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Originally Posted by Porsche-poor
Morning all. Got back last night. The kid has about 50 minutes to get to his first class.
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That should be easy if he is in a dorm on campus.
The high school I went to as a 10th grader was in Hawaii. My home room was in one far corner of the campus in a "temporary building" that was at least 10 years old. My first period was in a room at the diagonal other corner of a large campus. The bell rang and I had 5 minutes to get to class. I can walk pretty fast, and was a kid back then, and could cover some ground, but it took me 7 minutes to get there at a very brisk walk. My first period teacher wrote me up as tardy every morning for a week. Finally they sent me to the principal. I explained I refuse to have to run to class, and it was not my fault they put me in a home room as far away from 1st period as one can get on campus. He was convinced I could get there in time, so I challenged him to walk it with me and prove it.
We walked it, and it took 7 minutes with no kids in the way walking slow like I had to contend with when the bell rang. He admitted is is unreasonable to ask me to run to class every day, since it was hot and it was all outdoor walking. If it was raining, I had to walk under the covered walkways and it took 10 minutes at best. He talked to the teacher and said I could have 10 minutes to get to class, but my home room teacher refused to let me leave early, so I had to come in late.
The entire school was outside in the open walking between rooms. The main original campus building were normal building, but no halls inside a building at all. To go room to room, meant a trip outside to a covered walkway at best. So it was a school with no air conditioning and no heat either!