thebbwnextdoor:

helloitsbees:

daemonmatthias:

bushy-haired-know-it-all:

jumpingjacktrash:

littlemisscodeless:

…But why do you need an object to go to the bathroom? Does it unlock the magic bathroom door?

a hall pass is a thing you can show to school staff to prove you’re wandering the halls with your teacher’s permission, not skipping class. once upon a time it was a piece of paper, but people kept losing those, so around the time i was in high school, teachers started taping the school-issued cardstock hall pass to things like blocks of wood, plastic flowers, and plush toys, to make them harder to lose.

apparently it wasn’t enough.

Also people would steal them so they could have a get out of jail free card if they got caught skipping class.

It’s a little bit easier to find a stolen giant pencil than it is to find a stolen hall pass

This is eaxctly why hall passes have gotten so extreme.

this is fucking surreal and only adds more weight to my theory that the american public school system is (barely) held together by a dark and arcane magic

Also a fact

Mind you, I graduated ten years ago, so I have no proof.

But there were two teachers on the third floor, south wing, the far end… who fought over a cardboard cutout of Elvis that one had brought in as a hall pass, and the other stole repeatedly.