• Wearing a hat is a 3-day suspension.
  
• Starting a fire is a 3-day suspension.
  
• Swearing, or saying things that sound like swears, is anywhere from a one to 5-day suspension. There was no official statement on how the length was detemined, it seemed to be random.
  
• I was once nearly suspended for using Notepad on the computer, because the librarian didn't recognize the program and feared it was a virus. As you might expect I did get kicked off them a few times, despite that I was taking a programming class. I actually ended up turning in a few programs on paper, but after a few days the teacher decided to let me use the computers anyway, disregarding the ban. That guy was awesome, and had a tendency to randomly buy every student a slice of pizza (not very often though).
  
• Nobody in the school save for the librarian, two teachers who taught the computer classes, and a few students had anything close to a clue when it came to computers. They threatened to call the police and report that I was putting antifreeze in the hard drives when they found me with a disc labelled "antifreeze" (a Deep Freeze removal script and some other junk). Yes, I'm referring to the liquid here.
  
• Every single member of the administration was female. This meant guys generally got shafted, the washrooms in disrepair, etc.
  
• You could be failed for any reason whatsoever, including none.
  
• Incomplete assignment = fail. You can get 100% on every other assignment and test, but fail to turn in one, and you get an F (or "R" as they called it for some reason).
  
• If you were more than one minute late, you'd be sent to the office. They'd never actually get around to addressing you though. You'd just sit there until the bell rang, then leave for the next class.
  
• Skipping detention is a detention, and that's it. No penalty for skipping repeatedly. However, I still went occasionally just because I had nothing better to do.
  
• At first, you weren't allowed to eat during detention, which took up the entire lunch period. However, when I pointed out that the law required them to give students a chance to eat, and we weren't allowed to any other time, they changed their minds on that pretty quick.
  
• One teacher had a policy that you could only take 5 bathroom breaks during the entire semester, and had to sign in and out on a sheet on the wall to track it. Nobody ever did though, and he didn't seem to notice. Many had you write the times you came in and out (with no limit to how often), but even then people just filled in fake/nonsense times.
  
• Every student had to take a literacy test to graduate. I failed the first time because they lost half of my work and claimed I hadn't done it. >:
  
• You had to use school-issued locks on your lockers, even though they didn't work (just give a good tug and they come right open). Nobody seemed to care that I put on my own though, which used a key rather than a combination. When I did use a combination lock, I gave them the combo backward or in hex (hey, they should have been more specific ); if they wanted to root through my things I was going to know about it dammit. Nobody in that building was trustworthy, things often went missing and were never investigated.
  
• Once when I was in class, some kids were selling drugs. The teacher saw them, and told them to do it outside. Didn't care that they were selling drugs, only that they were doing it in class.
  
• At one point the fire alarms stopped working, so they had some people come in to repair them. This meant there were a number of false alarms throughout the day as the technicians worked on and tested the system, and they were warned this would happen in advance, but they let classes continue anyway. So what if one of the many pyromaniacs takes this opportunity to actually light a fire? Yeah.
  
• Hall passes were "required", but nobody cared because teachers rarely actually gave you one.
  
• When something happened between two people, the guy with the most friends was always right, because both peoples' friends would lie in their favour and somehow the teachers never managed to realize that these people are good friends, that their stories don't add up, or that they weren't even nearby and could not possibly know anything about the incident.
  
• "Zero tolerance", the dumbest rule ever. If some idiot just runs up and starts punching you, you are required to stand there doing nothing until a teacher stops them or you both get the same punishment. I'm not sure how this was supposed to stop fighting, as it meant you got in equal amounts of shit whether you did nothing (because even if you did stand there doing nothing, they'd still consider it a fight because "they didn't see the whole thing and you could have done something before they arrived") or knocked the idiot on his ass, so people tended to choose the latter. They finally got rid of this policy in favour of cameras the day I graduated, as if to say "fuck you" one last time.

• Some idiot brought a fake (but realistic) gun to class. The teacher just came up and asked him to hand it over. Real smart.
  
• You had to take music class, no matter what. It didn't matter if you failed every one of them though, which I did. I suck at music and the teacher was a total asshole, so I didn't care.
  
• Teachers were supposedly allowed to permenantly confiscate (read: steal) anything, and one tried to once. I just grabbed the thing off their desk at the end of class and left. They couldn't do squat.

Posted by HyperHacker

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Yeah, my high school had some shit-tastic rules and general idiocy.

• Wearing a hat is a 3-day suspension.
  
• Starting a fire is a 3-day suspension.
  

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