The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part four- Page 185

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:43am

My school preferred the euphemism "school safety officers."

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:43am

Gotta love rent-a-cops!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:46am

More like students' parents.

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:46am

We didn't have anything like that. There was one teacher on duty every period that walked around the school, at lunch there were four (one by each enterance around the APR (all purpose room aka our cafeteria).

Of course my school WAS surrounded by corn fields (I'm not kidding:

[Katt]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:47am

No one in high school uses lockers anymore at our school. Apparently it's not cool I guess.

And they have detentions on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:20 AM and 3:30. They're for 30 minutes. When you get a detention you have like a week and a half to serve it or you get a work session. I always have to go to the early one because I play sports, which sucks because I'm late to everything so I've gotten there at 7:21 two or three times now. The teacher working in the morning was really rude about it too. She just smirks at you as you run up and find the door locked.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:47am

Heh, my best friend got in trouble once for referring to them as "rent-a-cops."

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:49am

We just had teachers. One got beat up in the caf once.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:50am

For a good kid and a straight A student, I was a bitch of a disrespectful little thing in high school. I had no respect for the system, and I didn't care who knew it. They should earn respect, not just haphazardly demand it. My district's administration and that of my school was comprised of hypocritical dirty liars.

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[Katt]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:50am

We have security guards at sporting events I think. But we have video cameras EVERYWHERE. It's really annoying.
The cameras have made it harder for the school to be rolled. Our seniors have rolled the school a lot in the past, and so has our rival school.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:52am

Ok. Gnite!

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:52am

Um, what does rolled mean?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:53am

Oh, I was horrible with authority. I never got detention, but I talked back to teachers constantly and definitely pissed them off.

We had this one security guard in middle school whose name was Skip and he was a former hippie that got drafted into the Vietnam war. He rode a motorcycle, wore Harley Davidson t-shirts and had this big "Make Love Not War" tattoo on his forearm. He was the coolest.

[Katt]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:53am

Heh, I knew someone was going to ask that. Rolled, as in, throwing toliet paper rolls in the trees and all over the lawn and such.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:53am

Em, you sound a hell of a lot like my best friend. He would go out of his way to defy school policies he didn't believe in, which often led to some rather amusing moments.

[Katt]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:54am

Detentions definitely aren't a big deal at our school. Everyone gets them. I got my first in third grade, and one of my friends got her first in second grade. They are so pointless.

And rolling houses is sadly what we do for fun a lot of the time. When we get bored, we go roll one of our friend's houses in the middle of the night.
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[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:54am

Ah, sounds like goodtimes.
I was a good girl, I only skipped if it was the last week and classes didn't matter.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:55am

Katt, I always thought that was just called TP'ing.

[Katt]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:56am

We all call it rolling down here, but I think everyone else calls it TPing.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:58am

My friends and I knew every school policy by heart. We would push them to the absolute limits and dance on the line, because we *knew* the school couldn't do anything about it.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:58am

I wrote something for the paper once, calling out the superintendent as a no-good lying, cheating politician, who meant absolutely no good for the school. He was taking things away from the students on the grounds of a basically pretend "austerity budget" and giving these patronizing speeches full of propaganda about how they were making our lives easier and trying to be fair to us in this difficult time, etc, etc. I quoted him in a few places as saying things that obviously didn't reflect well on him, and the principal asked to see me, because she insisted that I was misquoting her, when I said that the school needed to get its act together -- the two of them didn't even tell the same lie when I asked them the same questions in the interview process for the piece. So, we had a nasty argument, and she told me that unless I changed it to her liking, I wasn't permitted to publish it. I looked at her and I told her that clearly, this was an argument in which it came down to my word against hers, because I knew who had said what, and she was lying -- but that I was stuck in a world where no matter what, she had to win, and stormed out.

By the time my senior year rolled around, most people left me alone. By then I had good teachers, but I had no problem talking back to my only-qualified-in-stupidity history teachers over the years, or to anybody who pissed me off. I'm quiet by nature, but I just didn't jive with the way anything was run in that place.

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[Katt]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:59am

Okay, my mom just caught me. I have to go to bed now, lol. For real this time. Goodnight!

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 1:01am

See I didn't have to worry about rules in high school. Halfway through freshman year the principals knew me and loved me. By my sophomore year I think every teacher in the school knew me. I was an aide for a teacher and I never needed a pass. I don't think anyone other than my choir teacher or subsitutes wrote me a pass. I could spend my entire study hall period wandering the halls and no one said anything. And my school was strict with passes.

I showed up late all the time too after I started driving cause I had non school team swim team practice and my first period teacher loved me. I should have had a bunch of detentions for it but she never marked it. I did whatever I wanted in high school, it was great!

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 1:05am

Night, Katt.

Wow Em, that's terrible that your principal forced you to change what you had written. I remember learning in my high school journalism class about the Supreme Court ruling that permitted censorship of school newspapers, but my school opted to grant our paper First Amendment rights even though they didn't have to.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 1:05am

My school was so strict with passes. But the people who actually NEEDED to be watched and were hanging out in the hallways all the time basically just got really chummy with the security guards, and the little old lady hall monitors couldn't do a damned thing about it. So, of course, the school's deliquents got away with wandering the halls, attending about half a class a day, and the school's top students got asked for passes constantly. Even with a totally valid excuse, they'd call one of our 15 principals on you.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 1:06am

There's nothing more frustrating in high school than incompetent teachers. I had an AP History teacher who refused to teach us AP level material. AP classes were horribly done at my school anyway (they were 90 minute blocks all year long, which is WAY too much time for almost any class), so there was so much wasted time. She'd make us watch irrelevant or barely-relevant movies the majority of the class. When AP test time came along, we asked her if we were going to review and she said, "Only three of you [in the class of ten] are going to take it, so I'm not going to review for it." It was obvious that she thought that we were all going to fail it, so what was the point? We were going to watch a movie. She wouldn't even let us leave class and go to the library to study ourselves. I'm the most nonconfrontational person that you'll ever meet, but I really had it out with her over that. I left and went to the library and studied. And ended up getting a 4 on the exam, despite zero preparation from that teacher.

That's really my only moment of defiance in high school, though. I'm not afraid to let teachers know when I disagree with them, but I'm usually not gutsy enough to pull anything too out-of-line. I'm a wimp most of the time.

Too many typos! I've got an 8am class... 'night, everyone. Updated On: 1/24/06 at 01:06 AM