go back to class, I go ask the teachers if this is true and they say it is, but since the day before that they told me that the contest wold be all morning and that I woldn't need to bring my books, now I had to take the classes with no books.
The school in order to do some budget cuts decided that it wold be better that a class instead of being allowed to do 5 field trips should only do 1 field trip, makes sense in my opinion, the school shoulden't be paying for so many field trips, that's where the dick move comes in, my class wanted decided it wold be fun to visit florence and had to work their asses of all year to pay for the trip the school didn't even pay the bus, and the thing that made me really mad, my class organized bake sales, they sold raffles (a girl sold more than 800 euros in raffles) and when they had loads of money for an awsome trip the teacher tells them that the money wold be shared with other classes that also wanted to go and did next to nothing to get money for the trip, good thing I didn't went with them or I wold kill them all in the plane.
My Portuguese teacher is hated by everyone:
- remember the girl that made more than 800 euros by selling raffles? Well she had the best exam grades in our class but the teacher's favorite student still got a better grade in the end of the year.
- He fails at corregting our exams, he uses a points system that isn't used by anyone else and doesn't make sense and many times he forgets to add points from some questions so he gives us a lower grade that we should really have
-Because my class is stupid and can't follow the simple plot from Metro 2033 so my oral presentation got a bad grade because the teacher asks the students for opinions, since they are stupid and spent the entire time sleeping they didn't understand the story they started complaining it was hard to understand ( I also had to explain atleast 5 or 6 times who artyom was and why was he living in a metro.
The daughter of the school principal is in the same class I am so she is the favorite among the teachers, we were graded from 0 to 20 and my class had to do a power point presentation on a topic that we learned in class, both me and her choosed generations, the thing is that she didn't do anything, she just opened her book and got the information that was there (names of the generation, in wich time period it existed and the basic stuff), when she showed her work the teacher (who is always kissing ass to the daughter of the principal) the teacher complained that it was a copy paste of the book she got a 17 out of a 20. When I did my work I included all sorts of information and talked about many different things that weren't even mentioned on our book (or in wikipedia) but when I showed the work my teacher game me a 16 but the only thing that I did wrong was write the wrong name under a famous president photo.
Every year the school ask parents for money, I am ok with that because the school could use that money,but the money that could be used to fix toilets and other stuff was used for buying some games that ended up not being used by anione or broken.
My school's math teachers every year make a games contest, the games were cool and fun and when I decided to join I lost in the first game (I was ok with that I was beaten by someone really good that deserved to win) but when I talk to a girl that was helping with the event she tells me that I wasn't going to play again and that I should go back to class, I go ask the teachers if this is true and they say it is, but since the day before that they told me that the contest wold be all morning and that I woldn't need to bring my books, now I had to take the classes with no books.
The school in order to do some budget cuts decided that it wold be better that a class instead of being allowed to do 5 field trips should only do 1 field trip, makes sense in my opinion, the school shoulden't be paying for so many field trips, that's where the dick move comes in, my class wanted decided it wold be fun to visit florence and had to work their asses of all year to pay for the trip the school didn't even pay the bus, and the thing that made me really mad, my class organized bake sales, they sold raffles (a girl sold more than 800 euros in raffles) and when they had loads of money for an awsome trip the teacher tells them that the money wold be shared with other classes that also wanted to go and did next to nothing to get money for the trip, good thing I didn't went with them or I wold kill them all in the plane.
My Portuguese teacher is hated by everyone:
- remember the girl that made more than 800 euros by selling raffles? Well she had the best exam grades in our class but the teacher's favorite student still got a better grade in the end of the year.
- He fails at corregting our exams, he uses a points system that isn't used by anyone else and doesn't make sense and many times he forgets to add points from some questions so he gives us a lower grade that we should really have
-Because my class is stupid and can't follow the simple plot from Metro 2033 so my oral presentation got a bad grade because the teacher asks the students for opinions, since they are stupid and spent the entire time sleeping they didn't understand the story they started complaining it was hard to understand ( I also had to explain atleast 5 or 6 times who artyom was and why was he living in a metro.
