Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?

[Fbuh]

Ugh... got into 6th form today, and I already hate the school again.

In your free time - that's time when you don't have lessons - you have to stay in school.

I mean... seriously, what? What's the point in that?

Because it isn't free time, it's personal study period. Not really a dick move, the school expecting you to do work instead of dicking about for an hour, no offence.

OT: I got suspended for being beaten up in the name of fairness, that was pretty cool.

Same thing happened to me in middle school. Some dick was teasing me about my weight (I was a fatty!) and then punched me in the eye. I got suspended for it, he got one day of in school suspension. That was nice, wasn't it?

More recently (and this is talking 4-5 years ago), during my senior year, they decided that they would switch to a rotating schedule. On A days, you took one set of classes, and on B days, you took another set. However, they royally fucked it up, and instead of trying to fix each students schedule so that they took the classes they needed in order to graduate, they just loaded everybody up with gym glasses. That is how I ended up with 8 gym classes my senior year. Needless to say, I fucked around in mos tof them
9one I actually did need). It destroyed my grade point average, and I couldn't take most of the classes I wanted. I passed, but I had to take extra math in college because of it.

 

[demoman_chaos]

My school has had to laid off many teachers and lunchroom workers, yet somehow was able to afford to put astroturf on the football field (as did a school in a neighboring city).

Am I the only one who noticed a lot more media attention is paid when they cut sports programs than anything else?

 

[dystopiaINC]

ow i don't even play football, when i do/did, it was always recreational, but are you honestly saying volleyball is tougher than this?

Considering as both those guys wear a body protector that renders the impact of that almost nil: yes, volleyball is. Bumping into eachother is nothing compared to motions that attack small parts of the body, such as fingers, or ankles.

Actually, if you don't believe it, why don't you try it? Lay a hand on the side of your desk so that only two fingers are on it, and the other three are hanging freely. Now pull your hand up and strike your desk hard as you can in the exact same way. Please don't hold me responsible for any medical costs or injuries that occur. That is what a partial block against a good volleyball strike feels like, only the impact you've made will be much weaker.

i call bull on that dude, i played football for a couple years at the middle school level and even in full pads impacts WERE NOT FUN. they hurt. sorry but running into somebody who is also trying to hit you as hard as they can is going to hurt, it's just not BONE BREAKING

 

[TheNaut131]

...okay, either I'm a cock sucking sheep, have repressed memories, or my schools are awesome!

 

[honestdiscussioner]

Mine did. Twice.

1) Changed the already awful cafeteria system so kids can only get school food (we used to be able to swing by Tesco in the morning to get something worth eating rather than sawdust sandwiches)
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).

What about yours? Did you ever want to set the board of governors on fire?
EDIT: The one hour is made of 20 minutes break and 40 minutes lunch.

Oh wow man, that's pretty hardcore. That reminds me, of, this one time . . . when my school kicked me out because I ate a wafer at my seat instead of in front of the priest, after I invested $15,000 of money into my education there, as well as nearly two years of my life.

Sorry, didn't mean to be mean . . that was more me giving my text impression of Cartman from Southpark during Cartoon Wars pt 2. I'm quite sure schools have done worse than what happened to me, to other people.

 

[artanis_neravar]

My High School had the balls to make us pay for our own lunches just so they could make up for the base cost of the food and pay the lunch ladies. Not only that but they forced us to take state mandated standardized tests, and encouraged us to take the SATs, I mean how dare they take an interest in my future? HOW DARE THEY!? /sarcasm


In all seriousness for our senior song (The song we are all supposed to sing after we all got our diplomas but before every left) was voted on when they called the entire senior class into an assembly. The choices were crappy so me and some friends decided to start a write in campaign (the school encouraged write ins and there was a space on the ballot for it.) We managed to get an over whelming majority to write in Friends of Mine by Bowling for Soup, we even manged to find a version of the lyrics that edited out the alcohol references. It was announced as the winner. We get to our marching practice and find out the school had a re-vote, failed to announce it to the senior class, with the exception of a certain few students, and we ended up with Forever Young by Rod Stewart. We were not pleased.

 

[Ashannon Blackthorn]

Jumping on the banning the word Meep bandwagon(aka the Muppets Beaker way of talking) cause they view it as disrespectful.

