High School Teachers/Parents

[disney junky]

Does your school enforce the rules they have? Do teachers/administrators enforce the rules as written? I'm talking dress code, cell phone use, electronic devices, tardiness, the usual. Just wondering, especially this time of year...

 

[golfgal]

Yes, why wouldn't they? Dress code here is no vulgar language on clothing, no underwear showing. Cell phones are permitted during passing time and at lunch. We have online gradebooks that also have attendance so if your child is late or not in class you get an email notification.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

I don't have high school age children but my niece is a Junior and my nephew graduated a few years ago. Yes, their school does enforce their rules. I actually had a conversation about this with my niece this weekend.

They are strict about their dress code rules but even those might be considered lenient. Straps on tank shirts must be 4 fingers wide and pants must have no holes....no distressed denim. Obviously, no navels showing.

They will look the other way, sometimes, about cell phones in the hall between classes but are very strict if they are seen during class.

Their tardy policy is actually over the top, imho. NO excuses, 1 minute tardy in the morning and it's 1 hr after school suspension. All teachers must close their doors immediately upon hearing the bell and then the hall is swept for stragglers...one late for class = 1 hr. 2 lates=2hr. etc. I actually think the that is fair but their policy for morning tardiness is ridiculous. It basically encourages kids to miss an entire day of school to avoid INS or drive too fast to get there in time.

 

[Rora]

My mom is a high school teacher. Her school typically always enforces their rules!

 

[Pigeon]

Dh is a high school teacher and at his school the administration loves to make rules but refuses to enforce them. If teachers try to enforce the types of rules the OP outlines, the administration undercuts them every single time. It's enfuriating to say the least and their discipline situation is horrible.

The school our kids attend does tend to enforce rules and it makes a big difference.

 

[disney junky]

Dh is a high school teacher and at his school the administration loves to make rules but refuses to enforce them. If teachers try to enforce the types of rules the OP outlines, the administration undercuts them every single time. It's enfuriating to say the least and their discipline situation is horrible.

The school our kids attend does tend to enforce rules and it makes a big difference.

That's what I was getting at, sadly.

Others?

 

[LIDisneyFan]

Our schools rules are over the top (Out of school suspension for SO many things). Even In school suspensions are wasteful. Why not detention (i.e. EXTRA time AT school) rather than keeping kids out of the classroom.

Ah, but then again, this is Florida

 

[The Mystery Machine]

For the most part, teachers look the other way and will enforce as necessary.

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

For the most part, teachers look the other way and will enforce as necessary.

I think that's the case in my DS's school as well. If it's something important (attendance, tardiness, scholastics, etc.) the rules are enforced. If someone is texting during lunch time no one cares. It's a school, not a prison.

 

[dislaney]

The rules are not uniformly enforced here!

 

[kamik86]

My high school was awful for this. How the rules got enforced depended on who you were. If you got labeled a trouble maker they enforced the rules on you for everything. Thus you were always in trouble and were still a trouble maker.

If you managed to get labeled a good kid no one really enforced anything except one or two people that had stupid rules that no one (student or teachers) really had any respect for, thus they were undermined and had no real authority anyway. So the "good kids" got away with everything unless they did something bad enough to start sliding into trouble maker (generally if you didn't get in a fist fight you were ok once you were labeled a good kid).

So this is why by senior year I could do pretty much whatever I wanted. For example policy is you had to stay in the cafeteria for all of lunch but I would walk by the person monitoring this who would yell at me (one of the ones that no one respected) then nothing would happen. Many times I would happen to run into the principal or superintendent and have a conversation with them in the hall when I obviously should have been somewhere and no one cared.

My friend was labeled trouble so she would have gotten detention unless she happened to do it with me so I could vouch for where we went (generally to one of the cooler teachers classrooms to play computer games or get work done)... then we would generally get a warning.

The biggest example of this was when a friend died after surgery at the school. Everyone that were friends with her knew already (she died Saturday night so if you didn't already know before Monday morning one of the people that did found you and told you before class started) and myself and my friend from above (the trouble one) had something we wanted to put on the morning announcements (we were in AV so we could do this with a few other friends without the teacher knowing until it was running). Well the school decided it didn't want anyone to do anything for her because the teachers were to announce it after the morning announcements (yes because if you were going to be upset hearing it then would be so much better).

Well I put it up on the credits anyway (it was a poem we had written). Since the poem was the friends and she was screamed at by the instructor, he wouldn't even let her get a word in saying how the superintendent would have his (the teachers) head for letting this happen etc. Until I go "umm she didn't do it I did, and if the superintendent will be mad at you for it being there well tell them I did it and will be happy to go down and tell him why." Never heard anything else about that again.

