What was one rule that was implemented at your school that backfired horribly?

My senior year of high school, we got moved into a new school building across from the grocery store.

The builders put up walls over the plumbing for water fountains by accident,

so there was a huge increase in reusable bottles, and the school put up a vending machine entirely full of water.

Now I suppose it's time to mention that

this was in Washington State, where you can sell liquor in grocery stores along with anything else.

So, some freshmen got the bright idea to start stealing vodka from the store across the street,

fill disposable waters with it, and sell it to other students. This caused a huge problem with a large population of drunk underclassmen

wandering the halls of the school and getting into trouble. Finally, the staff got together for a

meeting about what to do. Someone suggested banning water bottles. So now students had no access to water

during school hours and everyone was enraged. There were articles written about it and parents

complaining. People all over town were talking about how we had a ban on water. They eventually

lifted the ban and the alcohol problem resumed. In conclusion, my school had kids selling booze

in water bottles and banned water. In the late 90s, humorous graphic teas became a popular thing, and the mall had a few stores

that sold questionable taste shirts.

Shirts that said several things the narrator can't repeat on YouTube.

Sploge donor, a headless guy holding a sign that says, will work for head, that kind of thing.

The school made a rule that if

your shirt was inappropriate, you would have to turn it inside out. A kid in my class shows up to

school with a shirt that says, I'd rather be playing with myself. The teacher sends him to the

bathroom to turn it inside out. He returns with an inside out shirt that says, I put the F-U in fun. The teacher doesn't realize

it's the same shirt, so he takes it off in class and shows her both sides. He had a few shirts

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