Whats the most stupid rule your school has?

They could ring on the school phone and things like that should usually be agreed face to face with a parent anyway.I would be very annoyed if my child just rang and said something like that the only possible excuse for not coming home early would be something school related and its unlikely transport delays like buses would cause your child to come home too much later.

My primary introduced 'pen licences'. Basically you couldn't have a pen unless you passed a handwriting test. So despite being a clever young man I was forced to use a pencil due to my scruffy writing.

It never did improve

And if my mum needed to contact me after school? Say when I was walking home or somewhere else in between finishing school and going home? The school was very clear of no exceptions. And as for the "you could just use your phone outside of school" there were sometimes random bag checks so they would find your phone even if you weren't using it in school. I was literally just checking the time on my phone in the hallway.

I already said I completely agreed with mobiles being confiscated if used in class. If they are being confiscated in class already there is no need to implement a school wide ban.

Eh, she had good reason to encourage me to take my phone with me. Once I ended up stranded at a bus stop with no mobile phone, no information service at the bus stop and no nearby area for me to contact someone in need of assistance, I had to knock on a strangers door to ask them to phone me a taxi...pretty dangerous if you ask me and could have been avoided had I had my mobile phone.

It's much easier to do it quickly on a mobile phone than the school phone, especially if it's something personal or embarrassing (e.g. a teenage girl on her period who forgot to bring tampons, which I have heard about on this forum before). Then you need to bear in mind the journey to and from school. I had a basic mobile phone for emergencies and things like that when I was at school, and the school bus was often delayed by quite a bit on more than one occasion.

There is simply no good reason for a school to completely ban mobile phones from its premises. It can cause a lot of inconvenience for no benefit.

How did you end up stranded?Same journey each day from school and back?If the school says you can't bring mobile phones into school then you have to obey, those are the school rules.

We weren't allowed to take our school jumpers off during lessons without asking the permission of the teacher!

My family was visiting my brother and so I had to take a different journey than usual, the buses for some reason weren't running and I was left stranded and unsure what to do. I was a child for Christ sake and the school put me in a position where I was unsafe because of their rule.

How did you end up stranded?Same journey each day from school and back?If the school says you can't bring mobile phones into school then you have to obey, those are the school rules.

My school has a 'forbidden corridor' which only teachers are allowed to go through despite it being one of the biggest and most principle corridors in the school building.

My school had a no mobile phones allowed on the school premises rule. Whilst I completely agree with schools being able to say no mobiles during class ect and being able to confiscate them for the duration of the lesson or even the day, I found the no mobiles on school premises a bit too far. It meant if you were found to have a mobile anywhere in school at any point of the school day (even say at lunch time in the lunch hall, or in the corridor leaving school for the end of the day). They could confiscate your phone. A second add on to the rule (which was my main problem with it) was that is a phone was confiscated it was taken to the school office and HAD to be collected by a parent and they made no exceptions with this rule.

I once had my phone confiscated from me at lunch time in the hallway, I was told to get a parent to come and collect it. I told her my mum is disabled and cannot get to the school to pick it up, she said to get my father to pick it up I said I didn't have one. She didn't care she said get your mum to come in, so there is my mum disabled to **** having to pay money for a taxi to come in and collect a phone that was taken off me despite me not being of any disruption with it.

Now you may say "oh don't take your phone to school". Due to my mums disability and possibly needing to contact me at any time and also because I had to walk a long distance home often times in the dark my mum would not allow me to leave the house without my mobile for safety reasons. There were many other students with similar reasoning for needing to have mobile phones on their person, such as students needing to travel home via a couple of buses or a bus then train who may have needed to contact parents in the event of a train delay or cancellation stuff like that.

We also HAD to sing religious songs even if you claimed you weren't Christian


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At my old school, anything to do with uniform/religion was ridiculous. They made us wear clip on ties so no one would undo the top button, skirts had to be at the knee, 'proper' shoes, only one pair of earrings, no jewellery, no dyed hair.

We also got forced to pray, even if you were atheist/ not a Christian.


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That's shocking! My school isn't as bad but they were awful with dealing with my medical issues.

In one of my lessons I was eating a cereal bar (I'm diabetic and have to eat at set times to balance my blood sugar) and my teacher told me I couldn't. I explained why even though she knew and she said it didn't matter, it was her rule.

In another one of my lessons I was hypoglycaemic and my teacher never noticed my behaviour changing despite all my friends saying I was acting weird. She watched me walk out the school without any of my things and my Nan found me wandering near the road. All I remember was waking up in a car. The funny thing is was that the teacher was the one responsible for informing the other teachers of what to look out for and how to deal with me if I went hypo.