Joel & Lia Here in the States, when you turn 65, your Insurance rates actually go up, not down, for exactly the false reasoning you've mentioned, that supposedly the elders suck at driving. That can be true, but it can also be very false. I think everyone should have to re-take their drivers exam, regardless of age, every 5 years.
Had a huge gym and the 'Pep Rally's were amazing,TV cameras on Friday's and cheerleaders and really no work on Fridays on ride'n out leaving school early to hangout the pep rallys were so loud and fun. Very fun video guys I really enjoyed this 👏
Kyle Brown: Both the hallway lockers and the gym lockers were large ones, too. That doesn't happen everywhere now, though. Ours were free, we just had to pay a couple of bucks for the lock on the hallway locker. We had to provide our own lock for our gym locker, though. When my daughter was in high school, there weren't enough lockers, so they issued them to the lower classmen/grades and the upper classmen had to lug their books around in their backpack all day.
I have been a Brit in American schools now for about 3 years. It’s been amazing! In our school (high school) nobody really uses their lockers, and the pride and passion at our schools are outstanding!
_ AngelZ yep they’re just not as used now that people use the backpacks for everything nowadays. i’ve only seen about 3 people all this year use their locker.
Glamour Subliminals what part of America are you looking to move to? I lived in England (Hasting, East Sussex) for 20 years moved back home to Southern California with my teenage daughter
There are kids around where I live that start driving between ten and twelve. A lot of these are from families that raise cattle and other animals. The laws around here know them well enough and they're pretty safe so they get a pass.
Harley Retherford yeah that’s what happens around here too. It’s just not legal to drive on the roads until you’re 14. Doesn’t mean people who are like 12 don’t do it anyways tho
But in Miami, NY, Chicago - cities with good (or at least somewhat decent) public transportation and extremely heavy, and sometimes dangerous, traffic) - a lot of kids don't start driving at 16. Many kids in Miami don't start driving until they finish high school and earn enough to pay for a car, gas, and the higher insurance rates that occur in big cities. A lot of times they don't require cars until they go to college or possibly even after.
@@mia-lc2om my favorite is from a renowned British mountaineer after he singlehandedly rescued two climbers on mount McKinley in winter “nice chaps” he said. “Just a wee bit in over their heads”
I know because I remember our food not being so great in the 1970s and 1980s. The worst school foos I ever had was up in Pennsylvania when we lived there for 2 years. Ughh barf. The hamburger didn't even taste like beef or turkey burger but tasted gamey. Yuck! It would make me sick so I would usually eat pizza if I could.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 omg our food was so good in North Carolina at school back in the 70s. Freshly cooked everyday, baked spaghetti, hamburgers, pizza, were the faves. When we got to awxindaey schools and had ice cream as an option. And a la cart foods if you didnt want the plate lunch. Ph and brownies..... soooo good. Even peanut butter sandwiches had honey in them. So sweet with a carton of milk. There were a few years I carried a small amount iui my if nestles quick in a small cube wrap of aluminum foil, so I could have chocolate milk. Yummmm
Folks, they're focusing on the 'extras' at school, and I've heard a fair amount about Brit H.S.s ... apparently at most Brit Public H.S.s, there were *very* few options for school-related extracurricular activities. The Private schools were, I guess, a little better - but not lots better. It seems that 90% of American H.S.s had/have significantly more going on than most Brit schools. Oh, and Joel & Lia ... a pep rally is _way_ more than somebody giving a speech! The marching band (or a select part of it) will perform, usually really 'rousing' music, and the cheerleaders will put on a little show; at my school the brass portion of the band would accompany the students and staff at singing The Star Spangled Banner. And there would be some mini-speeches by various coaches and school-staffers. And those students/athletes (& sometimes staff) who'd recently earned awards would be presented with them; and any team who'd recently won a Championship would parade the trophy around. A good pep-rally really could 'get you pumped'! [And I wasn't even an athlete or anything!]
I always had the inside of my locker door decorated with pictures, notes/encouraging things, and maybe a mirror. Also, before school started in the morning, it was common to gather with a group of friends at your locker to socialize.
Mixing up pep talk with pep rally. At my h.s., a pep rally had the whole school assemble in the gym.....on the bleachers. The team was introduced and we would all go nuts with applause and support for both the team and individual players before sending them off to play a championship game.
