Originally posted by Dandello:
My DS's school was 'closed' except for seniors. Which meant that juniors would hitch rides with seniors to go to lunch - three counties and a state border away. 
That seems pretty far to go for lunch. We only had 1/2 hour for lunch, maybe it was 45 minutes, but still... It was hard enough just to drive the 3 blocks away and make it through BK or McD's and get back in time for bell.
No security guards at our school. Thank God! But nothing violent ever happened there, so I don't think it was necessary... actually, I think someone brought a gun once, but they were expelled... so... that increased the random locker checks but that was about it. Drugs and alcohol were a bigger issue (alcohol at the dances and parties, usually not in the school itself). Not that
I saw anything like that on campus. Sweet, blissful, innocent of a goodie-goodie like me never saw-no-evil!
Juniors and Seniors were allowed to drive (and were issued parking spaces on a first-come-first-gets lotto system). So, it was usually just the juniors and seniors who went out for lunch because the Frosh and Sophs couldn't walk there and back and make it by bell (unless they hitched a ride with an older student with wheels).
We had student ID's but the only time we ever used them was to get the student price at the movies!
Sigh. Back when you could watch a movie $4.50 on a Friday night and less for a matinee! Sigh. Those days are long past.
Ah, the memories.
