Different staircases for boys and girls.

Can’t be standing around in groups more than 4 “gang mentality”

When I was in Junior school (UK boarding school in the 80’s), we were not allowed to say OK as it was considered slang and not befitting the young ladies and gentleman that we should aspire to be. We also had to have a comb and a handkerchief on us at all times.

“Zero Tolerance” Just means that if someone starts a fight with you, you fight back as hard as you can. You’re going to get suspended for defending yourself anyway, might as well make it worthwhile.

Locked the only boys bathroom because someone wrote on the wall in sharpie. It wasn’t even anything rude or inappropriate either. It was just the word “hi” or something like that. Didn’t unlock the door until one boy wet himself and parents threatened to sue.

Girls weren’t allowed to show their ankles. The dean had a pack of socks in her office she would give the students and make them wear. Only girls tho. This was the 2000s.

Banned all backpacks / bags on campus. Students were expected to somehow carry everything they needed in hand. This was especially challenging if you had a non ideal locker placement.

They outlawed bracelets because there was an article in a magazine somewhere saying they advertised what sexual acts you were open for based on their colour. Then someone tried to outlaw wrist watches for the same reason.

Not really a rule, but the toilet paper Holders are OUTSIDE of the Stalls on a wall. So you have to calculate before taking a shit how much you need and hope that it was enough

We weren’t allowed to wear thongs. I don’t know how they caught people who did tbh

Playing cards at lunch was prohibited because it “promoted gambling”.

You have to wear your tie all the way home. Some sad bastard teachers would stand on the main road away from the school and try to hand out detentions in presumably their own time

In grade school, we weren’t allowed to play on the playground equipment when it snowed. Eventually, were weren’t allowed to play with snow or even go near it- I got in trouble for sitting in snow. This was in Minnesota where it snows half the year. Recess basically consisted of milling around the blacktop for thirty minutes.

No hot drinks. Rumour said it was because the principal burnt himself while drinking something so he banned it

We suddenly one day weren’t allowed to stand in circles during recess because, and I quote “we could be dealing drugs.” I will add that for the years prior we had been standing in circles no problem. Next recess, we stood in a triangle, cue principle going apeshit. Next day we stood in a square, principle kept us inside for a week. And threatened us all with detentions if we did it again etc. I believe their idea was open ended circles so they could see what we were doing. Still stupid.

No farting in class. They would say “if u need to fart then go to the toilet” but then 9 times out of 10 if u asked to go the toilet they’d say no

my high school decided to ban women’s athletic shorts one day which was ridiculous for many reasons. the next day every girl showed up in athletic shorts & the rule was removed by second block

In the late 90s in my elementary school Pokémon cards were banned.

‘No ripped jeans’ They enforced it to the point that when I fell in school, scrapped me knee and ended up needing stitches (obviously ripping my jeans in the process). They still dragged me to the office to suspend me for the day because me jeans were ripped. I was left there, stitched up, blood drying on my jeans as the vice principal yelled at me that my outfit was “inappropriate”. Add on: I went to a private school outside of the US, we had a doctor on call so he stitched me up at school, notified my parents and gave the okay on me going back to class. The vp didn’t notify my parents I was getting suspended for the day until after I went home and told them myself.