I don’t ever know what A levels etc. are. One of these days I need to look it up.

mine starts at 8:00 till 3:00

Yes, but the cheerleaders were just normal students, not stuck up and they didn't wear their uniforms in class.

Yes, because if you're in the hall without one, then you MUST be commiting murder (Sarcasm lads)

In Sweden it starts in august and ends in june. Nothing odd about it, to me.

Yep and we decorate them too!

Yes, don't you?

They used to have E as a failing grade, but people thought it meant Excellent, so they changed it to an F.

Yep, even a snowboard & skiing club in the Midwest.

Wait, don't all schools have cafeterias? Where do you eat your lunch?

Yes sadly

Canadian here. They don't close schools in Canada unless it's been colder than -40C for three days in a row.

Because we put all our budget into our announcements and lockers

Because a gallon would be too heavy on the lunch tray.

They aren't cool it sucks

I wish I had school lunch that good

Yep. ours was awesome!

Yes, teachers want you in class to learn, not loitering in the bathroom.

yep...at least in the suburbs because most of us start driving at 16

one word to answer this- ICE

To be very honest, I'm English and I usually do page count rather than word count

yeah i wondered this and are the woman stale or something lol

my elementry did

No they force students to do it

We didn't have a TV, just a public address system with speakers in every room so we could hear the morning announcements. In high school we had a DJ club that would play morning music before classes started along with the day's announcements.

My kids' Canadian elementary school has morning announcements every day. And a prayer, read by a student, because it's Catholic school. They listen to the national anthem and the principal reads off any announcements for the day.

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actually it is often the school secretary making the announcements unless it is something extremely important.

My school had a CCTV system where the told the days news / activities and what the lunch menu was going to be. It was actually cool to be part of the crew that ran it because we learned a ton about TV broadcasting and how to run the cameras, mics and video tape decks (the old IVC 1" machines!)

Ours use to have students do it but then the new principal took it over and I hated her. She was so nasty and mean. She would say horrible things during the announcements and even call out specific teachers for things. Then she ended it with "Make it a good day or not, the choice is yours." I put in headphones the moment her voice came on. I still hate her. What a terrible person.

Depends on the announcement, if there is a school news program students do it if it's prepped ahead of time, if it's an immediate surprise thing then yes. Also those tvs are a large section of school budgets and why taxpayers disdain public schools.

Some do some don’t. Every school has some kind of system for announcements; PA, TV, assembly, teacher etc

The TV is just in movies

In one of my schools they did, another, they didn't but the one that they did the principle was a lazy jerk so it was only students doing it

Never been a in a schools that had any such announcments

we use a PA

It depends - we had a school secretary - she read our announcements over the intercom system. No TVs -- this really isn't much of a thing.

Intercom, not tv, for us at least..

I took broadcast journalism in high school, which means I helped create our daily "news" broadcast, including taking a turn being the anchor. Fantastic way to memorialize my terrible fashion sense and cringeworthy awkwardness forever.

I think it's the principle making announcements in the lower grades. In high school, it's usually a student(s).

no we have speakers

Yeah, sadly, and it’s usually something stupid

My middle school tried that for a few months one year. Eventually, all the teachers got tired of it and just didn't show it.

So we aren't "distracted". Even rooms with windows usually had the blinds closed.

Not really. We have nearby schools we compete against in sports, but any rivalry is very light-hearted.

we had an apple machine...for $0.20 you got an apple.

The high school I’m going to does