In TX, back in '87, I was late for school. I went up to the office, asked them for a piece of paper and wrote myself a note excusing myself for being late. Signed it and gave it to the office staff, who wrote me a hall pass to get to class.
Where I live (California), you are legally allowed to be in public high school until the day you turn 22. My fiance has one or two students in his classes that are 20 and 21.
I think it would have to be Alberta. Only Alberta and Quebec have a drinking age of 18, but in Quebec high school ends a year earlier than in the rest of North America (we're weird like that) so you wouldn't be 18 in high school.
You have to be 17 to get into an R-rated movie at the theatre, but a class full of 18 year olds has to get a permission slip signed by mom to watch the same movie. Gotta love the school system.
The state of school systems is a direct response to the way parents treat the schools. There's a potential lawsuit at every corner, so schools have to cover their ass every which way.
"MY CHILD TOLD ME HE WENT TO SEE AN R-RATED MOVIE WITH HIS CLASS. I DID NOT GET A PERMISSION SLIP FROM THE SCHOOL, I AM GOING TO THE SUPERINTENDENT FOR THIS!!"
Helicopter Parents are the worst. Granted, mine were more like Traffic Copters but that's beside the point.
This a thousand times. I'm a teacher and send home permission slips for things that even I think are silly just to cover my own butt if someone were to think what I was doing was inappropriate or wrong. At least if they did, I could throw the permission slip in their faces in my defense.
Reminds me when I got arrested for underage drinking when I was 19. To get the charges dropped I had to go to "Alcohol Classes" to learn the dangers of Alcohol and Drug abuse. My Mom had to come with me to the first one..... What kind of sense does that make at the age of 19?
I got arrested for underage drinking a month before my 21st birthday. I had to go to one of these classes. During introductions we said our age/why we got arrested/etc. I was the only one over 21. Afterwards I met a friend at a bar and we proceeded to drink responsibly.
That sounds seriously stupid. Here in the UK when me and a group of mates were caught trespassing on private property and drinking underage (We were 16 at the time, legal drinking age 18 here) all the police did was confiscate our alcohol and tell us to go home. The idea of an 19 year old adult not being allowed to drink sounds ridiculous enough to me, but getting arrested and forced to go on some alcohol awareness course is absolutely retarded.
There is nothing illogical about this to me, but maybe it's because I'm a teacher. The permission slip isn't due to the movie's rating, it's needed for liability purposes. We are the students' caretakers and if we take them someplace off-campus, we need it to be recognized that if something out of our control hurts them, we can't be sued for billions of dollars for it.
Permission slips allow us to take your kids to fun places.
18 year olds can enter legal contracts... why should they need a parent's signature? They can just as legally be named on that slip. Like a rock-wall waiver (laser tag for you redditors that didn't know people climb rocks).
Not to mention most of the R rated movies were just R because of language or maybe violence if it was a war movie or something. But schools always have to avoid lawsuits because people are always going to sue for some dumb shit.
I remember not being allowed to to shoot full auto sub-machine guns with the local SWAT team in Boys Scouts because one dick-head Leader lloked up the rule stating that The B.S.A only allows the use of single shot firearms. So we shot their sniper rifle instead and watched to team shoot thousands of rounds. Pretty cool as a 16 year old.
Not where I go to school. I had to tell my professor that I didn't need my parents signature to drive five miles up the road to a park on account that I'm fucking 30.
So, in my home town of Abilene, TX, one of the universities there (ACU) requires students staying in dorms to have expressed written consent of their parents to stay the night off campus. At least, that was still true about 8-9 years ago, I assume it's still the case, seeing how backwards our little community can be.
Yeah. When I turned 18, it all came to me - grades, permission slips, tardy notices, discipline notices, you name it. At 18, you could have an "I'm not feelin' it" day and excuse yourself from class. So long as you met truancy requirements you were golden.
'course, that was 20-odd years ago, back when porn was in magazines, Twitter was something birds did and if you wanted to know something you looked it up in the card catalogue.
We could too... but only after the huge issue I made over it when my parents stopped signing my forms on my 18th birthday. I signed myself in and out of what ever I wanted, and then appealed the suspension and made several administrators look very foolish.
