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[@kctoygacha5069]

We couldn't use the bathroom 2 hours before or after the recess (Because "Wait till recess/ you should have gone in recess") We only had 20 minutes of recess, a store with a VERY long line and one bathroom for 700 students, It was almost imposible. So we started using the teacher's bathroom. The staff thought that closing the teachers bathroom during recess was the best way to keep students of using them. So now the teaches had to also use our bathrooms if ther wanted to go during recess. The rule didn't last much longer after that.

[@BlazeMisty]

So glad I was homeschooled

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

That's dumb if I was in that school in still using the bathroom

[@thelegendarymatt]

Bro 20 minutes of recess? You lucky I only had 15

[@Cosmik60]

@@BlazeMisty me too son

[@bagofcoolness]

woaaa

[@kolsen6330]

In the 1970s, my high school admin annoyed a couple of girls with their stupid parking rules. Banned the two girls from parking their cars on school property for 3 months. The girls found out that Washington law (its still on the books) says that if a student rides a horse to school that the school has to provide covered shelter, hay and water for the animals. They rode their horses in and gave the principal a copy of the state law, then told him they expected to see their horses fed and watered within the hour. The janitor had to go to the farm store for hay and a water tub. (And a poop shovel.) The school quickly caved about their parking suspension.

[@SH-qs7ee]

Respect, just pure respect!

[@efulmer8675]

NEVER mess with the horse girls!

[@gfg758]

Damn I love that LOL XD

[@ladvargleinad7566]

That sounds like something from a Donald Duck comic. Now we know where the writers gets their ideas from.

[@N0v4.fr05t.]

Absolute madlad.

[@seannemo8076]

My brother’s high school was scared of a school shooting, so they forbade backpacks… But the girls were still allowed purses. Many of the girls would carry ‘purses’ large enough for all of their books… And then my brother started carrying a satchel for _his_ books. When they questioned him, he just said “It’s my ‘man-purse’”.

[@coolcraft69420]

My school also doesn’t let us bring our backpack to class (They say it’s because backpacks are a “tripping hazard”, but it’s clearly because they are afraid of a school shooting). I’ve seen a lot of girls carrying around bags and they’ve never gotten in trouble for it. I’m a girl but I don’t have a bag or anything to carry my stuff to class with, so it’s very annoying carrying a shit ton of stuff from class to class. I’ve lost stuff a few times cuz some of my books slip out of my arms.

[@HereAndOhSoQueer]

@@fdsphone6854 they just said they don't have a bag though

[@0just_a_no_one0]

@@fdsphone6854 Did you even read their comment? They said bags aren’t allowed. Also, did you mean *sigh*? LMAO

[@rivervanderfeen3345]

I mean, when I was in high school, I'm pretty sure there was a policy on backpacks I'm classes, so I had to use a laptop bag to carry all my school books, as well as my school issued craptop (the things were always shit, hence, craptop), and, I would like to note, the school bag, is the only bag I have ever owned, that has managed to last longer than a year without showing some level of wear and tear. So, naturally, my laptop bags would eventually fall apart, and I just started carrying my backpack to class. Not like the teachers ever did anything about it though. Kinda like one place I was at that had a sort of "all or nothing" policy on moustaches, you either had a full moustache, or you where clean shaven. I was trying to grow a moustache, so when I was called up on it (they checked weekly, and had a policy where, if you got called up on not meeting the dress code, youd have a week to fix it, if it was still a problem, you'd get "disciplinary action"), I would do nothing, then the next week someone else would check, and say nothing, so I was in the clear. Not enough people cared enough to cause much impact.

[@undeadladybug7723]

Your brother's a legend.

[@jeffreymeeks4051]

The "Punish the many for the sins of a few" punishment NEVER works! Not only does it create anger and tension between the one who disobeyed and the rest of the group, it does not build up or strengthen unity like the idiotic teacher/boss would have you believe it would.

[@seantaggart7382]

Indeed I'd make a example out of them I'd say "what did these people do wrong?" And have the others decide

[@skootergirl22]

Everything is a sin

[@joshuajordan4080]

It's also a war crime

[@jeffreymeeks4051]

@Joshua Jordan Not really no. Just a major inconvenience and annoyance.

[@joshuajordan4080]

@Walead Stories Have the bot read the entire post and its comments, not just the title.

[@zoeg.232]

We werent allowed to wear hats or tank tops, which was stupid because we were in FLORIDA. But I remember I wore a cap (i didnt know it was part of the dress code, and it was extremely hot that day) and the vice principal came and slapped it off of my head and just said "no hats allowed". Another time, I wore a tank top (it had wider sleeves than usual, so my parents didnt think it'd be a problem, once again, it was very hot outside, around 95 degrees F.) and they said I wasnt allowed to wear it, so they gave me a JACKET to cover myself. I was in a warm jacket sweating to death in recess and almost got dehydrated because of it. I hated that school man.

[@Vexxy197]

I would just throw the jacket away in front of them

[@GodOfTheJGCU]

@swag and get expelled afterwards

[@Vexxy197]

@@GodOfTheJGCU yea. I wouldn’t care

[@Starnite_]

i would have prolly tried my best to pass out and get sent to the hospital, cause then you can go legally with negligence. which would also help surrounding schools not do that

[@blazethecat363]

hope your parents sued the school for child endangerment

[@mindlessmeat4055]

I worked tech support for cell carrier many years ago. From on high a rule came down to the effect of "Make sure every customer is satisfied with our service". We tried to get clarification on what that meant, but my manager just read that single sentence email again to us. You would not believe how satisfied with our service people are when they get free expensive phones.

