Grade School, Middle School, High School

[GypsyElder]

Hmmmm, lemmee seee.... Elementary school (k-6) I didn't go to pre-school, which is probably why I'm partially stupid. When it came to actual subjects in grade school, it was always a different subject at the same times everyday. P.E. was usually before we went home and lunch before recess. We never had our own lockers, just cubbies and those lame cards that you have to pull whenever you got in trouble -_- Did anyone else have those? I'm not sure if everyone had to pull cards when they got in trouble. What was it...? Green: good, Yellow: warning, Orange: phone call home, Red: detention or something....Purple: meeting with principal.

For Middle school (grades 7 and 8), I had 7 periods. all the gen eds plus a zero period reading class and an elective. Food was great, then when I got to high school, after freshman year they finally decided that everyone is too fat and tried to make everyone more "fit" by literally starving us. Nothing to eat but baked, 50 cent bags of chips that weren't even filled up btw, so you only got literally a handful of chips in a bag, the other three fourths was air. So I spent money for bagged air, also the only thing I could eat was a slice of expensive ass pizza because we made over the limit for me to get free lunch. 2.50, 2.75 by the end of the year for ONE slice of pizza, this was a normal sized lice here.

we didn't have lockers in high school either, only one you were assigned to to put your belongings in while you were out at P.E. I didn't even need that because I was in a sport, so my P.E. was practice last period of the day that just continued into practice after school.

This is another thing I'm curious about, did anyone HAVE to shower after sports? I never showered in at school, middle or high school. None of ours were used, well not for any of the girls at least from what I could tell.

EDIT: lolol I just remembered that they replaced all the Soda machines with Gatorade we've already established that it's not any better for you than soda.

[Treize]

I went to a private grade/middle school, so it was a little bit different than the public schools, but it was mostly the same.

First of all there is a K4 and K5 program at the school I went to. Almost all of the students who continued into grade school went to K4 and K5/kindergarten. For these school was only half a day. There was a morning and afternoon program. I also think you could choose between having this everyday or just three days a week. Now it is different, though. There are only choices for everyday all day (7:50-2:50) or everyday for half a day in the afternoon. For this we just had one teacher and an aid. It was more like babysitting for working parents to be honest. We also only had cubbies, since we were only there for a couple of hours and didn't need to bring anything besides coats, etc.

For grade school (grades 1-5) we had one main teacher in one main classroom. There were about 40 students so we were broken up into two groups with a teacher for each group. Here with this teacher we would learn the core subjects like math, reading, etc. However it was different for social studies and science. One of the two teachers would teach either social studies or science. We would then have to switch classrooms with the other group of 20 students for social studies and science. Then we would have different teachers for non-core subjects. For example a teacher would come to our classroom and teach us foreign languages twice a week. When I went to school we learned either German or Spanish one semester, and then the other the other semester. Now Chinese is also taught too. We would also have to go to a different classroom to learn art, learn music, go to the library, and go to gym. In grades 1-4 we had one locker and a desk to put all of our supplies, coats, and stuff. In fifth grade we had two lockers and a desk.

In middle school (grades 6-8) we had a different teacher for every subject. I went to a small school, though, so we had pretty much the same teachers each year. It was kind of strange, though, because teachers would teach seemingly unrelated classes from one year to the next. For example one teacher would teach English one year and then math the next. We would also then pick one foreign language to take every other day for the next three years. We had one locker and a homeroom each year. We would go to these homerooms in the beginning and end of each day to listen to announcements. There were usually seven classes each day, but there were no electives or anything.

For high school (grades 9-12) it was completely different from middle school. The grade size increased 20-30 times from what it was at my other school, so there were a lot more options. We all had to take required core classes, but then there were numerous electives. There were art, music, band, business, humanities, etc. You could also have study halls or "off hours" where you just went to the cafeteria or the library. It was nice that you got to pick whatever classes that you wanted to go to. There were countless options of what you could do. The scheduling is kind of strange at the high school, though. There are bells that tell students when their class ends. But several times during the day, there are bells that would ring during class that would excuse some classes, but not all of them. It made things confusing knowing when the classes actually ended, and it was annoying for the bells just to go off during the middle of class everyday. We also had lockers every year. In 12th grade we had to share lockers with another student. Two students were assigned to each locker, but students usually switched lockers, so some lockers ended up having three students, while others ended up only having one.

I don't see how you could not have lockers every year. Does it never get cold or snow where you all live? I know that especially in grade school we had to bring a coat, gloves, a hat, boots, snow pants, a sweatshirt, etc. to school for almost half of the year. You couldn't possibly keep this on throughout school, could you?

This is another thing I'm curious about, did anyone HAVE to shower after sports? I never showered in at school, middle or high school. None of ours were used, well not for any of the girls at least from what I could tell.

We had to shower in middle school, but then at the high school it was never enforced. It was optional, so the vast majority of the students chose not too. It was pretty awkward when the female gym teacher came into the boys locker room to make sure that all the boys showered after gym in middle school, though...