Did I go to a "liberal" high school?

[The Artist Formerly Known As and Now Again Known As Ogis]

wow you are allowed to stay now?

We'll see, now won't me. I'll accept any judgment which is bestowed upon me.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

wow you are allowed to stay now?

We'll see, now won't me. I'll accept any judgment which is bestowed upon me.

well I hope you stay.

[The Artist Formerly Known As and Now Again Known As Ogis]

wow you are allowed to stay now?

We'll see, now won't me. I'll accept any judgment which is bestowed upon me.

well I hope you stay.

I'm glad to hear it.

[Meeker]

My high school had no bells.

[Sam Spade]

1-No Pledge of Allegiance.
2-Completely open campus. No classes, you were free to leave. Just like college really.
3-Not a big deal even if you did skip class. You could do that up to two times a semester before there was any consequences besides being required to take the final. That's right, if you had no unexcused absences the final was option and wouldn't count if it lowered your grade.
4-No uniforms, lax dress code, and not really enforced.
5-Pop machines everywhere on campus.
6-No idiocy about suspending students for bringing Aspirin or Swiss Army Knives.
7-No insane authoritarian rules about only being allowed to go to your locker between certain periods or having to pay for your lunch before classes instead of at lunch like in middle school.

1 - Ditto
2 - At my high school, there were very few people who didn't have classes at all hours of the day.  But if you didn't, you could leave.  They did lock the gates so that you couldn't drive out, but if you wanted to leave you just got around that by parking your car on the street outside the school. 
3 - They were pretty strict about attendance at my school for certain classes, but there was good practical reason for that.  Other classes - not so much.  Might have actually been more lenient.  Finals were not optional except for last semester if you had an 85 or above in said class.
4 - Ditto
5 - Ditto
6 - Ditto
7 - Ditto.  Didn't have any of that stuff in middle school either, but I did go to parochial school then.

Actually, I'm willing to bet my high school was a lot more "liberal" than yours was on almost everything (as if I really care).

[Bo]

I guess yes.

[Stranger in a strange land]

what an fuucked up school. I am sure you are making it up.

most of the things he mentions actually apply to my high school as well, except for the business about students not being required to take the final if they had no unexcused absences, which, while I would have supported it at the time, now seems way too lax.

1-No Pledge of Allegiance.
2-Completely open campus. No classes, you were free to leave. Just like college really.
3-Not a big deal even if you did skip class. You could do that up to two times a semester before there was any consequences besides being required to take the final. That's right, if you had no unexcused absences the final was option and wouldn't count if it lowered your grade.
4-No uniforms, lax dress code, and not really enforced.
5-Pop machines everywhere on campus.
6-No idiocy about suspending students for bringing Aspirin or Swiss Army Knives.
7-No insane authoritarian rules about only being allowed to go to your locker between certain periods or having to pay for your lunch before classes instead of at lunch like in middle school.

the bolded portions were true at my high school

[Magic 8-Ball]

1-No Pledge of Allegiance.

We had the pledge read aloud, but nothing would happen if you chose not to recite it.

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True at my high school as well.  You could choose to have classes in the morning or the afternoon.

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Ours was similar.  If you had fewer than four unexcused absences, and at least a B average, you could skip finals.

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Uniforms?  At a public school?  Completely foreign idea here.

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We had them on every floor (generally near the stairwells), in the locker rooms, at the school's entrances, in the cafeteria, and on the outside patio.  If you wanted a soda, you wouldn't have walk very far.

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Didn't matter in high school; you'd probably be written up at lower levels, though.

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I've never heard of any of that.



So, 6 of the 7 are true here, too. 

[paul718]

It's right were I went to high school:

The fact that someone can ask for a "Coke" when they want a lemon-lime flavored soda makes my brain melt.

[phk]

We had 5 and 7.

[memphis]

I'm quite amazed since it was such a conservative area. However my high school wasn't the authoritarian hellhole I hear of others being.

1-No Pledge of Allegiance.
2-Completely open campus. No classes, you were free to leave. Just like college really.
3-Not a big deal even if you did skip class. You could do that up to two times a semester before there was any consequences besides being required to take the final. That's right, if you had no unexcused absences the final was option and wouldn't count if it lowered your grade.
4-No uniforms, lax dress code, and not really enforced.
5-Pop machines everywhere on campus.
6-No idiocy about suspending students for bringing Aspirin or Swiss Army Knives.
7-No insane authoritarian rules about only being allowed to go to your locker between certain periods or having to pay for your lunch before classes instead of at lunch like in middle school.

I'm surprised really.

While numbers 2 and 3 do strike me as being rather lax, most of these conditions merely underscore that it has been about a decade since you were in high school. Times have changed!

[Хahar 🤔]

I'm saying that our school's elitists are conservative

At Monta Vista?

[they don't love you like i love you]

I'm quite amazed since it was such a conservative area. However my high school wasn't the authoritarian hellhole I hear of others being.

1-No Pledge of Allegiance.
2-Completely open campus. No classes, you were free to leave. Just like college really.
3-Not a big deal even if you did skip class. You could do that up to two times a semester before there was any consequences besides being required to take the final. That's right, if you had no unexcused absences the final was option and wouldn't count if it lowered your grade.
4-No uniforms, lax dress code, and not really enforced.
5-Pop machines everywhere on campus.
6-No idiocy about suspending students for bringing Aspirin or Swiss Army Knives.
7-No insane authoritarian rules about only being allowed to go to your locker between certain periods or having to pay for your lunch before classes instead of at lunch like in middle school.

I'm surprised really.

While numbers 2 and 3 do strike me as being rather lax, most of these conditions merely underscore that it has been about a decade since you were in high school. Times have changed!

The Pledge of Allegiance has gotten more common?

[Mint]

Yeah Red, memphis is right other than the first 2 my school was 'cool' just like yours.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Yeah Red, memphis is right other than the first 2 my school was 'cool' just like yours.

Same here.

What gives, Red?