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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.
Same in Scotland. I grew up in Edinburgh where the summer holidays (vacation) starts on the first Monday in July, and we went back to school 7 weeks later, sometime in August. This was really annoying, as in those days the Edinburgh Festival used to start just after we went back to school, so there were tons of events we couldn't go to.
Load More Replies...It's based on farming! Most farming is done by the end of August. Before that kids are needed to help in the fields.
It depends on which part of the country you live in. For example, I was raised in the NW and we started school in September and out in June. Down here in the south/south-east, they start school in August and out in May.
Not all school districts start at the same time. Some in August and some after Labor Day in September. The ones who start earlier also end earlier in the year. Further start and end of school semesters are regional, usually based around factors that are cultural, such as some regions give off the first two weeks of hunting season for students to go hunting with their parents, so they start earlier. Some places start based on the harvest seasons because in olden days the kids worked at the family farm and no one changed it since then. And much more
American schools used to start in September and get out in May so the kids could help with the farm work when the farm was at its busiest. My husband grew up in an agricultural area, and he didn't start school till the middle of September, got almost no vacations during the year, and the year ended in early May. Now, since most families don't have farms any more, schools begin August to account for: Thanksgiving holiday (3-5 days), long Christmas/New Years holiday (2 weeks), in some areas an extra midwinter week off in February (so people can go skiing), and then a week in April for spring break. Plus "teacher work days" at least once every month if not more, with half-days off for teacher stuff frequently, and on and on. It's not surprising our kids don't get much of an education any more unless they're really self-motivated!
Our school year starts end of January and ends in early December.
This is actually a pretty complex answer and obviously depends on where you live. -Goes back to agriculture times when kids needed to be available for harvesting -Gives teachers more time for Spring testing -more holidays and days off, etc, so you start early to get it all in -some sports start their seasons early. when I was in HS football, volleyball, and even the marching band all went to drills and such before school started to get ready. no kidding, I could keep going, but yeah. Quite a few reasons and you could spend quite a bit of time Googling something like that.
I live in Minnesota now and it starts right after Labor Day. But in Arizona, it started at the end of July and went to the end of May.
Traditionally school began in fall, after the end of the harvest season when, in rural America, kids were needed to help on the farm. As more people moved to urban areas, there was less of this need. Furthermore, too many lawmakers mistakenly believe that a longer school year = more learning. Some schools are even transitioning to school all year long. Remember, 8n America, there are federal laws, state laws, and local school district regulations - all of which may be different. So, schools in the city of Chicago may run very differently than schools in, for example, Adair, Iowa.
For me it was always the first week of September (the first Monday after Labor Day)
Not all. Many in the western states. Often this has to do with farming and harvesting schedules (past and sometimes present), and the heat at certain times of the year. In the desert, schools save on energy bills by turning off AC to classrooms in the summer when students are not present.
It depends on the state. In California it was from mid-September to mid-June. In Texas it's mid-August to mid-May. No logical reason.
Our schools start in late February mid-summer in Australia after 6 weeks off for Xmas break
This is not an American thing, this is a state/school district thing.
It starts in September in Ny. Sadly I moved to NC, so yeah I get the August.
We used to start after labor day / 1 st week of September (US) but now they start like the 2nd week of August in some places. We'd be done the 2rd week of June. I think up here in the mountains they started early because they got more snow days so to allow for them, they'd start early otherwise to get the required time, the kids could be going into July.
When I was a kid (albeit a while ago) we started school the Tuesday after Labor Day and went until about the early/middle of June. I think "they're" actually trying to get us on a year-round system. Which would make a lot more sense for parents who have to pay for some amount of daycare!
In northern states, it's because the children might have to take a lot of days out of school for "snow days." In the southern states, it might be because they had extra days out because of a tornado or a hurricane.
Yeah, the school where I teach starts in the middle of August. It sucks. The good part is that we finish at the end of May instead of having to go in June.
Some don’t. In California we started after Labor Day which is first Monday in September.
schools used to start after labor day but schools lost funding so they moved it to august to get more $$. Kids in class = $$.
