Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?
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This. Right here.SirBryghtside said:
My school started doing a "flex schedule" thing this year, where you can come in late or leave early. I have four classes out of a nine-period day. That's five free periods, or roughly four hours, of me sitting on my ass doing nothing. They don't even allow us to eat in commons (similar to study hall) anymore, which is especially good since I don't have a lunch period.
If you have two open periods at the end of the day, you can leave no problem. Any more than that and you need a job or they keep you there. Personally, I think a job and schoolwork is too much for me. Especially since I really don't want to fail anything this time around.
Completing a test for History class only for your derp of a Teacher to completely forget about it and give me a zero anyway.
My grade dropped from a 91% to 78% in one day because of that nonsense. The Teacher never fixed the problem and he botched my GPA.
My grade dropped from a 91% to 78% in one day because of that nonsense. The Teacher never fixed the problem and he botched my GPA.
That's an incredibly weird schedule you have there...
My school pulled a minor dick move just today. It was seventh period and the power randomly went out. My school is an insanely tech-dependent school (every student gets laptops, most teachers use "Smart Boards" to teach lessons). They were going to let us out early, and just as everyone was standing up to leave, the power comes back on, and we hear an announcement pretty much saying, "Whoops never mind. Stay here everyone."
My school pulled a minor dick move just today. It was seventh period and the power randomly went out. My school is an insanely tech-dependent school (every student gets laptops, most teachers use "Smart Boards" to teach lessons). They were going to let us out early, and just as everyone was standing up to leave, the power comes back on, and we hear an announcement pretty much saying, "Whoops never mind. Stay here everyone."
Let's see...I went to a private school where you basically gave up nearly all your legal rights when you stepped through the door so I have several, but I'll go with this one during my senior year. This happened to a junior girl in my class; One Friday night, me and few other seniors and juniors planned a trip to Six Flags by ourselves with no adults. That same day, one of the juniors wasn't feeling well when she woke up so she didn't come to school but as the day went on, she started feeling better and still wanted to come to Six Flags with us. We all met up at our school before piling into a single van and drove to the theme park. That next Monday, the girl was given in-school suspension. Their reason? Even though the school was never involved in any stage of planning whatsoever, simply because we all met at the school first, that somehow automatically made our trip "an extracurricular school function" and the school had a strict rule that if you didn't come to school, you weren't allowed to go to extracurricular stuff after school...so yeah, that was kind of dick thing to do...
I had left my high school because the people there were jerks.
They lured me back in grade 12 with a digital arts program, specifically told me about it.
Then a week before school started, they withdrew it from the curriculum.
Later I found out that they had taken the funds from said program, and put it into the sports program.
Bunch of weenies.
They lured me back in grade 12 with a digital arts program, specifically told me about it.
Then a week before school started, they withdrew it from the curriculum.
Later I found out that they had taken the funds from said program, and put it into the sports program.
Bunch of weenies.
I got bullied over facebook. I defended myself. I HAD TO END UP APOLOGIZING TO THE FUCKING BULLIES.
Also a girl in 3rd grade bullied me as well so I called her stupid(I was little) and the school wouldn't beleive me, they said no one bullied me so I ended up loosing.
I now don't give a shit.
Also a girl in 3rd grade bullied me as well so I called her stupid(I was little) and the school wouldn't beleive me, they said no one bullied me so I ended up loosing.
I now don't give a shit.
okay, just to be clear this reply may get a little whiney in places.
Where to begin with my school...
first of all is the fact that the administration doesn't give a f!@# about what any of the students, or even the frigging teachers have to say about anything. second, they try to make us think we have control over things with our student council, but they can't do s!@# and its not even their fault. third, they really messed up the schedule this year. fourth, they can't seem form a single logical thought inside their minds. fifth the punishment system is a giant thing of bulls!@#. sixth, they couldn't give less of a s!@# about failing people as long as they graduate. seventh, the grading scale is f!@#ed up. eighth, they listen to idealistic new teachers more than the wise and actually good older teachers who actually know how to teach their material. ninth, they try to force stupid, childish practices onto us. and tenth, they don't give us ANY time to actually do stuff in class that should be done.
and now, to ellaborate
1 and 8. most of my angst is comming from the fact that the entire schedusle this year is a massive slap to our faces in the way of us having even a lick of say in any matters at my school. to start off, some background... my school has been on the "block system" which is a system where we have 4 periods in a day and each period is 1 and a half hours long. a couple years back, the administration decided that they should change to an 8-period day instead of our usual 4-periods. when some of the leaders of our student body heard of this, they got together a very good petiton that was signed by most people in our school. because of this the board backed off. then this past year they tried doing it again. this time they succeded and thus made pretty much every student mad. but that wasn't the beginning, they tried to disguise it and sugar-coat it as much as possible by presenting to us several different schedules that sounded good. of these they included an 8-period schedule and a modified block schedule. they DID NOT AS FAR AS I KNOW offer a straight block schedule in any way shape or form. they first offered this to the student council who all voted for the modified block. they then took it to the teachers who, as far as i know, voted as a majority for the modified block. the administration said they would take these results into consideration for next years calender. As far as I'm concerned, however, they may has well just wraped up the results, tossed them in the trash, lit it on fire, then threw it in the river. they pretty much just went with a straight 8- period day instead of the modified block that mostly everyone thought would be better for everyone. that is the current source om most of my angst against the world.
