Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?

[triggrhappy94]

2)Timetable changes. Now, kiddies only have one hour of free time in the entire day, which goes from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, and they have less options for their GCSEs, with (I think) 6 of them being removed. This affects the teachers, too - their pay gets frozen for I don't know how long (I'm not even sure they know).

My school starts at 8 and ends at 3:05, with 15 minutes for a break between advo (homeroom kinda) and 2nd block, and a roughly 45 minute lunch. We also have 5 minutes before each class, some of those 5 minutes actually counts as instructional time which is kind of funny.
So, I'd say we're kind of even.


My school did mess up my schedule this year, but I fixed that. They put in Algebra 3-4 (second year) again, instead of Trig/Pre-cal. But that's ok.

They also made it so culinary no longer counts as an art credit (you need to take at least one year of an art to graduate), but that's because all the other schools in the district can't afford culinary. And that doesn't effect me, because I took Film Studies instead (and developed a love of cinema).

Other then that, no major complaints

EDIT: They did combine my (school) bus route with another route that just barely over laps, so it now takes me an hour to get home, when its normally a 15 minute drive.

 

[IceStar100]

let me teach you something about the School system in the USA. A high school deploma is not worth the paper it's wrote on. Soon associate degree will be the same way. Most police departments in Texas want a batchlors. Anyone know what a cop makes? So yeah the whole school system here is a dick move.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Just kinda sucks how we easily have the most difficult sport and while the volleyball team gets everything they want

As a kickboxer who also appears in competitions, I can't help but grin as a matter of general principle.

What is it with American Football players and thinking their sport is tough? Running around and bumping into people in full armour is nothing.

Well...

But seriously, the armour just makes it ridiculous. I was playing two hand touch with my friends, I'm the smallest person there, and also the only one who doesn't play sports much. I smash into one of my teammates at full speed and get elbowed right in the chest. I lost my breath, and all the other stuff that happens when you have that happen to you. Five minutes later I'm back in. Why is the armour necessary? it doesn't even stop most of the injuries! Dumb americans...

But I'm off track. Let's see here. the worst thing is that my school banned carrying backpacks around with you for a while because some stupid kid wearing one was jumping back and fourth through a closing gym partition and was killed because he got trapped. I actually haven't had anything bad happen to me... *shrug*

And they think they have hard practices, it's kind of funny Footballers? Football players? are some of the most spoiled wimpy students athletes ever.

Spoiled? Wimpy? You watch to many movies where the rich school with fancy equipment gets beat by the rag tag underdogs down the hill and try staying in 3-point stance position for an hour and a half.

No I went to high school, you know that place where football players think they are tough shit? They get everything they need paid for, uniforms, banquets, states, ect - hence the spoiled part. They couldn't even do a single day of one of my teams practices were we could do any of theirs - hence wimpy

In my original post I made it clear that my school does everything you say for our losing volleyball team while we have to have chocolate sales just to cover expenses like buses for away games and such. Our principal barely mentions us during pep rallys but is proud to speak about how hard our no win volleyball team is doing and how they earned a trip to Yankee stadium. I'm just saying give money to the programs who deserve it but never sacrifice education for sports. New computers > new field or a new net for volleyball would be my schools case.

 

[Nedoras]

A few things come to mind. I remember I had a history teacher during my freshman year in high school who made us grade his papers for him. If someone didn't have a red pen to grade the papers then he would give said person three days of detention. That same teacher brought up the topic of religion one day(I can't remember why though). He was asking everyone what their religion was and when he got to me I said I didn't care for religion. So he kicked me out of his class and sent me to a councilor. The guy was a complete prick. My high school also required us to all wear ID cards. If you forgot to bring it (which I did a few times) you were forced to buy a new one. The last thing that really sticks out in my mind is when the school decided to have a uniform policy....and they took it waaaaaaaaaay too damn far. On the first day the year they implemented it, literally hundreds of kids were either sent home or had things done to their clothes to "correct" what they were wearing. For example, because my shoes had a logo on them and weren't all one color, they tried to cover my shoes in black tape and screamed something about a weeks detention. After that I just walked out of the damn school, me and a lot of other people. They weren't as strict about it after that first day...but still.....damn.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Oh yeah.

