Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?

[Assassin Xaero]

In middle school (6th, 7th, 8th) the lunches were 8th first and 6th last, when I got into 7th grade they swapped it so 6th was first and 8th was last... Oh, and at some point in high school, we got a new super attendant from Colorado. Well, this is Missouri and he doesn't seem to understand that when it snows the streets ice over like crazy, so he never called off school. I've also had a teach try to fail me... And many many other things...

Oh, and my college this past summer decided to set us the reminder to apply for graduation 10 days after the deadline for applying...

 

[Terminate421]

i think every time the victim and agressor gets punished in a fight is dick move

if you apply other crimes that like punishing the rape victim or the person who got murdered

That kind of gave me a hilarious image of a court saying to a dead body,

Judge: Mr. Jones, do you have anything to say for yourself?

Mr Jones' corpse: ...........

 

[Phisi]

I have another story for you people with a nice happy ending. In year 10 we have to do 1 week of work experience and 1 week service learning here in Aus. My school handles service learning and my brother got sent to a local primary school to help them. The first thing the primary school's principal does is make all the students rake leaves. Not such a terrible thing (But this is Australian summer) as you must understand that others were helping at aged care places and assisting our high school run life saving courses for lower years. However the next day the principal tells them to rake leaves again then half way through takes all the girls to do painting with the kindergartners. At home my brother tells my dad what he did during the day and what happened. My dad thought this was unacceptable as they are there to learn and not there to be slaves. He tells my brother that if they do it again that he should refuse. So the next day the principal tells all the boys to rake leaves again so he and some other boys refuse to and leave. The principal phones our high school's career adviser (person who organises this stuff) about these disobedient boys who are not doing their service learning. The career adviser immediately phones my dad to tell him about how his son has stopped doing service learning. My dad rages back as to what the point of service learning is according to the department of education, how raking leaves is not what they're meant to do and how the principal is sexist. The career adviser hangs up and my brother is does the reminder of his service learning at our high school helping the teachers (most of whom he liked) move stuff and equipment as it was nearing the end of the year.

 

[Kefo]

Lets see in grade 6 or 7 the school locked the boys bathroom on our side of the school to punish everyone for one person being a dick(he set the garbage on fire). We were also told that if we were caught in the kindergarden sides washroom we would be given detention.

Saw the principal pick a kid up and throw him against the wall one time at recess. Granted the guy deserved it cause he was a massive douchebag and was always getting in trouble but throwing someone isnt the best way to deal with a problem.

I was getting beat up and decided to defend myself. Principal gave me detention(which I never showed up for cause my parents told him he was a fuckwit)

Had the same principal tell my sister she must be anorexic because she wasnt a fatass like his daughter and that she would never amount to anything in life.

Had my grade 6 teacher stand me up in front of the class and proceed to call me a idiot and moron for drawing the sun peaking out of the corner of the picture. Hated that fat cow.

Highschool wasnt too bad except they introduced a class in grade 11 that was mandatory where we went and wrote letters to ourselves and had to write other stupid crap to classmates to make us feel better. Was a waste of time so my friends and I just went to the cafe and played euchre and if asked we were grade 13 students(who were exempt from the shitty class)

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

1:Hiring a vice principal who was an ass and did exactly nothing other than suspend people he didn't like
2:Suspending anyone who fights, even in self defence
3:Assuming EVERY problem in the neighbourhood is our fault.
4:Caring more about the oh so important "reputation" of the school (paychecks) than the people who attended.
5:Getting rid of shop class
6:Expecting us to show up for a meeting on the last day of summer for information they gave to us the very next day. But what if it was important info? THE VERY NEXT DAY. What if-THE VERY NEXT DAY!!!
7:Not keeping it staff in check and not paying attention when they're blatantly racist
8:Hiring sociopaths
9:Having an oppressive dress code to make everyone look the same and conform
10: A "code of conduct" put in place to make ordered, silent students that don't speak against or question authority.
11:Taking away points from my overall mark if I don't show up in a gym uniform
12:Not letting me take math as an electif even though its taught me nothing new in three years and I'll most likely never use any of it again
13:Making us come in during snowstorms despite me living in Montreal where all the snow comes from
14:Expecting me to show up for basketball games as a fan...why?
15:Expecting me to join extra curricular activities
16:Suspending me 6 times
17:Talking down to students like their 4
18:Thinking that we can't make desicions
19:Trying to make us conform to one particular path of life because they think its correct
20:Trying to plan out our lives for us even though some people don't want to work in a cubicle all their lives.

