What was banned in your school because of some dumb incident?

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Khalifa Jayy

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Back when I was in high school (2003-2007), they instituted a ban on sodas, chips, candy, and the such on campus. They replaced all of our vending machines with juices and waters of different flavorings. It was part of some (local?) initiative to make our schools healthier by reducing sugar / carb consumption forcibly. Anyway, I began to run a sort of black market of sweets and sugary drinks. I would stop at the local gas station each morning (Fastrip), and buy a bunch of candy, chocolate, soda, gatorades, etc. to stuff into my backpack to sell at school. I began making a killing. Nobody else really wanted to front the capital to do the same, so I quickly became known as the candyman.

One of the items that was hugely popular was this candy necklace.

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(Kinda a throwback to those pookah shell necklaces ha)

Anyway, people began using these to hit other people by putting the necklace on, putting one piece of candy in their teeth, pulling forwards on the elastic string with both hands, and then biting through the candy, launching the other half of the candy like a slingshot. Trust me, it would hurt. Enough people began doing this, and the suspensions started coming in. They banned my little black market and when I tried to sell stuff anyway, they threatened to put me on in-school suspension. It sucked, but it was fun while it lasted.

One thing they also banned was turtling peoples backpacks. That is, taking everything out of someone's backpack, flipping the backpack inside out, and turning into this inside out zipped up abomination. My friends and I did it to this nerdy kid who carried THREE backpacks! He immediately began breaking down and sobbing uncontrollably and our teacher knew we were the culprits. Why? We had done it to her as well a bit earlier lol. She was like "oh you guys!" But the principal wasn't having it. Anyone caught doing it received one week of detention and a "demerit." Good times!
 
Digital pets -
kids kept getting distracted with them.


Paper airplanes-
some kid got poked in the eye by one.


Jawbreakers-
Some kid choked on one (survived)
 
Not a ban per se, but my class completely fucked the middle school I went to as we went through it.

6th Grade- Fight starts on a field trip, as a result, there are almost no more field trips at all for the rest of middle school through the 8th grade.

7th Grade- Something happened in the cafeteria, a table went "Ohhh!" Tables next to itgo "Ohh!" Whole cafeteria goes "Ohhh!". Assigned seating is still there as far as I know as a result of that incident.

Also, every grade has block math now. I guess my class was really dumb because they made this happen, I was in PreAP the whole time.


In Elementary School clubs were banned cause some kid was mad we wouldnt let him in one.
 
Big Johnson t-shirts.

Tennis team made a "gotta have balls to play SchooLNameHere Tennis" with suggestive imagery. Shirt was banned and some kids got in a small amount of trouble.

As a protest the tennis team went shirtless for the sports awards ceremony or whatever.
 
At my brothers school 'sack tapping' was a thing, where seniors would playfully slap the nuts of freshman in the shower during sports as a prank. Someone did it too hard and the kid ended up peeing blood.

Smh
 
For some of us older folks that didn't grow up with the Beyblades, remember slap bracelets?

Those got banned when I was in like 1st grade. Was so mad.
 
Pokemon cards and Crazy Bones were banned because the school staff were tipped off to a Pokemon card gambling ring.

Me and some friends got Axe body spray banned because we unloaded a few cans into a locker on the last day of class.
 
Pretty sure that Yu-Gi-Oh cards were banned from my school because of them getting loads of complaints from parents about kids stealing cards from each other.
 
In elementary school, they banned Pokemon everything. Cards, clothes, lunchboxes, games, etc. It was too distracting. (This was in 1998, so right during it's launch peak).

In high school, my school banned grinding at dances. All the students were super pissed off about it.

I never went to the dances anyway so it's not like I cared. :lol
 
we always had water gun fights every year on the last day of school, principal and all used to participate

then columbine happened, and then they started saying no more :(
 
Lazy vs Crazy said:
They stopped letting kids in my school wear trench coats because of something that happened all the way out in Colorado.
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Same. I remember this and while I never dressed like that I knew a few kids that did and they were cool as shit. Never bothered me and were always very nice but they got hell after that and had to dress differently.
 
