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Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You can't be late more than x times. Sounds fair till u realise the school bus was always late hence racking up like 200 official warnings. School couldn't change the rule cos government regulations bus couldn't get there sooner cos government refused to change the shedule.

[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My school at some point tried to be very extreme about being late. A new rule was that if you were late for even 1 minute, you won't be allowed in the school.

I was literally walking to the door and saw a kid go in, but I wasn't allowed in because oh I guess I was a few seconds too late.

Me and other teenagers crowded around the front door and the exchange was basically this

"So you won't let us in?"

"No, you were late. Go home."

And we all shrugged and took the day off. Needless to say the rule didn't last very long and there were many angry parents.

[โ€“] Late2TheParty 8 points 7 months ago

Homie! My school was neighbors to a bar right next to the train station. When they said, "no," I said party!

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

My school briefly had a rule that when you were late, you could take a note (3 notes = detention), OR you could go to headmaster and explain yourself during lunchbreak.

Lunchbreak was 40 minutes, so if you stood there for more than 40 minutes, you'd be late for the next class, meaning you'd of course show up again tomorrow. Repeat for a while and there were kids lined up through the hallway, standing in line to explain they were late due to standing in line.

The rule only lasted a few weeks. They changed it so that you could get 9 notes before detention.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why couldn't the school change the rule though? Weren't they free to have implemented it in the first place? Once it became apparent it was unworkable couldn't they have changed it?