Is this common among high schools in the United States? (Description)
Posted by: FoxianToday I had my first day of school in the United States and after today I've just been left wondering, is it common for schools in the United States to have half hour lunch breaks and not allow you to leave campus to buy food?
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Yes, this is very common. In fact, there are schools with barbed wire fences in order to keep the school children in there which is also common here.
My school encourages us to leave
I read that wrong at first. No, that is not common to my knowledge
My school was unusual, so I am sometimes not the right guy to ask, but I though most had open or off-campus
https://www.google.com/search?q=Schools+with+barbed+wire+fences&espv=2&biw=1222&bih=817&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMImfz6vdukxwIVBBc-Ch3WaQv4&dpr=0.9#imgrc=9UnAs2j12aOFrM%3A
https://www.google.com/search?q=Schools+with+barbed+wire+fences&espv=2&biw=1222&bih=817&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMImfz6vdukxwIVBBc-Ch3WaQv4&dpr=0.9#imgrc=scY5-yqM8ghRuM%3A
We had a lot of free time on most school days. Did a 6day rotation schedule. It allowed for a very flexible schedule, and plenty of time. I don't know why they would want to make lunch so short.
Look this is school is fenced in with barbed wire and even has airplanes too!
Why do you keep linking to prison Haroush
Ah, yes! A prison with airplanes.
My high school does not allow students to leave campus for lunch. We are confined to homeroom, and our break is approximately 25 minutes long.
School started??? My schools starts in September.
@Foxian By "school", do you mean High school or College? To answer your question for both, High school Yes. College, No.
@Haroush - I still am very curious what you are talking about. Post the link to the actual picture in question. All your links have been prisons.
Are you sure they're prisons or has your mind been diluted by the Illuminati??
Yeah hes looking up juvenile reform schools. Not the same.
Thanks common core.
Hey TBR, we voted on the same side of an issue. I think hell froze over.
@Teaparty1 - See it can happen.
@Haroush - You run a poll the other day regarding ad-hominem attacks, in it is you are called a hypocrite. This is yet again an example. I am interested in your claim, ask for some detail, and you attack. Can you see why it's hard to take you very seriously?
Hell froze over?? What does that look like?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Hell+froze+over&espv=2&biw=1223&bih=817&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIivG3lP-kxwIVRYI-Ch0sdwVF&dpr=0.9#imgrc=1DT2Fut-958_wM%3A
Let me give you some help on this. WHen there is an image you would like to share from a google image search. 1) Find the picture. 2) Right click on the image. 3) Select copy URL 4) Paste just that url. Like this.
Http://ficoforums.Myfico.Com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/14078i6EC56695D11CB6D7?V=mpbl-1
You really need to get off google man. Its rotting your brain.
Lol
;)
http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/14078i6EC56695D11CB6D7?v=mpbl-1 This one is better
Haroush it looks like this http://41.media.tumblr.com/e8afb23d7ac8a294aab449878d9619bf/tumblr_mepyp7wmZ11rhyv4go1_1280.jpg
It depends on where your school is. In New York, we can always leave campus and buy food. Lunch breaks also last a good hour or more.
Better yet doesn't DDO accept direct images in the messages? I thought i'd seen some posted in line with responses before. Maybe that was in debates only because they allow rich text?
I guess if that were the case there would have been a lot more meme spamming going on. ... Forget I said anything. Not allowing direct pics in the responses is a good thing!
@Haroush - So no followup on the fencing in students? No follow up on your ad hominem? No thanks for the pointer?
@FreedomBeforeEquality - The debates section is very loose with HTML. You can do a lot of things. I have played and can get some very nice effects. Forums are more restrictive, and polls the worse of them all.
Lmao @ Teaparty
No. Nope and nope. @ TBR ;D
Your just as ass.
Half an hour is good for me lol my school has a 10 minute 'snack break' o Wednesdays
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Yes, I'm 18 and going to college. My last 4 years have been 35 minutes of lunch with no off campus lunch. I always wanted off campus because I didn't like our schools food that much. I also lived in a small town that only had 3 or 4 places to go to eat. I lived in Wisconsin and the minimum amount of minutes a school could provide for lunch was 30 minutes.
For my school it applied only to the Freshman and Sophomores. The Juniors and Seniors were allowed to leave.
yeah same as dan
Absolutely ... you don't leave school. Technically they are liable for you until they let out or send you home in some official manner (a note, call to parent, teacher notified, something). They are usually pretty good about accountability while you are still a minor and all.
For freshmen and sophomores, yes this is the case. Our lunch is a full 45 minutes though.
I wish it wasn't like that..
My high school had an hour and we could leave, but had to have a note or a phone call from our parents. Or you could always leave illegally, not like anyone would stop you; if you were a good kid they'd just assume that you had permission and wouldn't even bother to check with the office.
No one is allowed to leave and we have 25 minute lunches
My high school only gave students 30 minutes to eat lunch (seniors on PASS, a program that rewarded good grades & behavior, got a full 47 minute period except tuesdays or assembly days), out of a 47 minute period (rest of time was homeroom). We either bought food from the cafeteria, brought something from home, or ate nothing. We weren't supposed to leave campus for lunch. The only time I was able to do this was if I came late or left part of the day for an appointment and brought food back with me. That technically wasn't 'allowed' but they never did anything about it
The 1/2 hour seems short, but open or off-campus is common.
Ive been in quite a few high schools an that sounds ridiculous. A half hour is too short, and you should be able to leave. If you need permission or to sign out, fine, but to not be allowed to leave at all??