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32 Seemingly Normal Things About American Schools That Confuse The Hell Out Of Non-Americans
Growing up in a European country and never witnessing what it's like to go to an American school, watching American high school comedies, to me, has always been a pretty surreal experience. I'm sure that most of you fellow non-Americans reading this article could relate to me on this.
There are so many things about American schools that have always seemed utterly fascinating to me. For instance, you get letter grades instead of number ones, schools have swimming pools inside them, there's a club for almost anything, you have to get a hall pass to go to the bathroom during class, and lunch meals are usually pretty bizarre. The list goes on. With that being said, Bored Panda invites you to look through this list of tweets from non-American Twitter users in which they share things that they find the strangest about American schools. Feel free to explain to us the things we don't understand or add your own in the comment section!
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Yes, but the cheerleaders were just normal students, not stuck up and they didn't wear their uniforms in class.
In Sweden it starts in august and ends in june. Nothing odd about it, to me.
They used to have E as a failing grade, but people thought it meant Excellent, so they changed it to an F.
Almost zero schools in Australia have cafeterias. You just find somewhere to sit, there are benches usually scattered over the school like the courtyard, on the oval, in front of the library etc or you just sat on the grass on the oval. In primary school you often eat your lunch in the class and then after 10-15 mins you get to go outside and play.
Load More Replies...If you live in Asia, or somewhere else, you eat in your classroom
Load More Replies...Yes, we have cafeterias and selections of different foods. You get approximately a half an hour for lunch so you don’t really have time to go home and we don’t allow students out because we have had occurrences of them getting into accidents or getting stoned or getting drunk and then coming back or not coming back. Seniors usually have greater privileges and their own lunch area. We have staggered periods for eating so all students are in the cafeteria at the same time. For quite a few students who are uncomfortable with all that socialization there are teachers that usually allow them to eat in their rooms.
They got stoned? Who would throw stones at them? lol
Load More Replies...British here, every primary school i went to, and that my children went to, had a huge hall for assembly's that would be used for meals but no cafeteria. However all the middle / secondary schools had cafeterias.
Both my primary and secondary had large cafeterias. Most kids I knew exclusively ate school provided meals while at school.
Load More Replies...my cousins in mexico are still in grade school, and by the time they finish it is lunchtime, so they eat at home.
Where would you go to eat your lunch? Most of us can't go home (living 10+ miles away). Because school are mostly in rural areas there are no local places to eat. Some schools are actually located between towns - so the only thing nearby is a field.
In Australia we eat wherever we can find to sit. We don’t have cafeterias but we have benches scattered around the school yard or you can just sit on the grassy oval. In primary school though a lot of kids eat their food in the class room for 10-15mins then after that they go and play in the school yard.
Load More Replies...Nope, we sit wherever we can find a spot scattered around the school.
Load More Replies...Yes. This is an outgrowth of the “hot lunch” programs that became popular in the 60’s (and continue to this day). They needed a place to prepare and to serve the food, so that students - especially poor students - were not dependent on a “bag lunch”. Also, many of our schools are BIG (there were 503 kids in my graduating class), so schools need to be able to feed 1000-2000 kids each day.
My middle and high schools had an cafeteria..it depends on the group you were in, if you were in the athletic or popular group, the caf was the place to be seen. If you were band/theatre/art/newspaper/yearbook kids, you tended to eat in the rooms for that activity. The stoners would disappear into the smoke pit in the woods (the teachers knew, but didn’t care), and the goth/heavy metal kids used to chill in the breezeway between the auto shop building and the metal/wood shop building. (We had covered walkways between buildings as my school is in Western Canada)
Yes, schools serve a hot meal every day for purchase. You can also bring your own lunch, but you eat in the cafeteria. For many kids, unfortunately, it could be the only meal they would have to eat.
In the colder states that have more incline to weather-yes we have cafeterias. Same for those states that get really hot. I moved from NY to NV and was shocked they had outdoor seating for students.
In my corner of Canada, a rural school district we ate our lunch in our classrooms, although if the weather was nice you could take it outside and eat there. Then I moved to a city and my children while in elementary school came home for lunch. When they moved up to Junior high they took their lunch to school and ate in the lunch room or if they were on really good terms with their teachers in the classroom. In high school they could a) take lunch to eat in the cafeteria, or outside b) buy lunch in the cafeteria and eat in there or c) come home for lunch if someone had their license and lived nearby, or they could go to the mall and eat in the food court. Security kicked them out about 10 minutes before classes were scheduled to start.
