British Couple Reacts to a DAY INSIDE AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2022
- British Couple Reacts to a DAY INSIDE AN AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL
Thank you so much for watching this reaction video!
Please smash that like button and subscribe!
If you would like to Donate VIA Paypal - paypal.me/BeesleyYT
Support the Channel on Patreon - / beesley
Patreons (Thank you so so much) -
Fridge56Vet
Will R
Jordan D
Jeff Burdick
Walter M
Brad Baker
Daniel H
Jason
John Ci
Joe H
Cindy
Matthew B
Jimmy R
Jeff in California
Bob D
Greg N
B24Chicago
DetailBear
Michael S
Shelly
Mike P
John Cr
Fixit
Dan B
Jennifer S
Ronald L
Kyle M
Shado
Don
Paul
KMMMAM
Jeanette S
Mary C
D.C C
Kevin C
Eric V
Rodney F
Duane P
Michael C
Yoder
Jordan W
Warren C
KatieForLife
Discord - / discord
Twitter - / beesleyyt
Original Video - • Day in the Life at Ame...
Comment below more reaction ideas or DM me on Twitter!
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. - บันเทิง
This is an extremely well funded public school. Every public school is different too. Especially the state and again, the funding.
We had relatives that lived in Oak Park & River Forest and the real estate taxes (the source of funding for the schools) was well over $10,000 for the year.
My school has always had school board people taking the money to fund the schools into their bank accounts. Wish when I was in HS (2019) that I got to see new desks that's not from the 80s to 90s, and the new look at this school has.
This is definitely a pretty bomb ass high school
I went through Catholic (private/ religious school) and we wore uniforms, but many public schools have now adopted them as well. As others have said, this school is extremely well funded, and not typical of most inner city schools! You would definitely see more action in those! You would also see metal detectors and often security, or at least teachers in the halls, to keep things in line. I've worked in a number of city schools in the past. Nice video, though! :)
I wouldn’t say this public school is extremely well funded. I would say that this school is about average for US public schools
This is a very wealthy school district! Indoor running track and a room for ping pong? Wow!
Absolutely. My high school had 1 gym 20 years ago now there's 3 but they're not rich, it's a small school
Yes this is a very nice school! Wow!
It's a nice campus, but our high school campuses are much more impressive than this one. We do pay high taxes for outstanding schools though.
lol wealthy is an understatement, my high school had nearly 3k students, more than 35 kids per class, and 1 gymnasium and forget about pingpong. Your PE class options were general PE or general PE.
We did have a well funded band organization though.
Ikr! My entire high-school campus could have fit on that football field! We didn't even have an upper floor or a field lol
I think you should make this a series and react to different high schools across the US to see the difference between them.
I’d love that!
Great idea
If Michael K Williams were still alive, this would look much different.
I'd like to see that too. Great idea!
I wanna see that
You guys had breaks outside of lunch D: my American self has never been so jealous. My high school would literally give us 5 minutes between classes that were used specifically to get from one class to another. If I had two classes that were far away from each other, those 5 minutes were spent running across campus so I wouldn't be marked as late.
Break lol after every class, what lol, lunch PE that's it
my school only has 3 minutes between classes lmao, apparently 5 minutes was too much time to "fool around in the hallways"
I would still be late.
Same but I never had any issues where I had to run. Think having breaks after 2 periods of classes is probably a good idea that us Americans should have as it gives the students time to digest what they just learned. It's hard to digest all information when it's an entirely new topic each class and only get a break when it's lunch.
Same. Mine was 4 minutes for passing periods. Luckily the building was small enough that we could speed walk to class without getting into trouble for running in the halls. Lunch wasn't even an hour long. We had about 45 minutes plus 5 to get to class since you couldn't be in the hall before then unless you were part of a group having a lunch meeting in a classroom. Even then, you weren't supposed to be hanging out in the halls. We didn't even have an actual study hall, only a thing called orange period, which was a 30-minute class to work on any leftover homework or read a book. You had to do one of those things unless you got lucky with a teacher that doesn't care.
ive never heard of a break in high school, its just class to class, and lunch.
also this school is huge, ive never heard of a track inside a school, or an entire area for table tennis.
It said the class was racket sports, so I assume they focus on one sport per quarter or something like that and it was table tennis at the time so that’s why their gym was set up like that that day. Or maybe they do have a dedicated table tennis hall. 🤷🏻♂️
@@JustMe-dc6ks that room is used for a lot of different classes, including dance and some others, I think they just fold them up and down for each class. There are (i think) 10+ options for PE requirment and we have a lot of seperate rooms.
This school is in the midwest which is why it has a track inside, there are 3 gyms
@@JustMe-dc6ks Oh and we have 3 gyms, 2 pools, the track room, and I think 2 or 3 regular rooms for smaller gym classes
Oh yeah I went to a school couple minutes away from his on this video and we also had advisory/ homeroom but it was only for 25 minutes idk maybe it’s a northern IL thing will/cook county? 🤷🏾♀️
That was a very nice and well funded school. An entire room dedicated to ping pong?!? Not average. He probably got away with filming because 1) he is obviously a good student with all those AP classes as a junior and 2) he works on the school yearbook.
I concur with your observation of his being on yearbook. For nonAmericans who might not know, students in yearbook are sanctioned by the school to document student life for the purposes of the annual publication(s).
Probably a school in an upper income neighborhood in a large city. You are certainly not going to find that kind of situation in most regular schools.
Agreed
He looks like he's popular too. So, less people would be tempted to mess with him.
@@southernhippie9058 that's how we livin in the Blue states.
This is the typical “high school with only rich kids” from all the generic 80’s and 90’s movies. I’ve never met anyone from such a school. Shocking to me that it’s clean!
For more typical experiences I’d recommend folks to read the comments as +95% of schools are not like this one.
Agree. That's a very ritzy snazzy school. It looks very newly built. It's definitely not the norm.
Yea My school was nothing close to this and I live in the "rich" suburb of a large city. This school blew my mind.
