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The “American” school experience is so varied from state to state, and even between districts in the same state. There is definitely different rules, culture & curriculum in each school. We have private, public and charter schools. Your experience could be vastly different from your neighbors depending on what school you attend. I live in PA and in some districts students in public school must wear uniforms as well. That changed about 30yrs ago now.
Odds are the reason he's taking time during class to work on a school project is not because he didn't prepare efficiently, it's because his teacher has specifically chosen not to teach anything new that day and give the students time to work on their presentations in class. It's beneficial for everyone involved, the students don't have to coordinate with each other outside of school hours to do a project together and the teacher doesn't have to spend as much time preparing her lesson plans for the week.
Most U.S. public schools have a number of lunch periods. The schools are so large that it isn't really feasible for them all to break at once, whether they eat in the cafeteria or not.
Schools in America come in all forms and can be vastly different. Especially if it's a different type of school, such as Charter, Boarding, Private, Public, or more special ones that are rarely known. Private schools are privately funded, usuallythe parents of students have to pay a pretty penny for the enrollment (assuming their kid passes an entrance exam if the school has one). Thus, the state government has no hand in its construction or operation and thus is not always the best when it comes to resources. But private schools typically have tougher education programs than public schools since you are making the investment. Charter schools are a type of public school that is not highly looked upon normally and is falling out of fashion. And boarding schools are also almost gone, but some still exist.
What you mean when you say Charter school is not the same type of school as Charter schools in other states. In some states Charter schools are basically private schools that have great academic standards but aren't founded for religious reasons, like a private Catholic school.
Requiring school uniforms just means you have to buy a whole other set of outfits twice a year. Jackets, coats and all. It certainly doesn't save anyone any money. Kids know the differences anyway, they're not dumb.
Exactly! The poor kids in uniforms will still not fit in with the rich kids in uniforms. I've always wondered if the main purpose is to indoctrinate a certain conformity into kids. I see all the uniforms and it makes me think of a bunch of cogs in a machine.
True, maybe not fluently, but America is a major melting pot, we're hearing different languages everyday so we pick up some stuff. I know a bit of a lot of languages because of this.
What s a lot. Its not like Europe and other countries when a second language is common. But like many issues Americans think we are the world standard and don't do anything that other countries do. The stats prove that. Bad in Education is a great example**
@@jacklong7048 The two dominating languages in the US are english and spanish. I haven't lived in the north, but most people I've known in California and the south (oklahoma, texas, georgia, florida) speak both languages well enough to understand.
In a lot of US schools there's 3 lunches because there's so many people in school we had A lunch which was 11:00-11:30 and B lunch which was 11:30-12:00 and then there's C lunch which is 12:00-12:30 which is typically when the average American has lunch.
A lot of people don’t have a lot of resources at home depending on their financial circumstances. Which is why try have ALOT of resources accessible at school ( family full of teachers talking )
You do wear school uniforms at private school (such as Catholic schools) but don’t wear them at public schools. Also just looked at his RU-vid channel and he is now officially in college! I believe he also lived in France for a time so that might explain him knowing French.
Some public schools wear uniforms. It depends on what the school community wants(parents and school). This student is an AP/IB student with a heavy academic, athletic and social load. Many high achieving students use every minute of their time and advantages to get tasks done efficiently and effectively. So, he knows that he has time and access to get that project done before it is due. He wasn't twiddling his thumbs the night before; he was accomplishing another goal.
It's always funny to me when people who aren't from the US who have grown up with American media are surprised to find out that highscools here are actually what you see in the movies, it's not just Hollywood fiction, lmao
You think Hollywood depicts high school factually ? A HS in Green Bay, Wisconsin or Omaha, Nebraska or Norcross, GA are similar to what you would see in Hollywood movies ?
Some public schools wear uniforms. It depends on what the school community wants(parents and school). This student is an AP/IB student with a heavy academic, athletic and social load. Many high achieving students use every minute of their time and advantages to get tasks done efficiently and effectively. So, he knows that he has time and access to get that project done before it is due. He wasn't twiddling his thumbs the night before; he was accomplishing another goal.
His school operates differently from how mines was, we did some stuff differently and hoods were not tolerated. Schools are not the same every where in America though. My school was very strict but chill at the same time.
Damn, my first period class in High School started at 7:40am! I'm jealous. Granted I graduated in 2007 which was like the transition between myspace/facebook era of social media...but NO WAY IN HELL would we be allowed to film around the school like this. If you were even caught with your phone out during class, the teacher would take it. We also didn't have smart phones though and texting wasn't big yet.
