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For some reason, it is now punishable to go shirtless and paint yourself at a football game. I don't know why they did this in the first place, and it's strange that they did it now instead of a long time ago.

On a similar note, I just learned that my school used to have a very lenient open-school policy where you could leave and come in whenever you want without question, and that policy was never abused at all. But then they stopped that for some reason.
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BobManPerson Wrote:On a similar note, I just learned that my school used to have a very lenient open-school policy where you could leave and come in whenever you want without question, and that policy was never abused at all. But then they stopped that for some reason.
What? Wtf

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First of all, that football detail is retarded.

Second of all... WHY DID THEY GET RID OF SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER ABUSED?!

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08-28-2010 07:36 AM
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BobManPerson Wrote:For some reason, it is now punishable to go shirtless and paint yourself at a football game. I don't know why they did this in the first place, and it's strange that they did it now instead of a long time ago.

On a similar note, I just learned that my school used to have a very lenient open-school policy where you could leave and come in whenever you want without question, and that policy was never abused at all. But then they stopped that for some reason.
We had that open campus thing at my school a long time ago but it got taken out when the school went from all white to integrated because the community was afraid of black people walking around the neighborhood.
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Y'know I always thought it was the usual thing to be able to just leave until people on here said otherwise.

At my high school you'd get a detention if you missed a class and came back without a note from a parent, but no one was going to stop you from leaving in the first place. (And for all of the time I was there, if you were over 18 you just had to have a plausible excuse about why you were gone. I think they've since changed that, though.)

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yeah, we can't even leave during lunch. It's bullshit.

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BobManPerson Wrote:For some reason, it is now punishable to go shirtless and paint yourself at a football game. I don't know why they did this in the first place, and it's strange that they did it now instead of a long time ago.

On a similar note, I just learned that my school used to have a very lenient open-school policy where you could leave and come in whenever you want without question, and that policy was never abused at all. But then they stopped that for some reason.
We had that open campus thing at my school a long time ago but it got taken out when the school went from all white to integrated because the community was afraid of black people walking around the neighborhood.

lol

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