What's the stupidest policy in your school?

in the summer we had to ask permission to take our blazers off :?
i got in trouble when i wore socks which were a different shade of grey.

was it obvious?

nope...they have a chart which shows the acceptable shades of grey.

My school introduced a policy where teachers weren't allowed to be 'friends' with people on facebook. We used to have a sixth form helper/admin woman who was the nicest person going, like if you asked for directions she'd have gone away, printed you a map and written down the exact steps for you, that sort of thing. She was facebook friends with almost everyone in sixth form and several years worth of sixth form students who had left as well. It was a good way to communicate on mass.

Then someone made a fake profile of our headteacher on facebook and friended as many students at our school as possible, they put out things like "There's no school like the old school and I'm the ****ing headmaster!" But the real headmaster got the police involved, investigated all teachers who were friends with students to find the culprit and warned legal action against students who were friends with the fake headteacher. So this helper got a lot of stick for it considering how many students she had on her list, they also accused her of hacking into the school website and defacing it. She got angry and quit.

After that we were banned from friending our teachers, so we had to wait until our last A2 exam before we could add them so we can stay in touch. School can't do anything then.

you're not allowed to slit your eyebrows

Other stupid policies I am remembering:

Letting teachers keep students for a couple of minutes after class as a punishment, but we only had a 5 minute passing period between classes. It was, in effect, just a way to encourage tardiness (which had much more sever punishments than talking or whatever, especially since 3 tardies=1 absence, which could lead to truancy charges.) Just makes me rage thinking about it.

Zero-tolerance on hats and scarves indoors, even that time when the heater broke in winter.

You could only buy a parking pass in the first week of school. I guess if you get a car in the middle of the year or just moved here, you're SOL.

They made it so that you no longer could leave early or come later when you didn't have classes all day. You had to be in the building for 8 hours.

This one is just stupid because of the utter lack of foresight of the administration. Our middle period was longer to accommodate lunch, which had to be broken up in to three parts because how large the school was. You either went to lunch at the beginning of the period and then to class, went to class and then lunch at the end of the period, or you had half a class, lunch, then came back to class. Besides being inconvenient, how many people with the middle lunch do you think went back to class?

My school was strict on appearance:

Only black bobbles

Only pony tails, not two plaits

No makeup

Only the school scarf was allowed (it was stripy purple and yellow :/ )

The socks had to be pulled right up

But the worst was that blazers had to be worn at all times. At home time they wouldn't let you out the gate until you put it on.

To be fair they're stopping you from looking like a moron.