Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?
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The school I moved to at the end of my junior year had this god awful attendance policy. If you missed more than seven days unexcused, and by excused I mean you had to call in for every single day or they all get discredited and after seven you are required a doctor's note. If you don't do this you are put on probation.
Probation means you effectively have an incomplete for every class that semester and have to follow a set guideline the next semester under insanely strict rules about attendance and truancy.
I somehow got salmonella(never did find out from what, I'm assuming it was some bad lunch meat) and was out for a week, and I was fairly new and didn't know about the whole calling in policy. At the time we didn't know it was salmonella because I felt like crap, but I toughed through it because I didn't have insurance at the time due to moving from out of state.
So I came back after a week of being out. Nothing was said, I just got work that needed to be made up, but then I felt sick again and missed another week and finally sucked it up and went to the hospital. Got diagnosed with salmonella and got a cocktail of antibiotics and a doctor's note.
Two things happen at this point.
I return to be met with a lovely letter about how I am on probation and must go to a board(which consisted of one bitchy person who really didn't give a fuck). It turns out that doctor's not only covers the second week I was out, not the first. So I was put on probation and effectively failed that semester, but still went on to the next set of courses and whatnot.
I followed all of the rules and somehow one class never did get fixed back, despite all of my bitching to them. Which was ironic because it was web design and I had to do special projects because I was far past what they were teaching.
This isn't even the dick move though.
They got rid of the probation bullshit and replaced it with a "Miss however the fuck many days you want, but if you fail it's on you" policy the next year. I rage'd hard.
Probation means you effectively have an incomplete for every class that semester and have to follow a set guideline the next semester under insanely strict rules about attendance and truancy.
I somehow got salmonella(never did find out from what, I'm assuming it was some bad lunch meat) and was out for a week, and I was fairly new and didn't know about the whole calling in policy. At the time we didn't know it was salmonella because I felt like crap, but I toughed through it because I didn't have insurance at the time due to moving from out of state.
So I came back after a week of being out. Nothing was said, I just got work that needed to be made up, but then I felt sick again and missed another week and finally sucked it up and went to the hospital. Got diagnosed with salmonella and got a cocktail of antibiotics and a doctor's note.
Two things happen at this point.
I return to be met with a lovely letter about how I am on probation and must go to a board(which consisted of one bitchy person who really didn't give a fuck). It turns out that doctor's not only covers the second week I was out, not the first. So I was put on probation and effectively failed that semester, but still went on to the next set of courses and whatnot.
I followed all of the rules and somehow one class never did get fixed back, despite all of my bitching to them. Which was ironic because it was web design and I had to do special projects because I was far past what they were teaching.
This isn't even the dick move though.
They got rid of the probation bullshit and replaced it with a "Miss however the fuck many days you want, but if you fail it's on you" policy the next year. I rage'd hard.
I once got in trouble when ANOTHER girl pushed me and told me in my ear "you better watch your mouth, *****." You know why I got in trouble? Because I MOUTHED fuck you. And the teacher had the sweaty balls to tell me she "heard that," and sent me to the office.
I also got sent to the office by an art teacher, along with some girl that was getting at attitude with me because my supplies were in her way.
There was a teacher in 7th grade that was substituting for a teacher on maternal leave. Every day she'd give us about 20 pages of EOG work pages. We had to read them, UNDERLINE AND HIGHLIGHT THE SHIT OUT OF THEM OR ELSE WE COULDN'T ANALYZE THE WRITING, then we had to write after each question WHY THE OTHER CHOICES WERE WRONG OR ELSE WE COULD NEVER DETERMINE THE RIGHT ANSWER WITHOUT DOUBT, then we had to write 5-10 more question for each passage, then give the right answer for each question, then explain why each of your other choices were wrong.
She once tried to make the rule that if the whole class didn't finish their work then we'd all have to get extra work. That's right. If even one person didn't do it. She got rid of that rule when the only kid that didn't finish them had at least attempted to finish
Most of the kids in my classes were amazingly stupid. I knew a girl that didn't know the meaning or "mirage." Come on. Rarely did the whole class finish their homework. It was some sort of miracle if they did.
I'm pretty sure I only got that principal's award because I brought their average up. I'm seriously not saying this out of pride.
