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! :)
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