It's not just the prospect of having to abide by draconian dress codes that has students up in arms. Their teachers and other authority figures have also been guilty of implementing some rather ridiculous rules. Who likes those?
Thanks to Redditor ItStillIsntLupus, who asked the online community, "What was your school's dumbest rule?" we learned that our schools might have actually ranked much lower on the dumb scale. What were these schools even thinking?!
"You could use the drinking fountain..."
No water. You could use the drinking fountain once per day. I think they didn't want people going to the bathroom all the time, but the school didn't have any air conditioning either so kids always ended up in the nurse's office.
"The district board..."
GiphyThey banned us from playing Uno. The district board literally banned us from playing a card game during lunch because it 'promotes gambling'. We tried to play during lunch last semester and we were almost expelled.
'We don't know you're not gambling.'
'I don't have money to afford lunch what makes you think I have money to gamble away on an Uno game?'
We have to file a request with the deans ahead of time in order to play, that is, if they even say yes.
"My high school had a rule..."
My high school had a rule that no group of people could wear matching outfits or it was gang related (except for the high school sports team exemption). So a bunch of us got together and started wearing suits and claiming to be in a gang with the principal to try and get him suspended.
"For a brief period..."
For a brief period of time, we couldn't roll up our sleeves if wearing a long sleeve shirt because that's where the drug dealers hide the marijuana cigarettes apparently (mid 90s).
"If someone ever hit you..."
If someone ever hit you, BOTH you and the attacker would get suspended. Extra suspension if you tried to defend yourself, but even if you did nothing then you would still be punished for "being involved in a fight".
"Our school is supposed to fit..."
My school briefly banned bags from being in the classrooms- so people who didn't use their lockers or have keys (which were quite a few hundred people considering our lockers were VERY small) had to put their bags in the hallways.
This became a problem fairly quickly.
Our school is supposed to fit over 3000-ish people but the time I was there it was beginning to overfill, which meant the hallways would be quite a pain to get through. You could probably guess what happens next, people tripping over bags left and right and teachers didn't even realise that if a fire were to start that all of these bags would be in the way and be a huge hazard.
This rule only lasted a few months.
"Can't ride a different bus..."
Can't ride a different bus to go home with someone else unless it's an emergency.
Have to provide 3 days notice for emergencies.
"The shop used to sell..."
Collecting erasers with flags on them. The shop used to sell these small erasers with country's flag printed on them. The boys started collecting them and playing some domino like game with it. Soon after it got popular the faculty banned buying of flag erasers.
"At my old high school..."
At my old high school girls weren't allowed to wear tank tops/show our shoulders.. it was part of the dress code - deemed to be too "distracting" to others.
"I was in the nurse's office one day..."
I was in the nurse's office one day when my period was particularly gruesome, pale as a ghost and unsteady on my feet, but I couldn't be sent home because I didn't have a fever and I hadn't thrown up.
An unwillingness to learn
"I feel like the classic example is being unable to change your opinion or idea when you are presented with new information."
"You don’t have to set everything you believe in stone."- Rusty_of_Shackleford
"I think a key thing that separates the intelligent from the less intelligent is curiosity and how far you actually go to learn."- TuxedoWolf07
When even they don't know what they're talking about.
"Maybe not unintelligence but ignorance."
"People getting angry when I ask them to explain what they just meant as I want to understand them and not misunderstand."- smokinstuff·
"Getting angry when someone ask them to explain their point."- SuvenPan
Working Julie Andrews GIFGiphyIt's never attractive to gloat
"Obsessively telling everybody how intelligent you are."- terribleUsername18
It's ok to admit defeat every now and then...
"Playing 'last word' in an argument you've lost."- LennonMcCartney65
"Being defensive when corrected instead of just accepting it."- Marthstewart123
"Claiming they are always right but not being able to argument why or have a serious debate about it."- GReatChinook
Drop The Mic GIF by In Real LifeGiphyAre you sure about that?
"Constantly saying 'facts' that are extremely false."
"Gets on my nerves."- Sharkifish
Read the instructions!!!
"I just started driving for UberXL."
"The amount of people who think they can fit 8 people with all their luggage into a midsize SUV is astonishing."
"You can see which car comes to pick you up and it says fits 5 people."
