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Still raging they banned Pogs!

No taking your blazer off in class unless you ask the teachers permission and they agree (this one was later relaxed during summer terms because of the amount of complaints).

No more pirate newspapers. The very definition of pirate newspapers is that they aren't allowed.

Iirc our primary school banned the book series 'Goosebumps'. At the time it seemed a bit daft but now I'm not even sure what they were trying to enforce.

It's not like 8 year old kids are running around the playground in groups of 6-7 reading books together. And there's absolutely no way they could expect parents to stop reading/letting the kids read the books at home because, well if I walked in and found my eldest reading.... anything I'd go out of my way to encourage it.

Forcing the younger kids to wear shorts in the middle of the coldest winters, and forcing the older kids to wear (really hot) trousers in the heat of the hottest summers.

Not a school rule but a new English teacher in our first lesson with him had a massive go at me for the audacity of drinking from my water bottle on my desk without asking him first. This is in Year 11 and I had been doing that in other classes that day without issue. He didnt even nicely say something like 'please don't do that for future reference', hejust had a go at me which was fun given I was actually a goody two shoes so took it to heart!

We had to stand up when a teacher came into the room (I was in secondary school in the late 90s). I know schools tended to all do this many years ago but seems quite rare in my age group. I understand the rule and was fine with it but not sure if it really does anything.

They banned pixie sticks by threat of suspension for a first offense… to be fair, people were being pretty dumb and snorting them though, so yea.