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[rachiee]

I went to my school's library the other day. I was so glad I found a copy of a book that I've wanted to read for a few months in there. :D

I feel like I'm gonna be spending a lot of time at my school's library. There are soooo many books there that I really want to read. c:

[Spritzie]

My HS was built in 1874. There's currently over 2000 students.

[The Meepit Commando]

That is huge, my JH is one story high, O.o

 

 

@ citidal squirrel: same to you (layton for MVP!)

 

and TBH I didn't make it pyrope did :guiltysmiley:

 

my school is barely 50 years old and holds, drum roll please..... about 600 students <_<

[rachiee]

All I know is that the oldest school in my district was built in the early 1900s. I went there in grade 4 and it was my favourite school ever. The administration was great, the school was relatively small so it was hard to get lost and they sold canned Snapple during lunch. Everything about that school was perfect <3

Plus, that school had two playgrounds. I was kinda sad when I went to grade 5 and found out the middle school didn't have a playground. :(

[Spritzie]

My grade school and middle school were single level.

 

My grade school had 2 playgrounds. (If you don't count the fenced in one for the kindergarten.) I loved that school. And my middle school. Both were the ones my mom had gone to. I didn't get to go to the HS she went to. (She went to the 2nd HS opened in the city.)

[Noog]

Wow...my high school is only one floor and it's mostly one building. We have the main building plus a big gym that's divided into a girls gym and a boys gym by a long hallway.

[-Ryan]

Lol Noog, my elemtary school was bigger than that.

[rachiee]

Mine too. xP All the schools I've been to so far have had at least one floor. The elementary school I went to in grade 4 had three, as does my high school. I totally forgot about the basement-type floor with the boiler rooms and wrestling room. I think there are a few computer classes and art classes down there as well...

[Spritzie]

At my HS, depending on what was being offered, you ended up in one gym or the other. And during basketball season, the girls played at the auxiliary gym.

[-Ryan]

The buildings with the gym at my school has one big gym, a wrestling room, weight rooms, two lockerrooms, and a giant hallway through all of it.

[rachiee]

There are three gyms at my high school, a wrestling room, a weight room (even though I don't know where that is) and two locker rooms- one for the guys and one for the girls.

The locker room at my high school is so much better than the one at my middle school. The locker room at the middle school was dirty, old and dark (and I could swear it was probably haunted at one point or another), whereas the one at the high school is clean, light and new :)

 

Sadly, the lockers in the high school locker room are a pain in the butt to open. For that matter, all the lockers (gym and regular) are a pain in the butt to open.

[Spritzie]

I hated the locker rooms in my HS. There was only 2 rows of lockers. At my middle school, it was broken down in a ton of rows, so there were less being around. And in middle school, there was the shower room to duck into to change. In HS, the showers and such were in with the pool.

[The Meepit Commando]

the yahoo bot is here, lol

 

anyway, my friends JH is 4 stories, o_O

[Spritzie]

The newer schools here a bigger. Most of the schools in my district were really old.

[rachiee]

There isn't a swim team (or even a pool) at my school. In fact, I could care less if my school did get a pool.

I'd be more excited if my school got an ice rink (and they got a hockey team and/or ice skating troupe). I think I can ice skate better than I can swim. :P

 

But where would they get the money for that? There are already way too many budget cuts going on so an ice rink isn't gonna happen any time in the near future. :(

[The Meepit Commando]

the HS I am supposed to go too has a swimming pool, but an Ice rink, good luck with that

 

:P

[Noog]

There isn't a swim team (or even a pool) at my school. In fact, I could care less if my school did get a pool.

I'd be more excited if my school got an ice rink (and they got a hockey team and/or ice skating troupe). I think I can ice skate better than I can swim. :P

 

Oh geez. x_x I'm such a horrible ice skater. I couldn't do it to save my life. I love to swim though :woot:

[Spritzie]

Swim is required. You have to take at least one quarter of swim, or you can't graduate. (You can also test out of it.)

[The Meepit Commando]

Is that in your district, or nationwide, statewide, etc.?

[Noog]

We just have general physical education and you need 2 credits.

[Spritzie]

The required swim? I know it's a requirement of my school, I don't know if it's district-wide or not.

 

Swim is part of our gym class. They change what they teach each semester. And you pick one, and have it for a quarter. Like Basketball or swim. Then whatever you did the first quarter, you do the other during the second quarter. Swim is one of the choices.

[-Ryan]

We only need 1 credit for physical education here. It should probably be four considering how many McDonalds there are in the US but whatever...

[Spritzie]

If I remember right, it was 4 credits (or 2 full years worth) of PE. Like, 1 foreign language credit. 10-11 elective. 8 English, 4 Math.

[rachiee]

At my school, one needs two gym credits to graduate. They're worth a quarter of a credit per semester, there are two semesters in a year, it's a half a credit per year, so you have to take gym (or sports if you're in grades 10 + 11) for your entire high school career. :(

[-Ryan]

I would love a schedule like that, Spritzie. D:

 

 

Here, each semester is half a credit, and the credit quotas are -

1 - PE

.5 - Computers

4 - English

4 - Math

2 - Foreign Language

3 - Science

3 - History

And either 4 or 8 for special arts or something... I'm in a 4 year class which thankfully counts towards some of those arts credits though. Otherwise i'd have to have a-hours or drop AVID...