What became so popular at your school that the teachers had to ban it? -

[Cosmos]

I went to a Catholic K-8 school and they banned Pokémon cards. Not because they thought Pokémon was Satanic or whatever, but because the younger kids kept getting scammed out of their valuable cards by the older kids. Before that happened though, I got a Flareon card (my favorite Pokémon at the time) so that was pretty dope.

They also banned Beyblades for the same reason, kids kept getting scammed.

 

[JM 590]

Pokémon cards

That'll be the response from absolutely everyone between the ages of 25-35

Tamagotchis were semi-banned, but maybe I just had a cool teacher. She just insisted you put them on mute or she'll stash them in her drawer.

Though that led to one funny situation where one in the drawer wouldn't stop beeping, and after a few minutes of her frustratingly trying to figure it out, a kid had to get up and feed the thing and then put it on mute for her.

 

[IV 445]

They banned guns but kids still brought them in anyway

 

[Fish-Eyed Fool]

The shoes with the wheels in them. Because kids kept scooting around, bumping into people, and fucking up the floor.

 

[The Last Stand]

Fortnite.

 

[obliviousbeard]

I switched schools often, due to parents moving when I was kid, so I saw all kinda weird rules (like you're only allowed throw snowballs against this certain wall during winter or you have to be at least 10 to ride to school without bicycle helmet) but nothing due to popularity. Never remember for instance cell phones being banned during early 2000's (quite handy in sparsely populated country), but they were hell bent of keeping them on quiet mode, and there really wasn't rule against Pokemon cards in schools I attended (guess since every kid had hockey card collections, gogos and whatnot)

Also insert joke about catholicsm being biggest scam in OP's school.

 

[Recoil]

Doing drugs in the handicapped bathroom. It was a small school and the handicapped bathroom was right next to the math lab, separated only by thin sheetrock walls. So you'd be in math and suddenly, faintly... SNOOOOOORT!

It got to be a running joke, and the teachers complained so much that they locked the handicapped room for the last half of the year. Highly illegal in terms of the AWDA, but there were no handicapped students that year and it was, admittedly, getting ridiculous.

 

[Cosmos]

Fortnite.

Good.

 

[Exorbital Columnations]

Poppers and butt-fucking.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Pokemon cards, heelies, then cellphones used as "calculators"
I got out before smartphones became too common, my highschool barely allowed personal laptops.

 

[The Last Stand]

The shoes with the wheels in them.

Heely's. I remember those. It used to be cellphones at lunch too but that was hard to enforce.

 

[PL 001]

Pogs.

Yeah, the autists at Reddit turned it into a meme, but I was in elementary/middle school when they got popular. I had a huge collection, as did my friend. They got banned because some little shit lost a few during a game, ran and tattled to the teacher and we had to stop playing since they saw it as a form of gambling.

What was popular in high school? Fat, unattractive white girls pretending they were black.

 

[Canned Bread]

My Senior Year of High School was during the Fidget Spinner craze so they tried to ban them. Not a single teacher in my high school gave enough of a shit to actually enforce the ban though, hell I even saw one of my teachers playing with one when they were giving us a test.

Pogs.

Yeah, the autists at Reddit turned it into a meme, but I was in elementary/middle school when they got popular. I had a huge collection, as did my friend. They got banned because some little shit lost a few during a game, ran and tattled to the teacher and we had to stop playing since they saw it as a form of gambling.

What was popular in high school? Fat, unattractive white girls pretending they were black.

Suprised it took someone this long to mention Pogs honestly. Pretty much every kid growing up in the 90s had their school ban pogs because some sore loser lost and whinned about it to the teachers. I'm to young to have been around when Pogs where huge, so I'm really just going off what I heard though.

 

[Dutch Courage]

Wacky Packages (or "wackypacks" as we called them)

I'm talkin' Series 1, by the way. Not any lame re-boot.

It was a simpler, kinder, gentler time...

 

[UA 674]

Tech Decks.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Slap bracelets, because kids got hurt. Pogs, because during recess all the kids would play pogs (to the point where the blacktop was covered in kids sitting and playing pogs) and I guess drama came from that, so the school banned it.

Middle school: these long necklace things made from some thick material that got popular. One kid hanged himself off his bedpost with it. After that, they were banned.

 

[thismanlies]

YoYos and stickers.

 

[sasazuka]

The main one I remember were slap-bracelets, which were kind of a fad around 1990 or so. Those were those bracelets that changed shape from flat to curled when you slapped them onto your wrist. The ban wasn't so much due to popularity but rather because the poorly-made knockoff versions would have the plastic outer wrap fray and expose the sharp knife-like inner piece within. They didn't want kids accidentally slashing their wrists or using them as weapons.


Another thing that got banned fairly quickly were these firework things that were just gunpowder wrapped in paper that made a bang when you threw them on the floor.

Slap bracelets, because kids got hurt. Pogs, because during recess all the kids would play pogs (to the point where the blacktop was covered in kids sitting and playing pogs) and I guess drama came from that, so the school banned it.

Ah, you beat me to it though I started writing my reply before yours was posted.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Weren't allowed to take our books in, teachers insisted that it was a fad and we should stick to carving on tablets.

 

[W00K #17]

Came in to post pokemon cards.