Now, all due respect for the school board and the rest of the administration, because you guys are nice and all, but this was a pretty dick move on your part.
Oh and also, if you want to promote the positive behavior model thing, at least try to make us feel like you give a crap about our opinions
Where to begin with my school...
first of all is the fact that the administration doesn't give a f!@# about what any of the students, or even the frigging teachers have to say about anything. second, they try to make us think we have control over things with our student council, but they can't do s!@# and its not even their fault. third, they really messed up the schedule this year. fourth, they can't seem form a single logical thought inside their minds. fifth the punishment system is a giant thing of bulls!@#. sixth, they couldn't give less of a s!@# about failing people as long as they graduate. seventh, the grading scale is f!@#ed up. eighth, they listen to idealistic new teachers more than the wise and actually good older teachers who actually know how to teach their material. ninth, they try to force stupid, childish practices onto us. and tenth, they don't give us ANY time to actually do stuff in class that should be done.
and now, to ellaborate
1 and 8. most of my angst is comming from the fact that the entire schedusle this year is a massive slap to our faces in the way of us having even a lick of say in any matters at my school. to start off, some background... my school has been on the "block system" which is a system where we have 4 periods in a day and each period is 1 and a half hours long. a couple years back, the administration decided that they should change to an 8-period day instead of our usual 4-periods. when some of the leaders of our student body heard of this, they got together a very good petiton that was signed by most people in our school. because of this the board backed off. then this past year they tried doing it again. this time they succeded and thus made pretty much every student mad. but that wasn't the beginning, they tried to disguise it and sugar-coat it as much as possible by presenting to us several different schedules that sounded good. of these they included an 8-period schedule and a modified block schedule. they DID NOT AS FAR AS I KNOW offer a straight block schedule in any way shape or form. they first offered this to the student council who all voted for the modified block. they then took it to the teachers who, as far as i know, voted as a majority for the modified block. the administration said they would take these results into consideration for next years calender. As far as I'm concerned, however, they may has well just wraped up the results, tossed them in the trash, lit it on fire, then threw it in the river. they pretty much just went with a straight 8- period day instead of the modified block that mostly everyone thought would be better for everyone. that is the current source om most of my angst against the world.
Now, all due respect for the school board and the rest of the administration, because you guys are nice and all, but this was a pretty dick move on your part.
Oh and also, if you want to promote the positive behavior model thing, at least try to make us feel like you give a crap about our opinions
My high school had a strict lateness policy where if you were late more than three times in a month you lost your privileges for two months. This was a large magnet school in Philadelphia; literally thousands of us depended on mas transit to get to class. In December of that year there were three incidents that caused severe delays on the subway. Of the 700 seniors nearly 300 of us lost our privileges to these delays, and the school offered no sympathy. To make it worse, they cancelled our Valentine's Day dance because of "lack of interest" when in reality too few students were able to come.
In elemntary school, if something bad happened it was the Gr.6 boys who did it and would be punished for it immediatly until it was proven who really did it, and 95% of the time it was some hyperactive 3rd grader that had done similar stuff before.
Our school also did a "healthy food" thing but nobody cared and just went to th local convient store to buy stuff. Eventually the store got wise and jacked up the prices to the point where you could buy a 2L bottle of pop for cheaper than a 1L beacuse that was the size everyone bought.
in highschool we had one teacher that decided she did not want to teach our class. She would write on the white-board at the front of the class "Read pages _____ to ______, do questions ___ to ___ on page ___, ___ to ___ on page ____" and so on and so forth and her "teaching" would be to yell at us to focus on our work every 15 min or so. Rarely were any of these assignments ask for, small or large, and it got to the point where everyone would just discuss the question with each other and/or jot the answers down in quick point form. We would understand the material we just didn't want to write what we already knew in paragraph answers if we weren't going to get marks for our work.
Then randomly she would ask for them to be handed in and everyone would get horrible marks because we "didn't explain ourselves or didn't bother to answer at all" and that we "spend too much time screwing around and will all fail and yada yada yada". We would then tell her that we would like her to go over the material with us so we would understand and be able to asked questions and she would do that.... for about a day and then nothing.
