bro, my school had a no running policy in the hallways like we were in a library or something. big yikes, we all just walked super slow and got late to class.
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SpinTheBoloMar 28, 2026
+1
How big is that school?
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DrawingElectronic819Mar 28, 2026
+3
I am a teacher so I work at school. There are dumb rules for students as well as teachers.
I guess one dumb rule for students is you're not allowed to dye your hair because it's against the uniform policy. Guys can't have long hair unless it's a religious requirement (like you're a Sikh or something) or maybe if you're Orthodox Jewish and you grow out your sideburns.
For teachers there are a lot of rules that sound great on paper but just fall apart in real life.
Our policy is that students have to get an a minimum grade of 50% if they made an “honest attempt.” At first, it made sense. If a student totally bombed a test but say they were in class every day, they did all the assignments up until that point, and maybe they passed the quizzes leading up to the test, I was like "Yeah, maybe we should cut 'em some slack”
But over time people got lazy with how it's enforced. Basically it was as long as they turned something in they get a 50. So now you have people who game the system because they feel like they don't want to do homework that night, and you also have honest people who are pissed off because they're doing their best but other people are gaming the system.
Then there are just minor things that you can get written people get written up for. There's currently a group of snitches at my job who apparently dislike me. So they will try and report me for dress code violations, having headphones in while I work, ending class "exactly at the bell," or ending class a minute before the bell. One day I forgot to reset the sliding whiteboards to the "down" position. It turned out the teacher who had it after me is 5'1". I'm not that tall either... I'm like 5'8" or 5'9" depending on the day. Anyways I got written up after she complained about it. Apparently a minor oversight became something like "You don't care about your colleagues," because she looked "ridiculous" by having to ask one of the students to move the board down.
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Tiglath-Pileser_IIIMar 28, 2026
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Not a teacher here but it seems to me if they were in class every day and did decently in the quizzes but they bombed the test, it shows that a) they don't understand the content despite trying hard or b) exceptional circumstances conspired against them. In b) an opportunity for a resit could fix it, and a) shows they're obviously not getting something and need more help. Passing them simply means they get further over their heads. Almost seems a bit cruel.
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DrawingElectronic819Mar 28, 2026
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You could argue it either way. I guess I can see it as a one off thing where a normally decent student has an off day and bombs. I've seen something like this and I felt bad for the kid. I'm less sympathetic when it regularly happens. I'm amenable to the idea of re-dos, but that opens up a can of worms because we'd probably need to make re-dos available to everyone, schedule it, and all that stuff.
But in this case, in an ideal world, the "50% rule" should only be used maybe once a semester, if that. The thing is, as it stands now, for the actual decent students who would need it their idea of "Bombing a test" is a 60 or 70 which means that it has no effect.
For me, if you can't enforce something fairly, even if it's a benefit, you shouldn't have it at all.
I am still kind of against it because I know the potential for abuse. At this point we just know it's trying to legalize grade inflation by making it look like "equity" or whatever buzzword they want.
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s-e-x_h-i-p-sMar 28, 2026
+1
Used to have a rule at an old work place where you were not allowed to whistle.
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Hour-Development-166Mar 28, 2026
+1
"The bell doesn't dismiss you, I do."
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youroffrsMar 28, 2026
+2
pointless dress code
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laneyboy101Mar 28, 2026
+1
I remember at infant school they tried to ban running on the playground. It was ridiculous. After a couple of weeks they quietly stopped mentioning it.
Also they weren't allowed to put a plaster on a kid and had to ring your mum up to ask her to come in and do it. I remember sitting there bleeding from the knee and nobody could put a plaster on me. Dunno if that's still the case but I think after a few weeks that was quietly ignored too.
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TheModWhoShaggedMeMar 28, 2026
+1
The invisible rules in place that protect bullies and jerks.
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