perumbula
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Post by perumbula on Apr 19, 2016 13:26:30 GMT
My kids have an open campus high school. they stay on campus most of the time. On Fridays they have extra long lunches so if they are going to go off campus it will be then. we have four fast food places and a convenience store within walking distance from the high school. If you are driving down the main road during lunch, you're going to have to stop for high school students crossing the street. I'd say at least 25% of the students leave campus each day (rotating. Not always the exact same group.)
I went to two universities over twenty years ago that took roll. At the first one I figured it was because it was a small religious school that had very strict behavior rules. I have no idea what the much larger state school was doing taking roll. I thought it was dumb then.
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Post by threecs on Apr 19, 2016 13:30:38 GMT
No one can leave at my daughter's high school. The lunch period isn't long ... maybe 25 minutes tops.
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Post by ferblover on Apr 19, 2016 13:32:00 GMT
Kids can leave at any hour of the day here. That means every hour of the school day they are hanging out at the gas station or Einsteins. When I picked up bagels yesterday at 9:45 they had taken over the Einsteins, bringing in drinks from the gas station,lol! I know a neighboring school district works together with the neighboring business to make sure the kids are being respectful at the food places and grocery store.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 13:38:56 GMT
Here, your grades determine if you are permitted to leave. I guess if you are a "C" student, you might to something crazy at lunch? ?
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Post by fredfreddy on Apr 19, 2016 14:17:58 GMT
No but most do anyway. There are 2000 students and two strips malls right by the HS. Anyone who comes back can get in trouble and made to throw their food away, but most don't get caught.
And no I don't care if my son leaves, but I've told him to face the concequences if it happens.
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Post by lynnek on Apr 19, 2016 16:32:34 GMT
My son's school is almost 3,000 kids and they have one 35 minute lunch period for the whole school. So I think they allow kids to go off campus just so it works. In the poll I said all kids can leave, but that is not quite true. Freshman can only leave second semester if they have a 2.0 or better. But after that it is open campus regardless of grades. There are several restaurants in walking distance so even kids without cars or licenses go off campus.
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Post by milocat on Apr 19, 2016 17:07:09 GMT
Anyone can leave here. In my town we have a K-8 school the next town over has a K-12 school. Anyone can go home for lunch as long as it's prearranged. If it was the younger kids they would have to be picked up at lunch since they have to be picked up after school. There are only a couple older kids that will walk home for lunch. At the K-12 school the 7-9 has to have permission from parents if it's just a once in a while thing. The 10-12 can just sign out and do whatever they want. Both are very small towns with no fast food places or malls to hang out at. The bigger town has small convenience store that you could walk to from the school and a local hamburger place or the grocery store. So not many reasons to leave
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Apr 19, 2016 18:11:58 GMT
We used to have open campuses in our district. Until my sophomore year (1993) someone came on to campus and shot a student. After that gates went up and campuses closed.
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Post by eastcoastpea on Apr 19, 2016 19:02:17 GMT
It's not allowed here. Lunch is 25 minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2016 19:51:59 GMT
Not allowed here, but it's a good 10 minute drive to find anything. Only seniors are allowed to drive (there's very limited parking.) My HS is the late 70s didn't allow us to leave. I never thought of it as a problem. The school day is the school day. Go anywhere you want after school. DS spent his lunch and studies practicing in the music rooms. He'd gobble down a sandwich on his way to class.
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Post by paigepea on Apr 19, 2016 20:11:19 GMT
My girls are still in elementary school but dd is moving to a k-12 school next year and the high schoolers can leave for lunch. But, the kids stay for lunch because the cafeteria is huge and all food is included as part of tuition. The school does it's best to make the 1 hr lunch a social time. No phones are allowed during lunch time (the girls have to talk to each other!) and there are many lunch time sports and other activities to participate in. This all keeps the kids in the school.
Paige.
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Post by refugeepea on Apr 19, 2016 20:17:49 GMT
Yes, it wasn't until they remodeled the school that they could accommodate every high school student in the cafeteria. Even with staggered lunch times. Making it an open campus was necessary. The school covers an enormous area. A lot of kids drive because a bus drive is close to an hour one way for some students. There is plenty of parking for that reason. There are a couple of places withing walking distance and quite a few less than a mile away.
