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

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.

I'm Japanese, and in Japan or in Asia. You eat in the classroom your in

At home.

In primary school I ate lunch in the 'multi-purpose room.' All the tables and benches get folded up after lunch and its used for other things.

In Australia wherever you can, in Spring in Australia away from the testosterone infused death machine known as a magpie.

In the classroom? or outside if it's summer? :)

I live in America, and I just eat at lunch tables outside.

In the UK, many school lunches/dinners (up north of the UK dinner is lunch, tea is what you might call dinner. xP) are eaten in the schools multipurpose sport/assembly/cafeteria hall. My secondary (age 11-16) school got rebuilt and had an actual cafeteria though. I imagine some of the other newly built schools may be the same. But in primary school I swear it was a common occurrence you'd probably step in someones leftovers on the floor if you had PE after dinner... ughhh >.<

well I know someone who went to canada for one year of high school they were allowed to go drive and get their own food

hall, gym, outsisde

In Portugal we have "cantinas" were you can buy a proper hot meal (soup, bread, main dish, salad, desert/fruit and water). There's no fast food, and sweet deserts are not available every day. It's not expensive, but the kids from low income families will pay half or nothing at all depending on the family's income. Schools also have a "bar" where you can buy simple sandwiches and snacks. It's located next to a big open room where you can eat. It's not common for kids to bring their lunch to school. Sandwiches are not usually proper meals in Portugal. They're a snack that you eat in the middle of the morning or the afternoon. Kids will bring sandwiches and other things to eat during breaks.

In New Zealand we just eat around the school, plenty of quad / courtyards or say near the tuck shop

When I was in a German Emrision school, we ate lunch in our classrooms.

In France they leave to go eat

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Well, elementary schools in like korea or japan eat their lunch in their classrooms. It's suppose to help build a respectable relationship between their teachers. I'm not sure about middle or highschoolers there, I don't think it's the same...but don't take my word for it!

here in belgium most schools do have some kind of hall used for eating (though it's often multipurpose like the place where children stay at the end of the day to wait for their parents). but food isn't often served there, most people bring lunch. though in primary school sometimes they do serve hot meals, but you don't get to choose it's just some kind of meat, some kind of potatoes and some kind of vegetables. in secondary school it's even more rare, and from a certain age students are often allowed to leave school during lunch and just hang around in the city and go buy lunch there

We have them in my country. Basic schools (1-9) almost always have them and the lunches provided are usually kinda bland but generally alright (you pay for the lunch, but they are subsidised, too, so you get soup, main course and sometimes a snack, salad or a desert, and a drink for like a dollar and change). High school have them less often, but those that don't tend to arrange another way to get lunch for their students. My high school didn't have a cafeteria, but arranged for students to get a pretty high discount at a nearby pub and to have access to a cafeteria in another high school in town. (If we had afternoon classes, we had cca an hour to get food). Later, during renovations, an eating area was added and they arranged for the food cooked at the other high school to be brought there, so we could pick our lunches up without leaving the building.

In the Netherlands, most high school students bring their own lunch, usually there's a large room with tables to sit on while eating. In many cases there is also a little cafeteria, but buying food there everyday would be expensive.

home

where do you eat jay🤠?

The large ones do, the small ones don't. You bring your own and eat it whereever.

Outside.

We have them in the UK too, I don't think we call them Cafeterias though.

I have one! But cuz of Covid we don’t go there instead we go to this big meeting room thing and I sit with the year below and above me

...Outside. If weather was bad we were allowed to be in the hall. In high school we had a cafeteria but not like US cafeteria – just like indoor picnic benches were you could sit and usually do your homework that you didn't do yesterday at home. And only grade 12s were allowed in during breaks. Not enough space for everyone.

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At home

UK, had a proper cafeteria, hot and cold food

At lunchroom in separated building usually

Home :)

Just.... on the grass, on a bench outside a classroom, in a hall....

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I work at a primary school in Australia - the kids sit on the ground outside - pretty gross if you ask me! You wouldn't think that Australia was a first world country when it comes to education and schools. Even most of the classrooms at the school I used to work at were demountable classrooms - metal sheeting for the roof with no insulation, metal sheeting for the external walls - boiling in summer and freezing in winter. :(

It’s not abnormal. It’s American :-)

They got stoned? Who would throw stones at them? lol

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.

Nope, we sit wherever we can find a spot scattered around the school.

Home can be extremely far away.