I thought we were going in the right direction?

Update: We've been unable to get into this account due to some unknown (not unkown lol) reasons. We managed to find a way to change the password, and I think we've secured ourselves for now... The show must go on, right? Well here it is: 

I thought octorara was headed in the right direction? What the hell happened? I guess I saw it coming, but I didn't expect this... They were loosening up their cell phone restrictions, and giving us more freedom, then they just turned around and used it against us. Fucking wow.

I can't say I'm completely surprised, however. They were hanging this whole cell phone rule thing over our heads for a while now...  They were pulling one of these: "DON'T DO THIS OR YOU'LL LOOSE YOUR RESTRICTIONS LOLOL LOOK HOW POWERFUL WE ARE WE'RE AWESOME!" And that's bullshit.

There seems to be two schools of thought on this whole silly string incident: The first being the general attitude of the school, the second being the minority. The general attitude is that this whole incident was fucking retarded. It was ridiculous. There was NO reason for this shit except for a stupid little show of power. It's fucking silly string, what's the harm in it? The second school of thought thinks we somehow crossed the line, we were warned, and we should be good little sheep like they want us to be... Well, I think it's pretty obvious which one I subscribe to.

I want to know, honestly, which freshmen were "hurt" by this little silly string incident. We do it EVERY YEAR and it's almost apart of the Octorara tradition. A right of passage for the freshmen in a way. It's really NOT a big deal, and the school is blowing this shit out of proportion.

Don't even get me started about the chants. "Freshmen suck!" is what their worried about? How about when I was in ninth grade and it was "FUCK THE FRESHMEN!!!"? They were chanting that while we were being hit by paper and silly string in front of the entire staff, and the rest of the school... What the fuck happened? I had no problem with that, it was all in good fun...

This is ridiculous, and octorara knows it...

What the fuck should we do about this you ask? I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm thinking it'll have something to do with a slight amount of disobedience...

We'll post again soon, we have a lot to catch up on.

Back to school. - Here we go again.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, everybody excited? Well, we're sure as hell not. I'm sure everyone has already heard the big news, right? OHS is supposedly implementing a new policy! No more will they allow us to stand around for a good fifteen minutes in the mornings. Apparently we're all supposed to report to homeroom every single day at the same time. No more arriving while the bell is ringing, or standing around in circles or whatever the hell we do. Isn't that just dandy? You have to hand it to them though, they're extremely good at implementing pointless policies and pissing everyone off!

Well, good fucking luck everyone. I'll post again soon, I'm sure. 

Fun Day: A critique.

Fun day, as requested. 

(I guess I'm writing this as if I'm talking directly to the school staff.)

First and foremost, thanks for fun day. It's better than sitting in class. Now, if you'd like to improve it and stop giving us a shitty, half assed "fun day" and start giving us a day that is actually fun, perhaps you should comply with these requests:

If you're going to give us a day to relax, have fun, and wind down before finals or standardized testing, I think you should at least permit us to leave if we don't want to be stuck at school doing nothing. Seriously. Sure, it's fun at times, but it only takes me a couple of hours to get bored as fuck and just want to leave. I think it's reasonable to want to leave school on a day that we literally do nothing.

As for the staff, stop patrolling the school like you're the cops trying to make drug busts. Let's fucking face it, there are students in our school who engage in recreational activities that are illegal. Fucking deal with it. It's not that big of a deal, and as a matter of fucking principal, these kids should be left the fuck alone. Sure, you may have to deal with a couple of parents calling in and complaining about drugs and alcohol being "smuggled" into school, but so fucking what? What do they expect you to do, violate our rights and randomly search all of our stuff? Not that you didn't get us to sign an unconstitutional waiver of our rights so you can randomly search our cars anyway...

So, overall, I feel as though fun day this year was a bit more permissive and less restrictive than last year. A step in the right direction, if you will. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe more people got in trouble than they did last year, but it sure as hell didn't seem like that to me. (Feel free to correct me on this if I am, in fact, wrong.) Octorara staff, do NOT go backwards and increase restrictions, and fuck our fun day up... I repeat, do NOT fuck up fun day. I'm stressing this because I'm aware of a few unfortunate incidents that may lead the staff in the opposite direction. Don't increase restrictions based on an isolated one time incident.

I assure you, it will not help a damn thing.

Goddamn Parents, and The Internet Filter

First of all, internet filters:

Fuck internet filters. Why the hell shouldn't we be able to get on the internet, and surf wherever the fuck we want? It's not like they're protecting us from anything, we can just go home and do whatever the fuck we want on the internet. It's fucking high-school. We aren't twelve. We've fucking seen "private parts" and we aren't going to be "corrupted" by them. This shit pisses me off. It's hardly Octorara's fault either, it's the fucking FCC/Congresses fault. Those fuckers give schools money for technology if they implement a filter. It's fucking stupid.

Second of all, Parents:

What the fuck? Allegedly, a certain teacher has a very good chance of getting fired for messing around a bit in his rather unconventional class because some dumb ass "soccer mom" wants to press charges for something that didn't even hurt the fucking kid. (It's just an expression, I know not all soccer moms are prudes...)

Fuck our culture and our obsession with keeping our kids safe. I say, let us go make our own damn mistakes, and take some fucking risks. We're not going to learn ANYTHING if we are sheltered from danger. Goddamnit, you can't go around firing people because they jokingly inflicted an "injury" on a kid that is on par with a fucking pinch. Fuck you Octorara, and fuck all of you goddamn prudy ass greedy ass parents who won't let their kids grow up without having to face the rath of the goddamn nanny state. 

