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Posted: Feb 02 2009 01:27 pm

joshwoodzell wrote:

Yeah if my high school would have enforced stricter rules on clothing, I would not have cared. I got tired of people wearing the "Big Johnson" shirts anyways.

Uniforms just seem flat out unnecessary.

I haven't seen a Big Johnson shirt in so long. I'm going to bring them back.

As far as drug dogs and drug searches and things of the sort, I got taken out of class one time, by the principal and guidence counseler, in front of the whole class to be searched for drugs. Everyone knew why I was being taken from class because that was pretty much the only time those two would come get someone from class together.

The only thing was, I had never used, sold, or even been in possession of drugs. They told me I had been reported by another student, but wouldn't tell me who. It was over ten years ago, and I am still angry about it. If I could somehow figure out who told on me, I would still retaliate somehow.

What gets me, is that for someone to turn me in, they would have to see me with drugs. Since I never had drugs, that was impossible. Somebody lied to get me in trouble. I suppose they could have made it up as an excuse to search me, possibly assuming I used or sold drugs hoping to catch me with something. But that would have been out of character because there were several known dealers/users that were never searched. But I can't for the life of me think what I would have done to anyone to make them lie to the school about me having drugs. I can see someone pulling a prank to fuck with me, but turning someone in to the school for drugs is a little extreme.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 02:06 pm

You know who had uniforms? THE NAZIS!

Posted: Feb 02 2009 02:20 pm

Speaking of uniforms in the real world. When I first started working at Wal-Mart, lawn and garden was allowed to wear jeans. After the last dress code policy change, they were no longer allowed to wear jeans. I'm guessing that none of the executives who made this call ever had to load several bags of red mulch the day after it rained wearing tan pants.

Clean tan pants may look nicer than clean blue jeans, but when dirty, the jeans don't look nearly as bad.

Strict dress codes and uniforms usually suck because there is almost always some exception that the people enforcing the policy either overlook or fail to understand. I don't care if its school, work, or whatever.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Syd Lexia wrote:

You know who had uniforms? THE NAZIS!

So Syd doesn't like uniforms.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 03:35 pm

In sixth grade the class was broken up into tables. There was maybe four people to a table. One day two of the people at my table started acting up and the entire table had to stay late that day. It was late enough that I missed the bus and had to get a ride home with another student when their mom came to pick him up. I hate being punished for something I didn't do.

There was also a time in fifth grade where the school was putting on a show and we had to practice singing some songs. I knew the words but some people in the class didn't. So the teacher made all of us write the song that night at homework. We had to write the chorus and everything. I wrote the chorus once and then just wrote "Chorus" between the sections like you'd see on sheet music. Many other students did this too but the teacher said something like "The chorus is where you are all messing up so you need to write it out each time." To myself I was like "Fuck that...I know the damn song and now I'm having to write the whole thing because a couple people in the class don't?"

Posted: Feb 02 2009 06:52 pm

I don't think uniforms are necessary, but I don't think they would hurt. The real benefit from it imo, is that the poor kids don't feel as 2nd class because everyone is wearing the same shit. Also, schoolgirl uniforms are way sexy. Er, were sexy, because I'm too old to be interested in that now.

I hated that when I was a senior, I was 18, so I signed my own field trip forms and shit, but to get authorized to leave campus for 4th and 5th lunch, I had to have a parent come and sign a paper for me, I guess it wasn't a big deal, it was more of the principle of it.

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

Best story ever. In social we were talking about how Muhammad is the most popular name in the world. Someone said, "isn't that Ghandi's name?" and the teacher gave them a dirty look and said "Ghandi's name was Ghandi."

Posted: Feb 02 2009 09:06 pm

Bobashotmace wrote:

Best story ever. In social we were talking about how Muhammad is the most popular name in the world. Someone said, "isn't that Ghandi's name?" and the teacher gave them a dirty look and said "Ghandi's name was Ghandi."

What? It was, right?

Posted: Feb 02 2009 09:11 pm

Ghandi's name was Mahatma.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 09:14 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Ghandi's name was Mahatma.

I thought his name was Mohandas or something.

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

I've seen both. Mahatma significantly more often though.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 09:33 pm

Either way, it wasn't Muhammed.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 09:38 pm

Rubber bands, paperclips, and sharpies=banned.
Sharpies were used to draw on the bathroom walls.
My friend shot some guy with a paper hornet he had stabbed a paperclip into. That banned the other 2.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 09:38 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

You know who had uniforms? THE NAZIS!

I had to wear a stupid polo and slacks uniform in middle school, I chose to rebel by wearing a Marlboro Man style duster covered in patchs chains spikes and grafitti, it was heavy as shit and I probably looked like an asshat, but I had fun.

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

ThatGuy wrote:

Rubber bands, paperclips, and sharpies=banned.
Sharpies were used to draw on the bathroom walls.
My friend shot some guy with a paper hornet he had stabbed a paperclip into. That banned the other 2.

