Poll: Absolutely RETARDED school rules & other stuff.

[Akai Shizuku]

You're angry because the school has banned what it deems inappropriate clothing.

Well, that's justified. In some places gangs are a huge goddamn issue and you can get assaulted for wearing the wrong thing. I know this from personal experience. It's not a baseless rule. Just be happy they're not enforcing uniforms. A student at one of the schools in my former state was gunned down for wearing the wrong thing.

The loiter/lunch thing is completely justifiable, too. They could have had issues with students selling drugs or tagging walls while the staff couldn't watch. Your little friends have issues keeping their paint on paper, suddenly you're not allowed in the hallway anymore.

As for the police box, what's wrong with that? Students have the opportunity to be completely anonymous while reporting someone breaking the law? That's great. It could help anything from harassment to thievery to assault. I don't see anything wrong with something that could make the school a safer place to be.

It really is amazing to read how someone could be such a child about such inane things.

No, it is not justified. They ban all forms of headwear, from hoods to earmuffs to freaking ushankas. It doesn't matter whether it's gang-affiliated or not. My hat is definitely not, never has and most likely never will be. I would understand if they banned bandannas - Crips and Bloods and all that. But no. It's all headwear. Nobody's going to get gunned down for wearing a fedora.

ORLY? If students are selling drugs, keeping them out of the halls will not by any means solve the problem. There is no reason why it ever should, when they can go into the bathroom stalls (which I've seen happen today) or off school property. And I seriously doubt tagging is a problem, and if it is, they can still tag other places, so keeping them out of the halls will not solve the issue.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the police box in itself, but I felt appalled that it was deemed necessary.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

If you?re pissed about the hat have I got bad news for you! It doesn?t get any better as time goes on. My entire house got put on super happy fake school probation for 6moths because they found an empty in one kid?s room. The best part was that I graduated in 2 weeks so this meant nothing. Oh and only one of us in the house was under 21.

An empty what? Magazine? Shotgun shell? Pack of bubble gum?

Either way, that's retarded too.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

You're not supposed to wear a hat indoors. It's bad manners.

Just wait until you graduate and mature after a few years. You'll start to realize how much you don't care about these things anymore. Looking back on it, I can't think of any rule my school had that didn't have a reasonable explanation to it, or was the cause of some idiot student ruining things for the rest of us (those are the ones who you should blame). Remember, your safety and education are the only things that the staff and faculty really care about, and they are the only things that are going to matter in the long run. Learn a lot, graduate, and get a great job that pays well and lets you wear your hat all you want.

By what arbitrary designation is this bad manners? Even if it is, manners should be a matter of personal choice, not something forced upon you.

What matters is that it's here and now. I don't like it, so I want to change it. Life is short, yes, but it never felt that way. Also, I don't want future generations to have to go through this BS too.

 

[Flos]

No, it is not justified. They ban all forms of headwear, from hoods to earmuffs to freaking ushankas. It doesn't matter whether it's gang-affiliated or not. My hat is definitely not, never has and most likely never will be. I would understand if they banned bandannas - Crips and Bloods and all that. But no. It's all headwear. Nobody's going to get gunned down for wearing a fedora.

ORLY? If students are selling drugs, keeping them out of the halls will not by any means solve the problem. There is no reason why it ever should, when they can go into the bathroom stalls (which I've seen happen today) or off school property. And I seriously doubt tagging is a problem, and if it is, they can still tag other places, so keeping them out of the halls will not solve the issue.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the police box in itself, but I felt appalled that it was deemed necessary.

Yes, it is justified. How are they suppose to know if a hat style is or isn't gang-affiliated? It's easier to remove all hats rather than making kids with red and green hats not be able to wear anything. The administration has it easier if nobody wears hats. It's sad, but you can thank your gangster-wannabe peers for that.

Keeping them out of the halls keeps them out of the halls. It's a guaranteed place the administration doesn't have to bother looking.

They have to put in a police box because your peers can't seem to man up and be adults.

Nothing the administration does is to fuck students over. They have to do it because people keep breaking the rules and they're too underfunded to do anything about it. They keep selling drugs and breaking into lockers and assaulting the freshmen. Your school does not have the manpower to oversee all this crap. They deal with it the best they can.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

My advice? Massive, obscenely-colored Mohawk. One thing they can't do is make you cut your hair.

Edit: Or take my Latin teacher's advice, "Remember, when they say, 'That's wrong, it's should be done like THIS!' just smile creepily and think in your head, 'Yeah, you old jerk, you're going to DIE before I DO!'"

HELL FREAKING YES.

I'm going to make my hair into something that offends them. This is going to be awesome.

Oh, and I am A at freaky smiles.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

No, it is not justified. They ban all forms of headwear, from hoods to earmuffs to freaking ushankas. It doesn't matter whether it's gang-affiliated or not. My hat is definitely not, never has and most likely never will be. I would understand if they banned bandannas - Crips and Bloods and all that. But no. It's all headwear. Nobody's going to get gunned down for wearing a fedora.