 

[artanis_neravar]

New Hampshire law now restricts us to only have things that are "low in sugar".

No clarification on how "low" is "low". Just make sure it's low on sugar, or else!

(I've been selling fucking Snapple for four days out of my bag and I'm making a killing, how sad is that?)

When they were renaming the school, they totally rejected my suggestion that we rechristen the bloody place "Darth Vader High". Tossers.

It's because it doesn't roll off the tongue well enough. You need Darth Vader Academy.

It's perfect!

Interesting, the one state without a seat-belt law, or a helmet law (unless something has been passed recently) has a low sugar law?

New Hampshire: Live Free or Die....As Long As It's a Low Sugar Life

 

[mayney93]

Ugh... got into 6th form today, and I already hate the school again.

In your free time - that's time when you don't have lessons - you have to stay in school.

I mean... seriously, what? What's the point in that?

Because it isn't free time, it's personal study period. Not really a dick move, the school expecting you to do work instead of dicking about for an hour, no offence.

OT: I got suspended for being beaten up in the name of fairness, that was pretty cool.

And now we get to the really stupid part - no one even checks that you're studying. Most people just hang around in the common room talking/playing MineCraft. What exactly stops us from studying at home?

I can see the justification, but... no. Just no.

Edit: and I'll add to that uniform. IT HAS NO IMPACT ON LEARNING AND DOESN'T MAKE US BETTER ROLE MODELS SO SHUT UP.

my argument to my old head of 6th he was arguing that a uniform would change the behaviour of the study room, nope, some air conditioning in there might though, that room was far too hot, and on the free time note i used to just get a freind to clock me in etc,no system is perfect, all of them can be exploited

 

[blaqknoise]

My university makes us put quarters into the washing machines so we can use them. Does that count?

 

[Shakomaru]

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*

 

[Sectan]

My school basically closed the lower levels of another building as an excuse to crowd more people into their shitty building from the '30s so they could go to the city and yell about GERSH DERNIT YA SEE THAR, WE NEED US MORE ROOM! You could ace your classes, but need to take them in college due to shitty teachers. The food sucked, the school was pieced together in ways that made getting to class on time absolute hell. I basically started skipping school for months and I eventually dropped out and magically did 2 years worth of work in 5 basic tests while getting my GED. Happy that I'm done with it and I NEVER want to go back.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Snip

I don't believe there really is an effective helmet law here yet, so you're right on that.

 

[Ice Car]

Laptop program. Sure, I love the idea, but they make us pay $420 A FUCKING YEAR. Oh, you lost the adapter to recharge it? Pay us $50, instead of paying $20 for a better one at any store you can name. Oh, boohoo, you can't afford it? Well that's fine, but we aren't going to curve the laptop-based curriculum for the rather large group that can't afford it. We're going to make 9th and 10th Grades focused heavily on laptops and make it hell for those without one those years.

Also, not really a dick move, but them being dicks for not doing anything about it.

Only two men's bathrooms on the entire campus (Save for the office and the gym, both of which are far from the main buildings and essentially inaccessible) are functional. There are supposed to be 4 per building, with 5 and a half (5 two story, 1 one story) but only 2 of the men's bathrooms work.

Every single one of the others are always locked, 24/7, presumably because they aren't functional and haven't been fixed.

Water fountains. Only ONE of them in all 5 and a half buildings work. Well, actually, there are about 10, but 9 of them are on the lower levels, covered in bird crap, and are constantly in the sun, so the water that comes out is usually unbearably hot. That one water fountain that works provides at least semi-cold water, but it's all the way over at E building, at the farthest end of the campus.

Bathrooms are disgusting. The two small stalls, TWENTY FOUR FUCKING SEVEN, smell unbearably like crap, have toilet water all over the floor, and is STICKY (fucking disgusting, can not be unseen/smelled). In the only usable stall, I once saw someone had made two huge lumps of crap right on the toilet seat. Almost kicked the stall. I never used that bathroom again.

