Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?

[Alleged_Alec]

Let's see... In my old high school, after the old principal left, the new one decided that they would not hire non-Christian teachers any more. They made us go to increasingly stupid Christmas plays, which were nigh-unskippable because they were right after classes. Suddenly there was a 'theater class' where there had been a lunch room once, leaving the other lunch room to be even more overcrowded then it had been before. We had to plan 5 hours of mandatory study or extra classes, even if you did not need them at all.

I'm probably forgetting a few things, but yeah. Last I heard was that all the good teachers are leaving and they placed a ridiculous building where the school yard was and, when it was vandalized, placed a huge fence around the entire school. It now looks like a bloody prison.

 

[imnot]

Oh I have another one, In year six (I think We where about 10-11)
Every time something happened it was automaticaly year six males fault because , I quote
'Little ones and girls would never litter'
Despite the fact we know it was soem year 5 girls!

 

[Randomologist]

My school provided exclusive rights to uniform production to a local company, which sounds great but they bumped up the prices to try and capitalise on their monopoly. £20 for a white polo shirt with school logo. Plain white ones (£5 for 3 at Woolies, as it was at the time) were banned and would earn you an indignant phone call home. The policy was however abandoned after a year as parents were defying the ban en masse.

My school also made an effort to promote healthy eating- so the vending machines were removed in the canteen, and the meals were things like pasta. No chips, pizza etc. permitted. Rule-abiding students had to join a now colossal queue that stretched out the door, and everyone else snuck through the fence and went to the local chippy. Teachers then were made to give up some lunch breaks, to patrol for students.

The chippy in question now has another branch, and a little van that goes up to the school fence and sells out every day. This has been ongoing since 2002. Now that's supporting local businesses.

 

[MarcusD357]

I started in my schools 6th form on Tuesday to do my A levels and I've found out that they've made a bit of a dick move to try and save money :/
For all the science subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, etc) we are supposed to have 9 lessons per subject over each two week period. In an attempt to save some money and reduce the lower years class sizes, the school has told us that for 1 of our 9 lessons, we must complete some "Independent Studies". In other words, they get us to teach ourselves from a text book for an hour so that the usual teacher can teach a class of little first years; saving the school the cost of two teachers.
I think it's a dick move seeing as my classmates and I are studying for our A levels and believe we deserve more professional teaching whereas the first years don't have anything very important to work towards at the current time.

 

[C2Ultima]

I play Varsity tennis for my high school, and our courts are in awful shape. Loads of cracks and some small holes. Instead of helping us out, they always use the athletic budget to buy new things for the football team, and our football team is terrible. Probably one of the worst teams in state.

 

[Ickorus]

Oh, where to start..

After my Math teacher left the school negelected to hire anybody else and we had a constant stream of substitutes who would always end up teaching us the same stuff we already knew, this left me and my class miles behind when it came to maths.

When I complained about people bullying me over my long hair they told me I should get it cut and I was bringing it on myself.

Their stance on badly behaved students was to send them on trips out all the time to theme parks and such.

They tried to force sixth-form students to attend a full schedule of lessons instead of just the lessons they were signed up for, they also tried to keep us wearing school uniforms.

There are more but im a bit distracted at the moment so i'll leave it at that.

 

[Turing]

Snip

Uh what? Are you telling me you went to high school for more then 4 years because someone lost your papers?

They didn't lose them, they refused to give them to me, and I had to start over because I was left with no other choice.

Isn't that just another way of saying you flunked it?

 

[Glowbug]

Hey, maybe if I'm given Tramadol (very strong opiat) for chronic nerve pain, which essentially give me the choice of a metric shit-ton of pain, or drowsiness and the need to go to sleep a lot, the school shouldn't give me the fucking choice between being expelled and not taking my pills.

Yeah, I went to a posho Grammar school.

P.S. A friend of mine fell into a manic-suicidal depression, and once sliced up her wrists in a reasonably obvious cry for help, so the school decides she's a "bad influence" and stops her seeing her friends at all, instead making her sit alone in an empty classroom during all of her free time. What dickwagons.

 

[C95J]

Ugh... got into 6th form today, and I already hate the school again.

In your free time - that's time when you don't have lessons - you have to stay in school.

I mean... seriously, what? What's the point in that?

In our 6th form, we have Study periods, where you are supposed to research the things you have to learn from different subjects, do extra work, unfinished stuff etc. I have about 5 study periods a week.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Ugh... got into 6th form today, and I already hate the school again.

In your free time - that's time when you don't have lessons - you have to stay in school.

I mean... seriously, what? What's the point in that?

We have that but if they're at the end of the day you can go home.

Our new headmaster changed the bar to get into the 6th form so you have to get 6As and 3Bs to get in. Luckily it comes into effect this year so I just missed it.
Year 11s were usually allowed to go out of the school at lunch to get their own food but when we became Year 11s they stopped this and even the teachers admit that the main reason for it was so that the company that runs the cafeteria would make more money.

And a local school once made it so that if one of their Year 11s unsuccessfully applied to our school's 6th form, they'd lose their place at their original school completely. That got overturned by some higher authority though.