[@kh6853]

Perfect

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

Nice

[@RavenLordOfficials]

In highschool, we were told from the beginning that if a fight was going on and we were caught watching it, we would get suspended along with the people fighting. So when a fight went down one person would shout something to let everyone know there was a fight going down and we would swarm around the fight and literally overwhelmed the officers and principal to the point where we could've jumped them if we wanted to and they wouldn't be able to do anything about it

[@seantaggart7382]

That's not reasonable For me if i saw a fight id try to break it up! But knowing my strength I'd be beaten senseless

[@CarCorSnoAllen]

@@seantaggart7382 that’s not the point of the story, because if you tried to “stop the fight” in this scenario, you would’ve been suspended too

[@seantaggart7382]

@@CarCorSnoAllen Heh Maybe I just found the right schools

[@k.kgacha]

Exactly what happened at my high school lol

[@RavenLordOfficials]

@Walead Stories feedback on what, bro?

[@my.fav.no..is.12.point.9]

Didn’t quite backfire, but my old primary school had this rule that you can’t speak a different language no matter what. My primary school was a public multicultural school in Sydney and a lot of people spoke different languages. There was also Hindi classes and Farsi/Iranian/Persian (the language I speak) classes. Apparently the rule was because some kids suspected the other kids were talking crap about them in another language. It backfired because of those classes; we didn’t speak anything but English whatsoever. It was hilarious as a second grader to see all the frustration in those teachers when they tried to teach us how to write in Persian if we didn’t even speak it in that class. Rule was quickly changed.

[@zombieslayer1468]

also most schools like anywhere teach multiple languages

[@my.fav.no..is.12.point.9]

@@zombieslayer1468 fr.

[@BlackScreen401]

Alright, so my teacher lived on a street that her kids and neighbor's kids would play on, and cars would speed down the road, so they would put two orange cones on either side to warn cars. It was getting tiring, so she went to city council to request a speed bump of sign. They said it was too expensive.they said they would raise the money, town council still said no. Cut forward a few years, and someone from the council moved onto that street,and obviously they wanted their kids to be safe. BOTH the speed bump AND the sign were implemented within a week. BTW no kids were ever hurt. TL;DR: Cars would speed down my teachers road with kids on it,went to city council, got rejected, member of the city council moves in, speed bump and sign were there in a week

[@skootergirl22]

Ironic

[@0just_a_no_one0]

They literally only care about themselves

[@conlon4332]

By the way, TL;DRs only work if they're in a new paragraph. Otherwise it's not very obvious, and someone who doesn't want to read it all will just see the wall of text and go, without noticing there was a summary. I don't mean this as a criticism, but just like so you know.

[@0just_a_no_one0]

@@conlon4332 Yessir

[@BlackScreen401]

@conlon4332 Thanks bro!

[@NobodyDungeons]

I was that kid who threw the bully through a window except in my case I broke his nose, arm, two ribs, and a concussion. Safe to say that rule didn’t last very long after I did all that bare handed.

[@seantaggart7382]

You'd be fine to me even if you are zero tolerance Id Make a rule saying There's ZERO tolerance for bullying But you are allowed to defend yourself! Provided you're not like Trying to Break bones or such Knocking them out is fair

[@NobodyDungeons]

@@seantaggart7382 Yeah not in my middle school tearing the crap out of him was my only option.

[@seantaggart7382]

@@NobodyDungeons eh oh well

[@kosuzumotoori]

You're based

[@NobodyDungeons]

@@seantaggart7382 Yeah no running away would have gotten me in trouble anyways so. Also, everyone in my middle school was there because they couldn’t function in normal school.

[@elizabethharris1851]

"No physical contact is allowed at such and such middle school". My younger brother experienced this, not me. The principal came up with this rule. I understand rules against touching other kids sexually, but literally no form of physical contact was allowed. Not even high fives. As you can expect no one followed the rule and none of the teachers really inforced it because they thought it was a stupid rule too. My brother high fived a friend right in front of the principal as a form of rebellion and ran off. They didn't get caught. My brother had since moved on to highschool so I have no idea if the rule has changed or not.

[@-._youknow_.-]

The school was being too strict on the female attending about their skirts, keep in mind, the girls at our school, most of them anyway, wear the correct dress code, it’s just if they sit down or bend over a current way the skirt rises, making it too short. The teachers and staff would HUMILIATE the girls, some going as far as calling them sluts or sex-whores. At that point we’ve had enough of the harassment. So me a guy, gathered AS MANY BOYS AS I COULD, in the school bathroom (the meeting of students room) and we devised a plan. On Monday, January 12th, 2019, me and over half the school boys walked into the school as one, wearing the shortest skirts we could get our hands on, yes we had on boxers. The school could do NOTHING. Due to there being no LEGITIMATE rule saying boys couldn’t. After that the school stopped getting onto the girls on their shirts being, “too short”. Don’t regret a thing.

[@Under-the-stars11]

You and those other boys are legends

[@lefroste6370]

sounds completely made up

[@Under-the-stars11]

@@lefroste6370 Frick you.

[@-._youknow_.-]

@@lefroste6370 well, it’s one of those things where you had to be there to believe

[@youraverageanxiouscommente2756]

​@@lefroste6370 theres actually been a few similar stories to this. It's really not that far fetched

[@MrUndersolo]

We had a principal who did not punish the worst students. Instead, he once bought a group of them pizza (and this after a school trip had to be canceled because of them). You can imagine how that went down with the rest of us.

[@bagofcoolness]

i get grouped with the idiots but not thos type, wow

[@Pascella]

@@paddythelegend1671 How do you know? There are people like this, I’m assuming the principal tried to “reform” the kids.

[@syrusangi8743]

Why do some adults think they have to be friends with kids n expect they'll listen to them for it like dude, it's not like they would even listen to their ACTUAL friend a lot like that so why do u tjink they'll take u seriously? Not to say that they should be tyrannical assholes that abuse their authority but it helps to be firm n assert ur power when warranted

[@Pascella]

@@syrusangi8743 Exactly. It’s okay to be “friends” but only taking a nice approach will not work all the time.

[@Pascella]

@Walead Stories What? What do you mean?

