Think Your School Rules Suck?

[Gray Aria]

Imagine being thrown in jail for tardiness and truancy or being suspended for hugging a friend.

Honor student placed in jail for tardiness and truancy at school - Yahoo! News

Two Florida Teens Suspended for Breaking School‘s ’No Hugging’ Policy | TheBlaze.com

Two Florida teens each received one-day in-school suspensions this week for hugging on school grounds.

Nickolas Martinez, a 14-year-old student at Southwest Middle School in Palm Bay, told Central Florida News 13 he was simply greeting a female friend with a quick hug between classes.

“Heading to my class, I see my friend and I just hug her, then the principal yells from behind me ‘come over here’ and we both go to the dean’s office and he writes us up for in school suspension,” Martinez said.

His mother, Nancy Crescente, told Orlando Fox affiliate WOFL-TV she was furious and couldn’t believe it when she got a call from the school Tuesday.

“I thought it was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever heard,” Crescente said. “We’re a cultural family and this is what we do.”

But according to a district spokeswoman, a committee of parents and teachers approved the “no hugging” policy years ago.

“‘Public Displays of Affection’ is a school board policy. It relates to kissing and holding hands and hugging. It is a blanket-wide policy across all schools here,” Brevard County School spokesperson Christine Davis told WOFL.

The policy is clearly stated in the student handbook, she said, along with the standard one-day in-school suspension punishment for any hugging or hand-holding infraction. The policy doesn’t make a distinction between an unwanted hug, like sexual harassment, or a mutual hug between friends.

According to the handbook, kissing will earn students a one-day out-of-school suspension.

“Our focus is on learning; therefore, we cannot discriminate or make an opinion on what is an appropriate hug, what’s not an appropriate hug,” Davis said. “What you may think is appropriate, another person may view as inappropriate.”

Crescente’s not buying that argument.

“There’s nothing wrong with hugging,” she told Orlando’s WKMG-TV. “If there’s nothing wrong with it in the legal system, why would there be something wrong with it in the school system?”

Anyone else got stories like this?

 

[MangaCrazy101]

Yes I've heard of these schools a while back, it's stupidly idiotic.

At the Catholic school where I live, the girls aren't allowed to wear pants- at all while they're on the school grounds (Which is why I didn't go there) and you're not allowed to dye your hair two shades darker than it's original colour and no jewellery.

I love my school, I don't even wear a uniform! Just jeans and a shirt.

 

[nelly <3]

IN COLLEGE, you can wear whatever you want. In my High School, we did have certain requirements for dress codes. We couldn't wear stuff like you baggy jeans and white tShirts and something that shows a sports logo.
We didn't wear uniforms, but aslong as we looked decent that was okay, and if we did get caught wearing something we shouldn't they'd make us go home to change and come back as long as we'd come back before lunch time.

As far as affection goes. No sex in the bathrooms, that was the only rule we had lol.

So this is alittle bit too overboard. What my district did was if you had too many truancies, they'd automatically set you up for Homeschool starting the following semester. It's reasonable to me.

But this? Wonder, what district is it?

 

[King Sora X]

I remember public affection in my high school was limited to the arms around each other and all that jazz.

Like Nelly, the "no sex in bathroom" is an obvious rule. But seriously? Suspended for hugging? Getting arrested for tardies and/or truencies? I understand wanting to give kids a taste of what real life can be like, but why arrest them? Why not just give them on-campus suspension or something else.

I just don't understand this. A bit too extreme if you ask me. :/

 

[Chaser]

We have rules like that.For females:
Only sleepers or studs in the ears, no makeup at all, skirt must be the right length, 5 cms above the knee with checkups every few weeks.



For males:
Right coloured socks.


For both:
Lace up school shoes. No hugging, no kissing, no holding hands, no inappropriate comments, don't be late, hair colour must be 2 shades darker or lighter than original.


But there's no suspensions like that D:
Worst I think we'd get would be a detention, and that's pushing it. It's usually a lecture from the teachers.

 

[MangaCrazy101]

We have rules like that.For females:
Only sleepers or studs in the ears, no makeup at all, skirt must be the right length, 5 cms above the knee with checkups every few weeks.



For males:
Right coloured socks.


For both:
Lace up school shoes. No hugging, no kissing, no holding hands, no inappropriate comments, don't be late, hair colour must be 2 shades darker or lighter than original.


But there's no suspensions like that D:
Worst I think we'd get would be a detention, and that's pushing it. It's usually a lecture from the teachers.

Wow...

Well there is rules and stuff like this at my high school, but when your a senior the teachers don't care...

As for affection There's a 'hands off rule' for boy girl communication but hugging is fine.

 

[Hillboy]

For the most part we don't have any strict rules at all xD
Most people can walk in stoned and no one will care

 

[Hero]

Jesus Christ, don't make me think about High School again. I graduated already, don't make me relive it.

 

[nelly <3]

Jesus Christ, don't make me think about High School again. I graduated already, don't make me relive it.

