On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:29:37 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:36:25 -0500, wrote:


I was never in a school with locked doors but that was a different
time. My high school was in a building open to the public in the 1700
block of G street NW DC. We had a number of ways to get in and out
either to G street or the alley in back.

Obviously, DC wasn't nearly as dangerous as Amity, CT, 50 years ago.

I wasn't in a public school and we were pretty much out with the
general population of DC, going to school on public transportation,
ate in restaurants or bars and not really having that "home room to
final bell" mentality. If you didn't have a class, you could leave.
They really didn't even call roll in class. Your parents were paying
but if you didn't show up they did not care. When you flunk, explain
that at home. We also made up our own schedules. You could sign up for
any classes you wanted, in pretty much any order. You just had to
punch all the boxes to graduate. It was more like most people's
college experience than high school.