Did I go to a "liberal" high school?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

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.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

No.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

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

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

what a screwed up school. I am sure you are making it up.

Uh, what's screwed up about not being an authoritarian hellhole?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

POP? LOL!

lol


The high school obviously wasn't "liberal" enough to teach the correct term for soda.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

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

Uh, what's screwed up about not being an authoritarian hellhole?

It clearly has made you the person you are today. It never taught you anything. It didnt teach you about how to act professional. and Finals should have mattered. I would never want to go to a school that is suppose to teach you how to handle the real life. It explains a lot about you now.

[bgwah]

None of those things except perhaps the lack of the Pledge strikes me as particularly liberal.

Widely available pop is a conservative position if anything.

[7,052,770]

Not really.  My high school was the same way, except we said the Pledge once a week (it was optional though, and only a few teachers would care if you didn't say it), and we didn't have the open campus thing at all.

On the other hand, we had no sex education.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Oh yeah they let us listen to Discmen on campus too. I hear iPods aren't so tolerated today.

[Mint]

Not stocking coke isn't authoritarian.

[Holmes]

POP? LOL!

lol


The high school obviously wasn't "liberal" enough to teach the correct term for soda.

"carbonated beverage"?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Widely available pop is a conservative position if anything.

So college campuses are conservative?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

POP? LOL!

lol


The high school obviously wasn't "liberal" enough to teach the correct term for soda.

"carbonated beverage"?

It's called soda, not pop or coke.

[Mint]

None of those things except perhaps the lack of the Pledge strikes me as particularly liberal.

Widely available pop is a conservative position if anything.

Pretty much. All soda machines show are that the school cares about money more than healthiness or avoiding commercialism. Pretty pro-corporate position coming from you, Red.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

POP? LOL!

lol


The high school obviously wasn't "liberal" enough to teach the correct term for soda.

"carbonated beverage"?

It's called soda, not pop or coke.

It's right were I went to high school:

None of those things except perhaps the lack of the Pledge strikes me as particularly liberal.

Widely available pop is a conservative position if anything.

Pretty much. All soda machines show are that the school cares about money more than healthiness or commercialism. Pretty pro-corporate position coming from you, Red.

So I guess college campuses are bastions of conservatism now.

Besides alcohol and pot aren't exactly healthy either, yet I support their wide availability.

[Mint]

POP? LOL!

lol


The high school obviously wasn't "liberal" enough to teach the correct term for soda.

"carbonated beverage"?

It's called soda, not pop or coke.

Coke sounds way better than Pop, which is possibly one of the worst slang terms ever. Soda or soft drink are also acceptable though.

[Mint]

So I guess college campuses are bastions of conservatism now.

Don't be a moron.

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Public schools are different from privately owned schools or stores, hth.

[Eraserhead]

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.

That sounds pretty great as far as high schools go, definitely superior to my own.

[Torie]

The "correct" term is "soft drink."  Gosh, the whole nation has it screwed up! 

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

The "correct" term is "soft drink."  Gosh, the whole nation has it screwed up! 

"Soft drink" applies to any non-alcoholic beverage, not just soda.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Hardly. Seniors were allowed to leave campus during the day, but underclassmen were not. We had soda until my senior year, and then they took it away. Our dress code consisted of a polo and khakis, great for me, but I guess it could be bad for some people. The girls could wear whatever they wanted except jeans and really short skirts. Since we were private, most of us already dressed that way. We did not say the pledge. We didn't suspend people for brining in things either.

All in all, my high school was like a country club. We all knew each other, and were almost too friendly with our teachers, rather than feeling like they were an authority figure. I don't remember any of us getting into much trouble, but then again, there were whispers of parents "donating" a good bit of money to keep their son/daughter out of trouble.

[TeePee4Prez]

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.

Mine you can add a prayer before each class. 

1- We didn't have but replace with a prayer
2- Hell no.  But can leave early if teachers called out.
3- Roll taken before each class.
4- I went to a Catholic HS.  What do u think?
5- Not all over campus, but near and in cafeteria and gym.
6- Aspirin was ok.  Not sure about Swiss Army knives
7- Needed a hall pass.  Lunch however was paid for at lunch.

The only good thing was when I went smokers can light up the moment they left the gates, but they got stricter.  You can't even smoke while waiting for the bus.  I never heard of the lunch thing.

That said I would have still STRONGLY preferred to go where I did over the local public school.  I would have went public had I lived in the suburbs however.

[Torie]

The "correct" term is "soft drink."  Gosh, the whole nation has it screwed up!  

"Soft drink" applies to any non-alcoholic beverage, not just soda.

Not in my brain!  I don't call orange juice a "soft drink."  Do you!  

By the way, my public high school was pretty strict, but that was back when we had gas lamps. Anyway, I prefer strict as a general matter for secondary schools. Granted, I broke a lot of rules (rules are for other folks was my point of view, in the sense I didn't need rules to get to where I wanted to go), and my dad gave me about 30 excuse slips at once, so I could come into school late, and not have to waste by time in an inane biology class, with an idiot teacher. I got an A without showing up much, which really annoyed the teacher. The mediocre text book, very mediocre, was better than the teacher.

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

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.

OK, my high school is fairly liberal, but we do have a few conservative elitists around too (not saying that conservatives are elitists, I'm saying that our school's elitists are conservative). Anyway, my point is that 1, 4, and 7 apply to my school, and 5 did until recently.
2 and 3 are the dumbest rules I have seen in my life for a school, and pretty much back up every negative stereotype I have of the Upper Midwest.
6 Is OK, as long as you have a very nonviolent school population.

So, in summary, to answer your ?, no, your school is not liberal.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

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.

OK, my high school is fairly liberal, but we do have a few conservative elitists around too (not saying that conservatives are elitists, I'm saying that our school's elitists are conservative). Anyway, my point is that 1, 4, and 7 apply to my school, and 5 did until recently.
2 and 3 are the dumbest rules I have seen in my life for a school, and pretty much back up every negative stereotype I have of the Upper Midwest.
6 Is OK, as long as you have a very nonviolent school population.

So, in summary, to answer your ?, no, your school is not liberal.

wow you are allowed to stay now?