Watched something like that at a school near me, they moved a talk to a tiny room and called it a "scheduling thing." The room was full 20 minutes before it started, so most people got turned away. Felt less like crowd control and more like a soft cancel.

Back in 2019 I closed a $75k software deal at a Starbucks in Denver with nothing but a legal pad and a pen. The buyer told me later that the deck I sent before the meeting almost killed the deal because it felt like I was reading from a script instead of listening to him. So now I bring one page of questions and let them do most of the talking.

I gotta say I kinda see where the school is coming from on this one, even if the list sounds nuts at first. Words like 'whatever' and 'lazy' do get used to shut people down or put them in a box, and that stuff adds up over a school year. The 'illegal' one is weird for history class though, I'll give you that. Where I disagree is the idea that this is mostly about making punishment easy, because I think a lot of these rules come from teachers who are just tired of the small digs that never get caught. The real problem isnt the list itself, its that they wrote it lazy and then enforce it on autopilot.