[@Pae22]

When I was in high school our principal was a creep and this school had a uniform the girls uniforms were highly uncomfortable the skirts were really short and if you came with shorts or pants under you had to take them off because it was “against dress code” after multiple girls complained the principal was fired and after he was fired a bunch of girls came out saying he tried to pay them to have s3x with him he was also arrested since we were minors it was a crazy thing that happens in the school after that incident the uniform priority was cancelled and you could just wear why you want

[@tentenhyuga4832]

Male and female pedos can and will hide anywhere as to sexual assault or harass young kids

[@IloveEnmu-Tamio]

ew wtf

[@KamiNoBaka1]

I mean even if they weren't minors, soliciting prostitution is a crime in most places, so he could still go to jail... It's definitely worse with them being minors, though.

[@feodorawicked5014]

When I was in middle school, we had a rule about how you could put your school assigned laptop in your locker, because it could break. Okay, makes sense. But, they then decided that you needed to put it in your locker room locker while in gym, because of 'theft'. Because someone is completly going to steal something that everyone else already has, and is trackable, from a room with cameras outside to catch smokers. However, problem is that they never told anyone about it. So, gym teachers would go through the locker rooms all throughout Gym and take any PLD's on the benches, even digging through piles of people's stuff. Rule was that if it got taken 3 times, you had to pay the 200$ fee because you 'lost it' and now you didn't get one for the rest of the year, despite the fact that we used Google Classroom to do all of our homework, assignments, presentations, etc. --- This rule continued for years, and god, when I say parents were pissed off, I mean it. Most just didn't pay the bill and if their kid didn't get to use a laptop, it was seen as an excuse to not get work done, because they didn't have secured methods of doing the work.

[@davidcox3076]

"Wouldn't allow the new receptionist to drive to the bank to deposit cash." - OK. Smart. Have someone drive her. Much safer. "Made her walk." - I already see where this is going....

[@carlrevans]

Right?! Who could have failed to see the issue here?

[@KamiNoBaka1]

Why are they having a receptionist take deposits to the bank anyway? Everywhere I've worked it's been someone in management that takes the deposits.

[@x.theCitrusDragon.x]

Okay, at my old school, we had to wear these ugly lanyards that represented our grade. I was in 8th grade at the time, so my lanyard was blue. If you didn’t wear it to school one day, you got detention the same afternoon. Thing is, there was this kid busy with moving. They were in the same first period and got sent to the office, came back with a detention slip, and looked like they were about to cry. Turns out the poor kid had a funeral to attend AND had to help move that day. The policy was moved up to 3 days instead of 1, and the day after they got sent to the office.

[@Aurochhunter]

Right, breast cancer awareness is "a gang thing." 🙄 Talk about karma getting someone back.

[@BlazeMisty]

Hopefully she now understands what they were doing

[@LegendStormcrow]

My friends and I all wore the same ring and got the same treatment.

[@thefoxygamer1536]

American schools are so obsessed with "gang" stuff, and just ban everything.

[@skootergirl22]

If one of the teachers got cancer then it would be the main priority

[@nightmarerex2035]

liek vegaterism is today, even stupid teeen titans go had an episode on it.

[@VolfKami]

At one point my school had mandatory IDs with replacements costing $5, eventually they stopped checking for IDs because students refused to pay for new ones

[@AttallaRailFan]

It's Like that in Central FL Schools( MS-HS ). School IDs were $5. You were Lucky to somehow get The 1st. Free. I was with a Teacher & He forced me to lose mine @ one of The HS I Attended! The Foot-Ball Field was way down there & had to be reached by stairs. Well as a result, The Ground was gradually changed via Hill with trees. The Teacher made me go down The Hill for something & I caught My Lenard & It fell. He wound up paying for a New one too!

[@KamiNoBaka1]

Ok that one's not even crazy, because that's all of high school and middle school in all of the school districts around here. And the parents support it.

[@toastisdead4133]

In high school they made a rule I will never forget “girls weren’t allowed to wear skirts without tights” so even in summer I would be wearing tights under my skirt including shorts under and one girl got really annoyed this would be ok if she didn’t bring over almost half of our class to wear a skirt(including boys) they did this until the teachers got sick of it and then tried to ban skirts yet children accepted going home gracefully and in the end every one of the girls got to wear skirts without tights :)

[@SlyNine]

Most of those schools require guys to wear pants. Dress codes tend to be more strict for guys yet we only ever hear complaints from one side.

[@victoriacyunczyk]

Former workplace where I was a delivery driver, and used our personal vehicles. They had a rule that if there was an animal in the road, you were supposed to tap it with your car to get it to move, supposedly so we'd make better time. That might work with geese or squirrels, but not anything big. A coworker did that with a deer, the deer got pissed and totaled the car. She got a brand-new car on the company's insurance policy after suing the company.

[@seriouslytrainsyt]

I have a school with 1400 students. Our school’s head teacher decided that it would be a good idea to limit all 1400 students to half the space we had, in an already small school. He also decided to close all the male toilets but one, and you still have to use a ‘toilet queue’ , which always ends in being very late to class. Edit: Later this year, he quit his job as there was people posting videos on tiktok that mocked him.

[@Suzukkk]

Wasn’t there a story like that mentioned in the vid

[@thatpolskadude]

story 11 is the peak of "I don't want to do this thing even though you did it for twice the time so I'm calling it quits". Frustration. Pure Frustration Edit: yes. perfection

[@MagnaGuy]

Managers in a nutshell. Only when it inconviences them, will they decide to come up with the idea *you* came up with

[@Cinnamin27]

Fr, idk if it was hypocritical or not, but that was so frustrating.

[@LukeTheDukeYT]

The rule at my school is that one swear gets you a detention…I’d probably have detentions for the entire year at this point. (They never catch me)

[@JamesDavy2009]

For that to hold, they would have to list out which words were verboten.

[@LukeTheDukeYT]

@@JamesDavy2009 every word was. Even words like piss or ass or damn/dammit. EVERY. SINGLE. WORD.