My high school started at 7:30 and got out at 2pm, so a later day is much better. Teenagers aren’t wired to be up so early and be able to function. I’m jealous!
No one stands for the Pledge anymore shock😮… in the 90s we had to stand, face the flag, put our hands over our hearts and say the pledge after the playing of the national anthem every morning. The pledge had to be said in synchronicity so it wasn’t every rushed… now that I type this out, it does sound like North Korea a bit 😂
Some public schools in America do have school uniforms. A judge in Texas ruled that a public school can't force a kid to wear a uniform unless it's to participate in an extracurricular activity such as football, baseball, band or cheer. Even in Texas some public schools have uniforms because the parents go along with it. They tried it where we live but we printed out the case law and dropped it on their desk and it didn't continue.
I'm glad we didn't have uniforms. I don't like the idea of molding everyone to be the same. America is about individuality, and not forcing everyone to conform.
Chapel Hill is home to a famous university and one part of “The Triangle” in NC which is a bit wealthier than most of the state but by no means would I say Chapel Hill is wealthy. Wealthy parents sent them to UNC (or scholarship) but the surrounding town was the same as the rest of us. Private schools have their own dress codes and uniforms are not unheard of. My child goes to 2nd grade at a private arts school and she had a uniform to wear (black or khaki pants, navy/gold/purple/white polo shirt) until recently when they did away with the dress code. Now the kids can wear what they want and I’m stuck with two years of khakis and polos my kid doesn’t want to wear.
In America it's incredibly commen at least in the midwest for kids to get jobs at 14 or 15. Along with that extracurriculars and sports take up much or all of peoples time. For example sports practices tend to go from 3-6 6-8 and in some cases 9-11. Along with that attending competitions can last 3 hours to all day. And in many cases kids won't get home from events until 10 or 11pm. So it's very common for highschoolers to work on things during class
Along with thus not being sufficiently prepared for a project also stems from not having access to materials to make things. For example majority of American households don't have printers let alone colored printers.
I was the class of 1999 and at my rural Central Illinois we had warning bell at 7:40 in the morning before homeroom starting at 7:45 in which the pledge of allegiance was every Monday and then morning announcements followed by Channel One national student info media broadcast. Then 7 classes a day of 47 minutes with 5 minutes between. Lunch was either 5A 5B or 5C basically lunch was before start of 5th period or split period or you ate after 5th period. Meaning early lunch around 12:10 or late lunch at 12:57. School was out at 2:40 keep in mind if you rode the bus, I would get home almost an hour later if drove my car be home in 20 minutes. So, in the morning i Would have to be at the bus stop by 6:45 which is why driving my car after i bought one was the only way to go to School (I liked to sleep in with all the hanging out after school and work an extra 15 minutes is nice). My Best friend went to the Illinois Math and Science Academy. a campus style living in a dorm school for above average and AP gifted students whose cost was more than public but less than fully private school. (His second language course he took was Russian to my Spanish lol) but summer vacation was the same, so we partied and went to concert after concert every summer. All pre smart phone pretext message and I went from Keyboarding class on apple II e's with dot matrix printers, to computer animation and AutoCAD 14 on MacPowerPC's with full laser printers. Oh, and the beginning of the internet age in all that.
The highschool I went to is a classic in more ways than one. The building dates from the late 19th century, and a few of the classrooms still have the desks that are bolted into the wood floor with industrial sized bolts. It is also exceptionally old. In fact, and I make no jest while saying this, it is the oldest highschool in the nation. The Academy of Richmond County dates all the way back to 1793. Originally built as a couple of wooden buildings with a few teachers and a couple of rectors, it eventually got a stone mason building. The school then moved from the stone mason building to the current building, with the old school building retrofitted into the Medical College of Georgia. My highschool also created another college when the extended three years of schooling in the early 19th century became Augusta State University when it moved to the former Augusta Arsenal when the military base was closed and merged with Camp Gordon ( now Fort Gordon and center of the American signal corps ). In the early days of the Academy of Richmond County, the early American republic wanted new public schools and they were named academies after the Greek academies. George Washington once visited the school. He was visiting a few politicians in Augusta, which was the state capital at the time. He was described as most spirited ( too drunk to ride his horse ), and decided to wait till his spirited from became more tamed. He passed the time listening to the oral reports that were part of the graduation ceremony of one of the early graduations. The school was small at the time, had 11 students, and a graduating class of 3 students with one boy and two girls. George Washington was so impressed that he rewarded the students each with a book on Greek plays personally signed by the president. The current descendants of those students still have the books, and have staunchly refused to give up their books to display in museums.
