25 Salty Folks Share What Was Banned from Their Schools

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Eric Lund
Sep 17, 2019 1:30 PM EDT

It didn't take a lot to get something banned. Usually if anything was too fun, it was deemed a distraction and had to go. Sometimes kids would have a cool game going, then one kid would lose it, throw a tantrum and ruin it for everyone. Sometimes kids started black markets to sell contraband out of their lockers. Those were the days. For more nostalgic school stories, here are people's cringiest high-school moments.

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    Text - schalowendofthepool 19.4k points 23 hours ago e Randomization. People would gather around a vending machine and chant "Randomize!" and the person perfoming the "ceremony" would punch the keyboard and get a random snack.
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    Text - eatsgrass 17.6k points 1 day ago 2 Rulers. Year 10 in HS for whatever reason someone decided to smack a guy across the head with a ruler. Then everyone went out and bought a ruler. Suddenly everyone was a knight with a sword. Staff kept confiscating them but rulers are cheap so kids just went out and bought them by the handful. They ended up banning rulers. At a school. The kids who were taking geometry that year and needed them had to be assigned rulers at the beginning of class and then
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    Text - thedudegamer_youtube 10.4k points 1 day ago We are only allowed to have 2€ money for bus. If a teacher that even cares caught you, the teacher would be allowed to take the money and editea keep it. This was changed due to making it crime. One time a teacher took 75€ from a student, luckily she was forced to give it back
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    Text - AntsinthePants87 8.5k points 1 day ago Warheads. It grew to such an issue with these sour candies, kids were organizing a black market where the kids with the highest allowance would buy them in bulk from the corner stores for a nickel each, distribute them to upper classmen for a quarter each, who would turn around and sell them to the final consumer for fifty cents each candy. There was even a barrier to entry if you wanted in the business. You would have to eat three candies at once an
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    Text - run_fast-eat_ass 8.4k points 1 day ago Putting condoms on everything. Pens, peoples heads, arms, bags, shoes, smart-board remotes, baseball bats, clocks, balls, literally anything The best bit was that the school gave out free condoms. They were fuelling the opposition After a week, there was a ban on condoms being out in public. Anyone seen with a condom that wasn't in their bag or blazer was immediately given a detention
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    Text - Cnote0717 15.8k points 23 hours ago There was a kid in my high school who made probably around $500 in a month for making duct tape wallets. Administration found out but didn't ban the wallets, just banned "conducting business" on school grounds
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    Text - slider728 8.1k points 1 day ago Rubber Bands Kids weren't even using them to shoot at other kids or otherwise misbehave with them. Kids would buy packs of rubber bands, tie the rubber bands together, making like a big rubber band chain. It became a contest to see who could get a chain of rubber bands to stretch the farthest. You couldn't find a pack of rubber bands at a store for probably 20 miles (this was when I lived in a small town, so there wasn't a ton of stores in that 20 miles...A
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    Text - edited 11 hours ago3 The kid that started a tuck shop out of his locker. Voyezlesprit 7.6k points 1 day ago Went to a whole sellers, bought some stuff, sold it, used the profits to buy more, repeat & repeat until he's now staffing a child-guard to stop shop-lifting, and renting other peoples lockers for stock overflow. Our classroom just became kids queueing to buy sweets and energy drinks. Sometimes a line so long in 15 minutes he couldn't get everyone waiting served Then, bam. Banned. N
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    Text - jaseguitar 15.3k points 1 day ago People bringing in their GameBoy Color and playing during recess. Kids were getting mad they weren't getting turns and they were afraid of someone stealing games
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    Text - vinny-contini 4.4k points 23 hours ago Rock Paper Scissors. People at my middle school kept playing a game called Oreo, where you play Rock Paper Scissors and the loser has to do a dare According to the teachers, it got out of hand (it really didn't none of the dares were that bad), so they decided to ban... Rock Paper Scissors. Hearing that on the announcements in the morning instantaneously killed half of my brain cells. If you were caught playing Rock Paper Scissors, you would immediat
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    Text - Zhurg 4.1k points 1 day ago We legit had a half an hour lecture in assembly because our year apparently said 'sorry' too often edited 11 hours I'm English