In another school, they had this "comments" system, in which if you were doing something wrong you got a comment. Get three you get silent lunch for a day. Get six and you get a week of silent lunch and a day of detention. I forgot further then that. That's how far I got. I once got a comment because I was staring into space in class.
This was the science teacher. She also gave out notebooks during the year. You could get two from her throughout the year. I declined the one at the beginning of the year, since I'd already gotten one. Later in the year she offered more notebooks. I unconsciously raised my hand. She said "Are you sure, Briana? These notebooks aren't for drawing." I love drawing. I shook my head and said I didn't need them.
Later in the year I actually needed a notebook, and went to her for one. She said I'd already gotten my two, apparently the one at the beginning of the year and the one for my drawing. I told her I refused the first and never took the second. She accused me of lying, and told me I shouldn't have used them for my drawing.
My current high school is much more sane. Sure, they're strict, but I'm learning from my classes, and so far the teachers aren't dicks to us. Although a locker is $5. At least we can use electronics in the cafeteria and go outside for lunch.
I also got sent to the office by an art teacher, along with some girl that was getting at attitude with me because my supplies were in her way.
There was a teacher in 7th grade that was substituting for a teacher on maternal leave. Every day she'd give us about 20 pages of EOG work pages. We had to read them, UNDERLINE AND HIGHLIGHT THE SHIT OUT OF THEM OR ELSE WE COULDN'T ANALYZE THE WRITING, then we had to write after each question WHY THE OTHER CHOICES WERE WRONG OR ELSE WE COULD NEVER DETERMINE THE RIGHT ANSWER WITHOUT DOUBT, then we had to write 5-10 more question for each passage, then give the right answer for each question, then explain why each of your other choices were wrong.
She once tried to make the rule that if the whole class didn't finish their work then we'd all have to get extra work. That's right. If even one person didn't do it. She got rid of that rule when the only kid that didn't finish them had at least attempted to finish
Most of the kids in my classes were amazingly stupid. I knew a girl that didn't know the meaning or "mirage." Come on. Rarely did the whole class finish their homework. It was some sort of miracle if they did.
I'm pretty sure I only got that principal's award because I brought their average up. I'm seriously not saying this out of pride.
In another school, they had this "comments" system, in which if you were doing something wrong you got a comment. Get three you get silent lunch for a day. Get six and you get a week of silent lunch and a day of detention. I forgot further then that. That's how far I got. I once got a comment because I was staring into space in class.
This was the science teacher. She also gave out notebooks during the year. You could get two from her throughout the year. I declined the one at the beginning of the year, since I'd already gotten one. Later in the year she offered more notebooks. I unconsciously raised my hand. She said "Are you sure, Briana? These notebooks aren't for drawing." I love drawing. I shook my head and said I didn't need them.
Later in the year I actually needed a notebook, and went to her for one. She said I'd already gotten my two, apparently the one at the beginning of the year and the one for my drawing. I told her I refused the first and never took the second. She accused me of lying, and told me I shouldn't have used them for my drawing.
My current high school is much more sane. Sure, they're strict, but I'm learning from my classes, and so far the teachers aren't dicks to us. Although a locker is $5. At least we can use electronics in the cafeteria and go outside for lunch.
I just got kicked out of university, in my third year, for missing an exam.
I missed the exam because the university didn't feel the need to tell me when it was.
Dick. Move.
I missed the exam because the university didn't feel the need to tell me when it was.
Dick. Move.
Someone thought I said the F-word in P4. Frickin' tell-tale nearly got me sent to the principal's office. But of course that's just the school not listening to me. I was always spineless and never stood up for myself. I did then.
If you're wondering what I said, it was "thok". Family slang term for a sock. I even had this conversation with the tell-tale when she got up to bring me justice:
Tell-tale, while getting up: "You said the F-word."
Me, nearly getting up myself: "What!? No I didn't!"
Tell-tale, leaving: "Well it sounded like it."
She knew what I said, too, obviously. Anyway, my parent's understood (mainly my dad, he's the only one who ever used this term) and got it sorted out.
Recently, since I am a ginger boy with mad, shoulder-length hair, and our new principal is "very strict on rules", I am to get it cut short, despite the fact the principal himself has walked past me many times without batting an eye.
If you're wondering what I said, it was "thok". Family slang term for a sock. I even had this conversation with the tell-tale when she got up to bring me justice:
Tell-tale, while getting up: "You said the F-word."