[@bluemew22]

Story 24: So the Principal was looking kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead

[@Significantharrassment]

Poetry, pure poetry

[@NewSoupWiiHii]

WELL.

[@crazyrailfan]

An L jester as the “quiet jester” = STUPIDITY😂😂

[@fredferd965]

An eager employee at a big box store made the suggestion of clearing all of the clutter out of the walkways in the store. He said that it would make the store more welcoming. Upper management loved the idea and did it. Sales mysteriously dropped in the store, because all of the impulse items that people randomly buy were hidden somewhere in the store. Three months after this great idea was put in affect it was overturned and the employee was suddenly fired.

[@Sugarglidergirl101]

7:36 dude! This is how my high school was. It was so annoying having to go on the way other side of the school to go up the “up” stairs when the downs stairs were RIGHT THERE! Eventually they stopped effacing it as much.

[@blahblahblah02]

You know what's funny? My middle school mandated uniforms with red, white and blue polo shirts depending on your grade. In my state, we have the Crypts and the Bloods. Yeah, we were walking around with actual gang colors and that was OK. But God forbid you wear a rubber braclet or colored socks to school.

[@heartstoppercrazygal2077]

Quite a famous story I’ve heard of is when they banned boys from wearing shorts in a school, but skirts where okay. So every single boy in the school wore a skirt to school in protest. Shorts are now okay in that school

[@freyagordonjensen1470]

I remember something similar happend here except it's with busdrivers. Female busdrivers were allowed to wear skirts, but male busdrivers were not allowed to wear shorts. So during one summer all the male busdrivers wore skirts to protest against that rule.

[@SlyNine]

It's quite common. Most dress codes are stricter for men. In the UK they did a study to push a narrative about oppression. But found out male dress codes were much more strict.

[@patrickdonnelly8802]

no prom. we rented out the local community center with our own money and then had unsupervised clubbing

[@BlazeMisty]

Woah that’s one way to get around that

[@patrickdonnelly8802]

@@BlazeMisty previous years' prom the kids' had alcoholic gummy bears and a girl had to be brought to the ER so thats why it was canceled.

[@BlazeMisty]

@@patrickdonnelly8802 oh wow, I’ve been homeschooled for a while so I guess I was saved from that stuff.

[@pokegirl1799]

perfect reaction

[@yeanofullname4283]

In my highschool, one of the boys toilets was stolen (don't ask me how because I don't know) so they locked all of the bathrooms but one. This stayed for a whole year. This year, they implemented new bathroom rules. In the first semester, you were given 20 passes total and if you went over the amount and needed a pass you needed to serve 15 minutes of detention (me and a few students were acceptions because we had chronic illnesses that needed either extra bathroom passes or extra visits to the nurse). The seconds semester had rolled round and the passes changed. Now instead of 20 total to spread however you wish, you had 20 total but you only had 5 per class. It got hard especially for kids who had lunch in their fourth hour instead of their third. The bathroom policy during lunch was that all bathrooms were closed except the ones in the lunch room and the ones in the nurse's office. The ones in the lunch room got full very quickly so people would always go to the ones in the nurse's office. Here's the issue, the nurse's office only had two bathrooms. One which was for students and one that was for the nurse, her assistant, and for the kids with chronic care (me). People saw us chronics using the nurse's private bathroom and started using it willy nilly. This caused the bathrooms in the nurse to overfill and caused the already tiny office to be crowded. One day, the nurse said that kids are only allowed in the public toilet and the private bathroom was permanently locked except for the chronics. It reached out to the principal and they opened the bathrooms in the court yard.

[@nuclear1617]

My old middle school once had an issue where local chimpanzees\hooligans were literally ripping apart our bathrooms. So they locked all bathrooms except one, and had a line where only 1 person could go at a time. And it was on the first floor. They gained backlash from most of the parents and as it turns out, was.technically illegal. Local state law explicitly stated that there need to be at least 1 available bathroom per sex on every floor in every school in the state.

[@griffinbaker3509]

Was there a rainforest near your school or something?

[@nuclear1617]

@@griffinbaker3509 does new jersey count?

[@griffinbaker3509]

@@nuclear1617 Where were the chimpanzees coming from if you were in New Jersey?

[@nuclear1617]

@@griffinbaker3509 I was using the term to vent my annoyance with how many of my schoolmates act like chimpanzees, tossing books, food, etc around the room. Ripping doors off of the walls. Flushing entire school lunches down the school toilets. All that stuff.

[@griffinbaker3509]

@@nuclear1617 oh ok. As long as you didn't mean it in a racist sense.

[@MintFrog]

Well one time in my school, there were signs telling us to walk down the hallway to the right. It was later cancelled due to students ripping off the signs

[@davecrupel2817]

To my fellow A&P, thank you for having integrity and not being the mickey mouse of that plane. Did your boss ever apologize to you for that?

[@3DTyrant]

I doubt the guy got an apology, but 100% he did the right thing.

[@jessiehogue.]

Extremely unlikely. Heck, acting the way he did, that moron boss probably blamed him for the millions he lost.

[@whimsicalchronicles8798]

dude probably got blamed for it

[@NK-qn6pq]

I feel like "almost dying in a plane crash" is going to be quite the lesson for the boss. More so than the FAA and insurance issues...which happened too!

[@Tkillaahh]

About story 18, where i work, over the years they ceated a language problem, it had been a hype for companies to recruit cheaper workers which resulted in a takeover of another language, nowadays 2/10 speaks the native language of the country and no rule to balance it.

[@Bobab01]

this wasn't really a rule but a procedure but... back when I was in school we we're always told "incase of a lockdown go to the nearest room and lock the door." Fast forward to middle school and partway through lunch we have what everyone thought was a lockdown drill. i sprinted to the nearest room - the bathroom - and after a few girls got in with me I locked the door. after a few seconds on of the yard duties unlocks the door and makes all of us go to the nearest classroom. i learned later that week that there was actually a man with a gun outside our school who was arrested for actually killing someone right across the road from us. this still upsets me to this day because we could have been in real danger.

