I guess, most schools have at least one weird rule and my old school is no exception. I did my schooling in an all girl’s convent school and most of my high school days were plagued by this mad nun, Sister S, who was first our vice principal and was later promoted to principal.
Anyways,
Sister S, this post is to you and your weird rules.
Weird rule #1: No shushing allowed. (Applicable to class monitors)
We were allowed to say ‘keep quite’, ‘don’t talk’ and the likes but heavens forbid if we decided to shush the unruly class. According to Sister S, shushing represents extreme un-lady like behavior as the only people who shush are poultry farmers...
My friend M, kept chicken as pets and not a single one responds to shushing ... we checked!... and one fine day I was peeved enough to point it out. Consequently I got an extra thousand lines of ‘I will not chase murgis in the class’ … yup! murgis… not hen or poultry or chicken, but murgis.
Moving on…
Weird rule #2: No entering the classroom in the lunch hour.
It does not matter if it rains so hard that we drown or it is so hot outside that we get sun strokes a student must NOT enter the classroom during the lunch break. Rainy days were ok … actually, rainy days were fun … but it made summers rather difficult since we did not have a cafeteria.
One very hot June day we decided to break the rule and sure enough Sister S decided to come on her ‘surprise’ rounds that day. Everyone escaped through the back door but we forgot to switch off the fan. Hence all class monitors had to sweep the classroom after school for a month! … coz you know, leaders are supposed to set good example and all that jazz.
and I thought class monitors always got scot free.
Weird rule #3: Strict dress code and absolutely no makeup.
Ok, this is not a weird rule. I just wanted to share a funny story.
There was a pair in our school, couple of years senior I think, with a penchant for annoying Sister S. They decided red nail polish looked cool with our uniforms and decided that painting each other’s nails during class hours was the way to go. Needless to say, they got caught. And this time Sister S decided that it was time to meet their parents.
Not to be out done, the next morning they approached two random sets of parents who had come to drop their kids in kindergarten and requested them to pose as their parents and they agreed!!!
I don’t remember how this episode ended but it doesn’t really matter. No one… absolutely no one in the entire history of SA H- have arrived to meet Princi with a fake set of parents!
PS: I over reacted with the climatic conditions. I live in a hill station so no sun strokes and definitely no floods. I really don’t want you to think that the folks in my school were inhumane.
Weird… yes, but cruel … no.
PPS: Rule no 1 & 2 were retired after my batch left school. May be Sister S just loved bugging us!