Cynthetiq

When I was younger I went to a private high school Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA. It was a catholic oriented school, but there were plenty of other people from different faiths that attended because of it's good curriculum.

I was wondering what kind of disipline you got from HS. The Student Handbook was handed out to each student before classes started each year. It dictated just what expectations were from each and every student from academics to dress code.

Did you go to public school and it was just a free for all? Did you go to private school and get detetion? Enough to be part of the Saturday Breakfast Club?

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I was not a troublemaker but once in a while I did get in trouble for something or another. One year I had admitted to forging computer generated report cards for people and I received 75 hours of detention. Sucked because I did it only for our school once but mainly for the local public high school. I made some great counterfits right down to the paper and spacing.

Nevertheless I remember reading the handbook the first time, thinking to myself,"Why did they put in smoking? I'm not interested in smoking..." And sure enough by Junior year I was a smoker.

Now the handbook addresses Cellphones, pagers, pregnancy/abortion...

Class of 1986

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warrrreagl

It also helps to know when you were in high school, because times certainly change.

I was in high school in the mid-70's, and our punishments were paddling, detention, suspension, or Saturday morning garbage detail. You got to choose what you preferred.

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Cynthetiq

true... I edited my first post to include me as Class of 1986

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Liquor Dealer

I was in high school in the 50's. Before I quit school and joined the navy I went to New Mexico Military Institute - It was at that time probably the roughest military school in the country. The military was like going on vacation from what high school had been.

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Bill O'Rights

Class of 1980

We had corporal punishment (paddlings, for the uninitiated of you), in-school-suspension (detention), and out-of-school suspension. The choice was not ours except that the punishment was meted out relative to the crime. And yes, I was paddled (putting a thumbtack on a teachers seat) and received detention (caught with "tobacco products" on school property) And this may be the old fogey in me comin' out, but I think that we were <b>much</b> better behaved than the kids are now. If nothing else, respect for authority was <i>beaten</i> into us.

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suviko

WHAAAT?! Is that even legal? Well, private school, guess it is, but.. I am happy to live in a country where all schools are public & free, even the upscale snobbish ones and can't have rules like that.

Cynthetiq

that's a good one... not PC in today's world.. but funny. There was a guy in one of our classes that farted all the time... he got one that read, "Making animal noises"

It addresses it. It doesn't tell someone what they can and cannot do, but addresses the situation. What country do you live in?

click on the link and read what it says on page 31..

It says:

"Notre Dame High School upolds the Archdiocesan policy regarding the pregnancy of a student. Athough the school subscribes to the Church's teaching regarding pre-marital sex and the sancitty of the human body and family life, it realizes that when a pregnancy occurs, the total school community should seek to offer support to the pregnant student and/or the student father in a Christian and humane manner."

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Cynthetiq

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VirFighter

Class of 2002

I went to a private school as well. We were strict overall, detentions were handed out for untucked shrits, lol

I never received a detention once, I guess I was a good kid or I just never got caught. It's interesting though. In college most of my friends talked about how they skipped classes in high school, I mean these are smart kids that were in IB programs and they never got disciplined for it. Skipping class at my high school would have been cause for a suspension.

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denim

Class of 1982.

For half the time I was in a private school, I had an arrangement with the librarian. I would serve my time, I forget what they called it, in the library. Since I tended to put in extra chore time in there anyway, she would often just sign my form and set me loose again.

The other half of the time was spent serving in the kitchen. That was no fun.

I don't remember being punished when I went to public school, but there were probably a few hours of detention in there somewhere.

spectre

Never got a detention in High school. Grammer school was another story all together. I usually spent half the year in detention for various things, usually for being a smartass. Punishments were dependent upon the teacher. My jr. high Science teacher was the worst, he used to take is class ring, put it on the base of a person's neck, then turn his wrist. He also liked throwing erasers at students.

