Wow you guys have it rough up there... here in Ottawa we only have to worry about generic incompetenece in our School Board... you guys have the gorram WEATHER aswell!TonyCapa said:
Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?
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My school has made many attempts at dick moves, but I have a track record for kicking up so much stink that they give up. I know that a lot of people moving into sixth form this year who haven't already done their A/S's have some trouble with the timetables being changed around from last year, meaning they can no longer do the subjects that they had wanted to. I would understand this at the far less necessary GCSE but to tell someone that they can have the A levels that they want to do, and then pull the rug from under them for no reason other than they wanted to change it around, is a dick move.
Step 1: Don't provide school cafeteria.
Step 2: Have shitty Roach Coach with full of ONLY MEXICAN FOOD swing by every day at lunch.
Step 3: Severely decrease quality of food being served.
Step 4: RAISE PRICES!
Seriously, WTF, guys?
Step 2: Have shitty Roach Coach with full of ONLY MEXICAN FOOD swing by every day at lunch.
Step 3: Severely decrease quality of food being served.
Step 4: RAISE PRICES!
Seriously, WTF, guys?
This. Practically everything I've read so far (first 20 posts ish) has been pulled by the high school I used to attend. That and then begging for money at every occasion, then never updating the science lab's 2 decade old equipment and instead refurnishing their chapel every year.TheJesus89 said:
Oh, that and trying to blame me for getting bullied because I wasn't on a sport's team. I mean their actual justification was, "well, they wouldn't bully him if he was on a sports team, why doesn't he join one?". Blithering idiots, but what should I expect from people who teach religion as fact and actively supress other viewpoints during classes which are all about discussion (such as philosophy).
EDIT: OH, and having the gym teacher drive around the outside of the track in his hummer yelling that we were too slow, despite the fact he was easily going faster than sprinting speed and we were doing a 1200 metre endurance run.
In New Zealand school work and study time towards the end of the year has effectively been cut in half to fit in with the Rugby World Cup.HazzaH said:
In other words, the grades and chances of getting into university for students are greatly at stake just so some rugby fans can get drunk and watch sport.
Where to start...
First there's scheduling. Most of the time it makes bugger all sense. We had 4 hours of one class and 2 hours of another overlapping that. On different campuses. When most of the week was half-empty. Aaand the 2 hour class was a mandatory lab course that you couldn't miss for a single time.
To all the people complaining about lack of free time: my university doesn't even have lunch hours. It's left up to us to negotiate with teachers to get 30 minutes or so between somewhere. 20 minutes of that usually goes into waiting in line at the cafeteria.
Upon complaining about these and many other schedule issues we were told it was due to the person putting the schedules together being new at their job. She was the 3rd candidate that semester. Apparently nobody stays in the position for long...
Classes have gotten cancelled and it was announced 30 minutes before they were due to start. Via email. There are students that spend longer than that on the bus/train every morning.
Every fall semester it seems to be the same dance: at the start we have maybe 4 hours a day, from November onward we have full days from 8 to 6 and all those early courses still bouncing along there too. Students of another field have even longer days. This means every major project (which apparently every course must have) is due within the same week. Wouldn't be so rough were it not for the fact many teachers hold back vital information until about a week before, so we have no hope of doing some of them out of the way well in time.
The maintenance in the building sucks. The hallway clocks are never on time, if they run at all. Some classrooms have a temperature of 16 degrees celcius in the winter. Once a fluorescent lamp exploded mid-class so we had to evacuate. (The stuff is kinda toxic you see) Took two weeks before maintenance bothered to replace the lamp, despite it being an environmental hazard and all. It's really ironic since one of the biggest programs at the campus is building technology.
Gawd I'm glad I only have papers to write and then I'm out.
First there's scheduling. Most of the time it makes bugger all sense. We had 4 hours of one class and 2 hours of another overlapping that. On different campuses. When most of the week was half-empty. Aaand the 2 hour class was a mandatory lab course that you couldn't miss for a single time.
To all the people complaining about lack of free time: my university doesn't even have lunch hours. It's left up to us to negotiate with teachers to get 30 minutes or so between somewhere. 20 minutes of that usually goes into waiting in line at the cafeteria.