That seems like enough.

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.

Wait, another guy who's school banned cellphones for the exact same reason...REVOLUTION!

 

[LeQuack_Is_Back]

All the time.

Had some guys call me a psycho in middle school. Fair enough, I fit the "quiet one" archetype back then. So asked something like "you really think I'm the "in the clock tower with a rifle" kinda guy?" (you know, trying to guilt-trip them into backpeddling, didn't work). Guess who ended up in the office... Yeah, 'cause if I'd been anywhere near that mindset before, going spanish inquisition on me is BOUND to help <.<

And then, in college, there's little gems like not being able to take Calc II because I'm a Computer Science major... in spite of everyone telling me "You should definitely take it, you need it." If I have to override the system to get a proper education, something is terribly wrong.

edit- Oh, one more from high school- The power goes out right after we arrive. They spend most of the day trying to stall. We don't learn anything, and everybody who couldn't get a ride home from a parent/sibling ends up getting sent to the gym while the school tries to figure out what the hell it's doing. At least a couple hours later, they finally agree to let us go home, and call the buses. I kid you not, minutes before the buses arrived, the power came back on, and they decided to proceed with the day as usual. They had the principal and VP from the Middle AND High schools patrolling the hallways the next period, because a few kids decided to bail after being jerked around all day. I very nearly joined them. M-M-M-M-M-onster dick move!

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I've got a couple. Separating them with -- signs

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High school.

I got stopped by some cops on the train to school, because I didn't have the right student fare pass to go with my student fare ticket. (The guy behind the counter selling the ticket never mentioned this). Soooo, I turn up late to school because of this (and my mom was stuck having to pay a 200 DOLLAR TICKET.)

What does the secretary who hands out the late slips say? "Oh that's no excuse! You should have known!! IT WAS ON PULSE NEEEEEWWWWWSSS!!!". ....Lady, my family doesn't watch PULSE NEWS! (and ironically, it's no longer on the air).

So yeah, I had to argue with her for another 5 minutes before she FINALLY handed over the late slip so I could get to class. >_<
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My Secondary 4 english teacher handed out a poetry assignment. Make 8 poems, no bid deal for a creative guy like me, given a few days. ...Catch is, we had to do it in 2 days and hand it in by the next class (his other english class got a FREAKIN WEEKEND TO DO IT) which is already pretty damn stupid. Then me and two other classmates raised our hands and went "Sir, our archeology class has a mandatory trip scheduled on the due day and it lasts all day. Can we hand it in the next day/class?". To which he replies "no, I will not accept flimsy excuses! If it's not in by the due date, you get a zero!". ...Essentially, this left us archeology students with a SINGLE FREAKIN NIGHT to write 8 quality poems, and we had to track him down and hand them in the next day when he was doing another one of his classes.

....You want to know the worst part? I pulled it off. 8 pretty damn good poems. ...AND HE DIDN'T EVEN FREAKIN GRADE IT IN THE END. I confronted him about that, telling him that I'd stayed up till past midnight to get it done, and his excuse was "well, I ran out of time!" and refused to hear any more of it. ........I was pissed.
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This one's from CEGEP (that's college, for you non canadians). So I didn't have my "high" math (math 536) going into college, which made it so I could not go into programming (which was what I wanted to do ever since that kickass Visual basic class I took in high school). Every year for 3 years, I asked what I could do to get into computer science. What did the advisor I always got stuck with say? "oh, it's not possible, you'd need to study out of the province/go to a private school for it maybe. No, you can't take your missing math in the summer, we don't offer it. No you can't take it in the normal semester either, blahblahblah just do the program you're in!".

So I finish my CEGEP with a degree in Graphical communications (Basically website design, print design, and magazine design....I wasn't good at anything besides the web stuff...). I then set out.....and realized I'm awful at being a freelancer (which was how we were expected to start off). I was pretty damn good with setting up websites (or so I thought at the time), but I couldn't find work. So I ended up Game testing for a year >_<. ...Then, when I went back to pick up my diploma that winter, I asked the actual registrar what I could do to get the right math and stuff...and they aid "oh, we changed the requirements 2 years ago to allow those with math 526 to get into CompSci! Why didn't you get in then?". ...I RAGED. But I managed to JUST squeeze myself into computer science. And when I sign up for my fall classes...guess what I find out? THEY WERE OFFERING MATH 536 THE WHOLE DAMN TIME DURING THE NORMAL SEMESTER! AND HAD ALWAYS DONE SO!

