Holy shit, you have a whole hour with no classes? Damn, my school has 25 minutes of lunch, no break, and then straight back to classes. They just put in cctv as well, but of course they didn't bother to fix the damn roof.
Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?
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I live in Kansas, where it's required by law for the school to give school newspapers full First Amendment rights- and by full I do mean FULL. However, in the Debate section of the newspaper, we ran a little article about whether or not the new drink machines would be a good use of the funding.
The day after it went into circulation, all of the staff members got ISSes (in school suspension) with the only explanation being "inappropriate comments in the newspaper".
Yeah.
The day after it went into circulation, all of the staff members got ISSes (in school suspension) with the only explanation being "inappropriate comments in the newspaper".
Yeah.
When i was at school i was bullied alot(not looknig for sympathy just supplying back story for why i did this) so one day when i was 13 a boy of 16 pushed me into the mud then put out a cigarette on my face so i actually fought back and broke his nose. I got detention and nothing happened to him.
The only thing I can think of is how Pep-Rallies were mandatory. I would get excited because classes end early but when I go to leave the building I find that the exits are blocked off by security.
Bull. Shit.
Luckily that was high school. Haven't had to be there in years.
Bull. Shit.
Luckily that was high school. Haven't had to be there in years.
They distribute schedules using an online system before school starts, which isn't the dick move but this is necessary info to describe it. The freshman get theirs at orientation about a week or so before school starts, so the schedules are obviously ready. Everyone else gets them at 4 PM the previous day. You have any schedule issues? Tough shit, you have to wait until school starts to fix them.
This wouldn't be bad if it was a school that distributed schedules on the first day of school, because then there isn't any way to avoid this problem, really. But when you can hand them out online whenever you want? Bullshit.
There's also no iPods/phones allowed at lunch, which I don't really get. I don't have anybody to really text during lunch anyway as they're either in class or in my lunch, but no iPods? What's the harm done?
Oh, and there's no AC in the school, but they put in money for a fucking turf field for the goddamn football team. Now, I'm in the marching band, but we never even get to practice on it because the rec council decides to have its soccer game with 5 year olds on the field instead. And they get priority. So not only do we waste money on this while everyone boils by the time finals roll around, but it's used for the ENTIRELY WRONG PEOPLE. What the fuck.
This wouldn't be bad if it was a school that distributed schedules on the first day of school, because then there isn't any way to avoid this problem, really. But when you can hand them out online whenever you want? Bullshit.
There's also no iPods/phones allowed at lunch, which I don't really get. I don't have anybody to really text during lunch anyway as they're either in class or in my lunch, but no iPods? What's the harm done?
Oh, and there's no AC in the school, but they put in money for a fucking turf field for the goddamn football team. Now, I'm in the marching band, but we never even get to practice on it because the rec council decides to have its soccer game with 5 year olds on the field instead. And they get priority. So not only do we waste money on this while everyone boils by the time finals roll around, but it's used for the ENTIRELY WRONG PEOPLE. What the fuck.
My freshman year and they decide that a tardy = detention. I can't recite them, but a few minor offenses' punishment resulted in nearly a week of community service, or even being suspended for repeating the littlest offences twice.
(Although apparently, the freshmen before us were acting stupid enough to have these rules enforced, so that's not just a dick move on my school for prejudging us to act just as bad, but it's also another dick move by last year's freshmen who behaved so poorly to make them consider such harsh rules in the first place. Yay!)
(Although apparently, the freshmen before us were acting stupid enough to have these rules enforced, so that's not just a dick move on my school for prejudging us to act just as bad, but it's also another dick move by last year's freshmen who behaved so poorly to make them consider such harsh rules in the first place. Yay!)
Two things in high school that were dick moves:
1: Block scheduling.
See, 6 periods per day plus 1/2 hour for lunch and 1/2 hour for study hall. The idea was that on Tuesdays, you'd go to periods 1, 3, and 5 for double the time and on Thursdays you'd go to periods 2, 4, and 6. Surprise, surprise - we ended up almost a month behind in lessons by the end of the year because teachers would use the long days to teach their usual 1 hour lesson and then do nothing for the rest of the class. When it came time to take state mandatory end of year placement tests, a lot of people failed or did sub-par despite being good/smart students.
2: The quarter vs. the semester.