 

[Musiclly enhanced]

I have too many tbh but ill share one

in the move into GCSE i was at the top of my science class only to be moved into the lowest class in the school with no reason and a load of idiots (that moved set straight away) got put in there and I diddnt and thus making me take the foundation course (grade capped at a C) and then after getting full marks in the test i move up to the original class and get an A and a B

Fuck you school sytem

 

[JCartwright31]

I can't really complain about my secondary school/6th Form, since they've only done a few things which could be called dick moves. One of these is the rule on ear piercings. Girls are allowed one stud in each ear, boys are allowed nothing. I don't really care about it, but it's not exactly fair. Also, after I went into the 6th form (according to my sister) they banned people wearing hoodies, like they were the cause of misbehaviour.
My primary school was awful (in retrospect). We had hymn practice every Tuesday afternoon, and every assembly ended with a prayer. I was so young at the start I just went with it, and by the time I was old enough to think for myself it was just routine. Funny thing is, it isn't a Christian school (at least no-one thought so, and nothing indicated so). My parents didn't have me baptised as they wanted me to have an informed choice as to religion. I went there based on results tables and information from my parents' friends.
Worst part was, it was still the best school in the area, as everywhere else either had terrible results, had awful pupils, or was a private school (which there was no way in hell we could've afforded).
It sounds petty & trivial, I know, but I still resent having religion forced down my throat for 7 years, especially when my parents had no intention of it.

 

[edudewired]

Ugh... got into 6th form today, and I already hate the school again.

In your free time - that's time when you don't have lessons - you have to stay in school.

I mean... seriously, what? What's the point in that?

Haha...They actually brought that in, In tutor time they asked the entire college what they thought of that idea and it was a big resound "No Mr Government that idea is stupid" I feel your pain truly but still Heehee lol

 

[New Vegas Samurai]

Well, for my school, college level...
Well, it was raining pretty hard, around signal 3 levels. To the administration, we were apparently indestructible because regardless how many lives they put to risk because of crashing trees, they went on with examinations as usual. At 7:30 in the morning no less. To you guys this kind of storm might not rank highly anymore, but over here it causes a city wide blackouts and a trash slides.
Really kind of downside to living in a third world country.

 

[ben117]

1.I got a boardeline a/b with a* english coursework and my school told me that they couldnt afford the money to ask for moderation, my perants offered to pay it off than my scholl asked for a administartion fee, it affected the couses i could get in college.

2.They than gave an entire form class an all expenses paid trip to alton towers because thier form teacher was leaving, and they said they couldnt spend money so i could have got a better gcse result.

3.They began a special course for the vulerable kids (gang members) in ehich they designed video games went to 3d cinemas which costed several thousands of pounds per child whilst when i did my gsce sciene course i did no practicles at all due to budget constraints which means i have little lab experiance which fucked me over in college.

4. My French teachers lied through thier teeth about how dropping french would mean colleges wont take me on so i worked myslf to death to get a D, now when i enroled at college my lo grade screwed up my predeicted grades so i had to take a different course.

5. A teacher confiscated my blackberry off me as i had an earphone poking out. I than found out from someone that her desk got broken into and my phone got taken. when i pointed out that my loose earphone was not disturbing anyone and that by taking my phone my teacher has taken responsibility over it i got excluded, and i never got paid.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Ugh... got into 6th form today, and I already hate the school again.

In your free time - that's time when you don't have lessons - you have to stay in school.

I mean... seriously, what? What's the point in that?

Haha...They actually brought that in, In tutor time they asked the entire college what they thought of that idea and it was a big resound "No Mr Government that idea is stupid" I feel your pain truly but still Heehee lol

I actually think it's an ok idea. It lets you finish homework in school so you don't have to do it at home.

1.I got a boardeline a/b with a* english coursework

Sorry but lol irony

But yeah it does sound like the school have massively screwed you over.

 

[Brightzide]

At my highschool, getting to year 10 meant that for the last 2 years of Church of england highschool, you wore a black jumper over a regular white polo shirt. It was comfortable and a status symbol. It was awesome. A massive margin better than from year 7-9 wearing a bright red 'Oh my god Im stopping traffic' plastic mesh jumper over a regular shirt and tie. Alot more forgiving in the summer too. But then we got a new headteacher who decided to change all that shit. Shirts and ties, different fabric of black jumper. I mean come on! Why!?...Thank god I went off to college before the change became final. Didn't have to suffer inhumane discomfort during my GCSE's

 

[tehbeard]

Following the wave of Pro Jamie "arsehole" Oliver healthy foodism, my secondary school dumped the somewhat unhealthy burgers and chips for salads,organic beef etc. Sounds reasonable yes? The price of school meals skyrocketed, this is a school in a relatively low income area, not low enough for school meal tokens, but not high enough to afford the new prices.

The entire dick move ended around 6 months later, with me and most of our athletic pupils being hauled before management. We were running a delivery service via vaulting one of the fences and heading into town. The prices were marginally higher then "pre-jamie" cafeteria, which meant alot of business from the other kids.

The head did not appreciate my role in this, having organised the orders, the runners. But it did the trick, the food prices came down. And the entire of upper management hated me. I came out there with good grades and a healthy respect from most of the students.

 

[Stalydan]

The year before I got to middle school they had these Papa John style pizzas that were awesome as hell. The next year they had the shitty kind. Made me rage hard.

Had the same. Changed from a really nice quality of cheese and purée to this really cheap low grade stuff THAT THEY BUMPED THE PRICE UP FOR!

Fair enough it was being provided by a catering service but I'm pretty sure the school has to check the menu

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

If you consider making all 6th form students do a Religious Studies lesson because OFSTED expect them to then yes. There's also a compulsory enrichment lesson where students take on an activity for absolutely no reason.

Basically, if OFSTED think a school should do something then we do it. Our head used to be in charge of OFSTED so we have the joy of keeling over to every whim of a redundant inspection team that serves no beneficial purpose.