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 Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:01 am
Well. We don't really call it detention. It's "hours". "OMG, you have hours today?!?!11one" Yeah.
'cause my alarm on my cell phone turned on the phone and it went off in class...It was a new phone, so I didn't know it could do that. Ah well.
Two hours of studying. Hm.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:17 am
d'awwww just hope you get smarter when you get back
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:45 pm
Ouch. I keep mine on all the time.
If ours go off in class our teachers will ask us to turn it off and put it up if we just say, "I forgot to turn it off before school." XD
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:01 pm
That sucks.
We get fined for being tardy, for a maximum of $250...
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:17 pm
...wait, are you serious Xumbra?
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:30 pm
Of course I am.
Most of the people that go to our school don't arrive on time.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:31 pm
Eh, it wasn't that bad. I was able to finish my math homework and do some chemistry homework.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:42 pm
But...you have to pay money?
And Laura, it's good that you were productive! mrgreen
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:47 pm
I have a cell phone.
It's always turned on, because I never use it.
And it's always in my purse, just in case I might need it.
So once it went off in the middle of art class!
Luckily it's just a clip of Foamy the Squirrel saying "Hey! Follow the sound of my voice and kill whoever is holding the phone." Also, we're allowed to talk in art so it wasn't really noticeable. 
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:35 pm
My phone is always turned off because I never use it.
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 9:25 pm
I turn it on silent.
It makes a fun vibrating effect.
Hm, if a cell phone goes off during class,
the teacher has to confiscate it.
And a parent has to come to the office to get it back.
A very annoying procedure.
But that's my school- more concerned with sticking to the rules than how the students are doing.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:35 pm
I don't have every class with all of my friends, so sometimes they'll have nothing else to do and end up calling me.
I was standing next to Chief in ROTC, since I had to update him on all of the current personnel logs, next thing I know my cell starts vibrating in my jacket pocket. Both my friend and I freeze and stare at Chief to see if he heard it. Either he didn't care or he just didn't hear it because he made no reaction to it like he usually would.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 5:59 pm
I don't understand why people in school call other people in school. They don't seem to realize that they can get other people in trouble by doing so; no, but chatting is their priority. Who cares about the teacher and the class? You'd rather talk to your friend than listen to the teacher, right?
But those people don't understand that even though they loathe school, they must still maintain their grades. There is a life after high school.
This exhibition of bad manners can be accurately blamed on short-sightedness. Lack of consideration. Rashness. Whatever you want to call it. It remains unacceptable to call others in school during school hours.
Sorry, I got into a bit of a rant there. Leiko, I think that the people that called you did so afterschool, thinking that you had an open window for calling.
Coatbutton, schools are indeed more concerned about adhering to the rules than with the welfare of the students. The other day, I tried to leave school early, and a guard stopped me. I told her my reason: it was sixth period, and I had no tennis. My coach did not tell us specifically to go to any certain class because of this. I had no sixth period to go to, and it was illegal to take refuge in a classroom that you did not have class in (lots of people broke that rule, but if I had to talk straight to the guard). She tells me that I have to get a note from the dean to admit me to do so, and then she released me.
She is right in following her line of thinking. Yes, I should theoretically get the dean's signature before I leave school early. But really, that's not going to happen. Our teacher did tell us that there was no practice on Fridays. Additionally, a student cannot remain in school if he has no classes. I should be able to leave school without a problem.
But no, you have to do this and that and go through a whole unnecessary process just to leave school early. Bleh.
Schools follow rules so strictly that they don't consider the simpler solutions. Why not? Many people illegally leave my school early, and the school works to prevent that from happening. But as they do, they refuse to let people with honest reasons to have their way. Their matter is the problem of students ditching class; they are so concentrated at looking at the big picture that they altogether miss the minute details.
If she had let me go easily, she would have more time to detain those who try to escape class.
Honestly, the school adminstrators don't care about the students. They just want to get rid of the nasty students, get their pay, and leave to Vegas. With the number of ungrateful students in our school, it is no wonder why they stick to the rules with such rigidity. In their minds, it is the students' and parents' job to look after themselves and their education, not the school. My principal could care less. Why look after a whole bunch of students who pay as much regard to the rules as they would to a boring lecture?
The school doesn't recognize the students for who they are; instead, they see the bigger picture: students are slobs.
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:14 am
Oh! That reminds me of something that happened to me.
So it was second period. I walked in and sat down because the tardy bell was going to ring any minute, and I didn't want to be late. So I sat down and waited for the bell to ring. Afterward, I looked around and noticed that everyone around me had these two worksheets. So, naturally I figured I missed them on the way in (because we usually get them from a table when we come in). I went to go get the papers, and when I sat back down, my teacher said, "Oh, Laura, you're going to need and go out and get the role sheet from the door. I didn't see you were here and marked you absent." I went to the door where she hangs the role sheet, took a pencil, and erased the mark she had made next to my name. The rest of the school day was normal after that.
...on the way back home from swimming, however, my mom asked me if I had skipped second period that day. I said no of course but she didn't believe me...she said something about never being able to trust kids these days.
The next day I went to the office and asked if they could please take back that truancy, and I explained my situation. Apparantly, my mom had already called up that day and told them I was in class. But no, they were..."investigating" it. Investigating. It took like two days for them to clear it up, because they had to check with the teacher and my mom had to call again.
Aah. It's not as bad as yours, but still. I wanted to just strangle them and tell them I would never miss a class. But they don't trust any kid at our school...
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:09 pm
They don't have any reason to trust any kid at all. Experience has taught them not to.
All that trouble to erase a tardy? Really now. It's as if the school administrators wanted to get you in trouble. The attendence system in our school is now dominated by ISIS, Integrated Student Information System, which is where the teachers take attendence by marking absences and tardies on the computer instead of on the green sheets of paper that are usually given to them.
The teachers don't like it. Neither do the students. But it's supposed to expedite the attendence-taking process. Ironically, there have been instances when the ISIS system was dysfunctional, and the entire ISIS system was shut down.
So much for streamlining.
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