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WhoaitsZ

you know. i was NOT discliplined in school and it shows. i never paid much attention in class and now wish i would have had my ass sat straight a time or two...

snowy

I SHOULD have been disciplined a time or two, I'm sure. I was once caught skipping class by the vice-principal, who knew I was supposed to be in math. She just asked me if I knew the consequences of my actions and I said, yeah, and she didn't do a thing. You see, I was different from the other kids--my dad was the principal at another high school in town, and all the administration in my building knew who he was, etc, etc. I never did anything beyond skipping class, and otherwise I was a very good kid, so I never got into any trouble, even when I WAS caught. Actually, the principal of my school (very cool guy) consistently made me late for class senior year because he would always stop me in the hallways for a chat.

In elementary school, though, I should have got in trouble more than once for more grievous crimes. I bloodied quite a few noses as a small child--I was a spunky girl--and went to the principal's office once. At that time, my dad was the only high school principal in the district we lived in, and therefore EVERYONE knew who he was and subsequently who I was. The one time I did go to the office, the principal basically patted me on the head and said not to do it again. One time, I got sent to the office by a bitchy substitute teacher, and the principal of my elementary school came out and saw me sitting there and asked what the heck I was there for. I explained what had happened, and how the teacher wasn't very nice, and he let me spend the rest of the day in the office, running errands for him. Ahh, the good old days.

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suviko

In elementary school, the whole class got detention once 'cos somebody(s) had been doing pranks on a boy that was a bit retarded and teacher couldn't figure who so she punished the whole class. I remember how I watched him from the window when he crossed the yard. In the next class room kids were singing the same song we had rehearsed an hour ago and I grinned for hearing that song. Teacher saw that and somehow figured I had done something to that boy or something, and I got 30 mins extra solo standing. Talk about justice being blind.. Actually I had always tried to stand up to that boy with my friends, even when he had laughed at us and said we looked like idiots when we met him after school while we were learning to skate with inline rollerblades and had huge helmets on.

In high school, I was once smoking outside school's back gate after the bell had rang with my then-bf and his friend. The school was a posh one and situated in down town so a policeman walked by and came to talk to us. He started preaching at us how we are underage and all and we didn't even put out the cigarettes. "I think it's not a big enough issue to trouble your principal with, but I might want to talk to your haed of students' association." Well... My bf WAS the head of students' association. His friend was the secretary. So.. We talked the cop around to leaving it at that after we promised not to smoke (where peopel pass by and see us).

This ex was raised an atheist as his mom (a dean of humanities department in university) & dad (sculptor/painter) are atheists. His elementary school teacher really liked and looked up to his mom, but didn't realize what went on when little-Rauli says in the classroom that "Jesus is like adult's Santa Clause!" The boy had never heard about Jesus at home, so when he went to school he didn't understand what religion classes were about and asked his mom and then parroted mom's answer back at the teacher. The teacher got real angry, dragged him to principal's office and called his mother who laughed tears in her eyes straight at 'em.

LutherMac

Twice in High School (1994) I was given detentions for not
doing my homework. (I personally didn't believe that homework
actually helped in the learning process.. at least until I got to
college). For some reason though, I got out of them both times and never did have to serve.

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MSD

Class of 2002

Once in Elemenary school, I got detention for not doing my HW.

Once in High School, the security bitch (who had something against my group of friends, sent us all to the dean for standing in a corner in the courtyard. When asked what we did, she told us that "you're a security risk." The dean laughed and told us that standing there was no problem as long as we were more than 10 feet away from the classrooms in order to keep the noise down. Ten minutes later, we were back out in the corner (not near classrooms) and she sent us back to the dean, refusing to listen to us when we told her that he told us it was OK. He talked to her, and she stayed away from us. The only other run-in with her was when she accused us of fighting when a mob of preppies on the courtyard across the cafeteria started throwing bottles, apple cores, and other garbage at us. We stood tehre dodging the rain of trash, and they got no punishment, we were sent inside because she said that we were throwing stuff at them. They really were out to get us, but I excaped.