Upon complaining about these and many other schedule issues we were told it was due to the person putting the schedules together being new at their job. She was the 3rd candidate that semester. Apparently nobody stays in the position for long...
Classes have gotten cancelled and it was announced 30 minutes before they were due to start. Via email. There are students that spend longer than that on the bus/train every morning.
Every fall semester it seems to be the same dance: at the start we have maybe 4 hours a day, from November onward we have full days from 8 to 6 and all those early courses still bouncing along there too. Students of another field have even longer days. This means every major project (which apparently every course must have) is due within the same week. Wouldn't be so rough were it not for the fact many teachers hold back vital information until about a week before, so we have no hope of doing some of them out of the way well in time.
The maintenance in the building sucks. The hallway clocks are never on time, if they run at all. Some classrooms have a temperature of 16 degrees celcius in the winter. Once a fluorescent lamp exploded mid-class so we had to evacuate. (The stuff is kinda toxic you see) Took two weeks before maintenance bothered to replace the lamp, despite it being an environmental hazard and all. It's really ironic since one of the biggest programs at the campus is building technology.
Gawd I'm glad I only have papers to write and then I'm out.
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Wow, I hadn't even heard about that. I'm so sick of our national psyche's obsession with rugby. One day people will have to wake up to the fact that we're not the best in the world by default any more, and then maybe we can have a little more balance and a little less glorification over a bunch of meatheads slamming in to each other in pursuit of a small, air-filled oval ball.[/quote]
amen to that
Wow, I hadn't even heard about that. I'm so sick of our national psyche's obsession with rugby. One day people will have to wake up to the fact that we're not the best in the world by default any more, and then maybe we can have a little more balance and a little less glorification over a bunch of meatheads slamming in to each other in pursuit of a small, air-filled oval ball.[/quote]
amen to that
Biggest dick move mine pulled was starting school at 8.30 instead of 9.00 (don't care if we got to finish at 3 instead of 3.30) I had to travel a while to school because it was out of the catchment area. I always still came in to school at 9-9.30 anyway.
Damn worst I ever got was bullied but I had a hawk for a mom. I remember once a teacher yelled at me my mom came the next day with a lawyer it ended with her having to make a public apology in front of the class to me for her behavior.
My mom the kind of person who makes grown up cry. Let?s just say don?t leave your fleshy throat open to my family. We have members who make a living suing people. God I love my family right now.
My mom the kind of person who makes grown up cry. Let?s just say don?t leave your fleshy throat open to my family. We have members who make a living suing people. God I love my family right now.
The school gives you time to study, if you decide not to use it that's your problem. They make you go to class as well, but they can't make you pay attention if you don't want to, same thing. Would you prefer they instead did what my school did with those study sessions and put you all in a classroom with a teacher where you were not allowed to talk? Seriously. You had to sit there for an hour and work on whatever you had in silence. And if you had no work you had to sit there and stare at the wall - you weren't allowed anything that wasn't work and that included a book to read.SirBryghtside said:
If I had gotten to sit around with my friends for an hour in the middle of high school and chat I'd have loved it. Or I'd have gone and played basketball or kicked a footy or anything else.
Also I'm sure there are plenty of parents who are more then pleased that their kids are kept within the school grounds during the day rather then wandering around - your parents might be fine with you wandering about but plenty will disagree. And if your parents ARE fine with you going home during the day, you do realise that with their permission you can leave the school grounds? Parents can remove their kids from school whenever they damn well please, so long as they're not impacting their learning. Have them write you a note or call the school saying they would like you to come home during your free breaks so long as you're back before your next class.
As for uniforms - if you don't think learning the value of dressing well to other peoples standards isn't important in life then you're very wrong. Uniforms can also prevent bullying (one less thing for kids to be targetted for) and for poorer families it means the kids will look like everyone else. They ensure kids are dressing appropriately instead of like strippers like so many young girls seem to do and are an easy way to spot kids who should be in school but have decided they have better things to do. Now you might think all these reasons stupid however the people who make the decisions do not.
If you want to get anywhere in life you be spending a lot of time doing things that you think are stupid (and if you go nowhere in life you'll spend ALL of your life doing those things). As you get a bit older and spend some time in the working world you come to the realisation that a lot of the time those seemingly stupid things have very good reasons, especially when you look at them as applied to the majority rather they just how things apply to your personal situation.
