What was the most pointless thing your school made you do?

[Kayelle]

dissect frogs. wonder how many serial killers they created by making us do that?

I remember dissecting frogs too, and I can hardly believe that was really me who did that. It was like some kind of mind control at the time because I'm so opposite of that person now. Interesting question about how many serial killers were created with those science projects. On the other hand, we know all scientists started the same way.

 

[Furryanimal]

Example?

One school I worked in banned football on the yard at break time and insisted kids just stood around talking....so much for letting off steam before returning to the classroom.
They saw sense eventually but it took a couple of months...

 

[oldman]

One school I worked in banned football on the yard at break time and insisted kids just stood around talking....so much for letting off steam before returning to the classroom.
They saw sense eventually but it took a couple of months...

You're right. Dumb idea.

 

[Pappy]

Duck and cover when I was younger. The thing I hated most was climbing those damn ropes in gym. Besides hurting your hands and getting rope burns on your thighs, there was never anything at the top anyway. Of course I wouldn’t know because I never made it to the top.

 

[JaniceM]

One school I worked in banned football on the yard at break time and insisted kids just stood around talking....so much for letting off steam before returning to the classroom.
They saw sense eventually but it took a couple of months...

One high school I attended was even more restrictive: during the wintertime, and any other time of inclement weather, students could only be in either of two places during lunch break- if not actually eating lunch, kids had to either play basketball in the gym or sit on the bleachers in the gym. We weren't allowed to be anywhere else unless we needed to use the restrooms.