Random Geek Guys

I'm trying to find the logic in many school rules or orders forced upon the student. Oh, I am trying so hard. But this is just like that damn maze that you just can't find a solution to.

I think some of these Australian schools have taken the wrong definition of school and fallen for it:

"n.
A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal."

Did that make sense? It will only make as much sense as the following things that many schools dealing with people from ages 5 to 18 try to force upon the human child/teenager:

• Uniforms are more important than your learning environment.
• Black lace up shoes... are important?
• The parenting approach for children of "give the toy to me and you can use it later" is used by teachers to somehow stop 18 year old students bringing their mobile phones to school.
• If you are very cold at school, you are not to be seen with an additional accessory to the uniform, such as a scarf, a warm jacket that the school's uniform shop does not profit from, any shoes that are not black lace up shoes, headgear such as a beanie, differently from black coloured pants...
• (I love this one, which has been in practice ever since grade Prep...) If you are hit, you are not to hit back/defend yourself. Tell a teacher!
• No swearing or "colourful language" in school grounds, even in private conversations.
• It's not acceptable for a student to make a distraction in class (which is good), but it's fine to be called out of class for an assembly got to do with rubbish policies.
• Schools enjoy the uncanny fascination with what the students wear.
• MODERN PORTABLE TECHNOLOGY IS EVIL!
• The only way to punish a student is to put them in a quiet room for half an hour, or give them a day off.
• The ideal way to enforce uniform rules upon the student is to force them to go home if they are not wearing entirely correct school uniform. But it's bad to have a low attendance record.
• IT'S BAD TO BE 5 MINUTES LATE! (Now this one I really hate. So I've missed 5 minutes of class. Well, the teachers want me to somehow repay the damages or get a detention. It's bad enough of a consequence that you might have to catch up on the work covered in the first 5 minutes of class, such as ROLL CALL!)
• The ideal approach to preparing a teen for their future is to treat them as an incapable human who is to believe that all of the above is correct, and any form of being different, such as looking different (uniform) or questioning these enforcements (thinking for yourself) is bad.
• No fans of the Australian Democratic Party... (yeah, I made up that one. Pretty funny though!)

And the fucking list goes on!

Please, leave a comment and add more items to the list!

I'll end this post with a quote from the great George Carlin:

"Here's another bunch of ignorant shit: school uniforms. Bad theory. The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school it helps keep order. Don't these schools do enough damage makin' all these kids think alike? Now they're gonna make them look alike too? And it's not a new idea. I first saw it in news reels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand 'cause the narration was in German!"