Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail
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Long Ties and Short Fuses
I’ve told this story before, but my high school tried to crack down on people wearing their ties too short, as was the fashion. It got to the stage where anything except completely pristine uniforms would get you detention — which, coming up to exam season, was one more thing we didn’t want to deal with. In protest at what was widely seen as a ridiculous rule, ties started getting longer and longer — one foot, two feet, two and a half feet, as long as people could get them.
It culminated in one girl sewing two ties together into a five-foot beast that trailed on the floor as she walked and resulted in the Deputy Head having a screaming fit one day about how disrespectful we all were to the uniform codes. After that, the teachers quietly gave up on the new hardline approach to uniforms, and everything went back to normal.
