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

  • BirdEnjoyer@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    I was punished for missing mandatory dorm meetings by washing the same car that multiple other people had already washed.

    I missed said meetings because I was doing night classes and workstudy.

    All of the content of said dorm meetings could have been taken care of with a paragraph email, hut apparently I was supposed to hunt down the RA whenever they felt like giving me their time, when I was already taking, like, 18-25 hours, doing extracurriculars and workstudy, and also regularly puking my brains out from the uncontrolled migraine disorder.

    I stopped caring about their authority after that.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      What the fuck even happens in a dorm meeting? “Keep it down, don’t smoke inside, drink responsibly”?

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        8 months ago

        Basically. Do this, don’t do that.
        I think that they thought glaring at people in person would be more effective?

        But this was for the early admissions students, so they had to have the appearance of doing things, I guess.
        But punishing non-problem students with good grades, acting as normal students seems so ridiculous.

        They literally called my mom over this and she laughed at them. I was so proud of her.