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What is the stupidest school rule you've ever had to deal with? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by yukichigai@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some girl reported me (a boy) for apparently having a mascara. Our teacher then searched my bag, as if it was a grenade.

Which of the former(?) Confederate states did this happen in? Sounds like a grenade might have been okay with them if you'd had one, they're manly enough.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you're going to be surprised. Slovakia, central Europe.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

A little surprised but I know we don't have a monopoly on dipshittery here in the land of pickup trucks with pink rubber scrotums flapping in the wind. Just seems that way sometimes.