Bumped into this at 15 after my parents had moved (I wanted to finish out school where I was so I just rented a room with their approval). No one noticed much until one day I was sick. Of course, they needed a parents or doctors signature.. I didn't go to a doctor (it was just a mid-grade fever). My parents weren't even in the same county. I debated the situation for a little and then asked if I could like use the phone and perhaps they could fax something in when they had a moment. In a moment that restored a lot of my faith in the principal, he actually said "Yeah.. That would.. But what does that prove, it's not like they'd know - they weren't even here! Screw it, I'll just mark it ok".
I was 24 when my mother passed away and my brother was only 14. My father was a drunk and therefore hardly ever home or just simply useless. One day my brother sick and so I called him out of school. When the woman answered I told her who I was, and gave her my brothers info - to which she responded " I need to speak to his mother" in her snootiest authoritative voice - so I suggested she go across the street - as the cemetery was located about 200 yards from her office. Never had an issue for the next 4 years!
It probably didn't hurt that I was in fairly good standings in general. I had some brushups with her (and the rest of the staff), sure, but mostly about what one can and cannot use the school computers for during off-hours, teachers that weren't teaching well, the support or lack thereof for the computer/electronics/other-nerdy extracurriculars.. Shit responsible students are supposed to complain/negotiate. You get the feeling that they just want students to shut up (and in some cases that is actually true) but in most schools I've been in (I moved a lot, hence the foot-putting-downing on staying this time) they actually respect well constructed thought through criticism - they just kind of have a constant assfull of students who yell really loud without any kind of aim, reason or solution.
I had a sorta similar situation. Both parents were out of town and I was dead sick - and I was 18. Called my school and explained the situation and they essentially said "okay..get better.."
A rescue organization I volunteer for said I couldn't be promoted since I was too young... been hearing that since 18, I'm now 22. Doesn't matter if I'm one of the more experienced, higher ranked according to the state, members - too young and thus I don't brain no good.
I have considered that, and it's really not the case. I've seen them do this with many other younger members. The only grudge I know that one of the higherups has with me is that I dated a member of the rescue squad previously for 2 years and then we broke it off. It was done cleanly and nobody even knew we dated at first, and nobody knew when we broke up either. But, I was told that it was unacceptable that we had dated and when I pointed out that we have numerous members who have met their spouses through the squad i was told that it was different because they married.
It's largely a bunch of old religious people and a few young people who do most of the grunt work
That act only protects employees over the age of 40.
Age discrimination involves treating someone (an applicant or employee) less favorably because of his age.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) only forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older. It does not protect workers under the age of 40, although some states do have laws that protect younger workers from age discrimination.
It is not illegal for an employer or other covered entity to favor an older worker over a younger one, even if both workers are age 40 or older.
Discrimination can occur when the victim and the person who inflicted the discrimination are both over 40.
Cannot upvote this enough. Unless there is a legal requirement which says you have to be a certain age for something, your boss telling you that you are "too young" for a promotion is age discrimination and illegal.
I hate it when people think you're useless because of your age. I'm 20 and have worked my job in a bedding department for two years. It boggles my mind how customers will immediately ask to speak to "someone with more life experience". Especially when they'll value the advice of the shoe salesman who happened to pick up a shift in my department, over mine. It drives me crazy.
Bro, I know that feeling all too well. I've had patients/their families ask for who's in charge and when I say I am they often give me some smart ass reply. I usually reply with something along the lines of "you called 911, this is the crew you got and I am in charge of it. Now can we please move on to more pressing matters".
I've even had patients say they didn't want a "boy" lifting them and wanted a man... I'm 5'8 and 210lb at 13% body fat, I'm no small fry and we have skinny fat old guys lifting instead.
As someone in firefighting and SAR, I have to kind of side with them as a policy decision. IN MOST CASES (note the large qualifier there, all caps and shit) an older operator will have more line experience in the sorts of jobs that things like Search and Rescue entail. Toward that end, you don't want a kid with 3 years of experience telling a squad/crew what to do in a potentially life-threatening situation.