[@mini-mei]

Seriously, what is it with American schools and toilet breaks and dress codes? When I went to school in Central Europe, and you had to go during class, you asked and then you went. Also, we never had any dress code restrictions like no visible shoulder or bra straps for girls, just wear general outdoor cloths and not be nearly naked, and that was it.

[@250914616672152]

the US has a lot of karens and kevis(male version of a karen) and for some reason they end in a position of power

[@Xue_2017]

Ehh... Dresscode ain't a thing except on some days cuz we have uniforms.

[@music_and_other_random_thi1330]

The US is a crappy country, lots of dumb/terrible people wind up in positions of power.

[@MeemahSN]

I know, like I thought my school was bad (Australia) but it turns out, mine’s run by saints compared to these schools

[@KMTepi]

right? same thing here. my school has uniforms and on days where we dont need it, the only thing they inforced was "dont show your stomach" and "dont look half naked" and that was all. i just kept wearing shorts on those days because it was hot outside. I once wore some really short shorts and a sleeveless shirt and nobody bothered

[@milky_nyan]

our school blocked google chat, the only messaging program everyone would use with their school emails to message each other, but little did they know that a lot of kids used google chat also to communicate with their parents. everyone hated this development, but then we all figured out that they can't block things on our personal gmail accounts. now, everyone uses google chat again. (it's still blocked, so i can't see the multiple years of chats i've sent with my ex friends which meant a lot to me but oh well.)

[@hagollow]

The word defenestration actually made sense in the first story.

[@clkcnasdjhcjibi7236]

In my school rn, it’s not allowed to wear jackets that the school isn’t selling. The jackets are have been sold out for a long time now and for some reason I don’t think they are ever gonna restock, so when we’re cold in class, some of the teachers would just tell us to bring our own jackets and take them off when the principle sees us. :p

[@chloecarpenter3635]

2006 at a privet school: We had a nurse policy. You had to get a doctor’s note prior to coming to school to be allowed to visit the nurse. I’m assuming you all know how badly this turned out. That rule was in place until 2007. If you got hurt in school, then tough luck.

[@shoop8654]

At my school, jumpers were banned cause some kid wore a jumper that said 'you're never to young to do drugs'

[@jessiehogue.]

The answer to that would be to wear every article of clothing possible with the same message, so they either have to ban all clothes or realize how stupid they are.

[@rylanmoon2990]

So in my middle school (I’m in eighth grade currently) after the big lick they made it so you could only use the school bathroom during the school day unless it was during the two class bathroom breaks. We got a new janitor that year and she sent about 50 girls 6th-8th girls who were in the bathroom literally just changing a pad. They would even show her the pad wrapper but she didn’t care. Oh and the school spent endless amounts of money fixing every single last boy bathroom nook and cranny meanwhile none of the girls bathrooms sinks turn on and the buttons are no where to be found. It makes no sense at all. And they don’t tell you when they’re going to be breaking apart a bathroom sink so when they first did this so everyone thought the school was getting shot up when they first did it. My class was right next to the bathroom. My teacher got up real quick and had us all hide. We were suppose to wait 10 minutes then call the cops (I was the child suppose to do that) anyways point of the story is our principal got hit off the road by a deer on his motorcycle and when he came back changed a bunch of crappy bathroom rules. Then kids started playing tik tak toe with their poop and the rules went back

[@og_3rd_st_saint_gat]

1st rule they said in the story they need to get rid of zero tolerance on fighting people have a right to defend their self and im still going to school if I get suspended like quando rondo said in end of story damn right we screaming self defense he shouldn't never had put his hands on me look at the footage thats all the evidence

[@eduardosierra5134]

Honestly mad respect for the girls taking off their bras I respect people who say f you to stupid rules like that I had a teacher who hated me and always picked on me and tried to break my spirit so I would give her minor inconveniences until she quit her job for a McDonald’s job

[@PlebNC]

At the supermarket I worked at we were forced to use an app to measure how long it took to sectionise (sort mixed roll pallets onto roll pallets for each department) roll pallets for data analytics purposes. Problem was using the app was incredibly cumbersome resulting in slower work and required manually designating which pallet I was working (assuming the pallet's sticker had come off during loading/transit) and how many pallets I thought it would break down into (complete guesswork due to some products being hidden in the middle). Took a year or 2 before they got rid of it. Hopefully because everyone hated them or they got enough (highly inaccurate) data. I didn't need the app to tell management sectionising was slow because the depot that sent our stock stacked them badly unsorted, often breaking things. Most of our waste was beer and soft drinks broken in transit.

[@eas2252]

Cop here. Two things. First, if you use a residential or commercial alarm, keep them working properly. Chronic false alarms will get the address blacklisted and you will have to show what you have done to fix the issue before we start responding again. We don't just keep wasting time on false alarms and it's on you to stop that. Second, the US DOJ recently audited us on our interpreter sources and told us the ONE and only source we are allowed to use for translation and interpretation services. I understand their reasoning and don't have issue with the thought behind the rule. However, the source they mandated we use is just awful. I have been taking statements from victims who were punched by "mittens" only to find out they were actually brass knuckles. I also have a partner who is Sikh. He speaks perfect English and Punjabi. He isn't allowed to interpret directly when speaking with victims who speak Punjabi. He is still required to use the approved interpreter even though he was raised speaking both and almost exclusively speaks Punjabi at home. Becomes super inconvenient when taking statements after convenience store robberies.

[@cassiuscartland]

we had a rule where if you were caught using phones in class, it was banned until the end of the month, a long time. Parents got pissed at the rule and started sending the school phone bills for unused data. That rule was quickly removed.

[@PROTSW4]

Mad respect to the kid that defenestrated the bully

[@Eqvixity]

In my high-school there's two bathrooms, one was closed because some idiots decided to flood the toilets and smash the sinks off the walls, now you gotta sign in when using the other one, keep in mind there's not even a clock for us to tell the time so we have zero way of knowing what time it is.

