In my HS (grades 7-12, jr/sr high. I was class of 2000), we got out at 2:30. I don’t remember when we started, must have been 8-ish, but we had to be there about 7:30-ish for homeroom, I think. Our days were divided into eight 45-minute periods with 3 minutes in between each. The elementary school got out at 3:15 and I suppose started about 8:45-ish, to allow for the buses to do their rounds from the HS and then go get the elem. kids. The year after I graduated they screwed the period system all around and I haven’t the faintest idea how it works anymore. Glad I graduated when I did.
Well, a few years ago in the Texas public schools I went to, my school day was:
K-6: 8:30 to 2:30
7-8: 8:30 to 3:00
9-12: 8:30 to 3:30
My son’s current school in New Hampshire is (for 8th grade) 7:45 to 2:00.
I’m really surprised how many of you have such early starts. When I went to school in Australia it was 8:40am - 3:10pm. I still have one in high school and it’s much the same today. Primary was 8:50am - 3:20pm only marginally different.
Homework! now that’s another story. That seemed to stretch from the time I arrived home, until I went to bed. Personally I’d like to see longer school hours with little homework.
K - 8 was 8:30am - 2:45pm. For the last few years I went there, they changed it to 8:30-3pm.
In high school we had to be in our homeroom by 7:55am, and classes started at 8:10. We got out at 2pm, but if you were a senior (the grade I’m in now) and you had a free period or two at the end of the day, you could leave early. My school days are 7:55 - 12:30 because of this.
Anchor Day (all classes and TA)
1st-8:30-9:15
3rd:9:20-10:05
5th:10:10-10:55
7th:11:00-11:50
Lunch-11:50-12:30
2nd-12:30-1:15
4th-1:20-2:05
6th-2:10-2:55
Break-2:55-3:10
TA-3:10-3:50
Block Day
1st/2nd-8:30-10:05
3rd/4th-10:20-11:50
Lunch-11:50-12:30
5th/6th-12:30-2:00
Break:2:00-2:15
7th-2:15-3:50
8A-2:15-3:00
8B-3:00-3:50
8A and B are activity blocks; you sign up to play games or make up work or tests or whatever.
I’m in mississippi, so this may be the reason we have strange class schedules
1st period:8:00 to 8:50
5 min for class change
2nd period:8:55 to 9:45
20 min break;go to cafeteria for food or do homework or whatever
3rd period: 10:05 to 11:00
5 min for class change
4th period:11:05 to 11:55
A lunch starts
5th period: 12:05 to 12:50
at 12:25 B lunch starts
at 12:50, C lunch starts
6th period:1:20 to 2:10
5 mins for class change
7th period: 2:15-3:05
At the beginning of the year, your schedule has the classes you chose the previous May, and they have given you your Lunch period (you have no choice, unless you change classes). if you have a study hall first period or seventh period, you can get to school late or leave early, accordingly. if you are a senior, you only take 4 or 5 classes. ninth graders and below are stuck at school till 305.
High school started at 7:50 and ended at 2:42. But now I’m in graduate school and go one time a week starting at nine am and going until seven pm, yippee.
seems to me all yall northern folk start later then us down here in America’s Wang(Florida). First bell rings for me at 7:00 and tardy bell is at 7:05, end bell rings at 2:08 but senoirs get out at about 2 depending on when their last period teacher wants to release them.
I also teach in southern California. Don’t know what the elementary school schedule is, but our middle and high schools are on the same schedule. It is:
1st period: 8:00-8:45
2nd period: 8:50 - 9:35
Nutrition Break: 9:35 - 9:50
3rd period: 9:55 - 10:40
4th period: 10:45 - 11:30
MS Lunch: 11:30 - 12:00/HS Sustained Silent Reading: 11:35 - 11:55
MS SSR 12:05-12:25/HS 5th period: 11:55 - 12:40
MS 5th period: 12:25 - 1:05/HS Lunch: 12:40 - 1:05
6th period: 1:15 - 2:05
7th period: 2:10 - 3:00
A lot of our seniors leave campus early because they’ve taken all the classes they can, and there’s nothing more to fill up their schedules with.
