<p>ew yeah they recently installed ID card scanners into mys chool too</p>
<p>gosh,,,those IDs sound really bothersome. I bet if they impltmented an ID system at my school the parents would start complaining (since they are even complaining now). Something new that the admn. came up with today was to keep all of the seniors in the cafeteria. We have double lunch privilege and we can leave school for 5th bell and lunch and usually we come back 55-10 minutes before 6th bell and go to our lockers or sit in the rotunda...now they are herding us into the cafeteria where we just stand until the bell rings.</p>
<p>They come up with something new everyday. I think a senior prank this year is for all seniors to get up during class and roam the hallways WITHOUT A HALL PASS (gasp!)</p>
<p>all of you have preaty strange schools the only thing at my school is that you id cards HAVE to be visible ALL TIMES and we also have the hall pass thing too</p>
<p>At my school, we have hall passes too. For parking, only seniors with "significant" after-school activities (as judged by the administration) get permits. If a senior with a parking permit is late to school 3 times (even with a valid reason), the parking permit is taken away. Our school does not have any free periods or study halls. Lunches are 25 minutes long, and all students must eat inside the cafeteria. Also, our halls are so crowded that backpacks have been banned.</p>
<p>wow, u guys have realllllllllly tough administration compared to what we have...whenever we have to leave the classroom for anything, we just tell the teacher and go. there's no real parking issues either - maybe because most of the people live in the area and don't drive. we do have ID cards, but those are mainly for taking out books, buying lunch, etc. They are more like credit cards rather than ID cards really... </p>
<p>and btw saturnine - banning backpacks! geez...that's just pointless and pathetic...:o...no offense to ur school - just to the administration - jk:)</p>
<p>We're supposed to have hall passes, but if you're someone who doesn't make trouble, no one checks. </p>
<p>They banned backpacks for us during Regents weeks. It's just inconvenient.</p>
<p>We have planners books so kids won't forget to do their homework. In it there is a sheet that has around 70 passes for the quarter. You need them to go to the library from Study Hall, go to the bathroom, your locker, the office, and depending on the teacher the water fountain.</p>
<p>Our principal has been trying to force people to buy parking decals for the last 3 years and it hasn't worked. Our administration gets no respect and the principal was actually assaulted with a milk carton and everyone thinks the vp is a pervert but we can't find proof. The teachers at my school actually walk all over the principal and circumvent the administration and go directly to the superintendent to get things done. We have uniforms and no actually adheres to the policy and so most of the school ended up in ISS last year and the first part of this year and then the principal realized that no one cared about missing an entire day of class to sleep in ISS.
We have those stupid planners and we are supposed to use them for hall passes but none of the teachers actually use them now. Last year our hall passes were orange hunting vests it was hilarious.</p>
<p>we dont use hall passes...we just leave if we need to (bathroom, water)...just make sure the name is on the Roll</p>
<p>We have hall passes, but unless you happen to chance upon our Rent-a-Cop nobody cares if you aren't carrying one.</p>
<p>No one cares about our hall passes, but the math department gives 10 minute detentions, or a point off your final grade ofr being even a few seconds tardy, where as no other teachers really care. It's kind of annoying, you sound petty to complain about 10 minutes, but it makes you miss the bus. Fortunately, I walk home anyway.</p>
<p>Our administration has banned all food and drink everywhere but the cafeteria, including water (and this includes teachers). </p>
<p>The gym has signs that say "NO FOOD OR DRINK IN GYM" posted all around it, yet I don't think I've ever seen a gym teacher without a pretzel or something. </p>
<p>For some reason, we're also not allowed to wear clothing with hoods. They've never even tried to justify this one.</p>
<p>lol...only really crazy thing we have to do is tuck in our shirts...which no one really does even though they hound us in the hallways about it...and we have to use ID cards to scan in if we're late for school or we won't be let in the classroom...but you can skip school right in front of the security guards because we have SO MANY doors and no windows at all...all we have to do is say we're going outside to the modular classes and hope there are no guards roaming the campus on the golf carts...the bus stop is right in front of our school so we can just hop on the bus to the mall or to the train station...and we HAVE to purchase a parking space and a decal or the car gets booted...</p>
<p>Oh my gosh! IDs?! Hall passes?! What monsters! Try to think of it from the administration's point of view. They have (I'll use my school as an example) over 2,000 kids to look after. They are responsible if anyone comes on campus and harms a student or if any student leaves campus and is harmed. They are responsible for making sure students don't skip class. All the measures they have implemented aren't for you, they are for the other students. My school has IDs. Your ID must be visible at all times and if it isn't or you don't have it you get 3 hours detention. Same with hall passes. If you are late to class you go to the tardy room.
It doesn't inconvenience me any. I just hang my ID around my neck and grab the pass whenever I leave class. I don't buy the "IDs are really a pain" thing because I went to a private school for three years where there were no IDs, no hall passes, no parking permits needed. You could leave campus, etc. Now I go to a public school like the ones in this thread and there isn't much, if any, of an inconvenience. I think you need to realize these measures are being taken for your protection and to avoid lawsuits from your parents.</p>
<p>I should have probably split that into a few paragraphs, but oh well.</p>