A few years ago, a school forced a high school student in Japan from brown hair to dyeing her hair black. The incident created quite a stir and sparked debates. Since then, Japanese Twitter users revealed some strange school rules they’ve faced in their lives. with the hashtags #こんな校則いらない (We don’t need these kinds of school rules.) and #ブラック校則 (“black” school rules).
Let’s look at some of the most ridiculous ones below (it should be noted that these are not general rules, but rather Internet users in Japan shared some rules that were applied in their corresponding schools and that left their mark ever since.):
- 1. Female students’ underwear must be white. The girls meet in a separate room. The teachers unbutton their blouses and turn their skirts inside out to inspect them.
- 2. Wrapping a scarf around your neck even if you have a weak throat is not allowed.while using a towel does.
- 3. In summer, even if it is hot at a school assembly, you cannot cool yourself by using a fan, your clothes, or your hand. Everyone tried to endure it but one student fell to the ground with a seizure.
- 4. The bicycle helmet that the school gives you if you ride a bicycle cannot be changed, even if it breaks in an accident. The school tries to emphasize the care of the helmet, since it is the only one you will have. But it makes you wonder how much they value a student’s life, asking them to wear a broken helmet until graduation.
- 5. As a woman, you are required to use tampons during your menstrual period when you have to attend a swimming class. If you decide to stay out, you will have to attend additional classes during the summer holidays and swim 500 meters. If you choose not to participate, you must attend supplementary classes during the summer holidays and swim 500 meters.
- 6. Regardless of the distance and how heavy your backpack is, you have to walk to school, even if it takes more than 40 minutes. Also, you are not allowed to hydrate.
- 7. Wearing transparent tights or white socks to school is fine, but black tights are not allowed for some particular reason.
- 8. No noise is allowed during lunch preparation time and the last ten minutes of lunch. Otherwise, you will not have the option to order a second dish or order less food the next day.
- 9. You are required to join an after-school activity club.
- 10. Being denied entry to school every morning for getting a perm and having dark hair. After showing the certificate to prove that her hair is natural, one girl was denied entry for having a darker skin color.
Like all rules and regulations, their purpose is to bring order. But in some cases they may seem exaggerated and redundant. Have you also faced any strange school rules?
Fountain: Yahoo! News