I agree, doesn't seem real
The time I was in school was so different. Lol. We were given only foam trays and plastic spoons during lunch with unrecognizable food. People kept stabbing others. We also had at least one fight a day, a riot, and students were always getting detention for having shivs. No guns because of the metal detectors and campus cops. Drug dealers, and one bathroom that was known for rape. We also had regular bomb threats. We also wore a cheap version of a uniform. This kid probably thinks his school is normal though 🤣.
This is the craziest school I've ever seen, has to be a top 1% school.
Something to remember about the lockers is our ranges of weather. Snow boots, scarf, hat, gloves, and winter jacket would take up too much space in the classrooms if we carried them around all day. Love your content. Hi from Minnesota 😌!
This high school is EXTREMELY well to do and well funded. I could have told you that from the “coconut milk” comment. Then seeing how wide these halls are. Absolutely insane. If you could fit 4 people side by side in our hallways you were lucky. Made getting to class within 4 minutes a LOT harder.
I went to a private, all male Catholic high school. Uniforms were mandatory. You couldn’t even wear a hoodie during the winter months when it was freezing cold out.
My experience and most DEFINITELY this experience in the video is far from “normal”.
the gym area looked like an athletic club that you'd pay $100 a month for.
Yeah rush between classes wasn’t really show. Which has changed drastically from when I was in school.
This school definitely well funded and do not look nothing like my high school. In the last 5 years, my high school started to remodel because my high school been around since 1783. School times are different depending on what state you live in and your district. My first class started at 7:45am unlike this school.
Yeah I mean catholic high school is WAY different from public schools
Yeah Oak Park is one of the wealthiest areas of Chicago.. I had a friend go here that I met in uni. This school is very well off.
You have to remember how much difference there is between schools and systems around the USA….there is seldom anything that is standard
In Houston Texas they were uniforms.
@@dutreecegardner6100 Uniforms are not a new idea. I first saw it in old black-and-white news reels from the 1930s .... only, it was kinda hard to understand because the narration WAS IN GERMAN.
Like everything in the USA; drastically different from state to state or even city to city. Blew my mind when I moved here and realized that even living in the USA I still knew very little about how other people live just a state away.
@@dutreecegardner6100 What? I graduated in 2013 and we did not have to wear uniforms for high school back in Houston. Only elementary and middle school.
Exactly, public schools are state run. So literally every state is gonna be different, not to mention size diff
Feeling a little jealous about the breaks. When I went to High School in the US we had 4 minutes to get from one class to the next and only a 20 minute lunch break. There were 9 periods 40 minutes each and then activities after school. Made for a very busy day every day.😉
Damn, that's a short lunch! Pretty sure ours was a full period like all our other classes (~45-50 minutes?)
I only had 8 classes an that was if you took an A an B period which was optional
We got an hour for lunch we also got 2 ten minute breaks, morning and afternoon. That was in the 60s. All high schools have lockers, for individuals.
Girls playing on "the boys" team is rarer, but becoming more common. I was born in '90, and in my state the rules were "If there is no girl's team, a girl may try out for the existing team even if it is all male". So in middle school, maybe around 2002-2004, I went to try out for the football team. The coach refused to even let me step on the field, and told me "Cheerleading is THAT way". I was 5'11", 250 pounds, and could bench press 199 and change. I was not a "cheerleader" type. I went there anyway and they laughed me out of the gym lol. Which, fair. I didn't wanna be there either, and couldn't do a cartwheel to save my life.
But, it IS becoming more common, finally.
I'm glad it's happening at all, when I tried to play football just just for fun they thought that my friends and I were "cursing the field" and they took us to the principal's office and paddled us for daring to touch the boys' holy and sacred game/field.
Granted now that was 30 years ago but still makes me angry to this day. We got good at playing in the snow when no one was looking, you got a lot of road rash on your face from landing on the icy crust.
Yeah when I was in junior high there was a girl on the football team.. but you can’t very well have a girls team if there isn’t enough players.. if there were enough girls wanting to play I’m sure they’d end up having their own team
When I was in high school we only had boys Soccer, but 1/3 of the team was girls. We also only had boys Golf, but there was a girl on it. And now my cousin's daughter plays on the boys Basketball team since there is no team for girls.
Damn. Honestly, f that coach. That's lawsuit worthy. If it's not the law, then fine, but it was. He violated your rights and BROKE THE LAW.
It’s been written into American law since the 1970s. It’s a rule set forth under Title IX
"High School" in America represents grades 9-12, meaning the ages of high school students typically ranges from 14-18 years old. The ages of students for each year would typically be:
Freshman (grade 9): 14-15 years old
Sophomore (grade 10): 15-16 years old
Junior (grade 11): 16-17 years old
Senior (grade 12): 17-18 years old
When I started high it was grades 8-12. Now it's 9-12. We live in a rural town and now middle & high school is connected, but we take special care in keeping them separated. Connecting schools is getting common in small rural towns due to funding. The upside is every child eats free breakfast and lunch in our county.
unless your birthday was after start of school year
I would say that is a fairly typical high school for a large, middle/upper middle class suburb in the Midwest/Northeastern US. Our schools can vary widely based on urban/suburban/rural...class level of the area...and climate. Schools in places like Florida and California tend to have way more outdoor space due to the climate differences.
Oak Park, Illinois. Very old school, established 1871, current building opened in 1907 (Internet information, verify if you want to use it). I would imagine many remodeling projects over the years!
Bellevue WA here and I don’t really see anything that weird about this video
@@morrielewin1554 very wealthy place
Yeah I’m from California, most schools here have outdoor campuses which means there’s no hallways between classrooms or even singular buildings all classes are typically in a different building you have to walk to in between periods
Not sure if anyone touched on this yet, but there are also distinctions between public (government/state) funded schools and private schools that you have to pay to go to, a notable example is that private schools often DO have uniforms.
Appreciate your reactions and appreciation for American culture!!!
