Daft School Rules

Si · Post by Si » Mon 23 Nov, 2009 3:41 pm

We were also given lines. It helped if you taped two or three pens together! Other similar punishments were copying out a page of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, or stupid 1000 word essays like "The Sex Life of the Inside of a Ping-Pong Ball!"

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Mon 23 Nov, 2009 5:04 pm

Back in the '50's we were forbidden from watching the girls playing netball in the schoolyard, thus depriving us of the sight of girls wearing their sugarbag-blue or bottle-green knickers. Still the occasional peak from time to time was worth the odd slippering or 500 lines!

weenie · Post by **weenie** » Mon 23 Nov, 2009 10:57 pm

one daft school rule that i think still goes around now,Suspension from school for knocking off!!!i knocked off school - with my fathers permission as he use to say "your choice! your education!, dont blame me when ya fick in head an'on dole" this was for a bout 3 days, the head of year rang up are house, in which i answerd the phone. with an alright "hello" the head of year replying is that you miss Jones? i replied yes in a voice that changed to something meant to sound ill, with my reply saying i've tonsilitus. his reply came with "put your father on the telephone right away and will deal with you tomorrow" Me dad after a few words with the teacher came back and said "your in it now, are weena" although he's just given ya nuther 3 days off for bleeding knocking off!, Where's thee mentallity in that eh?"

Crazy Jane · Post by **Crazy Jane** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 2:21 pm

Not actually a daft school rule at all, but i didn't want to start a new thread just for this.This rather tickled me this morning:7 Foot Bird Escapes a Stuffingbecause unless my memory is playing tricks on me, this guy used to be 'cock' of his year at Smeaton. A cock dressed as a turkey!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 4:34 pm

Our school consisted of a hall surrounded by classrooms, lettered from A to K. The hall was a rectangle, opposite one another on the long walls of the rectangle were the girls and boys entrances. As you came in the boys entrance room "F" was on your right, but you couldn't turn right to get to it. Why? Because the school rule was that you must walk around the hall in single file, in silence and in a clockwise direction. The most stupid rule I've ever come across anywhere.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 4:51 pm

I came across the same rule at a school in Germany (on some sort of 'lets not have another war' trip). The school was modernish, for obvious reasons, circular and had one main corridor. Oh what fun we had! ;-D

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Tue 22 Dec, 2009 8:17 pm

Crazy Jane wrote: Not actually a daft school rule at all, but i didn't want to start a new thread just for this.This rather tickled me this morning:7 Foot Bird Escapes a Stuffingbecause unless my memory is playing tricks on me, this guy used to be 'cock' of his year at Smeaton. A cock dressed as a turkey! The bit that made me laugh was him saying he'd dressed as an elf in green tights last year and that was much "cooler"Wonder if he meant that in the sense of getting more air to his giblets or "lookin cool" ? I don't think a man in tights of any colour is "cool"

Crazy Jane · Post by **Crazy Jane** » Wed 23 Dec, 2009 3:41 pm

Batman wore tights. That was pretty cool

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Thu 24 Dec, 2009 9:34 am

Crazy Jane wrote: Batman wore tights. That was pretty cool OK I'll give you that one!

Uno Hoo · Post by **Uno Hoo** » Thu 24 Dec, 2009 2:02 pm

Trojan wrote: Our school consisted of a hall surrounded by classrooms, lettered from A to K. The hall was a rectangle, opposite one another on the long walls of the rectangle were the girls and boys entrances. As you came in the boys entrance room "F" was on your right, but you couldn't turn right to get to it. Why? Because the school rule was that you must walk around the hall in single file, in silence and in a clockwise direction. The most stupid rule I've ever come across anywhere. Actually, although I can understand the frustration of having to walk right round instead of the more direct route, I can also understand the sense of having lots of kids milling in one direction only rather than the inevitable collisions which would have taken place otherwise. It would be a daft rule, though, if enforced when only one person had to make the journey, e.g during lesson times to go to the toilet, or on some other errand.