Does your work(School) have any stupid rules/policys?

[Eclectic Dreck]

Stupid? Not really. I mean, there are policies that I feel are impossible to enforce, or policies that I feel might make it more difficult to learn but they all have sound logic behind them.

For example, in the Dorms it is against the rules to have a member of the opposite sex in one's room after a certain time. I myself have noted, on several occasions, that such a thing has transpired and yet I'm certainly not going to report that event by itself. In another case, in my Computer Science classes, it is against the rules for me to do any research regarding a solution to a problem, including collaboration with a peer. We can discuss a problem at a "high level" but anything terribly specific is forbidden.

In both cases, enforcement is all but impossible but the intention is noble enough. In the former, the rule seeks to prevent scenarios where one party might engage in some activity they may regret. In the latter, the goal is to prevent cheating, which has become all but impossible in the face of the internet.

 

[Reep]

On sport days we had to wear school sport socks and only those socks, otherwise detention. I could live with that if the socks weren't such useless pieces of crap, they nearly shred themselves if you try put your foot in normally and were coloured white, with huge ugly red and yellow stripes.

 

[LogicNProportion]

No hats, no sunglasses, no trench coats, no boots.

In one, small sentence in the school handbook, they annihilated my entire wardrobe...

 

[Palademon]

We managed to get Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards banned in our primary school...

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, my old high school had a giant cougar face painted on the floor of the concourse, and if you stepped on it, the activities director would literally yell at you with a bull horn.

It was kind of pathetic.

 

[ChupathingyX]

We have to wear shorts during term 1 and 4 because its hot.

Also we can't have "crazy" hair dos, even though the person who made that rule has spiked up muzza hair thats half purple, half blonde.

 

[The Arc of Eden]

My junior high was the only one with a dress code in the whole state. Fuck my luck.

My highschool had a "No public affection" rule where students weren't allowed to hold hands, hug, kiss, ect. But this rule was enforced with bias. A friend of mine and here girlfriend (Lesbians) were sitting should to shoulder at lunch an a place far away from the main crowd, One of the "Assistant principals" decided to swing by. He saw them and to them down to the office to scold/call parents/give a warning. On the way TO the office, he passed at least 6 straight couples making out. He didn't even bat an eyelash at them.

 

[Nouw]

You can't listen to music in School Time.

 

[Tim_Buoy]

we could not wear:
hats
sunglasses
shorts
flip flops
unnatural hair or hair color
no cellphones or mp3s
no piercings for boys
no public displays of affection (this was up to the teacher who busted you to decide if it was appropriate or not and one in particular busted people for holding hands or hugging)
we had to wear ids around our necks at all times
no backpacks period
and we had this large ridiculous list of what was gang related and forbidden to be on campus
for example what i can remember: confederate flags, male female symbols, tragedy comedy masks, smiley faces, dice, shaved heads, sports symbols such as the astros star, and alot more

 

[skittlepie345]

In my middle school we had to have our school ID to get in the lunch line. If you didn't have it you had to wait until everyone else with their ID got in the line. It was supposed to make people want to wear their ID's but everyone just put them in their pockets and got them out for lunch.

Also no cellphones, though that's to prevent cheating.
Other than that my district is pretty lenient, though at random times twice a year they run a police dog around the school during class and break open the lockers with weed in them. About 60 kids last year got suspended because of this.
Also:
No water bottles without a nurses note.
No hats. (Depends on teacher.)
No headphones/mp3 players. (Depends on teacher)
No inappropriate clothes. (Only ever enforced by the Spanish and Music teachers)
No backpacks out of lockers.
No handheld videogames/no electronics. (Depends on teacher.)

I don't think anyone bothers enforcing these rules at my school...

 

[Plinglebob]

Just been going through some of my old work ones (call centre) and while the dress code was fairly lax, there were always 2 rules that annoyed me. The 1st was no hoodies, and this was because I've been wearing them for at lest 15 years (trendsetter) and the second was while women could wear short skirts, 3/4 length trousers and sandles, guys couldn't and for someone who gets overheated in the summer, this was really annoying.

My current job doesn't officially have a dress code, but all the guys wear shirt and trousers and all the women dress relatively smartly so there isn't a need for one.

 

[WolfThomas]

My university accomadation has the stupid rule of "no fireworks, firearms, ammunition and double adapters". I mean double updaters are dangerous, but not being able to keep my gun under my bed, what?

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

It actualy says in my school rules No Handgrenades. I shit you not but now what am I supposed to do with this M2?

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

The whole uniform code is pretty annoying. Only school scarves and badges are allowed, and you know what they're introducing next year? School berets. Dear god. Of all things that require changing at my school, they go ahead and design school berets. Shirt buttons done all the way up, tie done up, and we have to wear our blazers to and from school. If they're really so concerned about the way we wear our uniform, then they should just get rid of it. Then no one would know what school we're from, and we'd be unable to bring any shame to the school.

And I'm not a huge fan of my school's policy regarding VCE subjects either. You can't take 6 unit 3/4 subjects in year 12, for one. If anyone's able to cope with that many subjects, it'd be a student from my school. We are notorious for being...how to put. Overachievers. And while I can understand why, they don't let us hug people of the opposite sex in public while we're wearing our school uniform. Not that it stops many of us from doing so anyway.

Hod it right there...
What school do you go to?!?!?!
That sounds EXACTLY like my school.

One of our rules is that teachers must EXPECT respect.
You do NOT EXPECT RESPECT.
YOU EARN IT.
Oh, and they have a rule tat states that 'personal computers are not to be used within school hours without the express consent and monitoring of a teacher.'
That's right, I can't use my laptop without asking a teacher.
They. Don't. Care.

 

[Infernai]

We can't dye our hair (at all), we can't have our hair to long...Hell, we can't even GEL our hair.

Essentially, all relates to hair, plus the odd litter Nazi's and the fact we ALWAYS have to wear school uniform to major school functions.

 

[rockera]

We managed to get Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards banned in our primary school...

we got them banned to mainly because with Beyblades some idiot hit someone in the eye with one,
Yu-Gi-Oh the school got worried that it was some sort of narcotics deal was going down or something like that and banned it.

 

[Syntax Error]

Also, no wristwatches.

What? Why? How the hell did they justify that one?

Apparently, being time-conscious is a bad thing.

 

[Palademon]

We managed to get Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh trading cards banned in our primary school...

we got them banned to mainly because with Beyblades some idiot hit someone in the eye with one,
Yu-Gi-Oh the school got worried that it was some sort of narcotics deal was going down or something like that and banned it.

Forget that. I just went to my new college's induction day and now every one of us has to wear an orange strapa round our neck with our ID card on it at all times. This is to stop people from sneaking into the college. My brother went to this college. He never had to even show his card unless it was at the beginning of an exam.

 

[hyperhammy]

my first primary school had a strict "no running" rule....... IN THE PLAYGROUND! no joke! they were actually THAT stupid! eventually they were torn apart by angry parents so they changed the rule to "no running *wildly*" WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!?! yup, a very stupid school. they never did change their "no ball games" rule

My primary school had a no running and no touching rule... anywhere.
We weren't even allowed to touch each other at a dance... =S

 

[laststandman]

We're not allowed to play cards in the library, even during our free periods.