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Old 01-09-2018, 10:31 AM
 
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In 6th grade Reading class, we played the Telephone game one day. For those of you who don't know, that is a game where something is whispered to the first person, who must then whisper it to the next person, and repeat until they reach the last person. By the time it gets to the end, it is usually distorted, and has nothing to do with what was originally said.


I do not remember what the original phrase was. Sometime about the upcoming Gulf War (this was in the fall of 1990). By the time it got to the end, it turned into "In 2 weeks, this place will blow up". I have a feeling that nowadays, somebody or everybody in that class would have gotten in trouble, and it would have been taken as a threat.


For what it's worth, when it came to me, I heard the phrase as "In 2 weeks, oil prices will go up".
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Old 01-09-2018, 10:43 AM
 
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Any kid that has ever said "Dude; that's gay!"

Would now be at least suspended for a "sexual harassment" infraction.

When I started high school they still had a Student Smoking area. That was eliminated by the time my Junior year started.

The husband says that when he was in high school (he graduated the same year I started kindergarten), boys that were caught fighting were sent to Coach. Coach would hand them boxing gloves & tell them to "work it out".

They rarely suspended or expelled for fighting but they would sometimes call the parents.

He says that if he lost a fight & his dad had found out, that his dad would tell him to put on the gloves & duke it out with his older brother.

Today; fighting results in not only suspension but criminal charges being pressed for assault.
I graduated from HS in 2003 and police were called at that time for fights. We also got the "don't hit back" garbage from the counselors.

As far as the gay thing, kids would call each other "f*****" as an insult. The couple of gay kids at the school were made fun of and when I was growing up, smear the q**** was a popular game. It wasn't like nowadays where being gay is trendy and half of the class pretends to be gay.
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Old 01-09-2018, 10:49 AM
 
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Most of the rules that I broke were minor and were broken by nearly every student and rarely enforced. I have a feeling they'd be more strictly enforced nowadays, but would not result in arrest or expulsion. Some of the rules were:


1. In high school, during lunch, there were several places we could go to: any of 3 cafeterias, the library, or the commons (and, until 1995, an outdoor smoking area). There was exactly 1 legal way to get from any of those points to another, none of which would involve passing any classrooms or the front lobby. You were not allowed to access your locker unless it happened to be along one of those legal routes. There were hall aides throughout the building stopping us from entering any hallways with classrooms or the front lobby. My locker was in the front lobby, one of the many places we were not allowed to access during lunch. But I found a route that involved using a stairway that had no hall aide at the bottom, passing exactly 1 classroom, and reaching my locker before the hall aide in the lobby would see me. I would do this almost every day. The hall aide would ask me to leave, and I would comply, so I never got in trouble.


2. During AP exams, you were officially supposed to attend any classes that day that did not conflict with your exam. But, in practice, teachers would excuse us from every class on a day that we had an exam, even if it didn't conflict with an exam. Even the security guards would allow us to leave campus after an exam. Nowadays, I doubt that would be allowed.


3. My high school had a closed campus for grades 9-11, but an open campus for grade 12, where we could leave during lunch. But it did not apply to non-lunch periods. If you were not assigned a class during a non-lunch period (1, 2, 3, 4, or 9), you had to attend study hall, or get permission to go the library (and then had to stay in the library for the full period). In 12th grade, I had no 9th period class, but I had a physics class that met after school, and was involved with a lot of extra-curricular activities. If you had no 1st or 9th period class, you were allowed to sign up for late arrival or early release. But the catch was that you were not allowed on campus before your late arrival or after your early release time. The teacher I had after school for AP Physics C did not have a 9th period class either. I requested early release, so that I would not have to attend study hall, and could either go home early (if I had no extra-curricular activities that day, or if I didn't have to go to my after school physics class), or I would go to the physics room to do my work during 9th period rather than after school. The system allowed me to do early release since the physics class was in the books as Period 0, so it thought it was before school, not after (I guess the system couldn't handle double digit numbers). So, I was almost always on campus during Periods 9 and after, even though I was technically not supposed to be.


4. There was a late bus that left at 3:10 PM, that was supposed to be used only for students in a vocational program. But I and nearly everybody who was involved in extra-curricular activities used the bus anyway. The bus driver said that was fine with her, as long as we behaved.


5. In drivers ed, we were supposed to stay for full in-car lesson until it returned to school. But if we happened to pass somebody's house and that person already drove, that person was allowed to go home without going back to school. Technically, that was not allowed.
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Old 01-09-2018, 11:07 AM
 
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I could also turn this around and ask if schools did anything back when we were in high school that they couldn't get away with today. Until a few years before I got there, my school regularly used corporal punishment, and even when I was there, there were a couple of times that disruptive kids were hit by teachers or the dean.

