OT New Random Thread Pt. 3

gofriars610 said:

we had seven class periods, but we only had five of them a day.

so like on day 1 you'd skip periods 1 and 4, day two you'd skip periods 2 and 5, then 3 and 6, etc.

in hindsight this is a needlessly difficult schedule.

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Yeah I wouldn't have appreciated that


When I was in school we had 4x4 block scheduling. 4 classes in the fall. 4 different classes in the spring. AP and IB classes were year long I think. I dk. High school was a life time ago. My younger sister may have had A/B block scheduling


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cheer25mom said:

She has overstepped her bounds BIG TIME with school nutrition and as a public school teacher I have dealt with the fallout. I have kids that don't get enough to eat thanks to her crappy new "nutrition program" that puts out impossible to meet guidelines on the budget it gives schools to work with. Schools that cannot afford to subsidize it ended up with terrible food the kids don't eat or cannot serve enough to meet kids needs.
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Agreed! I don't know how it is at your schools but every day it's another shape of chicken nugget essentially. Chicken strips, chicken nuggets, popcorn chicken. Ketchup is considered a vegetable? And the portions are so piddly that kids are still starving. It's really hard to focus in class when your stomach won't quit growling and you're thinking about what there is to eat when you get home.

I remember school lunches growing up in the 90's and they were terrible. I stomached them, but they were awful. My kids didn't start school until they were under the Obama administration and I definitely agree that location matters---the school lunches were so awful in Missouri that I sent CP with lunch every day she went. Where we are now is a different story and the kids absolutely love the school lunches---the district qualifies for the free breakfast for all and I think a school or two (we have 22 elementary schools alone in our county) qualifies for free lunches for all, but we are not one of those schools. They get 3 options in the morning and 3 options in the afternoon, plus fresh veggies, fruits...etc. Then on top of it, they have an a la carte menu that the kids can buy extra food with if they chose. I tell my girls they can do that on Friday's only. The girls bring their own from time to time, but I eat lunch with them about once a week and they never complain or don't eat.

I know our school takes in donated items and then those items are given to families who need them; when DH got hurt and was out of work for a month CP's teacher recommended us for it and we took a few bags home when it first happened. It was filled with enough food for a week or more and while some of it was more adult-oriented, the vast majority were things they'd eat. They also work with a fund; we didn't end up using it but we did learn about it, that will step in to fill up lunch accounts, buy supplies, shoes, coats...etc. if needed.

As for the Obama's; I still love Michelle and truly believe her intentions were well placed, but it definitely backfired for a lot of areas that don't have the funding. The fact that we continue to underfund education in this country drives me absolutely insane.

SL&AM said:

The fact that we continue to underfund education in this country drives me absolutely insane.

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This! It's flabbergasting that as a first world country, we can't give our children the educations they deserve without making the parents pay for all supplies and the teachers funding their own classrooms.

AngelsMum24 said:

This! It's flabbergasting that as a first world country, we can't give our children the educations they deserve without making the parents pay for all supplies and the teachers funding their own classrooms.

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There are a lot of things we just do not do well in this country.

My sister's middle school is on a block schedule too. The started a new policy a few years back of rotating the blocks, since they apparently decided it's not beneficial for a kid who struggles in math of have math last class of the day for an entire year, or language arts first thing, etc. They kept the classes and teachers but rotated the times.

For example, your schedule could go 1st block math, 2nd block language arts (lunch) 3rd block science and 4th block social studies on a Monday. Then Tuesday would be social studies, math, lunch, language arts and science in that order. Then science, social studies, lunch, math, language arts. I think your elective classes were in there somewhere and stayed the same each day but switched at the semester. It confused the crap out of me and I'm honestly impressed they were able to keep a school full of 1000+ 11-13 year olds on top of it.

cheerKT said:

My sister's middle school is on a block schedule too. The started a new policy a few years back of rotating the blocks, since they apparently decided it's not beneficial for a kid who struggles in math of have math last class of the day for an entire year, or language arts first thing, etc. They kept the classes and teachers but rotated the times.

For example, your schedule could go 1st block math, 2nd block language arts (lunch) 3rd block science and 4th block social studies on a Monday. Then Tuesday would be social studies, math, lunch, language arts and science in that order. Then science, social studies, lunch, math, language arts. I think your elective classes were in there somewhere and stayed the same each day but switched at the semester. It confused the crap out of me and I'm honestly impressed they were able to keep a school full of 1000+ 11-13 year olds on top of it.

