Current Events > What weird bullshit did the school system pull on you in school?

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I changed schools between first and second grade.

I used to get in trouble pretty regularly in second grade. I'd finish my work ahead of other kids and distract them by talking to them. But I'd get in trouble for reading, quietly, to myself(I don't talk under my voice when reading so that wasn't it). Probably wound up in ISS like 25 times that grade for being a normal kid.

Then in third grade, pretty early on in the year, due to my penchant for catching on to material quick and finishing work early and distracting other kids, they made me sit in a desk, in the back corner of the room, marked off with red tape that I wasn't allowed to go outside of during normal class periods/teachings. Group project stuff I was allowed to participate in, but like 80% of the time or more I was stuck in like a 4' x 4' square, if even that big.

Things weren't so bad after that. Though I'm sure that two year patch in a key developmental time of growth did wonders for my social skills, considering I was already struggling socially due to a speech impediment, that I've mostly grown out of now.

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totalnerdken posted...

I have a feeling some Cemen won't believe this.

Nobody believes you. You're one of the most racist, bigoted Trump supporters on this board. Go away.

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They tried to force me and a friend to clap/cheer during pep rallies in the gym that the entire school was forced to attend. It was bullshit and they tried to give us Saturday school detention.

KLouD_KoNNeCteD posted...

They tried to force me and a friend to clap/cheer during pep rallies in the gym that the entire school was forced to attend. It was bullshit and they tried to give us Saturday school detention.

Lol I'd have sarcastically golf clapped after that.


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paid saturday school to make up absences...

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anyone else have a tucked in shirts rule at their schools.

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coolboy11 posted...

anyone else have a tucked in shirts rule at their schools.

ya. fucking sucked...

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my school system also never did D's as a grade so you had to stay in at least the 70 and up range to pass assignments/courses.

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D.A.R.E program

Everyone had to participate in various different activities to make sure we knew drugs were the opposite of fucking cool.

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coolboy11 posted...

anyone else have a tucked in shirts rule at their schools.

I'm not even certain we had a dress code outside of too short skirts or something.

Stopped by the elementary school one day when I was in high school, because my mom was substitute teaching there, and legit had kids strolling by in short shorts and I was like "what the fuck this is allowed?"

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I minded my business and had no issues.

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coolboy11 posted...

my school system also never did D's as a grade so you had to stay in at least the 70 and up range to pass assignments/courses.

I believe mine did as a grade but you still needed 70s/Cs and up to pass

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totalnerdken posted...

I have a feeling some Cemen won't believe this.

BUT, I grew up muslim. So when I was younger (in between grades 2-4), I went to a very conservative muslim school in Canada. It was mostly normal, just with added islamic studies and prayer. EXCEPT, I remember very vividly being kind of scared by this one guy who I thought was a random teacher (thinking back on it, I'm pretty sure he was the principal) who'd occasionally just interrupt our classes to do his own lecture. Or maybe it was planned, but that's not important.

One time, he showed us a very violent video of muslims getting slaughtered. I was super creeped out. But anyways, he said that this is how we were treated and how it's wrong to just attack people because of their religion. Kind of extreme but I guess the message is good, right?

Well, his lesson didn't end there. After a day or 2, he'd show us another video, this time it's of muslims going into other temples and slaughtering these people praying to statues. I don't remember the religion that the muslims were attacking. The teacher/principal basically said because these other people were praying to god in the wrong way, we had to follow gods instruction and kill them. They were sinners, so they had to die.

This teacher/principal was deranged af.

That's... fucking horrifying. Christ.

Closest I could come is when my Sunday School teachers wanted to discuss what Hell was like. Fear didn't work, ladies, I'm still a heathen athiest.

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Evening_Dragon posted...

That's... fucking horrifying. Christ.

Closest I could come is when my Sunday School teachers wanted to discuss what Hell was like. Fear didn't work, ladies, I'm still a heathen athiest.

You're responding to someone who has an entire discord server dedicated to posting the n-word and wishing for slavery to return. He's an alt of one of the most vile posters on this board, don't feed him.

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RebelElite791 posted...

You're responding to someone who has an entire discord server dedicated to posting the n-word and wishing for slavery to return. He's an alt of one of the most vile posters on this board, don't feed him.

I recognized the name, I just forgot what it was associated with. This is my alt, none of the tags are on.

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Evening_Dragon posted...

I recognized the name, I just forgot what it was associated with. This is my alt, none of the tags are on.

I think its supposed to be HypnoCoosh. Not though
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Gafemage posted...

I think its supposed to be HypnoCoosh. Not though

It's either him or SageHarpuia. Pretty interchangeably horrible

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They would make me attend.
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Boys couldnt have long hair, if your hair reached your eyebrows it was too long. Yet the teacher who was the boyfriend of the principal's daughter could have a ponytail and that was somehow fine.