Electronics. -- For fucks sake, let us use them.

It's lunch time? No one is going to get distracted? There will be no harm done, and it won't cause any trouble? MAKE SURE THEY DON'T GET OUT THEIR CELL PHONES!!!1!!11 Also, read this shit with an Irish accent in your head. It's fucking hilarious.

Seriously, what the fuck is the matter with them? Cell phones, ipods, laptops and everything in between should be completely acceptable. Sure, I get having to put our phones on vibrate during class, or not being able to talk on the phone while in the middle of a lesson plan, but not being able to fucking have them at all? Come the hell on. What possible danger does the office foresee that I'm missing here? Will god come down out of the heavens and smite us all for using electronics? No? Then what's the fucking problem?

Technology in Octorara is like just like Marijuana in the U.S. It's fucking  harmless, but the leaders attack it like it's the fucking plague. Seriously, what harm can possibly come of sending a couple of texts during class? Fucking none. It's not even fucking distracting. And again, they treat electronics like the goddamn plague. The minuite they see one it's "PUT IT AWAY NOW!!!" or "Give it too me, or get a fucking in school suspension." Since when did using a device we own during class warrant a fucking suspension? That's absurd.

All the same, I can at least see where they are coming from with the whole "distraction" idea... When it's in lunch or a study hall, however, I seriously cannot think of a single fucking reason NOT to let us use these devices. What the fuck do you think we're going to do, call in our "school rule breaking friends" and have a goddamn party? Do you think we're going to listen to "corrupting" music that we downloaded our fucking selves and have already heard? There's absolutely NO reason NOT to let us use Ipod's, cellphones or computers while in study hall or lunch.

So, are the readers starting to pick up on a theme this blog has been creating? The school creates useless and authoritarian rules for absolutely NO reason at all. Any defense they can come up with, I assure you will NOT be adequate. They are doing this for reasons I can't even fathom. 

Fuck 'em.

No food in class. - Fucking hypocrites.

Who the fuck came up with the "no food in class" rule? I've been going to school for over a decade, and never have I once observed a single student get sidetracked by food. Sure, they snack a bit, drink a little water or whatever, then get back to work, but get distracted? No. Fuck you Octorara, teachers eat full-blown meals while we sit there and do NOTHING, yet we can't eat a chip or two and drink a undersized iced tea we got from your own fucking lunch room? Fuck you.

In the handbook, it states:

"Students are not permitted to remove food or drink from the cafeteria. Food and drink are not permissible, regardless of its origin, in study halls, the library, the classroom, or elsewhere in the building."

 So does it give a reason for this oh so important rule? Hell no, of course it doesn't. Who cares WHY we can't eat food, anyway? We just can't; probably because "they told us so" or some such shit. (Hopefully your sarcasm detector has alerted you..."

Teachers always try to come up with a logical reason for this, yet, they never consider the possibility that the administrators just wanted to fuck with us. What other logical explanation could their be?

"If  you spill stuff on the ground, it will get sticky/bugs will get in." - How about, no. There's already bugs everywhere and that doesn't explain why we can't drink water.

"It's a distraction." - No, it fucking isn't.

How about: "The admins went on a power trip and decided food was bad."
Sounds about right to me. 

This rule is retarded, and used to express power over us. Fuck them. I should be able to eat whenever the fuck I want, whatever the fuck I want. Who the fuck do they think they are? I'm a goddamn citizen, not a goddamn inmate. Fuck off.

It's Friday. -- So, what makes teachers better than us?

Edit: Never mind, someone probably made that shit up. It hasn't hit the news yet, so I'm assuming it was some rumor and someone is laughing their ass off right now. lol. Anyway, on with the post:

A couple of the teachers at Octorara sincerely believe that they are better than their students. Most of them won't come out and say it directly, (although, some will) but the way they talk down to us and the irritating brag filled stories they demand us to listen to is proof enough for me. Now, I'm not saying all of the teachers at Octorara are like this, and I'm not even saying most of them are like this, it's just a couple of teachers who clearly think of us students as less than human.

What the hell do they think we are? Soon-to-be-humans still in training? Stop demanding respect without giving any back for fucks sake. If you treat us like shit, don't assume just because your a teacher you'll be treated like goddamn royalty. We didn't sign up for school, and we didn't ask you to teach us anything. If the educational institutions in our society were privately owned and the capitalist ideal of free enterprise took it's effect on schooling, teachers like this would get fired for driving away customers. (Students.) Well, unless some dickhead parent sent their kid to some snobby ass strict school for "excellence". And in that setting, the results probably wouldn't be as good as the free-schools, so they would go out of business anyway.

So, how about you few teachers who think you are tough shit stop abusing your state enforced power to a degrading level, and start treating us like a good teacher should: like your fellow human beings who you are aiding in the gathering of knowledge in your respective specialty.

That goes for the administration, and the school board as well. What were they even thinking writing up the fucking handbook? I seriously doubt many of the readers here have used it as little more than a quick reference guide to a specific question about the rules. Go through it a little, look at some of the rules they put in there. It's fucking absurd. The fucking Japanese camps that were created during the WWII erra probably had less restrictions. Seriously.

I bet the people in charge are overprotective parents who never gave their kids the chance learn from their own damn mistakes, and have taken a liking to their ability to ennact laws that govern hundreds of students. In other words, they wrote it while on a goddamn power-trip. There's almost no rules in the handbook that we, the writers here at fuck octorara, even come close to calling fair, reasonable, or necessary.

Our plan for the future:

We're going to pick apart every dumb, useless, and authoritarian rule we can find in that fucker. One post at a time.