Today was my first day back to school. I'm a junior at my town's High School. Yes, I'm almost there! Only two years left. Anyway, there were some new rules that were put into affect, and I was wondering what you guys thought about these rules.
1. If you're late, you have office detention. - Office detention means you sit in the main office for the whole 6 hour day. They've also tacked on an extra 2 hours. So, in total, you're sitting in the main office doing absolutely nothing for 8 days. In my school, you only have 15 absenses before they start talking away some of your credits. If you're late twice, they start taking days off your allotted absent time.
I think that is ridiculous. I'm 17-years-old and I'm a driver. Juniors and Seniors are aloud to drive to school and park in the student parking lot. Sometimes cars have problems and they won't start, or get a flat, or something. Even if I didn't drive, nothing is always certain and someone in the family could need me real quick or I could be sick and really struggling that day. It's not fair to punish people like that. If I have a reason that I'm late, and not just "I didn't feel like coming at that time," or "I didn't get up in time," and they try to give me office detention and take away my sick days, there will be a huge problem. I'm never late anyway, but now that I'm driving problems always arise. Still. There is someone in my school that comes from NY every morning. He can't control whether he's late or not! If he's commuting 3 hours to and 3 hours from school every day, that is someone who really wants an eduction, and punishing him for being late is stupid when he's trying to hard as it!
2. No water bottles aloud. - Students can no longer bring water bottles to school to drink during class. In the past, student's have been permitted to bring water bottles with only water in them. No juice, no soda, no beer. Just water. Now, student's can not bring water bottles to school period. The reason for this is because last year a Senior brought vodka to school in a water bottle and no one knew because it was a clear liquid and looked like water.
This is another stupid rule too! Our school has no air conditioning, and the heater doesn't work right. Which means that all year round the class rooms and hallways are at least 80 degrees. Our school has no fans or ventilation system of any kind. That's really unsafe for students and teachers. That's germs and whatever else floating around the school all the time. People have allergies and get sick all the time at school. If someone has to go to school when they're sick, how can they possibly keep themselves hydrated and keep dringking fluids if they can't even have water? You may just think we can go use the water fountains, but all of our teachers say that we're big kids now and can not leave the class to use the fountains. You can only use them between classes. That's crap because we only have 3 minutes to get from class to class anyway.
And we have aerobics twice a week, Monday and Thursday. That's us running for 5 minutes, stretching, doing fast pace exercise for 25 minutes, and then running for another 10. With no ventilation and the school being 80 degrees, can you imagine the kids coming out of there? How terrible they must feel? They're going to get dehydrated or have no strength at all. Why don't they have us work out on the farms all day. We'll dehydrate and die faster that way.
I really think my school needs to stage some sort of civil rebellion because we're not to be treated like cattle...
1. If you're late, you have office detention. - Office detention means you sit in the main office for the whole 6 hour day. They've also tacked on an extra 2 hours. So, in total, you're sitting in the main office doing absolutely nothing for 8 days. In my school, you only have 15 absenses before they start talking away some of your credits. If you're late twice, they start taking days off your allotted absent time.
I think that is ridiculous. I'm 17-years-old and I'm a driver. Juniors and Seniors are aloud to drive to school and park in the student parking lot. Sometimes cars have problems and they won't start, or get a flat, or something. Even if I didn't drive, nothing is always certain and someone in the family could need me real quick or I could be sick and really struggling that day. It's not fair to punish people like that. If I have a reason that I'm late, and not just "I didn't feel like coming at that time," or "I didn't get up in time," and they try to give me office detention and take away my sick days, there will be a huge problem. I'm never late anyway, but now that I'm driving problems always arise. Still. There is someone in my school that comes from NY every morning. He can't control whether he's late or not! If he's commuting 3 hours to and 3 hours from school every day, that is someone who really wants an eduction, and punishing him for being late is stupid when he's trying to hard as it!
2. No water bottles aloud. - Students can no longer bring water bottles to school to drink during class. In the past, student's have been permitted to bring water bottles with only water in them. No juice, no soda, no beer. Just water. Now, student's can not bring water bottles to school period. The reason for this is because last year a Senior brought vodka to school in a water bottle and no one knew because it was a clear liquid and looked like water.
This is another stupid rule too! Our school has no air conditioning, and the heater doesn't work right. Which means that all year round the class rooms and hallways are at least 80 degrees. Our school has no fans or ventilation system of any kind. That's really unsafe for students and teachers. That's germs and whatever else floating around the school all the time. People have allergies and get sick all the time at school. If someone has to go to school when they're sick, how can they possibly keep themselves hydrated and keep dringking fluids if they can't even have water? You may just think we can go use the water fountains, but all of our teachers say that we're big kids now and can not leave the class to use the fountains. You can only use them between classes. That's crap because we only have 3 minutes to get from class to class anyway.
And we have aerobics twice a week, Monday and Thursday. That's us running for 5 minutes, stretching, doing fast pace exercise for 25 minutes, and then running for another 10. With no ventilation and the school being 80 degrees, can you imagine the kids coming out of there? How terrible they must feel? They're going to get dehydrated or have no strength at all. Why don't they have us work out on the farms all day. We'll dehydrate and die faster that way.
I really think my school needs to stage some sort of civil rebellion because we're not to be treated like cattle...
