Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?

[Kejui]

As I was growing up, my school had the magazine and candy bar sales common for school districts. These are supposed to fun our activities and part of the money went into a fund to provide for, amongst other things, our senior dance and trip.

Well, similar to some other posters who complain about their school districts' and the performance of their fellow classmates on standardized tests, my school did poorly. More to the point, my class did poorly on our standardized test during our junior year. Because of this, the district was denied some of its funding. Thus, to make up for this lack of funding, they took our funds for the senior trip and spent it on, and I do believe it's one of the shittiest things they could have spent it on, a massive, tear-away vinyl sign for our sports teams to run through at their games.


Since the senior trip was around the same time every year, almost every senior decided not to come to school on that particular day; there was little the school could do about it, given that hundreds of students ditched school.

 

[Knusper]

Let's see, which ones do I choose...

Firstly, whilst doing my GCSEs, for a period of about 4 months, we had a teacher for French who wasn't actually qualified to teach. She was actually from France, which was bonus, but she was merely a French student doing an English degree and hadn't been trained to teach at all and could not control the class. If she was put into a consulting role, it would have been OK.

Also, for one of our languages at GCSE, we only had 2 lessons a fortnight just because the school wanted to fit a full 11 GCSEs into our timetable to make it look good, in the end, it was a miracle I got an A in German.

Lastly, due to my comparatively rubbish French result, I wanted to change French to Physics for A-level and booked an appointment during the holidays with the junior head in order to discuss and make the changes. However, when I got back to school this week, French was still on my timetable and Physics wasn't. I had to chase up the junior head to get it changed to Physics whilst spending this past week doing a subject I didn't want to do and had no intention of learning.

 

[the.gill123]

I went to Norton hill in Somerset, it was a very good school, but they started to crack down on people wearing trainers. They introduced a system where if you were caught wearing them you were sent to the Deputy Head and given a pair of plimsolls, but there was only a couple of pairs, so it was not pleasent to get caught. Dont know if they still do it, I finished school in 2004.

It's not much of a dick move, but it's they only odd inititive that was introduced at the school while I was there.

 

[Horizontalvertigo]

Holy Jesusballs. Aren't Haemophiliacs supposed to be sped to the hospital at the first sign of blood? That's some criminal negligence there

Well I guess it depends on the severity of the injury, but I know if I toddled off to hospital every time I cut myself I wouldn't be spending that much time at home hahaha, and ambulance rides are so not fun, they have terrible suspension. In all seriousness though, they should have got their act together 15 minutes in. If I had actually passed out or worse then yeah, would have been some serious hell to pay; but I was fine after a week or two.

 

[CaptainKoala]

We have to volunteer for our lunch program (for service hours and crap), but now our class are seniors, and most of us have early release. And the school decided it would be a good idea to not tell us when we had to volunteer until the day of. Which means that those of us that have jobs don't have enough time to take that day off. It's really gay.

 

[DyqstARD]

Infact, they just did.

When i came back to see if anything had changed the most notable piss take was the rule change.

During Detentions, Your parents are required to visit to have a talk with the teacher that gave me the detention. Well fuck you too, school.

The clothing rules are MUCH more strict, girls skirts must be a certain size at the very most half an inch taller or smaller then that size, i have to have my shirt tucked in as i leave and enter the school orelse an instant detention. Tie must be correct, i have already got 4 fucking detentions from these rules.

 

[NeuroticBabbler]

My school used to serve burgers and fries in the cafeteria. Not anymore. This would not be an issue if the healthier food wasn't more expensive.

Vending machines have also been done away with. Including the ones that dispense juice and water.

The majority of the computers barely function and are several years out of date. Instead of buying new computers, they BUILD A DOME OVER THE SOCCER FIELD.

They insist on respecting the teachers' authority, rather than teaching students that respect should be earned, and not given by request.

Once, I received notification of a schedule conflict with my courses. I waited all morning to get in. When I did, they told me that there had been a mistake and there wasn't a conflict after all.

They distribute sheets with possible dates for guidance appointments. Then they change the dates and don't tell anyone.

To switch courses, you have to come in early (around 7 am). You are given a sheet to fill out, but there are a limited number of sheets and the room is crammed with other students. One of my friends came in at 7, and had been waiting for nearly an hour. They gave the sheet to someone who had only been there for ten minutes.

They're not particularly malicious. They're just really stupid.

 

[Martinchee]

Well...

Not my school's fault but my Estonian teacher's, rather.
We come in to the very first class of Literature and the FIRST thing out of her mouth is "Umm, I think I forgot to give you your list of books needed to be read this year, but here it is." And tells us that we have to have the first book ( "Father Goriot" by Honoré de Balzac ) by 19th September. So currently I have about 8 days left and I'm not even halfway through.

