<p>the last time i was able to leave my school for any reason during the day was elementary school…and in high school i can’t go to the water fountain without a pass. needless to say, i can’t wait for college.</p>
<p>Wow…no wonder so many people go buck wild in college lol. Passes for lockers, bathroom, and water fountains? Permission needed just to be in the hall? Jesus…</p>
<p>When I was in high school, they county started slowly phasing out open campus schools until someone died in a car accident during lunch at one school. Immediately after that, all schools become closed campus. Although, I’m pretty sure that could not have been the first time that ever happened (we’re talking about 100 years of high school here, although significantly less years of teenage drivers). I think it just happened quicker since the transition was already underway. </p>
<p>Now my brother is in high school and he can’t imagine anything like what we had back then. It just depends on what you’re used to.</p>
<p>Closed campus over here. We need passes to be out to the hallways if we don’t have class either, but no one really follows that. I pretty much thought all schools were closed campus. My school is right next to a major highway anyway (private). Doesn’t seem like prison at all to me, but obviously an open campus would be AWESOMER. </p>
<p>But when my friends junior year started getting their licenses we would just leave and go to Panera or Wendy’s. No big deal, we’d come back with like frosties in our hands. But since my two frees are actually the last period of the day I can basically go anywhere for lunch, I don’t drive yet but most of my friends do, so I’m out almost everyday.</p>
<p>At my school, the “openness” depends on the grade. </p>
<p>Freshmen can’t leave campus at all (but they can, of course, chill outside and wander wherever during frees.) But seniors can go off for lunch (if there are no meetings during lunch), leave at lunch if you have afternoon frees, and show up late if you have first period free. </p>
<p>I honestly had no idea some high schools required hall passes. That seems so <em>stupid</em>. Does that mean, like, you have to ask to go to the bathroom? That’s demeaning.</p>
<p>^Did you not have to ask to go to he bathroom in middle and elementary school?</p>
<p>You just walk out of class if you needa go?</p>
<p>***? We need passes to leave classroom. Leaving interior of school is strictly forbidden. Some days when I have in-school ECs, I don’t walk outside from 7am-8pm.</p>
<p>They don’t trust you enough to go to the bathroom without using a pass? Most of my teachers don’t even require you to ask to go because it disrupts the lecture; we just get up and go.</p>
<p>Lol you basically can’t go during a lecture unless its an epic emergency.</p>
<p>My school is closed campus, the campus was closed after my 9th grade year. So technically I’m not use to having a open campus at all.</p>
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<p>Did they trust you in middle school? Elementary school?</p>
<p>I cant even begin to imagine what open campus would be like!
In my school, during your “free block” you are assigned to a room [called your ASC]. You are not allowed to leave that room for any reason except to use the bathroom. No talking, assigned seats, must be working. If you’re not working, the “teacher” will give you busy work which means no sleeping. I would love to just be able to talk or go to the library even, never mind being able to leave the building! I would also like for the lunch to be longer than 15 minutes but I know that will NEVER happen -_- Oh and we need passes to go to the bathroom even if it is right across the hall.</p>
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<p>Graduation rate down 80% right there.</p>
<p>My school:</p>
<p>-Have up to 4 out-periods in which most kids roam the halls, can leave campus or anything they want
-Since that is the case, hall passes are not necessary (although we do have them) because if someone says where is your pass you can just say you have an off period
-Can go anywhere for lunch
-Can use library anytime you want
-Locker passes? If you need to go to your locker just get up and tell your teacher, lol
-In the gym lobby the vending machines are off, but in the auditorium lobby they are always on
-Being in the hallway w/out a pass = nothing really
-being late to class = do better next time, never heard of anyone getting a detention for that</p>
<p>and our schools graduation rate is really high… because all the dumb kids do the wing program which is pretty much do-whatever-you-want program…</p>
<p>you can be late, sit on desks, and there are 2 gym periods everyday and only 4 actual learning periods. they don’t care what you do they just want you to graduate</p>
<p>My town’s public high school locks upper floor bathrooms after class ends because of the numerous bomb threats that school experienced.</p>
<p>At my school, doors lock an hour after classes end. You can come and go as you please after school, as long as someone is there to unlock the doors for you.</p>
<p>My high school is technically a closed campus. You can’t just leave, you have to go to the main office and request an early dismissal; you can only do this if you have a car and completed the driver education course @ school. But pretty much otherwise, the campus is closed. All the doors leading into the building lock at 8 in the morning, so it’s pretty much impossible to get inside after that time unless you click this buzzer button in the front entrance of the school. Also, when you’re inside school, you can’t just linger in the hallways. You gotta always be somewhere, whether in a class or in a study hall.</p>
<p>Now that I think about it, most public high schools in my area are all open campus. Most of the private ones (mine) are closed. We do have an outdoor courtyard for seniors though.</p>
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<p>Of course not in elementary school because everyone is a little kid. But high school kids ages 14-18 are surely old enough and mature enough to execute a task as simple as going to a bathroom and returning to their class in a timely fashion without requiring a ball and chain on them.</p>