WEIRD CLASSROOM RULES

Buzzfeed asked, “What is the weirdest ‘classroom rule’ you’ve encountered in a teacher’s classroom?” Some of the responses:
– “We weren’t allowed to say that we had to use the bathroom. We had to call it ‘The Thunderbox.'”
– “The teacher was adamant that your feet should touch the floor. I was tiny for my age. Embarrassing as it was for me, she put a huge dictionary on the floor under my desk.”
– “There was a three-strikes system in my second-grade classroom. After the third strike, everyone had to call you ‘Poopy Poo McPoohead’ for the rest of the day, and if they called you by your actual name, then THEY got a strike.”
– “At my son’s school, they earn fake ‘money’ for good behavior. They get to go to the ‘store’ once a month to spend their money and buy little trinkets and stuff you’d buy from the dollar store. My kid’s first-grade teacher would make the children pay ‘money’ to use the restroom. They’re in FIRST GRADE! Of course, they aren’t going to give up their ‘money’ to go potty. It resulted in a lot of accidents and unhappy parents.”
– “At my Catholic middle school, we had to call deviled eggs ‘angeled eggs.’”
– “I had an elementary school librarian who would make you greet her pet rock family before she let you check out books. It was an entire multi-generational family in a huge Victorian-style doll house on the other end of the library but within eyesight. She would make you get out of line, say hello to them, and then have you rejoin the back of the checkout line.”
– “My language arts teacher would only loan you a pencil if you took your shoe off and left it at her desk. You only got your shoe back when you returned the pencil.”
– “A substitute teacher walked into the class and requested immediately that we call him ‘His Royal Majesty during role call,’ and he was so dead serious about it. About twenty minutes later, he told us to read silently while he reviewed our math lesson. We silently read the whole day since he fell asleep and even excused ourselves to lunch and back. He still slept the whole day. Our whole class went to the office the next day and got him fired.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Did you have a teacher with an unusual rule?