What's Your School's Dumbest Rule? (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

what's the dumbest rule you had in school we couldn't wear winter clothing in class coats gloves hats even with the heat on it got cold in the winter inside the school so we just had to freeze they said it was because winter clothing were gang symbols this was a farm town in Wisconsin we could not touch each other all physical contact was banned there was one teacher that claimed if it wasn't for this rule we would all be running around impregnating each other ah yes truly the time of my life this could really develop some negative complexes around touching people when you get older when I was in high school taking my second year of photography class everyone was called into the auditorium for an assembly it was to announce that cameras were no longer allowed to be used on campus due to privacy issues this was about two weeks after the school had installed security cameras everywhere in the school in primary school we weren't allowed to put our rubbish from our lunches in the bin I distinctly remember being in an assembly where their head teacher said your lunchbox is your bin I mean did she think the bins were for decoration so stupid our teachers did this in elementary school but it only applied to food waste like Capel cause sandwich crusts et Cie because they didn't want the garbages to stink or gather flies we were still allowed to throw out wrappers and things like that no one was allowed to have or say the were dr. pepper because it was the password to a shared brothers account the administration found out about oh that's hilarious yo the boys weren't allowed to wear shorts at my middle school but the girls could wear culottes basically shorts with a fancy name one day about a hundred boys came to school wearing culottes the man had it stuck to him hard that day in second grade only one boy and one girl were allowed to go to the bathroom at a time I had to pee so bad that I was shaking in this kid took a stupid amount of time to get back he finally came back and I had to wait in a line to his desk and he finally said I could go to pee myself on the way there Frick you mister Bennish I'm going to make sure my kids know that if they actually have to go to the bathroom and they're being denied to just go I'll take care of the rest my middle school band hogs at least they band front hugs the rule was against chest to chest contact regardless of context or gender no chest bumps after a game several girls got in trouble for hugging their female friends goodbye after school it was a strange place obviously just hug from behind no colored shoelaces apparently it was a sign of gang affiliation no tow shoes it looked too much like you were wearing only socks no eating outside the cafeteria this was to reduce litter in the hallways but our school cafeteria could only fit 100 ish people so everyone ignored it they tried enforcing it by guarding the cafeteria door so those buying lunch couldn't leave but then people just stopped buying school lunch jokes on them I'm from the beige gang no water bottles because a few girls four years ago snuck vodka into the bathroom I snuck water and vodka bottle to pay at my great school we weren't allowed to wear ankle socks you would get detention if you did no Simpsons anything this was when it premiered and there was this national scare that Bart was a bad influence there were two popular Bart shirts that were banned one that said I'm Bart Simpson who the heck are you and another that said Bart Simpson underachiever and proud of it this eventually evolved into banning all Simpsons shirts school supplies stickers etc after some of the teachers started watching the show a lady who lived across the street spearheaded this campaign in our town decades later I met a showrunner from The Simpsons and told him about it he told me teachers like that put his kids through college they boys were not allowed to have doors on our stalls we had a brick wall about 4 feet high between toilets with nothing in front they said boys would ruin them girls were not supposed to hold hands or else they would turn lesbian it wasn't the rule but the wording grades 9 they made an announcement that you couldn't show your butt crack in the school the admin decided to were that as no back cleavage in elementary school we couldn't kick a ball at recess because the school was afraid we would kick the balls to the top of the building the janitor would go on top of our school once a week and just toss ball after bull down we would throw our hands in the air and cheer mark was our God and we were his disciples needing to wait 10 minutes before and after classes have started to use the restroom my adolescent body with developing Crohn's disease did not take kindly to this rule and got into fights with the bathroom monitor often someone who would make sure nobody within the bathroom for too long doing drugs having sex other things of the sort thankfully the principal had a heart of gold and gave me a special pass to use his personal private bathroom which was so nice and clean in a high school on five thousand teenagers being able to poop in peace at the rate you go with Crohn's disease made my life somewhat less shitty pun intended as a longtime Crohn's afflicted person that is such a sweet blessing your principal deserves a hug no balls over the diameter of 1.4 feet my school was weirdly accurate we still brought in footballs no balls over one foot brought in smaller footballs no balls over ten centimeters brought in tennis balls no balls over five Cam's pelted the windows with our dad's golf balls eventually got removed due to the fact that the word ball could be misinterpreted exclamation point no balls over the diameter of one point four feet well I can't make it to class in third grade we had to have playmates it basically meant that we couldn't play with our friends on the breaks recess we had to play in a group that group was filled with students from other classes too not fun can't wear red to school so stupid no hat was basically the only dress code my school had the dumbest thing was Marie so the reasoning behind it it was put into effect after Columbine because apparently different groups jocks nerds Goths etc what different headgear to differentiate themselves no hat was basically the only dress code my school had in Australian schools it is compulsory to wear hats when in the playground skin cancer prevention of course in Australia all schools have uniforms so there is a common hat that everyone should be wearing we weren't allowed to be indoors for more than five minutes at recess this was in Canada and indoor recess started when it was below minus 25 see instances of school why diarrhea really shot up during the winter we didn't have school once because it was minus 9 F minus 23 see they didn't want students standing outside I was in high school I'm in an area where we don't normally go negative I couldn't imagine having recess in that at any point you may not talk during lunch and may not laugh at large stools in the bathroom i crap you not excuse the