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    Text - JibberJabberwocky89 3.8k points 1 day ago Clackers. They were two small, hard balls on either end of a long string. You made them clack against each other, but the bullies would hit you upside the head with them instead. Am old
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    Text - Overcookedcookie 3.5k points 1 day agoS) Pogs Share Report Save monowedge 1.8k points 1 day ago Yup. We got the "it's a form of gambling" once a bunch of losers lost the pogs they bet and then complained about it
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    Text - middlesuspect 21.5k points 23 hours ago S Capri suns - kids were too stupid to figure out how to get the straws in and teachers got tired of helping everyone.
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    Text - olkdork 2.9k points 1 day ago In third grade, a few kids got obsessed with the words cheese, FedEx, and camel. They said them all the time and those words got banned for the entire class
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    Text - BerlinChandler 13 .2k points 1 day ago When I was younger, we played this where you'd draw a circle on your hand, and other people would try to drawa line inside of it. If someone was able to draw a line in your circle, then you were out. The objective of the game was to be the last one standing. It was small at first, but eventually almost everyone in my grade became involved, and it spiraled out of control. Chaos. Pure fucking chaos. Kids were tackling each other, running away from othe
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    Text - 1 day ago Bitbatgaming 6.5k points Pokemon Cards Share Report Save rijm88 3.6k points 1 day ago Pokemon was banned for being popular, Magic was banned for being Satanic. Share Report Save t ApolloRocketOfLove 2.4k points Pokemon cards got banned at my school because they became an underground 1 day ago currency, and kids were having their cards stolen by bigger kids. It became a huge scandal built out of a bunch of incidents. I remember in the beginning, if you had a super rare card, you'
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    Text - Herogamer555 2.6k points 1 day ago Yu-Gi-Oh. Used to be everyone would show up an hour before school started and we'd play until first bell. Then some little shit named Tyler decided to wager one of his cards and he lost. He ran to his mommy crying about it and then no more Yu-Gi-Oh. Fuck you Tyler, don't bet something you aren't willing to lose
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    Text - 1 day agoS scruffydogfan 11.9k points Slap bracelets Share Report Save Ron_Fuckin_Swanson 4.7k points 21 hours ago I remember in the 80's/early 90's when they got banned at my school. The rumor that went around school was that somewhere some kid had sliced their finger down to the bone with a cheap imitation slap bracelet And now parents all over the country were pushing back
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    Text - to_the_tenth_power 1.9k points1 day ago Those rubber bracelets that denoted different causes that were popular in the early-to-mid 2000s. We ended up setting up a little black market for them with people trading and different ones and having their arms covered to the elbows in them.
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    Text - tubewatch 5.1k points 23 hours ago I'm 60. When I was in 3rd grade sunflower seeds were banned. I was told the teachers thought they were drugs.
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    Text - cricket9818 1.5k points 1 day ago edited 3 hours ago When I was in elementary school in the late '90's there was a fad where we would collect Absolute Vodka and Milk Moustache ads in binders (similar to pokemon cards). It was savage, kids would bring in magazines by the dozens and just strip out the pages with the ads on it. School banned them because it was such a massive distraction
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    Text - ChilloutBurner 1.6k points 22 hours ago Gel pens... When I was in primary school there was this weird trend where all the girls would suck on the ends of gel pens so their tongues turned into different colours. They would trade pens with each other in the school bathrooms and sneak away from the teachers and go to hidden parts of the school yard so they didn't get caught, it was the closest I can think of comparing to a drug ring but imagine it with 7 year old girls. One of my friends was
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    Text - edited 15 hours ago shivercomplex 10.7k points 1 day ago Hair flips Circa 2003, long skater hair was very trendy. Said Kids were flipping their hair out of their eyes/face. An 8th grade history teacher went on a vendetta under the reasoning that hair flips pollute the air with 'hair dirt'. Kids started getting detentions
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    Text - Antewalle 5.0k points 23 hours ago In sweden we had this thing called böghög, translate to gay pile. As soon as someone was on the ground lying, everyone threw themselves on making a pile of ppl
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