Has/did your school ever pull a dick move?

[HazzaH]

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.

Ugh, I know right? Sure, every nation has its pet sport, but when it gets to the point where it obscures EVERYTHING else you know it's time to be worried.
I work for a library and we're supposed to be promoting the world cup, comic book month, a heritage festival and some poetry thing. Guess which one's taking up all our time and resources?

 

[tthor]

since art, literature, and free thought are all apparently evil and of the devil, my principal/vice principal had been pulling a bunch of dick moves the end of last year.

First, they refused to allow the shamans to come talk at World Religions class (simply because some christian fundamentalist called the school and complained), and are now policing the class and will only let the teacher teach what the principal wants taught (probably to make sure nothing non-christian is spoken about)

Second, tho they failed in their attempt to cut the class entirely, they still severely bastardized the student-run school paper, (the teacher thinks its because they're afraid of the freedom of speech that could be used to talk bad about school policies etc)

and third, they cut the Film/TV Appreciation class from 1 semester to 1 quarter. This class may sound like a joke class(which was what i thought before I took it), but its not. It is one of the best classes I've ever taken, and I learned more from that class than most other classes I've ever taken. In the class we studied film, talked a lot about many film-making and storywriting techniques, studied some of the best films in history, and even wrote our own movie script using what we learned. I learn so much from that class, even beyond just film and writing. Even with a full semester, there was still a TON of stuff we weren't able to get to to learn about. with only 1 quarter, idk how the hell they are going to get through much of the curriculum in such a short time. God I'm glad I took the class before this, and thank god I graduated.

You know what, I think I'm gonna go egg my old principal's+vice principal's houses..

 

[ultimateownage]

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.

I had both of those, but to a lesser extent. This year, the bad food has been replaced by a new caterer (Not tried them yet, but the leaflet used the word 'healthy' every other fucking sentence so it can't be good) and made us use some shitty bank thing we stick our money on instead of change. As for the second, instead of 5 60 minutes lessons p/day and 1 60 minute lesson after school (for our chemistry lesson in triple science) on Wednesday we have 6 50 minutes lessons and no after school lesson. Safe to say I have more than 5 lessons I'm doing for my GCSEs, so for some lessons (like the pointless PE we get nothing for) we get 40 or more extra minutes but for a lot we lose half an hour. Can you see why this is stupid? Not only is it bad for people who didn't take long-course science (triple science) because they now have more science lessons, the people who DID take long-course have it worse too because we still get 6 lessons of it a week it's just that all of them are squished into 50 minutes instead of having 60 minute ones and having the last one after school.
It's really fucking ridiculous.

Also, as for removing some lunch time, most of our lessons go way into lunch and they seem to be actively trying to ring the bell as early as they can. It SHOULD be that lunch is between 1:15 and 2:00, but these days it's more like 1:20 and 1:45-50. Not many people keep track of the time, so it fucking works.

 

[TAGM]

Well, let's see...

Our music teacher was almost at retirement age, but she was promised her job. She was planning to just cut back a little on what she was doing, but continue doing the A2 course I'm on this year.

The collage went and advertised her job behind her back, after promising her that she would keep it. They forced us to go through 4 possible teachers - all of whom had never taken an A2 course before - on the last music lesson of the year. We all said they were not up to standard. The old teacher's been replaced anyway.

I had half a mind to just quit the music course outright from the shear princible. I mean, seriously, to just advertise someone's job as free even as they're doing it and you promised them they would keep it is just a dick move. And more over, they wanted her to judge the teachers that might well have replaced her. Unbiasly, of course. Because, you know, THAT'S possible when the people you're judging might replace you...

 

[Scarim Coral]

My High School did two annoying things-

1. During lunch time we are allow to head to the two nearby convient stores and a chip shop to get our lunch. However due to a increase litter problem they had ban all years except for sixth formers from going there. I however was starting my sixth form year when they created the ban so it didn't affect me that much (I just felt sorry for those couldn't go there during lunch).
Before you ask, no the stores didn't close down due to lost of sales as when school time was over it had got very busy from the kid heading there after school.
2. As a Sixth former we all got different lessons at different time so we got some breaks period. This is great as we can just chill out (listen to music and read my games magazines). The sixth former head techer took notice of this and ban us from relaxing during break as it make us lazy. They decided to force us to be proactive during out breaks so we were force to do our homeworks or school related activity. Ok sure I had use this time to do extra work in my D&T and Art lessons but I have my chill out time anytime anywhere.

EDIT-I just remember we used to had game Quake install in the pc until they decided to remove it (this was during my bro time at high school so I never got to play it). They did this again when every computer were install with this game fill with hundred of mini games which were fun to play in the Library during lunch time.

 

[SammiYin]

Mine once tried to throw us the "healthy" option and replaced biscuits with this weird, apple-crisp things. I think it was real apples turned into a crispy chunk or something. It was funking vile. I had a small mouthful and nearly threw up, that's how bad they were.

Also my school blocked pretty much every website that wasn't Wikipedia and Google.

