Top 10 Things People Should Stop Doing in School

Bullying

I get bullied a lot, and I always tell a teacher. It just gets worse, though. The bullies call me a tattletale, but it's not tattling (probably not the right word, but I couldn't care less) if it's bullying, right?
Also, one thing I don't get -
Scenario One:
Kid: Mom, I'm getting bullied at school!
Mom: Is it a girl or a boy?
Kid: (same gender as them)
Mom: Don't worry, sweetie. I'll call the principal.
Scenario Two:
Kid: Mom, I'm getting bullied at school!
Mom: Is it a boy or a girl?
Kid: (same gender as them)
Mom: WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU HAD A BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND?

Yeah, bullying SUCKS.
I remember when I was like 5 or 6. I lived in Pakistan back then, and the kids bullied me. I never knew why. I didn't really know I was being bullied back then. I heard from my mother I got PHYSICALLY bullied, not just picked on.

Drinking and doing drugs

Four kids in my school were kicked out in one day because of this. ONE DAY. I even caught people doing acid outside the school gates.
Two of them were smoking cocaine. One of them was a bully, and he walked into class baked. I didn't like him anyway. He should've known better.

I wonder if the kids got dropped on their heads when they were little. Probably.

A guy in my school got caught dealing drugs.

Sexually harassing others

I'm a girl, and people who are obsessed with butts over personality deserve to die.

Getting into fights

Some kids die when they get into fights or suffer serious injuries, and that's a serious problem. I'm not kidding.

Someone needs to tell people not to push others into lockers and then lock them!

And that's why my fifth-grade year was terrible.

Sticking chewed gum under desks, chairs, or benches

It's disgusting! Whenever I look under almost any table in my school, there's a lot of gum. It's as if people are too lazy to throw it in the trash.

Swastika drawings, bad words, and certain body parts are drawn on every desk. There is always century-old gum too.

This happened at my second school. There were also swastikas scratched into my desk in one of my classes.

Cutting lunch lines

I have to deal with this way too often. It probably sounds childish to say this, but I think it's unfair when you've been waiting in line longer than they have. They can wait.
If they want to talk to each other, they don't have to do it in line. They can do it at the lunch table.

This wasn't a lunch line, but we were trying to get something. So basically, what happened was this:
A lesbian kid was standing in line, and a group of bullies came up and started punching and shoving the kid.
Bully: Get to the back of the line, Jellybean.
Bully #2: [snickers] Jellybean!
They were so mean! There was nothing I could do.

Borrowing items and never returning them

Whenever someone borrows my pen, I never get it back! It's here one second, and now it's over there covered in drool!

I never let people borrow my stuff anyway unless they are right next to me so I can keep an eye on them.

Where's my pencil? Oh wait, that kid I just gave my pencil to is chewing it...

Having sex

Um, why would someone lose their virginity in a school bathroom?

So many girls in my school lost their virginity.

There's a reason why there's an age of consent.

Bothering other students

If bothering other students was against the rules at my middle school, I would be the only student left, because all of my peers are horrible people.

I guess this is the reason why I'm somewhat hated in class. But others are a whole lot worse.

Sometimes you don't know if you are bothering someone, but you should stop if they say you are.

Copying off others

Someone copied my work in first grade. Then, a kid with anger issues (who I wanted to get revenge on for months after something stupid happened) copied one of my friend's math work and claimed he didn't.

That happens all the time. If someone is desperate, I'll give them the answers to homework but not to tests.

I hate cheaters. That's why I never help anyone at school when they need help with homework.

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Making threats

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Masturbating

Using stupid slang

I never usually say those kinds of words.

Drawing while the teacher is talking

I did this a lot in 7th grade during math class.

Oh... I'm guilty then... but only in flex class when our flex teacher is explaining school rules. I know all of them. Hehe.

Starting drama

It's fine knowing about drama, but it's definitely not good when you're involved in it.

Other chicks at my school start drama all the time.

Being hurtful gossips

After dating this guy from my batch, I suddenly became the target of gossip. It got to the point where his ex-girlfriend called me while she thought I was busy, calling me a slut who stole him away from her. (No, their relationship was already on the rocks long before I even knew him.) That's when I lost my temper and showed all my cards.
It's been a year, and even now they're trying to suck up to me after that incident. Not sure if that even works anymore.

Friend who gossips all the time: Hey, did you know that this guy was crying over not keeping up with someone?
Me: And hey, did you know we're not friends anymore?

Cursing

Imitating gangsters

Making racist comments

This is such a huge problem at my school. Please take no offense in how I'm going to say this! There are multiple people at my school who are white but call themselves and others Black, and I am so sick of it! They also make so many racist, stereotypical comments, like how Asians are smarter and so on.
I hate racism in school and in society. I don't understand why everyone can't treat each other as equals without all these names and stereotypes!

That angry kid I talked about once called one of my close friends the n-word (my friend is Black). Then my friend threatened to kill him.
Plus, the angry kid said my friend takes showers in mud, which is super racist. The substitute teacher said it wasn't racist, but it clearly WAS.

Acting like jerks for no reason

Vandalizing

Dating

There is a boy and a girl dating at my school, and people make inappropriate jokes about them all the time.
I once heard a boy tell the guy in the relationship, "I bet BLANK has lice because she slept with you."

Blocking the lockers

I wasn't very lucky this year with my locker. I ended up with a bottom locker in the most crowded hallway on the upper level of the school. The kid with the locker above me is much shorter, so he's trying to reach his stuff while people are on the floor gathering theirs.
I have to make sure I can actually get down to my locker, not hit someone with it, get my stuff, and escape the herd. Luckily, if I leave class right on time, I can leave just as the crowd starts gathering.

I wasn't lucky this year. Where my locker was located, there were a bunch of other guys' lockers, and there are two lockers vertically. Mine was the one underneath.
Those guys like to act immature and do other stuff. It's always a challenge to get to my locker.

Getting angry for stupid reasons

I hate it. My class is so immature. One time, we played a "Beezer Weezer" game (it's like trivia but a review of movies we watch in music class), and the whole class got into a fight over an answer, which was correct. They thought the prince set a tar trap on the palace steps in Into the Woods.
I tried to settle the argument by giving the team the points, but they all screamed at me. I hate my class sometimes.

Urinating on the toilet seat

Excluding people

Like in middle school, at lunchtime, I asked my classmate Carla (not saying her last name!) if I could have her snacks, but she said no. When she let her other friends Astrid, Ashley, Leslie, and everyone else have them, that really bothers me!

I can relate to this one. People tease and insult me. I have almost no friends and it's so hard to do well in school when half your energy is spent on trying to simply survive it. Please comment here if you can relate.

Drawing inappropriate pictures in books

Last year, my brother said one of his friends drew a penis in their textbook before returning it to the school library.

Some kid (who I'm sort of friends with) almost drew a whole penis on his paper in art class.

Exactly! Once, I found a... private part of a guy drawn in my textbook. Just stop!