If there is a hole in your pants no matter how small then you get sent back home to get propely dressed. Even for holes in the knee/legs

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samurai bandit posted...

If there is a hole in your pants no matter how small then you get sent back home to get propely dressed. Even for holes in the knee/legs

yep this started becoming a more common rule to follow. back then you could have holes in your pants within the knee and it be fine. it was after 2004 that it became standard.
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Zack_Attackv1 posted...

They would make me attend.

https://i.imgur.com/JhrPmjH.jpg

I got in trouble for saying school was just a weeding out for an employee pool, ie. administrative, techie, manager or service, you are one of those. big no-no

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first year in public school (5th grade), my teacher secretly tried to convince my mother to put me on adhd meds - that didn't happen thankfully

context: parents neglected to enroll me in the advanced program (i was in an equivalent at my private school before moving states) so i breezed through regular coursework, and simultaneously became hyperfocused on non-curricular things (creative writing, reading, chess) which my teacher wasn't fond of. teacher was also pissed off for some reason that i skipped recess in favor of staying in the classroom for the aforementioned activities.

speaking of which, before the stratification based on competence in the previous private school, i got detention for working well ahead of the rest of the class

not me, but in 1st grade i witnessed a student getting physically assaulted by a teacher at the private school. nothing was done about it. a few years later a couple other instructors got busted for sexually abusing students during the same timeframe.

4th grade teacher confiscated some classmates' mtg cards during recess for being "un-christian". was around the same time as the anti-pokemon hysteria. i'm not sure they ever got them back.

got written up in 5th grade for getting upset over a classmate stealing my **** in class

got written up or detention for telling a classmate to stop disturbing me in class - the reason: talking in class

dealt with bullying/harassment on the bus throughout middle school; towards the end of 8th grade i finally threw punches, and got suspended. administration temporarily confiscated my mp3 player.

got detention for printing "hundreds of pages" based on an false accusation by a dumb classmate. it was revoked when i contested and the teacher actually investigated the claim.

middle school honors band rejected otherwise qualified students from poor families that wouldn't be able to afford planned cross-country trips.

high school was pretty chill from a school system standpoint, with the exception of some teachers' bs grading policies (markdowns and giving me legitimately hostile attitude for doing work in my head though i've recently encountered evidence that the teacher in question may have just been racist, marking down writing for "lacking voice" and other frivolous criteria, etc.)

complaints by other students in high school: a teacher that practiced sexist grading; another teacher that was notorious for pervy behavior around the girls in his class. in recent years there was an actual shooting (nobody was harmed) and the administration unsuccessfully attempted to cover it up.

younger brother was suspended for disputing the claim that teachers aren't well-paid and citing actual figures.

college was pretty alright, way less bs than high school, though there was one bizarre course in software design patterns. the details escape me, but the department audited the course and concluded it was impossible to get all the answers correct on tests in the class. bizarre and universally incomprehensible lectures on top of that. nobody really knew what was going on in that class. professor in question wrote me a nice recommendation letter though.

not bs, but one of the programming professors was a world class scatterbrain. went off on a lengthy tangent on "eenie meenie miney mo" and its racist origins while explaining an algorithm. a peer in a later class recalled how the professor had once gone off on a tangent that culminated in him explaining in great detail to the class how it was anatomically possible to have sex with a horse. his official website resembles a crazy man's geocities website.

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In 5th or 6th grade I was placed in a group with other troublesome kids. We had meetings in the teacher's lounge, and once in a while I'd have personal time with a counselor. I never knew why I was in there since there was nothing wrong with me. In comparison the other kids I was surrounded by were known to be loud, violent, heavily behind on homework, or disrupting classes. I usually kept to myself and only had about 3 friends in class. At least half of the others hated me for unknown reasons and often taunted and teased me during class. It's what led to me seeking out friends in other grades. Of the 3 friends I mentioned one of them turned on me in Grade 6 and became worse than all the others combined. The teachers were oblivious to how they treated me.

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In 7th grade they made all the guys take woodshop and drafting and all the girls take home ec, so unfair, that's why I've never learned to bake..

I went to a military school. I had to stand in formation, do drill practice, march in school parades, shine my shoes, and all of that fun JROTC stuff.


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I changed schools in junior year, and after 2 months went back to my old county but a different school.
Amongst those transitions all my records got misplaced and i just miraculously lost a whole years worth of credits

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Getting ISS for being five minutes late three times. The punishment for being late and missing class time was to take me out of all my classes for the whole day

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Despite great grades, I failed a semester of classes due to attendance. I even made a perfect score on one of the state exams but that didn't matter. Luckily, I was able to make it up the next semester. They pulled me out of a computer class where I might have learned something useful and put me in the make-up "class." It consisted entirely of learning modules on a laptop where you read up on a subject, then took a test on what you read.

Not only did I already know all the info since I'd actually passed the classes, the tests were laughably easy. I think I finished all of them in a month or two. So for the rest of the semester, my first period consisted of watching the Monster anime on DailyMotion.