I ended up going to that same advisor to ask her why the hell she lied to me, and her response was "Oh my, I didn't know about the changed requirements at the time! They were brand new! And about the math...What, should I have just told you to drop out of your program for a semester to take the math you needed? NOOOBODY wants to hear THAAAAAT!". LADY, I'd kinda like to hear ALL MY FREAKIN OPTIONS PLEASE. I can't make an informed decision otherwise!

Honestly, I've heard after the fact that she only gives a crap about A+ students, and no one else. So I think she just did whatever she could to keep my locked into my program that I didn't really want to do, just to keep students in a program that wasn't all that popular, never mind what I wanted to do.

That cost me around 2 years of my life. ...but the upside is that I was able to talk to a GOOD advisor the year I was in CompSci who was able to jump me right into University...And as a result of this delay and jumpstart, I ended up meeting my girlfriend, who I don't think I would have run into otherwise. Soo....Silver lining there, I guess.
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This one is recent, from my university.

I had a bad semester last winter. Like...BAD BAD. I had a lot of bad teachers and tough course all at once, and failed 2 courses. So Concordia sends me a letter telling my I'm in conditional standing. The letter basically said "Ok, look, you're struggling. We want you to take and pass those failed courses within the next year, and bump your GPA to an acceptable level again. If you don't, we will kick you out for a year. If you need help, please get it, we hate to see students thrown out for a year". This is standard procedure, so I had no problem with that. Besides it was mostly my fault anyway. Signed up for summer courses, OWNED two general ed courses I hadn't taken over the last semesters (boosting my GPA by as lot), and was halfway through retaking my failed Calculus 2 course when I got a new letter...

The new letter went something along the lines of "Alright listen up you scum! We've changed your conditions! Take your failed courses and get a C- (one letter grade and about 10% above passing) at least on all of your failed courses or we boot your ass out! Oh, and BTW, since you got a D+ (a close pass) on this one course in your first semester WE DEMAND YOU RETAKE IT and also get a C- even though you passed it. We don't care if the whole purpose of that course is to weed people out with it's 30-50% fail rate!"

Keep in mind the following:
I was already halfway through retaking one of the failed courses, meaning a whole load of extra pressure just got dropped on me for an ALREADY super difficult course. Plus, the PASSED course they wanted me to retake is a weeding out course as far as I'm concerned (discrete math. Half of it sounds like "true is equal to false, but only when the sky is green"). PLUS, that course is a prerequisite for one of my FAILED courses. Meaning I now need to REWORK my schedule about a month before school starts in order to put the passed course in the fall, and the failed course in the winter (when I had already found a good slot for it in the fall). ...Needless to say my schedule now sucks ass because the only open slot for my passed course was on wednesday night at 5PM...until 10 PM (it has a tutorial afterwards), on a day when I go in for 8:30 AM, and have NO break for supper!

........I was pissed. REALLY freakin pissed.
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I think that's everything (minus high school administration not doing anything to stop me from being tormented every freakin day). Thanks for letting me get that out of my system.

Need to study for finals? Last review day before taking them? FIRE DRILL YAY!

I'm sorry, but I have to laugh at that one. XD That just seems like they PLANNED it for maximum asshole points. ....But really, my sympathies.

Worst fire drill story I have is us being forced to go out in a full-on storm in our shirts and blazers.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Horror story...horror story...
13:Making us come in during snowstorms despite me living in Montreal where all the snow comes from

Wait, this school was in my Hometown? Just curious, Which one was it? Because my younger brother's first elementary school had a case of abuse too.

PS, tip from me: NEVER send your future kids to Loyola High School. Unless they're into sports or are certified super geniuses. Then they'll do ok. But if your kid is a nice, naive and kind kid with no apparent super talents...they will get EATEN ALIVE. >_< I would know.

Also, my elementary school shoved us all outside on one lunch break when it was MINUS 40. ...Fortunately, about 15 minutes in, the teachers decided that if mobs of students are pounding on the windows crying to be let in...they should probably let them in.

 

[russkiimperial]

Back in the neanderthal days when I was in high school, our senior trip got cancelled because a student almost died of alcohol poisoning on the senior trip the year before. Now, you can say ok sure, it's just the way it's gonna be done from now on etc etc. The year AFTER us? They brought it back because after all it's a dickish move to cancel fun for everybody because of one bimbo.