My friend and I got kicked out of pep rallies our freshman year, from the first pep rally, for the entire year. Because the seniors made a sign that said, "Freshman suck!!" So my friend made a giant sign that said, "Seniors swallow!" For us to hold up. Needless to say it didnt go over well with administration who did NOT think we were funny.... we were just sent home during pep rallies for the rest of the year since it was always the last period of the day.
I was that kid that hid in classrooms with the cool teachers. I hated pep assemblies because it was all about the athletes. There were never any assemblies for any of the other students and it peeved me so much. Attendance was mandatory and they always threatened students with suspension if they were caught hiding in the bathrooms or the library, but it was never enforced unless the kids were caught smoking or leaving school property.
Pep rallies at my school were every Friday in the morning during football season. The pep rallies had themes and games people could participate in and then a “spirit war” towards the end,good times.
We had to clear our locker at the end of every school year and were reassigned a new one each year. In my high school lockers were assigned by halls which were connected to one's school standing: freshman, sophomore, junior or senior. Our leaders tend to err on the side of positive rather than negative. We aren't sugar coating things, we understand the gravity of the situation but we've been through enough to know we can get through this too. We think we can, so we do. No time to hangout at the mall after school--too many after-school activities or homework. I wish we'd had uniforms because It would have made life so much easier.
I switched school in my high school years but the 1st one i went too u kept the same locker for 4 years. It was 2 stories too. And the 2nd one u got a diff locker each year because it was in the assigned grade hallway. Exceotions were special education students who kept the same locker all 4 years
When I was in high school we got the same locker all 4 years. But we did have to clean them out at the end of the year. At one point someone kept something that smelled like beef in their locker (they were 8th graders who came to my high school to take high school math courses). When they no longer needed to store their coats, and lunches, and backpacks, in a locker one of them left a brown paper bag of with their lunch in it and forgot it. It made the surrounding lockers stink and eventually a janitor went in and cleaned out the locker.
As I understand it, to an American, being "stroked" is the same as being "petted" to a Brit. At least according to commentors in another video I watched where this came up. In the US, "petting" is innocent, while "heavy petting" is like sexual caressing.
Less in college, people in US would say they go/went to state schools too. Not in lower grades because they are not run by the state, rather local school districts vs. entire states.
A pep rally isn’t a pep talk, lol. It’s like an actual rally. The cheerleaders will dance and they will play different games with the players (basketball, baseball, etc..). Now the coach will talk at the end but it’s usually to hype the team up. There are a lot of school chants too.
WhiteCamry not in school, no one watches the “games” and if they do it’s by force because their using the pe hall so you can’t do anything but no one actually watches it
"After" school trips to the mall were always DURING class for me lol. I ditched my yearbook class all the time because it was my last class of the day and my yearbook teacher caught me at McDonald's lol the same day I ditched. He signed my yearbook "lunch anyone??" Lol
Growing up in southern California, I feel like my high school had pep rallies for everything. Football, basketball, wrestling, water polo, track, tennis, cheer, dance and we even had a surf team and a math team. They honestly got kind of annoying after a while, so people just used them as an excuse to goof off or ditch classes.
Eh, I liked pep rallies. Maybe it's just because I'm a band kid and I like preforming because most kids hated them because they wasted class time and gave them less time to do homework
It’s always a little culturally shocking to hear “pound land.” All I can hear in my head is like some creepy guy saying “oh yeah baby, I’m gonna take you to *POUND LAND*” 😂😂
I went to high school in the 80's. That's when we had everything. We were able to leave for lunch and go to a fast food restaurant. Sometimes we came back. Lol
Stephanie Abney yes!!!!! All the cars tearing outta the parking lot at lunch, everyone hanging out at Naugles or Carl’s Jr., chatting at our lockers, slipping letters into the hot guy’s locker 😉....and pep rallies. So fun! I don’t even like football but loved the pep rallies, Friday night football games, and hanging out afterwards with everyone. Ahhhhhh those were the days 🙃
Me too, I graduated in 93 but the school I attended we were allowed to leave for lunch, it was an adult education school so we were allowed to come and go as we pleased. Everybody would walk down to this little pond they called the duck pond and smoke.
"Confidence is key" is a true statement. Harvard social scientists affirm that just 120 seconds of powerful posture increases testosterone (dominance hormone) about 20%, while dropping cortisol (stress hormone) ~25%. So just believing in yourself can make you better. Think the Harry Potter scene where Harry pretends to give Ron some of his liquid luck and Ron does better without actually using the potion. It's essentially just the placebo effect at play.
