At my school, for middle school they had the 6th graders eat first, then the 7th graders, then the 8th graders. For high school, there were lunch periods A, B, C, and sometimes D which depended on what your 4th hour class was. People like me that went to the special county-wide school in the afternoons would have a special earlier lunch period before A.

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Our class periods were usually 55-60 minutes, hence calling them "hours". There were only 6 in a day. My school, being in a rural area, offered very few classes, which is why there was the other countywide school.

I don't remember snacks being allowed at all, unless you're diabetic or something and except in elementary school.

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Originally posted by Anya

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I would get headaches after not eating for a certain period of time. Plus the lights in the classroom didn't help any.

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I remember in 8th grade I would have a 4th period class in the basement right next to the cafeteria. This would be awesome if it weren't for these awful rules saying when we could and could not go to our lockers to get books, etc. So I had a massive pile of books to carry in the morning, and no lunch, and my locker I had to go down the hall, up the stairs, down another hall, turn and go down ANOTHER hall, and finally I reach my locker.

It doesn't help that usually at that time of day I would start shaking from hunger and had to get to the cafeteria in two minutes. I remember them being very serious about punctuality, even for lunch. But sometimes I would be so weak from hunger I would start blacking out by the time I got to my locker, and almost passed out several times by the time I got myself, my lunch, and my afternoon books back downstairs to the cafeteria and to the table I was assigned to. Usually the sandwich, snack and juice I brought would do it.

God, I hated middle school.

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I always found finals very stressful. Probably because my schools never cut us the slightest bit of slack. You're sick on the final exam day, even if it's life-threatening, you fail the whole class. Plus having to remember everything that went on in the past several months in multiple classes, or trying to cram it back into your brain, when all you could think about is being off of school for months. Especially if it was really hot, as the schools didn't have AC at all until college. I'm not good with heat at all.

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In middle school, we could only go to our lockers: before school, between 3rd and 4th hours, before and after lunch, and after school. In 8th grade, guess what? My 3rd and 4th hour classes were both in the far west wing of the building, and my locker (the position of which is determined based on where your 1st hour class was) was on the east hallway! Getting from 3rd hour to my locker to 4th hour often took up most or all of the 5 minutes we were allotted.

I only had assigned lunch tables in elementary school, and they were by teacher, because classes came and went slightly offset from one another to avoid a jam at the lunch lines (or so I assumed; I pretty much always brought a lunch from home in those days).

Classes, though, usually had assigned seats. Usually alphabetically, which was a pain when you had this total creep whose last name was just before yours in the alphabet and you had to sit behind them within easy taunting range, class after class. Some classes just had you sit wherever you sat the first day, though. A few especially liberal high-school teachers had no seating chart at all and you could sit anywhere. Others would change the seating chart every so often just for the hell of it.

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I was in 6th grade when I started hearing (or noticing) a lot of swearing on the playground and such.

It's so silly, my parents tried to shelter me from it and raise me in a household where nobody ever swore, and I pick it up from school. Not even the draconian swearing policy stopped some people there.

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