I know not all schools have a cafeteria, but I wouldn't think it's that unusual?
Aussie kids have a basic tuck shop with some very simple food snacks or sandwiches but not really all that healthy . Students usually take their lunch from home.
This question should be the vice verca. Your schools DON'T have cafeterias??
I went to Mastbaum in Philadelphia from 1973 to 1976 and we'd eat lunch (if we brought it) up on the roof or on the front steps. The cafeteria was a zoo. I usually just hung out as I mentioned in another post, that I'd save my bus fare and lunch money to buy records!
Most do. It's the way only way a lot of kids get a decent meal (sometimes breakfast, too). I went to Catholic school and our cafeteria was basically for Friday night Bingo. We got a hot lunch on Fridays (hot dogs or hamburgers, even during Lent - go figure!).
For kids who don’t have cold lunch brought from home. I would sometimes forget to make/bring my lunch, but I could still eat.
YES and my Mom was the school cook for all 8 of my elementary school years....
Yes and a program where kids that are food insecure get at least 2 meals every school day. SOme districts even have an evening meal for kids that stay after school for sports or clubs.
Huh? Here in Finland we have cafeterias/dining halls. That's where they serve the (free) food.
We get a cafeteria to sit in and eat lunch for 15 minutes then straight back to the classroom we go (no recess or freedom of any sort)
it also comes from the concept of providing lunches for the students, since the school lunch is kind of a social program that made sure kids were fed. one of the few decent things America does. so having a designated lunchroom made sense, since it's next to the kitchen. When i was in grade school we had a breakfast program as well that kids could go to instead of playing in the yard before the school day start, so homes that had financial trouble could get that extra assistance.
Of course we do! It's a big room with tables and chairs where students can buy lunch or just eat one brought from home.
yes mostly by laws. It believe it is to help underprivileged students get a meal. Some schools give breakfast and lunch as well. Sadly they are programs that are underfunded or getting canceled.
I've been teaching in Korea for years - Korean students eat their lunches in their classrooms with their teachers.
If you don't eat in a cafeterias in Europe, where do you eat while at school?
The Cafeteria in US schools isn't just a room to eat in. They furnish a breakfast before school and a lunch for everyone. Students whose parents can afford it pay full price (like $3) Those that are less able to afford a full lunch are charged $0.40 and some get free lunch. It's all the same food and now with the computerized system no one knows who pays what for lunch. I don't know the breakfast prices
Only if your school had enough money for one. A couple of my schools didn't
Yes. My high school even made us stay there until the bell rang. We couldn't even go get our books for our next class.
We had a canteen, it was also the assembly hall, they would just lay out tables and chairs at lunch-time.
Portugal schools has cafeterias and universities has small coffees inside them.
Actually, some small schools don't have a cafeteria. The high school I went to was very small and if kids wanted to eat at a school cafeteria they had to go to the elementary school and eat with the little kids. My friends and I would walk the block or two to the small downtown, where there were several small shops that would sell yummy sandwiches and soup and whatnot for the same price as lousy cafeteria food. I still miss the fabulous salami in one of those shops, and it's been out of business for many years!
In my elementary school, there was a 'cafeteria' except we had to bring our own food and snacks. The 'cafeteria' had a fridge, sinks, a microwave, and silverware just in case. My current school has a real cafeteria. But their food isn't murky gloop like in Hollywood, it's actual edible very delicious food.
Now, THIS (to Americans) is a STRANGE question. A meal-break is required here from Kindergarten onward. No one has time to run home for a meal or have adults come deliver it. So, YES, there is a structured meal-plan and a cafeteria to eat at.
But why can’t you just bring lunch from home? We have meal breaks too in Australia but most people either bring their own lunch or have some money to buy something from the canteen. We then find somewhere to sit scattered around the school to eat.
Load More Replies...Yes but in highschool you don't have to sit in them anymore. I was a free-range highschooler and ate anywhere but the cafeteria.
LJ Robinson We had cafeterias. We would line up, they would put our food on a tray that we picked up at the end of the steam tables the lunch ladies worked over. No choices, just what they gave us. Then we sat down at long tables with benches attached and ate and chatted or did homework or read until the lunch period was over, then went to your next class.
Wherever you can find a seat in the yard like benches on the grass on the oval etc.
Load More Replies...A lot of kids go home to eat during lunch break. Not in the US but internationally.
Our cafeteria was too small to fit the large amount of students. We usually had lunch outside by the band room.
