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!

Well, you don't want to haul all your text books class to class. You need a place to store them. And you need a place to hang up your coat.

In Romania, we had to carry everything for the day in our backpacks. Books, notepads, pen holders, snacks. We kept our backpacks in our benches all day. Some lockers would have been great, though.

Yeah we do, mine are green in a yellow hall

Why is it weird to have a secure place to put your things? There are a lot of heavy books,supplies for things like art classes,gym clothes for changing out or after school sports, and lunch if you've brought it. You want to carry all that all day?

School in Australia had them when I was there. Sure beats lugging around books needed for the day (also pre-laptop years which might make a difference now). Biggest difference was that our lockers didn't lock ... ah trust, where did it go?

i went to a middle school in england, and we had these, but smaller

Yes… but normally they are broken. All of the 8th grade lockers, at my old schools, were banged up, rusted, and one of my friends *literally* saw a cockroach crawl through hers.

They took them away! 😔

Had lockers in elementary, middle and high school. Had two sets of textbooks (one kept at home so I wouldn’t need to carry too much stuff-chronic pain as a kid) and the other in locker…used them to keep my jacket and lunch as well as my PE clothes and switched out at lunch the texts I needed. I’m from Western Canada

We had lockers in school, but not as big as those Anerican ones I've seen on tv. I used it to put in the books for the afternoon classes in the morning and vice versa, so I hadn't to carry all those heavy books the whole day. Also a good place to keep my wallet and gym clothes when I didn't need those.

Do European schools not have lockers?

They don't do a lot of homework so they leave their books in school most of the time. Here we have homework several times a week so all books go home every day.

Exactly!

I would carry my stuff... in my school they'd probably get broken into and all of your stuff would be gone. Hell, they'd even steal your lunch.

Absolutely

What did you expect? Something real fancy

Some schools do. A lot of schools did away with them. I graduated in 1989 and we were the last ones to use them at our school A set of books at home and one in class (its only one extra set, really) and then no carrying all of that crap back and forth. My kids graduated in 2014 and 2015 and they have never used lockers in their lives.

in my state schools dont really do that anymore so you only have them if its a really old school

Mine didn't and we were expected to bring our text books to each class. So 7 classes means you are carrying around 7 extremely heavy books all day long and it is actually a huge health issue.

Ours are kind of like that, but we use our access cards to open them

woa... we have to carry our damn books all the time, but then again, we stay in the same class most of the time for almost all the classes... only few students have to switch classes and they can keep their books in their desk until that class was over

What do you put YOUR stuff in??

Same in Sweden.

Yep, we sure do! They are meant to hold books, school supplies, lunch and jacket so students do not loose them or need to carry them around to every class. When each class has a heavy text book, that's a lot of weight to lug around to each class!

Not so common in CA highschools but when i lived in texas we got lockers as early as middle school.

Yep, and we have to pay to rent combo locks. The lockers suck and the are halls are overcrowded.

My high school has them, but I've never seen one get used

And mine were that shade of blue at all levels! They must get a discount on that paint color-lol!

Nah. Not anymore where I live. Drugs/Guns are too prevelant.

We had lockers in College (High School) in New Zealand.

yep too small for all your stuff and thats all you get

We had them too in Cologne/Germany. (Gesamtschule)

we usually do but not this year, at least in my school, because COVID

Many countries have lockers at school. As far as I know, (though TV) Japan, Korea and maybe more.

Sometimes we have to rent a mandatory lock for them that dint work 40% of the time

And back in my day we had full sized lockers, so I could fit even my violin case in my locker easily and hang my winter coat up, and still have a nice shelf at the top to put most of my books on. Then I could grab just the books I needed for the next class or two instead of having to haul 15 kilos (or 30 lbs) all day long. Much more practical!

ours are useless. what am i suposed to do with one cubic foot of space?

Lockers in every school from elementary to university 🇨🇦

Here in Switzerland as of 5 year old have to carry very heavy backpacks with about 10 kls of books and school supplies. It's unfortunate that such little children must take all of their supplies back and forth from homes to school; some eat lunch at home making the going back and forth 3 times per day.

ive been carrying my bag since 6th grade

They’re great for all the crap the students need to bring in! They decorate them they keep their hidden stuff there instead of at home and on occasion when I’ve gone into a student’s locker I have found many weird things. I had a student who put frogs in a girls locker as a joke, another who pooped in someone’s locker and a student who kept a carton of milk in one so as to stink up the entire hallway and cause janitors to look for where the smell came from for days.

Oh yeah and sometimes you have to Share 😐

When I was in year 10/11 and my secondary school (UK) was rebuilt, for some reason there was lockers in the sports hall area. No one was allowed to use them and us senior years with our coursework and such had to lug all that around all damn day. :)