My school has just crossed the line from 'Idiotic Logic' to 'Batshit Insanity'

[Quellist]

Seems to me that the best way to see an end to this is to get enough students together to have a massive hug-in and to encourage PDA's in class, in the halls, even in the principles office. The best way to beat ludicrous rules like these is to test them to the point where the only options they have are

1)Expel everyone or
2)Admit they were wrong and rescind the rule

 

[Jonny49]

not letting pupils use a gate to go home/

My school did that too. They blocked a side gate because people kept smoking out there, a solution which failed utterly since now people smoke where the main entrance and exit is, meaning my school technically fucked themselves over on that one.

I used to combat it buy going under the gate, but then they blocked that too (assholes).

 

[AnarchistFish]

My school banned Year 11s from going out of school for lunch. Even my form teacher admitted that the reason they did it was because the company running the school canteen weren't making enough money.

 

[ckam]

...I don't know what to say... I'll remind myself not to go to your university...

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Why males specifically?

i dont know, its only happened with guys so far.

...I don't know what to say... I'll remind myself not to go to your university...

we're a high school.

 

[Aprilgold]

I recall my own High School undergoing Prison-Transformation:

1) Replaced all of the reinforced glass doors at the top and bottom of the stairwells with these blue "fire doors" (which turned out to be the same model of Riot Doors as used in a regional federal prison; only with the Kevlar lining removed). Not only was it unnecessary, but also far more dangerous as you couldn't see if someone was going to open one of those doors at the top.
2) Hired a new "dean" (vice-principle) specifically for disciplinary actions; DESPITE ALREADY HAVING TWO WHO DID THAT.
3) New "dean" subsequently appointed a set of "wardens" to patrol the hallways and lunchroom
4) Outlawed all manner of clothing, and made the requirement for "shorts" to go at least 3 inches PAST YOUR KNEES.
5) Banned all manner of PDAs and touching up to and including HIGH FIVES. But handshakes were ok apparently...
6) Enacted an ordinance that required at least one police officer to be on the school premises at all times during regular session.

All this for a High School whose average class size...WAS TWO HUNDRED AND TEN.
Holy shit were they terrified of lawsuits. I couldn't even play my GBA during lunch breaks because it was "interfering with class". No joke.

Um.... I guess my expression right now is DDAAMMNN, but I can't tell because my chin has hit the floor so far its coming down from the roof.

i was suspended in high school for kissing my girlfriend in the hallway. Despite the fact that other couples do it, the fact that we were a lesbian couple apparently made it wrong.

Apparently, some schools are just insane about stupid rules. Thats a pretty retarded rule though, seriously a hug?

Basically your case but flipped backwards, I suppose. Either case, I would hate to be a gay guy in that school... Or Bi... Or whatever, kisses fly, and lawyers do to, send them for sexual discrimination.

 

[AAdams]

My highschool removed all of the electives worth having.

Art, woodshop, metalshop, they removed all of the music-related ones too. That left us with Computer Science, a studyhall sort of thing, and few other boring classes.

Oh yeah, and we were allowed to use our own laptops during lunch. It even said so in the school handbook. I was sitting outside with a friend, playing some Amnesia, when the vice-principal came a-walkin' 'round the corner of the building, right up to me. He then accused me of stealing a laptop from the school's computer lab. He then took my laptop, and dropped it off at the office. I was given a referral, and was suspended for three days.

The laptops the school uses are DELL.

Mine is HP.

He based his hypothesis of me stealing a laptop due to them both being black.

Dumbass of the year, gentlemen?

 

[Avatar Roku]

Fuck, I'd be expelled within a week. Between me and my friends, a hug is standard form of greeting.

I'm sorry, but between that and your avatar, I'm kinda laughing right now XD

 

[Hashime]

We all know hugging is the work of Satan an all those who briefly press their bodies into one another are agent of his treachery! We must rise up and ensure all people are separated by at least 30cm at all times. It has been proven by my infallible logic that touching fully clothed bodies in a socially acceptable way leads to cancer, pregnancy, and worst of all awkward sexual arousal!
We mus protest this contact by wearing my patented anti-touching (499.99 MSRP) suit and teaching others the dangers of physical contact!

