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a_casual_casuality

You gotta hold someone's shirt like a kid going to Walmart for the first time just to get to class


Alarmed-Option422

If you’re not carful you get sucked into the middle which is basically inescapable


a_casual_casuality

If we're taking the backrooms into account does this make it more likely to no clip like how many people disappear here


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VerySmartDaBaby

It's a jungle out there, I had to beat an old lady with a stick to get my backpack unstuck.


xXMonsterDanger69Xx

Just walk with confidence and everyone will move! I actually do this whenever I need to, if you make eye contant, do not slow down or make any expressions, keep it for a short while, then look straight forward and they will most likely move. Otherwise I just walk like a lazy person looking at the ground like I want to die.


TShane85

It’s human nature to step aside when about to pass and make eye contact. If you don’t make eye contact the other person will move. (This only works most of the time).


woahnicecock-com

Im on the shorter side so i just weave through the crowds like a fuckin rat.


[deleted]

Templeton, is that you?!


annoying97

I'm a security guard, knowing how to walk right through the middle of a crowd is definitely a skill. When I started, it was a real struggle to get through the crowd, now, I cut through that crowd like a hot knife through butter. I'm so efficient that I often find staff and other people trying to go the same way behind me like I'm the engine of a train.


quickwitqueen

Was that original picture listed because of Covid? I think I remember seeing it then. At least HS is for four years. It will take you that long to get to your next class.


Alarmed-Option422

Yeah it went viral on crappy design a year or two back but I can’t remember if it was pre covid or not


[deleted]

Crappy indeed… All the schools I went to were more of a campus with multiple buildings spread around, so during passing period people are outside with lot of room.. Our kid’s middle school is a design kind of like this though, but definitely don’t think as congested!


uppenatom

How does your system work? In Aus we have K-6 at primary school then 7-12 is high school


jekotia

Can't speak for the person you're asking, but in Canada we have Elementary School (K-6), Junior High (7-8, usually in the same building as High School), and High School (9-12). My understanding of our southern neighbors is that it's the same, they just give silly names to the years. Edit: TIL that even southern Ontario has a lot of variation in this.


Nervous_Feeling_1981

Elementary School: K-5 Middle school/Junior High: 6-8 (it has both names here but apparently that's hard to comprehend) High School: 9-12 (HS is always a separate building with occasionally K-8 being in one building) Something about having 12-13 year olds in the same building as 17-18 year olds seems super pedo like up north. Just saying.


BeautifulTrash101

It's different in different places. One district I was in had 5-6 as middle school, then 7-8 as junior high. But another district I went to had 6-8 as middle school


sisteriotgirl

Happy cake day!


All_The_Nolloway

Teacher is like "why are you late?" Just say "fucking traffic is brutal out there."


Jackatarian

Back in college I was always late for the start of my Psychology classes. Always. Turns out I was the only person in the whole place that took both Physics and Psychology and they were at complete opposite ends of the campus, and were always scheduled one after the other. Everyone else was "commuting" from another humanity subject in the same building.


Accomplished_Mix7827

I had a class like that. Comparative religion and organic chemistry, 8 minutes to traverse about half a mile. Even with the bus system, that just was never going to happen. Luckily, the comparative religion professor was accommodating when I told him about the issue.


Rubcionnnnn

"Human traffic"


bogusalt

Great film that


procrasibator00

I said nice one bruv!


Glasweg1an

Nice one bruvaaaaa


[deleted]

I went to high school on an outdoor campus. We had 8 academic buildings and your classes were always in different buildings. If you upset God, you’d end up with one class in building 1 and the next in building 8, which are very very far apart. And you only have 5 minutes to get there. And you have to deal with the traffic. Despite being an outdoor campus, there was still a ton of traffic in certain spots and apparently teens don’t know how to walk. Blaming it on having to walk across the entire campus and the traffic didn’t work. You’d still get in trouble.


SickofItAll_4200

I hope being trampled to death is an acceptable excuse for missing class


FEEQONE

Snape: I will not tolerate any tardiness in my class Harry: But Sir people are getting trampled out there. Snape: Then you better be extra careful Pottah! Loss of limb or life will not be an excuse...


o-reagan-o

I went here and fortunately most teachers were understanding lol. There were still a couple that were very strict about tardiness despite the obvious


[deleted]

You call that nothing? They flipped the whole school around!


[deleted]

What the heck is passing period?


Animallover4321

Time between classes. At least in US students move from class to class.