This one is a tad more give and take. For the first 2 years of high school, we were on a quarter system. 3 quarters per high school year vs 2 semesters per college year. When I was a junior, they switched to the semester system to be more in line with the university system. The benefit of a quarter system is that you have a shorter time period in which to set your grade average, ie less time and fewer assignments to boost your overall GPA. It was easier to pull up your grades if you were doing poorly by nailing a big test or a final exam. On the downside, failing a test or an exam could destroy your grade in a given class. The semester system did just the opposite. It became harder to fail a class by bombing a test or final exam, but because of the longer grading cycle, it was ridiculously hard to raise your letter grade. So going from a B to an A halfway through a semester basically meant making a 95 or above on every quiz and test AND acing the final exam or it wasn't going to happen.
1: Block scheduling.
See, 6 periods per day plus 1/2 hour for lunch and 1/2 hour for study hall. The idea was that on Tuesdays, you'd go to periods 1, 3, and 5 for double the time and on Thursdays you'd go to periods 2, 4, and 6. Surprise, surprise - we ended up almost a month behind in lessons by the end of the year because teachers would use the long days to teach their usual 1 hour lesson and then do nothing for the rest of the class. When it came time to take state mandatory end of year placement tests, a lot of people failed or did sub-par despite being good/smart students.
2: The quarter vs. the semester.
This one is a tad more give and take. For the first 2 years of high school, we were on a quarter system. 3 quarters per high school year vs 2 semesters per college year. When I was a junior, they switched to the semester system to be more in line with the university system. The benefit of a quarter system is that you have a shorter time period in which to set your grade average, ie less time and fewer assignments to boost your overall GPA. It was easier to pull up your grades if you were doing poorly by nailing a big test or a final exam. On the downside, failing a test or an exam could destroy your grade in a given class. The semester system did just the opposite. It became harder to fail a class by bombing a test or final exam, but because of the longer grading cycle, it was ridiculously hard to raise your letter grade. So going from a B to an A halfway through a semester basically meant making a 95 or above on every quiz and test AND acing the final exam or it wasn't going to happen.
Our school was amazing for half a semester and gave us a one hpur lunch period. This included a study hall in the theater for kids who wanted extra help during the later 30 minutes of lunch. Juniors and seniors were also allowed to eat outside, which was huge. Then halfway into the first semester, they pulled it. And we reverted back to our standard 25 minute lunch. Which is stupid.
Also in the atrium (our main hub of sorts, with a main staircase) the faculty noticed that a lot of people were hanging around the walls and just talking, not getting to class. So what do they do? They add a square barrier (rope) in the atrium, basically reducing the walking space by about 80%, because they thought it would force students to keep moving. It does absolutely nothing. The kids who like to stand and talk between classes still do that, and they people who are trying to get somewhere get screwed over because there's people going to and from the staircase PLUS the people loitering, so it's damn near impossible to walk that mere 15 feet in under 30 seconds. Imagine a blood clot, and I'm a platelet trying to get past the clot.
Also in the atrium (our main hub of sorts, with a main staircase) the faculty noticed that a lot of people were hanging around the walls and just talking, not getting to class. So what do they do? They add a square barrier (rope) in the atrium, basically reducing the walking space by about 80%, because they thought it would force students to keep moving. It does absolutely nothing. The kids who like to stand and talk between classes still do that, and they people who are trying to get somewhere get screwed over because there's people going to and from the staircase PLUS the people loitering, so it's damn near impossible to walk that mere 15 feet in under 30 seconds. Imagine a blood clot, and I'm a platelet trying to get past the clot.
After reading other posts on this thread I can't really complain beyond a few dickhead teachers but I kinda wish my school gave a flying fug about the football team. I'm on it but we really don't get any special treatment and the volleyball team is where all the money goes. Parents are the ones who have to pay for a lot of our things and we even have to do an actual chocolate sale for funding. Just kinda sucks how we easily have the most difficult sport and while the volleyball team gets everything they want, a renovated gym (wasn't just for them but still) and a bag of chips. We have to have chocolate sale for a goal post on our small field. Just saying if I'm gonna play football I'd like some perks...earned of course...I'm gonna go lay in a tub of ice my body hurts.
(not my school but one in NZ nonetheless)
First friday in september we have a thing called Blue Friday, to raise prostate cancer. Now there was a girl whose grandfather died of prostate cancer, and when she went to school with blue facepaint on, her headmaster forced her to remove the facepaint because, being a girls only school, they were only allowed to support feminine causes
First friday in september we have a thing called Blue Friday, to raise prostate cancer. Now there was a girl whose grandfather died of prostate cancer, and when she went to school with blue facepaint on, her headmaster forced her to remove the facepaint because, being a girls only school, they were only allowed to support feminine causes
Not my school, but my school district
someone in the main office my junior year somehow entered a grant or something they'd received to remodel the main office more than once... so the school district decided that since they had twice as much money (they didn't) that they'd build an office twice as big.