Confidence is a great thing. It definitely helps in so many ways! However, the whole American thing with saying (and acting like) we're the best at everything 1) often just isn't true and 2) really comes off most of the time as arrogant and annoying - and honestly, well, ignorant about other countries. I am American and British, and I love both countries! I also feel that I see both pros and cons in every place I've ever lived, and the American in me does find that American arrogance really embarrassing.
Town public schools are paid from the taxes paid by town people. So depending on the town where you reside, the school could be really beautiful or just be basic. But the schools in your town are free to attend!
@@mermaid1717 Public schools are financed by real estate taxes collected locally, and subsidies from the state. There are some Federal dollars too sent their way. There is no tuition charged and textbooks are supplied free.
@@balakuntalamsridhar5789 hmmmmmm... so real estate went up in our area last year yet this year us teachers only recieved 1 case of copy paper to last the full school year. Just one example how bad the state cutback last year.
Public schools in US are also governed locally by either an elected school board (school directors), or one appointed by local elected officials. Sports, band and drama activities are additionally funded by the community at large through ticket sales, bake sales, and students selling their time. Drama activity consisted of 4 plays per year, plus a musical. Drama coach was a former Broadway correographer. Students did scenery, costumes, lighting sound and all music.
They brought a drug dog to school I knew three people in that hallway that had weed in there locker and the dog smelt nothing the next year they retired the dog because the cops were finding drugs easier than the dogs
I had a business going from inside my locker in high school. Right before home room and at breaks, I sold candy, donuts, pencils, and what not. It financed by spring break vacations. High school was great :)
I love how at 4:45 Lia straightens Joel’s back (corrects his posture) and they’re such good friends he lets her manhandle him however she needs to! True trust between FRIENDS! 🤗🤗
in america: private school costs money, public schools r free (edit: “usually” taxes pay for schools in america, but im pretty sure they do that in the uk. when i say “free” i mean you don’t have to pay an extra 20,000 plus pay taxes)
My favorite parts of attending high school was homecoming games and dances, Jr/Sr Prom and graduation. I attended a very small HS not to much happening.
I can relate to being jealous of lockers in American schools😂 I think High School Musical was probably the reason... It looked like so much fun to decorate and to not have to carry 10kg of books on your back every day.
In most schools you can carry your backpack to each class but in my school we aren’t allowed to have carry bags to each class in fear that there may be a weapon. You must leave backpacks and large purses in your locker but it’s not the same for ever school.
Yes, schools are free. These are called public schools. Every child in the country can attend (regardless of citizenship or immigration status). They are funded by city/state/and federal funds (generated by Americans’ taxes). There are private schools which do charge tuition and have admissions criteria. They are funded by that tuition and donations, maybe alumni endowments.
Okay, I was a cheerleader and our pep rallys were during school Everyone would gather in the gym up in the bleachers. We would run out on the court and start the cheers. The kids and faculty scream along and cheer. The band starts to play the school song, we do the cheer that goes with it, and the crowd is up singing along stomping their feet and clapping. The football players are introduced and run out as their names are called. The coach then comes out to tell everyone how we are going to win this year! Everyone is cheering, shouting and laughing. The last words before we leave are: WE'LL SEE YOU OUT THERE!!! Then it's over. (At least at my high school, that's how it was)
I haven’t watched You two for months. And I’ve been sitting here smiling and smiling the entire time; while listening to you talk. So you are the BEST! 😂
Pep Rallies are typically on Friday's, and you'll get out of class for 30 mins, and the cheerleaders will do their routine to get you in the spirit to come to the game that night!
A L I work in a High school and we had a shelter in place and the students had to put there bookbags outside the rooms because we had drug dogs come in for a surprise search.
Alexis and all, Where I am from, New York, I don't know if random drug tests occur, or if sniffer dogs actually sniff any more, as we never kept our drugs in our lockers. I'm just saying, meaning, you would be a fool if you did, no matter the conditions. We had lockers in the woods, under stumps or in the hollows of trees and such, about the wilds. The dogs of course, are lovely. I once had a dog, in college, for a good 18 years (the dog, not college) but you couldn't leave weed around her face, as she would just eat it. I once lost a little bit of hash and she showed me where it was, and deep away it was. I gave her a little taste for her efforts. She was a fine sniffer, but not at all trained to be. She just had it in her. We were two peas in a pod. She liked a good larger now and then, just like me. It was hard to keep her off my feed. Don't blink, being the point. I used to rolls joints, very nicely, at about 3 or 4 at a time, when I could be bothered to, We'd smoke one or two, with one or a few left over. Why there was always one joint missing in the morning, came down to the dog. My friends or wife could have had all they wanted, but they would let me know of it. My dog (Poe) tho, didn't speak english, so I seldom knew it was her, but of course, I always knew it was her. She'd always leave me one tho. Some things are better off unspoken, to be truly understood.