 

[DannyHale09]

In drama I did not pack away my costume and just left it in the changing room and some other girl went and put it somewhere and lost it.
And I had to replace it even though if she would not have touched it it would not have moved. Eurgh!
Apparently if I did not pack it away then -anything- that happens to it is my fault -exact quote-

So if I left it out and somebody straight up cut it to pieces..that was my fault.

 

[Pegghead]

Recently I got back from a two week...pilgrimage, to Madrid for World Youth Day (which was organised by the school for a group of interested students, Catholic school and it was worth every cent). When I get back I find that pretty soon after I left my English class began:

a) Watching and analysing a film adaptation of Macbeth (this one)

b)Preparing to write an essay that basically compared and cross-analysed the play and the film

When I got back I was told that not only were the WYD boys getting an extension of about a week (fair, right) but also that we would be doing something that didn't involve this film that we hadn't seen. This week we were told that not only would we be doing this thing in-class on the same day as everyone else (they gave the entire class a two day extension, this friday went to this monday) but that we'd also be doing the exact same essay, meaning we gotta cobble together an understanding of some key points of this movie (which I managed to get onto USB in one lesson), write an essay without any of the in-class notes to go off, memorise it then write it all down again. Bit of a dick move, but compared to some of these stories I feel blessed.

But funny story, about two years ago they got in a dick of a new vice-principal (the old one was a really nice guy, the VP's a regular vp but the headmaster's a Brother) who's done nothing but enforce crappy decisions and call together assemblies and other scare-raisers at the drop of a hat for his entire time here. His instrument of this reign is the PA system (another thing he abuses the fuck out of) and today some clever clog knicked his microphone, hid somewhere and made cat noises that broadcast across the school (and it was hilarious hearing the VP try to plea with the guy over a seperate mic).

 

[boyvirgo666]

My programming teacherjust up and quit 5 minutes before class and alot of people were screwed out of A grades because he didnt register big chunks of our work. i was one of them. Luckily the replacement teacher was cool about it and Gave us alternate work to fix it but even he claimed the class was boned because we hadnt learned much from the douche-teacher and we were really far behind, he had no time to fix this but the school refused to refund students and just said "well you can take tutoring in your free time or sit in on other classes if you like." which wasnt the point obviously.

 

[Epicspoon]

My school, when I was younger, always took the side of the people who bullied me so they wouldn't have to do any work. Even when I was badly beat up. Twice.

Interesting thing about. I got sucker punched in the back of the head by the school bully and proceeded to kick his ass in front of the entire school. I didn't get in trouble and he lost all of his friends when they realized what a wuss he really was. The next day he ate lunch in the bathroom and was hated by everybody who knew his name minus his family for the rest of his school life when they realized he was a poser due to it.

My parents never found out despite the fact that the fight was broken up by the vice principal who had assured the principal he WOULD inform my mom. The guy basically risked his job just so I wouldn't get punished by my mom for self defense. awesome. oh and the school didn't even put me in detention immediately afterwards. to this day it remains probably my favorite moment in life.

 

[tharglet]

And they wanted to remove the deep fryers from the teaching kitchen. WORST. PLAN. EVER. Simply pretending deep fryers don't exist won't make people not make fried food. This is a TEACHING kitchen, the kids need to learn how to use them, SAFELY. Because when they go out into the world, how the hell will they learn to use them?

Umm, from the instruction manual or t'interwebs? Don't know of a school in the UK that has them lol ^^.

 

[boyvirgo666]

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.

Well the USA has a very fun college system that forces that to happen, see Regional Accredidation is what most community and Universities run on, this system is controlled by said colleges. Now this seems like a conflict of interest to you? well its not, I mean they only have the students best interests at heart and would never price gouge, use shoddy equipment, underpay teachers, and under staff schools to the point that there is no sitting room in general ed classes that no respectable major should have to take anyway BECAUSE YOU F&#^ING ALREADY TOOK THEM IN HIGH SCHOOL! WHY THE HELL SHOULD I TAKE HEALTH AND PSYCHOLOGY! IM A GOD DAMNED ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING MAJOR! WHY IN THE NAME OF THE GREAT GODS OF NOWHERE IS THAT POINTLESS SPEECH CLASS STANDING ROOM ONLY BUT MY DIGITAL ELECTRONICS COURSE IS USING EQUIPMENT FROM THE 80S!*pants and looks around* sorry sorry mask slipped. those schools have only the deepest respect for us students and want nothing more for us to succeed.

The main issue is the US education system is collapsing because of the hatred of tech schools(which generally have better curriculum's aimed towards having you be ready to work in your degree and not force you to be 'well rounded'). A system that ensures that the colleges have no oversight except in the loosest terms, no government overwatch on student loans which force them to become incredibly high because the owners of the schools need money for..i dont know go carts or whatever. And generally not caring anymore. Students these days have no rights to change it either, if you complain they can throw you out(which i have seen happen on several occasions) or they will just ignore you to death.

Im going to an ITT tech now which is one of the horribly demonized tech schools in america after going to UCLA for a year. in the 6 months at ITT im much happier with work that actually feels like work and not busywork that has no meaning and iv learned alot about my field in ways i did not at community college and university. I wish i could get all my money back from those other schools but i live with my horrible student debt.