The thing about the buses is that they only come directly to your house until about high school, or at least thats how it was for me, when I was in high school we would all go to one arean and wait for the bus.
in cali (probably other place but idc) a lot of the schools dont have hallways its just has classrooms that you walk directly into and it sucks because of the heat here
My school day was from 8 till 3:30, with homeroom, 1st period then got on a bus went across town to a vocational school done 2 hrs of electronics back to school ate lunch 5th and 6th period back on a bus to home.
I think our schools schedule was 7:50am-2:50pm. I had practice everyday from 3:00ish-5:00ish pm. If it was a game day you actually got to leave your last period early 😊.
My High School in Sparks, NV had a small area about 100' between fences that was technically considered off campus. That's where us 'stoners' would smoke (stuff) cigarettes between classes. Security guards would watch us but legally we were off campus so they left us alone. Emma & Wayne were are security guards and they were really cool. They respected us and we respected them......We kinda guarded each other.
Him getting out at 4pm really disgusted me😭The last time i was in school that long was elementary school, my highschool would get out at 2:15pm but yayy university schedule is so flexible 💜
2:45. Public Schools in the US don't have uniforms. Private schools/Catholic/Religious Affiliation schools in the US have uniforms. My high school uniform for my Catholic High School was a white shirt, maroon tie, blue slacks, & either a maroon, white, or blue sweater vest. 7:20. Chapel Hill North Carolina. You got the East Coast correct. 11:00. For all those people that think that Americans only speak English, I had French class from 6th grade (age 11) until Freshman year in college (age 19). I am more or less fluent in French.
Public schools depending on state and district do have uniforms. My nephew goes to charter school wears a uniform and niece now in public school from a private all girl school also wears a uniform. Next year, her public HS does not require one, but my nephews public HS next year does. Same county, different district.
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Also, when it comes to clothing regulations, all schools have them, but public schools are very relaxed. Thus, hoods are usually allowed. But some teachers may ask, or require, for hoods to be down. Private schools will not allow anything but the uniform. Perhaps shoes, socks, or ties are allowed to be custom, but that's it and varies from private school to private school. Makeup falls under those regulations, so it varies as well. The public school i went to had no rules against it as long as it wasnt aggregious. The private school I went to never allowed makeup until a private high school I went to allowed simple makeup. Piercings are a touchy subject depending on the school, both in private and public ones. But that's because of conservative school boards and parents.
I’m thinking the banner Duke that you see in one of the computer rooms is Duke University which is in North Carolina. It’s also one of the prestigious and highly competitive university here in the US. Not sure if Duke funds some of the classes in this school, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. There are some universities that does that for some US public high schools. The high school name is Chapel Hill High School which makes sense that’s in North Carolina if I put 1+1 together.
It's definitely fall time because the leaves look like they are changing. Could be anywhere from like upstate New York all the way through new England.
For College dress at least for me it depended on what time the class started. I had one class that started at 630am twice a week one year that I only showed up looking good on presentation days.
Ah so he’s in chapel hill, yeah that’s North Carolina but judging at least by his after class footage that seems prett quiet since in the HS I went to in Raleigh it was a wave of kids especially on the stairs. One big difference I saw between that school and our is we got there at 7 in the morning and left at 2 pm
9a-3:40p?? I had to be at my bus stop at 5:50a bc the driver wouldn’t wait even if they were early. Regular pick up time was 6a but they would often pick up earlier than that😂 We got to school at around 6:45-7a. We would wait in the cafeteria if we got there really early but usually it was straight to class. Classes started at 7:05 and we got out at 4:05p.
As the others say about the late lunch, he started school late, so it probably has staggered start times to handle the overpopulation, hence all the construction going on. That’s rare for a teacher to let students out of a class. But, he’s in an advanced (French) class, where the students are more likely to be trustworthy.
In the us most public school don't require you to wear a uniform, although private schools and some charter schools make you wear uniforms (some public schools as well, it just depends). Most of the things in his video vary from school, but a lot of it is similar to what americans experience in school. Also I think the school he went to is in Missouri because on his way to one of his classes I was a mizzou carpet, which is a college in Missouri.