pun our school banned black socks it was a public high school in a predominantly poor neighborhood so the parents didn't give a crap and bought whatever socks we're cheapest or didn't have the money to buy all brand-new socks again it got to a point where we'd have whole school assemblies on it and the teachers threatening to suspend kids from school for wearing black socks couldn't wear flip-flops because they were considered a weapon but you could wear stiletto heels la chancla no one could wear Joe's Crab Shack shirts at first it was just the tie-dye ones that said Peace Love and crabs because of the implication of sex and pubic lice I suppose it was a stretch but then they expanded to any Joe's Crab Shack shirts my friend had to wear a patient a because a shirt was a Joe's Crab Shack shirt it didn't have offensive slogan on it it just had a picture of a crab and the restaurants name she still had to change shirts she was so embarrassed because one wants to wear your patient a in grade school we were told not to use spoons only babies used spoons Yetta gave us spoons I'm an adult you can tell because I'm enjoying my soup with a fork and knife clear or mesh backpacks only this was from first grade through high school in the late 90s to early 2000s we also had to wear a safety vest as our bathroom pass in high school it was such a joke that the first year the rule was introduced our yearbooks were a giant safety vest on the outside honestly the thought of a shared unisex safety vest for bathroom visits still grosses me out as I know those things were never washed properly in primary school we weren't allowed to use erasers we were never told why halfway through eighth grade they decided to ban all the beverages including water from use by eighth graders a couple of kids brought vodka in a water bottle to school and they decided the best option was no liquids at all we couldn't even bring in sealed beverages or unopened cans because they could have been tampered with and opened cans because they could have been tampered with yeah I injected five cc's of beer into this can of soda prepare to get wasted buses were not allowed to depart at the end of the school day until the flag on the flagpole outside the main entrance had been taken down and properly but away if someone forgot all the buses would sit there idling for as long as it would take until the flag was dealt with imagine being a bus driver trying to keep a schedule and being like sorry guys the flag wasn't down I couldn't leave the school when they were late to their next route in middle school had a stupid as all heck one-way hallway system where students could only walk in the halls one direction made me late twice actually since my class was the first one behind the eggs a door but forced to go in the entrance door was enforced even when halls were empty one stick-in-the-mud teacher threatened to write me up if I question the rule went to a Catholic school where there was a big white line painted across the schoolyard and during recess boys played on one side and girls on the other we were not allowed to intermingle during recess even though we weren't separated during class so lunch I'm a guy in all my friends of a girl sir we used to stand at the line and talk go in trouble men at times for that also in High School Host Columbine we weren't allowed to carry backpacks around the school we had to leave them in our lockers and carry our heavy ass textbooks around dang my school had this - until you hit like sixth grade I think also a Catholic school I forgot about that rule in middle school we weren't allowed to talk at lunch or else we would get put up on the wall and get handed a detention like a clean version of heck well three of them no mechanical pencils or any pens that clique teachers found that crap annoying no peeing outside the toilet or urinal common decency but if you're caught you will get a call to your parents the rule isn't stupid it's actually really good but the people who it's targeted at are the zero-tolerance policy it's a nearly every school I haven't had any encounters but it does strike people hard imagine getting beat up and getting punished for being beat up because you happen to be involved even though you did nothing it's a dong of a rule girls couldn't wear tank tops because showing armpits wasn't allowed but guys could wear wife beaters it made no sense no chains on wallets back in the day when chained wallets weather things so dudes replaced their chains with pearl necklaces as an fu to admin no black lipstick allowed oh and they were really concerned about started jackets and gang activity this was a small farm town of like seven hundred total overreaction also most high schools allow you to attend a shorter day if you've met your graduation credits but we had to sit all day and sometimes that meant having to three study halls if we had already met requirements such a waste of time backpacks weren't allowed to be worn during the school day in middle school it was the dumbest thing since you wear your backpack everywhere in high school and college at an all-girls high school no ankle socks because ankles can attract boys and make them have sex with you ankles led to legs and legs led to up there we all know what's in that area I feel like the head of the school knew nothing about people there couldn't be extreme colored or past earlobes for guys as it would be considered a distraction to others I had long hair past my shoulders and would not cut it was an ISS a lot it's a silly thing to get detention for kids don't go to school to be told how to dress and how they should look I remember how much of an impact the Breakfast Club movie had on me in my junior high days my school was the same our hair couldn't touch our eyebrows and males couldn't have any facial hair except well-groomed mustaches and hair rules didn't apply to staff on the first day of class my 7th grade writing teacher demanded that we all buy comfortable pens on the second day of class she went desk to desk sampling our choices several students myself included experienced awkward embarrassment when she slammed down our pathetic pens and shouted nope when I was a freshman in high school late 80s there was a designated smoking area on campus Cade was a square maybe 10 feet X 10 feet painted on the ground in the courtyard students could only smoke in that box on campus the next year they decided that you could only smoke in that box if you had a note from your parents the year after that no students were allowed to smoke on campus my senior year staff wasn't allowed to smoke on campus this resulted in the Box metaphorically moving to someone's driveway across the street where students and teachers were all smoking together bandanas and headbands that were similar to bandanas were banned in AD the reason was that it increased gang violence among 11 14 year-olds in the suburbs of a small town in Canada you have been visited by the Lord of the good boys comment who's a good boy to instantly become part of the good boys squad if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Published: Thu Jun 13 2019