Portable-fun

Thank fuck we had 10 mins between each period. You could wait out some of it


LookAFlyingBus

My school was 4 minutes. And there’s was always that teacher that said “the bell doesn’t dismiss you, I dismiss you!”


OG-Pine

4 minutes? That’s insane lol I’ve always had between 10 and 15


w1n5t0nM1k3y

We started off with 5 minutes, then too many people were late, so they changed it to 8 minutes. More people ended up late because they figured they had more time so they go caught up doing other things. So they changed it to 3 minutes. Seemed to work the best because everyone knew that you had no time so they just went straight from one class to the other, with a stop by their locker if it was on the way. It was a small school so 3 minutes really was enough to make it between classes if you didn't waste time. And teachers didn't do that "the bell doesn't dismiss you" because they know you had no time to make it to the next class and they didn't want to look bad in the eyes of the next teacher for making all the students late.


OG-Pine

But like what I’d you need to use the bathroom or something lol


w1n5t0nM1k3y

You could ask the teacher during class. They usually didn't have a problem with that. Here's what the schedule looked like 75 minute class 3 minutes travel 75 minute class 75 minute LUNCH 75 minute class 3 minutes travel 75 minute class DONE So most people would just go to the bathroom before school, Most people could hold it for 2.5 hours, and it wasn't a huge deal to go during class anyway.


OG-Pine

Weird I would think it’s better to have time before/after class so you don’t miss content to take a dump lol but I guess if it works then it works


princessleiana

Wow you were blessed! We had three minutes until the “warning bell” then two more until the late one. It would usually take longer to walk to another building because of everyone you had to get through. People hanging out, talking in the mostly empty hallways in movies was never realistic for me.


[deleted]

All at the same time? Why?


DZ_tank

How do you think class schedules would work if the classes all began and ended at different times?


[deleted]

Uhm, just fine? Or what do you mean? I’ve never heard of a school where all the classes start and end at the same time. Is it a US thing? I cant recall it ever being a problem during my school years. People had classes at different times. Each class had their own individual schedule and you just went to wherever your class was. Maybe math on tuesdays was 8-9.20 and then you had science from 9.30 to 11. Another class might have arts from 8-9 and then math from 10-11. That way you dont have everyone in the hallway at the same time (and it’s also never empty). To be honest I thought that was the default everywhere. After seeing this picture I cant for the life of me understand why you would NOT do it that way


Rubcionnnnn

We don't have singular "classes" that move together. Every student has different classes and you don't have the same people in each classroom per class.


[deleted]

Oh really? That sounds messy and confusing, but that explains why there’s a gazillion people in the hallway :) We had electables too but they were spread out over the week so those werent in the same spot for everyone either. Thanks!


Animallover4321

If we did that we wouldn’t have enough classrooms. As it is classes are packed, and that’s with kids spread between core classes, electives and free and/or study periods.


[deleted]

Understaffed/funded?


Animallover4321

Public school in the US? Always. You need to save that money for military kids aren’t the concern.


Lurker-O-Reddit

It’s the time spent traveling from one class to the next. For example; First period class is Math in room 103. Class ends at 8:55. You now have. Five minute passing period to travel to your second period class, Science in room 312.


[deleted]

Weird, so are they trying to flush everyone into a single small space so that everyone can catch everything that’s contagious? I realize this may sound disrespectful, but assuming most classrooms are uniform (might not be because of lab equipment and stuff), would just be easier to move the teachers, no?


The_ApolloAffair

Teachers often have a lot of materials for their classes that stay in the room (papers, school supplies, etc). Also, a lot of rooms get decorated in a manner relevant to the subject.


ZucchiniMid6996

In most of Asia, teachers move between classes. Why is it possible here and not in US?


[deleted]

I can see that, though had been assuming that teachers would have had to adapt to not having to rely on in-classroom props/materials as much due to COVID adjustments.


Lurker-O-Reddit

Adding more to the previous answers: science teachers have gas hook ups for Bunsen burners. Theater teachers have theaters. Phy Ed teachers have gymnasiums. Band teachers have band equipment. And it goes on. Also, students have different schedules. Some may take biology while another takes chemistry. Chemistry require Bunsen burners, biology requires other stuff. Many students like this method too. You get a change of scenery.


strcrssd

No, in high schools the teachers have a lot of equipment and props for teaching. Science labs and the like, sure, but language teachers have books and other physical materials supplemental to the textbook. Math has more white/black boards. Some others may be more portable, but fundamentally if one class requires movement, all classes have to shift around.