She is, as a matter of fact, all-round unpleasant in my opinion. She always acts in a really cocky way, as if she's better than everyone in the class (that's how it always seemed to me). Now I don't want to be a douche, but I'm pretty sure she weighs at least twice as much as me (I weigh 75 kg = 150 pounds, she then weighs 150kg = 300 pounds. At least.). You'd think if you were obese, you'd at least try to be nice. And she makes some stuuuuupid jokes, when she ever bothers.

We got a new Physics teacher this year. We don't really do much with her, but she seems to have taught some serious derps, because she constantly asks if we got what she was telling us about. About like, 20-30 times a class. And she just tries to pay attention too much.

Also, for all those complaining about a 30min lunch break, we never even had one that long. In our school, we have 3rd-5th breaks meant for lunch ( 15min long). The only thing that I have to complain about in the lunch department is that sometimes they run out of stuff other than the school meal for the day (it's already bad for the fact that I usually have lunch on the 5th break since then there aren't smaller kids who have the free school lunches), but that's okay. Mostly the school meal is pretty good.

We are also allowed to leave the school to go wherever we want, even though it is not really allowed. People only get mad if in wintertime people come in with wet boots/shoes.

Feels good to get that out.

/EDIT: Our country only has 1.3m people in it, and our school has like, I dunno, 500 people in the 7-12 year part of school. Usually when I have lunch there are like, maybe 20 people in the cafeteria. If that.

 

[Matt Oliver]

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feel the same way about guidance consolars during middle school i told some1 i felt like running away and she told the guidance consoler who called my parents and thankfully my parents thought i was joking, but now i lost trust in her and cnt trust any guidance anymore

 

[Rofl Harris]

"Dick move" in the "stupid dick" sense, not "malicious dick" sense.

I once got accused (and detentionised) for stealing some quite valuable stuff from another student's bag during a mathematics class. He knew the stuff was stolen during that class as he had it at the beginning of the lesson, and it was gone by the end.

Thing was, I was in a different maths class to him. When it was nicked, I wasn't just in a different room, I was in a different building, 5 minutes walk away, with 25 witnesses including a teacher.

The victim never accused me of stealing from him, a "witness" (no doubt the actual culprit) in his class saw me take it - which apparently is all the evidence that was needed.

My pleas that this accusation defied the laws of physics went ignored. Some of the staff at that school were just retarded.

P.S. Guys, some of your stories are truly horrendous. It seems basic human rights aren't observed in some of these institutions.

 

[alinos]

I remember my High school Implemented a uniform change for term 4(in australia that's essentially Sept-Dec which is our spring start summer and is the last half of Semester 2 for us)

That everyone including those who would be leaving in 3 months must buy new uniform which could only be bought from the school.(If it didn't have the schools custom shit it was as bad as being out of uniform)

Everyone had to wear pant's and the official school blazer at all times and wear them at all times. As well as tie's. Regardless of the temperature outside.

This was a step up from what was prior to that weird Lime Green or White Polo shirt's. And any pant/short/etc so long as it was dark blue-Black or grey. Material irrelevant so long as it wasn't denim.

we had a 40+Degree(104+Fahrenheit) Spring it was like torture.

Most of the final year student's who refused were threatened to be blocked from their final exam's if they were caught without correct uniform more than a half dozen times(and as a final year we tend to finish a 4-6 weeks earlier than usual so they were telling us to have new uniforms for 6 weeks.

 

[ThyReaper]

Wow, and I thought my schools were Nazi's for shortening Lunch by 10 minutes and introducing shittier more expensive food.

Just.

Damn.


Oh, they did cancel our school camp cause one kid got Swine Flu, school resumed. They cancelled our Queensland/Gold Coast camp which they had every year (This is the equivalent of Disney Land, but in a much nicer place) because it didn't influence 'team work'. They considered sending us to Tasmania, and any Australian here knows, Tasmania ain't nothing to be excited about.
We never got the camp at the end of the day. Yay.

Still ain't got nothing on you guys.

 

[bluepilot]

My University is forcing me to buy a 35 dollar dictionary for a class that will only last one week and with credits that cannot be used towards my graduation

My 'copy' got lost in the typhoon myah ha ha

Seriously though, it is such a scam. This class starts tomorrow and it will be interesting to see how it goes. The most annoying thing of all though is that this class is in interpretation and a dictionary will never ever be a substitute for genuine language ability.

