<p>so when i was taking my tours, the tour guides kept telling me about lights out times and such. i know that for every school they differ, but they're all usually around 11 pm i think</p>
<p>my question is, are all-nighters allowed?
and is the internet turned off after lights out?</p>
<p>depends, here at hotchkiss, lights outs' at 11pm for freshman and sophomore, no lights out for juniors and seniors, it's not practical anyway...since it's pretty rare that i can finish all my work before 11.
for lowerclassmen, on nights that they have a lot of hw, they can ask for "late lights", meaning that they have no lights out, but that also means that they cant socialize after study hall.. since they are "supposed to have so much work that they cant go to bed"`</p>
<p>internet cuts off at 11 here for lowerclassmen</p>
<p>This rule differs between schools and grades. At Andover only the freshman have lights out at 11:00, although this is not always enforced. There is no lights out for the other grades, but lowers are supposed to be in their own rooms after 11:00. The internet is never shut off. They try and enforce good study habits so we don't have to pull all-nighters, but many kids will at least have very late nights once a month or so.</p>
<p>My school is very old-fashioned. The freshman have in-room at 10:15, sophmores at 1:30, juniors at 10:45, and seniors at 11:00.</p>
<p>Lights out at 10:30 for 9th and 10th, 11:00 for juniors, and no lights out for seniors.</p>
<p>There are no phone lines or internet lines in the dorm rooms, and there is no wireless. Facebook, myspace, connecting to external servers, and AIM only work from 3:00 to 7:00. At all times there is an internet filter.</p>
<p>God...the more I write about this, the more it makes me ANGRY...</p>
<p>However, the lights-out isn't really enforced past 10th grade, and I've stayed up until 3 (and actually 4:30 once, finishing my TASP essays) some nights.</p>
<p>ANGRY?</p>
<p>As a parent, I LOVE this!</p>
<p>The problem with the low-tech controls is that they are easily defeated by cell phones and laptop air cards. Sooner or later the school will have to craft rules that account for these differences so that the "playing field" is level for those who have those items --which could, I suppose, mean prohibiting them.</p>
<p>I once went to a communist-bloc country before the Berlin Wall came down and it occurred to me that the end of European communism was coming to an end when my office was able to fax portions of the Wall St. Journal to my room...without any filter. Once the technology bypassed the traditional censors and filters, it was game over. Your school's policies remind me of that incident...and while I don't think the school's walls will be torn down, they may have to adapt a little bit to recognize the proliferation of new technologies that they don't seem to account for at present.</p>
<p>"As a parent, I LOVE this!"</p>
<p>If that's what you send your S to BS for, i have nothing to say... Your S's supposed to learn to live on his own, manage his time and be mature... not be under survellence and control....that's how "prep schools" prepare kids for colleges... i really dont get the point of web censoring, first it just prevents kids from learning how to live their lives, second it's also stupid I can use a proxy to bypass any web censors</p>
<p>You might want to adjust your FACETIOUS meter a little or buy a new one. The comments that followed my remark -- which speak at length to the futility of such rules -- might also have provided you with a clue in light of your broken gauges. Still, I appreciated the lecture, which registered a 9 on my HUMOR meter...as it came from someone who had nothing to say. Next time I'll use smiley faces so you can keep up. :>)</p>
<p>lol sry i didnt read the entire thing..u know..i m kinda doing my econ essay while going on cc...lol...that might be one of the reasons why i have to stay up all night...</p>
<p>I wouldn't like that in a school--I find it a bit too limiting, and a bit too similar to European communism. :D It makes me a little nervous when prep schools feel the need to have that much control over the kids.</p>
<p>As a parent I loved this aspect of Westover. But it was the number one reason my daughter chose not to apply!</p>
<p>Yeah, I found out about this AFTER I decided to go there. It might have changed my decision.</p>
<p>You go to Westover?</p>
<p>Does it matter? o_o;;</p>
<p>But yes, I do. Cool school with a whole lot of rules. My parents adore every single rule the school enforces, lol.</p>
<p>I guess the good parts about the school outweigh the bad. I like it here a lot.</p>
<p>One of the key reasons my brother loves SPS is it seems to have the least rules. No lights out, nothing shut off.</p>