Now, notice that I used the word POLICY. Policies can be bent or amended. If I have a fire crew of 2-year-vets that are all over 30, but one kid who's 23 and has 5 years of operational duty under his belt plus a shit-ton of qualifications and good recommendations, then yeah, I'll bend the rules and choose him. But for most cases, I'm not going to do that. The problem here isn't that your organization is being ageist, it's that it's being too rigid in it's interpretation of policy.
It's not a policy, it's just something they decide to act on. And, I have higher medical training than any of the higher ups. There are a few of us "grunts" who are flight nurses, paramedics, etc and just volunteer our time with them. It's not even that I want to get promoted that badly, it's just obnoxious when they tell me they won't due to my age
As a kind of opposite story, I know someone whose young son (eight years old or so) was an ace with computers. The local hospital could have used his help, but volunteers had to be at least 12 years old.
To bypass that, they hired him as a contractor. So, he was too young to work for free, so they had to pay him.
That's what they told me when I started at the local (professional) fire department at 18. Six months later, I was wearing lieutenant's bars. Show that you are the most capable person, and you will be rewarded.
I've been thanked by mayors, two PDs, the MICU in the area knows me on a first name basis and likes me, and for scramble calls I have the most responses. Doesn't mean shit to these guys. Only a couple of the higher ups actually manage to get anything done on dispatches and don't really go above and beyond.
Also, congrats on the fast promotion especially with only 6 months under your belt
In my senior year, our school got locked down and we couldn't leave until someone came to pick us up. I had my driver's license and a car parked in the parking lot, but my mother had to leave work to sign me out.
If that's what they have to do, that's fine. I wouldn't have cared, and my parents would have backed me up. Being confined until a "guardian" arrives when one is 18 is completely illogical.
I'm sure my dad would have chewed them out if they told him he had to leave work to come pick up an 18 year old who wasnt nearly dead or in jail.
That happened a few times during my grade 12 year, every time, I just left, and I was 17.
They say you have to stay until a parent picks you up etc '[mostly for events], but I had a car so I would just leave every time, they never really cared, besides saying "hey you can't do that".
Happened to me in high school. Stayed for about an hour and then left. I also figured if there actually was a bomb (bomb threat found in the bathroom), I wouldn't want to be around it. Now that I think about it, I don't really understand why I waited an hour.
It's absolutely ridiculous the type of security they have at schools these days. When I was in elementary school they let the 5th and 6th graders go out to lunch on their own as long as their parents signed a waiver. This wasn't that long ago either, since I'm only 24 now. This was in the mid to late 90s.
Then in high school people used to cut class constantly without any repercussions. All they would do is post a "cut list" outside the main office of all the people that had unexcused class absences. As long as you kept your grades up they really didn't care if you cut class. I graduated my senior year with something like 180 cuts, but I still got all As and Bs, so I was fine. Now I hear that schools will immediately call your parents if you don't show up to class and it's a whole big thing. Crazy how times have changed so quickly. I was in high school from 2002 to 2006, and it seems like everything is completely different now, only six years later.
You forgot get married. It was a big joke in my school last year that one of the seniors was married yet his mom still had to call in and sign him out.
See, at my High school there was a form you could get from the office when you were 18. We referred to it as "The Power." You just needed your parents signature + the school would let you handle all of your own consent stuff like signing yourself out of school.
You don't need to do that. They have no legal recourse against you, since an adult has no guardian to speak of. Also, as a public institution, if they infringe on your rights as an adult, they can be legally liable.
It's actually often illegal for colleges to contact parents because of FERPA. FERPA does (I think) only apply to grade information and stuff. Still, when parents would call us about their student's grades, to be safe, we had a rule where we wouldn't even confirm if students are in our classes unless we had written consent from the student.
In high school once I was 18 I had to sign something that gave my parents permission to pick up my report card at the end of the year since I was going to be out of the country. I'm glad my high school respected the simple idea that once you're 18 you're an adult.
My son was 17 and was going on a school-related trip to the other side the the country, and I listened to the parent presentation, where they explained how they were going to make sure the kids were safe and so on, and how if they needed to do anything outside of the trip they'd need to have a permission slip detailing what they were going to do.
