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<p>Schools put rules in place to try optimize the environment for learning, but some rules are so misguided that the students end up learning such lessons as &quot;ankles are sexual&quot; and &quot;bladders can be controlled through sheer force of will.&quot; A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nehqa9/whats_the_dumbest_rule_your_school_ever_enforced/">Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;What&#39;s the dumbest rule your school ever enforced?&quot; Prepare to flash back to the days of detention and the injustice of having to publicly ask for permission to use the bathroom.</p><h2>1. Don&#39;t accessorize.</h2><blockquote> <p>They outlawed bracelets because there was an article in a magazine somewhere saying they advertised what sexual acts you were open for based on their colour.</p> <p>Then someone tried to outlaw wrist watches for the same reason.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/billbaperky/">billbaperky</a></p> </blockquote><h2>2. Adults must report their bowel movements.</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend is an administrator at a private school in NJ and the faculty has to sign in and out of the bathroom using Google sheets.</p> <p>9am, 10 minutes, M-F-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/no__ragrets__/">no__ragrets__</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. Graffitti means no privacy.</h2><blockquote> <p>Took all the doors off the men&#39;s room bathroom stalls because of vandalism for 2 months.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Comprehensive_Pin_90/">Comprehensive_Pin_90</a></p> </blockquote><h2>4. Circles are for criminals.</h2><blockquote> <p>We suddenly one day weren&rsquo;t allowed to stand in circles during recess because, and I quote &ldquo;we could be dealing drugs.&rdquo; I will add that for the years prior we had been standing in circles no problem.</p> <p>Next recess, we stood in a triangle, cue principle going apeshit. Next day we stood in a square, principle kept us inside for a week. And threatened us all with detentions if we did it again etc.</p> <p>I believe their idea was open ended circles so they could see what we were doing. Still stupid.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Xwind03/">Xwind03</a></p> </blockquote><h2>5. &quot;No farting&quot; can lead to sharting.</h2><blockquote> <p>No farting in class.</p> <p>They would say &quot;if u need to fart then go to the toilet&quot; but then 9 times out of 10 if u asked to go the toilet they&#39;d say no.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/1___burner___1/">1___burner___1</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. Sad bastards.</h2><blockquote> <p>You have to wear your tie all the way home. Some sad bastard teachers would stand on the main road away from the school and try to hand out detentions in presumably their own time.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/------__------------/">------__------------</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7. No warmth allowed.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was wearing a regulation uniform jacket in a classroom during winter that had no heating. The teacher demanded I remove my jacket and I refused because I was cold. She sent me to the head mistress.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/s3rvalan/">s3rvalan</a></p> </blockquote><h2>8. Take the long way to homeroom.</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Different staircases for boys and girls.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/brownhijabi/">brownhijabi</a></p> </blockquote><h2>9. Even pants?</h2><blockquote> <p>My school made it compulsory to wear uniform in online classes.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/boht-jayaz69/">boht-jayaz69</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10. Bloody hell.</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>&quot;Don&#39;t damage school property&quot; sounds reasonable enough until you get detention for staining a chair after suddenly getting your period. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RedheadedRobin/">RedheadedRobin</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. Adding insult to injury.</h2><blockquote> <p>&lsquo;No ripped jeans&rsquo;</p> <p>They enforced it to the point that when I fell in school, scrapped me knee and ended up needing stitches (obviously ripping my jeans in the process). They still dragged me to the office to suspend me for the day because me jeans were ripped. I was left there, stitched up, blood drying on my jeans as the vice principal yelled at me that my outfit was &ldquo;inappropriate&rdquo;.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Justhearmeoit/">Justhearmeoit</a></p> </blockquote><h2>12. Should have brought diapers.</h2><blockquote> <p>No leaving the dorm unless it&#39;s for a fire alarm.</p> <p>I went to boarding school from the age of 7. That rule meant we couldn&#39;t get out of our dormitory to have a wee in the night. We had a plastic tub one of the girls brought in and went in that. Then we had to smuggle the tub to the bathroom in the morning without matron seeing. Stupid bloody rule! -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shinyhappycat/">shinyhappycat</a></p> </blockquote><h2>13. Luck be a lady tonight.</h2><blockquote> <p>Playing cards at lunch was prohibited because it &quot;promoted gambling.&quot;-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DavyJonesArmoire/">DavyJonesArmoire</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. Encouraging dehydration.</h2><blockquote> <p>You could only go to the bathroom twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.</p> <p>Mind you this is from 8-3 and you had to get a new pass every week and keep it the whole time or you couldn&rsquo;t use the bathroom.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/obsessedoverfood/">obsessedoverfood</a></p> </blockquote><h2>15. Very creepy to enforce this one.</h2><blockquote> <p>No coloured bras. I went to an all-girls school and we wore uniforms and the top was a light colour and very see-through for some reason (so it was easy to tell if you had a pink bra on for example). The weird thing was it was always the male teachers who called students out for breaking this rule.... yikes.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sharkbisc/">sharkbisc</a></p> </blockquote><h2>16. Hyper-specific body-shaming.</h2><blockquote> <p>Girls weren&rsquo;t allowed to show their ankles. The dean had a pack of socks in her office she would give the students and make them wear. Only girls tho. This was the 2000s.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LoveAndDynamite/">LoveAndDynamite</a></p> </blockquote><h2>17. Cold chocolate only.</h2><blockquote> <p>No hot drinks. Rumour said it was because the principal burnt himself while drinking something so he banned it.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thrashingkaiju/">thrashingkaiju</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18. An efficient way to teach children what a bong is.</h2><blockquote> <p>A few weird ones and their reasoning behind making them:</p> <p>-Girls weren&#39;t allowed to wear tops with spaghetti straps because they could be easily cut with scissors.</p> <p>-No tube tops either, because they could easily be pulled down</p> <p>-No bra straps showing whatsoever, because it was considered indecent</p> <p>-No soft drinks with actual sugar because if it spilled it would make a sticky mess. Diet soft drinks were fine because they wouldn&#39;t get as sticky</p> <p>-No beverages of any kind (only in certain classrooms), because f*ck you if you&#39;re thirsty.</p> <p>-No shirts from the company &quot;Billabong&quot; because it says &quot;bong&quot; and that&#39;s a drug reference.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lookalive07/">lookalive07</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 former students share the dumbest rule their school ever enforced.