Me, nearly getting up myself: "What!? No I didn't!"
Tell-tale, leaving: "Well it sounded like it."
She knew what I said, too, obviously. Anyway, my parent's understood (mainly my dad, he's the only one who ever used this term) and got it sorted out.
Recently, since I am a ginger boy with mad, shoulder-length hair, and our new principal is "very strict on rules", I am to get it cut short, despite the fact the principal himself has walked past me many times without batting an eye.
Amazingly, I can't recall any instance that my high school pulled a dick move, at least one remotely as nasty as the ones that people have talked about. Literally the only thing I can think of is that after my 2nd year, they required a teacher down in the theater tech room for people to use drills (we were used to only needing supervision for the Midas saw and the jigsaw, which are two tools that legitimately need supervision in a high school). Our supervisor ended up spending a lot more time with us, but she only kept watch on the same things she kept an eye on before the change. Sometimes, when it was urgent, she let us sneak drills out and keep them around so we could work when she wasn't around. Really cool supervisor, too, even suggested we build a skeeball machine for one performance. Took 2 guys a week with occasional help from a slew of other people, but it was built and fully functional. One of the cooler things we built for a performance in there.
There was a near dick move where they considered locking down the library and forcing us into certain rooms during free periods, but that was when we had an arsonist who randomly decided to set fires in the bathrooms, which fucked with our schedules and forced us into cold weather for an hour on two separate occasions. The arsonist was identified, expelled and order swiftly restored, and the lockdown measures ultimately never happened.
My high school was huge on student freedom, though. It was the kind of school that Ayn Rand would have loved, opening up all kinds of social, physical and especially moral boundaries to maximize student potential. Hell, the most supervision the students ever had was one of the APs being devoted to student affairs - out of 3 APs and the principal. I spent so little time with that administration and I fucking loved it.
There was a near dick move where they considered locking down the library and forcing us into certain rooms during free periods, but that was when we had an arsonist who randomly decided to set fires in the bathrooms, which fucked with our schedules and forced us into cold weather for an hour on two separate occasions. The arsonist was identified, expelled and order swiftly restored, and the lockdown measures ultimately never happened.
My high school was huge on student freedom, though. It was the kind of school that Ayn Rand would have loved, opening up all kinds of social, physical and especially moral boundaries to maximize student potential. Hell, the most supervision the students ever had was one of the APs being devoted to student affairs - out of 3 APs and the principal. I spent so little time with that administration and I fucking loved it.
Reminds me of my grade 7-8 english teacher. One time, he wanted us to write an essay about ourselves. I do just that, and he grades it poorly because I mentioned video games. FUCK. HIM. Games have been a part of my life since I was 4 years old, they shaped me and made me who I am today. You wanted an essay about myself, and I GAVE YOU ONE. ARE YOU GRADING US BASED ON HOW MUCH YOU LIKE US?! WHY ARE YOU NOT SATISFIED YOU BALD FUCK?!Dr. Pepper Unlimited said:
we got a new school recently, we went back yesterday, we got our schedules yesterday, 1/2 the student pop. needs to fix schedules, bells ring the same, they use bells when talking to school or calling for some teacher/faculty memeber. cafe is a wide open space reminds people of a prison setting. band director pulled together crappy music for marching band. Got thrown into a class I never signed up for but have to take it because "its the only thing that fit's into that period." so is like 1/2 the seniors. pissed? I'd say so.
it was a desktop that was always been home and it wasnt the schools or anythingmasterbazza said:
Now I go to high school in Canada, but our classes only go from 8:30-2:20, with lunch being from 11:06-11:46. Shorter day overall, sure, but it seems like we're getting fucked in the lunch department.Jakub324 said:
EDIT: Having actually read some more of the replies from this thread, I feel damned lucky, some schools here seem like they're downright bullshit. Especially the ones that mention stories about being caught swearing and the like. I wrote "shit" and "shitting downwards" as answers on a physics test today actually, my teacher laughed.
We were forced to "contribute" money to the school even though coercing students and parents into doing so is technically illegal but hey, whatever, as long as they can have their expensive video security system in place who cares! It's not like it's useless and does fuck all to prevent whatever the fuck it's supposed to prevent.
The school also banned cellphones. Apparently it was to make students "pay attention" in class but in truth the ban was put in effect to prevent students from documenting cases of abuse.