[@ulvjenta88]

Studens must speak clear when they talk to a teacher, i have autism with a slight problem how to word myself. So i did not speak 😅🤣

[@Free_Krazy]

We got a new principal in our small town middle school who just transfered from a crime and drug ridden highschool in the city and his attitude and methods didn't change, first rule was a 0 contact rule, you could be suspended for 1 day for a high five, I wish I was joking. Before the first week of school was out I had spend 4 days suspended for a hard high five, riding with no hands on my bike OFF school property, and 2 days for making a paper airplane during break.... I ended up moving about a month in but it wasn't another month or so until parents and teachers finally got the guy to clam down on his rules and punishments. I remember in his office him giving me the whole "you will amount to nothing" speech after I got in trouble for riding no hands on my bike and how "all us trouble makers were the same" I had litterally never got in trouble at school before that week lol

[@mystikmind2005]

Tunnel vision rule making is a signature move of people in authority who are arrogant.

[@Nerdtendo6366]

Story 2: the boys must have been okay with that rule

[@cozycottage5069]

Idk why I suddenly thought about this it’s unrelated but at my school there have been reports of middle school kids (it’s a k-8) vaping,smoking,and even 👌👈 and apparently from what I’ve heard that parents try to bring these issues up during pto meetings and apparently the staff are supposed to dismiss it when the parents bring these things up,apparently most of the pto meetings have been about boys wearing their hair below their collar,at our school if boys have long hair that goes below their collar they have to either cut it or put it in a hairstyle that puts it up. The principal has deemed this such a serious issue that once he checked in on a class and there was a fight going on,and he pulled a student out because a camera caught him wearing his hair down around the hallway and he told the teacher he would talk to the fighting students afterwards.

[@TheOgMangleGacha]

Damn

[@pokegirl1799]

wtf? How does that even solve anything? Kids who aren't even in high school yet are having s●● at your school and fights are breaking out, and your principal is more concerned with boys with long hair wearing it down?! That doesn't even matter in the long run!

[@AmandineClaireDubois]

@@pokegirl1799 I don't think I would have complied with that asshole.

[@not_estains]

my school did the same thing as the "1 way hallway" story, the rule got revoked in a month

[@BeefyBeanBoy]

we have a very strict teacher in last period who said we couldnt cut across the gym and everyones lockers were on the opposite side, so we had to go up 2 flights of stairs, cut across very long hall, go up 1 flight of stairs,get locker things, and go back down 1 flight of stairs and cut across very long hall, go up stairs and in class, also we leave lunch at 1:13 to go up there and have 2 minutes to do that or else we will be interrogated by teacher

[@larryk731]

zero tolerance never works and always backfires

[@MegaPhycoKiller]

Story 15 is the definition of "penny wise, pound fool" in the act of trying to save money, you lost more money

[@crimsonknight7011]

I remember my high had a set of silver weight scales stolen from the science room. They figured some girl had stolen it in her purse, so they banned purses. Girls protested by coming in with garbage bags, grocery bags, and some even would put tampons on their ear like it was a pencil. The scale was found later at a male students house when it was raided by swat for marijuana. They were using the scale for weighing the weed.

[@markhenning6310]

My high school decided to ban Halloween costumes because they detracted from, "the business like atmosphere of the school!" So the entire backstage student body came in suits and business formal with briefcases for our books. These were the kids in ripped jeans and metal t-shirts. Now dressing for formal business. School wanted to say something because it was obviously costumes but couldnt. This was in a school of about 4k students with about 100+ participating in the "event".

[@HonestLettuce]

I was in maths class and was really REALLY needing to pee, i asked the teacher and she told me to wait that i should have done it before class...oh im so sorry i can't tell my bladder to hurry up and make pee...so i decided to make an example, and pissed myself...it was humiliating, i got called 'pisspants' but it was worth it when i saw her getting flammed by the principal and a formal apology.

[@anetepaulakrinicka7830]

One time at school phones were restricted in classes. Teachers weren't happy enough if students put them on her desk. Every time we enter the school phones were put in locker and locked. Only to get back was after the school going at home. The rule end up backfired when teachers find out that group project need internet access but we end up telling her that our phones were locked in locker and we need to use computer classes so teachers used that as a homework doing projects. So then lot of teachers were annoyed that make every time a project as a homework or as permision to use computer class to do schools lesson. After some months they allowed us to have phones in school and they promise not snitch on it if we do good in class.

[@PantherCat64]

For the bra story, I bet some hormone driven boys where enjoying their time with that shenanigan.

[@SleeplessBrazilLimbo]

the last one, makes me so angry, but atleast it has a good ending

[@Dtsansthegreat]

There is a vice principal at my school who banned talking of any kind in classes and if we talked it was detention and every student used notes and google translate to talk to each other and use google translate to dupe the system to give us things like KZbin and video games

[@SigmaLegend69]

Some of these didn't even backfire, it went worse than breaking the rules. If only some of the clothing ones were smarter or the principle made it backfire in a good way to teach them a lesson, rather than making it worse for both of them.

