The school district in Glen Cove, N.Y., is discouraging students from exchanging high-fives.
But in some cases, the report said, school administrators tacitly discriminate by discouraging students with disabilities from enrolling.
Students also appear to have posted messages discouraging students from attending school events, such as a fundraising karaoke evening.
"These regulations are discouraging students from coming here, and everyone is wondering whether there's going to be even more regulation.
Discouraging students from opening a book over the weekend hardly seems the most effective way to approach education in the 21st century.
His Daily Rituals entry reveals a hopeless procrastinator, a man whose rants against the indecisive and the disorderly were probably a way of discouraging students from ending up like him.
The sign bore plenty of official words discouraging students from abusing the newly seeded lawns but stuck in the middle was the following: "Low-impact sports only: Frisbee, Hacky Sack, ball toss, duck-duck goose".
"What the state Board of Elections has on its Web site, to me, sounds like it is discouraging students from registering at their school address," said Jon Greenbaum, director of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers Committeee for Civil Rights Under Law.
According to a Survey of Postgraduate Study Intentions conducted by the Office of Science and Technology last year, rising debts are discouraging students from entering postgraduate study.
"Honour codes" - or "honor codes" in the American spelling - are used by a number of US universities as a way of discouraging students from cheating in exams or submitting material that has been copied from the internet.
Weirdest story of the week: The New York Times today ran a piece on some schools and some school officials discouraging students from having a "best" friend.