Hanging out at the mall was more of a generational thing in the U.S. We did that as teenagers in the 80's and 90's, but most kids nowadays don't. Part of it is because a lot of malls have gone out of business; part of it is because kids are staying home with their electronics and social media.
By the time I was in high school in the late 90's, hanging out at the mall already wasn't that much of a thing anymore. A few kids still did, but most did not. My friends and I found it to be really pointless, extremely boring, and rarely ever went to the mall at all. We were into finding an actual activity to do like go to the movies, the park, a public event/festival if any were going on, hike, swim, go to coffee, occasionally take a day trip to do some activity in neighboring areas etc. Or we would just go to one of our houses to hang out and chill, talk, listen to music, burn cd's to swap, play a little Tony Hawk on PlayStation, watch a movie on dvd (or vhs), once in a while do a backyard firepit for a hot dog/smores roast... those kinds of things.
No I grew up in the early 2000s and 2010s and we definitely went to the mall. I think it's mostly where you grow up. In most parts of America there's nothing to do besides go to the mall, the movies, or some local fast food restaurant so those were usually our hang out spots.
Have you watched John Hughes films? They are iconic American 80’s high school! 💕 The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off...
I agree with Joel, even here in the U.S., there are old unsafe drivers. Whenever I pass someone doing 30 mph on the highway, it’s always an old man with a hat!
What you call state school, we call public school and it is “free” because it is paid for with taxes. We don’t have “primary school” and “secondary school”. We have elementary school, middle school, and high school.
In central Ohio we have, Elementary k-4, intermediate 5-6, middle 7-8 and high 9-12. This wasn't instated until I was in high school, thank god. Too many different schools. And we had to pay $15 school fee each year.
@@pflgrz I went to Jr. High in 1969 in Rhode Island, can't get more east coast than that. I was grades 7, 8, 9. Now it's a middle school with 6, 7, 8. I think they use 2 metrics to decide what grades, student populations and testing scores. It always comes down t o test scores. A 3rd metric might be teacher accreditation, when I taught in NJ, my accreditation allowed me to teach single subject (sciece) to grades 6-12. If you are only accredited for grammar school you could only teach up to 8th grade
At my high school, our pep rallies occurred in the gymnasium on Fridays (not every Friday) just before break (recess). We had over 1,300 students. The Sophomores and Juniors sat on the bleachers on one side of the gym, the Seniors were in the center, and the Freshmen sat on the other side of the gym, just behind the Seniors.. Basically, the performances and entertainments happened in between the Sophomores/Juniors and the Seniors. We had rallies before main events, for example, the Homecoming Float Parade where each clubs (and athletes) made floats and paraded. The band was always playing, cheerleaders and dance teams performed, and few students from each class, as well as the athletes, participated in what ever games the student government had set up. The student government were in charge of rallies, school events, choosing themes and locations for the school dances and amongst other things. Dance themes were always announced at the rallies. Before every rally ended, each class had to chant and whichever class chanted the loudest got to leave first (the seniors always got to leave first lol). We also had outdoor rallies where we had food, entertainments like obstacle courses. we didn’t hate our rallies because rallies meant classes were shorter haha. As for the locker situation, my high school had medium sized lockers (both hallway and gym lockers) but I think my middle school had bigger lockers. We definitely used our lockers everyday. In the morning before the first class, during break, lunch and after school. My high school was walking distance, so not everyone drove to school. For those who did drive, they got their own parking spots which they got to decorate and paint on. Overall, I would say high school was a good experience.
As a high school teacher, I was always surprised that so many of my students would carry their heavy backpacks around all day instead of using their locker. My daughter who is graduating this year, said she did the same because the school, being so big, there's not enough time between classes to go to your locker. We got word that they will soon be allowing students to go into the school to clean out their lockers. My daughter told me she never used it, and doesn't even know where it is!
I work in a high school. We no longer use the lockers. The students have no books to carry. They barely even use notebooks or take notes. I think that's insane. Teachers literally print the notes for students now.
@@Judy_R yeah we don't do that. Some classrooms do have textbooks they keep in there, but everything is on the smartboard, Mac Books, & Chrome Books. Every classroom has a full cart of either Mac Books or Chrome Books in our school.