After watching a few of your American school reactions I’ve come to realize that most people who have the resources and will to vlog usually have a top tier high school to be proud of
Judging by the drone shot of this campus, this looks like a very very very wealthy community. I went to a small public school in a rural community in the Deep South. We didn’t have uniforms but it was always a conversation. We weren’t allowed to carry backpacks or large bags for security reasons so we had to go to our lockers between almost every class. But there was never much time, and there was such a crush to get to the lockers that often we would only go a couple of times per day and carry books for several classes. Many times my classes would put me too far away from my locker to get there, change my books, and get back before the bell. We did NOT have breaks between classes, just enough time to get form one to the next with potentially a fast locker stop. Our classes were 50 minutes long, there was about a 10 minute walk to lunch, 20 minutes to eat, 10 minutes to get back. And only changing classes in between, no breaks. We went to the same classes every day of the week if I recall, and then schedules changed at winter break. Some schools do block schedules where there are longer class periods where the schedule changed on a quarter schedule rather than a semester schedule. We also were not allowed to have cell phones or pages under penalty of suspension but this was some time ago 😬 when there was a “drug dealer” stigma hahaha. I asked my friend who is a high school biology teacher what she would say if a student asked permission to film her class and she said she always operates under the assumption that someone is filming her at all times. She could say no, but they would probably do it anyway. So she just assumes someone somewhere is always recording whatever she is saying or doing.
I would not say wealthy, upper middle class.
Mmmh a mix of middle class and upper middle class maybe. In the wealthy neighborhoods, most families opt for private schools which they can afford.
It's from Oak Park, IL (according to the upper left corner in the opening) which is an upper middle class suburb of Chicago. If you go to Chicago proper, it's a war zone, made even worse by the defunding of the police.
@@nancysexton4364 Chicago is not a war zone,
if you're talking about West side Chicago or South side chicago,
the inner cities,
yeah,
that has a lot of gang violence,
but most of Chicago is not a war zone.
@@NelleBear no this is definitely a wealthy upper class school, some parents prefer to give their students a public school experience even when they can afford a private school.
Oak Park & River Forest Illinois are upper scale neighborhoods, two of the wealthiest and long established suburbs in the Chicagoland area and this school of course reflects that.
I would guess this example reflects less than 5% of high schools in the USA.
Yep went to proviso east should have did a video of that school
@@ipsycho8469 ,
I think your grammar tells us all we need to know.
@@jameswoodard4304 you mite wanna check take a look at youre own comment.
@@ipsycho8469 ,
Thanks. I'm going to fix my spelling. Are you going to fix your grammar?
@@jameswoodard4304 You are the one acting like a priss shouldn’t you have perfect spelling.
High school has changed ALOT!! I graduated in 1999 in a public school in Alabama. To give a 100% accurate account then watch the movie “Dazed and confused” that was EXACTLY how high school was for me
I think we all were a little dazed and confused in high school, and I graduated 10 years before you did.
Honestly I’m surprised this school isn’t a private school. Besides the food, everything in this video was so un-normal for a ordinary highschool in America. My hs didn’t have stairs, you had to walk in 4 mins from one side of the school to your other class. Note that our classes were outside. So whenever it rained or it was cold you were fucked, no way of getting anywhere warm unless you went inside the library which would get packed. That school is so big and even I was impressed of how nice it looked 😂
A lot of public school districts are rebuilding their schools. Portland and Seattle has nearly rebuilt all their high schools for 200M each. This isn’t anything crazy
The stairs thing is regional. Depends on how much room they had when building.
I’ve never seen a high school with that much indoor gym/space! (even an indoor track!) The fact that everything is enclosed makes me think it must be in the Midwest or Northeast where they had to deal with a lot of rain/snow! Definitely a lot different from my HS in SoCal!
Mine was much more open with classes in completely different buildings, an outdoor lunch area, outdoor track and baseball/football fields. Though our gym was big enough for 2 basketball courts!
It literally said it was in Illinois at the beginning of the video 😂
Most American high schools range from Freshman Year (usually ages 14-15) through Senior Year (usually ages 17-18).
After high school comes college, which may be at a "college" (which typically offers only 4 year undergraduate degrees such as a BA - Bachelor of the Arts or BS - Bachelor of Science) or at a "university" (which typically offers the aforementioned undergraduate degrees, plus graduate degrees such MA - Masters degree and even PhD - Doctorate degree). It generally takes 2 additional years to add on an MA (Masters degree) after obtaining a BA or BS. The time needed to obtain an additional PhD varies according to the program of study.
There are also smaller community/technical colleges which offer 2 year Associate degrees.
I hope that made sense and helps in understanding things.
I never used my locker except the first year in middle school, 6th grade. After that, I just carried all of my stuff with me from class to class. There was never really enough time to go to the locker between classes to swap books and binders and such, and the heat was never really working that great in winter anyway so I wore my coat the whole time. Before 6th grade we had "cubbies" which were unlocked, open partitions with nothing more than a hook to put our coats (and possibly snow pants for recess play in winter) on and maybe a shelf for winter boots, but we were basically spending most of our time in a single classroom with the same teacher.
Oh lordy, I could tell from the very beginning when he was eating cereal with pecans and almond milk that this was not about to be most normal high school 😂😂. I went to 4 different high schools, they were all very different from each other. But none had an indoor track or ping pong room lol. The size at One was pretty comparable to this one and that one 😍did have a crazy awesome photography studio and dark room though for the photographer club.
I feel like between 900-3000 students in a high school here is common. One district near me has 19,000!!
Also, usually either expensive private schools or lower income city schools are the only ones with uniforms here. Also none of the schools I went to did uniforms for gym class. We had to change clothes but you just brought your own gym clothes from home. I failed gym class in 9th grade because I refused to get changed too many times lol. Who in the world knows why I did this. Oh and I feel like in movies they always show people showering after gym class and that wasn't a thing that actually happened. Usually the shower areas had stuff just stored in them.