Point of the story? My class got screwed out of an awesome trip and had to do 'community service' while every class before AND after us got to go.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

My school is on strike, and I'm STILL paying for it!

 

[shootandshiver]

dont feel like writing too much, so:

food sucked 'cept fries, gravy, and with the adition of cheese, poutine. heard they b& that. all other food like sub: super-risen bread, four thin tomato slices, less than an ounce of meat, and about an ounce of letuce.
stuff like that

pop machine took money, so i drop kicked it. got 8 or something fruit drinks. in caf.

lots of normal BS, but if they made us eat their food, that would mean no Tim Horton's coffee, and things would die. might have done it anyways

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Horror story...horror story...
13:Making us come in during snowstorms despite me living in Montreal where all the snow comes from

Wait, this school was in my Hometown? Just curious, Which one was it? Because my younger brother's first elementary school had a case of abuse too.

PS, tip from me: NEVER send your future kids to Loyola High School. Unless they're into sports or are certified super geniuses. Then they'll do ok. But if your kid is a nice, naive and kind kid with no apparent super talents...they will get EATEN ALIVE. >_< I would know.

Also, my elementary school shoved us all outside on one lunch break when it was MINUS 40. ...Fortunately, about 15 minutes in, the teachers decided that if mobs of students are pounding on the windows crying to be let in...they should probably let them in.

I was never going to. BHS! I have some friends who go to Loyola. I don't want to wear a suit to school. And yes, I remember having to outside in a barren school yard, unprotected from wind at -40 with wind since grade 3.

 

[renegade7]

Once a kid whom I didn't even know began harassing me. No fucking idea why. I had no idea who this kid was, and he didn't know me. But, he took to shouting shit and throwing trash at me when I was walking home, being a dick to me in the hall, and one day one of his friends came up from behind me in the lunchroom and started trying to choke me. He had a knife. All I really remember is my fist connecting with what I think may have been his nose right before I blacked out, and then he let go of me. Guess who got in trouble? Me. Because apparently this kid is a special snowflake to whom the rules don't apply (he was in a special ed class), and because he didn't actually succeed in physically hurting me, whereas I physically hurt him. I might add that this happened in a crowded cafeteria in plain view of like 6 staff members.

And he still harassed me, it got so bad out of school I had to go to the police liaison. And she did diddly shit.

 

[dragcrew]

We had a contest every year that was sort of like a male version of the homecoming queen court. They had to raise money for charity, and then at the end they had a big dance where the contestants and their dates were rewarded for their efforts.

My senior year, a gay friend of mine was winning. He was planning on going with his boyfriend, and no one really cared.

Until some angry parent got mad and called a local radio talk show to complain about a same sex couple in the winners' circle.

The principal cancelled the dance.

Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me! Just because 1 parent complained?! (It was just one parent right?)

Things like this almost make me ashamed to like vagina. I don't know that many gay people but I'm yet to meet a gay person who would be this plain mean. I'm starting to wonder if they're just inherently better people than us.

There was a bit of an uproar in the area after the person's call was on the radio, but it was still asinine.

"Yeah, [DTJ's highschool friend], you've just raised thousands of dollars to help people with heart disease, but we've cancelled your congratulatory dance because some one who has no part in this situation was upset the person you like has XY instead of XX."

Makes perfect sense.

That makes me happy I live where I do, where if a school doesn't allow gay couples to go to their ball then there is a media crackdown until they relent and let them go.

 

[SiegeJack]

My schools wrote the book on dick moves.

Blaming me for fighting. Yeah, because dipshit c-t are completely innocent and not a pack of cocksuckers.

Sending me to counseling, which more or less ended with me getting called "psychopathic" and "has a strong anti-social personality." Yeah, because I enjoyed missing recess and watching you do your work, whore.

Blaming me for things I wasn't involved in. IE: a got doggy-piled by almost all the males of the class. The teacher of that class, my teacher, loudly exclaimed whilst leading the troupe "Where's (Siege)?" In in-school suspension, you annoying fuck.

And the Principal said to me, and I quote that ragged, old ***** "I hope you even out in high School."

In the second grade, if you spoke something other than french, you had to pay anyone who heard you 10 tokens. Said tokens were redeemed for candy or something. My french is and always will be, motherfuckin' brutal. Thus led to fighting others.

