Sheilah wrote: Also, FH, you asked about breaks. Normally the schedule is 6 or 7 periods with a half hour lunch break before, during, or after 4th period, depending on how many sections of lunch they had to run to give everyone a place to sit. The schedule used to be 6 periods per day with a 45 minute lunch period, so school ran from 8:30 to 3:30 pm, but when they decided to fit in an additional period, school ran from 7:30 to 3:00 pm, and lunch shrank to 1/2 hour. Periods are usually 50 or 55 minutes with a 5 minute passing period so students can go to their next class. The only break is for lunch.
This was true in my school too. 6 - 45 minute periods with 45 minute lunch in the middle of the day and 5 minutes to run between each class (especially true for gym). 1/2 the school got first lunch (3 classes then lunch) and the other half got second lunch (4 classes then lunch). Also, like Sheilah, our Journalism class wasn't a class, but an afterschool 'Club'.
Sometimes, an upclass (11th or 12th grade) student could schedule a 'free' period at some point in the day and use it for extra lunch or studying. I used it to get out early on Fridays, because I was dating a guy in Canada.
And that was one heck of a drive.
DC, I have no idea how you kept your schedule straight. That bubble thing sounds completely confusing.
Our sex ed was offered separate from Biology and was manditory for all sophomores (unless the parents objected). And was taught by someone who shouldn't have been teaching it. A coach or a math teacher or the typing/economics teacher. (you can tell how memorable it was) Not someone knowledgeable like a science teacher!
My apologies for placing Kansas in the Bible Belt. For some reason, I had it stuck in my head that the Bible Belt was a North/South belt in the center of the US comprising of Dakotas south through Texas (AKA the mid-west -- my apologies, if I've got THAT term wrong too). According to Wikipedia, the Bible Belt's basically another term for the South. (although I think my explanation looks more 'belt-like' than theirs
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