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

submitted 7 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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[–] QuantumBamboo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Snowball throwing was banned because a nephew of a friend of a friend of a teacher was supposedly blinded by one. Same school had an assembly that informed us that listening to heavy metal would make us want to kill our friends.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

listening to heavy metal would make us want to kill our friends.

Maybe they mixed up cause and effect there

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it’s well known that you can’t listen to heavy metal if you haven’t killed anyone yet.

[–] colonial@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Snowball throwing was banned because a nephew of a friend of a friend of a teacher was supposedly blinded by one.

FWIW, this can actually happen, although I still think that's an overbearing rule. One of my younger siblings had a teacher who was blind in one eye - ice shards from a snowball when she was in elementary.