I graduated in 2006, but the high school cafeteria was pretty good then. We had a pizza hut in it. Plus a ton of other choices. Now I have kids and the school lunches are way different and totally gross. And way over priced. I'm super jealous over these breaks you guys got. We didn't have any of that. We had our 30 minutes for lunch, that was the only break from classes.
Most of the high schools started around 750am and ended at like 245pm.
The football part was definitely pretty accurate in my experience. Games are definitely a big deal here.
And our high schools are 9th grade(14) to 12th grade(17 or 18). Sorry for such a long comment. I wanted to comment about the stuff you guys were asking about haha.
Wow, this is a really nice high school! Most high schools are over crowded, and have lack of funding. I recall one year, there were trash cans lining the hallways to collect the water leaking through the ceiling whenever it would rain. Sometimes, there were a lack of books, so we would have to share. Would like to see a film comparing this school (obvious suburb) to one from a city, such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Would be interesting
Yeah, in my high school you could literally see from the second floor down to the first floor classrooms, because the front, exterior wall was pulling away from the building. It was considered the “big city” (town of 16,000) school in our rural area. 😄
I`very heard several Brits get confused by we American`s use of the words "college" and "university." We generally all go to universities after high school (if we are seeking to further our education and we are accepted by the institution). But in casual conversation, we all generally use the word "college": eg. ("When I was still in college", ""I`m applying to several colleges. I Hope one accepts my application. " etc.). It`s just easier to say than "university."
Of course each university contains several colleges--each with it's own specialized discipline. And yes, we do actually have smaller, single-discipline institutions which are properly called "colleges." They are typically a college of liberal arts and sciences, and often private.
We do have college and we do have university. You need different applications for Uni. Although everyone just calls it all college there are slightly different expectations. You take two years of college and usually apply for furthering education in a full university post that. Some kids go straight to university, thats depending on grading/scholarships.
There are a LOT of colleges...smaller 4 year institutions that grant bachlors degrees but not advanced degrees. Also our 2 year post secondary schools are called colleges.
I love how they chose to watch a highly supped up high school that’s basically a private school but isn’t officially a private school. The majority of public school is not as glamorous as that.
How would they know that if it was upscale? That's kinda the point
I went to a small town High School. We were in a community of Italian ancestry. All our kitchen cooks were Italian women who cooked for huge families, the food was always fantastic!
JeffreyWatkins: Question... The item he called a pizza in the video, Isn't that a calzone?
It's technically a pizza since calzones are basically pizza dough on the outside and pizza toppings on the inside.
Didn't that look like a calzone?
Also, having the neighborhood moms come in and do the cooking is The Best Idea Ever.
More schools should do it
Schools in the US are different depending on where you are, even schools in the same town could differ drastically. I'm from Florida and because of the warmer weather my schools were kind of like tiny college campuses where we had a bunch of different buildings scattered around campus with exterior walkways and courtyards connecting everything. The campuses were all super open, and up until recently my elementary school didn't even have a fence or anything surrounding the main campus. You could just walk right in off the street. Schools in cooler areas are pretty much just one giant building like in this video. school Uniforms/dress code, gym uniforms, bell schedules, lockers, food, etc. all vary from school to school and district to district. For example in my district, we got out an hour early on Wednesdays, but the district next to us didn't. We also started/ended the school year a week later than them. I graduated high school in 2014 so things have changed I'm sure, but I wouldn't know lol.
same im from florida too we also have something called portables they are like little house looking things where some students have classes depends on their class not all students have portable classes. theyre usually on the fields 😊
I live in Illinois, where this high school is located. I was just there for a basketball game today. The high school that I graduated from was like what you describe for Florida. 6 buildings with courtyards, etc. If you saw the movie Home Alone, the interior shots and stunts were shot in the high school gym I graduated from.
its very true. ive been to schools in different states.. Upstate rural new york maybe like 250 students 9-12th grade, texas my school was 9th grade only 500 students, 10th grade was around 2400 students, when i was in arizona hs there was maybe 1200 students 9-12th grade... all schools were so different.
So true. I am in Massachusetts and even in different cities, it's different. This video shows a giant school with money. I lived in a suburban region. The school was much smaller, and we went to school earlier and it ended earlier. I think it was around 2. It made it easier for those of us who had jobs or work-study. We didn't have uniforms at school and we didn't have uniforms at the gym, but we did have to change clothes. In large urban cities like Springfield, the students do were uniforms to public schools due to family financial situations and gang issues.
The school is Oak Park-River Forest in West Suburban Chicago. While it is better off than a lot, and has 3,300 students, the school I work for and graduated from is the wealthiest in IL and has 4,000 students. Most of the north suburban high schools in Chicago are well off and about the same size as Oak Park. On the other hand I have worked at schools with 125 students. The difference in education and opportunity is astounding.
Like many of the comments have pointed out the high school experience will vary greatly across the country. But here are a few notes...
-High schools are usually either 9th-12th or 10th-12th grade (or if you call them by name 9th grade=Freshman, 10th=Sophomore, 11th=Junior, and 12th=Senior)
-Some really small communities, private or charter schools might have younger grades in the same school.
-9th grade is for usually for kids who are 14 years old turning 15 years old that school year continuing up with 12th grade for kids who are 17 turning 18 during the school year.
-High schools can have anywhere from around 100 kids to 4-5,000 kids depending on where you live. My school was 10th-12th grades and had around 1,800 kids (about 600 in each grade).
-There can be a big difference between public and private schools. The typical school you see in movies/TV are public schools. Private schools are more likely to have uniforms.
-My high school ended at 2:35 pm. Started around 8:00 am.
-Different school districts handle class length differently. When I was in high school there were 7 periods/classes during the day. Today that same school has only 4 or 5 periods a day but each period/class is longer since there are less classes.
-Everybody gets a locker and at my schools they were always assigned. You just hoped you got lucky and got lockers next to your friends.
-He was close enough to walk, but that wasn't common at my high school. Either you took the school bus, parents dropped you off, get a ride with your friends in their car or drove yourself. Most kids in my school preferred to drive themselves or drive with their friends.