@@mermaid1717 Yeah, I have a locker, yet I've never had to use it. It has to do partly with the fact that our classes are so paperless that we dont need to carry all this stuff around. It's not efficient to go to your locker every period either.
@@zanderhamilton7908 WOW, times really have changed A LOT! I can't even imagine what that's like. I went to high school in the dark ages - the 1970's. Way before the Internet existed, Social Media or cell phones or iPads. But even so, I'm still glad I grew up when I did. Such simpler times.
I never used my locker because it was in an inconvenient place. My classes would be in every hallway except the one with my locker. 😂 Now I have a backpack with wheels so my back no longer hurts.
I loved my letter (varsity) jacket because it was big and warm and was something of a status symbol, but the biggest problem with it was that, depending on when you get your first letter (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior year of high school), you essentially pay $300 for a jacket that you wear for a few years and then it hangs in your closet for the rest of your life.
We have trampoline parks everywhere in the US these days that people of ALL ages can go & jump. You just pay by the hour. My nephew has autism & his Medicaid pays a monthly fee to our local trampoline park for him to go anytime he wants & as often as he wants. Make sure you do trampolining next time you're able to get to the USA!!! Would make a GREAT video! They even have late night lights down for just adult jumpers too.
We do have trampoline parks here. I'm sceptical of them because people are always getting injured as there's nothing regulating these places. I'm a gymnastics coach so I see it from a different perspective I suppose.
In the States we call it Shelter in Place. In the States lockdowns are procedures schools take whenever there's a shooter on campus. We have practice drills where we duck and cover under our desks, lights are turned off, and we remain silent.
Driving to school was the greatest thing because you were no longer dependent on the school bus. Legal driving age is 16 with driver's ed being taught at the age of 15. But most of the parking lots around the school were for students. The teachers had s separate designated area to park. Most students turned 16 during their 11th or Junior Year. Some as early as their 9th or Freshman Year. We had one kid who turned 16 his Freshman year. People were jealous of him.
I graduated from a California school in 1985 and we didn't have lockers at all because someone set off bombs in some lockers and they took them away. Everything else you talked about was pretty accurate from my experience. Pep rallies, in particular, were popular because it was during class time and was much more fun than being in class.
1) At my high school not everyone had a locker. At the beginning of each year, if you wanted a locker, you had to go to the office and get one assigned to you, and then at the end of the year you had to clear out your locker. Most people wouldn't hang out at their lockers between classes cause we didn't have time to (we only had 5 minutes to get to our next class and sometimes it was on the opposite end of campus), but people would meet each other at their locker before or after school. I would use my locker to store my swim bag or soccer bag so that I didn't have to carry it around all day; sometimes I would store an extra set of clothes if I needed to change but didn't have time to go home. I wouldn't bring textbooks to and from school (I walked to school and textbooks were heavy), unless my teacher told us we needed them, so I wouldn't store any textbooks in my locker. 2) Football games are usually a big deal in high school, especially if your team was very good (mine was haha). Every friday night in the fall there is a game, and most of the school goes to support the team. I went to every single home game in high school and it was a blast! My college didn't have a football team so sometimes I miss getting to go to games. 3) The state of your gym really depended on how old your school was, how much money they have for the athletic department, where your school was located (cities with higher or lower incomes), and if the board thinks it's worth the time and money to re-do the gym. 4) Public elementary, middle (or junior high), and high schools don't cost any money for kids to attend. This means it usually takes a long time for any major repairs/construction to happen for a school, unless they recieve a generous donation. When I was in high school, the music and theatre buildings hadn't been touched since they were built in the 50's, and it took until the spring semester of my senior year for a new performing arts building to be completed. They didn't even start construction until my junior year. The original building were awful too. There were many seats in the theatre that were broken, and the sink in the band room bathroom broke and fell off the wall and sliced a girl's hands almost cutting off some fingers (she was ok). This all sounds terrible, but it isn't all the school's fault. Public education in america isn't given enough funding. 5) Pep rallies were mostly done to get the whole school pumped for a game so that students would go and support the team. Athletes tend to perform better when there is a crowd cheering them on, so the team would want people there. We wouldn't have pep rallies for every single football game, but we would have them for big or important games. The Homecoming game always had a pep rally and then a show at halftime to announce the homecoming court and the homecoming king and queen. And then any big rival game would have a pep rally as well. When my football team would make it to CIF (California Interscholastic Federation), which is like a regional championship tournament, then there would be a pep rally for the game. And then anytime we would win CIF and advance to the state championship we would celebrate. My high school would win CIF a lot, but would only make it a few games into state. 