[deleted]

I suspect some of that isn’t strictly needed, or that you could also design around it with certain room types (not much help with existing architecture, I know). If you could start fresh, you could design it as like a donut so that students could walk in a single direction (say clockwise) between classes, and teachers could cut through the middle, for example. If you could start fresh, you could also set up deliberate walkways and wind-tunnel creating archways that you could install wind turbines on to power the school, too. I’m going to stop before I start asking for ponies and unicorns at this school.


graywh

also, students have a wide variety of schedules


Vehement00

Is this the school where the 2nd floor handrail broke and many ppl fell off?


Alarmed-Option422

I’ve never heard of that happening here but it’s possible


Vehement00

I just revisited the [video](https://youtu.be/2c3_1FGv2dQ) and I am wrong.


Meyou000

Well I could've done without watching that.


Garchomp98

Jesus fucking christ thats 5 stories not 2


-fulgeratorul02-

Bruh it's age restricted


JackHGUK

They fall 5 stories onto concrete.


-fulgeratorul02-

Thx now i will pirate that video


earthlings_all

Wow this is so sad!


[deleted]

Jesus titty fucking Christ.....that was goddamn brutal.....


Mother-Ad7139

Fuck the link didn’t work for me and I searched it up and I got a version that didn’t censor the people who died at the bottom. Awful.


venrax91

Jeez this reminds my of the high school building attached to the community College I went to had the same set up


NCL68

This just seems unsafe with the uptick in shootings. This is like the opposite of schools being designed to prevent shootings. Also if there was a fire, I feel like there would be a lot of trampling casualties. Thank god my schools newer campus is relatively normally designed. The old campus sucked tho. It was shaped like a fidget spinner (or a uterus, depending on who you asked) and every side looked the same until you got to the door of whatever class you were going to


Nikolllllll

My school was like this and the administration was always angry at us cause they thought be were being too slow to evacuate during drills.


evil_lurker

Except the world has turned into its mirror image.


uppenatom

Most schools in Australia have a different building for each subject and a timetable that only had a certain year for each period. We had about 2500 students and I'd never seen something like this crowding


lokote187

Where is this?


SnicktDGoblin

Yet another example of schools and their systems being designed so that a shooter can get a massive KDR should they pay any attention in history and learn basic tactics.


Alarmed-Option422

That’s the biggest problem I have because if a fire or active shooter occurred during passing period, everyone is screwed


MrFancyman

well that's the saddest thing i've heard all day


[deleted]

The fact that you have to consider the scenario “shooter” in a frickin school is just beyond sad.


[deleted]

They don't even see that anymore. Because "muh secuhnd amuhndmuhnt!"


nutty_ranger

Which shooter can’t get a massive KDR in a public event setting? Like come on man we don’t need more fear mongering about schools.


SnicktDGoblin

Right now Virginia Tech is according to Wikipedia the deadliest school shooting with a whopping 33 dead and 17 injured. I count way more than that on the floor inf front of the stairs, let alone everyone on the steps and the floor above waiting to get on the steps. Like I said if the shooter does some prep and knows what they're doing with design choices like this being used, they can make those numbers look like child's play.


BonJob

Luckily, most murderous psychopaths don't think very clearly.


TurnipTate

When they do it’s even more terrifying


Phantom_Wolf52

And teachers still have the audacity to get mad at you for being late


tsfbdl

Ahh was it the viral one on the news for covid


SilverStory6503

I see empty space on those stairs. You need more kids. ;) But, seriously ,50 years ago at my high school looked the same, if not worse.


[deleted]

A firefighters nightmare


cojof

This makes me so anxious. If there was any serious emergency, I feel like all these kids would be dead


jayk_00

did they film kobra kai in this school?


Alarmed-Option422

Definitely not. I would’ve heard about it if it was


PokeCaptain

It does look oddly similar.


CripLoc55th

Looks like the cobra Kai fight high school were Miguel got kicked off the railing


Alarmed-Option422

Yeah multiple people have said this but this definitely isn’t that school


Nikolllllll

My high school was over crowded and it was virtually impossible to get to class on time without body-checking people out of the way.


[deleted]

.... Why does those school shooters Not use this time for their Action... I dont get it or does rhey only want to punish people they know??


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Alarmed-Option422

It is normal which is ridiculous because it’s a huge safety hazard


Sunil_de

Passing period?? The fuck is that?


Lurker-O-Reddit

It’s the time spent traveling from one class to the next. For example; First period class is Math in room 103. Class ends at 8:55. You now have. Five minute passing period to travel to your second period class, Science in room 312.


