To encourage you to share ridiculous school rules?

[malificent7]

As we are going back to school ( or rather our little ones are) I thought it would be fun to let off steam by citing ridiculous school rules and punishments.

My old school was private and therefore thecrules were particularly stupid. There was the 6" rule whereby a boy and girl were not supposed to be within 6 incges of each other. This was designed to stop sex and pregnancy but did nothing to stop horny teens screwing in bushes.
Now i gear it has banned all students from visiting a local town " in case they get into mischief. " What if mum and dad want to take them out for lunch there?

If you got in trouble girls had to weat skin coloured tights to school as part of being "gated. " all the cool people got gated... it was a badge of honour as it meant you did cool things like smoke, drink and snog boys.

Do share.

Love to know how you change schools so easily.

Some rules are stupid!

DD can't wear a coat in winter even if it rains - even though most teachers drive and park near school and stay dry all day

Oh I have thought of a silly one.

For GCSE I wasn't allowed to take triple science, one modern and two classical languages because "I wouldn't have enough breadth". I did say that the classical languages were broader because there was a history/civilisation component, but didn't get anywhere (you didn't argue with Mrs P!).

It was partly out of a desire to be awkward that I took triple science, two modern and one classical language...

We had shirt and ties to be worn between Halloween and Easter. Open neck blouses the rest of the time.
Hair accessories had to conform to school colours, or were confiscated.
Plain black leather lace up shoes, with a heel no higher than 4cm... getting your heel measured was a pain in the backside.
Walk in the left hand side of the corridors.
Pupils could only walk into school using the back drive not the front.
Assembly every single fricking morning.

I went to a different school for a levels and they had a really strange system. They employed someone to sit in the bathrooms and monitor them. You had to sign in and then the member of staff would sign you back out. It was fucking weird. Still freaks me out. Safe to say my daughters won't be going to that secondary school

In the drainpipe-wearing post punk 70s and 80s the school uniform was 'no flares, no wide, pointy collars'.

We had to have our pants checked to ensure correct colour. Strict uniform too.
I refused saying that's disgusting you are not looking at my drawers.

I went to a residential special-needs school and one of the rules after I left was that the girls in the dorm could only shake hands. Apparently some of the girls were lesbians, so no hugging was allowed. This was for high school, so grades 10 through 12.

They also have a rule that we couldn't read or do homework at breakfast. I really struggled at school, and took hours to do my homework, so I often finished it in the morning. Because of the breakfast room, I had to get up at 5 AM to finish my homework.

We also were not allowed to sleep during study hall in the dorm. Even if we didn't have any homework.

Another one was we couldn't sleep on top of our sheets, if we were caught, the dorm parents would on make our entire bed and we would have to remake it.

Polkadots, we had tornado drills in Florida.

We weren't allowed into the building until the bell rang then we had to take our coats off in the yard before going inside. Creating a bottleneck at the doors. On the coast in Cumbria. It's amazing how thoroughly soaked you can get in a couple of minutes. The school wasn't exactly warm either.

That was only in the mornings though. For afternoon registration we'd keep the coat on to walk to form room and take it off there.

We had to walk on the right of the corridor, with bags to our left so they couldn't scratch the wall.
Hair couldn't be vaguely near your eyes, so all teachers carried clips/grips they would hand out and make you pin it back with.
Only plain gold or silver stud earrings were allowed, and only one piercing in each earlobe.
Natural hair colour only.
Skirt must be at a length that touched the desk if you were asked to kneel on it
Jumper sleeves not allowed to extend beyond wrists and cover part of your hand
Stand whenever a teacher entered the classroom - unless during a test or exam
Socks to be knee height or ankle height, no middle ground, white in summer and navy blue in winter.
All homework given to be written down in school planner and signed by parents each evening to show they had seen what was assigned, even in 6th form, because obviously we couldn't be trusted to manage our own workload.

Irish schools are even worse I think. You'd get sent home if you had a crazy colour hair, or piercing. (until you got rid)

No wearing pants or p.e uniform at non p.e times. Only allowed wear trousers instead of skirt between November+ March WTF.

No nail varnish, no fake nails. Walk on the left going up the coridoor.

Pray at start of every class. In Irish most of the time,absolutely ridiculous.

One school I used to work in insisted the girls wear identical school coats (thin raincoat essentially) to/from school. They did at least ignore that on snowy days in winter when it was freezing!

I did a placement in a school where the entire room was meant to stand up if a senior member of staff walked in, and thought that was a bit archaic!

The last two schools I've worked in have been big on blazers, one had a real problem with girls rolling their sleeves up - I sympathized with them to a certain extent as I always roll up the sleeves of a long top or long cardigan, and to be fair I didn't think it looked bad.

Current school I'm in has a 'blazers on at all times except if a teacher says you can take them off in a lesson.' It's treated vaguely sensibly though, in hot weather they can carry them as long as shirts are tucked in, and in a lesson I never mind kids taking them off, but do make sure that on hot days I say they can take them off as it's warm, particularly with Year 7 who are generally very law abiding!

No eating in the street (in uniform or not) it was "vulgar" apparently.
A bizarre one way system which meant that in some cases you had to go down two flights of stairs, along the bottom corridor and back up two flights of stairs just to get to your next lesson which was in the classroom next door and linked by a connecting door! The connecting doors were not to be used - on pain of death.
No knocking on the staffroom door - you had to wait outside and catch someone going in to ask to see a member of staff.
There weren't too many silly rules actually - there were quite a lot to do with where you were allowed to be at certain times.

Eugh we had communal showers too, everyone hated them so used to try and skip them, but the pe teachers used to watch us all!

I went to an all-girls school and the boys school was next door, but great efforts were made to pretend it didn't exist. However, while we had separate canteens, they shared the kitchen so the two halls were next to each other. This meant that when we went into the canteen, we were about 10ft away from the boys going into their canteen and could actually see them!

So our school ensured a dinner lady was stationed at the canteen entrance throughout lunchtime. If anyone paused to look across at the boys, they were urgently shooed on. Any waving or calling to the boys equalled a detention. Madness!

We had a rule forbidding us from going on the roof. Fair enough, it was a Victorian building with very tempting and easily accessed roofs (think Antonia Forest and Nicky Marlowe et al). But wouldn't it have been simpler to just lock the doors?

So of course every daredevil went out there. Even some of the tamer souls and goody-goodies