wrong priorities at school/work

[xualse]

Ok, here's the situation. I have just been given isolation for the day when I return to my school in January. Basically, we have 6 punishments at our school;

C1 : Formal warning, a detention is more than likely given to the pupil.
C2 : Student concern letter is sent home to the pupils parent/gaurdian.
The pupil is more than likely given a short accompanying detention
either in the day or after school.
C3 : After school detention (1 hour) + letter home.
C4 : Isolation. The student is kept in a dark secluded room under heavy
surveillance for the day. They cannot leave the room for any reason
unless to use the toilet, where they will be accompanied by
somebody. The pupil cannot leave the room to eat and so must bring
food there. They have only one 15 minute break in which to consume
thier food. The pupil is then made to copy out the school code of
conduct for 45 minutes. The pupil then returns to thier normal
schoolwork.
C5 : Suspension.
C6 : Expulsion.

The reason I was given isolation is because I used a web proxy to visit blocked websites such as Youtube and Facebook. I know you may argue that I'm in school to learn and shouldn't be visiting such sites but that argument becomes invalid when you see that the teachers regularly visit Youtube and Facebook in lessons (because the admins nicely unblocked it for them).

I was given this shitty isolation crap for when I return to school. It's the most fucking depressing thing to do. No interaction with anybody or anything. Claustrophobic atmosphere. Shit, basically. And i'm a smoker. I know that it's only 1 day but they are considering a week due to some "security issues" I supposedly caused.

My school needs to get it's priorities straight. Our school has been in the media thrice. Twice for drug abuse and once for weapons. Basically girls were caught snorting crack in the toilets before lessons and the school did nothing. The second time was for the same reason but months later. The third time some dickhead bought a replica gun into school and pointed it at the cameras.

How about you? Any experiences? Does your school/workplace need to get it's priorities straight? And retarded rules that are just.......well, retarded?

[madman]

same as my skl

[xualse]

Originally Posted by madman

same as my skl

Which part?

(unrelated: hell yeah my 100th post finally a senior member xD)

[john lee]

Originally Posted by xualse

Ok, here's the situation. I have just been given isolation for the day when I return to my school in January. Basically, we have 6 punishments at our school;

C1 : Formal warning, a detention is more than likely given to the pupil.
C2 : Student concern letter is sent home to the pupils parent/gaurdian.
The pupil is more than likely given a short accompanying detention
either in the day or after school.
C3 : After school detention (1 hour) + letter home.
C4 : Isolation. The student is kept in a dark secluded room under heavy
surveillance for the day. They cannot leave the room for any reason
unless to use the toilet, where they will be accompanied by
somebody. The pupil cannot leave the room to eat and so must bring
food there. They have only one 15 minute break in which to consume
thier food. The pupil is then made to copy out the school code of
conduct for 45 minutes. The pupil then returns to thier normal
schoolwork.
C5 : Suspension.
C6 : Expulsion.

The reason I was given isolation is because I used a web proxy to visit blocked websites such as Youtube and Facebook. I know you may argue that I'm in school to learn and shouldn't be visiting such sites but that argument becomes invalid when you see that the teachers regularly visit Youtube and Facebook in lessons (because the admins nicely unblocked it for them).

I was given this shitty isolation crap for when I return to school. It's the most fucking depressing thing to do. No interaction with anybody or anything. Claustrophobic atmosphere. Shit, basically. And i'm a smoker. I know that it's only 1 day but they are considering a week due to some "security issues" I supposedly caused.

My school needs to get it's priorities straight. Our school has been in the media thrice. Twice for drug abuse and once for weapons. Basically girls were caught snorting crack in the toilets before lessons and the school did nothing. The second time was for the same reason but months later. The third time some dickhead bought a replica gun into school and pointed it at the cameras.

How about you? Any experiences? Does your school/workplace need to get it's priorities straight? And retarded rules that are just.......well, retarded?

In my day.those c's would be the amount of times you were caned.
I had the works,including two on the arse.
btw What part of sussex are you from,worthing?
John.

[xualse]

Originally Posted by john lee

btw What part of sussex are you from,worthing?
John.

Nah, from crawley - quite a shithole to be honest lol

[WiLDsyndicate]

C4 : Isolation. The student is kept in a dark secluded room under heavy
surveillance for the day. They cannot leave the room for any reason
unless to use the toilet, where they will be accompanied by
somebody. The pupil cannot leave the room to eat and so must bring
food there. They have only one 15 minute break in which to consume
thier food. The pupil is then made to copy out the school code of
conduct for 45 minutes. The pupil then returns to thier normal
schoolwork.

Jesus H. Christ!! WTF do you have to do to deserve solitary confinement?? You have gotta be kidding me right? Back when i was a class clown like 10 years ago (I'm 24) the worst that would happen to me is sitting in the front of the class away from everyone and the teacher would get a power trip and "make an example of me" and the other students would laugh... Your school sounds like Jr. Prison! LOL

girls were caught snorting crack in the toilets

LOL What kind of damn school are you in teenage crackheads? weapons? isolation chambers??!?! i say HELL NO!!! try to get a student petition... I dunno. the worst thing that happened while i was in HS was a Chinese girl and a Black dude were in love and the Chinese girls' parents forbade her to date him and guess what happened.... They murdered her parents it was all over the TV... But your situation calls for a student petition. What possible threat could you cause going on youtube or facebook?! I say HELL NO!! Screw the education system.

[Ah.Phuk]

Man quit that school and get the fuck out of there!

[crazy white guy]

I am white and live in Canada, going to a school where white people make up about 30% of the student body. Of that 30% we occupy most of the top 25% of the grades. So if a white kid ever gets in trouble they just have to take some sort of moral stance against the ruling. I got caught on facebook in a "free internet study time." The vice principal sent me in for a 90 minute detention after school. that day I showed up with a few sheets copy and pasted, noting(and highlighting) a few pieces of Canadian legislation that showed that they had no right to keep me or anyone at school after administrative time* and how the legal system doesn't support their censorship of the internet.**

*school ends at 2:45, administrative time ends at 3:30(45min)

**there's a weird place in laws that say schools have a legal responsibility to any student under 16 and can act as guardian in some respects. As soon as the student is 16 they have the right to walk out of school without punishment of any sort and their rights cannot be infringed upon. So basically when you turn 16, you have 90% of the rights that an adult has.

[extra] we still cannot sign contracts or own property until we are 18 here and I think we need to have witness and notarization at that point where at 19 only witness.


Basically, show them your rights and how what they are doing is infringing upon those rights and make it clear that if you don't get your way you will tell all your friends of it9open threats are not good but suggesting it would work.) Even if they don't recognize your rights, it would prove that your not worthy of punishment. A good student would make a good case where a crappy student would never even think of this.

I didn't need to do anything drastic. Just showed up and explain my stance. After five minutes I just left without any argument from them.