seanotturom reblogged
Just told my dad about how in high school they would tell us to run the mile without teaching us how beforehand and he was appalled
Now I'm kinda curious and also have polls so
Honorary mention: the fucking pledge of allegiance.
what... what the fuck is this country? are these for real, like the norm there?
#did most of high school outside the US but graduated from a US high school#and in the US high school we had to hand-carry our books#backpacks weren’t allowed because I guess they were worried someone would bring in a bomb or a gun#similarly the entrance had 8 adjacent doors into the foyer and 8 adjacent doors from the foyer to the main atrium#and each day only 2 of the doors in each set would be unlocked and it was always a different 2#so if you were the first person in an approaching crowd to try to enter the building you had to suffer the indignity of guessing#knowing that you only had a 1 in 4 chance of being right#but I guess they wanted to make it harder for someone trying to storm the building to get in quickly 🙄#uhh a more universal one was the school cop#polls