The 10 STRANGEST School Rules From The 90s

Did your school do away with warm winter hats for fear of violence

Did you use up all of your hall passes in the first week only to be without a pee pass for a whole year

Did every school ban hugging because they thought it would lead to some X-rated interaction

Here are the 10 school rules we can't believe were a thing

Back in the day, high schools cared about just two things. One, educating young minds

And two, trying to make your bladders explode. The only thing to protect a teenager from peeing his or her pants Billy Madison style

was a 3x5 inch piece of plastic known as a hall pass

At some schools, students were forced to carry a planner that contained just 10 hall passes for the entire school year

But what happens if you run out of hall passes, or even worse, leave the planner in your locker

Turns out, you were piss out of luck, especially after downing that 18 ounce big gulp

Luckily, for the youthful bladders of today, most schools no longer use hall passes

So kids can now rest easy and worry about the important stuff

like how fast the school's Wi-Fi is and which filter to use on the gram

Nowadays, everyone knows that bullies are the bad guys. But years ago, some schools decided that everyone was a bully

Schools all around the country had a rule that anyone involved in a fight would be punished

It was referred to as the zero tolerance rule. The first rule of School Fight Club is that everyone gets in trouble

It didn't matter if you were the fist or the face receiving the fist

everybody involved got suspended. It seems like the schools were basically just a really lazy police department

that didn't care who was right and who was wrong and just ended up arresting everybody at the scene

Today, schools don't just suspend bullies. Instead, they teach students about kindness and empathy

They try to identify gateway behaviors, such as name calling and then have discussions with the bully to prevent it from getting worse It all sounds very compassionate and we are here for it Brrrr It cold in here There must be some Toros in the atmosphere

Either that or you went to school in rural Wisconsin. A school in Wisconsin banned students from wearing winter clothes

like hats, gloves, and jackets in class because they were considered gang symbols

There are so many problems with this rule, it's hard to know where to start. First, it gets freaking cold in Wisconsin

So when the temperature drops below zero, kids weren't allowed to wear anything to keep them warm besides sweaters

I'm in danger. Who made this rule? J.Crew? Are they trying to sell more cable knits

Apparently, the color of the hat or the way someone wore a hat indicated the gangs they were in, and it created more gang violence

Who knew a cute beanie could cause so much damage? One middle school was clearly not a fan of shooping as they banned salt and pepper

No, no, no, not the all-women legendary hip-hop ban. Actual salt and pepper

The school cafeteria thought using salt and pepper was unhealthy, yet they still sold Mountain Dew in their vending machines

Go figure. At least you know the ingredients of salt and pepper. It's salt and pepper

Pretty sure that Mountain Dew is made up of some kind of rocket fuel, but I digress. Come to think of it, banning salt and pepper might make sense

because any food without it is bland and uninspiring, just like those middle school years

A hug is Earth's universal sign of affection, a real-life feel-better to our fellow homo sapiens

And while it's understandable in a post-COVID world that a school might be in favor of social distancing

what the hell was one middle school thinking when they banned hugging

In North Carolina, an eighth grader suffered a seizure and took time away from school

When he arrived a group of kids all hugged him at the same time The school told students to tone down the affection The students rebelled and had a hug as many people as you can protest The school did not take nicely to this protest

and said further hugging would result in suspension. Sounds like that principal needs a good long hug

The school then banned high fives as well and soon after that breathing. Now the school is on Mars

and all the students have to wear spacesuits. Maybe we made the last part up but we think it's

safe to say that if banning school hugs are wrong, then we don't ever want to be right

What time is it? Well, apparently not time to get a watch as a junior high schooler actually

decided to prohibit students from wearing watches. Now, just to be clear, we're not talking Apple

James Bond type watches that can help you cheat on tests or text your BFF 24-7. Rather

we're just talking about old-fashioned Timex style watches. WTF, right? We suppose the school

could have just wanted its students to think they were living in a casino where you can't figure out

if it's 5 a.m. or 5 p.m. But seriously, besides chafing your wrist while you look cool AF while

showing your friends the minute and second hands, what harm could a watch do? Who throws a watch

Honestly. The best part is that the school never gave an actual reason as to why they were banning

watches. Just sounds like the anti-watch lobby was really strong back then. That's all we're saying

We've all heard of the five-second rule. You know, when you drop your Twinkie on the floor, you can still eat it as long as you pick it up within five seconds

But have you ever heard of the five-minute rule? One high school decided that everything bad at the school always happened during the last five minutes of lunch

So what did these geniuses decide to do? You guessed it. They shortened lunch by five minutes

What the entire school board failed to realize was that unless your lunches are only four minutes long there will always be a last five minutes of lunch Am I so out of touch No it the children who are wrong It was hip to be square but bad to be part of a circle of trust for one school

Believe it or not, a school banned eighth graders from standing in circles

You heard that right, circles. Apparently, teachers feared that scandalous activity may occur when groups of students stood in circles

Staying with our theme of illogical rules, the teachers allowed the students to stand in squares

There must be something about right angles that calms the eighth grader's nervous system

What about diamond shapes? Are those allowed? They are a girl's best friend, and they're forever

Let's hope someone was carrying around a protractor to figure all of this out

This rule is pretty much our nightmare of a junior high trigonometry class coming to life

No way we'll be able to sleep tonight. This bizarre rule was reiterated by one high school every day over the morning announcements that shoes are to be worn as the manufacturer intended

Apparently, students were somehow not wearing shoes properly. If your students don't know how to properly put on a shoe, then we think you need to re-evaluate the school's curriculum rather than coming up with a nonsensical rule

If all of the students at the school were wearing shoes on their hands or only using shoes as pretend cell phones

then the problem here isn't a rule, but something much more fundamental. We present to you the tale of school versus whiteout

Remember whiteout? You'd use it to fix a misspelled word or kids would paint over their nails with it and it would look so cool

One school banned it from ever appearing on school grounds again after one messy incident

A student was chewing on a whiteout pen and the pen promptly exploded

in her mouth. Luckily, after a hospital visit and chest x-rays, she was a-okay. Just a good

reminder to maybe chew on gum, not toxic white paste. Looks like kids would have to get manicures elsewhere