"If you have a piece of luggage each then it's more like 3 people."
"I had one group sit there and stare me down like they didn't understand."
"I swear some people just have a mental limit for figuring things out and they all find each other and never get anywhere."- predict_irrational
One should always reserve judgment, as one never knows for sure what lurks beneath the surface.
Even if more often and not, you are left with little to nothing which encourages you to see what's there.
Overprotective parents tend to be evasive about discussing the birds and the bees with their kids because they feel it's not up to them to have that conversation.
Remember Carrie White's religious mom who refused to talk about intimacy with her 16-year-old?
We all know how that turned out in the classic Stephen King novel.
Anyway, parents turning down an opportunity to have the uncomfortable convo or having their kids miss out on sex education can lead a child to potentially develop damaging misunderstandings about their body and puberty.
The effects of which were explored when Redditor sparklingshanaya asked:
"What’s a sexual misconception you had for way too long?"
It helps to have an earlier understanding about your body when you're younger.
Sex Education
"As a girl, I had no real idea of where/what the vagina was until I was like 11 or 12. My mom didn't give me a real sex talk, just a puberty/body book that said 'the vagina is between the woman's legs' and just had a full frontal diagram (legs closed) of a woman with an arrow pointing to her pelvic region. I also didn't know a period lasted longer than a day until I got mine at 14, and then wondered why it was still going on the next day."
"When my mom realized how abysmal my sex education was, her solution was to rent a video from the library about it and make me watch it on the big family TV in the living room at like 3pm. Granted— it was a very educational video but I won't ever forget one of the educators (a 50 year old woman) talking about how to give a satisfactory blow job."
– ash-on-fire
Hard Epiphany
"Ok so I grew up in a VERY conservative household. Was not allowed to take sex ed in middle school and they helicoptered in high school. Any internet access they had access to view so I never watched porn/looked at pics. Absolutely nothing. So for a long time I thought penises were shaped like a smaller pringles can. I thought it was just like...a straight up cylinder. Moved out at 17 and googled some things and man I had men's anatomy SO wrong."
– WholeLottaIntrovert
Wrong End Of The Stick
"Friend of mine has a similar background and I just about lost my mind when she said the balls are the END of the penis. Like she had seen those doodles and had it upside down so they just dangle off the end of the shaft lmaooo."
– xchakrumx
Let's get verbal about getting oral.
Satisfy A Woman
"Learn to go down on a woman, like become a master at it. Do this."
– ecallawsamoht
Excuse For Supper
"I second this. Been married for 20 years and it's something I'm happy to do."
"Get involved, people."
"Edit: thanks for the medals and upvotes, people! Be assured that I'll be celebrating tonight."
– AhabVanCleef
Semantics
"Friend of a friend thought it meant kissing. And they were like 19. So glad they found out through a conversation and not through a dude asking for it, or her talking about it. That would've been extremely confusing for everyone."
– SilverWaters793
Pucker Up
"My friend back in middle school thought a blowjob meant to literally blow on it. I still tease her about it to this day."
– Ashurii_desu
Failed Expectations
"Man, I thought I was gonna get so many blow jobs. That’s just not true."
– Studying_Politics
As young adolescents, these Redditors got these terminologies mixed up.
Dirty Talk
"When I was around middle school age I thought that oral sex meant talking dirty :’)"
– strawbrykat
"I used to sext with my girlfriend in high school. When we broke up, she just went crazy and told everyone in our grade that I was great at 'oral sex' (she meant sexting💀) School hasn’t been the same since then."
– Particular-Ad4356
Learning By Example
"I was kind of sheltered growing up, and like most sheltered kids, I learned a lot about sex through porn. I kept seeing 'blowjob' videos, and (i had no idea what a blowjob) assumed it was some kind of sex blooper. Like, something got messed up and the director said 'Oh darn, you blew it! Let’s take it from the top.'”
– Danny_my_boy
I had sex education in sixth grade after my parents gave the school permission for me to attend the special assembly centering on the topic.
But I remember how vague the instructor was. By the time I eventually had my first nocturnal emission, I remember being terrified, yet simultaneously elated. It was very confusing, and I didn't know what happened.
I remember reflecting back to sixth grade and thinking the school must've skipped that part in sex ed.