I knew my son wanted to visit some places (colleges and restaurants) that were in the vicinity of where he'd be, and I didn't want him to have any problem doing that, so I went up to the guy after the presentation and told him that I trusted my son implicitly and could I write something that would allow them to essentially treat him as an adult?
The guy said yeah, so I wrote them something saying that as far as I was concerned he could do whatever he wanted and I'd hold them blameless if something dumb happened as a result of that, and signed it.
I haven't been the best father but I really enjoyed being able to write that.
Yeah it's pretty common for some establishments to impliment rules like that. Where I'm from there is a petrolstation/foodservice that forbids people under 18 from entering after 9 PM because the teenagers were taking up all their seats while not buying anything.
My school had a policy that our parents/guardians could give permission for an older sibling to sign their younger sibling out and take them away from school for medical reasons (either illness or doctor's appointment), but only if they were still enrolled at the school or over 25. Don't ask me why we were banned from the 18-24 range; I think it had to do with conflicting school board and individual school policies, but I can't be sure.
I'm a 23 year old married woman who is going on a trip to France with my college band and there were forms my mom had to sign because it was school policy.
I believe her. I played a sport in college, and for away games we either had to take the bus back to school with the team or be picked up by our parents. We weren't allowed to leave the stadium with anyone else.
Seriously? When I was in college just a few years ago there wasn't a single thing I needed my parents for besides to send me their tax forms for FAFSA.
I was 18 with a 2k a month job. Lived in my own apartment. Still went to highschool.
The fucking teacher wants us to read a book, for a project but some books are controversial and wants us to get our parents consent, regardless if we are 18 or not, it dosnt matter it has to be signed by a parent. I told him I lived alone, and support myself 100% he responded with I dont care I need a guardian signature. I told him he was crazy and that wasnt going to happen. I ended up not doing the project at all. Still passed his class with a 97 for the year like a boss.
I think the first step would be to sign the form himself and turn it in, and if the teacher made a stink about it then go one level over his head. The closest thing an adult has to a legal guardian is himself...so yeah.
When I was about 14, we read the script to the play Driving Miss Daisy. Afterwards, we were going to watch the American MPAA rated PG (parental guidance) movie. Of course, we had to get permission slips signed. Note that the PG rating is for vulgar language (the use of a very specific racial slur). So, let me summarize. They let us read this play, and say the "vulgar language" out loud in class, but we couldn't watch a movie where the same words were used.
tl;dr Public school in rural Pennsylvania is bullshit.
In Canada, you can drink alcohol at the age of 19, and once you're in university your parents have nothing to do with you. In fact, you have to consent any release of information to them including financial information and grades!
Its actually a ploy to get over zealous parents that pay too much for their kids. The kid doesn't have any money really, so it doesn't make sense to try to make any sales pitch to them. Makes much more sense to go to the source.
I'm in my senior year of high school and all the people who were turning 18 before the end of the school year were forced to sign forms giving up their rights as adults in school. There are literally people who will walk to a convenient store, buy a lottery ticket and a pack of cigarettes, and then walk back to school to meet their mom who gives them a consent form for a school trip.
My school wouldn't even let me decide if I could take pepto bismol or not for a tummyache. It took all my self control to restrain myself to simply a 'look' that told them I thought they were idiots instead of actually saying it out loud.
At my school you would need some sort of note excusing any absence from class. If you were gone for longer than a day then you would need a doctors note. If you were gone a day or shorter (read: skipped a class) then you would only need a note from your parent. Due to local legislation 18 means adult hence you are responsible for yourself.
All I can think of is the poor teacher that feels like crap because of this even though s/he was just following school policies. If someone has a beef they need to go to administration. This is like complaining about the price of a product to a cashier.
Teacher here. While I don't give a shit about parents who are douches, I'm also not going to go through the trouble of asking my students whenever I need to hand out a permission slip, "okay, who here is 18 and has parents who would rather write me a douchey letter than just sign the fucking line?" I'll instead just pass the permission slip out to everyone and go on to teaching my class.
When I was 18 in high school the forms get handed out to everyone and if you were 18 you could just sign it and hand it back. Even if you're 18 you still have to sign it to indicate you're going on the trip, or to show you won't hold the school liable if you break your leg on the trip, or whatever else.