Schools put rules in place to try optimize the environment for learning, but some rules are so misguided that the students end up learning such lessons as &quot;ankles are sexual&quot; and &quot;bladders can be controlled through sheer force of will.&quot; A Reddit thread asked, &quot;What&#39;s the dumbest rule your school ever enforced?&quot; Prepare to flash back to the days of detention and the injustice of having to publicly ask for permission to use the bathroom.1. Don&#39;t accessorize. They outlawed bracelets because there was an article in a magazine somewhere saying they advertised what sexual acts you were open for based on their colour. Then someone tried to outlaw wrist watches for the same reason.-billbaperky 2. Adults must report their bowel movements. My friend is an administrator at a private school in NJ and the faculty has to sign in and out of the bathroom using Google sheets. 9am, 10 minutes, M-F-no__ragrets__ 3. Graffitti means no privacy. Took all the doors off the men&#39;s room bathroom stalls because of vandalism for 2 months.-Comprehensive_Pin_90 4. Circles are for criminals. We suddenly one day weren&rsquo;t allowed to stand in circles during recess because, and I quote &ldquo;we could be dealing drugs.&rdquo; I will add that for the years prior we had been standing in circles no problem. Next recess, we stood in a triangle, cue principle going apeshit. Next day we stood in a square, principle kept us inside for a week. And threatened us all with detentions if we did it again etc. I believe their idea was open ended circles so they could see what we were doing. Still stupid.-Xwind03 5. &quot;No farting&quot; can lead to sharting. No farting in class. They would say &quot;if u need to fart then go to the toilet&quot; but then 9 times out of 10 if u asked to go the toilet they&#39;d say no.-1___burner___1 6. Sad bastards. You have to wear your tie all the way home. Some sad bastard teachers would stand on the main road away from the school and try to hand out detentions in presumably their own time.-------__------------ 7. No warmth allowed. I was wearing a regulation uniform jacket in a classroom during winter that had no heating. The teacher demanded I remove my jacket and I refused because I was cold. She sent me to the head mistress.-s3rvalan 8. Take the long way to homeroom.  Different staircases for boys and girls.-brownhijabi 9. Even pants? My school made it compulsory to wear uniform in online classes.-boht-jayaz69 10. Bloody hell.  &quot;Don&#39;t damage school property&quot; sounds reasonable enough until you get detention for staining a chair after suddenly getting your period. -RedheadedRobin 11. Adding insult to injury. &lsquo;No ripped jeans&rsquo; They enforced it to the point that when I fell in school, scrapped me knee and ended up needing stitches (obviously ripping my jeans in the process). They still dragged me to the office to suspend me for the day because me jeans were ripped. I was left there, stitched up, blood drying on my jeans as the vice principal yelled at me that my outfit was &ldquo;inappropriate&rdquo;.-Justhearmeoit 12. Should have brought diapers. No leaving the dorm unless it&#39;s for a fire alarm. I went to boarding school from the age of 7. That rule meant we couldn&#39;t get out of our dormitory to have a wee in the night. We had a plastic tub one of the girls brought in and went in that. Then we had to smuggle the tub to the bathroom in the morning without matron seeing. Stupid bloody rule! -shinyhappycat 13. Luck be a lady tonight. Playing cards at lunch was prohibited because it &quot;promoted gambling.&quot;-DavyJonesArmoire 14. Encouraging dehydration. You could only go to the bathroom twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Mind you this is from 8-3 and you had to get a new pass every week and keep it the whole time or you couldn&rsquo;t use the bathroom.-obsessedoverfood 15. Very creepy to enforce this one. No coloured bras. I went to an all-girls school and we wore uniforms and the top was a light colour and very see-through for some reason (so it was easy to tell if you had a pink bra on for example). The weird thing was it was always the male teachers who called students out for breaking this rule.... yikes.-sharkbisc 16. Hyper-specific body-shaming. Girls weren&rsquo;t allowed to show their ankles. The dean had a pack of socks in her office she would give the students and make them wear. Only girls tho. This was the 2000s.-LoveAndDynamite 17. Cold chocolate only. No hot drinks. Rumour said it was because the principal burnt himself while drinking something so he banned it.-thrashingkaiju 18. An efficient way to teach children what a bong is. A few weird ones and their reasoning behind making them: -Girls weren&#39;t allowed to wear tops with spaghetti straps because they could be easily cut with scissors. -No tube tops either, because they could easily be pulled down -No bra straps showing whatsoever, because it was considered indecent -No soft drinks with actual sugar because if it spilled it would make a sticky mess. Diet soft drinks were fine because they wouldn&#39;t get as sticky -No beverages of any kind (only in certain classrooms), because f*ck you if you&#39;re thirsty. -No shirts from the company &quot;Billabong&quot; because it says &quot;bong&quot; and that&#39;s a drug reference.-lookalive07 

Schools put rules in place to try optimize the environment for learning, but some rules are so misguided that the students end up learning such lessons as &quot;ankles are sexual&quot; and &quot;bladders can be controlled through sheer...