-"College" is the blanket term that covers almost all school after high school. Whether you go to a state or private college, a community or tech/trade college, or even a university we just use the blanket term "college". University usually offers more graduate degrees (Masters, Doctorates, etc.), but most people still call it college.
How long did that take you to write
Totally agree except for the college reverence. I've never heard of 'college' not meaning college. Otherwise, you'd say Tech School.
Dead on right!
I graduated from Kinston High School in Kinston, Alabama. We had 36 graduates in my senior class. We got a break around 10, lunch around 12-12:30 and out at 3. The entire school from kindergarten to 12th grade were all on the same campus. Everyone knew everyone. Your mom and dad knew what you did, before you thought about doing something.
It is so funny that you describe yummy foods as “stunning and gorgeous”, we mainly use those terms to describe very attractive people😂🤣
A personal experience of how drastically different school systems can be. My first high school had metal detectors, armed security, and cameras everywhere. My second school when I moved had a Taco Bell, and Dunkin' in the cafeteria. 😅.....and that was only two cities about 20 mins away from each other, never mind system changes of other states.
We had metal detectors, armed security, Papa John's and Subway LOL
@@andrewthezeppo same
We had crack students, and teachers selling the crack to the students.
Where TF are u guys going to school!!! All I can tell it’s not in Missouri
@@rebelleas6910 I went to school in Boston, then a suburb of Boston. @Tristin Dye was home schooled.
This is awesome! It was really cool to see you guys react to my video. I love learning about other school experiences and your input was really interesting.
Commenting on some of your reactions…
We have 5 minutes in between 47 minutes classes (not really much of a “break”).
Generally, people tend to keep to themselves, but there are definitely some people who want to be all in on the filming action.
Teachers are mostly cool with filming, though some didn’t want to be on camera.
Yeah, food really isn’t great. Oftentimes it sucks. It’s one of the main aspects of school that I think could be improved.
We finish school at 3:11, though most kids stay much longer for clubs and sports.
Thanks for watching guys!!
- Lucas
Lucas, nice school. In one of our cafeterias, (we had three), the same butter pat was stuck to the ceiling for four years. Also, milkshake. There used to be food fights before I got there.
@@heididietrich9800 Wow, that's insane!!
@@LucasKultBanout yeah. .It was. There were also race riots before I got there and school would be dismissed. If we saw the high school students walking by our school, we knew there had been a riot. I forgot to tell you about the lunch lady who made me a peanut butter sandwich. Complete with a blob of her hair. Ick.
so what is with the music?
@@loveandrespectme that was just a one time thing because it was Friday and a football game.
this is a very wealthy school. i went to school in the bronx in nyc and it was definitely not like this we weren’t even allowed outside unless we had a school trip. only thing that’s the same is that we didn’t have any breaks in between classes.
My school usually ended at 3:30. After school clubs usually go till 5. Games or events happen around 5:30 or later.
This guy eats pecans with cereal and coconut milk... definitely not your average American.
I thought the pecans were a great idea though! Smart way to grab some protein!
Yea that’s not average right there lol
100%
I thought the same thing. And not just because I hate pecans
My sister tried out for the football team in the late 90s but my mom made her stop. It's still not common really...
High school students are 14-18. School days are generally from 7:30- 2:25 and sometimes 3:00 pm depending on the school.
My first high school had a later start time. When I moved to a new school before my senior / 12th grade year, we went frim 7:00am to 1:30pm. I loved getting out early and having the afternoon free, but getting up in the morning sucked.
I think it’s somewhat common now. There was a girl on my middle school team and at least 2 on the high schools teams where I went. Maybe it’s not common, but it’s definitely not nearly as surprising as it once was
When I was in high school, school day we're from 8:265- 3:35
I was in the band, so we had a large room for the band, with private rooms to practice. The stage in the multi use room adjoined the band room. We drove our cars to highschool, most people had a car. The student parking lot was larger than the teachers parking lot.
For varsity football and basketball games we had a student section and the leaders would give out a theme on the schools social media account every Friday i.e. white out, camo, cowboy, 70’s, neon. The senior guys are usually in the front row with their chest and faces painted, except for the breast cancer game where the girls paint their bellies. Half the stadium was students, half was parents, teachers, and alumni, and the band had a few rows in the middles. The entire school essentially comes out and supports the varsity football games. There were also regular tailgates for home games. Great experience
There is a huge difference between rural and city schools. Founding gets sent to the schools that get better test scores which creates huge divides. This is definitely one of the larger city schools. Also due to COVID the boys and girls soccer teams did preseason workouts together since we had to rush practice. My school had 1500 kids. Also I was able to where my old middle school pe clothes throughout high school
Funding is both based on testing AND local/city taxes. If you live in a rich suburb the schools will have everything you can imagine. If you live in a poor inner city or rural area you get nothing.
Yes it's full of cliques. We had the jocks, the ritchies, the dirtbaggers, the farmers, the doobie heads & the nerds & artsy kids. The rest of us just kind of orbited amongst all of them and got along.
High school musical, was filmed at a high school in Salt Lake City Utah. As an adult I took an evening class there. My grandkids were excited.
When I was in high school my classes would start at 7:30am and end at 2:10pm. Lunch would be between 3rd and 4th period and that lasted 30 minutes. We got the option of choosing 3 desired classes and 3 required classes like math, English/grammar, and US History. I had Aerobics, Art and drama. unfortunately I couldn't graduate because I failed the WASLE. I was given a chance to go to collage and try at the GED examination.
The “look” Millie gave you, when describing the pizza roll hack!!😂😂😂
American high schools differ greatly, depending on where they are. Each state even has its own educational standards. Some things will be similar, but tere is no "typical" high school. This is one kid's experience in one school, which is fine. Some schools have uniforms and some do not. But even if you don't wear a uniform to school, you usually have to change into a uniform for gym or physical education class. School usually finishes about 3:00 pm for regular classes. Then you might go extra activities afterwards.
