Some students said they were frightened or could not sleep.

The students sleep in their House dormitories, which branch off from the common rooms.

For example, one scene shows an English Literature class listening to records while students in the back row are sleeping.

Lectures these days are generally looked down upon as money savers for colleges, the fastest way to put students to sleep.

That night, teachers and students slept in the same dorms behind locked doors.

Matt Vosburgh, 17, a senior, said that while students might sleep later, he was not in favor of the switch.

The students made shelters out of refrigerator boxes and slept in them.

Many students sleep through class, exhausted by the ordeal outside it.

If it wasn't for his sneezing, his students would sleep through them.

Some special schools offer boarders, this is where students can sleep and live at school during the week, or for the whole school term.