<p>amg never mind. There are like 6 in mine </p>
<p>^^Maine is more conservative than it used to be. Southern Maine is primarily liberal, but there are mostly conservatives in rural areas once you get north of Waterville</p>
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<p>waittttttt, i’m so confused!</p>
<p>My hometown has 6500 people, but our high school also has students from nearby towns of 2000, 1500, 300, and 100, which may be smaller than out of town places that send kids to Virginia high schools (though 2000 is pretty large)</p>
<p>I don’t know how splonk’s high school is so huge</p>
<p>Mapleleafs–I couldn’t tell whether you were surprised that a school had more than 1,200 students, or that 1,200 students could eat lunch at the same time.</p>
<p>My high school had 1,600 students and one lunch period. It was in California, so we spent a lot of days sitting on the lawn to eat. If it was raining, we’d sit on the floor in the classroom halls. I think the cafeteria held only about 300-400 students at most.</p>
<p>I assume that the (many) high schools with 4000 students (or close to it) have more than one lunch period–but I have no idea.</p>
<p>lol I’m surprised at both :O</p>
<p>^A high school with 4000 students?! :O</p>
<p>“xrCalico, why are you moving? and you’re a senior, correct? after graduation i hope?”</p>
<p>Yep, I’m a senior, and hopefully I’ll get to officially graduate from high school:p Speaking of fabulous cities, I used to get mailing from this college in Iowa that says “oh we’re in the middle of this bustling city…” and then I checked their viewbook, and in every picture the buildings were like two stories high:D</p>
<p>but really, I don’t really like cities and don’t mind living in the middle of nowhere at all. Around the area where I live right now every summer we see at least one black bear strolling around in our yard or rummaging the garbage can… it’s just that I’ve never been to a place with lot of corn fields or cows before!</p>
<p>but i mean, are you moving because your parents are moving? or did you get a summer job somewhere else?</p>
<p>I’m moving because my parents are moving. Trust me, I would never have thought of getting a job myself half way across the country.</p>
<p>Lol…we just kind of all sit on whatever empty piece of floor there is…if it’s raining, we all crowd under ~2000ft^2 of roof. Or in the halls or classrooms…if yard duty doesn’t kick us out. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>We have just over 2000 students and three lunch periods. One for 7th and 8th graders, one for freshmen and sophs, and one for seniors and juniors. I’ve eaten in the cafeteria a few times, but I usually eat outside, unless the weather’s bad and they close the Commons/outside, in which case I eat in the Arcade, which is sort of like a hallway. Seniors used to be allowed to eat on the front steps, and I’ve heard they might reopen the area this year, but that’ll only happen in the spring, since they’ve totally closed the outside for this entire winter.</p>
<p>^the 7th and 8th graders attend classes in the same building as high school-ers?</p>
<p>Wow, 4,000 is a lot.</p>
<p>My school has 1,800-ish students and (normally) four lunch periods, split up pretty evenly.
Right now, though, we have two lunch periods split by freshmen/juniors and sophomores/seniors. Thankfully not everyone goes to lunch because 900 people in there wouldn’t be fun. Lines are already really bad when we have a good lunch. We had a special occasion lunch one day and it took some people the whole period to get food.</p>
<p>They won’t let us take real lunch out of the dining hall (which I want to say is about the size of the main part of our gym, but it probably isn’t), but just this quarter they’re letting people take sandwiches only. Not like people don’t usually just take sandwiches anyway. =P</p>
<p>I think everyone would ignore assigned seats. Dress code is already enforced too much. Assigned seats would cause a rebellion. …Not like there’s room for that anyway.
Plus it’s so middle school. hah</p>
<p>^^Yeah. Because some classes, like music contain people from other grade. And because some 8th graders take Algebra II with the 9th graders. And some 9th graders, who come to the school in 8th grade, are still in Latin II with the 8th graders. We’re all just one big happy family.
Honestly, the separation between the classes is more like 7th, 8th, and 9th are together since they don’t take APs while 10th-12th are together since they do.</p>
<p>^Haha, yeah at my school too a lot of eighth graders take high school classes, but the school here makes the teachers travel instead of students, which is great because our school is already way too overcrowded as it is.</p>
<p>We can’t take APs until senior year. I love how everyone’s high school’s different:)</p>
<p>I think that high schools with 4,000 or so students are not that uncommon. I personally know of several in the Chicago area and in the S.F. Bay Area. But, I’m sure they have them in other parts of the country, too–especially in urban areas.</p>
<p>I think there are pros and cons. With 4,000 students, it would be easy to “get lost in the crowd.” Some high schools are taking steps to help this, such as splitting into several “schools” based on varied interests (but on the same campus).</p>
<p>Also, at a 4,000 person school, it’s going to be harder to get to be editor of the newspaper etc.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the 4,000 student schools I’ve heard of have an amazing variety of courses, languages, etc. that aren’t possible at a smaller school.</p>
<p>That said, I thought my 1,600 student high school was just about right–big enough to offer lots of options, not so big that you got “lost in the crowd.”</p>
<p>Lol, mixed lunch… my school has around 3,000 kids and I feel the opposite of ‘lost in the crowd.’ We don’t have a cafeteria either, and sit outside in the quad which has maybe 10 tables. Many people just stand, sit on the stairs (huge) or in the hallways. When it rains, they open up the MPR where people stand to eat lunch. Oh, and it’s split up into two lunch periods although the first probably has 1700 people while the second has 1300. Others, like myself, spend lunch in teachers’ classrooms. 
Great shelter.</p>
<p>I don’t have to go to lunch really because I have the last lunch and I don’t have class after lunch, but I usually go because the lunch lady I pay at is my friend’s mom and hooks me up.</p>
<p>I go to a school of ~1000 kids, there are three 30 minute lunch shifts that the majority of the students are split between, half day seniors aren’t required to stay for lunch and one group of students has a lunch to themselves.
On principle, I’m not against mixed lunches; there are plenty of relationships I wouldn’t have forged without a nudge. However, I don’t agree with administrators telling kids how to spend their only free time during the day.</p>
<p>We did it on Wednesday’s because we had a presentation on bullying and respecting peers and all that kind of stuff on a Wednesday and the lady who gave the speech suggested to the administration that we try sitting with others that day (which was consequently a Wednesday) and once a week after that…</p>
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<p>Your school… has an arcade… why?</p>