Closed Campus Schools? Really?

<p>My old school was closed campus we didn’t havve free periods though except seniors could get late arrival and early release but they couldn’t leave and come back. But I didnknow some people in track who after practice (which was in the morning) went home to take a shower. The coach never noticed. Now I go to exeter though so I guess it’s considered open campuskind of we can’t go past the new hampshire border oto main or mass achusetts. But we also can’t drive (if we’re a boarder) so it would make it difficult to get that far. We can go into town and stuff pretty much whenever we want before check in.</p>

<p>I never even knew open campuses existed. Now, I’m actually really jealous!</p>

<p>I’ve never had open campus. My last school even had cameras to make sure no one was leaving. When I did community college classes I felt weird just going on and off the campus whenever, haha.</p>

<p>My high school is closed campus. We are not allowed to leave the building for any reason - not even to the parking lot if we left something in our cars. There isn’t usually a police officer outside though, so it’s not like it’s difficult to sneak out during lunch.</p>

<p>Inside, it’s just as strict. You need to have a hallpass if you are in the hallways during class. Don’t have one? You’ll get pulled by the ear to the security office because every adult thinks you’re a delinquent skipping class.</p>

<p>Free periods are unheard of at my school. Unless you count TA or an easy class. The administrators laugh at the idea of giving us a study hall.</p>

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<p>Ok, but if all prior ages are closed campus I don’t see why a continuation of that policy would be so surprising. I don’t recall any quantum leap in maturity between age 13 and 14. Most schools, even with closed campuses, do seem to be more lax in their treatment of seniors and sometimes juniors.</p>

<p>My school’s a closed campus, but seniors can leave early if they’re done early.</p>

<p>We used to have frees, too, but this year they were all gotten rid of. Don’t know why.</p>

<p>My school’s…semi-open?</p>

<p>-Open lunch for seniors and juniors
-Many students (typically not the super-ambitious, though) have a free period so the halls are usually filled with people going to and from places
-You can usually listen to your iPod in the halls, but you can’t eat or be blatantly using phones
-You don’t need a pass to go to the library</p>

<p>So you can leave…but only during the lunch block, with ID</p>

<p>Luckily my school has a pretty open campus. If you’re a senior you can leave and go out to lunch, you cannot use your car if you have one though, you have to walk. If you have a free period, you can use the basketball courts if the gym is open. You can listen to music while going to classes, even though teachers obviously don’t allow it during class.</p>

<p>^reminds me of our teachers barking out “NO IPODS! NO HOODS! NO COFFEE!” in the hallways.</p>

<p>The last one made me really sad…</p>

<p>Compared to all of your schools mine is like vacation. Some kids don’t have lunch periods so you are allowed to eat whenever you want, pretty much everyone listens to there ipods (even during class, I only do this in 1 class because it helps me concentrate). The only bad thing is with phones. Once the bell rings if a teacher sees it, they take it away until the rest of the period. If it happens 3 times in one class, your guardian has to pick it up from the dean.</p>

<p>If a teacher sees an ipod/electronic device in any class, they take it and u have to pick it up at the office. The second time in ANY class, your parents have to go pick it up.</p>

<p>I really had no idea some high schools were open. My high school was completely locked. Walking through the hallway without a pass, even to step outside to get a drink at the water fountain, would get you in a lot of trouble with the office. You definitely couldn’t leave during the day, as being in the parking lot warranted you with an office referral. If you’re in lunch, you have to stay in the cafeteria - you need a pass to go to the bathroom or your locker. There are no study halls or free periods; that’s absolutely not allowed. Seniors can only take an afternoon waiver if they have a college class, even if they have all of the credits they need. I knew some schools were more lax, but I had no idea some schools just let you wander around.</p>