Also, when report cards were close to coming out the teachers would hand us sheets that listed al the stuff we had gotten marked on and what we got on it so we could see if everything was handed in. Sometimes there were things that were marked as handed in AND had a mark on the sheet, but she would ask for it a few days later ro be marked which we couldn't because she hadn't givin them back yet. then she would yell at the student fo not completing the assignment. Even if we showed her the she sheet SHE HAD GIVIN US that it was handed in and marked she would just say that she didn't know where is was so whatever. Got 40% on that assignment even though you thought you did well and want to know what was wrong and what you were missing? too bad.
When it got really bad was when she gave us a massive assignment (I spent the entire class (1 1/2 hours), pluss my spare (another 1 1/2 hours), plus my entire time once i got home, minus a 15 min supper and a bathroom break until i finished it at about 11pm (so another 7hours or so)) that was "due" the next day. We handed it in and she gave us all top marks! I wish.
Never so much as mentioned the assignment again. When she began giving us a new project we asked her if she was going to take it in or go over it with us or SOMETHING! nope. Then the whole class freaked out (on the boarder of grabing torches and pitchforks) about how rediculous the whole thing was. She said fine, she would mark it. Which..... backfired a little because it was so much work only 3 of us had actually done it.
She was also the teacher assigned to help our class organize our gradution. There is a music festival near my hometown that a bunch of the local kids would get together and go see (not much of anything happens in my hometown so this event was a BIG deal), but for the past few years grad ended up being the same weekend as the festival. The year before i took note of the next year's date and told her at the beginning of the gr. 12 year that this was the weekend it was on and to NOT schedual grad for that weekend. I'll give you one guess which weekend she slapped it on. When I asked her about it she said that they had to co-ordinate the grads with other schools in the division so that they didn't conflict and that this was the weekend we got this year and it was too late to change.
We hated her and she hated us for the rest of the year.
And just before our grade 12 year the school division decided to do a big shuffle with the principles because the one in the next town over was retiring. They had a new guy, but did they just replace him? nope. The division decided to move ours (who was an excellent teacher, very fair, always made time for any problem for question and pretty much an all around good guy. not everyone liked him, but everyone had a world of respect for him) to replace the retired one, move another schools principle (who was pretty much the opposite) to us, move ANOTHER towns principle to replace him and put the new guy in the vacant spot. pretty much shattered my good hopes for that year in the first week and now i have his name signed on my diploma.
Our school also did a "healthy food" thing but nobody cared and just went to th local convient store to buy stuff. Eventually the store got wise and jacked up the prices to the point where you could buy a 2L bottle of pop for cheaper than a 1L beacuse that was the size everyone bought.
in highschool we had one teacher that decided she did not want to teach our class. She would write on the white-board at the front of the class "Read pages _____ to ______, do questions ___ to ___ on page ___, ___ to ___ on page ____" and so on and so forth and her "teaching" would be to yell at us to focus on our work every 15 min or so. Rarely were any of these assignments ask for, small or large, and it got to the point where everyone would just discuss the question with each other and/or jot the answers down in quick point form. We would understand the material we just didn't want to write what we already knew in paragraph answers if we weren't going to get marks for our work.
Then randomly she would ask for them to be handed in and everyone would get horrible marks because we "didn't explain ourselves or didn't bother to answer at all" and that we "spend too much time screwing around and will all fail and yada yada yada". We would then tell her that we would like her to go over the material with us so we would understand and be able to asked questions and she would do that.... for about a day and then nothing.
Also, when report cards were close to coming out the teachers would hand us sheets that listed al the stuff we had gotten marked on and what we got on it so we could see if everything was handed in. Sometimes there were things that were marked as handed in AND had a mark on the sheet, but she would ask for it a few days later ro be marked which we couldn't because she hadn't givin them back yet. then she would yell at the student fo not completing the assignment. Even if we showed her the she sheet SHE HAD GIVIN US that it was handed in and marked she would just say that she didn't know where is was so whatever. Got 40% on that assignment even though you thought you did well and want to know what was wrong and what you were missing? too bad.
When it got really bad was when she gave us a massive assignment (I spent the entire class (1 1/2 hours), pluss my spare (another 1 1/2 hours), plus my entire time once i got home, minus a 15 min supper and a bathroom break until i finished it at about 11pm (so another 7hours or so)) that was "due" the next day. We handed it in and she gave us all top marks! I wish.
Never so much as mentioned the assignment again. When she began giving us a new project we asked her if she was going to take it in or go over it with us or SOMETHING! nope. Then the whole class freaked out (on the boarder of grabing torches and pitchforks) about how rediculous the whole thing was. She said fine, she would mark it. Which..... backfired a little because it was so much work only 3 of us had actually done it.