That said... plenty of stupid things ARE indeed just stupid. Unfortaunte fact of life I guess. But I'm sorry, the ones you mentioned are not stupid in the slightest
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Ermm I might be missing something here but how does your study time get cut in half? Do you HAVE to watch sport? I don't see what's stopping you from studying while the rugby is playing.ZiggyE said:
If they cut school from 8 hours a day to 4 you could still go home and work for another 4 hours. Great practice for university, you're expected to learn on your own once you get there.
So yes... please explain?
Good. Turns out actions have consequences, who would have thought.Brown Cap said:
Not really a dick-moveper se, seeing as they had some legal obligations.. But the college I attended last year refused to let me transfer into a course with botany. So I dropped out, moved back home and got dumped by the woman I loved.
But it's really my fault for being a shit student and not getting into the botany course to begin with.
But it's really my fault for being a shit student and not getting into the botany course to begin with.
my school made me redo a year of psychology even though i got a D, so i only got and AS level in it. then they never sent out my exam results out so by the time i found out i hadnt got into university it was to late for clearing, i would have been able to get in to if they counted AS levels towards ucas points, but they didnt :'(
They ruined my lucrative business plans. I had a cool box that I took in each day and left in my locker, full of cheap cans of pop/soda bought from a warehouse by a relative with a business licence. The lack of vending machines or fizzy drinks in the school grounds combined with a 10 minute walk to any nearby shops, turned my coolbox into a sugary oil field.
Sure there were others who had the idea of selling drinks, some even started before me, but none of them had a coolbox, none of them had "cold drinks". So naturally most of my free time in school was spent raking it in by own locker. Unfortunately the school, who had known about this for a while anyway, decided that because on one occasion it turned out I made more money than the small dining hall (one for lower years and another for middle to senior year students) did over 48 hours. I even offered them a cut, since it was on school grounds (at this age legal issues weren't exactly common knowledge).
They declined, naturally, but I'd have preferred it if they just shut me down immediately, rather than let me watch the idea flourish and strike out in spite, the miserable bastards.
Sure there were others who had the idea of selling drinks, some even started before me, but none of them had a coolbox, none of them had "cold drinks". So naturally most of my free time in school was spent raking it in by own locker. Unfortunately the school, who had known about this for a while anyway, decided that because on one occasion it turned out I made more money than the small dining hall (one for lower years and another for middle to senior year students) did over 48 hours. I even offered them a cut, since it was on school grounds (at this age legal issues weren't exactly common knowledge).
They declined, naturally, but I'd have preferred it if they just shut me down immediately, rather than let me watch the idea flourish and strike out in spite, the miserable bastards.
That IS a bit of a dick move. We made cash at uni by selling chocolates and soft drinks in the common room - they provided a fridge but never put anything in it so we took advantage.MrRetroSpectacles said:
Even where I work now we have a fridge full of drinks for a dollar each in the IT department - my manager buys them in bulk from Big W or wherever and stocks it up, the profits get used to buy us stuff (we got a coffee machine out of it which was awesome). Half the other departments in the building come to buy from our fridge as well.
Thought considering you can easily make a profit selling to a small group of people at a dollar per can of drink it's slightly depressing to realise that shops sell them for 2 bucks or more...
I can't imagine having to stay in one area at school I used to a its lunch time goe any where you want around school except for outside hmm
OT: dick moves let me think oh yea a guy in the Pastral care("Sped") faculty started observing me and sending people to help me when I didn't need help the last straw was when he said he was going to limit my library attendance at lunch(A right that every student has) so I was making friends the punchline is my friends and me hang out in the library so yea I threaten to complain/check if its illeagle (for limiting my right to attending the library whenever its open,while other students keep this right) and he has openly been avoiding me for the last year yay
OT: dick moves let me think oh yea a guy in the Pastral care("Sped") faculty started observing me and sending people to help me when I didn't need help the last straw was when he said he was going to limit my library attendance at lunch(A right that every student has) so I was making friends the punchline is my friends and me hang out in the library so yea I threaten to complain/check if its illeagle (for limiting my right to attending the library whenever its open,while other students keep this right) and he has openly been avoiding me for the last year yay