I'm not sure what you mean by recess, if you call lunch "recess" in Norway. In the US, recess is playtime for elementary students from kindergarten to 5th grade. In grades after that there isn't any break time except for lunch (at my high school they had lunch set in three periods, each broke in half, so there were six 20 minute half periods for lunch; the other half of the period we had to go up to a study area to study before moving onto the next period. Each student of course only got one 20 minute half period of lunch a day.) People that pretty much got straight A's in everything, were the ones that gained the special privilege of being able to go off campus for a whole period for lunch.Jonluw said:You aren't allowed to leave campus during recess? That's strict...
I haven't really gotten in any trouble at all at school.
Since the OP is from America and with his date of birth show, he is obviously in high school. I don't know about his high school, but I would say the only break time they have as well is lunch. I'm surprised they let just anybody off campus during lunch. It is no wonder why they had to stop doing it. If they did that at my high school when I was there, I would say at least 100 kids (1/17th of my high school) would just walk of campus and not come back till the next day.