Less time off in summer for learning loss. We have AC and kids have the same number of school days with longer breaks in fall, winter, and spring than I had. It's still a two month summer break.
In Maine, most school starts in September, but some schools mostly in Aroostook County begin in August so the kids can have a break in late August/early to mid September so they can help with the potato harvest. It's becoming less common but was an important thing before the advent of mechanical harvesters and as a way for children to earn money for school clothes. Other schools in other parts of the country begin in August but they also get out in May whereas in Maine it's usually late June. Our weather is nicer from June to September and lots of kids work in the summer in tourist-related businesses. The tourism season these days is a lot longer than it used to be (traditionally July 4th to Labor Day) and stretches from April to November in many places so it's not so significant, but still nice to have those great months off from school.
'Summer vacation' didn't start out as playtime. School was suspended for those three months because the kids were needed in the fields for harvest.
According to my Dad's family in Texas or at least our region, this started during the polio epidemics. There were spikes during August and it was thought that swimming in pools or the bayous was the vector. If the kids were in school they weren't swimming. SO they opened the schools so the kids were supervised. My students often didn't have AC in their apartments so the air-conditioned school was a relief.
School should be year round because the summer break drastically impacts retention and it causes a huge burden on working parents. The reason why we have summer break is because rich families would remove their children for their holiday season and they would demand the school close until their child returned.
Finnish schools start before mid August. Summer break starts on May 31st ish. Our summer is so short, that's why :)
The current reason seems to be weather. But there’s be a few reasons given. Used to be that children needed to be able to “work the fields” back in the 30s and 40s so they had to go to school for a longer year and then over the years teachers have complained that they need more days to teach the growing material... the silly list goes on and on...
It started in Sept when I was a kid. But then again could be because I'm in Canada.
It used to start in September when I was younger. Maybe that's cause I'm in Canada though
Quebec, Canada; School starts last week of August and ends on last week of around June 20 ish, just before Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, Quebec's national holiday.
I'm in Wisconsin. Our kids go back after Labor day. At least where I live.
That is very different for different reasons. In the Southeast, some districts start in August because the summer temperatures starts a lot earlier. In the Northwest, school tends to start after the first week of September because summer temperatures don’t start until around June.
Whaaat? That is such a terrible sin. Mine always started in September (of course, I'm still in middle school, so idk how it'll be for high school and college).
Maryland passed a law that school starts after labor day. So very end of August/ beginning of September. So its a state by state decision
When my kids went to a Maryland school they started back after Labor Day September and the year went on until the end of May with 12 weeks off.
You do know that each country in Europe has their own 'rules' when schools go out and start again? They range anywhere from 6 weeks (my country) to 15 weeks.
Load More Replies...so that we have enough time to get the required amount of days or hours completed before mid-June. In Iowa we are required to have 180 days of school. Every state has its own rules about the amount of time students need for an academic year (this applies to colleges and universities as well)
It depends on the state. In New York State because there is a regents testing system we run from September till He 3rd week in June. However not all students are there the last two weeks because they are testing. You don’t have a test, you don’t come in. It also depends which state and in what area of the country as August can be either really hot for some states or cool for others. Many schools do not have air conditioning. Most schools run from September to June in the US. There’s plenty of vacation time in the school year and time off.
They began the first week of September when I was 17 and younger (in the 1960's and 70's) but there may be differences now. Once in college, students were given an option to get registered for all classes and pay your bills in August to avoid the madness that would happen in September. College/university is A LOT bigger and more demanding than high school.
For me it doesn't, where do you guys live? I live in washington and it starts in the begenning of september for me.
Because of the Hispanic population. We used to get 2 weeks off for Christmas break. When the Hispanics started staying away for a month, they would have too many absences and couldn’t meet the required 180 days. Schools gave in and let everyone take a month off, but they had to make up the time somehow.
Gross. That's just gross. I'm thrilled we are not in school in August. August is for outside.
They used to have E as a failing grade, but people thought it meant Excellent, so they changed it to an F.
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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