<p>My school is really weird I personally have two hour lunch but there are people with like a twenty minute lunch.</p>
<p>I remember being late to AP Euro one day. AP Euro is the only AP sophomores can take, so we’re usually the best 30 students in the school. The Vice Principal gives me hell for being late, i.e., walking in the halls without a pass. I was like, are you serious? There are girls dealing coke upstairs and you’re worried about me walking ten feet from the lower lecture hall? You must be joking.</p>
<p>My school supposedly has a completely closed campus, yet some parts aren’t monitored at all. So basically, if I leave lunch to go to my locker for a book I forgot for the next class, I get a detention (if this happens twice in one week, in-school suspension). Yet despite this punishment for keeping up with my academics, anyone can easily leave through the maintenance door and go smoke or whatever behind the garage… and they never get caught. </p>
<p>Teachers can seem to ignore that (literally, will be getting something from storage and walk past 20 kids smoking), yet I went to the bathroom during lunch without a pass, and got 3X 2 hour detentions because it was the second time. Did I mention I’m either 3rd or 4th in my class?</p>
<p>There’s quite a double standard, top students should be given more freedom, not less.</p>
<p>My old school had a closed campus. It didn’t really matter though, it was in the middle of a housing community. It would take you the whole lunch period just to go somewhere. My school was pretty relaxed though…except for in academics of course…
The teachers didn’t really care what you did outside of the classroom or how you dressed for that matter. In fact, I think the only time they ever handed out detentions(I didn’t even know we had detentions) was when you left campus.</p>
<p>My school is an open campus, but it’s still sort of strict nonetheless… everyone, including substitute teachers and custodians, takes it upon themselves to bark orders at students in the hallways… I go to a really crappy public school (rated unacceptable by the state - in fact, for the last several weeks all these official-looking people have infiltrated the school to supervise the teachers and students) and we still have to do pointless things like tucking in all shirts (even though that adds nothing to the learning environment). If a teacher sees you with a phone out during class, it gets taken up for three weeks, after which you can pick it up from the main office for 20 bucks - last year, our school gave out like 10 really big scholarships made possible with cell phone money. Also, for no rational reason, on certain days, we can’t even talk in the hallways in between classes. And there’s a whole section in our dress code about shoes - one day a guy in one of my classes got sent to the office for wearing Vans. If you’re a guy and have even the slightest hint of facial hair, you get sent to the office to shave with these old, rusty razors - not fun. And they give out detentions like candy - last year, I had two weeks of lunch detention for being absent (and I wasn’t absent one day last year. In fact, I got a perfect attendance award at the academic ceremony)</p>
<p>There are open campuses? Where? I’m insanely jealous as hell right now. I have a twent minute lunch where I can’t leave the cafeteria. Eight classes a day, fourty minutes each with four minute passing times between classes. No going in the hallway during class w/o a pass. </p>
<p>This is in St. Paul, MN by the way and as far as I know, this is how all the schools in MN operate. What states are there open campuses? I’m jealous I don’t live in one.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a particular state that holds them. I think it varies by school. My old’s school’s rival was open campus.</p>
<p>We have closed campus, but it’s not super strict like some of the schools mentioned. As long as we’re on campus, it doesn’t matter where we are, and our school’s K-12, so we have a pretty big campus. Although second semester seniors can get off-campus passes so they can leave during their free if they want.</p>
<p>Starting from yesterday we can’t go to the library anymore without a pass because a couple people cut class there… today I was told I had to go back and get one, so I was given a pass to go get a pass. 
aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgh </p>
<p>Our school doesn’t like its kids…</p>
<p>Closed campus! Never had open – our school is really strict.
Can’t go anywhere without a silly passbook / pass. Can’t go to the library printer without a pass. Can’t be in the halls. Only 3 minutes between periods - 3 tardies and automatic detention. Tardy to school - automatic detention - 6 referrals = ISS
They treat us like prisoners.</p>
<p>^ some prisoners can still vote though. :)</p>
<p>Haha, okay, maybe that was slightly exaggerated by saying we’re prisoners. But we’re definitely not “free” </p>
<p>:)</p>