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ISS?

Secondary School was awful due to teachers always letting bullies get away with it/siding with them even if they physically assaulted you and then the teachers blaming you for it because of who you are.

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spikethedevil posted...

ISS?

In-School Suspension

I dunno if this is universally how it's done, but it was just a day spent in complete silence in an isolated classroom where you worked on whatever bullshit your teachers sent you.

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That permenant records shit where they made out that if you step outta line your whole life is gonna be fucked over

lol tbh i feel that a lot of teachers just get off on being in a position of power

spikethedevil posted...

ISS

If you're late they send you to the International Space Station.

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I went to a Catholic grade school and when we where in 2nd Grade they banned Pokmon cards from school.

We had a table in the lunchroom where we had to put our recess toys while we were eating. Some kid foolishly put down his deck of Pokmon cards on the table. This nun named Sister Mary-Elizabeth eyes the cards like a hawk, sprints over to the table with the speed of a cheetah, and snatches his deck with the speed of a cobra strike.

WHOS POGEYMAN CARDS ARE THESE!?!?, she screamed.

....m-mine maam, the kid sheepishly replied.

WELL THEY'RE MINE NOW!!
*proceeds to violently throw the deck of cards into her nun robe*

*kid proceeds to sit back down at the lunch table sobbing hysterically*

bknight posted...

home ec

doesn't seem so gender based if it's just cooking/baking. it's a skill everyone needs to learn.
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CellBlock7 posted...

D.A.R.E program

Everyone had to participate in various different activities to make sure we knew drugs were the opposite of fucking cool.

Good for them. Hope it worked.

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If post #2 was even remotely true it would have been on the news.

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coolboy11 posted...

anyone else have a tucked in shirts rule at their schools.

We did at the Christian school I went to for 2 years. Every Wednesday we had pretty much a church service that they made us dress up for. It sucked, and I hated having to dress up just for that. We eventually found a loophole and were able to wear sweaters without needing to tuck them in. I wore them every Wednesday after that, lol.
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coolboy11 posted...

my school system also never did D's as a grade so you had to stay in at least the 70 and up range to pass assignments/courses.

it was like that for me in elementary school, then when my family moved and I went to a different school system I was shocked that a D was passing, a D to me might as well be an F but there were some people that were like "yeah I got a D I passed!" and I'm like wtf

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Made me turn my shirt inside out so many times. Extremely frustrating.

Having one pant leg up became banned, back when LL was making it popular.

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We had this administrator dick who was basically the next step down from vice principal and he suspended my account over a weekend because of an email that was sent to me that I didn't even open or see.

The subject line was "(homophobic slur in all caps) wants your dick." The girl who sent it to me did not actually mean it as a slur. A mutual friend of ours literally has that as his actual initials >_>. She sent it at the very end of the day on a Friday. I had signed myself out earlier for a doc appointment which the office had record of, so between that record and the email time stamp, the douche administrator had all the information he needed to determine that it would have been impossible for me to have read it, as my account was already suspended when I showed up Monday morning.

I was pretty pissed off and I told him that I had plenty of private emails so I wanted the school email program completely removed from my account because it was voyeuristic of him to read my received emails before I could. He said "well you could just use it appropriately" and I was like "what part of 'I didn't send the email and didn't even read it or know it existed' are you not understanding? If I was gonna do inappropriate stuff, I wouldn't use the school email... and in fact I don't really use it anyway because I have my own email addresses."

He didn't end up deleting the program but he had to restore my account immediately after the meeting because he knew he was completely in the wrong.

Funny thing is, I was hardly innocent. The only reason he was in my email was because I also got a bunch of bulk spam messages, sent by 3 freshmen in a CAD class I was taking. I actually showed them how to do it and sent all of them spam from the accounts of the others first. This crashed the entire school server. They got their accounts suspended too but since I never sent anything from my account, the admin had nothing on me, so I was restored but the 3 freshmen had to wait weeks to get their accounts back >_>
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RebelElite791 posted...

Nobody believes you. You're one of the most racist, bigoted Trump supporters on this board. Go away.

so many insults. Why are people like rebel immune to moderations? If I called someone half of these names I'd get sent to purg and I'd get a bunch of cutesy passive-aggressive notes with the moderation.

coolboy11 posted...

my school system also never did D's as a grade

I should bloody well hope not.

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Nothing too bad for me personally, although my school was crazy sometimes for others. One time in highschool, my bag got searched because someone brought bullets to school. Some teacher found them and later that week we were called down to the auditorium and each of us were called in one by one to the office. I thought they'd just dump our stuff right on the desk but they just did a half-ass search. Also when they were done I missed most of my lunch, and scarfed a pizza down my throat in about two minutes.

Turns out later that it was an absolute waste of time for my class to get called down because our class was after the teacher found the bullets.

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