Sometimes I feel like I'm too old to be on this forum lol

 

[misssheep]

Not being able to hug anybody during school or within school grounds is just ridiculous sorry. A hug is just a small embrace to show that you care for somebody. It doesn't equal rape or any sort of sexual assault.

So silly.

 

[Gray Aria]

I went to a suburban public high school. There wasn't much of a dress code besides "skirts must go down past the fingertips." There was one incident when my friend who is transgender wanted to wear a tux to prom. They let it slide without much hassle though.

Police could get involved for excessive truancy but they wouldn't put you in jail for it. It was mostly to hunt down kids cutting class.

 

[Dogenzaka]

At my high school, you can be tardy for lunch if you're not on the cafeteria tiles by the time the bell rings, and then they send you to a ticket machine that prints out your tardy. You're suspended on your third.

High school was motherkupoing stupid.

If they have a problem with the hugging rule, they should get politically involved with their school board and district to keep the retards from passing policies like that.

 

[Deleted member 36435]

My school doesn't really have any rules that I have a problem with. They try to enforce some silly ones but they are never successful. They used to try to make you sign out to use the bathroom, but if someone's got to piss they aren't going to stand there filling out a sheet.

 

[Hamster Lord]

my school gives you demerits if you get caught hugging someone. also they used to make you use passes to go the bathroom but all the passes were destroyed/lost and no one signs out anymore.

 

[Shinjuku]

The Hero's Hat

Me and you both bud.

Rules we had basically the no sex in bathrooms and they tried to enforce other crap on us, but it wasn't to the extent that this has gone.

 

[Cosmic+Amarna]

Towards the end of high school they tried to go robocop and looked like douches in doing so. One thing that they got pointlessly technical with was how YOU NEEDED a pass in order to even be in the halls during a class hour. One time my senior year I had a study hall(free period) that took place in the cafeteria. Both male and female bathrooms are in the cafeteria, so on this instance my study hall supervisor did not view it necessary for a hall pass since technically I wasn't leaving my premise. So it's all good except when I get to the end and there is zero soap in the bathroom. I need this soap based off of my actions in the bathroom, so I leave that one in search for some soap in a different bathroom.

Before I can get around the corner my douchebag principal attacks me, "Where's yo mofuggin hall pass!?!" and I told him ^all the above and that I just used the bathroom and need to wash my hands, there is no soap in there I need soap. What does this retard do and say? He tells me NO that I NEED a hall pass and that I can not go wash my hands first. So this prick escorts my like 30feet back to the cafeteria and makes me get a hall pass. What an idiot I should have touched him with my unwashed hands to see how he would have liked it.

Hall passes are more important than proper hygiene apparently.

 

[Ruran]

I think the biggest problem I had with rules back in my school days was mostly needing hall passes/bathroom passes, an unstable uniform code, and IDs. I'm a forgetful person so the ID thing was a big one for me. I'd often leave mine at home and would get indoor suspensions or get in trouble for forgetting to put it on, if I remembered it, because IT HAD TO BE VISIBLE AT ALL TIMES.

The home room teachers were required to do an ID check every morning to make sure everyone had them and was wearing them. If you didn't have one you got sent to the office where you had three options:

Buy a new one for 5 bucks.
Call a parent to bring it to you if you left it home.
Suspension.

This annoyed my dad to high Heaven and of coarse this never disciplined me because it was a matter of me having jank memory.

 

[Ehres]

At my secondary school (see: four years ago) we didn't really have any outrageous rules.

All students should have an appropriate school bag which must be brought into
school everyday. Failure to do so will result in students being sent home to bring
their bag into school.
• All Students must have the correct equipment for school. This must include pens,
pencils, ruler, rubber, P.E. kit and other relevant equipment needed for school.
• Mobile phones MUST be switched OFF in school and must be handed in at the
beginning of any examinations. Phones which do ‘go-off’ or are being used in school
will be confiscated, Parents/Carers will need to collect the phone from school. We
cannot accept responsibility for ‘phones’ brought into school - we do not carry
insurance for loss/theft of personal items. Students bring them into school at their
own risk.
• Hair styles should be moderate with no extreme styles. Only natural hair colours
should be used in any hair dyes. Head bands and clips should be moderate and
practical, sporting only natural hair colours. Students who wish to have their hair cut
short should not have it cut shorter than a number two shave.
• Make up in year seven, eight and nine is not not allowed.
• Make up in year ten and eleven is allowed, but only a minimum amount minimum amount. NoNo false NoNo
eyelashes.
• No nail varnish, false nails, gel or acrylic nails NoNoNo are allowed.
• Baseball caps and other headgear are not not part of school uniform

Not bad at all. Back then I used to have red hair and there was no issue with it. I mean bright red, siren red. Then it was white, then with stripes. No issue.

 

[Weeaboo]

My school gave zero shits about passes and what you wore.
Except if it was obvious whorewear or something.

They also gave zero shits about phones.
Basically, a teacher hears it and it's gone. If they see it, it's okay sometimes, but other times LOLNOPE.

 

[Nostalgia]

Every now and then, it's good to look at rules like these that are somewhat reminiscent of my own high school if I need to be reminded why I shouldn't hate college that badly.