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Schools administrators are going crazy with the little power they have?

When I was in school I got sent home for having a hole in my jeans the size of a dime on my pocket, meaning you couldn't even see any skin, but it was okay for the cheerleaders and volleyball players to walk around in their skimpy uniforms during school hours.

The administration took more time disrupting class trying to take care of the clothing "problem" than the clothing was distracting us from class, then they would send students home to change and the students would later get written up for absences when they got sent home, and missing work.

 

They also claim piercings are a distraction when NO student notices these things, and barely any of the teachers do. 

The adminstrators are so far up their ass because the little power they have though and think they're helping the students.

 

Here's more examples of ridiculous, yet funny, rules schools have:

http://www.neoflux.com/content/horrible/

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Yes they are going crazy but my school you can have ripped jeans and they won't tell you to get to the office and call your parents. I got to say that the link you posted was kind of dumb how the school suspended people for only tiny little things that weren't a big deal.

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It's how it is in most schools though, does your school have any ridiculous rules, I'm sure they do.

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I honestly didn't know that America had uniform problems. I thought us Brits were the only ones stupid enough to implement punishments for showing skin. No matter.

Anyway, it is rather silly how much power the administrators have, especially when they use it on discipline. For example, at our school, we have a system called "consequences", where misbehaviour results in having ones name put on a board, having it put on 4 times in one lesson results in being removed from the lesson, and a detention. Oooh, sounds scary, doesn't it? Except, when you do the math, you realise how impotent it is.

You are allowed to make 3 errors without consequence. On average, there are 25 people in a class. We have 5 lessons a day.

3 X 25 X 5 = 375

Our lessons can be interrupted 375 TIMES A DAY without consequence, thanks to our consequences system. WHAT THE FUN WERE THEY THINKING!!!!!!!!

... Sorry about my rant. I thought it was somewhat relevant though. It links to the author's story of uniform pettiness, bringing an image of what happens when you give these people too much power.

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No, we certainly have a dress code as well, though it's more strict in certain schools, and more unimportant in others.

That IS ridiculous, though I'd prefer that then right out suspending us for a small thing like they tend to do here. One small thing and they freak out... Hell, they're more considered about the dress code, because it's easier to find, than the students smoking in the bathrooms during lessons. THAT pisses me off the most, that they turn a blind eye at the more important things because they're more difficult to crack down on.

They let the power get to their heads, and they need a good slap to open their eyes at what's really important for the students education.

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Yup, what we have here then, is two extremes. Your system, in which students are disproportionately punished for meaningless "offences" that the teachers themselves probably commit regularly. And our system, which claims to be tough and disciplined, yet has a complete deficiency in any kind of discipline. They both only support the premise of the question.

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In my school, you can't give a detention to a kid for cyber bullying- which indirectly led to another girl's death- but if you're one minute late to class you get a detention. Class starts as 7:55 and I managed to score a detention three times for being there at 7:56 each time. While the detention itself wouldn't be annoying, they refuse to let us postpone it to another date so we can attend after school clubs or teams. And they make you run down to get a slip, and most kids can't make it to their locker before first period which results in yet another detention.

Although this is honestly better than my middle school where somehow a kid managed to get detention for wearing two different shades of white socks. They have a policy of only wearing white socks but how did they manage to peer at your feet long enough to see that your socks don't match?

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O_O For socks?! Seriously, they have nothing better to do than look at a child's socks -__- Wow.

To be honest, I think schools have more administrators than necessary, I mean what are they there for? I only saw them giving out write ups and suspensions, but that seems like something the teachers can do without help.

I understand needing to give punishment for being late excessively, but only within reason. I was almost never late to my classes, and if I was I had a valid excuse that the teacher personally let me get away with. And seriously, what are you missing for that ONE minute you're not in the classroom?

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At my school we had someone who came quite the celebrity called "banana man". He wore a banana suite and ran across the football field during a game so he got suspended for 4 days (About 4 days) and that was to be expected. But then people started joking around about "free banana man" and the principals and administrators became so paranoid that they would take students bananas away during lunch! Sending students to the office for wearing yellow shirts. Talk about going crazy with power...

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