peteythedancingsabre wrote:
In my school, they created a rule that you couldn't dye your hair any unnatural color, because my brother dyed his hair green and they deemed it a "distraction".
I also remember, when I was there in elementary school, we had this thing called work detail. Basically, it was like detention, only we had to clean classrooms and stuff. They were supposed to be punishment, but one time me and a couple of my friends got to do work detail for one of the coolest teachers in the school. We had so much fun that we didn't want to stop doing work detail and go back to class. After that, they got rid of work detail, and just had detentions and stuff. They also used to punish people by making them drink a spoon full of hot sauce. I'm not sure when or why that stopped though, but I'm glad it did. I was never hot sauced though, thankfully.
Hot sauce? Hahaha that wouldn't have bothered me at all. I never got a single demerit (our disciplinary system) my entire high school career, though. I didn't go out of my way to break any rules and fit in just fine with the kids that bought into the party line while also fitting in (and agreeing) with the kids that really didn't at all. I ended up with no real friends as a result of bouncing around, but I liked seeing both worlds, so to speak.
The last day of classes my sophomore year there was a food fight at lunch started by the seniors, and we all got chewed out by a couple teachers. They were especially angry because the kindergarten and second grade classrooms were right off the cafeteria, and we were "setting a bad example" (as an oldest child, I have no patience for that phrase hahaha). Then we were all made to clean it up, but what they failed to realize was that in making us miss our next class, they were kind of giving us a reward lol. Also after lunch every day two students from each class in 7th-12th grades would stay after to clean up the cafeteria before going to the next class. I liked whenever it was my week to do that, for obvious reasons.
Overall I think I would have preferred private school because I feel like I would have quickly become anonymous in a large school, and a majority of private schools are too small to foster any formation of obnoxious cliques, and everybody is popular, and nobody cared who you were or were not, etc. It was ridiculous a lot of the time, though, but now and even at the time it's just something to laugh at; it wasn't the students or even most of the faculty that was bad at all, just the policies and the superintendent.
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