a lot of anxious and depressed people during the dark ages, 75% chance of being murdered, and then there was that darn plague,.. could've made a fortune selling tetracycline.

I was a school crossing guard in the 5th and 6th grade. My post was usually two blocks from school, over a hill, out of sight from school. I had a yellow flag on a pole and I would stop traffic so kids could cross the street. I don't think a lot of high schoolers could handle that today. There were probably 5 or 6 of us at "remote" locations around school. Totally unsupervised.

Hell, high school students drove the school buses back in those days, too! Beyond comprehension today!

I don't know. Lots of elementary and middle schools out here and they ALL have crossing guards, lots of em, in plain sight and basically in front of or across the street from school. Traffic demands it and the kids don't mind.

There is an elementary school about 1/4 mile from the local high school so there are lots of kids from both schools who use the same main intersection. By default, the high school kids occasionally get a crossing guard....they don't care.

Believe it or not, I am really glad to hear that. At the middle school where I taught, we even had to walk the 8th graders to lunch!

What could happen to them between the classroom and the lunchroom?

In the 8th grade, anything. Fights, yelling, trashing bathroom, disrupting the library, general mayhem!

Kids will be kids.

I don't think what he meant but our elementary school crossing guards were 6th graders. I believe one of them's name was Cartman.

Yes, we (5th and 6th) graders were the guards for our elementary (1-6) school. We were “the big kids.”