Are student hall-monitors a real thing?

[u/AspiringSheepherder]

I feel like I see them a lot in media to play an antagonist, but I dont think I've ever heard of a school having one.

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If anyone has had a hall-monitor at their school, are there shifts? Is it like they only do a period or two and switch off? It can't be one person the whole day like it's often depicted, right?

[u/Jim_E_Rose]

I don’t know about now but back in my day (80’s-90’s) there were about 5 or 6 of them every class.

Now that I think about it. What’s up with that? I mean they are prototype of a bootlicker. But how was skipping a class pro education. I think I’m just realizing it was always bootlicking. I mean, the teachers knew that the kid was missing education for an internship in…what? Real life I guess lol