This video is in North Carolina. I'm old enough to remember girls were only allowed to wear skirts or dresses. There was one day a year that we could wear jeans or shorts. That was the 1950s and 1960s. I substitute taught in high schools in the area where we live now, and the students are so much freer. One school my daughters attended was in the shape of a square, and the halls were the perimeter of it. They had to walk only in one direction. If they passed their class, they had to walk around the building again.
one of my teachers called my friend a filthy fucken animal and threw a stool at him (in his direction) this teacher taught science, only calls you by ur last name military style, had one eye, blasted heavy metal all class, broke glass in class for a lesson, gave me a key to the school, and legit told me to thrive as a pyromaniac and let me light fires all class... LEGEND hands down my all time favorite teacher
Some schools allow you to pick your lunch period, which was the greatest thing ever. Any period you wanted. I picked last period every year. So I could just leave 45 minutes before school technically let out. They sold soft pretzels (Philly, Pa) everyday in the hallway, and they worked great for a cheap lunch replacement. Filled you up, and were quiet to eat in class.
It's been a while when I was in HS. But I never even ate in the Cafeteria, either brought a bag lunch from home ate in courtyard or Walked to Food truck on corner outside of school or on Friday drove out to eat and went back. Had older friends with cars, or skipped lunch and went to library if i had a test. At the time, my HS was lenient on clothing regulations. Tank top, shorts and flip flops senior year. Had all AP classes and in gifted program. Yep, I enjoyed HS. Now same HS has required school uniforms, cannot leave campus for lunch. OMG ! 🤫😮😵
In my HS lunch revolved around 5th period. My sophomore year i had 5th hour vstudy hall, and my lunch was after it. It was nice just having two classes after lunch.
It is is Durham, NC, I hope it's not the exact high school where there would be a nearby mass shooting in the Durham Community by a nearby high school student, in 2022 (which I'm guessing woukd be after the original video was filmed).
Times sure have changed since I was in high school! No computers. No, we didn’t have uniforms but we had a dress code. This looks like a pretty affluent school. Schools vary a lot from town to town, district to district, etc. Certainly not like this in most inner city schools.
Well when I was in achool Id have to get up around 6:15a.m. to get my shower, do my makeup and roll my hair and eat breakfast and my mother would carry me to school and we had to be un class by 8a.m. And school ended at 3p.m. So it was always hard un the mornings because it was so early. And my school didn't get uniforms until Inwas in 6th grade. I think most schools did away with that later. But every school is a little different. Ive been to public school, christian school and private school and home school. Beleive it or not but I did even better in home school. Away from all the distractions and having one on one time with my mother who taught me. Though I made mostly As in school snd ocassional B+ in math. I still noticed a positive difference in home schooling. Also I was more mature than kids my age who got on my nerves and I think i was just over the school scene and I just wanted to finish sooner and I did. I went to GED CLASSES and then took my test and passed. Now I have an older cousin who has a very high IQ. He tested at just below a genius, and he was already in college at 16 years old. So if you dont want to wait around 2 years when you already know the jist of it all and just want to be dome with it and go on to college then I guess you just have to do whatever makes you happy. Bit everybody else is different.
Like others have mentioned, there are differences in school attire, where some school districts require uniforms, some have casual dress codes, but see-through backpacks, School Spirit weeks where the various team sport players wear their team jerseys - respective of the season/sport, and there's also schools that may have JROTC units, where like in the UK, the cadets wear their respective service's military uniforms once a week. And lest we forget, those "wonderful" PE/PT uniforms😜
Chapel Hill is in North Carolina, the Duke banner (Duke University is in Durham, North Carolina), and Max's friend saying he is going to NC (North Carolina) State were dead giveaways. At my high school, males were required to wear collared shirts, we could wear shorts, pants, or jeans (as long as they weren't blue, which made no sense to me). Shirts tucked in, belted shorts/pants, but free reign with shoes. Nikes/Converse/Reebok ruled (early/mid '90's).
The schools in research triangle which is Raleigh Durham, and Chapel Hill is known for a lot of large companies and corporations that every one wants to move to the area all the tech companies Medical etc. everyone from the North move there. Google, Apple etc are there
In Indianapolis, up until, 1999, we wore whatever we wanted. In 2000, we started to have a prescribed uniform for your HS. That’s so the truancy cops could identify what schools you belonged to. My brother could leave for lunch, we couldn’t! The 1989 class could do so much more! We rebelled! We can buy cigarettes and grandfathered in! But, they cut it to 18! We didn’t have to wear seatbelts, but we were taught to wear them. Now, it is a requirement! From a $25 ticket to $50 to $185 fine. And, that $185 ticket now carries a point value! In 1989 I was sent home to change, because I had my balls hanging out of my cut off jeans shorts in my Calvin Klein shorts to change! Lol!