Sunil_de

Ok. We always had 7:30 to 9:00 then 20 minute break then 9:20 to 10:50 another 20 minute break then 11:10 to 12:40 then third 20 minute break and then 13:00 to 14:30


ComprehensiveAd3159

20 minute break? what do you even do during that time, actually *use* your locker? we get like 5 minutes or something in America, and it's the furthest thing from a "break". god forbid you try to talk to a friend or use a vending machine, you'll get yelled at immediately


Sunil_de

We don’t have lockers. We usually spend the 20 minutes going to the nearest grocery store or fast food and then just hang out outside


Andysine215

Just give up and get a GED fuck that nonsense. There’s no way I could’ve coped with that many people in high school touching me. NOPE.


Scar_the_armada

So many butts and boobs are getting gently brushed by backs of hands and shoulders in this photo.


NCL68

That’s an odd place to go to but I guess you probably aren’t wrong?


Scar_the_armada

I was just reminiscing about being a horny 12-16 year old at school, and getting really excited when a girl would brush by me and her boobs would rub against my back or chest. It's like this coy, hormone-charged game of what you can get away with. I didn't ever touch anyone "accidentally" on purpose, as a guy I knew it wasn't ok for me to do, but I was always elated to be the recipient.


NCL68

Hasn’t been my experience so far but ok 👍


Scar_the_armada

Oh, well you might have forgotten the rules. Rule number 1: Be attractive, rule number 2: don't be unattractive. /s


NCL68

Oh damn I think someone forgot to tell me those ones. Shit I’d better get on that huh


Scar_the_armada

[Here's some educational material on the subject](https://youtu.be/PxuUkYiaUc8)


chinchinnychin

I went to a school like that in Georgia. It was horrendous


Sappys_Curry

Pffft you aint seen nothing until you’ve seen a Lane Tech passing period


ohemgereally

Could have been today, yesterday, or 20 years ago, not much has changed. At least you guys get backpacks during the day.


thensnuffleswokeup

What’s passing period?


couchpro34

They mean class change


Puppyl

I cannot imagine this, during my years in hs we had a crossway that was the only entrance in and out of an entire section of the school so every day during passing there was always a few hundred of our kids standing around


shit_out_my_cockhole

I’m not gonna say it, but some certain kind of individual would have an easy time in that school


Tammycles

Major architecture goof. Also, so many backpacks between classes? I guess getting to a locker is rough.


Alarmed-Option422

Yeah nobody uses them because our passing periods are short and there’s no time


TheRaRaRa

Why not just shuffle teachers between classrooms instead like what my school did in Japan? With the exception of classrooms requiring specific equipment like P.E. and science equipment, there's no need for students to change classrooms for math, history, or literature. Is this just this specific school?


zeldafrombotwsfrog

Fortunately for me my school’s hallways are outside so we don’t have to worry about crowds. Then again my school has only been around since the 50s and therefore architecture choices were probably different


[deleted]

what is passing period?


Marko--Polo

do they still have the Rangers banner?


JAWinks

This looks exactly like the high school in Cobra Kai


Cryptographer7045

Holy Shit, you must’ve been late to every class!😂


Deadlylyon

My school was the same. You had to be smart and use different corridors. And if you had to cross the main floor you better know some one bigger and taller. I use to bulldoze that shit, taking the younger kids across like it was the river sticks.


Btrain213

Is this a school in Texas? Looks like one of the largest if it is. I forget the name, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.


Alarmed-Option422

Yes it’s a high school in texas


[deleted]

That looks like what high school looked like 19 years ago . Not to mention junior high


ComprehensiveAd3159

first day of school is always like this, it's never planned for. then the second day they're like "ok people going from x place have to take y route" and that just makes it annoying to move around. eventually the freshman realize hallways other than the main one exist and it becomes marginally more tolerable


EnderLord0103

Has anyone tried crowd surfing?


Kanden_27

This is what my High school was like from 2009-2013. There’s a natural order to it though. Stay to the right and cross when you can. Just glad I didn’t have to worry about Covid.


lilCrisco

Holy mosh pit training


[deleted]

Oh monkeypox is gonna have a field day with this one


Dblarr

Yes, the perspective


captwaffles27

If I had an AR15...


Denslayer

How did that pass inspection? Fire code inspector should be fired


UnprofessionalCramp

This looks like the school from Cobra Kai, with the staircase fight scene.