In California we don't have indoor special purpose rooms, except for the multiuse room with the cafeteria for lunch. and the gymnasium for basketball and PE. Our football field and the outside PE field (there were 2, boys and girls) were of course not inside.
There is NOTHING typical about this high school.
Coconut milk? Who can afford that?
A entire field house? You'd be lucky to have a muti-use gym.
AP (advance placement) courses of ANY kind are rare in most schools.
This school is in a very wealthy, well funded school district.
AP classes are rare now? Good to hear! I hated those classes with a passion.
The coconut milk was his breakfast at home.
Not served at school.
he had coconut milk at home and as far as i know AP classes aren’t rare. every school that I know of has AP classes for every core subject.
I disagree. In the midwest, even in poor schools AP was offered. Could be different between states.
You should do one on American high school pep rallies.
I was thinking that too.
Pep rallies were always a fun way to get out of class, fond memories
Another totally foreign concept for British viewers, no doubt 😅
That is the most incredible public school i have ever seen. All the schools i have been to seem about half the size and did not have fields or tennis courts, but it had an indoor pool and a workout room.
All my schools were about this big… like from elementary to high school. I’ve never seen a school that’s small… I guess that might be a Florida thing? Or the neighborhood I live in?
Wow, that school is clean! You need to take in consideration of WHERE the school is in the city and how old the school is. My high school was built in the 70’s. We still had the old countertops they put in when they built the school. It’s been a long time since I graduated so here’s hoping they remodeled!!
From a US Highschool student perspective:
-Since Covid, we rarely use lockers. They let us carry bags around all day.
-At my school at least, we go through around 3-4 periods and then lunch and break or a break and then lunch.
-Between class periods schools letus have 3-5 mins to get there and use the bathroom depending on the school.
-Teachers gradually get more relaxed through the year and even some kids at my school would call teachers by their first name.
-At one of the schools we played against there were like 1 or 2 girls on their football team.
American High Schools are very different from each other, it depends on where you are. one of the biggest things in American High Schools is Football Friday Night.
My high school was 2 period, lunch, 2 periods, go home. And we had an "A-Day/B-Day," schedule so we had 2 "days." 8 classes in all before we restarted. And we changed classes at the semester with only a few full-year classes. So you could end up with 16 classes in a year. We had class for 1 hour 45 minutes per period, 30 minutes for lunch. And we had 2, 5-minute passing periods so that we could get to the next class.
My high school didn't have an indoor track, ping pong room, etc. We did have a very big football stadium though, I believe it seated 6000 people
Thrre was a store across the street from the school. They had hamburgers, cokes and milkshakes and other stuff. In the morning and on breaks the kids would go across the street to smoke.
This is definitely one of the nicer, well funded schools. I know my high school looked nothing like this. Schools with Apple computers? Yea, a school in a nicer and higher income neighborhoods.
the breakfast scene alone and seeing his house I knew immediately this video would in no way reflect my high school experience.
My high school actually had computers in 1976.... It was a pretty good high school actually and we had about 3500 students also.
We had Apple computers in my high school back in the day (88-91). Apple II E, baby. Later we got PCs and a couple of Macs.
I just wanted to comment and say hello to a fellow Prindiville even if our spellings are slightly different. I never see other people with this last name! Cool.
@@brennaprindiville703 I've yet to encounter anyone with the same last name as me! Don't know where your from but I'm originally from Rosedale, NY. I had started working on a family tree in Ancestry and I did see thatin the census records back around 1900 our last name did have an "i" which was then reflected an "e". Trying to go back further but it looks as though the family on my dad's side had come to the states from Ireland. I wonder if it's a common name over there?
I graduated High School in 1994. The internet was kinda still in its infancy, none of my friends had a home computer in 94. And if we filmed anything ,it was with big bulky camcorder. It'd be interesting for yall to react to 80's and 90's high school.vids ,lot of great ones here on youtube. In my high school it was 8am to 3 pm. And no girls where even close to being on the football team. I went to a small town Texas High school. We drove to school, some of us left to eat Mcdonalds or burger king for lunch. Many Smoked cigarettes at lunch and inbetween classes😅
I have tapes from my high school in 93-95. I wonder if they still play
Our high schools usually starts at 7.15am and finish at 2.35pm. Then you have certain extra rehearsals after school, like band, orchestra or different sports.
Most high schools are different in each state and even city the U.S. especially in public schools and private schools. I personally go to a private school which is very different from the school in the video.
That's a very well funded school, I call it borderline private school. My school was pretty poor, very dated. We had block scheduling. 4 periods I believe through the day. We would end our day at 2:21.
I would say that this is pretty similar to my high school. Obviously there are differences in every American high school but I would say this is a good generalization. Most schools are dismissed between 2:30-3 pm but there are some that get out as late as 4 pm.
I get out at 4:30 but start at 9 I think it’s fairly balanced
I get out at 2:15 and start at 7:15 🤡
@@blanc.and.noir. my school got at 1:28 pm but the bell rang at 7:03am
I came from a very small school district in IL that has a total of 145 students in our High School. The Main High School section is only one hallway long. We don’t have uniforms. We have P.E. Uniforms (that hardly get worn because they aren’t enforced), sport practice uniforms and of course sport uniforms for the games. We have 45 minute classes and 2 minute class change period to use the restrooms and get to your next class. Our school is pretty old and original. Very small. No A/C and the heat sometimes comes out as cold. That is a very nice school and district in the video. Keep up the good work!
I started to breath heavy when I started watching a video on American high schools with a sign above the video that says "choose your weapon".
Schools can be vastly different depending on size, surrounding neighborhoods, and climate. This one, for example, was huge. A suburb of Chicago means large funding and a huge student population. That's how they end up with a room full of ping pong tables. Because they can. I live in a town of under 2,000 people in South Dakota, we combine with 2 other towns and part of the city close to us to make up our district. I graduated with 69 people at a school out in the middle of nowhere. Our school did not offer AP classes, and this guy took several. Every high school student took a general gym class for a semester of freshman year, and that was all you had for PE. We only had 4 possible computer classes offered and they were super basic. Also, our building had preschool all the way to high school. The entire district went to one building. It will continue that way through the end of this year, then the new elementary school in my town will be finished and preschool-4th grade will be there. The only reason we even got that big was because the largest city in the state, Sioux Falls, grew a ton in our direction and spilled into our district. The Sioux Falls schools graduated 1,482 students across 3 buildings (the 4th started this year).
