Is your school strict?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Is your high school very strict in any way? Like you can't go in the building before 8 or you have to wear a uniform, etc?</p>

<p>My high school is really relaxed. We don't have bells, so teachers let us out whenever they want to.. which makes it very difficult to be 'late' to your next class. During lunch, we're allowed to go anywhere on campus... we don't have to tell anyone where. During study halls, if you're a second semester sophomore or a junior then you can go wherever you want. You can be on campus from like 6 AM to like 7 PM. You can go into classrooms at any time (unless there is a class in session), including when teachers aren't there. You can bring friends from other schools to come sit with you during class or lunch. There isn't really a minimum attendance policy.</p>

<p>The one thing that my school is strict on is dress code. Guys must wear collared shirts. There are no flip-flops. No torn jeans. No screen-printed graphics. No T-shirts. Natural hair color. It is quite annoying.</p>

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<p>My school is pretty liberal.</p>

<p>-No dress code at all. Girls can almost be naked. All kinds of crazy colored hair and wild hairstyles, clothing. It gets really fun on halloween when people wear all kinds of crazy things.</p>

<p>-Off-school lunch means that kids can walk in and out of school at any time (and there are so many doors, so there is a nonstop flow of kids in and out of the building). Also no one watches the doors, so kids will bring their friends from other schools to class with them. It’s pretty nice because the school is only a few blocks from the Loop, so if you have a car you can go to some pretty nice places to eat.</p>

<p>-Teachers are really lax. Kids eat and text openly in class and walk around the halls on the phone. In my spanish class last year, a kid brought in a huge fajita and the teacher told him that as long as he didn’t drop anything, he could eat it in class. He even answered a question with a mouthful of food. </p>

<p>-Teachers are really friendly, so a lot of times kids will go to a class that they aren’t even enrolled in just to hang with their friends or a certain teacher.</p>

<p>-Some teachers swear more than the kids, so they don’t really do much if kids do it as well (unless it’s tasteless).</p>

<p>I really like it because you can pretty much be anywhere you please and do whatever you like. Not only is the coursework college prep, but the environment is too. No one is forcing you to go to class, so each student has the option of missing or attending class.</p>

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<p>My school is the complete opposite of both of yours.</p>

<p>School starts at 8:00, if your 1 second late, detention.
Chew gum, detention.
Share lockers, in school suspension + detention.
Lunch - you have 30 minutes, can’t leave the cafeteria.
Uniforms. UGH.
No hanging out in the park near our school.
Skip class - **** load of detention.
Teachers/TAs can give out detentions in a 3 block radius around our school.</p>

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<p>My school is strict.</p>

<p>-Dress code. Polos, dress pants, and dress shoes in the summer, and spring. In the fall and winter, oxfords, dress pants, and dress shoes. For girls, only the top button can be unbuttoned. Plus, no shorts.</p>

<p>-No phone. No Ipod. No gum. No eating in class.</p>

<p>-If you have your phone out while in class, the phone will be taken away from you until the end of the day. Second time caught, your parents have to pick up your phone. Third, detention and parent pick up. Same with Ipod.</p>

<p>-For chewing gum in class, there are some teachers who give you detention for it, but many others just yell at you.</p>

<p>-If you are late to class, even if you have a pass, you’re going to get a detention. </p>

<p>-Most teachers give you a zero if you do not have the assignment on the day it is due. If you have the assignment in your locker, or left it in another classroom, they’ll still give you a zero.</p>

<p>-You can’t ever go outside, unless you are with a teacher.</p>

<p>-No getting out of your seat, until the bell rings.</p>

<p>-No jamming lockers. Open your locker normally, everytime you need to go to it, or no locker for the marking period.</p>

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<p>My school is incredibly lax. We’re all hippy liberals, haha.</p>

<p>-No dress code.
-No such thing as a “hall pass”; one just leaves the classroom.
-Seniors have off-campus privileges, meaning they can leave and come back if they want to.
-Swearing will not get you in trouble. A teacher might say, “Language, please,” but nothing will happen past that.
-One can eat/chew gum in class.
-You can go wherever you please on campus, whenever you like.</p>

<p>Really, it’s the whole environment. Teachers and faculty members do guide us, but they almost treat us like peers, which not only garners mutual respect from students for the administration, but also facilitates open (and helpful) dialogue between the student body and the school.</p>

<p>I like my school :)</p>

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<p>My school is pretty relax too. We do have a dress code though because I go to a private school, so shirt and ties unfortunately. But, there’s no hall passes or anything. No bells, so teachers let us out really early sometimes when we are done with the material or have a test. We don’t have study hall at all, so we can go out to eat at Subway or 7/11 (which is walking distance, or we can drive if we are a senior). Kids can go back to their dorms during school hours and get some sleep or just relax and watch TV. You can chew gum and eat food in certain classes.</p>

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<p>My elementary school was really relaxed. It was Montessori, so there aren’t really any rules in the first place, and a lot of our teachers were hippies. One was even named Rein Forrest. Seriously.</p>

<p>HS: Administrators are rather strict, but most teachers aren’t. It’s really personality based, and students usually get which way the teacher is and follow along.
My very prim Art Hist teacher gives a DT if you’re late 3 times, in a very orderly fashion. Not vindictive at all. No one talks excessively or texts simply because it’s obvious she wouldn’t stand for it.
However, a lot of the other History teachers call her the “Ice Queen” because they are much looser. They curse in class. if you text, as long as you’re discreet, they don’t really care. They spend half of time telling stories. A lot of have former students who will stop in.
The laxest teacher I had didn’t care if students left sans hall pass and if some of them left without asking at all, she didn’t mind. She had a refrigerator and microwave in the back of the room (it was a chem lab a long time ago, so it’s big), so if people want to put food away in the morning and heat and eat in class she doesn’t care. The class just basically didn’t make sense. We got a lot of work done but it was the most surreal thing I’ve ever experienced.</p>

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<p>Teachers are really lax at my school. Like, if your cell phone rings by accident… they’re supposed to turn it in, but they just let you turn it off and put it in your pocket.</p>

<p>Kids can go to other classes that they aren’t enrolled in at my school. Happened all year long in my History and English classes this year.</p>

<p>Teachers swear a lot and nothing will happen if you swear. </p>

<p>Kids can go into other kid’s lockers. We don’t have locks.</p>

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<p>My school is relaxed, there’s pretty much no dress code (apparently, you just have to wear shoes) but nobody like walks around wearing nothing.</p>

<p>Obviously, if you do something stupid you’ll get in trouble, but their aren’t any insane rules.</p>

<p>(they tried to get us to use like hall passes this year, it didn’t turn out too well.)</p>

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<p>My school isn’t too strict but it didn’t matter to me anyways since I did a ton of the tech work (Not to mention I was mentored by the previous tech guru and was mentoring the next two) so no one ever said a word to me. They either assumed I was doing something far more important than sitting in study hall or knew me well enough to know that I should be left alone.</p>

<p>I also learned a lot of neat tricks, like if you’re holding a camera you can walk outside whenever you want.</p>

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<p>Man, my school is so strict. We can not even have drugs on campus or we get expelled. Damn it!</p>