6) Yeah as a country we like to think we're number 1 in everything. It's partly pride, and partly ignorance haha. We are great at some things, but we need to work on other things, and it's ok to be patriotic and think that we're not the best at everything. 7) I can't speak for every school, but usually people wouldn't go to the mall after school. That was usually an activity saved for weekends when there were no other plans. People would either go directly to a sports practice after school, a rehearsal, a job, or they would hang out on campus for a while with their friends. If students were older and had a car, then maybe they'd take their friends home or to someplace to eat, but usually it was just a mad dash to get out of the parking lot as quickly as possible cause there were so many people leaving at once. It might've been this way for me cause there wasn't a mall close enough to my high school to make sense to hang out at. I also always had some sort of practice after school, so I don't really know what people did when they didn't have to go to practice; I only had enough time to change and then get to the field or the pool before practice started. 8) Schools used to have driving lessons a part of the school day, but in California, as far as I know, schools no longer offer drivers ed. Kids learning to drive after they got their permits had to find a driving instructor through a separate driving school. 9) I think letterman jackets (varsity jackets) are a great momento from high school, but they're very expensive for something you don't really wear after you graduate, unless you go back for the homecoming game. I didn't get a letterman jacket because it was so expensive, but now I don't have anywhere to put all my letters, patches, and stars that I got in high school haha
I really think Americans are somewhat optimistic about the current crisis because it really is being handled well in the United States. Even though we have a ton of cases, we also have a ton of people. Our mortality rate, the percentage of people who get the disease that die, is 5%. In the UK, it's 16%. Yes, our health care is expensive, but I really do believe it is the best in the world when it comes to quality. I live in Texas. Our death rate among people with COVID-19 is 2.5%.
I live and went to school here in SoCal (greater Los Angeles). Our high school didn't have lockers anymore, c/o 2003, back in the 80s there was an issue with explosives so they took em all out for general use. But we did use smaller lockers in the locker rooms for dressing out for P.E. I never went to a pep rally, Ugh, introvert here) And those varsity jackets cost $200-300 and you have to earn those patches. My friends left after lunch seniors year, drove off, because they had enough credits to graduate. I failed a couple classes sophmore year so I have to retake US history and PE and stayed the full day. Near the end when "senioritus" kicked in I wouldn't go to school until lunch time and have my mom take me through the drive through at like del taco or something before going to school and I'd show up thinking I was so cool with my fountain drink in hand, along with my bag of tacos and some shades on LOL.
I never really thought about some of those things being kinda unique to the US. That explains why some exchange students seemed intrigued with some of it. I went to rural school (my niece attends there now). My entire class had 56 students and the entire school pre-kindergarten to 12th grade only had around 300...which is pretty much what it is now still. Grades pre-kindergarten to 6th grade are in one building at one campus north east of the city I live in with 5th and 6th graders getting lockers and changing classes, 7th through 12th is in another building at a campus south east of the city I live in. The school was founded by farmers in the 1920s and the city I live in grew into other school districts. There are three districts most kids here attend: the city’s schools, the school I went to, and another rural district that’s north west of the city. We have a private high school (religious) and a few private elementary schools (religious) as well within the city. Public school is free to attend, but extracurriculars cost money. Those nice gyms are because the schools charge money to attend the games and have concession stands. That’s also why they have nice game fields, etc. Some schools will do this for the arts as well. At my school the drama class put on two plays a year and admission was charged and there was a concession stand. The band played concerts which had an admission fee to as well. The school occasionally did art shows, science fairs, and talent shows which also had admission fees. There’s the all-school carnival which all students and parents, past and present, can attend. You buy tickets and play games, there’s food. There’s a raffle so you buy raffle tickets (kids sell them in the two weeks prior to the carnival as well). All the money belongs to that class. Like I was Class of 1998 so the money we raised went to school end-of-year trips in elementary and junior high and of course to the Senior trip in high school. They have a competition between the classes. The pre-k and kindergarten kids are ushers and flower persons. Every grade nominates a boy and girl from to represent them. Grades 1-3 compete for mini-prince and mini-princess, Grades 4-6 compete for mini-king and mini-queen, Grades 7-9 compete for prince and princess, and Grades 10-12 compete for king and queen. The grade each category that sells the most raffle tickets wins the crowns and are crowned