Initiation?

[viper_353]

Hey, I've heard some pretty scary stories on here about kids getting initiated when they enter highschool. Idk if I've mentioned before, but I go to a pretty good highschool for that...sure there's fights on occasion, but I've never actually heard of any of the things happening that some gaians have told me about. (Like one said there's such thing as 'tag a freshman day at their school, and the teachers don't do ANYTHING!) (and okay, there's one terrible story about some kids burning a kid's hair off years ago that goes around when kids are choosing schools for September. But I'm not even sure the validity of that one)
And me and my friends claim to have been 'initiated' because some grade 11s wanted their table back (honestly about 2 months into the school year. No way after that long!) and threw pencils at us every lunch hour for a while! That was in my first year. (and if ur wondering, I'm a grad next year, and we've still kkept the table throughout higghschool)
So I was wondering: What's your story?  

[Angel Nicholson]

My mother always told me love was a bullshit emotion that only fools and dreamers believed in...



We don't do initiation at our school.
In fact, we have a school program for making the minor niners feel comfortable in their first year.
I mean, it's getting ridiculous. The past couple years they've walked around like they own the place and there's nothing we can do about it. They figure just because we were forced to welcome them we have to suck it up and deal with their attitudes. Some of them have nasty attitudes towards the older students.



...so she told me to be the fool with a dream...

 

[viper_353]

Haha yeah it bugs me when younger kids think they rule the school just because they're the new kids.
We have a lot of activities to make the kids more omfortable....like they get the first half of the first day of school to themselves to get settled, and the rest of the school comes at lunch time.
But I really do think kids need to respect the older kids! That's just how highschool works!  

[Angel Nicholson]

viper_353

Haha yeah it bugs me when younger kids think they rule the school just because they're the new kids.
We have a lot of activities to make the kids more omfortable....like they get the first half of the first day of school to themselves to get settled, and the rest of the school comes at lunch time.
But I really do think kids need to respect the older kids! That's just how highschool works!

My mother always told me love was a bullshit emotion that only fools and dreamers believed in...




Yeah, they get the first day to themselves at my school and a group of the older kids come to show them around and do activities with them, but they should never have taken away the initiation my school used to do because now the grade 9's think they can get away with anything and have been getting into just as much trouble if not more than the older students.



...so she told me to be the fool with a dream...

 

[Sora Nightwhisper]

hehe smile i dont have to go through that because I go to an academy for 7/8th graders thats on the high school campus, so you make friends with the high schoolers. its just the non-academy kids who have trouble i guess  

[In Living Colour]

this is just from what i have heard, but where i'm going to high school it is mostly guys who get initiated. i have never heard of any girls doing it or having it done to them. all of the staff and stuff really get upset about it so they try and stop it the best they can i think  

[flauterfli]

Not usually, no. =]
Sometimes in sports but honestly it's not a big deal -- just silly pranks and harmless stuff.
The really scary stories on the news are actually very rare...that's why they're so sensationalized.  

[oOFuniPuniOo]

initiation? from where im standing its fun,

so here's the deal, im from the philippines and in every college school in my town has an initiation.... so our school hold one in every year and it was pretty fun, any injuries we have will be the schools responsibilities and our initiation is MILITARY STYLE! XDDD  

[Luca Grey]

Well I don't know about the rest of the school but in band there's an initiation, but there are all these guidelines and stuff so it's pretty safe. Newbies get "romped" or dogpiled but the rules are, if the target is a girl then only girls can participate and if the target is a guy then is has to be outside on the grass