Well the dick moves made by the school itself was pretty much nothing except inexperience and stupidity from a small number of teachers and faculty.
Hell all the schools I went to received army rations for food, all the kitchen staff knew how to prepare it and it was really good. In elementary after lunch was recess and rotating groups of older kids would help clean up, the principal treated kids like people but sadly on my last year he retired and a dickhead took over who went so far as to shorten recess, those poor kids.
Hopefully some of my old teachers grew out of their own apathy to education.
Hell all the schools I went to received army rations for food, all the kitchen staff knew how to prepare it and it was really good. In elementary after lunch was recess and rotating groups of older kids would help clean up, the principal treated kids like people but sadly on my last year he retired and a dickhead took over who went so far as to shorten recess, those poor kids.
Hopefully some of my old teachers grew out of their own apathy to education.
My school hasn't done anything particularly dickish besides the small gathering of portable we have but that is the fualt of funding and government stupidity. We are a school of over 1500 so it is understandable that we don't all fit in the hall and some of us have to stand but they do try to have separate assemblies on different weeks and have video feed to the theatre. However the first primary school I went to (was in OC class for year 5 & 6) is run by a dick-tator so it is understandable. Basically he decided that the students shouldn't be allowed to play on the grass as it wrecks it. Has used water from the After School Care's (a separate entity) water tank that they funded to water the grass. Has gotten permission to build a ball court for tenis and basketball and netball but it turned out was only for netball and only has netball lines on it. Has banned nut products (Actually a lot of schools have done this in Australia) because some children are allergic. Cemented over the After School Care's play area and denied there proposal to build a porch and an new building so they could accommodate more children and the school will have a new classroom. Started saying that all new students will have after school care available even though they were full. So yeah, he is a complete dickhead.
Yes.
Our principal fully dissed my grade (Year 12) in front of the entire school assembly in favour to rub in our faces that his favoured grade (the advanced Year 11) got better marks and were in general 'better' people.
Oh? So being an arrogant, egotistical, two-faced git with self-entitlement issues that cannot think for themselves constitutes being a good person? I rather be an asshole than what my principal constitutes what a good person is.
Also it is established in my high school that you have to try and 'one-up' the previous grade when it comes to fundraising, school trips. graduation memorabilia, formals and etcetera. We did the organising and fundraising early so that we can have a cruise, cruise formal and etcetera. So we did monthly fetes (Xarnivale), weekly dance-battles (DanceX), and weekly radio groups (Planet X Radio) where you pay money to play a song of your choice on the school radio for duration of song on theme weeks. Little gits had the gall to actually take our ideas, and just rename them XIarnivale, DanceXI and Planet XI Radio for their stuff. = -= We get called out for basing our ideas on previous things we saw on the telly, but they don't get called out for COPYING our idea. We used X to represent our class which is Class of 2010, as tried to make it sound like something from interesting and unique, double meanings and all. They scrwed it up by using XI. e_____o+
And THEN there's the Prank. Some little arrogant and two-faced knobhead from said Year 11 grade played a 'harmless' prank on the school and spread rumours that there was a bomb in the school toilets. Principal heard, has a panic attack and when everything is exposed for the sham it is, said knobhead 'slipped' that it was my grade that he heard it from and gullible! Principal believed him because 'his precious little Year 11 students can't do such things' (prinicpal's exact words) and then banned us from having our school cruise and took the money we raised (Approximately $2500) for said cruise to give to the Year 11.
...Yeah I hate my high school.
Our principal fully dissed my grade (Year 12) in front of the entire school assembly in favour to rub in our faces that his favoured grade (the advanced Year 11) got better marks and were in general 'better' people.
Oh? So being an arrogant, egotistical, two-faced git with self-entitlement issues that cannot think for themselves constitutes being a good person? I rather be an asshole than what my principal constitutes what a good person is.
