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Anecdotally, I've heard of that more at suburban schools where you pretty much have to access and leave the campus via car. At my high school in Chicago (2003-2
by nkrisc 6y ago
Anecdotally, I've heard of that more at suburban schools where you pretty much have to access and leave the campus via car. At my high school in Chicago (2003-2007, ~2,000 students) we were free to leave the campus at any time and often spent lunch at a nearby hot dog stand or sitting in the park and hanging out. The only restriction was that you had to re-enter through specific entries so they could check school IDs. I think it's because the school is in the middle of the city and very pedestrian friendly. One kid I knew even lived across the street from the school and would go home to make himself some lunch. I know from friends and family that suburban high schools in the Chicagoland area were more strict with their off-campus policies as there wasn't any pedestrian access to the schools. I just think suburban schools don't want traffic jams in the parking lot during every lunch period.
- djur 6y agoYes, same here at a high school in a medium-sized city at around the same time. Although there wasn't any restriction on where you could return, either, but I think that's more of a smaller vs. bigger city thing. I do remember that some kids got their privilege to leave campus rescinded because they got caught extremely, obviously high after going to do bong rips at someone's house near the school. In elementary and middle school, we weren't technically supposed to leave the schoolyard but the monitoring was lax enough that older kids frequently got away with it.
- selectodude 6y agoyou a whitney younger?
- hombre_fatal 6y agoI meant to say "we weren't allowed to leave the building" rather than "campus". Though I don't think a parking lot traffic jam is a sufficient reason either. There are already repercussions for arriving to school late which is what prevents the morning traffic jam from being a problem. Someone shouldn't be allowed to leave at all just because they would be late if they don't come back in time to park. I don't even understand how that could sound convincing to you. That's just the type of thinking that gives us zero tolerance policies.
- Izkata 6y agoYeah, I went to highschool in a suburb where the walk home was around an hour (which I know because it was tradition to do so after finals), so you pretty much had to drive or take the bus. Grades 9 and 10 weren't allowed outside at all, grades 11 and 12 were allowed out during lunch (but as far as I remember weren't allowed off of school grounds).