in a little ceremony at the end of the carnival. I was the prince nominee in 7th grade, but the 8th grade class beat us by ten tickets!! Local businesses donate prizes for the raffle so it’s usually neat prizes like big television sets, $100 in gas, $500 in groceries, and other prizes that adults usually want to win (kids usually only buy the tickets, which are $1, to get their class to win). The prize drawing is before the crowning. There’s usually an auction afterwards of other prizes donated by local businesses (gift baskets, clothing, etc) that also raises money for the school. The carnival is in October. Homecoming is in September and there’s a dance that costs money to get into. There are other school dances: Halloween, Christmas, etc that also charge admission. The two weeks before Thanksgiving break, kids sell holiday candy items either for the class or extracurriculars (my niece had both band and FCCLA this year). Those items are delivered about a week after Thanksgiving break. There’s another fundraiser in the spring two weeks before Spring Break. Some extracurriculars will have some fundraisers before Fall Break in October, before Winter Break in December, etc. At the school I went to we also had Winter Formal and Valentines Ball which were fundraising fancy-dress events for different student clubs. Then in April is Prom which is only for the Juniors and Seniors (11th and 12th graders) and that costs money. There’s also an after prom party at the school which is a casino night event. You buy school dollars and play games with it (poker, blackjack, roulette, etc). It’s money raised for the student clubs. The school just got a bond voted on by voters who approved it. There going to remodel the elementary school and build safe rooms (in case of tornadoes). The school paid off its previous bond which went for improvements at the high school including for a new, bigger gym. So now the high school has three gyms: the original gym built in 1923 which now gets used by the science and art departments for showcasing projects, the gym built in 1987 which is now the practice gym, and the gym built in 2018 which is where basketball games are played at.
I went to high school in the mid-‘90s and ours were pretty large. They were stacked 2 high but we cleaned them out at the end of every year since we had designated areas for Freshman through senior years. I also was in Texas so totally let me know if you wanna know more state-specific info. Also, I pretty much think all British schools are either Hogwarts or Bad Education/Inbetweeners. Hahaha
In my high school, the seniors would get access to the parking spaces closer to the school, others had to park farther away from the school. Those were definitely good times!
As a 70 year old, I must say you two have a really warped view of what it is like to be 70. I ride a bike about 5,000 miles a year, I do all of my own gardening, and I have no problem at all driving. 70 is the new 55.
Mall trips were the best! When I was in middle school the mall was right across the street. So everyday after school everyone would walk over to the mall to hang out. And at my high school the lockers weren’t that big and every year we’d get new ones. My freshman year I had a locker on the bottom so I had to kneel to get to my locker and then the next years I had middle lockers.
In my day, lockers ran from just above the floor to about 5'6" up. The locks were combination locks. Either built into the door or separate padlocks. No keyed locks. We would store our books and other supplies in them. To try to lug every book you had to every class all day would break people's back. And big backpacks weren't a thing then either. Then being the mid to late 80s.
I loved my locker too! When they remodeled the high school, they tore them out!! My son had to carry his backpack around ALL day😨 ..... it made me really mad 😡
@@Judy_R ooohh... that was sweet!! I don't have grandchildren, but I'd like to think I'd be that kind of grandma 🤗💕..... my grand kids would know all about Joel and Lia for sure
@@MaryMary-pr4iu I love how you said that - that if you had grandkids they would for sure know all about J&L. So many of us just adore those two so much!! 👍😊❤ Jean
Where my daughter's went to middle school, about 4 years ago, they could only go to their lockers when they got to school, mid-day, and at the end of day. To top it off, they weren't allowed to bring backpacks to class, so so they basically had to lug 4 classes of supplies around half the day, then switch them out for the next 4. It only lasted for one year, but it was a miserable year for them
My highschool let you pick your locker if you actually went on schedule pick up day to get your schedule and depending on your extracurriculars you had several sections of lockers to choose from, otherwise you were assigned a locker and it was usually a poop one.
I am a foreign language teacher at the high school level. I think I would be much happier teaching at a British school. Students are typically horrible and working conditions are not the best. I get verbally attacked on a daily basis by "students", have been routinely physically threatened, and twice attacked. What we have is an entire generation of people that cannot think for themselves and have been given participation trophies for everything. In fact, at my school the teachers have been instructed not to fail a student unless they do not come to school in the first place. Movies and TV lie! :*(
Saying "I'm the best" doesn't necessarily make you feel like you are the actual best, but it does make you feel like you're better than you think you are. It comes from the idea that if you reach for the impossible, you'll get further than you would have had you just reached for the best you think you can do. You can always do better than you think you can.