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Post by snappinsami on Apr 19, 2016 21:08:00 GMT
At DD's school (she's a sophomore), only juniors and seniors are allowed to leave for lunch, but there's nobody checking IDs, so I'm pretty sure that underclassmen wander off sometimes too. I know a few times last year, DD walked home during lunch to pick up something she'd forgotten, etc. I told her if she got caught, it was on her.
They have a 35 minute period for lunch and then 5 minutes of passing time to get to their next class. Not a lot of time. Being in southern California, there's no cafeteria at all. There's an area where students can buy lunch (I think it's mostly pizza every day, but beverages and snack stuff too), and another cart inside with coffee drinks and pastries. Students eat wherever they want to on campus. There are some tables outside, grassy areas or they can go into the main building and eat in the hallways. Even after all these years out here, that still seems weird to me.
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Post by amom23 on Apr 19, 2016 21:14:12 GMT
My kids can leave school. but aren't allowed to drive. We live in a small town and honestly the kids really don't have a lot of time to walk a few blocks to the nearest anything to grab something to eat.
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Post by artbabe on Apr 19, 2016 21:20:14 GMT
We've had a couple of kids around here killed in car accidents on their lunch. So that stopped open lunch for some school districts.
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Post by compwalla on Apr 19, 2016 21:23:00 GMT
My son's school is wicked small. He is one of only three seniors this year and only seniors are allowed off campus for lunch. Sometimes they order in, sometimes he goes out, and sometimes he comes home for lunch since the school is really close. He drives himself to and from school and he gets set amount of allowance each week plus whatever he makes at his job. So if he doesn't pack a lunch (which is what he had to do before he could leave campus for lunch) or come home, he is on the hook for paying for lunch. We're not financing eating lunch out every day.
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Post by kate on Apr 19, 2016 23:20:05 GMT
Grades 10-12 can leave the building if the parent signs a paper. There are a zillion places to go nearby the school. My kid prefers to save the $ (lunch is included in the tuition) and never leaves the building. LOL
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Post by scrapmaven on Apr 20, 2016 0:12:10 GMT
We have a closed campus and I prefer it that way.
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Post by underwatermama on Apr 20, 2016 0:20:03 GMT
10-12 can leave if their parents have signed a permission slip allowing it. And they can only walk, not drive. Plus, there's not much choice...upscale grocery store, taco truck, or Starbucks.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Apr 20, 2016 1:27:20 GMT
DD's high school only had about 30 min. lunches and they could not leave campus. However, there is a shopping center directly across the street. The locally owned hamburger place takes phone orders and walks them across the school to the side gate. I also had a friend who lived a couple of blocks from the school and would take her son lunch most days. I gave DD money and said if you fix your lunch to take you can pocket the money. Lazy child that she was, she usually opted to just buy something at school.
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Post by travelsoul on Apr 20, 2016 4:42:52 GMT
We've had a couple of kids around here killed in car accidents on their lunch. So that stopped open lunch for some school districts. That's what happened at my school. We had an open campus once you turned 16 and your parents signed a permission slip. During my junior year (1992), a boy who was our star quarterback and class president, was killed in a car crash during lunch. It's been a closed campus for everyone ever since.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Apr 20, 2016 10:28:31 GMT
No one can leave the property for lunch.
But the property includes a huge lawn that leads right to the sidewalk. Kids call for delivery of several local places and have lunch delivered! LOL.
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Post by Really Red on Apr 20, 2016 16:59:42 GMT
No at the public school because of liability issues - also, the kids RACE out of school and race back so there were a lot of accidents.
At my son's private HS, the answer is also no, but you do not have to eat at the cafeteria. You can go back to your dorm room or anywhere on campus.
At my HS (many a moon ago), we could leave campus for our 1 hour lunch. I cannot tell you how many times I just didn't come back. I do not tell my kids that!
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Post by LeaP on Apr 20, 2016 17:02:54 GMT
In Canada both kids could leave school. Here in Los Angeles the schools are a bit reminiscent of a prison with high fences and so on.
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