• Mex@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    No taking your blazer off in class unless you ask the teachers permission and they agree (this one was later relaxed during summer terms because of the amount of complaints).

  • SbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Iirc our primary school banned the book series ‘Goosebumps’. At the time it seemed a bit daft but now I’m not even sure what they were trying to enforce.

    It’s not like 8 year old kids are running around the playground in groups of 6-7 reading books together. And there’s absolutely no way they could expect parents to stop reading/letting the kids read the books at home because, well if I walked in and found my eldest reading… anything I’d go out of my way to encourage it.

  • mackwinston@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Forcing the younger kids to wear shorts in the middle of the coldest winters, and forcing the older kids to wear (really hot) trousers in the heat of the hottest summers.

  • Brimos@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    They banned pixie sticks by threat of suspension for a first offense… to be fair, people were being pretty dumb and snorting them though, so yea.

  • brewery@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Not a school rule but a new English teacher in our first lesson with him had a massive go at me for the audacity of drinking from my water bottle on my desk without asking him first. This is in Year 11 and I had been doing that in other classes that day without issue. He didnt even nicely say something like ‘please don’t do that for future reference’, hejust had a go at me which was fun given I was actually a goody two shoes so took it to heart!

    We had to stand up when a teacher came into the room (I was in secondary school in the late 90s). I know schools tended to all do this many years ago but seems quite rare in my age group. I understand the rule and was fine with it but not sure if it really does anything.

    • Afghaniscran@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Sounds like you went to my school. They enforced that and I had my last year there in 2009. Also blazer removal and also having hair below the collar and also hair products and also mobile phones etc etc. Basically they wanted us to be little working soldiers to prop up the country by trying to remove any sense of individualism from us before we were old enough to realise.