Students at US in the 1970s were given great personal freedom and space, with responsibility and consequences for pushing the rules - expulsion for going over certain lines, like cheating and lying. By Junior and Senor year we left campus for lunch and to take classes at other schools, etc - we were encouraged to push the learning envelop.

When you pushed a rule too far, you received pink slips. I had the most pink slips (given by Cosmo DiBiasio, a former WWII Navy officer) for minor infractions ever, I was told at the time, which meant I vacuumed and cleaned chalk boards pretty much every Friday afternoon junior and senior year, and got to know the small cleaning and maintenance crew and other pink slip boys (about half of us were regulars) pretty well. There were usually about a dozen of us and we cleaned the school. Took us about an hour for our assignment and we got exercise. I planned my week around that.

More serious offenses came up, and were handled pretty fairly. After a weekend retreat the school organized Junior year, a kid who smoked pot on the retreat (everyone smoked pot then, and now) got pinned into confessing by his parents and he narc'ed on most of the class - everyone he had seen smoke pot. The school conducted an internal investigation and a few kids who were narc'ed out as supplying were expelled (they shouldn't have been) - kids who were narc'ed as having just smoked were suspended for the rest of the year. We were expected to follow our coursework from home, turn in homework, and take our tests at school Saturdays - and work around the school after we took our tests on Saturdays as well. I learned how to glaze windows and do other useful things those Saturdays. The only times we went to school were for our AP tests and a few special events. Worked out great, and I had time to paint my parents' house and get in shape.

The kid who sold diet pills as speed... the kid who blew up the science lab to try and burn up the gradebooks (guess he was failing, which is not a good thing at US)... they definitely got expelled.

A very fair and resonable approach to keeping order and house. We had lots of freedom because our families believe in freedom, even for their kids. Our rules were based more on responsibility to learn right - NO CHEATING OR YOU WERE OUT - but if you were late or even when a group of kids were caught smoking pot, if we weren't in the business of selling drugs or skipping school entirely we were punished but reasonably - as the parents want to be treated themselves.

And we dressed like reasonable adults going to work each day - professionally for our aspirations.

I guess I always wanted to be a punk rocker.

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No pretending here - live in Cleveland die about 16 years younger than necessary, of a horrible pollution related condition not found in nature.

Get those kids out.

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