One in five children bullied by text

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 06-08-2005, 22:54

Originally Posted by mercian billman

Wow you're school isn't normal. Has your school had a bomb threat or something? My old middle school had 18 (can't remember if it was 8 or 18) bomb threats and they have pretty similar restrictions.

EIGHTEEN BOMB THREATS?! I can't comprehend that...even if it's just eight, it's still crazy.

**clayton ballentine** · 06-08-2005, 23:26

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

EIGHTEEN BOMB THREATS?! I can't comprehend that...even if it's just eight, it's still crazy.

1 year we had 60 bomb threats

**mercian billman** · 06-08-2005, 23:43

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

EIGHTEEN BOMB THREATS?! I can't comprehend that...even if it's just eight, it's still crazy.

Most bomb threats are not serious, I doubt that even 1 bomb threat was serious but it doesn't matter. The school must respond to each as if they are serious threats and the perpetrators are dealt with pretty harshly.

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Mercian, not that I recall. But yeah, you get 10 points for having a cell phone or a dress code violation, and only like 5 if you cut a class.
There has been a couple of fires, but they already had the crazy rules in place already.
I don't really know why my school is like this, other than the fact that the town I live in is very... um upper class and quite uptight.

It sounds like your problem is with the school board, you should petition them to change things. Don't take it out on your teachers and administration they probably hate the restrictions as much as you do. Seriously monitoring halls for people that talk and having to monitor the lunch room means a few teachers are doing that instead of working or taking a break during their prep hour.

**Steppe Merc** · 06-08-2005, 23:52

Yeah. And most of my teachers don't really care. If a cell phone goes off, everyone laughs, the teacher just says turn it off, the kid does, and then we go back to learning. If anything, when teacher enforces the rules (confiscates the phone, calls the office, writes down a point slip), then class is really disrupted. Of course, I can see when the call is disprupting, but in my experience, it really isn't that much.

And many teachers are forced to monitor lunches, mainly because due to the huge sizes of the classes of the freshman, they had to split lunches in half, and doulbed the amount of lunch monitors that are teachers.

Just to let everyone know, I'm not an evil kid that torments my teachers. Most I can deal with, but even the ones I hate I never talk during their classes, or anything.

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 06-09-2005, 00:10

Our school's pretty bad for bomb threats, we've had a bunch this year (maybe 10) and a bunch of other things randomly interjected in there (someone stole all the tables from the cafeteria the other day and dumped them right outside the school). The thing is we're not strict on the dress code, but if your caught with anything remotely against the rules (i.e. cigs, alcohol) you're ISS or Expelled. We get alot of fights too, some real bad ones. I almost got into one the other day, but unfortunatly, it never started. Gah.

**doc_bean** · 06-09-2005, 08:07

If the one who calls in the bomb threat is caught here, they have to pay for everything (police, firemen, whatever), which can really run up. And they actually look for the people who call if it is fake.

We don't get bomb threats at our schools.

Steppe, if someone cuts a class, they don't bother the teacher, I think most prefer students cutting a class than talking during one.

**Steppe Merc** · 06-09-2005, 13:00

Bean, how does a girl with a too short shirt disrupt class? Sure all the guys are paying attention to her, but it's not really a distruption...

And about the bomb threats, I could understand all of the crazy stuff if there was a threat, or if our school was violent. But there isn't a more straight laced, short haired rich person school around. Of course all of the cool kids try and act "straight", which is a joke, since their "street" clothes cost more than my entire bunch of tee shirts and jeans...

**doc_bean** · 06-09-2005, 13:16

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Bean, how does a girl with a too short shirt disrupt class? Sure all the guys are paying attention to her, but it's not really a distruption...

It doesn't make for a good learning environment, plus it will make the guys act stupid because they want to impress the girls.

You wear appropriate clothing for your job, you wear appropriate clothing to school. Is it really that difficult ?

**bmolsson** · 06-10-2005, 03:52

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

Bean, how does a girl with a too short shirt disrupt class? Sure all the guys are paying attention to her, but it's not really a distruption...

We had a real hottie with a short skirt and she said she looooved guys' with high grades. The boys in our class had the highest grades in history of the school. Talk about pussy power.......