The school also banned cellphones. Apparently it was to make students "pay attention" in class but in truth the ban was put in effect to prevent students from documenting cases of abuse.
Welcome to a world where schools are severely underfunded and idiots get hurt if you let them go so the school has to fence you in to protect its ass.
Yes, They made me take Spanish for 4 years in Junior high and high school. That wouldn't be so bad except that each time they promised it would somehow help with college and their language requirements. It didn't. Nothing I had ever done counted for anything. Thanks for that councilors.
Yes, They made me take Spanish for 4 years in Junior high and high school. That wouldn't be so bad except that each time they promised it would somehow help with college and their language requirements. It didn't. Nothing I had ever done counted for anything. Thanks for that councilors.
oh i got one for dick moves school did. The japanese classes are given the option to travel in japan for two weeks, when the students saw the price, they asked if we could fund raise for it to lower it. We were told know as there were too many fund raisers going on already in the school. now, here is the thing, we had 14 different types of fund raisers, and two of them went to helping out a charity. the other 12 went to either sending the cheer leaders to toronto for nationals or sending the female sports teams to paris for two weeks so they can goof of. WHAT. THE. FUCK. rather then help to send a class to the foriegn country they have spent a large portion of time learning their language and culture, they help the sports teams to go to paris to look at art because it looks pretty
oh i got one for dick moves school did. The japanese classes are given the option to travel in japan for two weeks, when the students saw the price, they asked if we could fund raise for it to lower it. We were told know as there were too many fund raisers going on already in the school. now, here is the thing, we had 14 different types of fund raisers, and two of them went to helping out a charity. the other 12 went to either sending the cheer leaders to toronto for nationals or sending the female sports teams to paris for two weeks so they can goof of. WHAT. THE. FUCK. rather then help to send a class to the foriegn country they have spent a large portion of time learning their language and culture, they help the sports teams to go to paris to look at art because it looks pretty
Close to half a decade ago in my last year of highschool some moronic cop lost his duffel bag, with a gun inside, near the grocery store across the street from my high school. So what do the police do? They request that they search the entire school for it, and the school let them. Why do I have a problem with this? Because apparently attending a public school means you have no rights what so ever, and whenever they want the can lock you in a room, tell you to shut up and sit on the ground for 2 and a half hours looking for a gun that obviously isn't there.
Seriously, what, do they think someone who steals a gun is stupid enough to store it in his or her locker? Of course not. What were they expecting the kid to do, go "Oh, look this bag I stole has a gun in it. Neat. I'm just gonna store it in my locker and go to class. I don't want to be late for World History 301!" Of course not. They're gonna run and store that shit at home.
God, I really hated what became of that school. It became so fascist. They even painted over all the murals and made a propaganda video telling us how a common lunch was good for us, even though it fucked us out of class time and made buying lunch suicidal.
Seriously, what, do they think someone who steals a gun is stupid enough to store it in his or her locker? Of course not. What were they expecting the kid to do, go "Oh, look this bag I stole has a gun in it. Neat. I'm just gonna store it in my locker and go to class. I don't want to be late for World History 301!" Of course not. They're gonna run and store that shit at home.
God, I really hated what became of that school. It became so fascist. They even painted over all the murals and made a propaganda video telling us how a common lunch was good for us, even though it fucked us out of class time and made buying lunch suicidal.
this one wasnt me, but my brother's school, goes to school, first recess, bunch of guys tell him that they were going to beat the shit out of him at lunch, so my brother goes and trys to tell his teacher, she doesnt wish to hear it cause they were to go to an assembly. after wards, teachers nowhere to b seen, goes to the principal, and he doesnt want to hear it and throws him outside. 7 guys nearly beat my brother too death had another teacher not seen what was going on. my brother gets 3 days inschool suspension for fighting. and 2/7 guys get punishhed with 1 day out of school suspension, which too a kid is a free day to dick around.
Constantly. Restructuring entire schedules for no reason, never using money on what it needs to be used on, buying computers that suck, and never fixing the most broken network I've ever seen are a couple examples of things that my school does.
