16 former students share the most ridiculous school trend that teachers had to ban.

Snap bracelets, rollerblading down the hallway, card games in the cafeteria, selling snacks in exchange for essays--all good things must come to an end in school...

We all still have that one teacher we still think of and shiver over the time they took away the one item that was bringing joy to algebra II...you know what you did, Mr. Donnelly. So, when a Reddit user asked, 'What became so popular at your school that the teachers had to ban it?' people were ready to share the funniest games, items, or behaviors that would lead you straight to detention.

1.

Acorns. My elementary schoolyard had several oak trees on it and dumbass kids would collect acorns and keep them in their desk. The problem was most of the acorns had worms in them which then escaped into the classrooms. - madsjoelle

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We legit had a half an hour lecture in assembly because our year apparently said 'sorry' too often. I'm English. - Zhurg

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When I was in elementary school in the late '90's there was a fad where we would collect Absolute Vodka and Milk Moustache ads in binders (similar to pokemon cards). It was savage, kids would bring in magazines by the dozens and just strip out the pages with the ads on it. School banned them because it was such a massive distraction. - cricket9818

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I’m 60. When I was in 3rd grade sunflower seeds were banned. I was told the teachers thought they were drugs. - tubewatch

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In third grade, a few kids got obsessed with the words cheese, FedEx, and camel. They said them all the time and those words got banned for the entire class. - olkdork

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Putting condoms on everything. Pens, peoples heads, arms, bags, shoes, smart-board remotes, baseball bats, clocks, balls, literally anything. The best bit was that the school gave out free condoms. They were fuelling the opposition. After a week, there was a ban on condoms being out in public. Anyone seen with a condom that wasn't in their bag or blazer was immediately given a detention. - [deleted]

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I was in high school when cell phones finally became accessible enough for MOST people to have one. It took about a week of senior year for them to declare that no phones were allowed anywhere on school property. - scottevil110

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Rubber Bands. Kids weren't even using them to shoot at other kids or otherwise misbehave with them. Kids would buy packs of rubber bands, tie the rubber bands together, making like a big rubber band chain. It became a contest to see who could get a chain of rubber bands to stretch the farthest.

You couldn't find a pack of rubber bands at a store for probably 20 miles (this was when I lived in a small town, so there wasn't a ton of stores in that 20 miles...Amazon or even public internet access didn't exist yet). One kid got so many rubber bands, they could stretch it the length of the school building.

While stupid, I didn't think it was a bad hobby as kids weren't shooting them or shooting stuff with them. It was all about how big of a chain they could make. School rewarded our pointless creativity with a ban on rubber bands at the school. All rubber band chains were confiscated on site. - slider728

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Hair flips. Circa 2003, long skater hair was very trendy. Said Kids were flipping their hair out of their eyes/face. An 8th grade history teacher went on a vendetta under the reasoning that hair flips pollute the air with ‘hair dirt’. Kids started getting detentions. - [deleted]

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Rulers. Year 10 in HS for whatever reason someone decided to smack a guy across the head with a ruler. Then everyone went out and bought a ruler. Suddenly everyone was a knight with a sword. Staff kept confiscating them but rulers are cheap so kids just went out and bought them by the handful.

They ended up banning rulers. At a school. The kids who were taking geometry that year and needed them had to be assigned rulers at the beginning of class and then turn them back in. - [deleted]

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Capri suns - kids were too stupid to figure out how to get the straws in and teachers got tired of helping everyone. - middlesuspect

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When I was younger, we played this where you'd draw a circle on your hand, and other people would try to draw a line inside of it. If someone was able to draw a line in your circle, then you were out. The objective of the game was to be the last one standing. It was small at first, but eventually almost everyone in my grade became involved, and it spiraled out of control.

Chaos. Pure f*cking chaos. Kids were tackling each other, running away from other students, disrupting lessons, etc. Teachers eventually began to talk to us about how far our game had gone, and started banning it altogether. It was fun while it lasted boys. - BerlinChandler

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In elementary school my class was divided in two groups: Penguins and rats. We would always go to our group for team assignments, for games, for anything really. Somehow an actual rivalry started to sprout until the whole school was divided in these two groups, with first and second years getting into actual fights and stuff.

Pretty soon the principal cancelled recess for a day and went to each classroom to tell us penguin team and rat team were banned. Others did create some smaller animal named groups after that but they all dissolved pretty quickly. - Sat-jerker

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The thing we had to ban was “pilgrimage.' They apparently learned the word in religious studies lesson. After that they would (in large groups) walk from one end of the school to the other chanting “pilgrimage!” and basically knocking over any thing or person that stood in their way. - zapataforever

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Am a teacher. A few years ago we had to ban applause. The kids would randomly start a round of applause and just... keep going. It was unnerving. It was disrupting lessons, assemblies. Sometimes they would applause in the dining hall or corridors. Still don’t know how this trend started or why. - zapataforever

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There was a game called 'Get Down Mr. President' where everyone in an area would put their fingers to their ears like the secret service and the last person to do it would be tackled. It could start at any moment and would end up in a dogpile in the hall. - party20barty