AskReddit Thread: Dumbest Rules People's Schools Enforced

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mattstaff
May 18, 2021 11:00 AM EDT

Schools and their armies of teachers can end up getting pretty carried away when it comes to the kinds of ridiculous rules that they enforce. Maybe you were one of those unfortunate students who ended up being punished for breaking a "rule" that you honestly couldn't believe existed in the first place. 

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    Font - bignastty · 20h 1 Award my school had 3 staircases along a very long corridor. we were banned from using the middle staircase because it got overcrowded. the ban was lifted once they realised it only made the other two staircases just as crowded G Reply 4 1.2k 3 ...
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    Font - passatcar · 20h 2 Awards Elementary school principal banned talking at lunch. If you were caught talking or even signing to someone, you had to go sit by yourself on a folding chair with no table. There was once my mom came to eat lunch with my older sister and I. The principal was like " Oh you should go eat out in the hallway with your daughters" and she was like "nah, I'm gonna sit here with my daughter and her friends and talk to them and enjoy their presence" (usually if a parent cam
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    Rectangle - MrFake_Name · 20h 1 Award If you throw snowballs, you get a one day suspension. The first long weekend after a snowfall everyone would throw snowballs to get an additional day added to the long weekend. G Reply 1 2.1k 3 ...
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    Font - LiveTrash · 20h 1 Award The new Principal made a "morning round-up" rule where anyone arriving to class after the last bell had to go to the cafeteria and listen to a lecture about not being late for class. This took about an extra 15 minutes, making the students even more late to class than they would have otherwise been. Needless to say, everyone hated it, even the teachers. That principal didn't last long... G Reply 1 5.7k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - uncertain_spaghetto · 22h 3 1 Award We once had a rule that we could only go to the bathromm during class. Not in the breaks. Only during class. G Reply 1 14.4k 3 ...
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    Font - nospamkhanman · 21h O 4 Awards Banned all backpacks / bags on campus. Students were expected to somehow carry everything they needed in hand. This was especially challenging if you had a non ideal locker placement. G Reply 4 31.2k 3 ...
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    Font - Captainbuttsreads · 20h O 2 Awards We were not allowed to have facial hair at allI. Like to the point where the principal would walk around during lunch with razors and shaving cream and do "Stubble checks". Absolutely ridiculous and he would send tons of us to the bathrooms to shave during lunch, no matter how small the stubble was. G Reply 2.6k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - DavyJonesArmoire · 21h 3 Awards Playing cards at lunch was prohibited because it "promoted gambling". G Reply 18.0k 3 ...
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    Font - BW_Bird · 21h 3 2 Awards In grade school, we weren't allowed to play on the playground equipment when it snowed. Eventually, were weren't allowed to play with snow or even go near it- I got in trouble for sitting in snow. This was in Minnesota where it snows half the year. Recess basically consisted of milling around the blacktop for thirty minutes. G Reply 4 22.4k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - Comprehensive_Pin_90 · 22h 7 Awards Took all the doors off the men's room bathroom stalls because of vandalism for 2 months. + G Reply 4 22.6k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - auctionhauser • 21h So many... You weren't allowed to wear a coat or a backpack (always freezing with tons of books), no card games at all, 5 minutes between classes (sprawling 1 story building barely leaves time to pee) G Reply 4 8.2k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - 21h 1 Award You have to wear your tie all the way home. Some sad bastard teachers would stand on the main road away from the school and try to hand out detentions in presumably their own time G Reply 4 24.0k 3 ...
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    Font - no_ragrets_• 22h 1 Award My friend is an administrator at a private school in NJ and the faculty has to sign in and out of the bathroom using Google sheets. 9am, 10 minutes, M-F 6 Reply 1 22.3k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - thejuiceburgler · 21h I got in trouble for humming to myself in the bathroom and told I was disturbing another class G Reply 4 5.3k 3 ...
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    Font - Loseruser1201 · 21h 6 Awards Locked the only boys bathroom because someone wrote on the wall in sharpie. It wasn't even anything rude or inappropriate either. It was just the word "hi" or something like that. Didn't unlock the door until one boy wet himself and parents threatened to sue. G Reply 33.2k ...
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