Does anyone else have a library at their school? Ours lost funding at the end of last year. Now all the teachers just hand out the textbooks and make records of who has which book

 

[Nouw]

Pfft my break is an hour and I'm quite thankful for that.
[sub]My school hasn't done any dick-moves that I know of.[/sub]

 

[dex-dex]

Yup, my school got rid of the dividers between urinals to "battle homophobia."

how does that battle homophobia?
if anything that is "battling comfort of peeing next to someone else" which is odd to begin with.

 

[DaKiller]

don't even get me started on how much I can't complain about my university. They publicly screened for us the most expensive porn film ever made, for free.

To this day I'm still not sure why.

What godsend of a university is this???

 

[artanis_neravar]

Just kinda sucks how we easily have the most difficult sport and while the volleyball team gets everything they want

As a kickboxer who also appears in competitions, I can't help but grin as a matter of general principle.

What is it with American Football players and thinking their sport is tough? Running around and bumping into people in full armour is nothing.

Well...

But seriously, the armour just makes it ridiculous. I was playing two hand touch with my friends, I'm the smallest person there, and also the only one who doesn't play sports much. I smash into one of my teammates at full speed and get elbowed right in the chest. I lost my breath, and all the other stuff that happens when you have that happen to you. Five minutes later I'm back in. Why is the armour necessary? it doesn't even stop most of the injuries! Dumb americans...

But I'm off track. Let's see here. the worst thing is that my school banned carrying backpacks around with you for a while because some stupid kid wearing one was jumping back and fourth through a closing gym partition and was killed because he got trapped. I actually haven't had anything bad happen to me... *shrug*

And they think they have hard practices, it's kind of funny Footballers? Football players? are some of the most spoiled wimpy students athletes ever.

Spoiled? Wimpy? You watch to many movies where the rich school with fancy equipment gets beat by the rag tag underdogs down the hill and try staying in 3-point stance position for an hour and a half.

No I went to high school, you know that place where football players think they are tough shit? They get everything they need paid for, uniforms, banquets, states, ect - hence the spoiled part. They couldn't even do a single day of one of my teams practices were we could do any of theirs - hence wimpy

In my original post I made it clear that my school does everything you say for our losing volleyball team while we have to have chocolate sales just to cover expenses like buses for away games and such. Our principal barely mentions us during pep rallys but is proud to speak about how hard our no win volleyball team is doing and how they earned a trip to Yankee stadium. I'm just saying give money to the programs who deserve it but never sacrifice education for sports. New computers > new field or a new net for volleyball would be my schools case.

Ah, then we appear to have had a misunderstanding (I didn't read your post just the person responding to yours) The football team at my school was like your volleyball team, nothing was said about us, first time undefeated till states, first time winning our regional champs, and first time placing 4th at states (never placed above 8th). The football team on the other hand got announcements every week, even when they lost.

 

[triggrhappy94]

intro to psychology.

Oh I'm taking that right now, as a high school senior. Interesting class. But we do like nothing in the actually class which can get annoying.

But yeah I can see how that's really annoying. Like that's something that could keep people from graduating on time... if college students still care about that.

 

[artanis_neravar]

don't even get me started on how much I can't complain about my university. They publicly screened for us the most expensive porn film ever made, for free.

To this day I'm still not sure why.

What godsend of a university is this???

What was the porn flick?

 

[Rune342]

Due to some stupid plan of a zoning change, I was now in the area for the school in the middle of town(I lived on the very outskirts), instead of the school three blocks away. Ended up being a good thing I guess, as the students and teachers there were actually quite pleasant.

 

[Dark Claw13]

They banned Yu-gi-oh and Pokemon cards from school

Same here. Apparently it's because some people don't know the rules to the games.

Listen, if you bought the cards you should at least learn the game. Idiots.