[sub] How children should play. [/sub]

 

[ShindoL Shill]

My school has made a few pretty bad decisions in the recent years. we all do exams a year early and over 1 year (despite them being made for 2 years and most universities only accept 1 years worth), firing all but 1 geography teacher, not letting pupils use a gate to go home/to the shops at lunch (for food) and cracking down on full-contact sports.

but now, they have taken that final step. SMT has snapped.

we arent allowed to hug any more.
or, more specifically, guys arent allowed to hug people. because theyre insane.
and no, i am not making this up. one of my friends got a warning for hugging another guy.

so Escapists, i ask of ye, what are your opinions on this?
and has your schools SMT ever done something this insane?

Start a hugathon, they'll be so fucked, it'd be hilarious. Just get groups of people to always hug, or a huge pack of people to hug simultaneously, like everyday 20 minutes into lunch or something. That gate this is bullshit, I don't really understand the exams business, I did exams from Years 7 though 12, and I never had a problem with it. Also don't really understand the geography teacher business.


But yeah, rebel with the hug!

the thing with the exams is that the universities force us to either take two-year courses, therefore make it all pointless, or take all the courses in 1 year, meaning we have two useless years.
and the geography department had four teachers (one retired due to a heart attack D
now we have one teaching this class:
-mostly highers (which is like A-Levels)
-some Int-2s (which is in between Standard Grade (like GCSE) and Higher0
-and some Adv. Highers (the first year of uni)

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Still beats those crazy Christian schools.

 

[conflictofinterests]

I recall my own High School undergoing Prison-Transformation:

1) Replaced all of the reinforced glass doors at the top and bottom of the stairwells with these blue "fire doors" (which turned out to be the same model of Riot Doors as used in a regional federal prison; only with the Kevlar lining removed). Not only was it unnecessary, but also far more dangerous as you couldn't see if someone was going to open one of those doors at the top.
2) Hired a new "dean" (vice-principle) specifically for disciplinary actions; DESPITE ALREADY HAVING TWO WHO DID THAT.
3) New "dean" subsequently appointed a set of "wardens" to patrol the hallways and lunchroom
4) Outlawed all manner of clothing, and made the requirement for "shorts" to go at least 3 inches PAST YOUR KNEES.
5) Banned all manner of PDAs and touching up to and including HIGH FIVES. But handshakes were ok apparently...
6) Enacted an ordinance that required at least one police officer to be on the school premises at all times during regular session.

All this for a High School whose average class size...WAS TWO HUNDRED AND TEN.
Holy shit were they terrified of lawsuits. I couldn't even play my GBA during lunch breaks because it was "interfering with class". No joke.

All of that sounded silly, except for the no GBA during lunch. When I was in school(this was back in 19 something) We did not have all these silly rules, however, you could at no point have a GBA or anything like it. I gotta side, I fully support that rule, no GBAs(or their like), not even during lunch. The rest is silly.

Why no gameboys and their ilk during lunch? I don't believe they provide board games anymore to occupy the free time between finishing food and the start of the next class. Not everyone is into card games, drawing or sports. Furthermore, some people just don't have a lot of friends, and therefore would be sitting alone, pondering the reasons why they aren't having any fun. Maybe there's a greater incidence of theft? Iunno, man. I just don't see why someone on a gaming site would be against people gaming in their free time.

 

[HalfLife205]

Soon they'll be teaching creationism.

 

[LordFisheh]

Honestly, do the lawyer thing. It's disgusting how schools seem to run their own little kingdom, making it as nonsensical as they like, going so far as to breach actual law, just because they know nobody will call them on it.

Don't let them sit easy in their power fantasy.

 

[Hijax]

This is ridiculous, just like banning PDA(Public displays of affection, like another poster said).

 

[thespyisdead]

in soviet Russia university pisses you off...


wait... what?

 

[Shoqiyqa]

we arent allowed to hug any more.
or, more specifically, guys arent allowed to hug people. because theyre insane.

1) o.

... like but more so.

2) What everybody else said.

3) *sigh*

Eek! A Male! [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703779704576073752925629440.html]
Treating all men as potential predators doesn't make our kids safer.

Last week, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Timothy Murray, noticed smoke coming out of a minivan in his hometown of Worcester. He raced over and pulled out two small children, moments before the van's tire exploded into flames. At which point, according to the AP account, the kids' grandmother, who had been driving, nearly punched our hero in the face.

Consider the Iowa daycare center where Nichole Adkins works. The one male aide employed there, she told me in an interview, is not allowed to change diapers. "In fact," Ms. Adkins said, "he has been asked to leave the classroom when diapering was happening."

Last February, a woman followed a man around at a store berating him for clutching a pile of girls' panties. "I can't believe this! You're disgusting. This is a public place, you pervert!" she said?until the guy, who posted about the episode on a website, fished out his ID. He was a clerk restocking the underwear department.

