If we were, no one ever told us, and no one I knew ever did. If nothing else, to do so, we would have had to skip lunch entirely, because we weren’t allowed to be in the halls without a pass signed by a teacher, and there would not have been anyone in the cafeteria to write one.
Admittedly, after 9th grade I stopped taking lunch so I could fit in an extra elective. Also in 9th grade, we had 4 instances of students calling in fake bomb threats in order to get out of class, and ended up with much stricter rules about who could be where, when, than had been the case prior. For example, outside of lunch periods, all but one bathroom in the whole high school was locked, so if you asked for a pass to go use it, then depending on where you were it might mean missing close to 10 minutes of class just to get there and back, or to find out which one was open that day. And they banned teachers from giving out more than one pass at a time, for any reason.
If we were, no one ever told us, and no one I knew ever did. If nothing else, to do so, we would have had to skip lunch entirely, because we weren’t allowed to be in the halls without a pass signed by a teacher, and there would not have been anyone in the cafeteria to write one.
Admittedly, after 9th grade I stopped taking lunch so I could fit in an extra elective. Also in 9th grade, we had 4 instances of students calling in fake bomb threats in order to get out of class, and ended up with much stricter rules about who could be where, when, than had been the case prior. For example, outside of lunch periods, all but one bathroom in the whole high school was locked, so if you asked for a pass to go use it, then depending on where you were it might mean missing close to 10 minutes of class just to get there and back, or to find out which one was open that day. And they banned teachers from giving out more than one pass at a time, for any reason.