Also it is established in my high school that you have to try and 'one-up' the previous grade when it comes to fundraising, school trips. graduation memorabilia, formals and etcetera. We did the organising and fundraising early so that we can have a cruise, cruise formal and etcetera. So we did monthly fetes (Xarnivale), weekly dance-battles (DanceX), and weekly radio groups (Planet X Radio) where you pay money to play a song of your choice on the school radio for duration of song on theme weeks. Little gits had the gall to actually take our ideas, and just rename them XIarnivale, DanceXI and Planet XI Radio for their stuff. = -= We get called out for basing our ideas on previous things we saw on the telly, but they don't get called out for COPYING our idea. We used X to represent our class which is Class of 2010, as tried to make it sound like something from interesting and unique, double meanings and all. They scrwed it up by using XI. e_____o+
And THEN there's the Prank. Some little arrogant and two-faced knobhead from said Year 11 grade played a 'harmless' prank on the school and spread rumours that there was a bomb in the school toilets. Principal heard, has a panic attack and when everything is exposed for the sham it is, said knobhead 'slipped' that it was my grade that he heard it from and gullible! Principal believed him because 'his precious little Year 11 students can't do such things' (prinicpal's exact words) and then banned us from having our school cruise and took the money we raised (Approximately $2500) for said cruise to give to the Year 11.
...Yeah I hate my high school.
Taught Spanish to English in a college English class. Passed everyone, even though they couldn't write good English to save their lives.
In high school, they dropped me out--twice. I was being homeschooled by one of their teachers and my psychiatrist's note was good for the year, and was signed by the Board of Education, and my high school agreed to it.
They also told me that I'd graduate once I was 18, and nothing would change unless I failed a grade because getting homeschooled would give the same amount of credits. Once my "last year" finished, they said that homeschooling gave half credits, and I would need two more years. I dropped out and got my GED.
In high school, they dropped me out--twice. I was being homeschooled by one of their teachers and my psychiatrist's note was good for the year, and was signed by the Board of Education, and my high school agreed to it.
They also told me that I'd graduate once I was 18, and nothing would change unless I failed a grade because getting homeschooled would give the same amount of credits. Once my "last year" finished, they said that homeschooling gave half credits, and I would need two more years. I dropped out and got my GED.
At the end of last school year, the seniors had a mock fight in the hallway, where the whole school clogged the hallways in a huge circle yelling FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! They were just playing hungry hungry hippos. You know how our school responded? They put the school on lock down for the next five days. No one was allowed to leave class, even to go to the bathroom. Yeah, I know, it was stupid and borderline inhumane.
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Yeah they did, they bought a single PC for the entire class with windows 3.1 on it.
So now you all know where my leet skills originate.
So now you all know where my leet skills originate.
Not sure if this is on topic, since it's not the school itself pulling a dick move, but I refuse to miss an opportunity to vent (and it is tangentially related to education).
After spending 2 years studying engineering at University, I realised that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing something I didn't enjoy and wasn't particularly good at. I decided to switch course, it was a pretty major change, especially as I went from studying Engineering to studying Film & Television, something I do have a great deal of passion for, as opposed to something I thought would be a steady reliable source of income.
I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but in the UK, if you cannot afford to pay your tuition fees, you can apply for a loan from the Student Loans Company (SLC), a company run by the government to ensure that anyone with the academic ability can afford to go to university (this is a massive over-simplification, but I have no desire to go into the details about quangos and the like). These loans are only paid back once you actually start earning money (again, it's a bit more complex than this, but I can't be bothered to explain, if you're interested look it up).
I had received this loan for the two years of my engineering course, and applied again when I switched course, letting them know my circumstances and that I was switching course. If this had been refused, I would not have continued my studies, simply because I couldn't have afforded to. This was not the case, they said they would pay my tuition fees for my new course. This was all over a year ago.
Roll on this summer, and a while after the year's lectures and exams had all finished, I noticed something odd; all my friends on my new course had their results, but I wasn't getting mine. At this point I thought I had nothing major to worry about, bureaucratic snafus happen, and I wasn't going to hold it against the University. I simply waited some more, then eventually called up my university and asked if they could resend my results. They said no, since apparently they hadn't received my tuition fees for the academic year.