British Musicians' Union warned its members they are no longer to touch a child's fingers, even to position them correctly on the keys? Or that a public pool in Sydney, Australia last fall prohibited boys from changing in the same locker room as the men?

A friend of mine, Eric Kozak, was working for a while as a courier. Driving around an unfamiliar neighborhood, he says, "I got lost. I saw a couple kids by the side of the road and rolled down my window to ask, 'Where is such-and-such road?' They ran off screaming."

Another dad told me about taking his three-year-old to play football in the local park, where he'd help organize the slightly older kids into a game. Over time, one of the kids started to look up to him. "He wanted to stand close to me, wanted approval, Dad stuff, I guess. And because of this whole 'stranger danger' mentality, I could sense this sort of wary disapproval from the few other parents at the playground. So I just stopped going."

And that's not the worst. In England in 2006, BBC News reported the story of a bricklayer who spotted a toddler at the side of the road. As he later testified at a hearing, he didn't stop to help for fear he'd be accused of trying to abduct her. You know: A man driving around with a little girl in his car? She ended up at a pond and drowned.

A girl on a bicycle slipped on the ice here in winter and fell. She put her hand out and landed end-on on her arm. This is a really bad thing to do because it transfers the full force of the impact straight up to your shoulder.

I found out about this when I stopped on my way to the shops to find out why there was a girl on her side on the pavement with another crouching over her. I asked what had happened and how long ago, checked for other injuries, made sure she was warm enough, got her sat up off the ice and was abotu to get her friend to check for asymmetry in her shoulders (because I'm too worried about lynch mobs to check for it myself) when two women arrived.

The only thin either of them said to me was: "Do you want to go?" She didn't ask nicely. She meant it as an instruction: "Get the hell away from this vulnerable child, you, you, you MAN!" I didn't go. I didn't know who the heck she was, so I wasn't about to leave a vulnerable kid in her care. I stuck around until the parents got there.

Some years ago, one of my daughters (at the time she was 11) had a field trip for school.
The pupils that didnt have a bicycle, were supposed to sit at the back of the ones that had a bike.
My kid ended up at the back seat of the young (male) teacher, and was forbidden to hold on to him several times (which is normal when you sit at the back).
She totally didnt understand why (in a way she even felt rejected), and furthermore she was very afraid she would fell of.

How Rare Are Female Child Killers? [http://news.discovery.com/human/mother-killer-murder-child.html]

The fact that the children were murdered by someone they knew and trusted is not unusual at all. Because of alarmist news coverage, the general public often believes that the greatest threat to children is from strangers.

In fact, the vast majority of crimes against children are committed not by convicted sex offenders or strangers, but instead by the victim's own family, church clergy, and family friends.

... The study also found that children abducted by strangers were harmed less frequently than those taken by acquaintances.

According to a report titled "Homicide Trends in the U.S.," issued by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, of all children under age five murdered between 1976 and 2005, 31 percent were killed by fathers and 29 percent were killed by mothers.

A 2000 study conducted by Marlene Dalley, Ph.D., analyzed trends in Canadian child murders and concluded that "Both mothers and fathers kill infant children at the same frequency, though when all (victim) age groups are considered mothers and step-mothers killed more children than fathers and step-fathers."

..... but let's not let facts get in the way of a good, emotional freak-out. We're religious, dammit, and we're entitled to be irrational, delusional and paranoid. In fact, it's the basis of our faith!

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Back to the OP: what are boys supposed to do if girls hug them? Freeze like Weeping Angels? If girls can still hug at will, maybe the girls there could organise a rebellious hug-fest of some sort, or hug boys a lot to make up for the boys' inability to initiate hugging or something. I suspect they'd just get banned from hugging boys.

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*sigh*

 

[Daveman]

Ah, the classic "six inch rule", I remember it well from my school days.

tbh, the exam stuff is much more dickish, you're results would improve a stupid amount if they changed that. My school was a great private school, but the old head wouldn't let people do exams in january like most schools do. New headmaster comes in, changes that and suddenly we're like number 3 in the country. Literally the only good thing he did for the school...

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I...just...wow, that's so stupid I almost passed out. I can remember my school telling 6th formers that if they had girlfriends/boyfriends still in uniform that they wouldn't be allowed to exhibit any PDA when certain visitors came around, given that you can't tell what the age gap bewteen them is, which was a little harsh with people only dating the year below, but it was more understandable. Though I've never heard of a school initiating something as batshit crazy as the OP has described.