Also My school is hugely based around sports and I can't stand all of the PE teachers. For example we are all assigned gym lockers to keep clothes in and locks for those lockers. At my school we do a unit in PE where we do ballroom dancing (something awkward and bizarre for a huge PE class) and during that unit we are not required to change into gym clothes. I left my clothes in my locker for the duration of the unit with my assigned lock on it. When the first day of the next unit arrived I went to change to discover that my clothes and lock had been stolen. I informed the PE staff who said something along the lines of "maybe you should have checked before you needed gym clothes" like I'm some sort of idiot. Wishing to avoid an argument I asked what I should do and they told me to bring more clothes the day after. I brought them and the staff just sort of forgot about me. The end of the year rolls around and I say "I have been missing a lock for a couple months now, can I please have one". They tell me "You should have told us you needed one in the first place!" like I'm the bad guy.
Also My school is hugely based around sports and I can't stand all of the PE teachers. For example we are all assigned gym lockers to keep clothes in and locks for those lockers. At my school we do a unit in PE where we do ballroom dancing (something awkward and bizarre for a huge PE class) and during that unit we are not required to change into gym clothes. I left my clothes in my locker for the duration of the unit with my assigned lock on it. When the first day of the next unit arrived I went to change to discover that my clothes and lock had been stolen. I informed the PE staff who said something along the lines of "maybe you should have checked before you needed gym clothes" like I'm some sort of idiot. Wishing to avoid an argument I asked what I should do and they told me to bring more clothes the day after. I brought them and the staff just sort of forgot about me. The end of the year rolls around and I say "I have been missing a lock for a couple months now, can I please have one". They tell me "You should have told us you needed one in the first place!" like I'm the bad guy.
My high school LOVED screwing me over when it came to dick moves.
First of all, the deans all lied to me and told me that marching band exempts you from the PE requirement, and didn't bother to tell me until my senior year.
Sophomore year, the school forgot to sign me up for an AICE Exam and made me take that test an entire year after learning the course material. I would have passed that test had I taken it when I was supposed to, and if I passed it, I would have gotten the AICE Diploma and the benefits that come with it.
Senior year, I was written up for someone else's referral. I didn't know until my 1st period teacher told me that I was signed up for ISS. Turns out that the school made a typo when writing up a guy for a referral and ended up entering my student number instead.
Also, long after that was taken care of, I tried to go to a doughnut social that was reserved for kids who did not have any referrals, and I was turned away until I forced the main office to print out my blank student disciplinary sheet.
Oh, and by the time I thought I was done with the school screwing me over, the school refused to give me the AP Scholar cord because of a typo on my last name.
First of all, the deans all lied to me and told me that marching band exempts you from the PE requirement, and didn't bother to tell me until my senior year.
Sophomore year, the school forgot to sign me up for an AICE Exam and made me take that test an entire year after learning the course material. I would have passed that test had I taken it when I was supposed to, and if I passed it, I would have gotten the AICE Diploma and the benefits that come with it.
Senior year, I was written up for someone else's referral. I didn't know until my 1st period teacher told me that I was signed up for ISS. Turns out that the school made a typo when writing up a guy for a referral and ended up entering my student number instead.
Also, long after that was taken care of, I tried to go to a doughnut social that was reserved for kids who did not have any referrals, and I was turned away until I forced the main office to print out my blank student disciplinary sheet.
Oh, and by the time I thought I was done with the school screwing me over, the school refused to give me the AP Scholar cord because of a typo on my last name.
I know these really pale in comparison to everything else in this thread but I wanted to mention them.
I always found it extremely dickish of my high school to make sure that every office in the building had air conditioning and none of the classrooms (barring the computer lab) had any.
They had this really dickish policy of punishing all of the students in a grade level if 1 person did something and they were too incompetent to find out who it was.
They didn't let any students (barring seniors) leave the lunchroom during lunch, which is our only free time, unless they had a pass from a teacher.
They made it suspendable to be found hanging out near the girl's school that was literally 1 block away.
Nobody but seniors could go outside during their free time. And I mean only outside, not enev off of schoolgrounds.
I always found it extremely dickish of my high school to make sure that every office in the building had air conditioning and none of the classrooms (barring the computer lab) had any.
They had this really dickish policy of punishing all of the students in a grade level if 1 person did something and they were too incompetent to find out who it was.
They didn't let any students (barring seniors) leave the lunchroom during lunch, which is our only free time, unless they had a pass from a teacher.
They made it suspendable to be found hanging out near the girl's school that was literally 1 block away.
Nobody but seniors could go outside during their free time. And I mean only outside, not enev off of schoolgrounds.