IDK why, but this reminded me of something thay happened when I was in highschool... I was a goth kid. One day I drew a pentagram on my hand and the vice principal came up to me at lunch and started asking about it and I got all indignant about religious freedom and shit thinking he was gonna tell me its not school appropriate. I finish my rant and he just goes "I just wanted to point out that it's not satanic in that direction. You need to flip it around."
Maybe inflation is just that bad, but there was no way I'd have $10 in high school (96-99). I barely had money to eat lunch, maybe $1 some days. I didn't swear anyway back then (grew up JW), but a $10 fine would have made parents flip their shit.
A school fining students for swearing is the most believable part of this story to me. I don't think I ever saw fines for swearing but we had fines for chewing gum, dress code violations etc. I 100% believe a school would implement this exact policy. And I agree it's pretty fucked up and classist to fine children.
I didn't even own a wallet when I was in school, only got one when I got my first job and opened my first bank account. How are kids paying such fines? The parents pay them?
I guess. In high school I had a job, so I was very careful not to get fined because it would be coming out of my pocket. Still got busted for uniform violations a couple of times but I learned quick how not to get caught. If I didn't have money I would have had to ask my parents, which in its own way was more costly than just paying it myself.
"You absolute maroon! I possess the capabilities to be wrong in quantities and qualities you could scarce imagine. It would boggle any mind, even my own!"
I barely had lunch money, maybe $1 or less on me when I was in highschool. I admit that because I didn't get allowance, maybe other kids had more money than me, but we weren't destitute level of poor, like many kids were. I don't see how you can fine that easily without being in an affluent area.
I went to catholic school, most of the students' families had at least tuition money. I was one of the "need-based scholarship" kids so my tuition was less, and I had a job so I had some income, which I used mostly for gas to get to and from my job and most of the rest went to tuition. Fines were added to the tuition bill, and if you hadn't settled up by the beginning of the next year / graduation, you couldn't re-enroll / graduate.
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elbucho@lemmy.world · 202 pts · 308d
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 90 pts · 308d
IDK why, but this reminded me of something thay happened when I was in highschool... I was a goth kid. One day I drew a pentagram on my hand and the vice principal came up to me at lunch and started asking about it and I got all indignant about religious freedom and shit thinking he was gonna tell me its not school appropriate. I finish my rant and he just goes "I just wanted to point out that it's not satanic in that direction. You need to flip it around."
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 308d
You accidentally banished your own demons smh.
anguo@piefed.ca · 14 pts · 308d
Which orientation of the hand is up? Would rotating your hand a few degrees count?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 22 pts · 308d
Such an obvious lie too, it's almost like they wanted to get caught.
Wait, did we get engagement baited?
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 307d
Maybe inflation is just that bad, but there was no way I'd have $10 in high school (96-99). I barely had money to eat lunch, maybe $1 some days. I didn't swear anyway back then (grew up JW), but a $10 fine would have made parents flip their shit.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 308d
That kid's name? Luigi Mangione.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 307d
No, you did that wrong. It's every time either Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain or Albert Einstein.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 307d
Not true. Case-in-point: this time it was Luigi Mangione.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 41 pts · 308d
This is fake but this rule if ever really implemented would be extremely wrong for so many reasons.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 308d
A school fining students for swearing is the most believable part of this story to me. I don't think I ever saw fines for swearing but we had fines for chewing gum, dress code violations etc. I 100% believe a school would implement this exact policy. And I agree it's pretty fucked up and classist to fine children.
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 307d
I didn't even own a wallet when I was in school, only got one when I got my first job and opened my first bank account. How are kids paying such fines? The parents pay them?
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 306d
I guess. In high school I had a job, so I was very careful not to get fined because it would be coming out of my pocket. Still got busted for uniform violations a couple of times but I learned quick how not to get caught. If I didn't have money I would have had to ask my parents, which in its own way was more costly than just paying it myself.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 308d
Oh, but indoctrinating them with abhorrently-bigoted propaganda disguised as "history", et al, that's ok, though.
Hmm. 😜
RustySharp@programming.dev · 17 pts · 308d
Two things can be wrong at the same time. Even 5. Or, looking at the world right now, everything can be wrong all at once
qarbone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 308d
"You absolute maroon! I possess the capabilities to be wrong in quantities and qualities you could scarce imagine. It would boggle any mind, even my own!"
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 308d
Now, read it as Vecini.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 308d
Fair points, all. ☝🏼
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 307d
This is true. 🥲😭😅
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 307d
Its impossible for everything to be wrong all at once. I doubt you can reach 25% of all things
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 307d
Impossible, you say? Hunh... Here, hold my coffee. I've got a couple ideas.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 307d
You can get planets to be wrong?
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 307d
Too young to remember Pluto? 🥲🤷🏽♂️
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 308d
No, I think that's pretty messed up as well. The schools I went to had a lot of problems.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 307d
Not as many as the students within them, though. 🙇🏼♂️ I feel ya 🤘🏼
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 307d
We had a swear jar in my high school drum line. It paid for an annual camping trip we went on.
Drummers cuss a lot.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 307d
I barely had lunch money, maybe $1 or less on me when I was in highschool. I admit that because I didn't get allowance, maybe other kids had more money than me, but we weren't destitute level of poor, like many kids were. I don't see how you can fine that easily without being in an affluent area.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 306d
I went to catholic school, most of the students' families had at least tuition money. I was one of the "need-based scholarship" kids so my tuition was less, and I had a job so I had some income, which I used mostly for gas to get to and from my job and most of the rest went to tuition. Fines were added to the tuition bill, and if you hadn't settled up by the beginning of the next year / graduation, you couldn't re-enroll / graduate.
FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 308d
"I'm a14yo edgelord" vibes.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 308d
Lloyd Seay was a 14 year old bootlegger who got pulled over for speeding.
He tried to bribe the cop with a $20 bill. The cop said “the fine ain’t but $10”
Lloyd said “yeah but I’m coming back through here so I’ll just pay that fine now”
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 308d
Never happened.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 307d
At least it's bot even a funny story
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · 15 pts · 308d
Fake as it is, I can totally see school teachers being that fucking pathetic and petty to extract tithes from students.
Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 308d
No one gonna mention how there wouldn't even be any change if swears are $10 each
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 308d
that's the joke
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 307d
We had a legit swear jar in a vocational class in HS (in the 90s). It was 25¢ per swear unless is was at the teacher, then it was a dollar.
We had pizza at the end of the semester from the proceeds.
The teacher later got canned for throwing a hammer at a student, but it was after my time there.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 308d
Learning swear words in other languages would be very useful in this case.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 308d
A cunt, I called you a cunt sir. It's Australian.
DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 308d
Cool fake story
Morlark@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 308d