Leander

My Senior year, some friends and I decided that we wanted to have some fun with the Student Council elections. We weren't running for anything as we were graduating, but we had this idea to start a Socialist party. The school used to have elections with only two parties (hmm, does that sound familiar) and the parties were named after our school colors. The ironic thing is the colors were red and white. We called our party Hadsoc (after 1984) and ran a slate of underclassmen. We also put up posters from our spokesman Half-brother. They said stupid things like 2+2=2.5, why because I said so, and Vote Hadsoc because Half-brother knows karate and will beat up your dog.
Apparently this did not go over well with the administration and we were faced with not going to the Prom(big freaking deal) and not walking at graduation(a really big deal to family). In the end we had to cease and desist, but our slate did garner 10% of the vote.

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krwlz

public school. detention quite few times, in school suspension once, and kicked off the school bus 3 or 4 times

Frowning Budah

I was one of those kids that was Honor Society, Student Council etc. It wasn't that we didn't do anything we weren't suppose to we just got away with everything. Of course this was the 70's and you could do just about anything and get away with it.

cj2112

Discipline at my HS was a joke (R.A. Millikan in Long Beach Ca. Class of '86). My sophmore year I got caught smokiing a clove during a pep rally so she wouldn't let me come to her class for 3 days! Nothing was said to any of the administration of the school or my parents. So for 3 days I got a double length lunch period, I still haven't figured out how that was punishment. I constantly ditched my last class of the day, so they kicked me out of it. The irony was that the beginning of that year I had tried to get out of that class so i wouldn't have a 7th period and the school told me no.

Marburg

Abortions? Care to elaborate? Would you be expelled or something?

Cynthetiq

If you read the whole thread, I did already address someone else's same question. If you want more information click on the link (it opens a PDF)n the original post and read what it says on page 31.

It says:

"Notre Dame High School upolds the Archdiocesan policy regarding the pregnancy of a student. Athough the school subscribes to the Church's teaching regarding pre-marital sex and the sancitty of the human body and family life, it realizes that when a pregnancy occurs, the total school community should seek to offer support to the pregnant student and/or the student father in a Christian and humane manner."

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pangavan

Man I probably still owe them a couple of swats and at least two saturday suspensions. Although I did recieve an out of school suspension for truancy

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guthmund

I got swats a few times, mostly for stupid shit I know I shouldn't have been doing. (lighting deodorant on fire.....breaking into the principal's desk to retrieve porno...)

A few times it was In School Suspension, which was a big fat joke in my high school. We were 'supervised' in the computer lab, usually by the veteran who just didn't care and went on extended smoke break kind of teacher.

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platypus

Class of '81.

Got away with more than I got caught. Did some detentions and extra homework for being the class clown. Used to recite George Carlin routines to the kids in the back of the classroom. Being a smat-ass was (and is) my biggest problem. I see humor in just about everything, and often feel the need to point it out. That even got me kicked out of a class in my fourth year of college. Heh heh. I'll never learn.

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TheDave87

class of '02, public schools
I had my fair share of punishment... everything from cheating, to lying to extortion and figting, but i always seemed to be able to turn on the charm and get the sentence lightened a bit. There really wasnt any spanking, but there was plenty of detentions and in school suspensions, along with the out of school suspensions. The classes below me, starting with '04 has this wonderful little thing thats pretty much equal to solitary confinement... they put you in a room by your little lonesome and make you sit there throughout the school day, 2 restroom breaks and your lunch was brought to you. THAT would suck.

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Captain Canada

Im just about to graduate from a private high school here. It is pretty structured, but there is a lot of freedom too.

Lebell

Class of '83, a private all-boy Jesuit High School

Discipline? Well, yes and no. It was up to the teacher to enforce class discipline and some were good at it, others were not. For example, my freshman science teacher laid down the law right away. It was entirely possible for the whole class to spend an hour or more sitting after school with him. Our art teacher was a complete joke. Two students filled syringes with mustard and shot him in the back during class with no real punishment.

Detention was called a JUG for Justice Under God. More detentions could result in a weekend detention or possible suspension.

In four years, I only received one JUG, and that for being late to Spanish class (I had grabbed the wrong books from my locker, but too bad.) Of course, another famous incident (famous among my friends) in my senior year almost got me kicked out of school

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krwlz

And this famous incident was?

(I guess I'm not a friend)