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Not every HS in our county does A/B but mine did and I actually really liked it. We did the 7 periods in 45 minutes, one lunch per grade back in Middle school and it was fine, but in HS I liked not having to go to the same classes. The shortest class of the day was third period, which was the only class that was everyday. So you'd either go to all even periods and third, then all odd periods and third. Many upperclassmen had AP study hall for third period, which was an elective class. AP sciences are the only classes that you had everyday not be third period, technically one day is considered the lab day and the other is the lecture day.

Back in my day we only had two lunches based on where your 4th/5th was-classes on the first floor had the first wave of lunch, the second floor had the second wave of lunch. It's different now in our new school, and they also have a third lunch.

When I was in high school 4th period was the longest (out of 6) and then we had lunches A-D.

gofriars610 said:

we had seven class periods, but we only had five of them a day.

so like on day 1 you'd skip periods 1 and 4, day two you'd skip periods 2 and 5, then 3 and 6, etc.

in hindsight this is a needlessly difficult schedule.

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We had something similar except it was 7 periods and 6 a day I think. It rotated, so you'd have period A 1st one day, then 2nd, 3rd, etc, then you'd skip it and start over.

We had 3 lunches in the middle period. So you'd either go to lunch then class, class -> lunch -> back to the same class, or class then lunch.

I just now realized i should update my picture on here... I was literally 13 in that picture. I'm 17 now. Weird.

Gosh i cant even remember how class schedule went back in high school. I think it rotated evey few months though, and i think middle school did the same thing.
So you had 6 periods total and i think there were 7 in middle a school.
For example you had 1st, 2nd, 3rd...etc etc. Then a few months in 6th would become 1st period, 1st would become 2nd, 2nd would become 3rd period, 3rd would become 4th, and so forth.

Our high school had 7 periods and you either had 4th or 5th hour lunch. Everyone wanted 5th hour. We had an open campus and lots of fast food nearby. We had an outdoor a la carte area that served burgers, fries, shakes and then a regular cafeteria inside.

My girls' school has some good food and some nasty food. There is a salad bar every day. They are on a block schedule. There are two lunches each last 1/2 hour. One for freshmen and sophomores and the other for upper classmen

My freshman year we had 8 classes but Monday/Wednesday we had on 4 classes then 4 different classes on tue/thurs. on Friday we had all 8 classes. My sophomore year was a weird schedule. A/B classes but one week A would be M/W/F and B would be Tues/Thurs. The next week B would be M/W/F. One time we had an assembly and when I got out I was confused about what day it was A or B. I stood outside the gym trying to figure out what class was next. My last two years were block schedule. Fall semester was 4 classes and then 4 different class for spring.
Food wise I ate in concession stand in the gym or the culinary arts classroom. I never ate the school lunch. The only time I went in the cafeteria was to buy Arby's. Right now the HS only serves cafeteria food.

iwearmysunglassesatnight said:

My freshman year we had 8 classes but Monday/Wednesday we had on 4 classes then 4 different classes on tue/thurs. on Friday we had all 8 classes. My sophomore year was a weird schedule. A/B classes but one week A would be M/W/F and B would be Tues/Thurs. The next week B would be M/W/F. One time we had an assembly and when I got out I was confused about what day it was A or B. I stood outside the gym trying to figure out what class was next. My last two years were block schedule. Fall semester was 4 classes and then 4 different class for spring.
Food wise I ate in concession stand in the gym or the culinary arts classroom. I never ate the school lunch. The only time I went in the cafeteria was to buy Arby's. Right now the HS only serves cafeteria food.

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Your school offered arbys? Thats pretty nice.
I keep seeing people post about having concession stands too, we never had one of those either.
The main reason, that i learned the hard way, was to never buy lunch at our high school for the simple fact that you spent almost your entire lunch period waiting in line. And never had enough time to eat it.

UCFKnights07 said:

Your school offered arbys? Thats pretty nice.
I keep seeing people post about having concession stands too, we never had one of those either.
The main reason, that i learned the hard way, was to never buy lunch at our high school for the simple fact that you spent almost your entire lunch period waiting in line. And never had enough time to eat it.

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We used to have an ice cream truck, and students used to be able to order food. Seniors could leave campus for lunch.

The county nixed the ice cream truck after literally decades of it existing, and the year after I graduated they banned ordering because it was causing students to be late to class or missing their orders. I always said I left school just in time because there is no way I would've survived without being able to order soph/jr years even with my mom working at my school.