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
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
To be very honest, I'm English and I usually do page count rather than word count
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.
Candy was usually a very tiny part, if it was there at all. But it was the most exciting part!
I'm European and I read each one of these facts thinking "wait... they do *what*??!"
im american and reading these were like: wait other schools dont do that. its pretty cool to read this post and see other people's perspectives
Load More Replies...I have no idea what anyone does outside exactly three countries, one of them US, and I think it's a case of "whatever is unfamiliar is weird" here. BTW, clubs at US schools were a great way to pad your CV to get into college/uni, and to not go home to shi**y circumstances. So I'm for the clubs. That 7 AM thing, eh, I grew up in farm country. We were up anyway!
Some of the questions were odd even to me in the UK. In most instances, in many countries, we all have various versions of similar things. Pools in some schools, water fountains in some, after school activities are common place (but not called clubs), ditto lockers. The only thing that stuck out for me was the time of day lessons started and that has pros and cons. Younger children are (usually) naturally earlier risers but there are studies that show older children benefit from later starts. I like hearing how other countries do things but I'd really like another country to take a turn. Bored Panda - why not take the focus OFF the US, just for a moment, and pick countries that are less known and maybe we can share info from them?
Load More Replies...but how is having a parking lot wierd ??????????????????
Load More Replies...Jeezzz relax!! Just because things are done differently here doesn't necessarily mean it's weird. I had the opportunity to go to schoo in different countries because of the nature of my parents work. I can tell you with great assurance that every one had their own way of doing things and that's all okay.
A lot of the questions are "do American schools ___?". Which is a fair question... since these people's perception of American schools is from TV. Take cheerleaders for example. Do all American schools have cheerleaders? Or is it just a few of them, but cheerleaders make a good character for a TV show or a movie, so they get over-represented. Same with cafeterias, maybe only like 30% of schools have one, but since it makes such a convenient set, 100% of schools on TV have one.
Load More Replies...One trend I'm noticing, which is a frequent thing on 'People in the U.S. *insert here*' is that a lot of people posting don't seem to understand just how BIG the U.S. is. Cars are a culture here but of necessity. Public transportation may work in major cities but we have vast areas where you need a car. There is so much diversity in even what is available. I went to a K-12 school once where there were 22 of us my freshman class and we were one of the largest classes they'd had in years, and I've been to a school where my graduating class was over 2,000 people. Both those schools were in the same State just opposite ends of it. Canada gets it, but still, it's something people keep forgetting.
Australia - nearly the same size as the USA and public transport does work for students - dedicated school buses.One school I taught at (P-12) had the first student picked up before 7:30 and dropped off by around 5 - a long day if you're 5! All except three students came by bus (those three lived next to the school and were always late!) Our catchment area was well over a thousand square kilometres. In suburban areas where, especially in primary school (P-6) most parents will drop off and pick up, traffic is horrendous at those times and far more dangerous. Walking, riding or public transport is far safer for everyone.
Load More Replies...im not from the States but think this is super silly. Ofcourse Sweden doesnt cancel school when it snows, pretty sure they wont in Alaska either, pretty sure not only schools close, but all hell breaks lose if it will ever snow on Hawaii.... :-D
You can say that again. If you are FORCED to pledge allegiance, then are you really "free"?
Load More Replies...I live in Canada... we do some of these. Some of these just seem... plain weird...
I don't live in the USA, but I would wager that most of the people here aren't comparing "US schools vs other schools in the world" so much as "US schools vs THE SCHOOLS IN MY OWN COUNTRY because actually I have no goddamn clue what schools in other countries/continents are like". Some of the posts are true for Germany, or at least not totally unseen, and I definitely know of other countries that do some things in schools differently than we do... different countries are different, who'd have thought.
Here's one that they didn't list: SROs (Student Resource Officer) at high schools. We had a police officer assigned to my high school, hypothetically to help students out. In reality, he harrassed some students and was basically useless (I literally reported being threatened by another student with a gun, and he didn't take a statement, register a complaint... nothing).
This just makes me think the U.S. is the only normal country and European countries are weird.
This is weirdly,assuming that all European schools are exactly the same and we all find the exact same things about American schools strange.
I’m American and I am just now learning some of these things. My school did not have hall passes, a cafeteria, dances, vending machines, buses, and whatnot.
