32 Seemingly Normal Things About American Schools That Confuse The Hell Out Of Non-Americans

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.

huge, loud, head-ache inducing cafeterias.

Yes sadly

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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.

Sometimes the administrators do it, sometimes, office staff, sometimes students.

CCTV IF VERY MODERN; OTHERWISE PUBLIC ADDRESS (P.A.){Tannoy}

We had Assembly once a week, where the week's Announcements were made.

Not usually the principal - they're busy doing more important things. 🤗 One of the staff does it. P.S. I was in high school when the announcement came over the p.a. system that JFK had been shot.

No.. there are speakers nowadays..?

It varies from school to school and grade to grade.

depends on which school you go to

what you all get tv's at school? -me american

usually over the speaker things

Or some vice principal who's a total jackass and makes snide remarks to certain students while reading out the announcements.

I pledge allegiance, to da flag, of the United states of America, And to the republic, OF WIZARD STAN, one nation, under god, for liberty and justice for all. Yeaahhh... suuuuree....

Not in my day. High school students were assigned "home rooms", where you went at the very start of the day. There, teachers either read announcements, they were hand-outs, or they were posted.

They probably used to. they didn't do it when i was in primary/middle school. but they did do prayer over the loudspeaker (i went to catholic high school)

The last time I remember a principal giving announcements was in fifth grade and our school was incredibly poor (we used old projectors and they couldn’t even afford a bench, they had to do a fundraiser to buy one) so she spoke over the intercom. Now they just make the students do it over TV, we still use projectors because my district is pretty poor

In my schools the secretary went from room to room. Don't ever remember the principal doing it.

We did in the morning and the rest of the day we had the radio playing over it.

We had two students give the news. They were funny and always put jokes in.

oh yeah that is real

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.