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What is the stupidest school rule you've ever had to deal with? (kbin.social)

submitted 4 months ago by yukichigai@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?

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[–] colonial@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Snowball throwing was banned because a nephew of a friend of a friend of a teacher was supposedly blinded by one.

FWIW, this can actually happen, although I still think that's an overbearing rule. One of my younger siblings had a teacher who was blind in one eye - ice shards from a snowball when she was in elementary.