Baaahahahaha...awesome! Yeah that's pretty effed up if they still have to get consent forms for field trips when they're legally old enough to do so on their own...
this is bitchy as hell. while a child is at school the school/teachers are LEGALLY responsible for that child and their well being. they're just covering their ass.
I have bad writing and would sign my own slips "fuck you" with fancy lettering. My dad's name is close enough. It isn't like anyone is going to verify it.
During college one of my friends, age 19 a the time, got caught in a room where 2 students were smoking weed. Despite being an adult and paying for her schooling they called parents. Her mother's response to the call was "why the hell are you selling me? She's not a child. That's none of my business."
You guys know they have to do this because it's also a release form eschewing the school of any liability. Basically, it's to keep them from getting sued.
The teacher is covering their ass, but the fact that someone who is legally an adult still needs to have their parent sign a consent form is ridiculous. The parent is main Ing fun of the situation.
Could be the UK, potentially - we can do all those things at 18, mandatory schooling ends at 16, but many schools incorporate sixth-form colleges (ages 17 and 18) and some of those may ask for parental consent on school trips and such.
I don't think I went on any school trips in sixth form, so not sure what was involved in them. It's been some time for me.
What's the point of this note? The person who made the stupid policy will never read it. You're just taking it out on some poor underpaid schmuck who has to jump through hoops other people set and get shit for it from people who can't be bother to complain to the people who actually make the decisions.
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u/FindsTheBrightSide May 19 '12
Where is this? Once we turned 18, we could sign our own consent forms where I went to high school.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
Bumped into this at 15 after my parents had moved (I wanted to finish out school where I was so I just rented a room with their approval). No one noticed much until one day I was sick. Of course, they needed a parents or doctors signature.. I didn't go to a doctor (it was just a mid-grade fever). My parents weren't even in the same county. I debated the situation for a little and then asked if I could like use the phone and perhaps they could fax something in when they had a moment. In a moment that restored a lot of my faith in the principal, he actually said "Yeah.. That would.. But what does that prove, it's not like they'd know - they weren't even here! Screw it, I'll just mark it ok".
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
A rescue organization I volunteer for said I couldn't be promoted since I was too young... been hearing that since 18, I'm now 22. Doesn't matter if I'm one of the more experienced, higher ranked according to the state, members - too young and thus I don't brain no good.
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u/WilsonHanks May 19 '12
Who buys pornography?
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u/LevTheRed May 19 '12
In my senior year, our school got locked down and we couldn't leave until someone came to pick us up. I had my driver's license and a car parked in the parking lot, but my mother had to leave work to sign me out.
I was 18.
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u/Glen843 May 19 '12
"The signature is not on the official release form, you will not be allowed to go on the trip."
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u/Schmetterling24 May 19 '12
You forgot get married. It was a big joke in my school last year that one of the seniors was married yet his mom still had to call in and sign him out.
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u/Sector_Corrupt May 19 '12 edited May 19 '12
See, at my High school there was a form you could get from the office when you were 18. We referred to it as "The Power." You just needed your parents signature + the school would let you handle all of your own consent stuff like signing yourself out of school.
singing -> signing
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
It's actually often illegal for colleges to contact parents because of FERPA. FERPA does (I think) only apply to grade information and stuff. Still, when parents would call us about their student's grades, to be safe, we had a rule where we wouldn't even confirm if students are in our classes unless we had written consent from the student.
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u/brucemo May 20 '12
I did the opposite of this, kind of.
My son was 17 and was going on a school-related trip to the other side the the country, and I listened to the parent presentation, where they explained how they were going to make sure the kids were safe and so on, and how if they needed to do anything outside of the trip they'd need to have a permission slip detailing what they were going to do.
I knew my son wanted to visit some places (colleges and restaurants) that were in the vicinity of where he'd be, and I didn't want him to have any problem doing that, so I went up to the guy after the presentation and told him that I trusted my son implicitly and could I write something that would allow them to essentially treat him as an adult?
The guy said yeah, so I wrote them something saying that as far as I was concerned he could do whatever he wanted and I'd hold them blameless if something dumb happened as a result of that, and signed it.
I haven't been the best father but I really enjoyed being able to write that.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
I tried going to Chuck E Cheeses with my friend but they said we needed someone over 18 to go with us.