In the final three years 7:15 - 13:10 with a several 2 hour gaps per week*, 90min in the afternoon on two days per week. I feel kind of lazy now.
- Different schedule on every day of the week.
some of our seniors are dull-enrolled at a community college and prefer to get a college class to replace some of there morning classes on their schedules, but they take the college class at night so that they can sleep in mornings. Also people who don’t wanna be stuck takin food classes their entire senior year can select to graduate their junoirs year with 18 credits, but they have to take 2 englishes in one year.
Lots of people here had the block system. In a way, that’s more logical because it’s closer to how college is structured. Mine had an eight period system (7 static, 1 floating based on what “day” it was (A-G). A basic day was like this:
Old Schedule:
8:15-9:05
9:05-9:55
30 minute break (This was when we would have all school, class and advisor meetings and chapel service (again, which one of these was based on the day)
10:25-11:15
11:15-12:05
Now here, the middle schoolers (6th-8th grades) had a 40-minute lunch, and then class until 1:35, while the high school has class from 12:05-12:55, and then lunch.
1:35-2:25 (2:25 was the end of the day on “A” days)
2:25-3:15 (this was when the middle schoolers had sports and the high-schoolers usually had art or music.)
New Schedule:
8:00-9:00
9:00-9:50
30 minute break
10:20-11:10
11:10-12:00
I forget when the middle schoolers ate lunch…we ate right after fourth period.
12:40-1:30
1:30-2:40
2:40-3:30
From day to day, one class would have an extra 20 minutes, so your fourth-period class would be 70 minutes the day after your third-period class was.
Each day, one of the first seven periods would be skipped and the eighth period in its place: you could have German class at 8:00 on Monday and after lunch on Friday.
Heh, High school sophomore checking in. Currently, school starts at 7:30, and goes till 2:30. I have 54? minute classes, and run from one side of the overcrowded school to the other in the 7 minute passing periods. Lunch is 25 minutes including passing periods to get back and forth, and they wonder why people are still standing in food lines to buy lunch when the bell rings to go back to class. Im lucky in that my mom drives right by my school in the morning on her way to work, so I wake up at 6:30 and get to school right around 7:25 or so.
Honestly though, I have had a schedule like that since 6th grade, in Junior High. There are some Junior Highs that start 5, 15, or 30 minutes later, and some High Schools that do the same, but I lucked out in that both in Junior High and High school Im going early. I honestly think that if we started school an hour later, around 8:30, and made the elementary school students go at 7:30, then High School kids woudn’t sleep and fail their first period classes. On an average weekend, teenagers don’t go to bed at 10 and wake up at 6, they go to bed at 3 and wake up at 10. I think that the school system, in order to help their students,(since their student’s grades reflect on the entire district) should start later. If people get dropped off at school at 6;30 in the morning, then there is a convenient bus that is bound to come close to your house to pick you up and deliver you around 7 or so.
When I was in high school, we walked three miles uphill through ten feet of snow in our underwear every day…
And we were GRATEFUL!
Our school ran from 8:00 am to 8:30 pm :o!
For most kids, the “this is it the last bell you better be in class or else” bell rang at 7:30 (previous bells to announce the beginning of school were at 7:16 and 7:22) and school was around until 2:51. On Thursdays school started at 9:30. Unless you were a junior or senior and could choose to not have a period or two. Some seniors had all the credits they needed and were able to go to school for only two classes. But I, I ran Cross Country. In season we met at 7am ever day and stayed until past five after school. Except on Wednesdays, when it was 6:30 but the block scheduling on wed/thurs meant we didn’t have practice afterschool. During off-season it was 6:45 every day, except early Wednesdays, but no practice after school. After school I could easily stay until six for various reasons relating to practice. Then, there were the days when my family forgot where I was and I waited, and waited and waited for someone who loved me, until the night janitors told me to leave.