Then several people promised to take full responsibility for the mess... and the deficit was more or less evenly taken out of the schools in the district's budgets. (i.e. no one taking responsibility got fired or took a pay cut)
Edit: I didn't realize I left this out... this wasn't a couple hundred or even a couple thousand dollar mistake but a $35million (as in 35*10^that'stoomuchmoneytonothaveredundanciestopreventthiskindoffuckup!)
someone in the main office my junior year somehow entered a grant or something they'd received to remodel the main office more than once... so the school district decided that since they had twice as much money (they didn't) that they'd build an office twice as big.
Then several people promised to take full responsibility for the mess... and the deficit was more or less evenly taken out of the schools in the district's budgets. (i.e. no one taking responsibility got fired or took a pay cut)
Edit: I didn't realize I left this out... this wasn't a couple hundred or even a couple thousand dollar mistake but a $35million (as in 35*10^that'stoomuchmoneytonothaveredundanciestopreventthiskindoffuckup!)
After 3 years of preparing for our senior project they said "oh yeah, we're changing the senior project this year, so all the work you've done for 3 years is completely useless now, and you can throw it all away. Have fun doing a new project." we were a tad angry.
I had to read 14 books over the summer for my AP English class. The worst part was that half of the books were books that I was supposed to read in other high school english classes, but wasn't able to because my english teachers were either too lazy and incompetent.
I only read six books and ended up dropping down to regular english a few days into school, mostly because that teacher was absolutely terrible.
I only read six books and ended up dropping down to regular english a few days into school, mostly because that teacher was absolutely terrible.
I didn't have much. A teacher told me i'd get a C from coursework alone then later on told me i'd missed out two sentences (yes, you read that right) at the start so everything that i'd done after which was roughly 130 or so pages of work was now not counted. Even if I aced my paper exams (which i totally fucking did out of spite) it only moved me up a single grade to get this... AN F.
If they'd let me do the advance papers like I asked and aced on the mock exams, I could have gotten up to a *insert drumroll please* an E. Oh god, i'm so excited for that. But its cool, I totally didn't take a computing course in college and get just below the max grade, not at all.
Aside from that, I got kicked out for a month because I got into a fight. Now to be fair I kicked the living shit out of the other three guys, but are they seriously believing that I went and kicked the shit out of three lads, who had bats on them, with my bare hands on purpose?
I mean, who the hell goes looking for a fight like that? The state of my face after should have kinda let them know that I wasn't really the aggressor there.
If they'd let me do the advance papers like I asked and aced on the mock exams, I could have gotten up to a *insert drumroll please* an E. Oh god, i'm so excited for that. But its cool, I totally didn't take a computing course in college and get just below the max grade, not at all.
Aside from that, I got kicked out for a month because I got into a fight. Now to be fair I kicked the living shit out of the other three guys, but are they seriously believing that I went and kicked the shit out of three lads, who had bats on them, with my bare hands on purpose?
I mean, who the hell goes looking for a fight like that? The state of my face after should have kinda let them know that I wasn't really the aggressor there.
ooh I've seen rugby i can't complain about that but I'm complaining more about the near neglect of my team in comparison to a losing volleyball team that doesn't even have tryouts.prince_xedar said:
That happened to me in Gr. 2. Then I learned karate. Got into one fight after that and no one has tried to fight me since.Richardplex said:
your complaining about that?Jakub324 said:
we weren't allowed to have any outside food brought in nor were we a open campus, we couldn't even have a water bottle in our bag to bring to class
and the lunch thing..you got 40 minutes + 20 minutes break?
we got fucking 25 minutes for lunch, hell roughly 10% of the people from each lunch period didn't get food because they had been standing in line the whole time. My senior year we had the shittiest room location too, and our teacher was a ***** and didn't let us go early or even line up by the door, so basically i would jump over my friends desk everyday, book it out the door and down this long ass hallway, long jump OVER the stair railing down a flight of stairs, and run down the next set of stairs down to get down and then run another hallway to get to the line, in which sprinting and doing all that i would still be rouhgly 30th person in line. You have zero reason to complain there, thank god i am in college now and don't have to deal with that bullshit anymore.
another fun one later on installed my senior year was that they refused to let you use the computers unless you had one of their super specifically setup teacher notes saying what you needed the computer for and estimated time to be used, and they would watch all the screens, and they would track basically everything you typed in so if you used a proxy that day to get by anything (even to find a youtube link) they would have that proxy closed by the next day.
yep i brought a nail file to school (like i do everyday) and its seen and im then accused of brandishing a knife...and its not just my teacher its the entire staff that freaks out and says that im threatening them so the call the police,let me remind you ALL the staff was saying this principal teachers ect. lets just say the police were NOT amused.