She was also the teacher assigned to help our class organize our gradution. There is a music festival near my hometown that a bunch of the local kids would get together and go see (not much of anything happens in my hometown so this event was a BIG deal), but for the past few years grad ended up being the same weekend as the festival. The year before i took note of the next year's date and told her at the beginning of the gr. 12 year that this was the weekend it was on and to NOT schedual grad for that weekend. I'll give you one guess which weekend she slapped it on. When I asked her about it she said that they had to co-ordinate the grads with other schools in the division so that they didn't conflict and that this was the weekend we got this year and it was too late to change.
We hated her and she hated us for the rest of the year.
And just before our grade 12 year the school division decided to do a big shuffle with the principles because the one in the next town over was retiring. They had a new guy, but did they just replace him? nope. The division decided to move ours (who was an excellent teacher, very fair, always made time for any problem for question and pretty much an all around good guy. not everyone liked him, but everyone had a world of respect for him) to replace the retired one, move another schools principle (who was pretty much the opposite) to us, move ANOTHER towns principle to replace him and put the new guy in the vacant spot. pretty much shattered my good hopes for that year in the first week and now i have his name signed on my diploma.
It makes perfect sense to me, the complainers in the minority will always beat the majority in things like that. Why? Because people are idiots. 1 person out of 10,000 gets offended, stop the show shit got too real. Pisses me off.NinjaDeathSlap said:
my jr high had an effing dress code based around polo shirts, and basically only 3 colors, and now there are restrictions on pants, pockets, even bloody shoelaces! and everyone there basically smokes, stupid morons.
my high school was effing awesome, but there were stupid effing seniors my junior year that were let in through the stage crew ceiling entrance, and they painted 'grafitti' on the commons floor. they were all caught, like, the next day and they were kept from graduating regardless of their progress.
serves the arrogant dickweeds right.
my high school was effing awesome, but there were stupid effing seniors my junior year that were let in through the stage crew ceiling entrance, and they painted 'grafitti' on the commons floor. they were all caught, like, the next day and they were kept from graduating regardless of their progress.
serves the arrogant dickweeds right.
My school always started at 7. If it had started at 9, I don't think I would ever have been able to complain about anything.Jakub324 said:
On the other hand, the primary, middle, and high schools I attended all had had some bizarre rule against ever wearing hats. The rationale at each school was that it was to "prevent gang violence" because gangs were using hats to show allegiance. Except the city I grew up in didn't really have any gangs to speak of. I remember one administrator once suggesting that there was a "gang fight" at the high school about a decade before where one kid had a cap turned backwards and the other turned sideways, which the administration took to be a signal that they were in "different gangs". And they wouldn't ever answer the question as to why they needed to ban hats when they had already banned things that could be construed as a gang sign (parents brought this particular bit of weirdness up more or less every year). To make things even more absurd, parents complained about not being able to send kids to school with hats when it was cold out, so they instituted an exception such that, between two certain dates, beanies (and only beanies) were acceptable.
To make matters even stranger, some of the administrators didn't seem to care about the ban at all, yet upheld their own personal ban on wearing hats whenever there was a ceiling overhead (including the open-air halls). They would actually stand around in the morning for the express purpose of making sure no one wore hats inside.
And to make things even more ridiculous, I don't think I ever saw a single girl told to remove a hat, despite them wearing them with far more frequency.
In short, each of my schools had been in the throes of a headware-based moral panic for about the past two decades when I attended.
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.artanis_neravar said: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.Shakomaru said:Well...Blablahb said:
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*
My school seemed to think that not complaining abou he canteen food was bad. They changed hand about 4 times. They stopped changing when we started complaining about the quality of the food.
Seriously, it's like they didn't want us to spend anything there.
Seriously, it's like they didn't want us to spend anything there.
I'm guessing that nobody explained how that was supposed to work.Skullkid4187 said:
OT: I can really only think of two things from my elementary school, 1: the breakfasts, god help you if you were ever forced to eat breakfast at this school, for one they used some weird instant scrambled eggs that tasted like the concentrated essence of horribleness in a soft fluffy mass. For two they had these muffins you see, well the cafeteria people used them to make these Sausage McMuffin type deals, but most reasonable humans would've used them to make a fucking wall, since they were about as soft and edible as cinder blocks.
2: The Yard Duties (That's what we called the teachers who monitored everything during recess) did not even give half a fuck for any of us. This may be a bit tainted by bad memories (public school was not a happy place in that town), but I remember maybe one time when they stepped in to stop anything. All the other times it seemed that you would literally have to kill somebody for them to do shit.