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

  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I went to a religious highschool, and at the time I was (shocker) a teenager. You could sign up either for religious education, or for Christian classes. Me being an atheist (and, I stress again, a teenager), went for the least terrible option.

    After the first guest teacher came in to talk about their own religion, we got a new rule.

    “Students are not allowed to ask more than 5 questions each to guest teachers”.

    One class later that was changed to

    “Students are only allowed to ask 3 respectful questions to guest teachers”

    That rule was then dropped, and I get a stern talking to explaining that I, personally, was allowed to ask only a single question during religious education classes.

    And then I didn’t have to follow those classes anymore, which was nice. But with a couple of years of maturity on me, I feel like I could have been nicer to the poor guest teachers.

    • kromem@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Man, I loved my middle/high school’s religion classes as an Agnostic.

      It was a super fancy prep school, so they went all in with the religion classes being ‘academic’ with the teachers needing a relevant PhD or Masters.

      I still remember my very conservative Old Testament teacher writing all sorts of passive aggressive statements across my envelope pushing essays and then begrudgingly giving them A- grades.

      The other teacher for NT and electives was awesome though. Instilled a real passion (pun intended) for the material with fun classes that did things like look at early Christianity as a cult and the sociological factors going into it or reading bizarre apocrypha like the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (which in later years I realized was less ‘bizarre’ and more subversive and probably even satirical).

      Religion could be a really cool class, and it’s a shame cowardly institutions try to make it “indoctrination by any other name” as opposed to “let’s learn about the criterion of embarrassment and Peter’s denials.”