Tyrrany in school... what do I do about it?

wow. this should be good.

I dont know the last time you checked but you are not directly paying to go to school. Go to private school if its so bad. You dont have any freedoms, you recieve no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.

You just have to nut up and deal with it, it's not worth trying to change anything you'll just make people pissed off and nothing will get changed. High school sucks anyways, college is much better, in one year you'll have left the petty administrators behind.

I was about as big of a rebel in HS as you could be. I was always against the system, always fighting for our rights as citizens and not children (my whole senior year I was 18). I wasnt a huge trouble maker, nor did I get bad grades. I was just a realist, who hated all the double standards and hypocricy. I knew several of the teachers at school smoked pot, one in which I smoked with them whil in school. I smoked with several in the coming years after school.

Constititional rights outweight any laws the school board has enacted, and can be used in most cases very vaguley.

One of your best bets is the student handbook, read and know every little piece in there. I won several cases aginst the administration by the use of the student handbook. Each time, the next year it was revised and had closed the loop whole which I had found.

If you want to get your way without getting a lawyer and making a huge public case about something, than use the handbook, its your best tool.

Most times administraion wont let you do something unless they like you personally. Case in point, I tried to get our school to have a Ultimate Frisbee club for three years.

They said no because they knew it was all the stoners that wanted to join. They said the club had to have some positive effect on the community (BS). So I created the UCFOC, or the Ultimate Christian Frisbee Outreach Club, we would go into inner city neighborhoods and teach young children how to play frisbee and talk about god. They still said NO! The very next year after I graduate a group of girls said they wanted to start a Ulitmate club, and the school said fine.

"tyranny"

Generally, principals do not make policy. They follow the policies set by the school board. Principals run the school, and they might be a couple of school-marms for all I know, but things like the total minutes of instructional time in a day is a policy decision made by the school board in conjunction with the superintendent. If you're serious about change, you find a way to get parental support (always line your ducks up before you make your move), and then have the adults approach the school board, preferably by phone between meetings to get a feel for how open the board members will be to change. I don't know WV law, but perhaps they've added this homeroom class to be in compliance with a state rule which is new this year. In fact, a good way to start (for your parents) would be to try to find out why instructional time has been lengthened.

Anyway, that's probably the best way to go about it. However, I agree with the poster above who said you're too close to graduating to effect any change.

And it has been my experience that private school will bring you less freedoms that public school.

My heart goes out to you. When circumstances are so cruel, when life visits this vast array of misery upon you, when tyranny reigns and the average kid is crushed under the jackboot of authoritarian martinets, my advise to you is like Job's wife's advice to him: Curse God and die.

Nice Billy Madison reference.

gotta throw it in for the haters.

In a short while you will leave all this silliness behind. Don't worry. Administrators of this stripe are self serving, and eventually they may be caught in their own lair.

drop out I droped out my senour yeer and had all the freedim I wanted I got a job and didnt have to worry about it no more You are a sucker for sticking around a loser place like school

I'm assuming the OP is a troll, but if not, you might want to read Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, which is still good law.

officials have the legal right to seach anything or anyone on the school campus. i know this from experince. as for the stupid rules, your just going to have to suck it up. there is nothing you can do. they arent going to listen to you because you will be gone in a year and they think you are stupid because you are young. they are probably right about that. its not the end of the world though. in five years you will have forgotten about their tyranny and will only remember the good times. also in a matter of months you and your friends can dress and act however you please.

You gotta fight for your right to party.

hopefully this is a lesson to you.

Those that have power abuse it. Those that can control will.

The only thing legal you can do, besides killing them and getting away with it, which is extremely risky, is totally cut yourself off from the system above you.

If that means working for a coal mine- go right on ahead.

If that means working as a waitress and not reporting your income that you get (cash) go right on ahead.

Use whatever money you have to become even more independent.

Get your own Farm. Grow your own food. Put a solar panel on your roof for electricity. Filter your own water. And find a niche within the local community. That is what Human beings were meant to do. Not the perverted disgusting, robotic crap we do nowadays. And if you think I'm full of crap, fine, go on living in your happy ignorant life. Hopefully nothing bad happens- CNN says nothing bad ever happens besides scary people doing it. People like me that advocate you don't listen to CNN.

Lmao. As most of you should know by now, when told not to do something, you should do it, and do it often.

Instructional time hasn't changed. We are required to have 345 mins. of instructional time and if you add it up, we have about 400, sometimes more.

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I'm assuming the OP is a troll, but if not, you might want to read Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, which is still good law.

Why would you assume that?

Ditto TeachersPet. If you feel this is worth a fight, find a way to bring it before the school board with the help of parents or other adults.

If you feel this is worth being hated by your principals and probably having all kinds of unfair things done to you, find a way to bring it before the local news. Leave the dress code out of it- a lot of schools have them- and focus on the mandatory extra classroom time and the reduction of physical activity.

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