History WebVideo / WeirdSchoolRulesInHongKong

** In Episode 19, the human chain of students sing ''[[Theatre/LesMiserables Do You Hear the People Sing]]'' as a ProtestSong in favour of the local protest movement at the time, which is TruthInTelevision.

* PermaShave: {{Enforced|Trope}}. Episode 11 mentions how some schools don't allow their male students to grow facial hair because it implies they aren't "neat and tidy". In the skit focusing on this, a student is shown to have stubble that he couldn't shave off because his razor broke that morning (and that not even ''he'' wanted this to happen), but the teacher said that it was "not an excuse" and told him to stay behind after school. However, when the Principal shows up with a mustache, the students protest against the in-universe DoubleStandard towards facial hair on men.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: {{Invoked|Trope}} by various secondary schools in Hong Kong, with rules explicitly banning dating and romantic relationships among students. The host says that this was an understandable rule, but would be very strange in [[OneGenderSchool certain types of schools]].
-->'''Unnamed student:''' So the school rules explicitly state we're not allowed to date or talk about romance.\\

** In Episode 1, in the skit discussing a rule against wearing leather shoes to school, the student explains that his shoes were "made in [the Strong Country, i.e. China]" and therefore didn't contain real leather. [[TheUnReveal We don't know if the teacher accepted this as an excuse, though.]]

* HeroicBastard: It's revealed in Episode 13 that [[spoiler:a sympathetic male student who jumped to the defense of a classmate (who was being told off by an unmarried teacher for dating) was the son of the teacher.]]

### Some schools turn on their air-conditioning to the point it's freezing, so tough luck to those students; and

* CommonTongue: Hong Kong has [[UsefulNotes/ChineseDialectsAndAccents Cantonese]] as one, but Episode 18 discusses how many schools ''don't'' teach their students how to pronounce their Cantonese clearly and discourages them from using Cantonese in their written language.

'''Student:''' Sir, this ''is'' a wig, [my] real hair– ''([[CompressedHair whips off her wig to reveal long, dark hair]])'' is ''actually'' long!\\

'''Yan-yan:''' ''(in English, pretentiously)'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Please. Speak. English.]]\\

'''Yan-yan:''' ''(laughing)'' ''[[NotSoAboveItAll Puk gaai!]]'' [[note]]Literally "fall onto the street", but is usually used more euphemistically as a [[ForeignCussWord curse word]].[[/note]]\\

'''Yan-yan:''' ''(in English)'' [[VerbalBackspace Uh…]] I just say "[[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike Poor guy]]". Is English! Not Cantonese ''ah!''[[note]]"Uh, I just said 'Poor guy'! It's English, not Cantonese!"[[/note]]