EIGHTEEN BOMB THREATS?! I can't comprehend that...even if it's just eight, it's still crazy.Originally Posted by mercian billman
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EIGHTEEN BOMB THREATS?! I can't comprehend that...even if it's just eight, it's still crazy.
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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.
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1 year we had 60 bomb threatsEIGHTEEN BOMB THREATS?! I can't comprehend that...even if it's just eight, it's still crazy.
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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.EIGHTEEN BOMB THREATS?! I can't comprehend that...even if it's just eight, it's still crazy.
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.
Last edited by mercian billman; 06-08-2005 at 23:46.
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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.
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
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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.
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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.
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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...
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
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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 ?
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Yes.
And guys will try and impress girls if their wearing a burka. We're guys, that's what we do.
And a job I'm getting paid. In school, I don't, so I don't see why I ought to dress proffesional. Frankly, I don't get why I have to dress up for my job, but at least they don't make me have short hair.
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
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I think we should just drop school as a right and start making it a privilege again.
After all, all those kids seem to think they have something better to do with their time don't they. I say, test them at 6, let the best ones into elementary school. Test 'em at 12, let the best ones in to high school, test them 18, give the best the opportunity of taking out a cheap college loan.
Of course, this is just for public education, you could always be home schooled, or go to a fancy private school, if your parents can afford it.
Man, think about how happy it will make all those kids who finally don't have to go to school anymore. They could do something constructive, like seeking people who know the answer to the great questions of life, like 'Do you want fries with that ?' or 'Regular or Super-sized ?'
And think all the money that could be saved by the government. Tax cuts for all ! That will certainly make the parents happy too !
Wow this is such a great idea, I can't believe no one has thought of it before !
Seriously though, affordable education for all has been one of the greatest accomplishments of our time. I know it isn't always interesting, but would you rather be working ?
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When did I say that I wanted to drop out?
I was just saying that many rules are illogical, and cost more time to implement and enforce than the enfractions distract.
"But if you should fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
Grateful Dead, "Ripple"
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That's to prepare you in case you ever get to deal with 'management'
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My old middle school had 18 (can't remember if it was 8 or 18) bomb threats and they have pretty similar restrictions.Hah, throughout the four years at my high school, we had one, unintentional, bomb threat. The kid stuffed a bottle full wrappers and crap and taped it under a table, and we got sent outside for four hours to make sure it wasn't a bomb
If kids at my old highschool horsed around and got D's or crap grades, they were sent to MASH (Middleton Alternative High School, yeah it should be MAHS, but that doesn't sound cool) so all the good kids could learn
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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.......
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We also had a bomb threat at the high school and another at one of our Elementry schools
I always heard that Madison was pretty cool but have never been there myself, I'm more of a Twin Cities guy.
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Damn, I agree with a conservative...change your views now
Our school banned cellphones. People still bring them in but there's hell to pay if you get caught. a nice way of doing things if you ask me
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