This school has a central air conditioning system. That right there is more than what my school had. 3000+ students where a good number hadn't discovered deodorant with no AC. It was rough in June & September.
Damn u had school in June? We always got out by late May
Our school in Pa has 3 separate buildings, one of which houses an Olympic sized pool. Day runs from 720-215. No uniforms. We have football soccer baseball fields. 3 cafeterias 3 gyms and 3 auditoriums. All 3 auditoriums have events like school plays concerts etc. Our band has traveled to Europe and the white house
And some of our actors have been seen on TV and in Broadway (like the show "cats"). We are nationally famous for our senior prom due to free gowns and suits and fundraisers for tickets so that finances don't prevent someone from celebrating their successes.
My school was only 600 kids and covered 9 hamletsand was not centralized. School remained open in the winter even in blizzards with 9 ft of snow. We only closed for forest fires. A highschool guys had to fight fires and girls were on the scene for moral support. We had soccer, baseball, basketball, track and skiing as our major sports. Physical disapline was a norm. We also had to be in school from 8am to 3:45pm with 45 minute lunch, (1 period) long.
We never got breaks in high school and have never heard of that before. The only breaks we got were the 10 minutes allowed between periods to go to your locker and change out your books and walk to the next class. And of course a 30 minute lunch break. But other than that, you were in class. As for uniforms, some public schools have them, but most don't. Pretty much all private high schools have uniforms. And almost every school gives out PE uniforms.
It was 5 min for my school. Several buildings, small halls filled with students, and 5 min to run across the campus.
Never heard of a school giving out uniforms. Every school I know if just required you wear gym shorts and a t shirt
You were Lucky, when I was in high school, We only got 2 minutes between classes to get our books and to be at your next class before the bell rang.
10 min between classes is a break. My kid gets 3 min between classes and only lunch as a 30 break
@@dtk1981 My school had 4,000 students. It was massive. If I had a class on one end of the school and the next class was on the opposite end, it took me 13 minutes to walk to the next class. I was late every day to that class but the teacher knew I was coming from the opposite end of the school.
At 9:46 when you mentioned in a British school they would make fun of you and pick on you if you had a camera. I don’t think that that a British or American thing, I think it’s a generational thing. Nowadays this younger generation grew up with TH-cam and influencers, so recording your life isn’t seen as foreign lol.
That really could make sense!
@@TheBeesleys99 yeah i mean there is kids who will take the camera and record like you said but yeah they wouldn't be like weirded out by it cause youtube has existed since 2005
The getting picked on also really depended on the school and the population as well. I was on yearbook for a few weeks before I had to give it up due to conflicts with band. That was before cell phones and such, so I had my privately owned (no school cameras) 35mm film camera with 100-200mm lens around my neck while carrying my books and taking pictures when I could and rolls of film in my pockets. Never was picked on, or hardly even noticed, and the ones that did notice that it was cool.
in my highschool it was bullying, violence, abusive teachers, enabling principles, security guards who do nothing
18:12 Not all American schools allow phones. When I was in school, we had to leave our phones in our locker or they'll confiscate them. We also wore uniforms. My school was definitely not this big either. We didn't even have a yard, it was just a building.
When I attended High School back in the prehistoric days [ late 1970's until the early 80's ] the only break we got was during lunch. The schedule was 3 classes, lunch and 3 more classes. During my senior year, the district decided to have an open campus option for lunch or you could still eat in the school cafeteria. My best friend had a car so naturally, we left the campus every day. I never attended a school that required uniforms, so we were always free to wear whatever but there was a dress code when it came to how short your dresses, skirts, or shorts could be, if you wore something that was considered offensive and/or showed too much belly or cleavage. I always dressed for comfort and wore jeans, T-shirts, and sneakers every day. The only students that wore uniforms attended the private Catholic schools and there were two of those. I do remember paying a small locker fee every year which was around two dollars. Our school also had an outside smoking area for the teachers and students that was behind the main building. Both my daughters also attended the same high school and by the time they got there, you had to go through a metal detector to enter the building and there were armed policemen patrolling so things definitely got worse. .
They stopped open when I was in high school. Older siblings got to do it but I didn’t.
I remember being given a schedule of when to wear warmer clothes to class because the school couldn't afford to keep the heat on every day in the winter.
And one of my teachers said that our school would never have to worry about a serious drug problem because no one could afford anything but a couple bucks for the weed that someone's cousin grew in their back yard. And that's why we respected that teacher, she was honest with us and helped us underatand the situation our school was in.
Like my dad went to the same school, we were using the SAME desks and chairs they had in the 80's.
American schools have a lot of sports facilities. my school had a soccer field and practice field, football field and practice field, baseball field, and 3 gyms.
My high school also had two pools. One for diving and the other for swim meets.
Man, lot less swearing then I remember in high school lmao. We said shit that’d make a priest burst into flames just passing each other in the hall
High school in the US (all schools, really) vary WIDELY. Lol, City to city, state to state, region to region... just so different.
They even vary district to district within the same city. Not to mention the differences between public and private.
The only break we got, in my city, was for lunch. Otherwise, we had 5 minutes to get from class to class.
high Shcools typically end earlier at least here on Long Island, NY. start time around 7am. End time around 1:45 - 2pm.
Keep in mind that Oak Park and River Forest are large affluent suburbs of Chicago. That plays a significant role in the size of the student body as well as the atmosphere.
