The 31 Most Ridiculous School Rules Students Were Forced to Follow

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If you leaned back on your chair, even slightly, you had to pay all of your lunch money to the teacher. Only one teacher did this. Seems pretty sketch but noone ever really reported it.

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“Lunch detention” meant standing next to a wall with your nose touching the wall for 15 minutes. Eventually there was not enough wall to go around so they had us lined up behind each other essentially just standing in formation for 15 minutes.

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In my primary school, the boys stalls were divided among classes, and boys were only allowed to use the stalls for their class. All because one kid had the habbit of picking up his poo and writing all over the stall.

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My high school spent a shit ton of money remodeling their gymnasium over one summer. When the next school year began, students were not allowed to use it because the administration didn’t want to ruin the floor or the new bleachers. So, no PE class inside, no indoor basketball / volleyball, no indoor running, no indoor activity. Period. I live in a state with brutal winters. It was awful.

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You can’t wear solid Blue or Red shirts. They didn’t want people to start gangs in our small Midwestern town. A group of people rebelled and started wearing leather jackets and slicked back hair and played up the “greaser” stereotype to show how silly it all was. They all got in trouble and threatened with detentions and ISS (In School Suspension).

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We were not allowed to stand in circles at recess. Some teacher was afraid we would get up to something while standing in a circle. In protest we stood in a giant circle but made sure we were all at least several metres away from the next closest person. When the teacher who initiated the van on circles noticed what we were doing (after 20 minutes) she threw a fit and demanded we stop standing standing in a circle. We argued that we were all just individuals standing around and turned in different directions. The ban was not enforced after that day.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.