Pokemon card - because people got into fights over who's cards were better

Turkey Twizlers - Were not banned as such, more removed from the school menu
 
Khalifa Jayy said:
My friends and I did it to this nerdy kid who carried THREE backpacks! He immediately began breaking down and sobbing uncontrollably and our teacher knew we were the culprits. Why? We had done it to her as well a bit earlier lol. She was like "oh you guys!" But the principal wasn't having it. Anyone caught doing it received one week of detention and a "demerit." Good times!
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Being a bully is good times? :/
 
Livestrong bands and the like. Kids would show up with ten on each arm. We were restricted to one per person.
 
My elementary school banned pogs because too many kids were playing for keeps. Parents got mad when little Timmy came home without his pogs because he lost them in school.
 
Beyblades

There use to be Beyblade battles everywhere. Then people started gambling for other beyblades (known as "playing for keepsies").

The school caught wind of this and forced everyone to only play in these big plastic tubs. This wasn't considered cool so people eventually got bored of them.
 
Hot drinks because little children were running around in the hallways
Yeah, you read that right - they didn't ban running in the hallways, they banned hot drinks in case we spilled them on the little angels
Mess
 
Lazy vs Crazy said:
They stopped letting kids in my school wear trench coats because of something that happened all the way out in Colorado.
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Yep. I remember the same happening at my school. There was never an "official ban" of it, but anyone who did wear one usually got called down to the office.

Classic case of adults completely missing the point.
 
My whole grad year missed out on school dances just because the grads from last year were drunk at theirs.
 
They banned card playing due to gambling (which sucked for me, because I played Magic and they even banned that). So that lead to people just carrying Dice and playing Dice games for money till they banned Dice- which became a problem in the middle school nearby, which used "math dice" in the lower level classes- and kids would just steal those and use Math dice to gamble. So they actually banned Math Dice from that middle school.
 
Those little RC cars from radioshack because a kid stepped and broke one of them on purpose and a huge fight of second graders started to ensue on the playgrounds.
 
Garbage Pail Kids in elementary school. No idea why. I think it was just a fad.

I high school people put tacks into the rubber soles of their shoes and I guess it really fucked up the floors, so that ws banned.
 
Xanga (old blogging website) - Kids said dumb stuff about other kids and caused some messy public conflicts. It caused a bunch of stupid drama so the administrators decided they had to do something. They didn't actually ban them but made some very convincing threats about blogs that talked about other kids and basically put a stop to it.

Using computers in classrooms during lunch and breaks without supervision - A kid looked up dolphin porn after taking a joke too far. Yup.
 
Pokemon cards.

Back in 5th and 6th grade they were huge at my school. One day the teachers figured out some kids weren't just trading them but buying and selling them for real money(I was a known dealer). They called it gambling and came down hard and banned them, if you were caught you were sent to the principal's office, cards taken and given detention for a week. This merely resulted in black market for pokemon cards at school and made them even more valuable and we dealers actually profited more.

Funny story from that. I got caught one day by the principal and had a small amount of my cards taken and while I was in her office she had to leave to talk to a parent. I saw she had several stacks of cards about 5 inches thick. I stole one of the stacks and later sold them to other kids.
 
We would have a charity day twice a year and we'd set up some Quake sessions on the LAN and would charge people to play. Was a great earner for a few years until some dumbass decided to hide the game files on one of the computers and play them in class and the whole thing got banned.

Also these were banned at one of my schools:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boglin

Though I don't remember why they were banned.
 
Wazzy said:
My whole grad year missed out on school dances just because the grads from last year were drunk at theirs.
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We were denied a senior trip because the class before us got drunk on a cruise ship and threw a bunch of furniture in the ship's pool. The school had to pay for damages and it came out of everyone's class funds.

Fucking bullshit.
 
those bracelets that wrapped around your wrist when you hit them on your arm

people would just use them to hit other people regardless
 
Lazy vs Crazy said:
They stopped letting kids in my school wear trench coats because of something that happened all the way out in Colorado.
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There was this.(Also had a "trench coat mafia" bullshit going around, sigh)

Then wallet chains because they could be used as weapons.

