High School Tolerance Levels

[tedginn05]

It seems like at my school teachers dont really care as much. Everyone at my school gets a little "passbook" which has like 4 pages of passes so kids can leave class. Some teachers will limit the amount but most dont really care.

One thing that i really totally up to the teacher is whether u can listen to an mp3/ipod. Some teachers dont care if where just sitting there doing worksheets or w/e but other teachers will flip out and steal them for the rest of class.

ALso like TG no backpacks, however some teachers dont care, no phones...but at least once a week someones rings cause they are a dumbass, no hats...which i think is dumb, abd yes supposedly no coats but thats not really enforced too much

No, in my school we are allowed to have bookbags. It was my middle school that we weren't.

Also we are allowed to wear coats.

 

[FookMichiganTGJ]

No back packs at my school either.

Also no off campus lunch(never really followed it anyway.)

I have early release this semester, so instead of getting out of school at 3:05, I get out at 12:56.

My fucking spanish teacher is nuts though. Shes from Ecuador and she doesnt take any shit. The other day we all saw her take her teacher's book and put it on this table across the room before she left the room for something. Then 5 minutes later she came back and freaked out and bitched at us because we wouldnt tell her who moved her book, even though we all told her we saw her do it.

She wont even let us stand up in her room anymore.

i feel for you man, my spanish teacher is also pretty fucked up...shes about 90 and basically wont allow you to speak in her class with out rasing your hand. And shes got a lazy eye so you have nooo clue who shes looking at when your getting yelled at. Its pretty awesome

 

[barlow1802]

graduated 05
at ua the admin came down on some of the lacross players for myspace/xanga pictures and at watterson couples couldn't hug in the hallways. bookbags were allowed in ua, not watterson but watterson was about 2,000 kids maybe and UA was about double i think and lockers werent easy to get to because of all the people.

Gym class is a whole diffrent animal:)

 

[scarletngrey11]

i feel for you man, my spanish teacher is also pretty fucked up...shes about 90 and basically wont allow you to speak in her class with out rasing your hand. And shes got a lazy eye so you have nooo clue who shes looking at when your getting yelled at. Its pretty awesome

The funny thing is that she always looks so clueless.

Sometimes she just leaves the class room and doesnt come back for 45 minutes. She also has a shorter fuse with me than everyone else. The first day of school she was talking about how she was from Ecuador and stuff, then I raised my hand and said something like "isnt Ecuador the banana capital of the world?" She got pissed for no reason...

 

[tedginn05]

graduated 05
at ua the admin came down on some of the lacross players for myspace/xanga pictures and at watterson couples couldn't hug in the hallways. bookbags were allowed in ua, not watterson but watterson was about 2,000 kids maybe and UA was about double i think and lockers werent easy to get to because of all the people.

Gym class is a whole diffrent animal:)

Bishop Watterson

Enrollment:1123

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/oh/private/3113


Upper Arlington

Enrollment:1911

http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/oh/1574


I guess thats about double, but your original number was wrong.

 

[Crump's brother]

The funny thing is that she always looks so clueless.

Sometimes she just leaves the class room and doesnt come back for 45 minutes. She also has a shorter fuse with me than everyone else. The first day of school she was talking about how she was from Ecuador and stuff, then I raised my hand and said something like "isnt Ecuador the banana capital of the world?" She got pissed for no reason...

I lived in Ecuador and went to college there for a semester. You don't need a reason to piss off Ecua-chicks. Explain the differences between the Imperfect and the Preterit and I'll come up with something really horrible for you to say in Spanish.

 

[CleveBucks]

I graduated from a large public high school with pretty good academics in 00 and I guess HS was a little different back then. Water bottles, coffee mugs, etc. were all allowed. Most teachers allowed food as long as it wasn't distracting. Book bags were allowed to be carried, go to your locker as much as you want.