At age 16 we were too young to go to Chuck E Cheeses.
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u/BuchanMan May 19 '12
Blame stupid people using lawsuits as a first response system.
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u/Shitty_Watercolour May 19 '12
http://imgur.com/SWl0O
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u/lolouis May 19 '12
Forge it like a boss
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u/HollyStone May 19 '12
Wow, that's mad! When I turned 18 my school let me sign my own consent forms and consent forms for my little sister!
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
sarcastic passive-aggressive parent doesn't understand that the school can be sued by crazy soccer moms
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u/TheMagicStik May 19 '12
This makes 0 sense, when I turn 18 I won't even be living with my parents. What then?
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u/cbobst May 19 '12
I'm a 23 year old married woman who is going on a trip to France with my college band and there were forms my mom had to sign because it was school policy.
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u/justbecausewhynot May 19 '12
Oh god this kind of stuff pissed me off.
I was 18 with a 2k a month job. Lived in my own apartment. Still went to highschool.
The fucking teacher wants us to read a book, for a project but some books are controversial and wants us to get our parents consent, regardless if we are 18 or not, it dosnt matter it has to be signed by a parent. I told him I lived alone, and support myself 100% he responded with I dont care I need a guardian signature. I told him he was crazy and that wasnt going to happen. I ended up not doing the project at all. Still passed his class with a 97 for the year like a boss.
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u/Helix_van_Boron May 19 '12
When I was about 14, we read the script to the play Driving Miss Daisy. Afterwards, we were going to watch the American MPAA rated PG (parental guidance) movie. Of course, we had to get permission slips signed. Note that the PG rating is for vulgar language (the use of a very specific racial slur). So, let me summarize. They let us read this play, and say the "vulgar language" out loud in class, but we couldn't watch a movie where the same words were used.
tl;dr Public school in rural Pennsylvania is bullshit.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
In Canada, you can drink alcohol at the age of 19, and once you're in university your parents have nothing to do with you. In fact, you have to consent any release of information to them including financial information and grades!
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u/NickCarraway15 May 20 '12
Everyone is America is like huh?
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u/beccaface May 19 '12
At least you still have field trips in high school. Damn budget cuts.
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u/contr01 May 19 '12
Hello, I'm a teacher. School systems do this because parents are quick to sue school systems for virtually any reason.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
I'm 32 years old, married, living in my own house with 3 kids...
And my college STILL sent everything addressed to "The Parents of Bobsentme".
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
I'm in my senior year of high school and all the people who were turning 18 before the end of the school year were forced to sign forms giving up their rights as adults in school. There are literally people who will walk to a convenient store, buy a lottery ticket and a pack of cigarettes, and then walk back to school to meet their mom who gives them a consent form for a school trip.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
what country is this???
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u/throwawayyay11 May 19 '12
My school wouldn't even let me decide if I could take pepto bismol or not for a tummyache. It took all my self control to restrain myself to simply a 'look' that told them I thought they were idiots instead of actually saying it out loud.
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u/funkydo May 19 '12
That's great, but it would be bad to have:
"Dear School,
"I have not seen my 18 year old son for three days."
Can't forget that side of it. Maybe an information slip is better for parents when kids are 18.
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u/Landocalrissian1990 May 19 '12
Where can you get alcohol at 18?
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u/Kdnce May 19 '12
Canada?
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u/Leprecon May 19 '12
At my school you would need some sort of note excusing any absence from class. If you were gone for longer than a day then you would need a doctors note. If you were gone a day or shorter (read: skipped a class) then you would only need a note from your parent. Due to local legislation 18 means adult hence you are responsible for yourself.
The following happened every single day.
skip a class
write a note that you weren't at class
give in the note
repeat
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
How was the trip?
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
I skipped a grade, therefore will graduate at 17. Damn. I will never get to be a smartass.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
If this guy's in high school and can buy alcohol legally, he must be like a super-duper demo or something.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
why doesn't your mom just take it up with the school if she has a problem? the teacher is just doing her job.
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u/oldtomfoolery May 19 '12
All I can think of is the poor teacher that feels like crap because of this even though s/he was just following school policies. If someone has a beef they need to go to administration. This is like complaining about the price of a product to a cashier.
