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scriver058
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2 things that came to mind while reading this: it confirmed to me that uwabaki is real, as it was a term I heard in The Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift and was never sure of. Second and last, locking the door to the roof to avoid student suicides? I think the only manga/anime I've seen that might be true to this is Gantz, as one of the main characters in the beginning of the series is revealed to have killed himself via that very method if I recall correctly.
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Saidah Gilbert
Posts: 28 Location: Trinidad and Tobago |
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GTO had students threaten and actually jump off the roof.
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CandisWhite
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I'm sure it varies by school but leaving school for lunch is not that radical of a thing to do. I'm a Canadian and kids, both when I went to school and currently, are let to go off campus all of the time to buy things for lunch or eat elsewhere; You just have to make sure you're back in time for class: I went to a country school with a cafeteria, a snack bar, vending machines, and kids still walked down the road to the convenience store; Nowadays, I see droves of city kids out and about at lunchtime whenever I'm in town. I would imagine that schools that have real problems with wild kids are the ones forbidding students to leave campus but I see this more as an outlier than the norm. |
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Chiibi
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What the heck; we were NEVER allowed to do that. O_____O (I live in PA; that is absolutely unheard of.) |
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SaneSavantElla
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Well, I'm among those who thought the rooftop hangout was real! When I was in high school, the rooftop was open only to the astronomy club, who are of course are allowed to setup their telescopes there, and not even every day. I got a chance to take a peek at our rooftop once, and answerman has got it right. It's full of puddles, moss, and litter.
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ShaolinWolf
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I also thought the rooftop hangout was real, but only because it's quite common in live action Japanese films as well. A lot of which are based on manga, which explains things.
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ultimatehaki
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The roof thing was fake this whole time!? My life is a lie. |
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CCTakato
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garlogan78
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Yeah, at the school I work at the stairs going higher than the forth floor are blocked off, and there is a sign saying do not enter. I've never even seen the roof.
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Chiibi
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Lol don't worry; All that shrine stuff you see in anime IS spot-on. I almost freaked when I saw a giant tree wrapped in rope and talismans just like it came straight out of Inuyasha. 
Also MCDONALD'S IS THE UNIVERSAL SCHOOL KID HANGOUT. I'm serious. They were everywhere. Pretty much all the food-related stuff is accurate, as well as the vending machines.
Aside from Denny's, they even have restaurants like Outback Steak House which surprised me, actually. |
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PurpleWarrior13
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We were allowed to leave campus during lunch, but only if we were over 18. Very few did though, because we were in the middle of nowhere, and there weren't many convenient places to go in 30 minutes. |
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Wandering Samurai
 Posts: 875 Location: USA |
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Depends on the school. If the school is an older building and they haven't really done any work or renovations then you might have shoe spaces that are open just like my middle school was. In the case of my high school which had a recently constructed building, our lockers were right outside our classrooms and they actually were lockable. |
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GracieLizzy
 Posts: 551 Location: Sunderland, England, UK |
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In Britain having to stay at school over lunch tends to be the norm until your final two or three years in school sometimes then you can leave for lunch. Didn't stop younger kids from sneaking out I know the local pizza take away used to be full of them on lunch times. The older kids were not unknown for going to the pub either.
As for roof access I find the concept of even an accessible roof bizzare. Our top floors didn't have stairs or access to the roof because British buildings are just not built like that and I am not sure the roof would take the weight of people walking about on it well. Only beings you see on our roofs are seagulls and pigeons. |
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masat01
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Kansai College? |
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vonPeterhof
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@masat01 Nope, the Osaka YMCA Japanese Language School.
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