US here. What your school has also depends on the wealth of your school district. These can be extremely different from school to school. My elementary-Jr High was in a very well funded system and we had a lot of opportunities and resources in school. Breakfast and lunch was provided and both were awesome. In High School, I moved states and was in poorer district. The school was small, over crowded and underfunded. We had "open lunch" because not all the students could fit in the caf, so we could leave campus for lunch hour. This school was in the mountains so yes the bus took me from home 27 miles to school everyday. If it was too cold, the diesel in the bus would gel and half the kids who lived on the other side of the pass got a snow day because the bus couldn't go.
So true! If you lived in a very prosperous district, your school benefitted from that. If you own a house in that district, it's worth more because the schools are usually a cut above the rest, and most Americans want their children to go to the best school possible even if the taxes there are higher.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's just my state of mind this morning but it seemed like most of those were "look what dumbf*cks they are in America" statement and not really "you do this and it's different from us. Why?" And a lot of the questions were just strange. Lockers? Water fountains? Lunch rooms?
Well in my school in Germany we really didn't have lockers, lunchrooms or waterfountains. Everyone brought thier food and water and just ate in the hall or outside. Also I don't think the questions are meant menacingly. It's more of a "wait, it's really like that and not just a clichee we see in movies?!"
Load More Replies...I'd like to know, how often do they 'pledge their allegiance to the flag of the United States of America'?
My elementary school did it occasionally, my middle school never did it, my high school did it every single day. It just depends.
Load More Replies...The most terrifying thing is lessons from 7 a.m!! )) some other things made me jealous... but not nurse: we have medical rooms and nurses at schools and pediatrician + nurse are in kindergardens . In my childhood there were even weeks of dentist's care, not any more. But still first aid and some vaccination like against flue can be done there
I have never been or heard of a school that had classes starting at 7:00 am most have it start at 8:00 - 8:30 am.
Load More Replies...Most of these are just due to the fact that american schools are usually huuuge. I went to a big business school in Europe when I was 16 and we had almost all of the same "anomalies" listed above. When you have 5000+ students you need to organize stuff on another scale.
I did a placement in a US school about 10 years ago. I was so shocked by how old fashioned the teaching was. All the classrooms were just grim lines of individual desks facing front, and it was pretty common for kids to just sit there in total silence while a teacher lectured at the front. The schools were absolutely obsessed with quantative assessments (such as useless multiple choice tests). A lot of teachers were very poorly qualified and not really learning specialists in any modern sense. That sort of treat-everyone-the-same "talk and chalk" teaching style disappeared in the 1980s in my home country. It was a real shock.
As an Australian, our public schools don't supply lunches or cafeterias (although some country schools have them). Our students eat their lunch sitting in the yard, or if very young, in the classroom before being allowed out to play. I did work in a private school where staff had a room to eat lunch and had soup supplied if wanted. Swimming pools? Only in private or similar schools. Clubs? Voluntary and in everyone's own time (staff and students). Bathroom passes? We expect our students to wash themselves outside school time. Toilet visits? Usually up to the individual teacher, and refused when too frequent with no reason. Buses to school? I worked at one school where all except three students came to school by bus. The furthest boarded the bus at 7:30 and got home around 4:45 - a long day for a 5 y.o. in Prep. Many students in suburban schools are driven by their (usually) mother - resulting in traffic jams around 8:30 to 9 a.m. and the equivalent in the afternoon.
It all comes down to money and government. All of it. I used to have a difficult time understanding why my parents put me in private schools. Turns out public schools are, at best, just weak.
Deja vu. You guys had basically the same post (most of the same entries) last week. And two weeks ago. And a month ago.
I don’t miss those school lunches but I feel like everyone would always get super excited when it was chicken strip day. Those weren’t bad. I like the mini breakfast pizza it was tasty. But that’s about it. As a kid I absolutely loved snow days and when there was no school. Kids today won’t be able to experience it because there’s virtual learning. Anyways I’m so glad to be finished with school. I hate getting up so early.
Some of these I found odd. Is it really only America that has buses, lockers and clubs?
Canada has all three! My school even had a D&D club, before Covid.
Load More Replies...i live in nh i go to kersharge we have nurses mental health people mostly women and lots of over teachers that help the kids its a very ice school with also has many groupes and clubs and a black market for pokymon cards
yes we have a black market becuse the cards arnt allowed but we dont care right now they have in and at home learning
Load More Replies...America's number 1 export is "media". TV shows, movies, etc. People from other countries watch it, and form their ideas of what "America" is from that... considering that TV & Movies are designed to be entertaining, it is understandable that foreigners see America as being an entertaining place.