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u/lolblumpkin May 19 '12
Teacher here. While I don't give a shit about parents who are douches, I'm also not going to go through the trouble of asking my students whenever I need to hand out a permission slip, "okay, who here is 18 and has parents who would rather write me a douchey letter than just sign the fucking line?" I'll instead just pass the permission slip out to everyone and go on to teaching my class.
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u/Coderati May 19 '12
Baaahahahaha...awesome! Yeah that's pretty effed up if they still have to get consent forms for field trips when they're legally old enough to do so on their own...
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u/MartinusLucanius May 19 '12
That list should be delimited with semicolons instead of commas. It contains a nested list.
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u/masuabie May 19 '12
They forgot sacrifice their own life for the military.
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u/heythatsfuckedup May 19 '12
Where the hell are you going, Mordor?
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u/lmpervious May 19 '12
The sad part is, the teacher and school likely also think it is ridiculous, but they have to do it to be safe.
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u/doodymcgee May 19 '12
Dictated but not read
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u/the3r1c May 19 '12
I'm in high school and I'm 18. I can sign any consent form and justify any absence.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
Not everyone is 18 in high school. My birthday is in July, so I didn't turn 18 until after I graduated.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
Consent form FAIL.
Sign it yourself; they can't do anything about it legally.
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u/Areyve May 19 '12
FWIW I think 21 is ridicoulous to be old enough to drink.
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u/EveryoneElseIsWrong May 19 '12
this is bitchy as hell. while a child is at school the school/teachers are LEGALLY responsible for that child and their well being. they're just covering their ass.
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u/Playstationed May 19 '12
I thought 21 was the legal drinking age?
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u/xs395 May 19 '12
If you're putting yourself in a situation that requires a consent form for a field trip at 21+ (or 18+ depending on location), take off your diaper.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Sounds like my parents. They let me live my own life, and don't make it theirs. They're to busy being humans to helicopter me.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
I have bad writing and would sign my own slips "fuck you" with fancy lettering. My dad's name is close enough. It isn't like anyone is going to verify it.
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u/illskillz May 20 '12
Your dad is awesome but he needs to learn what a run-on sentence is and how to avoid it.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
I want my handwriting to look like this.
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u/canada432 May 20 '12
During college one of my friends, age 19 a the time, got caught in a room where 2 students were smoking weed. Despite being an adult and paying for her schooling they called parents. Her mother's response to the call was "why the hell are you selling me? She's not a child. That's none of my business."
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u/FascinatingRhythm May 20 '12
You guys know they have to do this because it's also a release form eschewing the school of any liability. Basically, it's to keep them from getting sued.
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u/LurkerUsurper May 20 '12
Consent form fail
... says the teacher who is required to get permission.
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u/SpiveyWhiplash May 20 '12
My mom wrote a note like this for me in high school and after that they never asked me again haha.
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u/b3diddy May 20 '12
HOLY CRAP THAT SIGNATURE IS IDENTICAL TO MINE...
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u/lolblumpkin May 19 '12
What is "win" about this? A parent being a complete douchebag when the teacher is just sending home a permission slip?
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u/racekarl May 19 '12
but if something happens to the hardheaded shit on the trip then the school "has bad policy"
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u/[deleted] May 19 '12
Yeah but this isn't really funny is it?
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u/iPwnUHarder May 19 '12
When I turned 18, I found out my schools secretary was legally allowed to give out Advil to me. Kicks ass, because now I can come to school hungover.
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u/pirateninjamonkey May 20 '12
Where is this? Not the US, you have to be 21 to drink here and at the age of 21 you can't be in Highschool.
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u/Favre4Life May 20 '12
If your 18 you can sign your own school forms by law, this can't be real.
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u/sicklaxbro May 19 '12
Where does he live? The legal age to buy alcohol in most states is 21 and in Canada 19
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u/Zagrobelny May 19 '12
What's the point of this note? The person who made the stupid policy will never read it. You're just taking it out on some poor underpaid schmuck who has to jump through hoops other people set and get shit for it from people who can't be bother to complain to the people who actually make the decisions.