<p>Well I was talking with some friends at different high schools and it became apparent to me that my school offered a lot more freedom than many other schools. At some of their schools their were study hall periods, hall passes, closed campuses ect...</p>
<p>I consider myself to be lucky to have free periods where I can go anywhere, totally open campus, and no hall passes of any sort. Now of course this system makes it easier for some kids to cut. (which many do) However, I feel the school is putting a lot more trust and responsibility in its students with the way it does things.</p>
<p>Also lunch is a lot better when you can drive to eat anywhere you want in the 52 minute period. (even more possibilities if you have a free before or after lunch)</p>
<p>What kind of freedom or lack of freedom does the school of other user's here allow students?</p>
<p>My school gives open lunch to seniors, they used to give it to everyone until this one kid got killed in a car crash during lunch... Our school requires hall passes and study periods are allowed, but they aren't that great IMO :-/... </p>
<p>I'm fine with my school. I love the course selection, the teachers are easy going about that. They don't try to prevent you from taking courses that may be "too hard.'</p>
<p>My school allows for its students to take three college classes during the day every week, and then we go to our 3 highschool classes.........so its kinda like we get a 3 hour lunch period from the time homeroom ends to the time we have to go to class (if u don't go to class)........They give us A LOT of freedom, but I doubt they actually trust us..........but they do say hi whenever they see us at a taco bell or something ;)</p>
<p>aw.....you guys are so free.
we can't leave the building for Lunch......we can't hang around the hall during free periods, we either go to our counselor office and chill, lunch room, or library.</p>
<p>If we want to take AP classes, we have to have the teacher's recommendation as well as the assistant principle's recommendation. >_<. It's not like if we want to take the ap course, we can take it. =[</p>
<p>Well, you definitely need a teacher's rec/the prereqs to take the class, but generally if you're a pretty strong student, the teacher will recommend you with no problems. They don't go out of their way to make you miserable with recommendations. Even if they do, you can appeal it and they will let you thru, but take no responsibiliy if you fail the class :-p.</p>
<p>My school is also completely free. We can go off campus when we have free periods. There are no study halls in high school and you can drive when you are a junior and senior. As long as you are in class at the designated time, life is good.</p>
<p>freedom is seldom found at my school. haha.
after school begins, they lock the gates and two security guards stand at the entrance and exit. upperclassmen arent allowed to go to their cars during the day. we're locked in at lunch, and are restricted from entering the hallways or going towards the front of the school. hall passes (a rare treat) are required any time youre out of class. we arent allowed to have study hall or free periods. and finally, our uniform rules are gradually getting more and more ridiculous, but what can i say? its catholic. hahaha.</p>
<p>my school is exactly like ccyls excepts it's not catholic. (my school is public).</p>
<p>these are some of our rules. if we disobey them, immediate afterschool detentions:
shirt is always tucked in our skirt/pants, hair must always be tied (girls), no dying your hair, no nailpolish, no fancy hair clips - just bobby pins and a black hairtie, sleeves must always be down when wearing a jumper, no technology such as mp3 player cellphones, only one piercing - on the lowest part of the earlobe, no resting your head on your palm of your hand, no driving to and from school, etc..
and our newest rule, no fizzy drinks. They replaced our cokes with juice boxes in the vending machines! </p>
<p>oh yea i forgot, no hats, no cellphones and cd players or electronics. It really sux but hey, I break em. I bring them to school every single day. I know the deans take them away or tell you to put it away. But hey I take off my earphones right in front of them. and they jux give me the Wide eyes O_O.</p>
<p>My school's strict in the sense that we don't have free periods or study halls and lunch is a half an hour unless the teacher says otherwise. That means even if we had the ability to go off campus during the day it wouldn't do much good because there's no time. It's not that bad though, because without studyhalls and free periods and long lunches we get to start later and end earlier.
The teachers are trusting though, very relaxed in terms of being late for class or going to the bathroom. No hall passes or anything - those suck. Actually they tried a sign-in, sign-out system my sophomore year, but it didn't work out too well. No cellphones, electronics, mp3 players or hats of course (well, we have uniforms). </p>
<p>Does anyone's school have a rule that bans playing cards? We had a gambling problem over here - so no playing cards on campus. (not that anyone ever follows it)</p>
<p>My school is pretty strict: no food and drink in the classroom, no cell phone, and no gambling definitely.</p>
<p>Students basically have no rights to change classes, if the school asked you to attend a bad teacher's class instead of a good one's, you have to do so. The funny part is that no one express their anger, because this is a very Asian school, students were doctrined to obey teachers' orders. How sad!</p>
<p>My school is pretty lax, actually. Honors and AP courses can be taken as long as you didn't fail the a prerequisite course and cards can be played at anytime... no security.. I think they lock the gates though, but I do uh "leave" campus a lot during the day and haven't been stopped by security or a locked gate yet. Maybe because I look like a giant nerd and everyone trusts me..</p>
<p>For my freshmen and Sophomore year, I went to this really pretentious asian high school and they changed their schedule like crazy- sometimes just becaus they don't like the teacher or because a 0 period class is just too early. I remember a giant line in front of the counselor's office... I had to come back like three times to finally get a chance to alter my schedule @_@</p>
<p>My school has a police officer, but he doesn't really do anything. Our school locks the doors, and seniors can't drive out for lunch (not like there's anything around here). We have to stay in the cafeteria for lunch for the most part. We have study periods, but only seniors can wander the halls at random. They have privleges and stuff like that. But yeah, it's crazy. I mean, cows outnumber people out here...</p>
<p>i never pictured my school as being strict, but everyone on here seems to have super non-strict school. at my school, you cannot leave for lunch, you cannot even leave the building. we arent allowed to have cell phone out (although, most teachers dont care), no cards, no "outside" food or drink, no hats, a police man is always present, we cannot be in the halls without a pass or a stupid agenda book that they assign us. we dont get study hall, although most seniors manage to sneak out of class and hang out in the library (we have a cool librarian, she is old, but hip, haha). oh yeah, and they lock the bathrooms during lunch so that no one will smoke.</p>
<p>Our school is pretty lax. Seniors can leave the building during free periods/lunch, and since each period is 50 minutes you can actually get home and eat lunch and get back in time, so its cool.</p>