Did you (do you) have a homeroom class in your middle school or high school?

In my Junior High School, grades 7–9, we had homeroom.
My homeroom teacher was rumored to be a former playboy centerfold.

@filmfann Was homeroom a full class period? Was it the first class of the day? A jelly on another Q just said hers could be any time of day.

In 7th and 8th grade, homeroom was whatever your first period class was. There was an extra five minutes at the end of the class for announcements over the PA system. We also had a half hour homeroom/homework period at the end of the day.

There were no homerooms in high school. There were announcements made for five minutes just before “brunch” after second period. Our mascot was The Vikings, so the announcements were called “KVIK”.

Home room in junior high.

We had homeroom, bit it wasn’t reserved for announcements. We got announcements in first period class, whatever it was.
It would be such a waste of valuable time to set aside a special class for announcements, and then waste 5 minutes while the students transitioned to their first class.

@Dutchess_III That’s why my school got rid of it, the time walking to another class was such a waste.

^^^^^ So when did you get your announcements after they did away with it?

In middle school (6th-8th) yes. It was not a full class period. I don’t remember the length, but it was shorter and was when announcements and student council stuff was done.

We didn’t have it in high school. We just went straight to first period at the beginning of the day.

Yes, in high school we did; it only lasted 15 minutes…it was to call roll and make announcements.

We had home room in junior high. It was whatever class you had for first period.

We did announcements in first period. Attendance was taken each period.

I think it was the same length as other periods? But honestly, can’t remember for certain.

I didn’t have home room in high school. Also, you could take a zero period in high school.

At our local middle school, home room can be any period. I thought that was weird.

Why would it be weird @raum?

In Jr High home room was also called study hall. We were supposed to do homework and study, LOL!

It’s not a free period. It’s a subject. I think it’s weird because isn’t the whole point to have each kid assigned to one home room when they have school-wide lists? How does it work when all the kids are shuffling around and home room are all different periods? And doesn’t it make sense to get stuff like announcements all done at once?

We had study hall in high school, it was an elective. I took it one semester. We could get our homework done or nap. Lol.

@Dutchess_III We got announcements in first period when they changed it to first period combined with homeroom. The first period was longer than the other periods in the day so it didn’t cut into that teacher’s teaching time.

Think we did in middle school, not sure about high school. I hated high school, quit at like 15 or so.

Homeroom was about 20 minutes.

Junior high no, high school yes a short period. Changed school systems and states between Jr hi and high school.

No, that’s not a thing in Germany. We went through middle school in a fixed group of thirty and had a class teacher who “handled” us and also taught maths and art. In high school, there were no more set groups, but we had two teachers who were in charge of our year (~150 students). I think announcements were made by those guys visiting, say, all the different German lessons for a day or two. That way, because German (and English and Maths) classes were compulsory, they’d reach everyone.

What are all those announcements made in American schools? For us, announcements seemed rare and special. I can’t imagine getting them regularly.

Oh, what was for lunch that day, stuff like that.

All through high school, I think it was like a half an hour. We did nothing and I don’t know what it even was for.

It had to be the same length as every other period or it would throw the whole school off.

It didn’t though, it seemed to fudge the time back making the day even.

Hmm. So when the students were released they just barged into classes that were already in session? Or where did you go?

Everyone had homeroom at the same time

Interesting.

It was the first class before the day started. Google says it’s for attendance and announcements but that’s not what we did in mine. I mainly flirted with a girl I was sweet on and I often skipped to have a smoke. I can’t remember any announcements either.

My homeroom for High School was in the Gym. The school was bursting at it seams and also had 7 outdoor portable classrooms. There were 4 other Homerooms that gathered in the same Gym space. We lined up on the lowest row of the wooden seats that at times were pushed in against the wall.
My Homeroom teacher was on the US Olympic Curling Team.
Good Times.

I skipped 6th grade. 7th and 8th grade were in a private school and the “homeroom” was a classroom you were in for the majority of the day, so it wasn’t an actual homeroom in the sense that you were there briefly and then went to other rooms all day. For high school, I had a homeroom where you were there for a brief time first thing in the morning for attendance, announcements.

My daughter is in high school now and their home room is not first thing in the morning. To me it makes no sense but it is what it is.

No, only in lower school (K-5), and it was just “the fourth grade class room” not “home room”.

The day started there, a place for each student to store stuff, and most lessons were there. English, Math, History, Science. Language, Music, PE, and other activities were in other places.

In middle school and upper school, there was a short morning meeting for the entire middle (or upper) school. IIRC, it was daily in middle school, and weekly in upper school, but in upper school on the other days of the week, there was an equivalent meeting with an advisor who would have 6–10 students (from mixed upper school grades) in their room.

I didn’t mention in my original answer but in our high school the homeroom was used as a way to narrow (unfairly I want to say) the field for anything that was elected by students, whether it was the quasi beauty pageant participants or who’s who. Each homeroom elected their nominee. No one liked the system because too often three great nominees were in the same homeroom and other homerooms had little to offer. When the school elected “Friendliest Student,” The kids should make the nominations as a student body. Anyway, it came to mind and I realize I feel as irritated about it now as I did then.