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Aside from the usual ones (jaywalking in particular wouldn't be atypical), I technically broke every rule in school at least once (all except two exactly once). I say "technically" because the rule-enforcement format at my school tempted classmates to snitch on each other for the smallest things. Like, did I walk into class two seconds after the bell? Did I laugh too loudly at something a classmate did that wasn't supposed to get ridicule? Did I wear the wrong socks for my uniform (and yes it was the same uniform as you)? Anything like these would get you in trouble.
It was rumored that the moment I broke a rule more than once, I would face something more serious, like mandatory appointments or something. There were only two I broke twice. One of them was because, on one April Fool's Day, everyone wanted to pull one of those cheesy end-of-the-year-style pranks where everyone shows up in the uniform of another school, but people didn't get the memo on what uniform it was going to be, so when everyone came in that day, it looked like comic-con, and I went with a friend's (who went to another school with another uniform). The teachers just shook their head about that. The other rule I broke twice was exam cheating; first time got me caught, second time allowed me to graduate (and I didn't get caught for that, though I fear what would happen if it got out).
My most severe punishment from school and the only one I remember getting me an in-school suspension was when they asked me to help write the yearbook, and I got to the part where everyone played the "most likely to" game, and we had an entry put in as a form of dark humor (disclaimer, DON'T do this, I admit it currently but I would neither encourage it nor use the same humor today even though the same thing has happened before... also don't harm innocent people). I was in the in-school suspension for a day where they add suspenders to your uniform as their own cheesy cruel joke (their chosen mark of someone being suspended). Because the protocol works based on punishment escalation, any rule after that would've gotten me removed from the school, so it's a good thing they didn't catch me cheating on that test.
The funny thing is here in Australia u can get away with that joke because unlike some 3rd world countries we don't have schools shootings 31 times a month.
I imagine it still would inspire equal caution, no? I know there are a lot of people from there who have had sympathies towards people who have recently become known for that (which no nation is really unique for right now). It has become so visibly precautionary that almost nobody shies away anymore from the urge to avoid them in their communities. As is how it should be.
Nar we would joke about it with teachers and each other and nobody cared cos we all knew it wouldn't happen.
We played pumped up kicks and would joke about how the American had such holy school kids.
I think you have been so institutionalised in the American system that u don't realise this isn't a problem most of the civilised world deals with. To us school shooting are a joke about how dumb Americans are nothing more.
I mean that's kinda the reasoning. But who ever said I was American? I just know there exists rules and a predisposition to go from A to Z at an unrestrained pace.