We have a lot of "traditional" schools in the U.S. that mandate a uniform for both boys and girls. Both my children went an elementary school that required uniforms.
In Florida my high school got their funding based on “seat time” so we had no study hall we had a period where we could do online classes that’s probably what’s happening. In FL you can do 100% online school if you want but the quality is so bad lol I learned nothing some kids finished entire classes in 2 weeks just to be done. Edit: my cousin went to school in North Carolina and they had block schedule where you only have 4 classes a day that’s probably what this person has since his classes are so long! In FL I had 7 classes a day my friends in New York had 9 classes a day and their schedule would alternate every other day! So each high school and middle school is vastly different. In my high school we also didn’t have AP classes like 90% of the Us schools do we had Cambridge AICE classes so I legit got my A level but none of the colleges even know what to do with it it’s basically useless here lol! I had to sit for exams and they got Sent to the uk to be graded I had my highschool diploma for over a month but had to keep going to school after I graduated to sit for Cambridge exams lol that’s highly unusual!
New comment because screw essay comments! It's rather common to have rather chill teachers whom are very friendly in the US! Most of the funny and chillest are our history teachers so much so it's a stereotype! Mine was hilarious btw! Once you're done with your class work, they don't assign busy work, but you then have free time to do what you want for the most part. Depends on the state, school, and teacher really. As far as I can tell, it's rather more commonplace to be able to do what you want as long as you're keeping to yourself, or others whom finished their work too. My highschool history teacher commonly would do things from just chat with kids and joke around, to watch videos with kids, to telling us funny things he learned in German as a kid, etc. Edit: around 12:36 it's rather common for teachers to send kids to faculty printers to grab materials for the class at times. Which kids go aren't always the same, or could be older seniors during a special class called cadet teaching where your class is to help the teacher of another class as an assistant. Hoods up in the US because people get cold easily since they keep the indoors at like 15.55°C to 17.77°C, and it is probably closer to 3°C outside in that video. Cold enough that there's ice at the beginning on his roof, which is common throughout most of the US at times of the year.
I attended both public and private schools, with public school accounting for the majority of mah learnin'. Neither of them would have tolerated the hood being up, although wearing the jacket indoors shouldn't have been an issue. Neither of the schools required a uniform, but the private school (or academy as it was called) did mandate that all males have their shirt tucked in, plus a belt. Certainly nobody allowed to run around with Jnco Jeans or basketball style shorts or the like.
I went to a private, Catholic high school. We had a form of uniforms. Khaki pants (black, navy blue, brown colors allowed), collared shirts (white, navy blue, black, red, green colors allowed), any type of shoes (no open toe shoes allowed), official school hoodies, jackets & sweaters only. As far as I know, standing up for the Pledge of Allegiance is still required at my high school. Recording a personal vlog isn’t allowed. But this guy’s school is much bigger, as a public school it’s a given, than my old school. We only had a student body of about 600 students. So, the high school experience differs from this video to many, especially private schools.
School uniforms are highly controversial here in the US since they can be seen as a voilation of the constitutional right to freedom of expression, however this changes in private schools as they're a private business you sign up to attend, instead of the public one you're legally required to otherwise. Here in the US, we value individuality, and expressing themselves, and see things like uniforms as a more military or government like thing to wear. It has also become like this because dress codes have been used in the past to discriminate against specific races, religions, sexualities, etc. Now most schools don't care as long as nothing you wear is explicitly violent, or discriminatory in some meaningful way. This has studies in the US backing up that it increases productivity since people aren't worried more about appearance than doing their work and learning. Most times a dress code is enforced, the loopholes are used by students in protests of them. Edit: Also the costs of maintaining uniforms is far harsher on poorer families than letting anyone wear whatever including their price range. Some families might not be able to afford a uniform, or to keep it clean. Uniforms have in fact been the opposite of friendly to lower incomes! They have most always been historically used to segregate the rich and poor based on who could afford them and could afford to properly maintain them too! If your own shirt rips, you could wear it still or wear another. If your uniform rips, you'd be forced to replace it, or repair it!
unlike in the u.k. in the states regional accents are disappearing because of the internet and media. you'll notice the teacher has a southern accent whereas the kids barely have any trace of it. that's typical all over the u.s. these days. i spent 3 months in new york state here recent and older folks still talk like 'goodfellas' but younger people barely have any trace of it. u.k. is a much older country so it will probably never happen over there.