Load More Replies...oh no i have a nurse in case someone has an asthma attack oh no i have clubs were i can expand my social circle....save me lol
Load More Replies...I'm European and I read each one of these facts thinking "wait... they do *what*??!"
im american and reading these were like: wait other schools dont do that. its pretty cool to read this post and see other people's perspectives
Load More Replies...I have no idea what anyone does outside exactly three countries, one of them US, and I think it's a case of "whatever is unfamiliar is weird" here. BTW, clubs at US schools were a great way to pad your CV to get into college/uni, and to not go home to shi**y circumstances. So I'm for the clubs. That 7 AM thing, eh, I grew up in farm country. We were up anyway!
Some of the questions were odd even to me in the UK. In most instances, in many countries, we all have various versions of similar things. Pools in some schools, water fountains in some, after school activities are common place (but not called clubs), ditto lockers. The only thing that stuck out for me was the time of day lessons started and that has pros and cons. Younger children are (usually) naturally earlier risers but there are studies that show older children benefit from later starts. I like hearing how other countries do things but I'd really like another country to take a turn. Bored Panda - why not take the focus OFF the US, just for a moment, and pick countries that are less known and maybe we can share info from them?
Load More Replies...but how is having a parking lot wierd ??????????????????
Load More Replies...Jeezzz relax!! Just because things are done differently here doesn't necessarily mean it's weird. I had the opportunity to go to schoo in different countries because of the nature of my parents work. I can tell you with great assurance that every one had their own way of doing things and that's all okay.
A lot of the questions are "do American schools ___?". Which is a fair question... since these people's perception of American schools is from TV. Take cheerleaders for example. Do all American schools have cheerleaders? Or is it just a few of them, but cheerleaders make a good character for a TV show or a movie, so they get over-represented. Same with cafeterias, maybe only like 30% of schools have one, but since it makes such a convenient set, 100% of schools on TV have one.
Load More Replies...One trend I'm noticing, which is a frequent thing on 'People in the U.S. *insert here*' is that a lot of people posting don't seem to understand just how BIG the U.S. is. Cars are a culture here but of necessity. Public transportation may work in major cities but we have vast areas where you need a car. There is so much diversity in even what is available. I went to a K-12 school once where there were 22 of us my freshman class and we were one of the largest classes they'd had in years, and I've been to a school where my graduating class was over 2,000 people. Both those schools were in the same State just opposite ends of it. Canada gets it, but still, it's something people keep forgetting.
Australia - nearly the same size as the USA and public transport does work for students - dedicated school buses.One school I taught at (P-12) had the first student picked up before 7:30 and dropped off by around 5 - a long day if you're 5! All except three students came by bus (those three lived next to the school and were always late!) Our catchment area was well over a thousand square kilometres. In suburban areas where, especially in primary school (P-6) most parents will drop off and pick up, traffic is horrendous at those times and far more dangerous. Walking, riding or public transport is far safer for everyone.
Load More Replies...im not from the States but think this is super silly. Ofcourse Sweden doesnt cancel school when it snows, pretty sure they wont in Alaska either, pretty sure not only schools close, but all hell breaks lose if it will ever snow on Hawaii.... :-D
You can say that again. If you are FORCED to pledge allegiance, then are you really "free"?
Load More Replies...I live in Canada... we do some of these. Some of these just seem... plain weird...
I don't live in the USA, but I would wager that most of the people here aren't comparing "US schools vs other schools in the world" so much as "US schools vs THE SCHOOLS IN MY OWN COUNTRY because actually I have no goddamn clue what schools in other countries/continents are like". Some of the posts are true for Germany, or at least not totally unseen, and I definitely know of other countries that do some things in schools differently than we do... different countries are different, who'd have thought.
Here's one that they didn't list: SROs (Student Resource Officer) at high schools. We had a police officer assigned to my high school, hypothetically to help students out. In reality, he harrassed some students and was basically useless (I literally reported being threatened by another student with a gun, and he didn't take a statement, register a complaint... nothing).
This just makes me think the U.S. is the only normal country and European countries are weird.
This is weirdly,assuming that all European schools are exactly the same and we all find the exact same things about American schools strange.
I’m American and I am just now learning some of these things. My school did not have hall passes, a cafeteria, dances, vending machines, buses, and whatnot.