I remember in Junior high I had a compass, like, for drawing circles, and a teacher found it and I got in shit because they said it could be a lethal weapon. Since I wasn't currently in any unit that required one the principal said he'd call the police if another incident arose.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 09:58 pm

Burt Reynolds wrote:

I don't think uniforms are necessary, but I don't think they would hurt. The real benefit from it imo, is that the poor kids don't feel as 2nd class because everyone is wearing the same shit. Also, schoolgirl uniforms are way sexy. Er, were sexy, because I'm too old to be interested in that now.

this.

cause kids can be cruel SOB's. and yes, im also too old to look at little girls in that way

Posted: Feb 02 2009 10:06 pm

Let's see, school rules I hate:

1. Students who've taken up the hobby of hunting for sport get a free excused absence from school for said hobby. Students who don't hunt (i.e. me) get no such privilage.

2. No dying your hair. I can understand them thinking someone trying to look like a character from Sailor Moon being a bit of a distraction, but you aren't allowed to dye your hair in a natural color, either. Lame. How exactly do they expect to prove that someone's hair isn't their natural color?

3. In PE classes, you are allowed roughly three minutes to get dressed. This wouldn't be a problem if you just have a t-shirt and basketball shorts with an elastic wasteband. However, if you're me, and you lost about 70 pounds between eighth and ninth grade, you have to wear a belt with your old black denim shorts because you're too poor to be able to buy a new pair, and wrapping the belt through the eight-or-so rings on the shorts was a bit of a pain. Teachers didn't cut me any slack, though.

4. Seniors who are in the A+ Program (basically, a tutoring program that gets you free college hours) aren't allowed to leave school a week early like all the other seniors. Gee, thanks for showing your appreciation!

5. This isn't really a rule, per se, but I HATE how the football players get special treatment. Just last week I was walking through the lunchroom heading towards the bathroom, when one particular douchebag on the football team called me a "fag". I proceeded to inform him that he is the result of someone trying to give themself an abortion with a clothes hanger, and the assistant principal happened to be in the area; of course, I got written up while he got off scot-free.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 10:07 pm

Yeah, that's probably the one thing that sucks about not going to catholic school anymore. On a sidenote, being 13 can be kinda cool. You guys see underage, I see older women.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 10:20 pm

Bobashotmace wrote:

I've seen both. Mahatma significantly more often though.

Mohandas was Ghandi's actual first name. Mohandas Ghandi. "Mahatma" is an Indian social title meaning "great soul." They reserve it for very special, very important people. I'm trying to think of an American equivalent, but I can't right now lol. Closest I can think is kind of like the Japanese calling their teacher Sensei--its a title of respect.

Edit: I should probably actually contribute to the discussion and not just throw out info, huh. In terms of school uniforms, I think they're unnecessary. If most schools just enforced the dress codes they have (along with tightening them up a little bit maybe), they'd be just fine. Problem is, no one wants to deal with an irate parent who's pissed because their kid got sent home for what s/he was wearing.

Posted: Feb 02 2009 10:21 pm

Cam, that's a kickass comeback!

Posted: Feb 02 2009 11:46 pm

ThatGuy wrote:

On a sidenote, being 13 can be kinda cool. You guys see underage, I see older women.

Hehe, that's how I see it!

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Syd Lexia wrote:

You know who had uniforms? THE NAZIS!

I'm going to use that the next time I have to talk about uniforms in my English class

In my school if we want to watch a movie the teacher has to go to the district office and clear it with them. Then you have to send out permission slips if it is over PG

Other than that my school rules are pretty fair. We can do what we feel like between classes as long as we are in class before the bell, we can go off campus if we want to get food. Unless we start a fight we are pretty much left to ourselves

Posted: Feb 03 2009 01:49 am

My middle school also banned what they called "flick tabs." Those are the little plastic tabs that are used to tie up bread.

They banned them because people would flick them at people and they could be dangerous if you got hit with one that was flicked properly.

My middle school also banned Pogs because some kid pulled a knife on another kid after he lost a game of Pogs.

Posted: Feb 03 2009 01:54 am

hacker wrote:

In my school if we want to watch a movie the teacher has to go to the district office and clear it with them. Then you have to send out permission slips if it is over PG

It wasn't in my period, but my 11th grade English class was covering Of Mice and Men. We were watching it on VHS (from the school's own library). Long story short, one of the assistant principals came into the class for something right at a point where one of the characters said some profanity. He immediately walked up, stopped the tape and "confiscated" it (assuming you can apply that term to taking something you own in the first place). If it was from the school library, logic dictates that it was allowed viewing!

Posted: Feb 03 2009 01:58 am

I never understood the rules on movies in school. I can understand if you are under 17 but in my junior and senior high school years I took a film class and I was 17 my junior year and 18 my senior year and I still had to get my parents to sign the permission form even though I was of legal age to watch R rated movies.