This was the point that alarm bells started ringing, but I tried to be optimistic and rang the Student Loans Company to find out what had happened. This was the answer I got; my tuition fees had not been paid since my course change meant that I didn't qualify for a loan.
What?
My status had not changed since my application had been accepted, so I asked why I had been told I would receive the loan. In the four weeks since I first asked this question I still have not been given an answer.
What makes this even more annoying is that the SLC made no attempt to inform me of the change in my status, and I may not have found out until much later if not for the University withholding my results. The thing that propels this onto the level of farce (and makes me suspect deliberate dickishness on someone's part) is that the cancellation of my loan apparently occurred on the 3rd of July. My birthday. Happy fucking birthday.
Here's where it gets really stupid; they are now refusing to even acknowledge that they aren't paying me anything anymore. You might not thing that this is a problem, but if so you clearly have no experience of dealing with governmental bureaucracy, and I envy you. The Job Centre is refusing to let me apply of Job Seekers Allowance without proof that I am no longer receiving any money from the SLC. I asked how they would advise obtaining this proof; they said ask the SLC to send me a letter stating it. So I did. In response, the SLC told me to ask the Job Centre to send the SLC a letter telling the SLC that the SLC were not giving me any money.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
tl;dr - I now have a debt of over £3000 (around US$5000), which I have no means of paying, and the government-run company that landed me with this debt is preventing me from getting any money from the government while I desperately search for a job.
Moral of the Story: You think schools pull some dick moves? Try dealing with a quango.
After spending 2 years studying engineering at University, I realised that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing something I didn't enjoy and wasn't particularly good at. I decided to switch course, it was a pretty major change, especially as I went from studying Engineering to studying Film & Television, something I do have a great deal of passion for, as opposed to something I thought would be a steady reliable source of income.
I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but in the UK, if you cannot afford to pay your tuition fees, you can apply for a loan from the Student Loans Company (SLC), a company run by the government to ensure that anyone with the academic ability can afford to go to university (this is a massive over-simplification, but I have no desire to go into the details about quangos and the like). These loans are only paid back once you actually start earning money (again, it's a bit more complex than this, but I can't be bothered to explain, if you're interested look it up).
I had received this loan for the two years of my engineering course, and applied again when I switched course, letting them know my circumstances and that I was switching course. If this had been refused, I would not have continued my studies, simply because I couldn't have afforded to. This was not the case, they said they would pay my tuition fees for my new course. This was all over a year ago.
Roll on this summer, and a while after the year's lectures and exams had all finished, I noticed something odd; all my friends on my new course had their results, but I wasn't getting mine. At this point I thought I had nothing major to worry about, bureaucratic snafus happen, and I wasn't going to hold it against the University. I simply waited some more, then eventually called up my university and asked if they could resend my results. They said no, since apparently they hadn't received my tuition fees for the academic year.
This was the point that alarm bells started ringing, but I tried to be optimistic and rang the Student Loans Company to find out what had happened. This was the answer I got; my tuition fees had not been paid since my course change meant that I didn't qualify for a loan.
What?
My status had not changed since my application had been accepted, so I asked why I had been told I would receive the loan. In the four weeks since I first asked this question I still have not been given an answer.
What makes this even more annoying is that the SLC made no attempt to inform me of the change in my status, and I may not have found out until much later if not for the University withholding my results. The thing that propels this onto the level of farce (and makes me suspect deliberate dickishness on someone's part) is that the cancellation of my loan apparently occurred on the 3rd of July. My birthday. Happy fucking birthday.