 

[redisforever]

Yes. My school is usually great, all nice teachers, stuff like that. Except in the cafeteria, they got rid of the good food they had last year, now it's all "healthy". I now have to walk 15 minutes, order my food, wait some 8 minutes for it to be done, then hurry back to school, and I only have 40 minutes for lunch.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Yeah, the biggest dick move ever, they didn't gave me my high school papers so I had to start all over again, I mean I had 3 out of six semesters, and now I had to do it all over again! I mean C'mon! Sure I'm almost done now that cost me 4 years of my life that I'll never get back, Fucking assholes!
[sub]Yes I did try to sue them but the ever so helpful system never even bothered to even respond[/sub]

Wait, are you serious? I might be misunderstanding but they actually made you retake high school?

When you go to catholic schools for your entire life, you come to expect dick moves.

Yeah, the biggest dick move ever, they didn't gave me my high school papers so I had to start all over again, I mean I had 3 out of six semesters, and now I had to do it all over again! I mean C'mon! Sure I'm almost done now that cost me 4 years of my life that I'll never get back, Fucking assholes!
[sub]Yes I did try to sue them but the ever so helpful system never even bothered to even respond[/sub]

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

That's what I thought, that sounds suspicious... I mean if I almost finished high school then some derptard fucked something up I'd either A) kill someone(s) or B) get a G.E.D.

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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.

You are confusing me!!!!!!!!!! They can't make you retake 4 years of general education with no other choice, and why do you make it sound like it isn't a big deal!? I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!

That aside, some bad shit going down in some schools evidently. I don't remember that much happening.

 

[Kae]

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Well I live in Mexico things work a little different over here.

 

[Fudd]

A school I went to in grade 10 made a girl who got pregnant apologize to the student body in an assembly as a condition for her not getting expelled. As if that weren't evil enough, this was not required of the boy involved. Words cannot express my hatred for that place.

Who runs your school, Fred Phelps?

Just your standard "christian" high school.

 

[Aaron Frederick]

My School highschool Lunchroom (Which was run by College Chef Students) Used to make the best poutine in town, Then they got rid of it because the Student mass index was more obese, But they failed to include, that statistic came from OTHER schools... not ours. Ffs beuraucracy

 

[Jazzeki]

i have allways had the impresion that my schools were hell(to be fair where i live they are quite high on the insane scale) but compared to this i got allmost nothing.
sure i had teachers who hated me to the point of asumeing everything was my fault. i actually once got blamed because i fleed inside during a snowfight after haveing been forcefully pulled outside by kids 4 years older than me. when they followed me inside it was somehow my fault and only i was punished... well untill the school was sudenly under police investigation then it was a misunderstanding.
then there was the time i was dumped in chemstry on my yearly grade despite hasveing aced my exam. when i asked why i was told it was because i never did anything or particpated... the fuck? no one but me asked questions in class and i was the only one in my group who understod any of the material provided... heck i was the only one in the group to not put myself on fire(i'm not even jokeing here) but obviously telling the monkies how to do the project rather than actively do all the work by myself means i don't understand anything.
the worst though i have never seen any proof this story was true since it was suposedly the year before i joined said class: once after a PE class where the boys gym teacher was absent since for some reason they can't shower unsupervised what do they do? send them home without a shower? make them take turns? why not put both the male and female students in the shower at the same time... at age 14-15. sounds brilliant to me.

edit: i actually thought of a real dick move that i have never been able to understand.
where i live all classes from year 1 to year 10 is at the same school. in my school in particular we were then split up in 2-3 years. so year 1-2 together then 3 alone then 4-5 then 6-7 and so on. when i was in year 4 they started to renovate but because of a limited budget they had to do it a few classes at a time so they start by rebuilding 1-3. they then decide to evey 2 years upgrade the next 2 classes... meaning my area would be renovated the year i had just left it... every time. couldn't they have started from the higher classes and go down?

 

[NefariousAuther]

So, i used to go to a Catholic School and they introduced a series of dick moves before i transfreed there. One rule was an apparent hair style rule, basically if your hair was cut shorter than a number 2 you were placed in ISS until it was a "respectable" length again.

So i walk int school one day after having to leave early the previous day because i had to go to hospital, i had been a bit thick and was trying to get somthing from the top of a cabinet and had to stnad on a stool; suffice to say i fell and hit my head on a table resulting in a massive gash on my head.

When i made my glorious return i was immediatly sent to the head teacher's office after morning registration, you see the cut on my head was rather large and as such they had to shave a blald strip in my hair like a reverse mohawk to suture it back up. So as you can imagine i didnt want to look like a idiot so i had the kind nurse lady shave off the rest of my hair.

So i was then placed on out of school suspension til my hair grew back (which would have taken weeks), they wouldnt accept that i needed to have my head shaved so they could fix the cut on my head. I never went back to that school, my mom transfered me out pretty much as soon as i came home.