What are some ridiculously dumb rules your school has?

Question

Have you ever tried to protest against them? At my old school you weren't allowed to wear tank tops. What's your dress code like? Do you have a "no public displays of affection" rule? Is it enforced? Can you hug people?

Answer 1

I went to a really strict private school until my junior year, and they had some pretty wacky rules.

1. During school, girls must wear knee-length skirts, socks that cover the ankle, and sleeved shirts that cover the entire shoulder. No flip-flops (they said it was "for safety reasons").

2. After school, no tight-fitting jeans, but you can wear flip-flops. Still, it was otherwise the same.

3. No attending music concerts (especially not rock - they considered it "of the devil").

4. No going to parties with dancing

5. No dancing period It's the Footloose scenario, basically, and my old school considered it to be "a dangerous situation for in which a man and a woman are in close contact with one another, allowing sexual thoughts to enter their minds, commanded by the devil."

6. No hugging, whether it's the same gender or not.

7. No hand-holding.

8. Kissing lost a person about 25 to 75 demerits, out of 100.

9. No talking about movies during school - they're made by the "devil-run Hollywood," after all, and so "cannot possibly support a Christian lifestyle."

10. Prayer-time, chapel, pledges, and Bible-classes are not optional.

11. It's not exactly a rule, but families are expected to match the price of tuition in donations, so it really costs twice as much to go there.

12. This is a rule: No talking badly of the school or its faculty to others (oops). =)

13. Show no signs of disrespect to the teachers or faculty (depending on the teacher, "disrespect" can be answering a question without raising your hand, talking to other students during class, or questioning the teacher's lesson/intelligence/etc.).

14. No disagreeing with the school's philosophy (everyone except born-again Southern Baptist Christians are bound for h**l, women are innately inferior to men and are not suited for jobs requiring strength or intelligence, women belong at home and pregnant, not working, women can't be preachers, homosexuals are flaming sinners trying to corrupt the world to prepare it for the Apocolypse, democrats and all non-conservatives are evil, and everyone who doesn't go to a private school is a horrible, stupid, drug-addicted sinner).

15. No petitioning to change the rules.

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And, the rules were strictly enforced, too, unless you were the kid of someone on the faculty or a member of the church.

I scrambled out of there to a good public school, and I've never been happier. =)

No, I didn't protest against them because that would've gotten me suspended, and no one had ever succeeded before.

Answer 2

At the elementary school, all your allowed is a high 5, no hugs. Another stupid rule, is theres this kind of gravel, called ''pea gravel'', and you not allowed to run on it, DUMB!

Answer 3

No bringing in your own bottled water.

No hugging.

No gum chewing.

Annoying stuff like that.