ORLY? If students are selling drugs, keeping them out of the halls will not by any means solve the problem. There is no reason why it ever should, when they can go into the bathroom stalls (which I've seen happen today) or off school property. And I seriously doubt tagging is a problem, and if it is, they can still tag other places, so keeping them out of the halls will not solve the issue.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the police box in itself, but I felt appalled that it was deemed necessary.

Yes, it is justified. How are they suppose to know if a hat style is or isn't gang-affiliated? It's easier to remove all hats rather than making kids with red and green hats not be able to wear anything. The administration has it easier if nobody wears hats. It's sad, but you can thank your gangster-wannabe peers for that.

Keeping them out of the halls keeps them out of the halls. It's a guaranteed place the administration doesn't have to bother looking.

They have to put in a police box because your peers can't seem to man up and be adults.

Nothing the administration does is to fuck students over. They have to do it because people keep breaking the rules and they're too underfunded to do anything about it. They keep selling drugs and breaking into lockers and assaulting the freshmen. Your school does not have the manpower to oversee all this crap. They deal with it the best they can.

They can do research, educate themselves. You know, like teachers are supposed to do before they call themselves teachers?

There's lots of other places the administration doesn't look that can get vandalized anyway...

I feel it is part incompetence in administration and part underfunding. I'm not sure they're really doing the best they can because I see a lot more that can be done that does not require any cost at all.

 

[Bat Vader]

My advice? Massive, obscenely-colored Mohawk. One thing they can't do is make you cut your hair.

Edit: Or take my Latin teacher's advice, "Remember, when they say, 'That's wrong, it's should be done like THIS!' just smile creepily and think in your head, 'Yeah, you old jerk, you're going to DIE before I DO!'"

HELL FREAKING YES.

I'm going to make my hair into something that offends them. This is going to be awesome.

Oh, and I am A at freaky smiles.

What will this accomplish? A detention or Suspension?

If you're going to rebel please rebel against something that affects all humans not just some.

 

[jpoon]

What you should do is get a bottle of ink and dump that shit into their "rat" box. Fucking ruin all their little tip offs! Why the fuck are people so damn weak minded that they have to rat out every fucking thing now days? Political correctness is for communists!

If you are a communist and were offended by this, fuck you commie!

 

[mrhappyface]

Our school used to have a minor problem with graffitti and it still does. Confiscating permanent markers did nada. One particularly brave student wrote the band teacher was gay on the outside double doors in rather large letters.

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

My school is the same with the hat thing... moronic, to say at least
But my favorite rule they had last year was:

You have to eat breakfast.

It's not like they're recommending it, they're enforcing it!
What are they gonna do, set up spycams in my room?
Kick me out if I don't?

They're stupid in a funny way

Eh, as stupid as that rule may be it is good to get kids to eat breakfast... It really is the most important meal of the day.

 

[FluffyNeurosis]

If you?re pissed about the hat have I got bad news for you! It doesn?t get any better as time goes on. My entire house got put on super happy fake school probation for 6moths because they found an empty in one kid?s room. The best part was that I graduated in 2 weeks so this meant nothing. Oh and only one of us in the house was under 21.

An empty what? Magazine? Shotgun shell? Pack of bubble gum?

Either way, that's retarded too.

It was the most dangerous of empties, an empty bottle of beer.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

-Begone, wall!-

Schools can be utterly retarded with clothing rules. In my school, we're not allowed to wear shorts above the knee. What the fuck?

In my school, guys can't wear shorts at all. The reason? Something to do with people being offended by hairy legs.

My god that's ridiculous. That's like being offended by beards.
Although I wouldn't mind that rule in my school because I don't wear shorts anyway, unless I'm swimming. The reason? From my thighs down I look like my lower half has come from a gorilla.

 

[VicunaBlue]

(15 year old voting age? Fucking straight)

That would be disastrous, as parties would manipulate the impressionable minds of a teenager.

18 year olds I know generally are less rational or civically aware than 15 year olds I know. About half of the 40 year olds I talk to don't know jack shit about politics.

Either require a competency test for the vote, or lower the age to include those who ARE old enough to make their own decisions. I personally don't entirely oppose the idea of a competency test, but the fact remains that you would STILL have 15 year olds voting in any fair system.

That's an observational study, and a lurking variable would be the demographics of the 18 year old adults you know. Almost all 18 year olds are finished puberty, and are nearly mentally mature. Most 15 year olds are not finished puberty, and are mentally immature.

You like the words "Immature" and "Mature", don't you? Please elaborate exactly what you mean by that. Awareness of the issues? I know many 15 year-olds who are well informed. Being Level-headed? Most teenagers are good at ignoring and suppressing violent drives. "Mature" is simply a word invented to mean having choked down every social construct in modern society.

As for 15-year-olds being allowed to vote, I think the competency test is a wonderful Idea. Your argument against it is completely irrelevant, as the test would be designed to determine the exception to what you seem to think is the majority.