Here's where it gets really stupid; they are now refusing to even acknowledge that they aren't paying me anything anymore. You might not thing that this is a problem, but if so you clearly have no experience of dealing with governmental bureaucracy, and I envy you. The Job Centre is refusing to let me apply of Job Seekers Allowance without proof that I am no longer receiving any money from the SLC. I asked how they would advise obtaining this proof; they said ask the SLC to send me a letter stating it. So I did. In response, the SLC told me to ask the Job Centre to send the SLC a letter telling the SLC that the SLC were not giving me any money.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
tl;dr - I now have a debt of over £3000 (around US$5000), which I have no means of paying, and the government-run company that landed me with this debt is preventing me from getting any money from the government while I desperately search for a job.
Moral of the Story: You think schools pull some dick moves? Try dealing with a quango.
Well, in April a few of my friends got jumped (lucky i wasnt there because i would've went crazy)
and all of the guys who did it got expelled ofcourse, but then the school wanted to suspend my friends for 9 days for defending themselves in the fight. And it would've happened if they didn't threaten to sue the school.
Edit: I also forgot to add the details of the fight
It was 11 on 3 with 2 of those 11 being 20 years old.
and all of the guys who did it got expelled ofcourse, but then the school wanted to suspend my friends for 9 days for defending themselves in the fight. And it would've happened if they didn't threaten to sue the school.
Edit: I also forgot to add the details of the fight
It was 11 on 3 with 2 of those 11 being 20 years old.
school starts at 9.00 what do you think this is posh school for hoity toitys no you start at 8.30 and when do we finish you ask 4.00 and I soupose you want a "proper" break nope 1h a day it is *manaical laughter*
Well of course: not telling me where to go on certain hours and then still having to serve detention for being late. Having to cycle 5 miles home, 5 miles back to school in under tenty minuts to collect a book I didn't even use in the bloody lesson. Having a gymnastics class on the soaking wet field, in the pouring rain. I can say there is a sufficient number of dicks in my school.
Oh, white people problemsdarthmason0719 said:
I will agree, however, that a sudden appearance of shitty pizza makes an unenjoyable time (high school) somehow less enjoyable.OT: Let's see... well, there was the introduction of "flip days". Having tweaked your schedule as hard as you could so you could have first period off to sleep the hell in suddenly becomes pointless. Reaction: rage about it, futilely.
Other than that, there wasn't much to complain about except that everyone was a jackass and the young females got skankier with every bus-load of new fish. And pervy teachers, but that's a whole other discussion.
Oh where to start on this..
Grade 11 they tried sending me to a school across town because I didn't "fit in" with they're image and later informed me that I wouldn't amount to anything other then a minimal wage employee
Grade 12 barred me from doing any fundraising or charity work involved with the school (which is funny because I volunteered at the YMCA 4 days a week and a program for children who had runaway from home or lived on the streets)
OAC barred me from attempting to run for student government, from being on the newspaper or radio djing. And the coup de gras They called the cops on me and barred me from showing up on the final day to arrest me in sight. (that was due to a grade 9 spreading rumors without evidence about it.
This wasn't because I was a bad student or malevolent person this was all based on me not meshing with the clothing standards
Grade 11 they tried sending me to a school across town because I didn't "fit in" with they're image and later informed me that I wouldn't amount to anything other then a minimal wage employee
Grade 12 barred me from doing any fundraising or charity work involved with the school (which is funny because I volunteered at the YMCA 4 days a week and a program for children who had runaway from home or lived on the streets)
OAC barred me from attempting to run for student government, from being on the newspaper or radio djing. And the coup de gras They called the cops on me and barred me from showing up on the final day to arrest me in sight. (that was due to a grade 9 spreading rumors without evidence about it.
This wasn't because I was a bad student or malevolent person this was all based on me not meshing with the clothing standards
Mine switched our cafeteria so everything was electronic. We had to use cards to buy food instead of money and had to put money onto the card. Plus if you lost that card, no food for you. So in the end I ended up not having lunch throughout secondary school after I lost it.
Oh and removing the mirrors from the girl's bathroom so that they wouldn't dawdle. Both a good and dick move.
Oh and removing the mirrors from the girl's bathroom so that they wouldn't dawdle. Both a good and dick move.