30 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird

I am more confused about the necessity of this assignment for an 11y.o. What purpose does grading someone's hopes and dreams is? This seems like a pointless display of authority by the teacher from the start.

Time to fire the teacher.

They do know that these students actually have these body parts are already intimately familiar with them?

Protect the unborn so we can get them later"

What's not to love about the American school system? It amazes me that we still have college graduates who can read, write, theorize, and win Pulitzer prizes.

Okay, that's flat out corruption. The teacher needs exposing in public, and then sacking.

Had a teacher like this you have to read the directions and follow them to the letter it states circle all that apply yes they are right in that d. Is all of the above but they are wrong because they didn't follow the directions

That would be a no from me, mate.

Eat an apple. Kill a turtle. Keep things balanced.

Just about excusable if there were explicit instructions not to use staples but instead use a tag (what they called "treasury tags" in my youth). Otherwise, the teacher needs reprimanding.

Well now. If that's the barrier which stops the *boys* going for a pee in the proper hygenic manner, it seems to me that there's a straightforward solution... I mean, if you gotta go, you gotta go, and those horizontal bars won't stop a stream of fluid passing by.

hope you got em infected

Can anyone explain this sort of nonsense to me? What sort of society thinks it makes sense to limit when children are allowed to attend to natural bodily functions?

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That looks utterly revolting 🤢

I love how the chocolate milk is fat free 🤣 Pump'em full of sugar (CHOCOLATE milk and ketchup) and carbo hydrates (fries and pasta, plus thick sauce), fatty mac'n'cheese and a handful of baby carrots mourning the nurtitional value they lost by being processed and shelved - but HEY - that milk is SUPER skinny!

For the love of God, someone teach the Yanks that "entrée" does not mean "main course". The clue is in the word.

So much fraud and waste in the American education system and this is what they are eating? And we wonder why American's are both fat and stupid.

We had a paid lunch, free lunch and free lunch extra. Free one is for parents under certain income line(per child). Extra is like 20-30$ a month where you will get a bigger bowl if you had a card. But I gotta say, that doesn't look appetizing at all.

Better then some of us got at home.

Looks like a fetus

I'm a lunch lady. This meal does not qualify as a reimbursable meal per the USDA, but most schools are OVS (offer vs serve) meaning there was much more offered, but this is what the student chose to eat.

By law (department of education) there's also a fresh fruit available this kid opted not to take.

This is super sad. Not enough to eat and highly processed foods for our kids 💔

Mmm, healthy...

Who barfed on your plate??

I would only eat the fries

I had a traumatic experience at my primary school but at least for six years I had good, traditional meals. I don't get why American school lunches are so crazy, pizza and other strange options for growing children.

They can’t be giving this to growing kids? That said, the school meals here in the UK aren’t much better

We ate off grounds, but still our school lunches were better than that and we at least got some meat.

well, the pedantic teachers have taught the kids well - peanuts aren't 'nuts'.

This is when your essay immediately becomes a future TED talk about how censorship and limitations on circulation of information hamper academical research.

Yes, pls, thanx.

I can understand because this was probably happened right when everything got shut down and the demand suddenly skyrocketed

I'm pretty sure the teachers themselves had no say in the matter

You see this quite a bit with fields of study that are either new, or prone to regular changes. In both cases, they don't want you reselling the books, because in both cases, there's no guarantee that each year's textbook is going to be the same. Saw that happen with my environmental engineering textbook when I was going for my degree. Hell, halfway through the semester, our professor had to have us completely ignore two whole chapters of the text book because the standards that were presented there, had changed, and those processes could no longer be used.

You've got to start them early on the 'buy this and get this free'. They don't want anyone figuring out what a c**p show that is.

my school does this garbage , too. Admin and staff received 6% raise/teachers nothing (for last 3 years); at Christmas teachers receive a card for a $50 for ham (sorry if you're Jewish or Vegan...just give your card to someone else we would value!)

In grade school one teacher would make us do this with words we weren't supposed to say. Which once lead to me writing ORGY hundreds of times. I'm not sure she really thought that through enough. :)

No wonder some people think Africa and South America are countries like China and Russia. Either go with all continents, or all countries, but don't mix them up.

My high school's art class was like this after they cut the art department's budget. There used to be multiple art classes (drawing, crafts, photography, painting), but my senior year they just offered one ("Art"). No art supplies beyond some cheap paper and a box of broken coloured pencils, and not enough desks or chairs, so a good chunk of the students sat on the counters, tables, on desks, and on the windowsills. Our teacher (Goldie, she was a saint) had a nervous breakdown like 2 months into the school year and they never hired a replacement art teacher, just used subs for the rest of the year. The school did still have 10 working 35mm cameras--Goldie doled them out to the few of us who were actually interested in art and told us to never return them, she would just tell the school they were lost or stolen. I still have that camera.

Given the color of the tiles around the registers, I would be willing to bet that the decision happened around the time the school was constructed. Likely in the 1980's, when those tiles were seen as a viable and cheap ceiling choice, when compared with other options. At the time, they likely never considered hoodlums would be more interested in getting basketballs stuck in the ceiling.

I mean - as long as he checked if everything is correct, it should be okay for a teacher to use chatgpt for such things.

Wow! Bigger gaps than normal! Ffs, the American system is off their nuts! Can't even hide in here if there's an active shooter! F******g disgraceful!

Context is important. Bag checks don't just look at a clear bag. Students must also pass through a metal detector, and around a d**g detection dog. That's because while the backpack may be clear, their clothing is not.

What am I missing here?

Well, I guess the torture school was full so they sent their wanna-be recruits to the school administration class.

ok, look, parents of students under 18, college students, and teachers: if you see this on digital/online schoolwork from a textbook publisher (so not a question written by the teacher themselves), report it to the textbook publisher. this is an obvious error and can be addressed. it's not uncommon to have something like this to turn up and it's the publishers responsibility to fix it. now, if the teacher wrote the question, that's on them. (source: industry insider knowledge)

My wife spends thousands of dollars and countless uncompensated hours equipping her classroom. Not to mention the time she drags me in for.

Is that melted plastic?

To give the kids a little time between classes - to go to the bathroom, or whatever, for instance? But damn, lunch at 10 though.

And the "word of the day" is "hypocrisy".

Ah yes, America, land of the free! Where mind control and censorship rule supreme!

I want to know what Emma did.

Aesculap give me strength...

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Huh? But this is not a new thing. I still remember getting a lecture in primary school because I was writing the number 5 "wrong". The "approved" sequence was "Neck-Belly-Hat"whereas mine was "Hat-Neck-Belly", which requires only a single stroke. I still write 5 my way. Funny how some things stick in your mind even after so many years have passed!