I highly doubt that is what mature was invented for. That would be like saying Video Games were invented to be murder simulators. Neither statement is true. Maturity means having the common sense to know when not to act like an idiot, kid, or Anarchist loving teenager.

Yeah, school rules suck at times but acting like an Anarchist and going around breaking rules won't get you anywhere especially over rules that mean nothing later in life.

If you're going to rebel than rebel against something that hurts humanity like war.

I'm not suggesting that you go around being a defiant jackass, in fact I hate the teens that saw Fight Club and V for Vendetta, now go around like there's some machine to rage against. I'm just saying that SOME people younger than 18 are "mature" enough to vote.

 

[persona J]

in my college were not allowed to use mp3 players of any sort around college, were not given any reason and even when i proposed some simple rules that would combat any possible risks from using them they still refuse. we still totaly use them tho

 

[Sick boy]

I can explain to you why every rule you mentioned is alright except the hat rule, firstly, no loitering in stairwells for obvious reasons, so people can get past. Secondly, you're probably not allowed to walk into the hallways for some form of litter problem, same thing at my school. And lastly, they have that box so that little nerdy kids who report the kids smoking pot in the toilet don't get bashed to fuck.

 

[MasterSqueak]

Snip.

Wow. That must suck.

Although the box idea could work for stuff like bullying.

Being bullied? Just get your buddies to drop in notes with you.

If you have no buddies you can pay people your lunch money to do it!

Economy 101: The Highschool Edition.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Hey, we have to wear an entire fucking uniform. And no hats.

Same here when I was in school.

Besides, I hate hats.

The no loitering on the stares is understandable.

 

[ryai458]

its a hat why do you care so much?

it's the principal of the thing.

priniciple of the thing? your a student you dont have rights if they dont want you to wear a hat well then no hats they dont have to have a reason.

Ryai, people like you piss me off. there seem to be a lot of you, too. Not only do I disagree with you people on your opinions, usually being that all students are stupid, irrational, and easily-manipulated. Do you not realize it offends many people reading it (not trying to sound like "That guy", but it does.). As for the hat thing, he is simply pissed off that the school system employs incompetent, uneducated people who's decisions are made on a combination of social constructs and their own personal views.

OP: I would do what they want, and then get revenge on them by putting mercury in their water, so it accumulates over the years and finally kills them. Just if you really hate them.

you don't understand I'm a junior in highschool, I have just accepted that I don't have rights. I will get them once I'm out of school.

 

[Bat Vader]

(15 year old voting age? Fucking straight)

That would be disastrous, as parties would manipulate the impressionable minds of a teenager.

18 year olds I know generally are less rational or civically aware than 15 year olds I know. About half of the 40 year olds I talk to don't know jack shit about politics.

Either require a competency test for the vote, or lower the age to include those who ARE old enough to make their own decisions. I personally don't entirely oppose the idea of a competency test, but the fact remains that you would STILL have 15 year olds voting in any fair system.

That's an observational study, and a lurking variable would be the demographics of the 18 year old adults you know. Almost all 18 year olds are finished puberty, and are nearly mentally mature. Most 15 year olds are not finished puberty, and are mentally immature.

You like the words "Immature" and "Mature", don't you? Please elaborate exactly what you mean by that. Awareness of the issues? I know many 15 year-olds who are well informed. Being Level-headed? Most teenagers are good at ignoring and suppressing violent drives. "Mature" is simply a word invented to mean having choked down every social construct in modern society.

As for 15-year-olds being allowed to vote, I think the competency test is a wonderful Idea. Your argument against it is completely irrelevant, as the test would be designed to determine the exception to what you seem to think is the majority.

I highly doubt that is what mature was invented for. That would be like saying Video Games were invented to be murder simulators. Neither statement is true. Maturity means having the common sense to know when not to act like an idiot, kid, or Anarchist loving teenager.

Yeah, school rules suck at times but acting like an Anarchist and going around breaking rules won't get you anywhere especially over rules that mean nothing later in life.

If you're going to rebel than rebel against something that hurts humanity like war.

I'm not suggesting that you go around being a defiant jackass, in fact I hate the teens that saw Fight Club and V for Vendetta, now go around like there's some machine to rage against. I'm just saying that SOME people younger than 18 are "mature" enough to vote.

Of course there are people younger than age 18 that are mature enough to vote. Just as there are people who are 18 and over who shouldn't even be able to vote due to their immaturity over what they are voting for.

Sorry if I flew off the handle at you in my last post. I didn't mean to and now that I look back at it my last post does seem kinda mean.

 

[Erana]

It is an Honor violation to take the little milk cartons (like the kinds they have at public school cafeterias for $.25) from the dining hall.

Students on campus are required to be on a meal plan. I paid for that food. I usually go to only two of the three meals alloted by that plan daily, and when you don't go to a meal, they still take the money.
I overpaid for that food.
And for some reason, the Honor Council, who punish cheaters, substance abuse, and other (real) violations of the college honor code also punish people for partaking in the food that they paid for outside the building premise.

And the weirdest part is that in the other dining area on campus, the provide to-go Styrofoam cups.