 

[Jodah]

Eh, worst thing I can think of is dropping the "mandatory volunteer work" half way through the school year. Basically for our Government class we were supposed to put in some volunteer work. We had to do 10 hours (if I remember correctly) and that had to be two events (IE you could do 8 hours of X and 2 of Y or five of X and five of Y etc).

We got a new Government teacher our senior year and he couldn't figure out a way to track it, God forbid he use the same method the previous teacher did. So half way through the administration said fuck it. A lot of people were pissed.

It didn't effect me at all because I was in Honor Society and had to do volunteer work anyways. I ended up using the time I ran the auditorium lighting for it. I had volunteered for it without even thinking it could be used for Honor Society but when I had to choose what to do one of our advisers recommended using it.

The 11th grade class trip at my highschool had always been to Hershey Park. It had happened every single year basically since the school was built.. Except for the class of 2004.. my class. For 1 year and 1 year only, the school decided to have a spring dance instead of the class trip. I still haven't had the opportunity to go to Hershey Park.

Oh, they also banned all backpacks cause some ass stuck some bubble-gum on a computer board and called in a bomb threat not long after Columbine. They didn't ban gigantic purses, gym bags, lap-top cases, trench coats, or anything else that could easily conceal a bomb or fire-arm, just back-packs.

Also, my school repeatedly failed to meet the No Child Left Behind standards and often has to lowest standardized test scores in PA. I'm so proud when I tell people what high-school I went to. Of course, the fact I can properly pronounce the name of the town I live in, a rarity among people here, usually tells them I'm above that.

What town?

 

[Romblen]

During my senior year, the school group I was in was promised $400 each for a Washington DC trip. Then they said we had to write and present an essay to a Senator(which we couldn't do), then they lowered the money down to $300. After that, they got rid of it all together claiming the group we were in didn't have the funds. Mind you, this was after the person in charge of the group took a school funded trip for a educational conference vacation.

To the school's credit though, the administration stepped in and forced the head of our group to pay. They figured if the sports teams should get their funding for all the travel they do, so should the career oriented group I was in.

Also they once charged me $40 for a small piece of damage on a textbook published in 1990. The damage was there when I got it in 2009. For some reason they marked it as "brand new"

 

[That_Sneaky_Camper]

During high school me and a bunch of my friends used to play games on the Library's computers after school, things like Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament and it KICKED ASS. Unfortunately the school Librarian made it so that we would get suspended if we even tried to do it again.

Also right before I graduated from high school the school staff forced us to attend practice for a stupid song that we had to sing during the graduation ceremony. It was that song where they sing, "Don't stop believing." I HATED that song. I didn't mind other preparations that we had to do for the ceremony but the song practice was stupid as hell.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

We're undergoing one related to a nation wide problem right now. We've got absolutely no funding for classes, so every single one of my classes has upwards of 30 kids. The District Office is shifting everyone's schedules around to make it look better, but everything's just getting more fucked.

To top it off, there's a rumor the office is getting new iPads -.-

 

[Astoria]

Well the my school never did anything but the whole SA education department did. They changed the SACE program (year 12 completion certificate) so that rather than students doing 5 subjects they do 4 and a completely useless 'research project'. They also have to do certain subjects now in order to get an ATAR (it's a score that gets you into university courses) rather than just having to complete everything. I was lucky and finished the year before they changed everything.

 

[butterkniferampage]

Mine just cut the Marching Band. There were 117 of us in it. We actually won stuff. Our football team got funding and they just lost their first game 20-70. Fucking hate how they diminished our awesome music program.

 

[Kae]

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Uh what? Are you telling me you went to high school for more then 4 years because someone lost your papers?

They didn't lose them, they refused to give them to me, and I had to start over because I was left with no other choice.

Wow. That is a dick move.

Please, elaborate further.

Well I still owe them some money that I can't really pay, so they held the documents but regardless of this I asked around, and I've been informed that it is illegal to hold on to documents like that, but regardless that's just plain bad, it's not like it was my fault that my father couldn't afford the school and I had to drop out, it's kind of a complicated situation I think but I think I have every right to be mad about it.
Also sorry if that was incoherent I haven't had any sleep for 3 days now, I've been really busy.