ok, so I’ve been looking and I just can’t seem to find this high school starting time debate. Could anyone give me a link?
thanks
Primary School - 9.00 -> 3.35
High School - 8.50 -> 3.30
Sixth Form College -> 8.50 -> 4.00
I was in high school in the early 90s. I know for sure that my senior year we went from 7:50-3:00. Also, they had added one minute to each period (7) so that we could have one day a month off for Facutly meetings. I’m trying to remember what time we started in the years before that, but it may have been the same thing, because I do remember them taking some of those extra 7 minutes from the passing time/locker break/lunch. We had a 30 minute lunch, and a break in the morning (something like 8-10 minutes added to passing time between 2nd and 3rd), and a 5 minute break in the afternoon.
I have been a sub the past several years. Our county (same one I graduated from) lets each school pick their own schedule. The two high schools had very different schedules.
High School 1) 7:50-3:07, with a 30 minute lunch, 7 minute passing periods, and an 8 minute break in the morning (making that passing period 15 minutes long).
High School 2) 8:00-3:27, with a 50 minute lunch, 6 minute passing periods and no extra breaks at all.
They also did their lunches VERY differently. High School 2 just had an 8 modular day, where one mod was Lunch (they change what they call their periods every few years as they shift around playing with different kinds of block scheduling). So half the school is in lunch during 4th mod and half during 5th.
High School 1 does this weird three lunch thing where during this 2 1/2 hour block of time everyone has 2 50 minute classes and a 30 minute lunch, but the classes are all at different times and bells are always ringing, and I taught there 11 weeks subbing for one lady and never quite figured it out. I taught periods 4A and 5A and then had lunch, but they also had a 4B and 5B, and you did some combo of those 4 schedules to get 3 lunches.
The middle schools all had various schedules too. The earliest one to start was at 7:43 and the latest 7:50. The earliest to get out was 2:45, and the latest 3:15. Supposedly all the minutes were the same county wide. It just depended on breaks, passing time, and lunch, plus some schools did homeroom and some didn’t. One of the things I loved about subbing was seeing how different schools handled different schedules.
When I was in 8th grade our school tried the no bells thing. All three grades were on different schedules, and classes were different lengths depending on what they were. Any academic class was 50 minutes, the related arts (gym, art, music, home ec, etc.) were 40 I think, and then there was a 30 minute thing called Exploratory, which is a whole nuther story!, plus 30 minutes of Study Skills. That’s how everyone got on different schedules.
Now I teach in a private K-12 school. The middle and high school goes 7:30-3:00, with a 30 minute lunch, 5 minute passing times, and no breaks. The elementary goes 8-2:45. The weird thing is that different periods are different times. 1st period is 60 minutes; 2nd, 3rd, and 4th are 55 min; and 5th, 6th, and 7th are only 50. I understand why 1st is a little longer, because that is when we do devotions, but I’m not sure why the others are like that.
This is a subject I find fascinating! I could go on and on with different things I’ve seen done, and I know I’ve only seen the tip of the iceburg!
I know I posted already, much earlier in this thread, but my younger brother has just reminded me of his own odd school schedule. He’s in middle school. They go to school from 7:30, and get out at 2:10. However, all of the students have “stampsheets” that each teacher stamps everyday, certifying that the kid brought his or her homework, notebook, classbook, and so forth.
If they did, they get a yes stamp. If they didn’t, they get a no stamp and must go to “Full Day.” See, the school says that school ends at 3:00. But that’s only for kids who do something wrong and get a No stamp. So Full Day is detention. The school acts like it’s rewarding the kids who get yes stamps, but shies away from claiming to punish the kids who get no stamps with detention. Instead, they’re just staying for the whole school day. In detention.
Very odd, that middle school is.