In the fifth grade, the teacher made me write a paragraph 30 times because it was eligible. I turned the tables by marking a tad unfairly for the girl who marked me, and I had to write it twice.
She also stole a necklace I had. And got me sent to counseling, because the dickbags of schoolmates thought I worshipped satan. *****!
And finally, my grade 3 teacher hated, hated, hated, me. Why? I laughed at the word "piggy."
Yes, piggy. I got detention for that. She did acknowledge the fact that I was well-read, and kicked the ever-loving shit out of my "peers" reading ability.

I should've gone drunk to that shit hole.

 

[Kefo]

Once a kid whom I didn't even know began harassing me. No fucking idea why. I had no idea who this kid was, and he didn't know me. But, he took to shouting shit and throwing trash at me when I was walking home, being a dick to me in the hall, and one day one of his friends came up from behind me in the lunchroom and started trying to choke me. He had a knife. All I really remember is my fist connecting with what I think may have been his nose right before I blacked out, and then he let go of me. Guess who got in trouble? Me. Because apparently this kid is a special snowflake to whom the rules don't apply (he was in a special ed class), and because he didn't actually succeed in physically hurting me, whereas I physically hurt him. I might add that this happened in a crowded cafeteria in plain view of like 6 staff members.

And he still harassed me, it got so bad out of school I had to go to the police liaison. And she did diddly shit.

Had a grade 8 kid do that to me while I was in grade 2. WOuld chase me down after school and stuff snow all in my clothes and generally harassed me. School wouldnt do anything so my mom drove to his house, dragged him outside and proceeded to tell him if he ever laid a finger on me again she would come back and slowly cut off every part of his body he held dear. Never saw someone break down crying so fast in my life.

 

[Desann45]

In a high school of over 1200 students, 700 had their class list either changed out totally re-arranged five days in to the first semester. Fun stuff.

 

[New York Patrick]

Well, our School BOARD has taken out all of the vending machines in our highschool... sorry, just the ones with Pop + Chips... they've replaced them with ones with $2.50 water bottles, yogurt... and fruit... yeah, I found that one weird too...

However, this has given me some interesting Capitalistic opportunities to exploit...

 

[SirDoom]

Dick moves? Sure, I remember a few.

Highschool, freshman year. Lunch regulations are as follows.
1- 30 minute lunches
2- A variety of choices. Most mediocre, but it's food.
3- Very loosely enforced assigned tables per class
4- A few cheap extras, like slushie machines ans coke machines.
5- Cookies! Yay cookies!

End of senior year...
1- 25 minutes, including the time it takes to walk to and from.
2- Extra lines removed. If you don't like the same burger every day, too bad.
3- *strictly* enforced assigned tables, with teachers encouraged to assign students specific seats at said tables without giving them a choice.
4- All vending machines/sodas/snacks removed.
5- No cookies =(

About halfway through they implemented an "unhealthy outside food" policy. You could bring your lunch, but if they see you pull out a McDonalds cheeseburger or a soda, they have the right to take it from you and throw it away.

That's just silly state health board crap though. The real problem was with budgeting for classes.

At the beginning, we had a distribution of classes. Just over half were regular/low level classes. There were also plenty of honours classes, and at least one AP class in every subject.

At one point, someone wanted to add in IB classes. But there was no budget to hire more teachers. Therefore, the honours classes got cut. Now, there were still enough to make the honours classes as full as possible and get everyone in, but basically 10 classes of 20 people each were cancelled so there could be 10 classes for 5 people. Literally the same 5 people.

Then afterward, someone realized "Hur Dur, people r teh failing!". To compensate? More regular classes! But the earlier problem of there not being enough funds was still an issue. So Honours classes, and a few AP classes that nobody was taking, were phased out in favour of adding more base level classes.

This presents it's own problem. Regular classes now made up the vast majority of all classes. If you wanted to take an advanced class, you would have to pay the hundred dollars or so per AP class, or even more if you did one of the special video classes they started offering. Or enter the IB program, which 90% of the people weren't qualified for anyway because they didn't take some required class back in kindergarten or something. Never mind that most people didn't want anything to do with the IB program.

Basically, they forgot that it is possible for someone to be average and not dumb as a rock or a teenage genius. They also forgot that it is possible for people from poorer families to want to take the "smart" classes.

Then of course you have the standard problems. Administration viewing anything more advanced than a pocket calculator as worse than hell itself, terrible systems in place to handle fights, etc...