US here. What your school has also depends on the wealth of your school district. These can be extremely different from school to school. My elementary-Jr High was in a very well funded system and we had a lot of opportunities and resources in school. Breakfast and lunch was provided and both were awesome. In High School, I moved states and was in poorer district. The school was small, over crowded and underfunded. We had "open lunch" because not all the students could fit in the caf, so we could leave campus for lunch hour. This school was in the mountains so yes the bus took me from home 27 miles to school everyday. If it was too cold, the diesel in the bus would gel and half the kids who lived on the other side of the pass got a snow day because the bus couldn't go.
So true! If you lived in a very prosperous district, your school benefitted from that. If you own a house in that district, it's worth more because the schools are usually a cut above the rest, and most Americans want their children to go to the best school possible even if the taxes there are higher.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's just my state of mind this morning but it seemed like most of those were "look what dumbf*cks they are in America" statement and not really "you do this and it's different from us. Why?" And a lot of the questions were just strange. Lockers? Water fountains? Lunch rooms?
Well in my school in Germany we really didn't have lockers, lunchrooms or waterfountains. Everyone brought thier food and water and just ate in the hall or outside. Also I don't think the questions are meant menacingly. It's more of a "wait, it's really like that and not just a clichee we see in movies?!"
Load More Replies...I'd like to know, how often do they 'pledge their allegiance to the flag of the United States of America'?
My elementary school did it occasionally, my middle school never did it, my high school did it every single day. It just depends.
Load More Replies...The most terrifying thing is lessons from 7 a.m!! )) some other things made me jealous... but not nurse: we have medical rooms and nurses at schools and pediatrician + nurse are in kindergardens . In my childhood there were even weeks of dentist's care, not any more. But still first aid and some vaccination like against flue can be done there
I have never been or heard of a school that had classes starting at 7:00 am most have it start at 8:00 - 8:30 am.
Load More Replies...Most of these are just due to the fact that american schools are usually huuuge. I went to a big business school in Europe when I was 16 and we had almost all of the same "anomalies" listed above. When you have 5000+ students you need to organize stuff on another scale.
I did a placement in a US school about 10 years ago. I was so shocked by how old fashioned the teaching was. All the classrooms were just grim lines of individual desks facing front, and it was pretty common for kids to just sit there in total silence while a teacher lectured at the front. The schools were absolutely obsessed with quantative assessments (such as useless multiple choice tests). A lot of teachers were very poorly qualified and not really learning specialists in any modern sense. That sort of treat-everyone-the-same "talk and chalk" teaching style disappeared in the 1980s in my home country. It was a real shock.
As an Australian, our public schools don't supply lunches or cafeterias (although some country schools have them). Our students eat their lunch sitting in the yard, or if very young, in the classroom before being allowed out to play. I did work in a private school where staff had a room to eat lunch and had soup supplied if wanted. Swimming pools? Only in private or similar schools. Clubs? Voluntary and in everyone's own time (staff and students). Bathroom passes? We expect our students to wash themselves outside school time. Toilet visits? Usually up to the individual teacher, and refused when too frequent with no reason. Buses to school? I worked at one school where all except three students came to school by bus. The furthest boarded the bus at 7:30 and got home around 4:45 - a long day for a 5 y.o. in Prep. Many students in suburban schools are driven by their (usually) mother - resulting in traffic jams around 8:30 to 9 a.m. and the equivalent in the afternoon.
It all comes down to money and government. All of it. I used to have a difficult time understanding why my parents put me in private schools. Turns out public schools are, at best, just weak.
Deja vu. You guys had basically the same post (most of the same entries) last week. And two weeks ago. And a month ago.
I don’t miss those school lunches but I feel like everyone would always get super excited when it was chicken strip day. Those weren’t bad. I like the mini breakfast pizza it was tasty. But that’s about it. As a kid I absolutely loved snow days and when there was no school. Kids today won’t be able to experience it because there’s virtual learning. Anyways I’m so glad to be finished with school. I hate getting up so early.
Some of these I found odd. Is it really only America that has buses, lockers and clubs?
Canada has all three! My school even had a D&D club, before Covid.
Load More Replies...i live in nh i go to kersharge we have nurses mental health people mostly women and lots of over teachers that help the kids its a very ice school with also has many groupes and clubs and a black market for pokymon cards
yes we have a black market becuse the cards arnt allowed but we dont care right now they have in and at home learning
Load More Replies...America's number 1 export is "media". TV shows, movies, etc. People from other countries watch it, and form their ideas of what "America" is from that... considering that TV & Movies are designed to be entertaining, it is understandable that foreigners see America as being an entertaining place.
Load More Replies...oh no i have a nurse in case someone has an asthma attack oh no i have clubs were i can expand my social circle....save me lol
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