 

[Eternal_Lament]

When we were in grade 8 we were suppossed to go on a 3 day trip somewhere up north, something that all the previous grade 8 students before us had the privelage of having, and then they cancel it for us and decide randomly to let the grade 4/5's go on the trip instead. To be fair it wasn't like it was going to be the best trip ever, but at least it was something, considering a) how our past few years weren't that good, having to break apart and reform classes after the first month and constantly trying to cut spending on books for our class and books in our library, meaning we were stuck with almost outdated books for class and almost no books for pleasure reading in the library, and also b) our year in particular was sort of having a rough time, often having to contend with lectures and being yelled at by our principal almost monthly even when our teacher agreed that we weren't doing anything wrong to provoke these lectures or outbursts, especially when we were given punishments for things we didn't even do, that some younger grade did and the principal didn't want to deal with them. So to find out the one thing that us as a grade to look forward to was cancelled for us and given to a younger grade that probably wouldn't enjoy the most of it certainly pissed us off. What pissed us off more was when we finished grade 8 and went in to high school we find out that they decide to let the grade 8's go on the trip again. It was right then and there that I officially claimed that our school was shit.

 

[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.

 

[zarguhl]

Phht, I can win this one.

When I got to year 12 (Australian equivalent to Senior year) the school removed our library. It took them 3 months to put a couple of shelves of books in a classroom so we could have the main books we might need.

Also, year 12 used to have a common room to hang out in at lunch time and to study during spare periods. When I got to year 12, they removed that as well.

For muck-up day, we were told that anyone found with an egg would be suspended and barred from completing their exams. (another first time for our year level)

We had a computer room with 25 computers. It was the year 2000 and the best was a "high end" 486, many were 386s. There was a single 28.8k modem for Internet access.

The school had about 1800 boys. There were also 3 girls in year 12. I'm not kidding. An all boys school, with three girls. They tried to make it co-ed slowly and only 3 girls applied, so there they were.

Shall I keep going?

This was in a supposedly fancy private school. All the funding went to the sports teams.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Mine made us go to school in a nasty snow storm (We got sent back by 2nd period) and they played with the idea of giving us uniforms (luckily it never came to pass).

The schools in my area do this all the time. I know we're supposed to be more accustommed to shitty weather then most people (Colorado has baaaaaaad winters sometimes), but come on, even then you have to draw a line. There can be heavy snowfall, icy roads, and temperatues at near 0 degrees, they only close if the school busses get snowed in. Yeah, you know, the big heavy vehicles that can get through snow easier then ordinary cars.

Ffffffffuuuuuu

And now that I'm in college, even THAT is completely irrelevant. I have no idea what convinces them to close, if they even can be convinced to begin with.

 

[Tom_N7]

Worst thing I can thing of was my Principal at primary school, having become fed up with the littering going on he decided the best course of action was to get all the senior students (Years 4-6 IIRC) together at interval and lunch, and hold them all in one massive detention of sorts on the tennis courts until a few pieces of rubbish were claimed; he was prepared to on for several day. He was absent the following day and made no mention of it afterwards (I have a feeling he had a few too many complaints from parents and possibly some harsh words from the Ministry of Education or something). Worst still is that the junior students weren't held over those breaks, and were happily throwing rubbish around behind the principals back without consequence.

Other than that (and some piss poor administration at my Intermediate, but nothing too major there) school's been pretty good for me. High School was pretty awesome, to tell the truth; Cellphones were allowed outside of class, iPods etc allowed in some classes, 20 min interval, hour for lunch, Year 13 students had no uniform regulations, were permitted to leave school grounds during lunch and study break (even better, we had a mall right next to the school), any year group who got a better pass rate than the record was shouted free food and drinks by the Principal on the first day back, no fights or bullying, all facilities constantly being upgraded (when I started a new English block had just been built, when I left 5 years later we had a renovated workshop and arts area, renovated food and textiles area, a new Pool-Gym complex under construction, new projectors installed in every classroom...), and I could go on. One class even managed to veto their chemistry teacher (who was the head of department) and got a new one. Good times...

 

[jakeblues1295]

Let's see...
- I was suspended from the bus for getting off at school, because iit wasn't my stop
- if you're even just a little late, automatically get 2 days OSS.
- There's a Wal-Mart right across the street from my school, my first two years they let us go to it, but now they say we cant because our parents wont know where we are.