That school was really easy for those of us that got the distinction of being "good kids"

 

[shortbun]

What happens around here is that they start out enforcing at the beginning of school then get more and more lax as the year goes on. About April, the teachers and administrators realize that waaay too much relaxing is going on and POW the rules are all of a sudden enforced again. Geesh! It's predictable and stupid.

 

[Tiggeroo]

what happens around here is that they start out enforcing at the beginning of school then get more and more lax as the year goes on. About april, the teachers and administrators realize that waaay too much relaxing is going on and pow the rules are all of a sudden enforced again. Geesh! It's predictable and stupid.

this!!

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

As a parent, I'm slacking off by this point of the school year too.

 

[dngnb8]

I want consistent application of the rules. One way or another, be consistent. If they enforce, do so to all on campus. If they dont, dont use the rule to single someone out later

 

[swanmom]

My DD is a senior and her senior year courses are AP classes. About 75- 80% the other seniors are taking AP's as well. Once the national AP exams are completed this week, they are essentially done with their coursework. So, although our district goes until mid-June, they are pretty 'flexible' about some of the rules for seniors who have basically finished their courses.

 

[Julia M]

My daughter's HS is fairly strict. It's Catholic HS.
They have a pretty strict dress code. Boys wear slacks or shorts, no jeans, no basketball type shorts and collared shirts. Girls can wear slacks, skirts, and dresses. They can wear blouses and nice t-shirts, but don't necessarily have to be collared. They wear jackets, or the HS named sweatshirt for their school or college sweatshirts (no other kinds). No plastic flip flops, but girls can wear sandals. Rules are enforced. But,most of the time, if you are wearing a sweatshirt, teachers wouldn't check to see if the shirt was appropriate. They also have a dressier dress code for days that there is mass.

Electronics wise, no cell phones during the day.

Rules are still enforced, even now.

One of the most popular prizes at the Mother SOn Casino Night is a "get Out of Detnetion Free" pass!

Julia

 

[tvguy]

My daughter's HS is fairly strict. It's Catholic HS.
They have a pretty strict dress code. Boys wear slacks or shorts, no jeans, no basketball type shorts and collared shirts. Girls can wear slacks, skirts, and dresses. They can wear blouses and nice t-shirts, but don't necessarily have to be collared. They wear jackets, or the HS named sweatshirt for their school or college sweatshirts (no other kinds). No plastic flip flops, but girls can wear sandals. Rules are enforced. But,most of the time, if you are wearing a sweatshirt, teachers wouldn't check to see if the shirt was appropriate. They also have a dressier dress code for days that there is mass.

Electronics wise, no cell phones during the day.

Rules are still enforced, even now.

One of the most popular prizes at the Mother SOn Casino Night is a "get Out of Detnetion Free" pass!

Julia

Same with my kids Catholic school. Overly sometimes. My son got sent repeatedly to the attendence office during last period to buy a disposable razor and shave cream by one particular teacher who thought he didn't shave. Can you say 5 o'clock shadow at 2 pm? Before I could step in, the nun in the attendance office asked him to stop by each morning before school for a few days, and gave him a note to give the teacher if she tried to send him in for a shave attesting to the fact that he was clean shaven when he arrived at school. Third time the teacher tried that after the notes, it ended. The final note said "John arrived at school clean shaven. Like our savior Jesus, he has been blessed with abundant facial hair"

 

[Momvic5]

I think our middle school campus has eased up on their rules. This past October, my dd11's best friend had pink thread braided into one tiny section of her hair. Within one week of having the braid, the principal noticed it and cut it out of her hair. My daughter's friend was embarrassed by the situation but went on without complaining about it. Now, they are less than three weeks away from the end of the school year, and many girls are wearing "feathers" in their hair. These feathers are very similar to the braid that my dd11's friend had cut out of her hair. The feathers come in every color imaginable and are attached to the hair by a bead. They have to be carefully removed or cut out. The school is allowing them because there are too many to remove. My daughter's friend has been upset that the school is now allowing the feathers after they cut her braid out.

 

[Ceila]

I think our middle school campus has eased up on their rules. This past October, my dd11's best friend had pink thread braided into one tiny section of her hair. Within one week of having the braid, the principal noticed it and cut it out of her hair. My daughter's friend was embarrassed by the situation but went on without complaining about it. Now, they are less than three weeks away from the end of the school year, and many girls are wearing "feathers" in their hair. These feathers are very similar to the braid that my dd11's friend had cut out of her hair. The feathers come in every color imaginable and are attached to the hair by a bead. They have to be carefully removed or cut out. The school is allowing them because there are too many to remove. My daughter's friend has been upset that the school is now allowing the feathers after they cut her braid out.

The school cut the girl's hair? Oh he!! no! Send her home or give her detention if coloring hair is against the rules, but nobody at a school should have the right to cut a student's hair.