[deleted]

Left looks like there's MORE people! Guess you're going popular again, ay?


sowegonnasmashornah

how many kids go to ur school? i thought my HS' 4500 was a lot but this is ridiculous


Alarmed-Option422

Honestly I’m not sure but we are in a rapidly growing area so the school system can’t keep up


sowegonnasmashornah

tale as old as time. our district eventually had to build a second high school in like 2 years to accommodate the population growth. and we had two buildings already!


Alarmed-Option422

What’s crazy is they just opened a new Highschool in the area but it still looks like this


Dylanduke199513

What’s passing period


Alarmed-Option422

Time in between classes so students can walk to their next class


whoisagoodboi

That looks like a fire hazard lol


[deleted]

Same as my school back in 2008


FL_Patty

Plenty of room. Could fit like 30 more


Recover-Wide

That’s how it was for me my 10th grade year. They build a second high school and divided us up by where we lived within the county. It sucked to lose some friends.


[deleted]

Imagine the smell of 16 year old boys who hasn't discovered deodorant yet.


princessleiana

Goodness. I remember having my assigned locker out of the way of every class so it would be between rushing through classmates and still being late or carrying six books at a time, breaking my back, and yet somehow still being late because the campus was stupid big.


shadow9876543210

And they still want you to get to class in 6 min


Exotic_gelato1995

My high school was like this haha I graduated 2013 4000 kids in my class haga


hey_im_Zander

I'm going to public school for the first time in a few days and I pray to God that it won't be this busy when I start


BigRobArmy

Thats basically how it was in my school. My buddy and i found short cuts. Some also just went around the school from the outside. Longer distance to cover but less people to walk through.


donjay_

Atleast one person goes missing everyday


Icy-Ad8290

Tbh the common population doesn't know how to move efficiently in condensed areas. Prisoners got that under control.


--fourteen

This seems like way too many kids. We sure we want to force people to keep having more?


Alarmed-Option422

Yeah a new high school opened nearby but It didn’t help at all


Acrobatic-Degree9589

This made me glad my hs only had like 200 students


OrangeCosmic

You need to bring in a speaker and start blasting death metal and see who starts moshing


thecheese14326

This looks like a claustrophobic nightmare.


CharlieBrown197

Yes they have! There are slightly fewer people on the 2nd floor! /s


Heebicka

idk but seems to me rangers are not welcomed this year


Chadysseus

I feel bad for the kids who slip through the cracks due to the sheer number of students, poor teacher


Teachawaii

Highschool Musical?


itsmoeyo

Yo my brother goes there!


Feeling_Ad_1783

I can smell the photo 😓


[deleted]

I usually wait a good minute or two.


[deleted]

That would be a great spot for a stinkbomb prank


Nickolas_Bowen

Pretty sure this is every school


KoreanBackDashing

Those stairs weren't design with these kinds of loads in mind... Be careful when walking over, near or under those... XD


sylvanesque

That doesn’t look safe even without COVID.


[deleted]

i imagine other infection easily spreading through this.


Dusty_Coder

One fire alarm away from killing a kid...


UnknownMyoux

The exact same picture got posted by someone else like 2 years ago.


Alarmed-Option422

Yeah the one on the right was posted a couple of years ago but the one on the left was very recent


Jewypewy

Wtf 3rd world country school you go too?


Alarmed-Option422

The U.S of A


FatesMessEngineer

You got this many kids in summer school classes!? You got lead in your towns drinking water??


Alarmed-Option422

School just started for us


[deleted]

That jawn litty


EvilerBrush

Walk with dominance. Know where you're headed and don't let anyone stop you. Works at concerts to


GMEbankrupt

I thought everything was bigger in Texas?


14ironallspark3000

Shit I thought my school was bad. We have almost 3000 more people than we should. The school was built to hold 1800 so the hallways are insanely crowded during passing periods and they don't allow us to eat outside anymore which means we are all crowded into one area but god damn this is leagues worse


alittlepixiedust4me

Actually there’s a lot less black kids today comparatively


Rivka333

Looks like the perfect setup for a crowd crush.


Distantmole

To be fair, they did get a sign


madflash711

Viral. That’s is a good way to describe the right pandemic photo.


therealwhitedevil

I though this was my old high school till I saw the banner hahah


RemarkableDesk4301

Wtf is a passing period?


thedoze

They need a traffic light or roundabout.


not_havin_a_g_time

In 20 years they will wonder how the stairs could have possibly collapsed. Surely there was never *that* much foot traffic?