I love watching you guys! Can’t wait for you to visit California :)
the pecans in cereal tells you all you need to know mid-upper class (not typical us studant/ school)
For the locker situation some middle/high schools are different than others in the amount that they are used. In some schools students are not allowed to walk around class to class with their book bags due to safety precautions (weapons and such). With the amount of textbooks, notebooks, pencils, calculators and things we need there isn’t a way for us to walk around to every classroom with all those things all day, so we put our our stuff in there for that. We go to our math class or English class and grab what we need and leave the rest (we do for the most part have a textbook for each class). We also don’t have a lot of room in some classes on our table so we can’t bring so much to our classes.
I had 6000 kids at my high school. It is actually a small campus. There's 3 high schools near each other that students can go between. We had 10 minutes between each class (6 classes) to get to the next class. It helped a lot with getting use to university/college. The only time people used their locker was the first year. Also with the amount of people, cliques were very hard to create. I loved it.
On my Grandsons football team, they had a girl kicker. She was awesome. Never missed an extra point or field goal. She was also a star soccer player.😊❤
The high school in the video is in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. High schools are essentially 9th-12th grades. The vlogger said he was a Junior, so that would be 11th grade and 16-17 years old. Amazingly, when I was in high school 55 years ago, this school was in the same athletics league as the school I went to. Nice take on the original video.
The highschool I went to looks similar to this. A huge entrance, decent sized hallways, not so big cafeteria. My school also has 2 gyms which is neat and one of the gyms acted as 2 gyms divided down the middle. And of course so many stairs. I still remember my first day of freshman year getting lost everywhere 😂
Our school starts from 7am-3pm. Also, it's nearly this nice. The principal also will take all our phones and cameras if they are out.
My high school started class at 7:20a, lunch at 12p and ended the school day at 2:35p with (4) 90 minute classes each day and a 5 minute "break" between each class. They called it block scheduling. You had 8 classes each semester, but you only went to 4 classes a day rotating every other day. I'm really glad I had the block scheduling in high school as it prepared me for college. Other friends in college would complain about how long their college classes were, but I was already accustomed to the longer classes. My high school had about 3,200 students and my graduating class alone was 650 students. Oh and I attended grade school (K-12) in central Florida from age 5-18. High school was 14-18.
Most often girls make a boy's high school team as the kicker, a finesse position with usually no physical contact. That kind of skill, hand-and-eye coordination role is suitable especially with the "roughing the kicker" penalties available for infractions. Some girls are track stars and can do wide receiver roles too but that tends to come with some tackling and roughness.
Bingo.
My school was like 2x the size of that school. lol we had 2 football fields, 3 baseball fields, 12 tennis courts, 3 soccer fields, and 1 hockey rink. (this is probably why my highschool would take 1st place in the nationals when it came to sports in almost every sport every year. lol)
My high school experience was one as a military brat. For the children at Navy, Army, Air Force, and NATO installations there is an American High School. My school 7th thru 12th in Italy was combined was about 700 students. As far as cool factor, we had a full dental clinic in the lower basement area on the same level as our lunch room. We also had some kids from Greece, Italy, and Turkey who attended. They too got a taste of the High School experience!
I'm American Football it's kinda common because not enough girls play the sport so they can't have girls only teams but for Soccer and Basket ball there are separate teams. But my Aunt played on the male soccer team back in the 1990s so it still does happen in sports
My school had girls volleyball ,softball, and track. We didn't have soccer at all but that was the 80s.
Just be aware there is no representative U.S. school. Schools vary in quality, etc between school districts within each state. There are also general differences in city, suburban and rural schools, even without taking into account the wealth of the taxpayers in each school district. So when you're watching things like this about us labeled as "American High School", take with a grain of salt.
As for uniforms, it depends on the school district. Our school district has uniforms up through 8th grade. Private schools will almost always require uniforms.
Love your show!
Well put.
Schools very everywhere. I am sure he knows that.
@@christineperez7562 There is a lot more consistency in countries that do not have a federal system of government such as we have. So no, it is not something that can be assumed.
@@NOLAgenX Well put, again! you're on a roll.
@@whisperjet707 LMAO
My school didn't allow students to leave the cafeteria during lunch. We were never allowed to exit the building unless it was the end of the school day. Idd to see schools depicting kids eating outside for lunch/running to fast food.
Breakfast club lol one of my favorite high school movies along with fast times at Ridgemont high lol
Private schools in US require uniforms. Love your channel. So entertainingly.
Many, if not most, public school systems require uniforms in the lower grades. The older kids are usually allowed to wear whatever as long as the clothes meet minimum standards.
Depends on the school. I went to private schools for grades 2-12 and uniforms were never required.
@@gladysseaman4346 That also depends on state I'm pretty sure because I have never heard of a Elementary/middle school student wearing uniforms
Goes to show how unique each school here can be. My highschool was 8:15 am to 3:15pm, and had 4 1hr 30min classes, bisected by a lunch period (20min) and an enrichment period of 35min, which can be a graded class too. We simply didn’t get breaks. And even better, next year according to some younger friends of mine they are getting rid of enrichment, and making each block class longer to make up for the lost time. Classes were taught usually from bell-to-bell. The “lunch” was atrocious, and never tasted good. It was so bad that out the 4 years I attended, I never ate it once.
I live in South Georgia,mine was from 8:20 to 3:20, 7 classes like 45 minutes to a hour each. We had 2 breaks, a 15 minute one Monday thru Thursday. A 30 minute one each Friday after 2nd period, and a 20 minute one after lunch.
my highschool was 7:20-1:43
When I was in highschool we had 4 classes a day, 2 morning classes, lunch, 2 afternoon classes. No breaks which especially sucked with 90 minute classes you didn't even have the time walking between classes often and unless your classes and locker were near each other you had to rush to get to next class. Lunch was 30 minutes
These days students rarely use their lockers and carry everything in their backpack as there is little time between classes. The exception maybe for afterschool gear. In our town high school starts at 7:35am and ends at 2:10pm. Then there is time for sports, band practice, or theater practice, Etc. Middle school hours are 8:15am to 3pm. Elementary school hours are 9am to 3:40pm. This is so the same fleet of school buses can pick up each group of students in turn.