1. I had a teacher spread false rumors that I had epilepsy, and another spread false rumors that I had Tourette's. I was told there was "nothing I could do about it". Nowadays, I have a feeling that would be a serious violation.


2. I had a teacher falsely accuse me of something, and when I said I was innocent, I was accused of "talking back". That teacher's father was the gym department chair, and he was a large, intimidating man. The next day, the gym department chair told me that if I ever talk back to his son ever again, that I will be sorry. I suspect nowadays that could be taken as a physical threat.


3. My AP Chemistry teacher grabbed me, pushed me into my seat, and started cursing at me. Nowadays, that would be assault.


4. In 3rd grade, while stopped at a long red light while on the bus, the bus driver said she wishes she had a gun and could shoot out the red lights. Obviously that was an innocent comment, but nowadays it would be taken seriously.


5. I had a teacher drive several of us in his personal car to an off campus activity, and then drove each of us home after the event. Nowadays, that would be viewed with suspicion.


6. In middle school, a security guard sat in the boys' locker room all day smoking cigarettes and yelling at students. Nowadays, that would likely be viewed with suspicion. (as a side note, he cursed at me when I was walking too slowly when he was escorting me to detention).


7. Several teachers (mostly in middle school) would smoke in places other than the designated smoking area, such as hallways, offices, their classrooms, the locker room, and even the front lobby of the building.


8. In elementary school, a male teacher would use the boys' restroom rather than the male faculty restroom, and would yell at boys who were legitimately using restroom. He was elderly and walked with a cane, and the male faculty restroom was far from his classroom, so I don't know if perhaps he was given special permission (a reasonable accommodation), but I have a feeling that nowadays, he'd be viewed with suspicion.
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Old 01-09-2018, 03:20 PM
 
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Well, I graduated from HS when the drinking age was 18. Our school sponsored graduation celebration had a cash bar!
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Old 01-09-2018, 03:21 PM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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well, i graduated from hs when the drinking age was 18. Our school sponsored graduation celebration had a cash bar!
1919?
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Old 01-09-2018, 03:22 PM
 
Location: Fairfield, CT
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Well, I graduated from HS when the drinking age was 18. Our school sponsored graduation celebration had a cash bar!
The drinking age was 18 when I graduated from high school also. And it was no.problem getting alcohol if you were.over 15.
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Old 01-10-2018, 06:32 AM
 
Location: Fairfield, CT
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6. In middle school, a security guard sat in the boys' locker room all day smoking cigarettes and yelling at students. Nowadays, that would likely be viewed with suspicion. (as a side note, he cursed at me when I was walking too slowly when he was escorting me to detention).

What were you in trouble for that time?

I was never actually escorted to detention. We were just told where and when to report (as if we didn't already know), and were expected to show up on our own.
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Old 01-10-2018, 07:05 AM
 
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What were you in trouble for that time?

I was never actually escorted to detention. We were just told where and when to report (as if we didn't already know), and were expected to show up on our own.
I had posted about that before. It was in my 7th grade science class, and during a lab, the teacher left the room for reasons unknown. While he was out, another student (who was on drugs) spilled a bottle of acid. When the teacher asked how the acid was spilled, that student said that I did it, even though I was never anywhere near that bottle. The teacher told me to sit down and take a 0 for the lab. I told him that I did not spill the acid, and that I was nowhere near the acid. So, I was sent to the office for "talking back" to him. At the office, I told the secretary what happened. She said she has no choice but to send me to detention, unless I'd rather tell my story to the assistant principal. I said no, I'd rather just go to detention. So they paged that security guard to the office to escort me to the detention room, and he yelled at me for walking too slowly. I guess by walking too slowly I was keeping him away from his smoke break in the boys' locker room.
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Old 01-10-2018, 07:17 AM
 
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I had posted about that before. It was in my 7th grade science class, and during a lab, the teacher left the room for reasons unknown. While he was out, another student (who was on drugs) spilled a bottle of acid. When the teacher asked how the acid was spilled, that student said that I did it, even though I was never anywhere near that bottle. The teacher told me to sit down and take a 0 for the lab. I told him that I did not spill the acid, and that I was nowhere near the acid. So, I was sent to the office for "talking back" to him. At the office, I told the secretary what happened. She said she has no choice but to send me to detention, unless I'd rather tell my story to the assistant principal. I said no, I'd rather just go to detention. So they paged that security guard to the office to escort me to the detention room, and he yelled at me for walking too slowly. I guess by walking too slowly I was keeping him away from his smoke break in the boys' locker room.
OK, I remember now. I didn't realize it was that incident. Since this was during the school day (as opposed to after school), was it ISS?

Some of the other things you wrote are interesting. More than once, teachers took students in their cars to evening events when I was in school. It's a shame that the world has become so full of suspicion that these contacts are being cut off. We're definitely paying a price for our hyper-vigilance and our prioritization of an extreme degree of "safety" over everything else.
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