Edit: Man i really need to work on my grammar but the escaping forums for some reason doesnt acknowledge some of my keystrokes so i have to keep backspacing at random to fix them because clicking is for pussies and it makes me stop caring.

 

[tharglet]

In my primary school I got in trouble for.... needing the bathroom.
I ended up in the habit of needing a pee during reading time after lunch, wasn't deliberate, just the way my body worked. I wouldn't be gone for long or anything, and I didn't really disturb anyone that much (especially considering that sometimes that there'd be someone doing reading aloud with the teacher). One time the teacher sent me to the head who said I should go at lunchtime... which I would've done if I needed to pee then.

My mum told off the head for that. She wasn't impressed.

At uni, one of the lecturers screwed me over. Her assignment just said she wanted the code for the program, so I handed in some commented code.
A few weeks go by, and we get the marks. I get a really terrible mark, so I go ask her why, and she explains that she wanted like a documentation of the process we went through to write the code. I explained she didn't ask for that, so I didn't think to do it, but if she gave me a week or so I'd happily do it for her. She just said that I should have known to do it (wtf?) and she wasn't going to let me redo the coursework :/.
Prolly could've got the lecturer in trouble if I could've been bothered to - cos she was basically ignoring a "condition" I have that makes me think like that - but I was already in a bad place, so didn't want the stress of doing that -.- She'd deserved it though... cos she wouldn't even let me make amends or gave a monkies.

 

[Gnarynhar]

In drama I did not pack away my costume and just left it in the changing room and some other girl went and put it somewhere and lost it.
And I had to replace it even though if she would not have touched it it would not have moved. Eurgh!

That's not a dick move, that's punishing you for being terminally lazy and not doing what you should have done in the first place.

Apparently if I did not pack it away then -anything- that happens to it is my fault -exact quote-

So if I left it out and somebody straight up cut it to pieces..that was my fault.

Partially, yes. Just like if you left your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition with the door open in public, it could be considered your fault for having it stolen.

 

[Matt East]

I had a breakdown and tried to kill a kid who'd been giving me shit for 4 years, they sent me to a 6 month reform school and said that when I finished that they'd take me back, then didn't, does that count?

 

[Niels Van Hellemont]

They screwed me over just yesterday.

I recently graduated as a bachelor Office Management - Human Resources and I'm going to start an extra education in Human Resources. Yesterday they announced that I need to follow a crash course in HRM because I have no knowledge of the subject.

So,after 3 years of education (and good grades) I am apparently clueless.

I now have to follow a 40 hour crash course, ending my vacation almost 2 weeks earlier.

*EDIT* just heard on the radio that a teacher is taking a student to court trying to fine him for turning up the volume on a class computer.

 

[Kingshadow6]

My school decided to start construction of a second gym right next to the first one. The problem is, the gym is already in the corner of the campus, and that's where about 2/3 of the lockers are. To get to your locker, you need to go through the parking lot, around the cafeteria, around one of the buildings, across the soccer field, across the football field, across the track circuit, around the swimming pool, and down into an alley in between the baseball field and the gym. Then to get back to campus, you need to do all of that in reverse. Now try having 2/3 of the 1600 students all attempting to do all of this at the same time. The worst part is, if the construction workers had put a fence up LITERALLY 4 feet shorter than they did, we could just walk straight up to the lockers from campus.

Other than that, every time we have an assembly (thankfully only like 10 times a year), we have a 5 minute lunch. Then it's back to classes. That isn't a typo. 5 minutes. They expect that to be enough time to get food, eat food, get books and get to class. Thanks to the above problem, it takes longer than that just to get to the lockers 1-way.

Back at my old primary school, I hear they recently disallowed kickball during recess and lunch after 1 too many kids got beaned, same with 4 square. Tag is long gone, along with anything fun like dodgeball. There really isn't anything that you CAN do during those times, since all the other sports got cancelled so they could build a new building (started 2003, finished never, due to budget cuts) and tore up all the fields in order to build it. Oh, and during PE we used to play a game kind of like dodgeball with yarn balls that nobody could possibly get hurt with, that was fun, until it got axed because it "simulated dangerous acts". What the hell?

 

[Jakub324]

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.

My school had the shortest lunch period and longest school day in the district. Pissed me off. Also, when our rivalry with another school got "cancelled" because our new principal used to teach there, our softball coaches held a protest, cancelled all of their classes to sit and sing fight songs in the main foyer.

How the fuck do you "cancel" a rivalry? Your principal is a wanker.

 

[PAGEToap44]

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


that isn't even near the worst that i have seen, just something i looked up quick on youtube

sure the padding does help take away any of the bone breaking sharpness of the hit, but your momentum is still getting rocked to hell and back inside that padding.

just saying.

I'm just gonna post this wee video here...
I loved being forced to play this game at school. Great fun.

OT. I can't think of too much my school has done badly, reading some of these other posts. I had a good time at school in comparison.

 

[w1ndscar]

My old highschool doesnt allow bookbags. try explaining that one to me.