Daft school rules

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Inspired by another thread. What were ridiculous rules or procedures when you were at school or at your kid's school? We had a toilet paper monitor who handed out sheets of toilet paper. We had to specify number of sheets (up to three) in the communal area! Seemed totally normal to me at the time though! Another was boys in infants weren't allowed long trousers.

In seniors, a particular P.E. teacher would pull towels off people as they came out of the communal shower to check they had nothing on underneath and were wet. She single-handedly put a number of girls off sport and exercise at school. Awful.

In kid's (primary) school it's probably just practices that some schools still do, despite research showing little benefit of (and in some cases harmful) - pen licenses, behaviour RAG display, attendance awards, busywork homework etc.

I'm sorry.

'Secondary school.
We had a PE teacher who would hold 'skirt inspections' and would check that you were wearing the regulation gym knickers under the skirt and definitely not cycling shorts. By lifting your skirts up. For that and a few other reasons that particular teacher is now enjoying his retirement at His Majesty's expense. '

We had to have green or black scrunchies. So lolz when you think about it. I always felt that dodging the school uniform rules took our attention away from doing anything really naughty. The scrunchy rule went all the way to 15 yrs old. Can you imagine that rule now.

I moved school in s5 and I was horrified that the lunch policy was to throw your bag in a massive pile in the corridor outside the lunch hall. Quite clearly the people who got there first had their bags on the bottom of the pile and would have to trample all over everyone else's bags to retrieve them while the latecomers were still eating. Many a crushed biro stained bags and the floor. And I remember the music kids spending ages searching for their instrument that had been kicked away from their bag where they'd left it.

Do you mean you had to have a scrunchie, or that the scrunched could only be black or green?

DDs school (secondary)has colour rules on hair accessories which I thought was quite normal.