Then red or blue clothing because of gang affiliation, a school cop even stopped me and my buddy(same one from the story below) and asked us if we are in a gang because I was wearing a plain blue shirt and he was wearing a plain red one. I looked at him and laughed because if we WERE claiming colors we would be fighting right now instead of eating and chatting. Idiot.


Funnily enough, cigarettes were banned, but we had a "Smoker's Corner" and we all went there and smoked or hung out with friends who did. Similar to the OP about candy my(still) best friend and I somehow got money together to buy a carton and started selling them by the pack at mark up, Eventually it came to just giving us enough money to buy a new carton and fund our drug and alcohol parties on the weekends. Short lived though as they started cracking down on it and we almost got caught(although we did get arrested for something unrelated that happened at the corner later on).

But in middle school we played ROTT on LAN in computer class, the teacher had it all ready for us after our assignments, we just had to launch it through CMD prompt lol, and nobody cared until Columbine happened.
 
SillyEskimo said:
We were denied a senior trip because the class before us got drunk on a cruise ship and threw a bunch of furniture in the ship's pool. The school had to pay for damages and it came out of everyone's class funds.

Fucking bullshit.
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Sounds like the class before you had a great time though.
 
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3rd grade or so. There was some national news story about kids cutting themselves by accident on the metal core. They were promptly banned after that.

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6th grade. Not really an interesting story, they just became really popular really quickly and they were deemed to be a distraction.
 
Bookbags, then they allowed clear bookbags which no store stocked more than 2 of, because of hidden weapons or something.
 
It was during my junior year of high school, one of my good friend was moving away so we decided to make a group called "VTK" and all got custom made flat bills with VTK on it. Of course some of his friends were idiots and believed it was a start of a gang. We would wear the hats before and after school. Those acquainted actually cause the freshmen to make thier own "gang". And all freshmen are idiots and attempt to cause a scene to be badasses, the school believed there was two gangs and prohibit any kinda of custom hats from then on.
 
SliceSabre said:
Pokemon cards.

Back in 5th and 6th grade they were huge at my school. One day the teachers figured out some kids weren't just trading them but buying and selling them for real money(I was a known dealer). They called it gambling and came down hard and banned them, if you were caught you were sent to the principal's office, cards taken and given detention for a week. This merely resulted in black market for pokemon cards at school and made them even more valuable and we dealers actually profited more.
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Pokemon cards were real shit back in the day. A kid in middle school physically choked me because I got a shiny Charizard in the first card pack I opened. It really fucking hurt. Fuck you, Kyler, if you're reading this.
 
In Jr High when I started 8th grade they banned taking your backpack to class because the previous year one of the teachers tripped over one and got hurt. So for my last two years there everyone had to keep it in their locker during the day. It sucked.

In High School, my last two years they banned selling soda during lunch, because they wanted kids to drink something more healthy. Which didn't really work since you could still buy soda from the vending machines before lunch and just keep it in your backpack.
 
Pokemon cards, along with everything Pokemon-related because of this article:

Officials at an elementary school in Laval, north of Montreal, are counselling students after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed Tuesday during a dispute over Pokemon cards.

Pokemon started as a video game, became a hit TV show and now the trading cards are in big demand. They feature Japanese animated figures that have different powers. The cards can range in price from 50 cents to $300.

Police say the 14-year-old was stabbed when he approached a 12-year-old and accused him of stealing a box of his little brother's Pokemon cards. The cards were thought to be worth about $45.

The 14-year-old was injured in the shoulder and had to get four stitches.

His 12-year-old assailant was taken for questioning and may be charged.

The principal at St. Gerard elementary school had banned Pokemon cards the day before the stabbing because they were distracting students. Francois Ducharme says he's stunned by the assault.

Pokemon trading pieces are so popular that shop owner Myles Charon has been forced to limit sales.

"I'd say they're off the scale, I haven't seen anything this popular. I mean the hockey card craze was big but the problem there was a supply. Here, the supply is extremely limited which is further fuelling the popularity."

Charon denounces the stabbing. He says Pokemon cards should be banned in all schools.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal-boy-stabbed-over-pokemon-cards-1.172068
 
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