What Rule At Your School Made Things Worse? (r/AskReddit)

Fresh AskReddit Stories: What is one rule that was implemented at your school or work that backfired horribly? --- LIKE AND I WILL UPLOAD MORE REDDIT STORIES!



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[xxwolfmeetstheskyxx]

My school tried to ban using headphones from the lunchroom, so that started the ukulele rebellion and like 25 kids brought ukuleles and played them during lunch. I was one of them

[ichieatworld]

Two things about school.

One kid makes trouble.
Everyone gets involved.

[grenadine]

That second one though, THAT is commitment!

[keeganreed]

Here's a good one: We couldn't raise our hands. It was removed after a month because the teachers were tired of us blurting out answers.

[sonianevermind]

I need the humorous graphic tees that were in the second story.

[princessmarlena]

Not so much a school rule but a dumb rule from a college professor. The narcissist came into the classroom, left his hat on his desk and went to use the restroom, got into a long winded conversation with another professor that lasted a half hour over the start of class. Our college rules said that if the professor was about a half hour or more late, we could leave. We did. The next day the professor said “Because I left my hat on my desk, you should have realized that I was here. I’m marking you all down for missing yesterday’s class.” The next day he came into the class and found our hats left on our desks, but no students in the classroom.

[williamaothecoronao]

"We were treated to a thirty minute safety presentation on the dangers of grilled cheese sandwiches."
Oh god not the cheese, ANYTHING BUT THE CHEESE

[OphidiaSnake]

I am a professor, and believe me, plenty of teachers and professors (those with souls) hate these rules too. At the beginning of the covid-19 lockdown, my learnéd colleagues and I were expected to fill in a spreadsheet detailing everything we had done during the day to prove we were still working during lockdown.

Yeah, that went well. Asked a group of highly educated, professional people with very good memories who are highly literate to justify their jobs by writing down everything they did in a day. All of us wrote EVERYTHING we did. Each day. We're talking elegant, gorgeously formatted, correctly referenced thousand-word essays on ordering paperclips and going to the toilet. Without any kind of discussion each of us independently decided to completely swamp the admin with essays on the minutiae of our everyday lives.

Funnily enough, after the first week of lockdown, we had a memo through to say we no longer had to complete our record of work anymore.

Next time your teacher or professor has to enforce a dumb rule, look into their eyes- there is a good chance they hate it as much as you do.

[michellepr]

Our school banned anything sticky Glue included because, “it could get stuck in our hair” we’re in highschool

[rainbowthedragoncat]

Nobody:
That one school: *sells punishments*

[lovelysartstudio]

In fourth grade, the teachers tried to stop the boys and girls from playing together because boys were "too rough". We all ignored it not only because it was stupid, but because the girls were the ones being rough.

[love_gaze]

Class: RUNN THERES A SCHOOL SHOOTING
Teacher: actually, it’s against the rules, sorry. I’ll be telling the principal about this.

[ellender]

Thumbnail: backfired badly
Title: made things worse
Actual post: backfired horribly

[wallyb]

My school thought they were smart by locking the bathroom doors requiring someone to sign and get a key to use the bathroom. They did this to prevent people from prevent people from vandalising the bathroom which is honestly pretty fair but what if there were to be an emergency? Anyway nobody could stand this rule and everyone swore they would break down the door. Nobody did anything, they were all talk. A week went by... now enter me, I had a runny nose that day and needed to grab some tissues to wipe my nose. I probably could have easily just got a key to the bathroom but no, there would go my precious 1 minute. I walked up to the door and attempted to kick it down. I don't know what went through my head but I just decided life was too boring gotta spice it up. I didn't think I could actually kick the door down since it was nearly 5 cm of wood so I just gave it a kick using about 75% of my power. My plan was to just walk away originally but like I said I was bored of following rules. I thought hey, I'm already here, why not give it a proper shot. I put in a little technique and power and my leg went straight through the door, busting a hole through it. Casually walked in, grabbed a few tissues and walked out as if everything were normal. It was like some shit you would see in a show. Was pretty impressed with myself. Next day the principle was up giving his morning shit-talk and at the end mentioned the door and how he knew who did it and they would be expelled immediately. I learnt from experience that it was a bluff and was never called out for it. Ever since then they wouldn't dare lock the door in fear that somebody would break it, wasting their time and money.

[KnakuanaRka]

Okay, that second kid sounds like a joke where the gag is how damn long it goes on.

[synflwr]

I remember when our school started telling us to not play Roblox because apparently there was cyber bullying. I raised my hand and said “You do realise any website with the ability to type can be used for cyberbullying, right?” I still play Roblox to this day.

[jfanreva]

Whoever told the Marines to bring the snake back if they got bit obviously doesn't know Marines. They'll do exactly what they're told regardless of how difficult the task may be. And they'll do ANYTHING a corpsman asks of them - "I got bit by this snake Doc" - hands live snake to corpsman.

[crabby]

Our school had a rule that was basically called STOP. It was meant to slow bullying down. While good intentions, it was literally just putting your hand on front of you and saying, "Stop, you're bullying me." It sounded so stupid that we basically made a mockery out of it so much to the point where even staff no longer took it seriously. It was kinda hilarious

[maryavatar]

The dress code one reminds me of a Dutch woman I used to know, who was an office manager in one of the EU countries (not sure which one). She got a new boss, ex-military, who didn’t like the ‘business casual’ dress code and insisted that her Reception and Admin staff switch to a uniform. He even picked out the one he wanted them to wear. There were two things he wasn’t aware of - one, if it’s a dress code, you buy your own clothes, if it’s a uniform, your employer has to supply it, and secondly, the option he’d chosen made no allowances for very tall women, very short women or pregnant women. The first day of the new uniforms, he strolls in to do an inspection, and finds the head Receptionist, who was 4’8 and a size 0 swimming in a tent of a uniform, and one of the part time receptionists in floods of tears, trying to cover her pregnant belly as it bulged out of her blouse. Then, to cap it off, the Dutch are the tallest country in the world, so in comes the Dutch office manager to see what the commotion is, and her uniform skirt is so short, you could almost see her hooha, and she calmly pointed out that the company had spent over €2, 000 kitting out staff in badly fitting uniforms, and the Finance department wanted to know which budget it was coming from. He did not last much longer there.

[samvalecaaguilar]

My school banned drinking water from water bottles in class because "you might spill it" and "its distracting". and most teachers say you can't use the bathroom in their class so why would they let you drink water?