<p>EDIT: After reading more of this, I guess my school was really bad. No electronic devices of any kind from the first bell to the last bell, no matter what (of course we broke that rule). No beverages except water, but no drinking in class (I felt this was ridiculous). We only had 23 minute lunches (also ridiculous) so if you bought lunch, you were lucky to get out of line before lunch was over, much less take a trip to a fast food place. I can’t imagine being able to just get up and go to the bathroom. Or wander the hallways… no one at my school would ever sit in class!</p>

<p>We have open campus, we live in a college town. The college newspaper decided to make a fuss of us little annoying kids invading their campus doing lunch.</p>

<p>Yeah, people call my school the prison school because it’s a closed campus.</p>

<p>I remember one time I left a textbook in my car that I needed for my next class. I had to sneak into the parking lot just to get it -_- Luckily I didn’t get caught because I would have been in huge trouble if I was. If we were allowed in the parking lot, that really wouldn’t be a problem.</p>

<p>I’m extremely lucky.</p>

<p>While we can’t leave campus, my school is on a university campus. Seniors can go anywhere they want on campus. When we get “Senior Privileges” we can show up at any time and leave after classes. Underclassmen have to stay on the high school grounds (school, parking lot, track field).</p>

<p>We get free periods (usually two a day if you include lunch), a ton of days off (school ends June 4th for underclassmen), we can wander the halls, eat lunch whenever we have free, relax (aka nap) in the library, we have cycles (schedule repeats every six days), we cycle out (only have a class 5 days a cycle), and we don’t have to take state standardized tests. It’s the best.</p>

<p>For example, tomorrow I only have four classes in an eight period day. I’m supposed to have three frees tomorrow, but a teacher is gonna be out so I’ll have four. That’s counting computer science and engineering as classes (which are both jokes and extremely fun). Also, since I’m in NY, if the Yankee’s win the world series, we’ll probably get a day off for the parade.</p>

<p>23 minute lunches, lol. we have 52 minute lunches, from the time you leave your last class til you have to get back.</p>

<p>Closed campus, I can’t imagine an open campus either, and no one here complains. I mean people do just leave, but they’re not supposed to and are sometimes caught. One exception is that 18 year olds can sign themselves out of school, for X number of times per period (won’t apply to me though, my b-day is next June).</p>

<p>My school is fairly open:</p>

<p>Sophomore, juniors and seniors get open campus for lunch (45 min.) and break (15 min.). </p>

<p>We have this thing called “activity block”. If you don’t have a meeting, you don’t have to be there. They are typically Tuesday afternoons and Thursday mornings. Lots of people come in later or leave early, which is really nice.</p>

<p>Seniors can take “Senior Privilege” as a class,which is basically a free period. They have to have a permission slip signed at the beginning of the school year, then they can go wherever they like during that block (off campus, library, commons, etc.)</p>

<p>As for bathrooms/locker/water, each teacher has their own method. Some just let you leave or sign out, other request that you ask them, while the strict teachers require a hall pass. Overall, it’s pretty fair.</p>

<p>People are in the halls a lot. We just sit, talk, eat food, and listen to our iPods during break. The only cell phone policy is that you can’t use it in class. If it goes off, the school policy states the teacher will take it and keep it until the end of the day, plus detention (20 min). However, most teachers are pretty reasonable, and some even have their personal phones go off in class. It really isn’t too much of a problem at my school. </p>

<p>My school is in a very urban location, so it is pretty easy to get around and get great food. I can imagine that having an open campus wouldn’t be so great at a school in the country if you didn’t have a car.</p>

<p>Same thing here, except for seniors - who could go anywhere they want to :)</p>

<p>Old school was an open campus. We could go to lunch wherever we wanted, leave to go to the bathroom WITHOUT a pass (most teachers just let us go without asking), and many teachers I had were chill about cell phones and iPods after we finished our work.</p>

<p>This all sounds too good to be true, right? I must have gone to a horrible school. Nope. Ranked 34th in the nation.</p>

<p>The school I go to now is a closed campus and the administration doesn’t trust us with sh**.</p>