Okay! Most high school students understand that they're not allowed to smoke, bring guns, or make out in school, but some high school rules are just plain silly.
Students from Tennessee aren't allowed to wear plain white t-shirts, have no tardies, and absolutely no gum chewing. They get in-school suspension (in-house as known to us in Revere, MA), detention for any skin showing, and threatened by the principal for a quick kiss.
Most school administrators have made these dress code rules to promote fairness and to set the law down for students who like to over expose themselves.
One student explains that the dress code was made for safety reasons only. After Columbine, schools realized how easy it was to hide a weapon under an oversized coat. Also, you express how you're feeling through what you wear. If you're feeling a little risky that day, you may show up to school wearing something inappropriate and a dress code is there to make sure this doesn't happen.
Teachers are also so picky about food in class. You're in high school now and we all know mommy doesn't wake us up early and we sit at the table and eat. It's called the roll and leave at that age. What's the big deal if you have a small snack around 10-11 o'clock? You're stomache hasn't had food since dinner last night; that's if you even got to eat dinner with all the homework your teachers had given you.
Tardiness is also a stupid thing. Sometimes you get stuck in the hallway behind some kid who decides to bring all his books to class with him and he's walking so slow he could be walking backwards. Even if you tell your teacher this after you've arrived late, they don't believe you and still make you come back after class and wash their dirty overheads or wash the pen off the desks as punishment for being late as if you already hadn't had enough punishment standing behind the kid with the 50 pound backpack hogging the hallway.
When I was in high school, I think I was the only one who didn't get a detention. I don't know how I did it, I think I just ran because I used to play sports and tardiness meant running extra laps.
Thankfully, most of my teachers let us eat in class but we could only drink water but I always seemed to sneak in my iced coffee that I just had to have. One morning, my friend and I had made it through the door with our coffees and when we hit the stairs she dropped the entire cup! The hallway smelled like french vanilla for the next week!
I do was kicked by the dress code. Luckily, I have short arms and my shorts and skirts could be very short. Most girls envied that I was small and could wear small clothes!
Reading these students stories makes me laugh because I got away with mostly everything! :)
http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/teenpage/050906/rules.shtml
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Why are children so cliquy?
Cliques are usually a bunch of people who are friends, but the thing is not all friendship groups are cliquy. Cliques are groups of friends that tend to leave other children out on purpose. Usually in every clique, there is a leader and that leader gets to decide who is in the clique and who isn't. Children usually act much different when they're in a clique then when they're not in a clique.
Sometimes, everyone can feel left out by their friends once in a great while. Sometimes even cliques fight but sometimes you can be kicked out of a clique for fighting with the wrong person within your clique. Kids within a clique are mean to the kids who aren't in their clique and usually people outside the clique can't hang out with the people inside the clique.
Children usually form cliques in elementary school and sometimes in middle school but usually by middle school, cliques are already made. Cliques are made of kids who share an interest in something or they can like an activity like sports or games.
When I was in elementary school, there were many cliques. There were the popular girls that liked to play with Barbie's or there were the unpopular girls who wore the sneakers with the lights at the bottom. When you were 7, 8, or 9 you weren't really that mean to other people outside your clique.
Toward middle school when you were 12, 13, or 14 cliques became stronger and instead of cliquing due to what toys you played with, you cliqued because of what kinds of clothes you wore or what kind of purse your mom bought for you at the mall. Things got to be more extreme and cliques became stronger.
By the time you were in high school you had your set friends that you hung out with every weekend and if and outsider tried to come into your group, you would definitely put them in their place.
Now in college everyone just can relax. There are no more cliques and everyone is friends because in college nobody cares where you came from they just care where you are going!
I feel that by any means possible cliques should be abolished. Yes, I was part of a clique but now I know that everyone is the same and there is no reason to oust someone just because they don't like the same toy, the same boy, or they don't wear the same clothes. Just be happy being friends with everyone. It'll help you in the long run! :)
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/clique.html
Sometimes, everyone can feel left out by their friends once in a great while. Sometimes even cliques fight but sometimes you can be kicked out of a clique for fighting with the wrong person within your clique. Kids within a clique are mean to the kids who aren't in their clique and usually people outside the clique can't hang out with the people inside the clique.
Children usually form cliques in elementary school and sometimes in middle school but usually by middle school, cliques are already made. Cliques are made of kids who share an interest in something or they can like an activity like sports or games.
When I was in elementary school, there were many cliques. There were the popular girls that liked to play with Barbie's or there were the unpopular girls who wore the sneakers with the lights at the bottom. When you were 7, 8, or 9 you weren't really that mean to other people outside your clique.
Toward middle school when you were 12, 13, or 14 cliques became stronger and instead of cliquing due to what toys you played with, you cliqued because of what kinds of clothes you wore or what kind of purse your mom bought for you at the mall. Things got to be more extreme and cliques became stronger.
By the time you were in high school you had your set friends that you hung out with every weekend and if and outsider tried to come into your group, you would definitely put them in their place.
Now in college everyone just can relax. There are no more cliques and everyone is friends because in college nobody cares where you came from they just care where you are going!
I feel that by any means possible cliques should be abolished. Yes, I was part of a clique but now I know that everyone is the same and there is no reason to oust someone just because they don't like the same toy, the same boy, or they don't wear the same clothes. Just be happy being friends with everyone. It'll help you in the long run! :)
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/clique.html
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Why are intelligent children bullied in school?
People constantly wonder as to why smart children always seem to get picked on in school. Why do the prettier, more sheek children become popular in the end? This issue has always puzzled me. Luckily, as a child I was both intelligent and popular so I had the best of both worlds. I never made fun of one of my classmates for being smart. I thought it was good to be smart. Why would you make fun of someone for being smart? The kid making fun of the smarter one was usually not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.
If you're bullied, usually you just don't fit into the norm. For example, lets say everyone in your school is overweight or obese and you are the only thin one. You could possibly be bullied for being to thin. It could also be the exact opposite. You could be the only overweight person in your school and you could be bullied for that.
It's a good thing for nerds that when you're an adult and get a real job and go to college, no one really knows your past except for the ten people you go to college with from high school. By that time everyone is usually mature and is looking to forget the past.
Also, sometimes when you're bullied this may mean people admire you. Remember in first grade when you picked on the girl/boy you liked, well sometimes people bully people they envy. A bully is usually the weakest of them all. If you tell a bully off once, they'll usually back off.
I agree with the person writing this article. I watched one of my best friends get bullied for having a weird haircut. One day she decided she was going to speak up to the girl bullying her and I remember the exact words the girl said to my friend, "Yo, it's really chill that you're standing up to me like thi. I respect that." My friend was never bothered again.
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