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"Only School Equipment Allowed"

First, Happy Easter to those who celebrate.

This upcoming week is the hockey unit in gym. Gym usually contains sports I am picked last in (and don't care about) so this is a consolation. I played hockey for three years outside of school before its introduction in gym last year.

Subsequently, I kick ass. But the equipment the school has is the exact opposite of kick ass. The sticks are plastic and bend way too much, the nets are sub-par (net wont hold up) and the pucks are airy inside.

So, to rectify the problem partially, I am bringing my own stick (the school sticks and my own are both too small) which is a Nike-Bauer Supreme One50, which is an incredible stick. But here's the issue. The school is probably gonna give me shit for not using equipment they provide. They'll claim it is an unfair advantage. But when their equipment is not desirable for the sport, it is really not.

What do I do if they tell me to 'use school equipment' when I bring in my hockey stick?
"Thou shalt not be an asshole"
-The one commandment of atheism.

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"If you call xcriteria a shithead, he will write a ten page essay on why he is not a shithead, link you to a tedtalk on bullying and the tvtropes page on insults. After reading and watching all that you would evaluate your life and decide to never call anyone a shithead ever again."
04-21-2014 01:05 AM
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