My school has the most ridiculous rules :x

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My school's rules are just plain absurd. The school is in a church and has moved to an older part of it that has carpet in every room. The room we eat in has carpet and forced a ban on ALL colored drinks(tea, Kool-Aid, Power/Gatorade, Dr. Pepper, Coke) except for lemonade. The stubborn staff, welll, mainly one of the teachers, Mrs. Zuber said that the ban is because "the students aren't responsible enough" to clean up spilled colored drinks on carpet. all 23 students despise that rule because it outlaws every drink except for clear drinks and lemonade, though tea and those spritzer drinks adre debatable.What do they think we are drinking in there? Red wine. I am Vice President of the Student Council and have successfully abolished the ban and will also try to abolish an even more ridiculous rule that everyone hates including me because this has to do with elevators and not having adults in the hallway or near you when there are field trips or when I and 5 other students go to band every day.
The rule is that there HAS to be an adult IN an elevator "for safety reasons" according to a certain teacher. My friends, John and Gabriel have rolling cases for their instruments and can't take the elevator to get to the rooms in the morning because there has to be an adult in there. I have tried to compromise and tell the staff that students can take the elevator IF there is a Student Council member in there if there can't be an adult with them. I couldn't put an end to that rule even though I am Vice President.

We even have to line up for chapel and to go home which shouldn't be a rule for a school with students from 6th to 12th grade and NONE of the students can be in a room without an adult. A student council member can't be in there alone or with other students if there isn't an adult there first. I and several other students got in trouble after a fire drill because there wasn't an adult in front of the students. There was an adult behind the students and I didn't know it until one of the teachers jumped down my throat. That ticked me off and I will tell my parents that and HOPEFULLY be placed in a public high school where I can drink colored drinks and not worry about lame rules like those in my school.

I would get rid of the rule that says you have to go to CHAPEL!

but seriously. . . it seems they have a lot of issues with irresponsible young people that they have to ride you so hard that everywere you have to have adult supervision.

You might want to research why they have changed the rules. ( I suppose they didn't have those rules before but they do now, right?) What happened? Did the parent association demand an adult with all children under their auspices? Was there a situation where people did not behave appropriately in the elevators?

When you can get answers to this you might find out how you can get some sort of way the more responsible of you can get marks or points that allow you to prove your responsibility and be able to use the elevators in an appropriate manner.

all the best! and besides, you can always learn how to steam clean the carpet (organize a group of your concerned fellow students!) to be able to drink colored fluids.

Merle

Chapel I don't mind at all because it is never boring enough to fall asleep in and snore. it basically is a 5 day bible lesson and you actually learn something.

The elevator issue is because of the staff thinking that only students in wheelchairs and students with rolling backpacks and cases for their drum set or guitar amplifier should take the elevator. In my opinion, We as the students should be allowed to use the elevator without an adult in there and if there is a girl in there. I think this gives the school a sexist reputation and is just plain ridiculous. All I am trying to say is that ALL the students should not take the elevator at school, but take the stairs if they don't have rolling backpacks or cases for their instruments or any bulky object for that matter.

I have told the staff that the Student Council will pay for the carpet cleaning supplies to get Kool-Aid stains out of the carpet, but have banned only energy drinks because of the caffeine. We aren't drinking red wine for crying out loud because none of the students are over 21.

Why do we have to line up in separate lines? I don't know, but middle and high school students should never have to line up for anything unless it's school photo day. Once again I think the staff is sexist for forcing us to line up in two lines. We have a lunch room for boys and girls, because of the sexist staff. I find that stupid because there is a room that can fit 4 microwaves, a luxury for school lunch rooms, and 23+ students. None of those problems were caused by us, the stingy staff made them and I want every rule I listed as elementary school like abolished and never enforced again.

The students should be allowed to go up to the classrooms when they arrive at the school with just one adult or student council member like me with them. Ditto for the end of the day.

How big is this school?

The school is only 23 students.

It doesn't sound like a big deal to me. To be honest, you may not get a better deal in public high school either.

The (public) high school I went to banned use of the elevators unless you were disabled or moving heavy equipment. If you could carry it up the stairs, you did. The only time there was ever a fuss about it was when two people were caught in there doing less than appropriate things (ie, oral sex). There were not adults in there, but they were mointored and recorded at all times.

Furthermore, everything but water was banned in all rooms with carpet. Our lunch room was fortunate enough to be tile, but we still weren't allowed to drink sodas, because it was supposedly bad for us to have all that sugar. Soda, by the way, not only stains carpet, but it also attracts ants. You have to get it up quickly to prevent that.

If there's only 23 of you, it shouldn't be hard to find an adult willing to accompany you up the elevator or to somewhere else or whatnot. If there were 700 of you, I would understand why this would be a problem, but with such a small amount of students, you aren't going to have as many difficulties.

In all honesty, it doesn't sound that harsh to me. You're going to school, not a playground where you can do as you please. Being student council doesn't really make you as trustworthy as an adult, by the way; you're still their peers, and they'll remember that.