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BigGov · 06-27-2004, 03:50 PM

She told the truth, what's wrong with that?

Hell, my entire senior year I was much, much worse. It was because we had a new principal who was the exact opposite of the previous. The old principal was a nice, caring old man who gave the young adults respect and the benefit of the doubt. He was very much of the mold of "You want to leave campus? Well, if you want to graduate, you'll come back, so have fun while you're out. You want to use the library, well go use it then, I'm not going to stop you from learning. You want to walk the halls? As long as you don't disturb classes I could care less."

The new principal? Exact opposite. An overly-oppressive woman who made rules and regulations for everything. Much of the mold of "You want to leave school? Well do you have this, this and this done? How about this and that? Well what about this too? Oh, and do you have this done too? You want to use the library? Well sign out of where you are and sign in the library so we know you're there just to make sure that you were there. You want to walk the halls? Well, take this hall pass."

Overall, there were many general changes as a result. During my final year there was more crowding in an already far overcrowded high school because students had to stay in one of the two commons because teachers couldn't supervise both thoroughly enough. The librarians turned from somewhat annoying into book-nazi's. Oh, and most importantly there was an INCREASE of students walking the halls. Now I capitalized increase for two reasons, one because it's not really expected more students would be in the halls with the new rules, and because there was a signifigant increase in the number of students wandering. One of my teachers had the opinion that since students had a pass now they felt they had the right to be there, and no matter where they were, as long as they showed the pass they'd be fine and dandy. Before, there were hardly any students in the hall, and if for some reason there was one being disruptive the teacher would go out, yell for a second and tell them to get back to class or to stop disturbing them. After, the teacher could only say to hurry back to class which the student never really cared about. So the teachers were forced to close the doors. So what? Well, the school was overcrowded, as in almost every class was overcrowded with no windows. An open door to let in circulation is a plus.

So, what's the point? I pointed out all the bullshit and how it did nothing. Hell the first day of the new school year I was walking to my locker without a pass when a former teacher stopped me and ask for a pass. He wasn't going to take me down to the office and report me when I've been a good student and I'm just walking down the hall. Hell, on the way back I stopped and talked with him for a few minutes and said how pointless the new policies were, and he agreed with me on every point. Throughout the year I just tried to see how much further I could go. About 1/4th of the way into the school year I had a journalism class. In there I wrote an article about all the new policies. Of course I was nice and avoided suspension by not criticizing the new principal, meanwhile the entire first half of the article described precisely how to get around all the new policies. At the end of the year I finally decided to try most I've ever done. During the middle of class a friend said he needed a binder for this project we were doing. I told him he could easily go get one from Staples right then. But he said no, he was too scared. He then decided he'd challenge me to go do so. Hey, as long as he didn't rat on me I'd do it. I proceeded to walk right out of the school. Past 3 teachers, 1 security guard. If any of them would have looked they would have seen me walk right out the door. I go to Staples, find the prices of decent binders are far too high, come back, walk right back in, go into the library and right in front of three librarians, I mean DIRECTLY in front of three librarians I covered my tracks by making up a false sign-in time and a false sign-out time. If any of them had paid attention I would have been suspended.

Now, a smart person would shut up and never tell a soul about this. Well, not me, I go ahead to tell any teacher I know who will listen and proceed to get into zero trouble.

I broke every single new rule. I explained how I broke it, and I described it all to people who could have me suspended. If anyone asked me, I would have told them in detail how I did it and how they can do it just as easily, and if I were a speaker at my graduation I would have explained how worthless the new principal was, and how worthless the new policies were.

Hopefully any self-respecting college that hears this and accepts her will ignore the high school graduate requirement for this girl.

06-27-2004, 03:50 PM	#27 (permalink)
BigGov WoW or Class... Location: UWW	She told the truth, what's wrong with that? Hell, my entire senior year I was much, much worse. It was because we had a new principal who was the exact opposite of the previous. The old principal was a nice, caring old man who gave the young adults respect and the benefit of the doubt. He was very much of the mold of "You want to leave campus? Well, if you want to graduate, you'll come back, so have fun while you're out. You want to use the library, well go use it then, I'm not going to stop you from learning. You want to walk the halls? As long as you don't disturb classes I could care less." The new principal? Exact opposite. An overly-oppressive woman who made rules and regulations for everything. Much of the mold of "You want to leave school? Well do you have this, this and this done? How about this and that? Well what about this too? Oh, and do you have this done too? You want to use the library? Well sign out of where you are and sign in the library so we know you're there just to make sure that you were there. You want to walk the halls? Well, take this hall pass." Overall, there were many general changes as a result. During my final year there was more crowding in an already far overcrowded high school because students had to stay in one of the two commons because teachers couldn't supervise both thoroughly enough. The librarians turned from somewhat annoying into book-nazi's. Oh, and most importantly there was an INCREASE of students walking the halls. Now I capitalized increase for two reasons, one because it's not really expected more students would be in the halls with the new rules, and because there was a signifigant increase in the number of students wandering. One of my teachers had the opinion that since students had a pass now they felt they had the right to be there, and no matter where they were, as long as they showed the pass they'd be fine and dandy. Before, there were hardly any students in the hall, and if for some reason there was one being disruptive the teacher would go out, yell for a second and tell them to get back to class or to stop disturbing them. After, the teacher could only say to hurry back to class which the student never really cared about. So the teachers were forced to close the doors. So what? Well, the school was overcrowded, as in almost every class was overcrowded with no windows. An open door to let in circulation is a plus. So, what's the point? I pointed out all the bullshit and how it did nothing. Hell the first day of the new school year I was walking to my locker without a pass when a former teacher stopped me and ask for a pass. He wasn't going to take me down to the office and report me when I've been a good student and I'm just walking down the hall. Hell, on the way back I stopped and talked with him for a few minutes and said how pointless the new policies were, and he agreed with me on every point. Throughout the year I just tried to see how much further I could go. About 1/4th of the way into the school year I had a journalism class. In there I wrote an article about all the new policies. Of course I was nice and avoided suspension by not criticizing the new principal, meanwhile the entire first half of the article described precisely how to get around all the new policies. At the end of the year I finally decided to try most I've ever done. During the middle of class a friend said he needed a binder for this project we were doing. I told him he could easily go get one from Staples right then. But he said no, he was too scared. He then decided he'd challenge me to go do so. Hey, as long as he didn't rat on me I'd do it. I proceeded to walk right out of the school. Past 3 teachers, 1 security guard. If any of them would have looked they would have seen me walk right out the door. I go to Staples, find the prices of decent binders are far too high, come back, walk right back in, go into the library and right in front of three librarians, I mean DIRECTLY in front of three librarians I covered my tracks by making up a false sign-in time and a false sign-out time. If any of them had paid attention I would have been suspended. Now, a smart person would shut up and never tell a soul about this. Well, not me, I go ahead to tell any teacher I know who will listen and proceed to get into zero trouble. I broke every single new rule. I explained how I broke it, and I described it all to people who could have me suspended. If anyone asked me, I would have told them in detail how I did it and how they can do it just as easily, and if I were a speaker at my graduation I would have explained how worthless the new principal was, and how worthless the new policies were. Hopefully any self-respecting college that hears this and accepts her will ignore the high school graduate requirement for this girl. __________________ One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink but then held it out over the beer and yelled "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT, YOU BASTARD!"