…But why do you need an object to go to the bathroom? Does it unlock the magic bathroom door?
a hall pass is a thing you can show to school staff to prove you’re wandering the halls with your teacher’s permission, not skipping class. once upon a time it was a piece of paper, but people kept losing those, so around the time i was in high school, teachers started taping the school-issued cardstock hall pass to things like blocks of wood, plastic flowers, and plush toys, to make them harder to lose.
apparently it wasn’t enough.
Also people would steal them so they could have a get out of jail free card if they got caught skipping class.
It’s a little bit easier to find a stolen giant pencil than it is to find a stolen hall pass
This is eaxctly why hall passes have gotten so extreme.
this is fucking surreal and only adds more weight to my theory that the american public school system is (barely) held together by a dark and arcane magic
Our hall pass was a fucking lanyard for every class and my at the time and current boyfriend stole the one for our math class and gave it to me to use for my car keys
Richard Foster, The Foster House, Wilton, Connecticut, 1967
Funny story; in my town we had a very similar structured home owned by the Barker family. It became a really iconic home because you could see it peeking out of a local mountain. They eventually sold the property to the county, who let the place just go to shit for years and become destroyed by vandalism and parties. The county has decided to tear it down as it was finally deemed unable to be handicap accessible ;(
