The "No Pass" Rule - Cool or Not?

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 1:18am

Last year, at our school, we had a problem with someone pulling the fire drills. As a result, our principal took away the pass privilege...we couldn't go to the bathroom during class. Or leave class for any reason, except for a real emergency (ie: sickness).

I don't see how that helps. People can still pull the alarm in between classes, which did happen a couple of times. So, I don't see how keeping students out of the hallways during class can help a whole lot.

Well, she carried this rule into this school year. This lady thinks we have time to use both the bathroom and go to class in the 4 minute passing time we have. First of all, the halls are way crowded! It would take time just to walk to the bathroom. Not to mention that you can be in trouble for being late to class. Second, what about locker time? She says to prepare for a future class ahead of time so you can have time to go to the bathroom...but it isn't always going to work out that way. Don't want to end up carrying 3-4 books. This is what we have lockers for.

And another point (you women might understand this)...if you have your "friend," you are allowed to go down to the nurse. However, what if you want to just check to see if you have it? With crowded hallways, can one make it to class in time?

I think the school has a security problem. They punish us by taking away a privilege...but it doesn't solve anything! What do you guys think about a rule like this? Should it be taken that seriously where she had to carry it into this year? She doesn't understand what it is like, being a student.

Updated On: 9/7/04 at 01:18 AM

[shira467]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 1:21am

I hate those rules. They serve absolutely NO purpose. Besides, it's worse if you have to sit in class whimpering b/c you've practically wet your pants.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 1:22am

It's kind of like Urinetown, except no one dies, and they won't let you pee during class, even if you paid them. At least the people in Urinetown pissed if they payed.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 1:22am

My high school tried some half-assed version of that, with all sorts of exceptions and rules... I just went to a high school that was obsessed with rules. It won't last. Things like that always backfire.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 1:25am

At my school, they handed out a piece of paper that said all of the dress code rules. They were banning shirts that had innapropriate slogans or sayings on it. At the bottom was a drawing of a shirt that said "Inappropriate Slogans and/or Sayings". Needless to say, a few people showed up the next day wearing t-shirts with "Inappropriate Slogans and/or Sayings" on it.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 1:25am

In our school it is now. Isn't it a basic human right? I am speaking on behalf of the school. What if you don't have to pee between classes, but all of a sudden you have to go? I'm not like that, but it's hard to hold if you start cracking up! Don't want any accidents.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 1:27am

"It's a privelige to pee..."

[shira467]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 2:05am

Give her a copy of Urinetown as a "Beginning of School Gift" Maybe she'll get the point?

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 2:08am

Just to spite the Principal, arrange a huge Piss-A-Thon at a certain time during the day. Like, say, at ten fourty-five (or some time when everyone's in class), everyone stops what they're doing and pisses their pants. It'll be great.

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 2:38am

Woah, this thread came to a screeching halt. I shouldn't talk about Piss-A-Thons anymore.

[feinstein9]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 2:41am

i think it's a great idea. go for it.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 2:49am

I go to a private school. We don't even have lockers at my school. So we HAVE to carry all our books. But we can leave them in the class if we want and get them at the end of the day for homework. No big deal. And the fire alarms are all locked. The only way to pull it is to break the hard plastic surrounding it. So one would need to find something to break it with first. But, when you think about it, what is the purpose of those things? I mean sure, an alarm should go off during a fire, but we have a sprinkler system ... why do we need an alarm on every corner?

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 3:02am

There are alarms everywhere so if, god forbid, there is a fire, you don't have to run around to find one.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 3:11am

Actually when I was in middle school, our cafeteria and the 200 building burned to the ground due to a gas leak ... it was after hours (around 6pm) so only teachers were around, no students. No one was hurt, but it was really weird watching my school on fire on the news...

[bythesword84]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 5:59am

I had the no bathroom rule all through grade school and high school. It wasn't that bad. Besides as a girl if you said "no, i HAVE to go to the bathroom" they usually let you go anyway. But only because you were a girl and it could be that time of the month.

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 9/7/04 at 8:36am

You're schools crazy--a kid only pulled the fire alarm once in my school, and everyone knew it was him because he told everyone he was gonna do it.