Hats really weren't allowed although occasionally teachers wouldn't care. Same with chewing gum. Cell phones didn't seem to be too common and were never really a problem. Ipods were nonexistent.

Lunch was definitely not open. You needed a pass to go outside the building and needed a note from the parent if you were leaving outside of the regular times. They built a nice courtyard with picnic tables that obviously was never used, except the study hall would let the seniors go out there on the last week of school.

 

[barlow1802]

Bishop Watterson

Enrollment:1123

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/oh/private/3113


Upper Arlington

Enrollment:1911

http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/oh/1574


I guess thats about double, but your original number was wrong.

can you look up the class of 05 by chance? I know we were in the mid to upper 500s at UA and i think watterson was in the mid 300s at the highest.. school size in terms of actual building was more than double.. i apologize for estimating entire school sizes were double and being off some... im glad though you could look it up and double check for me.. not sure why you point that out since it was nearly doubled and was signifcantly larger and thereby supporting the point I was trying to make with the lockers being easier/harder to access.

 

[tedginn05]

can you look up the class of 05 by chance? I know we were in the mid to upper 500s at UA and i think watterson was in the mid 300s at the highest.. school size in terms of actual building was more than double.. i apologize for estimating entire school sizes were double and being off some... im glad though you could look it up and double check for me.. not sure why you point that out since it was nearly doubled and was signifcantly larger and thereby supporting the point I was trying to make with the lockers being easier/harder to access.

I was just pointing the fact out that you said the Watterson enrollment was 2000 and UA's was nearly double. I knew for a fact that there is no school in Central Ohio, let alone the state of Ohio, that has an enrollment of 4000.

Sorry I can't find the enrollment for seperate years. This just shows current.

 

[ScarletBlood31]

At my high school, I rarely, rarely see kids get in trouble for swearing. Unless you say it directly to a teacher, the teacher will not make note of it. Kids swear all the time when the talk, or talk about drinking or stories from the weekend, and 9 times out of 10 the teacher will not say a word. The worst I remember is my gym teacher said "Hey, watch your language" to a kid who literally screamed "Fuck" at the top of his lungs, outside during a flag-football game. The kid then brushed the teacher off, and nothing else came out of it. Kids even say cuss words directly to teachers (not as insults), but with quite a few teachers, if you say "damn" or "piss" or "hell" they take it in as normal conversation. This is only a few teachers, and then again at my school we have a lot of young teachers. My High School is also a pretty well-to-do school, so its not like its a place where all sorts of bad things happen all the time.


About cell phones, kids take them out in class all of the time and send text messages. Some kids even make calls during class (discreetly, or maybe at the end of the class), and teachers don't do anything. They pretty much have the "it's your responsibility to learn the information" attitude, and let it go.

Hell, the other day I mistakenly thought that school was over (we are on block schedule, and class orders are switched around on different days), and after class I literally walked almost the whole length of the school talking with someone on a cell phone. It took till I was almost out the door (again, I was about to leave because I got messed up on what day it was), until a teacher made note of it. She just told me to put it away, and I immediately felt like an idiot because I almost left school with one class to go.


*EDIT - My school also allows students to carry backpacks around school. Also, with iPods, while we are not supposed to use them in school, I have a few classes where I can take mine out and listen to it while I do my work, and im sure there are a lot more. Kids even walk around the hallways listening to their iPods.

 

[BuckWrestler141]

Today at the middle school I'm teaching at I had a student that kicked a girl in the shin, 6th grade and P.E. so not that big of a deal, but he was also being annoying all period long. I put my hand on the kids shoulder to direct him to go sit in the corner to which the kid responded
"Get your hand off me"
"Then go where you've been told"
"Shut up you ain't my daddy, so you ain't gonna tell me what to do"

Well the school gave him a one day suspension, we have a pretty strict administration this year, I was impressed that they skipped the detention phase all together. Parent teacher conferences next week should be fun though.

Edit: To follow theme, the school also has strict rules against ipods, cell phones, and gum.