[@kacywatson6314]

I generally think zero tolerance policy rules are absolutely ridiculous because sooner or later someone is not going to be able to follow that rule exactly and it means that people are going to be punished for doing the right thing or doing things that they need to. High school had a zero tolerance policy for mobile phone cell phones. I needed my cell phone to keep in contact with a doctor in case of a medical emergency because I have an ongoing health condition so I can’t follow the north tolerance policy. I got in trouble countless times just for staying alive. Later in life and now in College at this point and they had 80 tolerance policy or tried on zero tolerance policy for swearing. I don’t notice half the time when I even do swear and even then it’s non-aggressive and it’s not at someone I just don’t even notice it , so I couldn’t follow the rules and I literally got in trouble just for speaking normally. We are part of autism as sometimes you need to use extra words to properly string together. A full sentence and with extra words could be meaningless swear words, so I actually had developed difficulty communicating and my difficulties didn’t go away until they left the policy. They then immediately introduced a zero tolerance policy to no drugs or medications on campus and every single disabled person or anyone relying on medicine anyone with an epi-pen or inhaler. Anything really couldn’t follow zero tolerance policy and again, it became a matter of being punished just for staying alive. At the time I did take daily medicine, a little bit of paracetamol and sometimes a bit of ibuprofen a little bit of painkiller. I don’t need it stay alive but I do need it to function. So the rule literally became I would get punished for not wanting to feel pain later My old doctor basically also have a zero tolerance policy for anger and aggression and again zero tolerance for swearing. I have never developed Tourette’s as for the newer swearing thing. This is in Scotland, a country notorious for bad language as for the anger and aggression. This is a central Scotland a local accent can sound really aggressive so Scottish people living in Scotland, got punished and banned from the Scottish doctor office for speaking of a Scottish accent

[@direfan706]

in story 25 instead of hiding the smokers they should have had everyone stand next to a smoker so everyone was suspended and laugh at the free no school day.

[@angelsrouge]

At my dance studio you weren't allowed to wear a bra until the were 13. Everyone wore stick ons.

[@legendarybubbles4567]

That’s such a stupid rule. Girls can enter puberty as early as 8 years old. I couldn’t imagine having to take my dance class when I was a kid without a bra. The coconuts would’ve been bouncing all over the place. :/

[@lazyryan3766]

And here I was wondering why bras are required.

[@DuskShadow235]

My school had a rule that if your in the bathroom if a hot box happens (to those who don’t know it’s a bunch of kids smoking a vaping in the Bathroom with the goal of setting off the fire alarm, everyone in the bathroom would be strip searched, and taken into custody by the authorities with the immediate assumption that you were a part of the Hot Box, even if you were just taking a wiz in there. It has yet to backfire unfortunately but I refuse to use the bathroom since Hot boxes happen weekly at my school, and being a lady you could imagine the issues that could bring about.

[@BUBB1Y_S0D4]

00:18 OMG I WAS JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS TODAY. I was wearing a Tank top because it was 84 degrees or something and my bra straps were showing because THATS WHAT A BRA HAS TO HELP KEEP THE BRA ON, and a teacher comes up to me and says "You need to put a jacket on or a shirt over your shoulders because your straps are showing and it's not allowed" I literally got so mad I was about to complain to the principal about the rule. I wanted to just say "Well if I can't have bra straps then I might as well just take it off entirely because what's the point of no straps if it's not gonna keep it on me? Are my bra straps bothering you? Would you rather like it if I didn't have a bra on? Is the problem my shoulders?!?" But I didn't, because I didn't want my mom called or be suspended. I put my jacket on. Yes. 😒🙄😡

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

the same bra thing happened at my junior high you weren't allowed to show bra straps but you didn't have to wear a bra so most girls just didn't wear one!

[@valentinovicentini5652]

Not being able to be right if the teacher says otherwise It wasn't a rule but it was haunting all days

[@_.V01D._]

There was a rule in my school, where your purse had to smaller then a clipboard, I got in trouble multiple times as mine is the size of clipboard. This year it’s a 8x8 limit.

[@Triaxx2]

See... the smoker story went about it the wrong way. EVERYONE should have 'witnessed' the smokers. Let them see how well suspending the entire school goes.

[@Sevendyy7]

When covid shut everything down in 2020, my school accidentally told everyone that we all get an automatic pass, which backfired because everyone thought they either graduated, or no longer had to do any work and just wait till next year. The principal then had to send out a notice a week later saying that no, we have not finished the semester and had to keep doing our work... What ended up happening that semester was that we couldn't get a grade lower than what we had in each class before our classes shut down

[@Kat_dragon]

1:23 that’s messed up. I have a story. It’s less backfireing, more like flat out refusing to do it. My school has a dress code rule that says “no very short shorts”. Basically, any shorts above the middle calf. Here’s the things wrong with this rule: 1: it’s an ELEMENTARY school. No one’s going to be distracted by that. 2: it’s in California. You know how hot it gets? Like, 85 degrees in late spring. 3: no one follows it. Very short shorts are everywhere in my class. Is it distracting? No.

[@elizabethjablonowski1169]

0:40 i would have shown up to school wearing a sports bra for a shirt

[@deityjc]

About 5 years ago I went to a high school that installed metal detectors in front of the two main entrances. Personally I think this is a stupid idea because we all had to form long lines that sometimes went out the door. If someone did try to shoot up the school, they'd have well over 100 targets all clumped together though luckily nothing like that ever happened. However, my brother knew a guy who had forgot that he put his pocket knife in his school backpack. He didn't mean to bring it to school, he just forgot to take it out. The backpacks didn't go through the detectors though, they were searched through by hand by some of the staff. For a solid week at least, that pocket knife was in this dude's backpack, and for a solid week at least he passed through no problem. He eventually found the knife in his backpack, when he was at home, and the school never knew about it.

[@matthewboyd8689]

Wears pink for breast cancer awareness School bands the color pink because they think it's a gang I don't think that they are aware

[@kingofhumbugg]

The school said that we could not go to the bathroom 10 minutes before or after passing period. (we had a really bad teacher btw). This one kid had an anytime bathroom pass that specifically stated he could go to the bathroom whenever, but our teacher said no, and kept saying no, and because the teacher said he would give him lunch detention for a month if he disobeyed the teacher, and the kid eventually wet himself. The school then removed that policy and that teacher got fired. (Nobody gave the kid who wet himself any BS) We were also in seventh grade and the teacher had been teaching for 17 years

[@Ch17638]

Code review can only be done by 2 developers in a company with 30 with at least 20 senior lev devs. for the next 2 months we epically missed deadlines and constantly had to deal with merge conflicts every meeting we got asked why and we all pointed to this policy. It took a while to sink in.

