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

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

We don't, dances are usually 4 times a year.

Yes

yeah sorry but you should move to america.(JK)

Pretty sure a Swedish school would be cancelled for life-threatening heat wave if they experienced an average August day in Miami.

Because American schools arent. Schools in certain regions arent and in some regions they are. Did you know America is the third largest country in land mass with weather from colder than Sweden to tropics? Depends on the location

im in texas, we get no snow, so when we get a bit of snow, school is cancelled

We don't really care about sweden, but we do care about our students arriving to school safely and alive. One time it snowed so hard in the middle of the school day, buses had such a hard time some students did not get home till after 7:00

Because places that might get snow once every 5 years do no keep road salt supplies or snow plows. And the snow tends to melt during the day and refreeze at night into ice. Not every state gets snow...

It depends more on what the school buses can handle driving in.

it's not a great concept for learning, but the best feeling for a kid when there's snow to play in and no school whatsoever

Because they don’t require you to know how to drive a car to drive a car. But it’s also because of a kid slips on ice or gets hit by a car the school is liable and will get sued

Depends where in the nation you are, here in the upper Midwest we all just kinda sigh and start clearing the snow off the cars and pray the plows came through.

It depends where you live. Northern states are prepared for snow. Texas is not, because snow hardly ever happens. once very 10 yrs or so.

Schools are usually only closed in the South unless it is a particularly bad snow. In the South, we aren't prepared for snow as it doesn't happen often, can't drive in it, have no desire to learn to drive in it, and don't like being cold. So we stay home! There is a reason we live in the South! :)

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Schools take safety into consideration. Students wait outside for buses in the morning and if it's dangerously cold or unsafe to travel in, the school will get closed down

Its a big country. And it varies depending on the region. In the southern states, if you say the word snow, practically everything is shut down. In the northern states, a lot depends on snow removal equipment, and bus pick ups. Each school district makes their own decision as to whether to open or not.

Do most of your kids ride busses? I think (only my opinion) schools are closed due to the streets not being safe. Since most of our kids ride busses to school their safety is in the hands of the school. Sure the streets are plowed and salted, eventually, the districts do not want to be held responsible for a bus load of kids getting hurt.

In many places, people don't know how to drive well in inclement conditions, and because we live in a litigious society. The bus driver has an accident? Watch all the lawsuits roll in. Sad but true

Because kids go to bed with their pajamas inside out and backward. 😉

I live in a rural area. Back roads don't get plowed promptly. If it's too deep for cars and buses to move safely then school is cancelled.

You can jump over a bridge if you want in your country. But Americans will be Americans. If the weather changes from what is normal in the area they don't expose the people to driving conditions even if in another country that is the norm. Our children is our future so we have very strict and restrictive rules about it.