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julilly:
I'm not American but it's fairly comparable...
When does the day start? My school went from 7:50 until 2:10.
What classes are there? I took music, social studies, history, english, french, art, law, computer science, gym, science, math, etc. We had to have a math, english, and science credit in every year of HS but the rest of the classes you took whatever you want.
in what order do they fall? It depends on the person. During grades 11 and 12 I even had free periods through the day.
Is each day of the week the same? My school did A day and B day so you alternated classes every day.
If not, what does each day look like? I took four classes one day and four classes the other.
Are their different lunch periods? We all ate lunch at the same time, but I did go to a school when I lived overseas that we ate lunch at different times. But it was because the school was Kindergarten - 12. At the school I graduated from it was 9-12 so we all ate at 12:10. And there was no cafeteria so we had to brown bag our lunch and eat in our homeroom classroom.
If yes, do you have the same one each day? Yes.
How long is lunch? Lunch was 50 minutes. You had to spend 10 minutes eating then could spend the other 40 outside.
When does school let out? 2:10pm.
Do you have homework each and every day? It depended on the teacher, but usually yes.
How long an average does homework take you? Depends on what grade you're in. When I was in grade 9 I'd have maybe 30-45 minutes, but by grade 12 I'd have a few hours worth.
Are their any areas that are specially for seniors only like how you see on tv? Not in my school, but everyone kind of had their own areas where they hung out with people in their own class.
If so could an under class man get in trouble for being in that spot or area?
If yes, what would happen?
What happens in detention? We had to do our homework silently in detention and if you didn't have any you'd read.
Is it a teacher who runs it? Yes.
Is it the same teacher each time? No. The teachers were on a rotation.
RokofAges75:
Haha, how did I forgot to mention gym? I must have blocked it out! Yeah, we also had to take P.E., unless you were in a sport or marching band. P.E. sucked the big one. They let us play sports/games (soccer, softball, kickball, volleyball, bandminton, pickleball, archery) Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which was okay, but Tuesdays and Thursdays were "fitness days," and we had to either run around the track (if the weather was nice), run back and forth across the gym (if it wasn't), or do aerobics videos in the weight room (if the teachers wanted to change it up). My friends and I started a P.E. club called HOC, which stood for Herd of Cows, because that's what our gym class looked like plodding in circles around the track in our matching gym suits.
yorkielover88:
heard of cows! LOL! :D :D :D :D
Purpura Lipstick:
Julie and Julilly pretty much stated it all but I thought I'd throw some other stuff out there just to let you know how different the school systems are.
My school was huge compared to the other two that answered. My graduating class had around 700 students who graduated.
I had block scheduling (rotated schedules) One day I didn't start until after lunch, the other day I had my lunch earlier in the day. Our entire school did not have the same lunch time, it rotated as much as our classes. Usually, after getting your schedules, you got with your friends to see if you shared any classes and if you happened to get lunch at the same time. Like I said, one year I didn't even start school until after lunch, another year I had a free period after lunch.
I only had to take P.E. for one 4 hour credit for all 4 years, so I took P.E. in 9th grade and never had to do it again. Math and Science we only had to fulfill a certain amount of credit hours as well so if you worked it right you didn't have to take math or science jr or sr years.
I believe our lunches were around 50 min. or so as well (could have been longer because of the block scheduling if you had a free period before or after lunch). Every other day I would leave campus for lunch, though I don't remember ever eating in the cafeteria. Our school started as early as 7 and let out as early as 2. It depended on your schedule, we were overcrowded so they tried to get the juniors and seniors in earlier so they could get out earlier since many had jobs. freshman and sophmores usually started around 9 and could go as late as 4.
I also had a teacher's aide class. Senior year of high school I was the student aide in a class for remidial science and I did get credits for the class. I even taught at Outdoor lab for high school credit, it was three days that we went to the mountains and had/taught school for the 6th graders. I taught Pioneer history one year, and did a drama class both years.
The only place we had for Jr. and Sr. only was the parking lot. You were a lucky junior to park there and all seniors could, well seniors who paid for a parking permit. Like Julilly said, most groups of friends have their own little areas they tend to gather with their friends. I had friends in all groups so I pretty much hung wherever but I do know if certain groups didn't like you and you wandered into their "spot" there could be issues. Usually just harsh words thrown back and forth.
I am not sure if my school had detention. I never had it. I do know that the vice principal dealt with the student's that needed discipline. You usually went there if you got in trouble. I'm sure there was something done after that but, I never visited.
There are alternative high schools though too, which I know a little about because my brother finished off his high school at one. If you want to know a bit more about those I can try. But if you want your girl to be at a typical high school, if you use some of the basic ideas/guidlines given by the other two ladies you will probably be fine. :)
Carter-Orange:
Wow, you had to start the school day early! For me the school day was 8.50 until 3.35
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