[@giraff_e_]

Why is the guy on the back so bad at parkour 😭

[@Tbill6763]

My small town decided that our high school campus should be closed. Chamber of Commerce members raised a stink because the restaurants and fastfood places were without their lucrative teens that hated cafeteria food. I don't think it lasted a week.

[@wizardsuth]

In schools I attended students weren't permitted to leave school grounds during classes unless they were 18 or older. The school staff were responsible for their safety. To let them leave the school grounds unattended would have been against the law.

[@Beam-jo6sb]

my school, still go there, made it mandatory you could only spend a few minutes in the bathroom. unfortunately the teachers are all fed up with the management at that school, so they never cared. students vaped in the bathrooms, and eventually the board found out. now, for clarification, the doors say the gender for the bathroom on them, not on the side of the doorframe. as response, and also for the made up reason of "9th graders are uncomfortable" , they took off the main doors. stall doors were left, thank god. they still do not have main doors on any of the bathrooms, 9th graders are more uncomfortable than before, and now the air is thick with a vape smell because kids still vape in the bathrooms.

[@hemiwarrior6226]

I'm a rural carrier for the USPS. Some of the mail we receive in the morning, supposedly sorted in the order of our route is called DPS (Delivery Point Sequence). I say supposedly because they never maintain the machine and it ends up out of order and with giant stacks of mail that doesn't go to our route. Its so bad that, in the rural contract, we are allowed to case it in with our raw mail (the stuff we have to put in order). One day, our district (the state of Geoegia) decided that we were taking up too much time in the office, and that they were gonna "put a stop to that" by putting a note on our case saying "No one is to touch their DPS before leaving the office. -management" Every single rural carrier in the entire state of georgia filed a grievance. They overturned that decision the next day.

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

14:00 this is exactly why as an engineer or technician, you should document EVERYTHING

[@andrewpatton5114]

My high school had two buildings half a mile apart. Now, there were busses that ran between the buildings between classes, but they were so screwed up that it was faster to run than to take the bus.

[@joosyjulie]

Story 22. As a small business owner, when the cash drop was made, a 3 minutes walk away through a pedestrianised area. We always sent two people, one of them always one of the bigger men we employed. We would neversend a female or male employee on their own.

[@Sugarglidergirl101]

10:19 this DEFINITELY sounds like an ALT teaching job or Eikaiwa teaching job in Japan. They are super ridiculous with rules.

[@myfriendjustin8381]

A few years ago the “sheeeeeesh” meme was becoming big at my school and literally everybody was doing it. Admin was sooo confused and thought it was some cult call or sexual thing lollll. So they decided to ban and I quote “any vocal noises, calls, or chants that do not resemble normal speech”. So us big brains decided to just say sheesh in a regular talking tone. All. The. Time. One time during class change, literally everybody in the hall were talking only using sheesh. It was normal talking tones too not screams. It was just sheesh over and over and over again. There were too many of us doing it to properly punish people so admin just lifted the ban. It was glorious

[@roosh1986]

14:33 Just imagining the situation made me laugh so hard

[@arashinoakumyo3535]

A friend worked at a school that had a no tattoo policy for students even when they were legally old enough to do so. Now my friend looks young for a 29 year old ex army rifleman (with some nice battle scars). He has tattoos on both arms and torso, he was hired as the PE teacher so wore short sleeves and a the VP saw his ink and lost it thinking he was a student. She literally dragged him to the principal and ranted for 10 minutes before the principal said “You know he’s the new PE teacher right? You even attended his interview.” She tried to save herself but got sent on administrative leave as she showed she was under a lot of stress. She came back a lot more relaxed and my friend left after several years when his contract ended.

[@wizardsuth]

What right does the school have to dictate whether (adult) students can have tattoos? How are they supposed to enforce this policy? Expel students who have them? Force them to have the tattoos removed?

[@arashinoakumyo3535]

@@wizardsuth he was a teacher. But being new he got mistaken for a student and it being summer he has a t-shirt on showing the sleeve. The school was stupidly strict on the policy they even got pissy about cultural tattoos, didn’t force them to remove them just be snide about them.

[@jeonghansjudgingface9280]

I love when higher ups implement something, ignore the complaints and then realise how bad it is when they have to deal with it themselves.

[@Defhrone]

If you didn't park your bicycle propperly in the bicycle racks, your bike got chained up and you for 1 hour of cleaning chores around school to unlock it. There wheren't enough racks to put the bikes in. I picked the lock and stole the chain, even wore it as an accessory to taunt the school. They stopped enforcing this rule and I still have the chain somewhere in my shed 25 years later :)

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

Story 16... we also kinda had that at the school i am going to but not as extreme. we just had to go over the whole courtyard to the toilets and back and teachers were always pissed that we came in late. It wasn't even a official rule the janitor just closed half of the boys toilets of because some funnyman stole a watertap for whatever reason (i wish i was joking)

[@Newt4hire]

Principal got mad that people were farting, so he banned farting. No farting no fake farting, also added no burping.

[@TheOgMangleGacha]

Bruh 💀💀

[@WellZoinks]

Tell me this is a joke comment

[@Newt4hire]

@@WellZoinks it’s not 💀

[@AmandineClaireDubois]

In 4th grade I was sent to sit into the hall because I farted. I was told to hold my farts. I don't recall a time in my life that I've felt that it was even possible to hold a fart.

[@WilliamWizer-x3m]

story 18. I can relate to that. I work at spain so our main language is spanish but, if somebody doesn't understand spanish we are required to tell them to call at a special number at a specific hours so the only person allowed to speak english can answer the call. fun thing is that there's over a dozen people that speak english better than spanish. story 23. as counterintuitive as it may sound, the cheapest way to do things is to do them properly.

[@simi5558]

we were all forced to have bathroom passes (they looked like ids) soon we all realized we had id cards and just hid it in our pockets(they had the same strap) and no longer needed to ask teachers to go to the restroom