When I was in high school in the 80s we walked to and from school or drove if you had your own car, and had those big lockers you describe, had all the time in the world before & after school to hang out and talk while using them, and shared our locker with a school assigned locket-partner. When my kids were in high school in the past few years those lockers were long and slender, literally half their former size for fear of assigned locker partner theft. And the school bus schedule didn't allow them time to use their lockers or spend any social time at all!
In the late 70''s & early 80''s, my private high school (parents paid tuition) had: no backpacks, no coats in classes, no purses or jeans. We had large lockers and allowed to put stuff inside the locker - not outside. Our gym lockers were only used for gym gear or changing between stuff. You had to take your gym stuff home once a week for washing. The lockers were inspected once a semester or term for food hoarding and drugs. (usually done by a dog so most lockers were not opened) Gym lockers you had to use a padlock you had to buy The regular locker had a combination lock on them and no keys were given to students. My high school had the gym with the shiny floor in it with the schools name and team name on the floor. It sounds like the schools in the UK failed to learn to use what a lot of schools in the US use. Ducktape or Floor tape for a team name on the floor during sports seasons. Mine did that until they could afford to get it made by a flooring company. The centerpieces are generally removable on most gym floors - even the wooden ones. Not everyone lived near nor went to a mall from my school. Though, I do have a school jacket - it is not for sports - it was because I liked them and it does look different than the sports ones.
I really don’t understand why Brits are so hard on themselves. You shouldn’t be ...Brits should be proud of their history and their country and yourselves. America is proud of the UK we are proud to be your friends
George Vangordon jr Proud to be their children!(jk). It is kind of like an older generation telling a new one why they’re lucky and what new things they have.
Yes, I remember after-school trips to the shopping mall. (Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.). So, the kids are still doing that?! The more things change, the more they stay the same!
Where I went to high school, we would have a few pep rallies a year where everyone in the school would gather in the gym where the band would play, and the cheerleaders would cheer. Sometimes the dance or step team would come out as well. It was basically a hyped up gymnasium filled with students and teachers. We would have these on Fridays either before a rivalry football game or a homecoming game/dance! I should find a video of one of ours and send them to you guys. 😂 You’d think we’re nuts!
The last two years of High School I never even used my locker because it was so far away from my classes that I would never have time to go to it to get my books I needed for class and get to the class on time. You got in trouble if you didn't have a note for being late. So I did have a large locker, but I never decorated it because I never used it. My school didn't have football for a long time and finally they got it many years after I graduated. I call your poof a hassock or sometimes they are called an ottoman. You only pay for school here if you go to private, so same as the UK. Where I live you can get your license when you are 16 so I got mine just a few weeks after I turned 16 and drove to school my last two years. It was nice but I suddenly got more popular from people who wanted rides to school... 🙄
I'm from Texas and we take high school football seriously! Lol! When I was in high school, our "spirit organization" was HUGE! We had 26 cheerleaders, 250 pep squad members, 75-80 high kick dance team squad and over 300 band members! WE WERE LOUD AND PROUD! LOL! of course that was in the 80's and I notice that school spirit just isn't as wide spread as it used to be, which is a shame...
In my 73 years, I've heard the furniture you call a pouf referred to as a hassock, foot stool, ottoman, and I guess Little Miss Muffet called it a tuffet. A pep rally isn't something done before every game, but only before a big game, such as a long-standing rivalry with another high school, or before playing in a state play-off game at the end of that season. The purpose is to fire up the players, obviously, but also the fans so they'll be part of the excitement by attending. Certainly, the cheerleaders will come out and lead some cheers, the team will be introduced (as if they're not already known by everyone in the school), and probably the coach will also speak for a short time.
I've always heard that, "brits are snobboy" and I disagreed, because I've watch a few other Brits reactions and they are very kind and genuine, so I didn't understand... until I watched a few of your videos... I now understand why they say, "brits are snobby" and not only snobby, but condescending and self absorbed.
🤣🤣 OMG! I couldn’t stop laughing😂😂 i’m a Brit and I agree with everything you said. BTW you are the best TH-camrs ever, in the world.🙂 I love the tangents, I am the same❤️😄
We have very large (indoor) trampoline parks in the U.S.A. They are so much fun for all ages, starting from toddler age, all the way up to adults. In addition, there are game machines, flying trapeze, rings, ladders, slides, large balls, etc., over foam pools to drop into. Many families hold their children's birthday parties at trampoline parks, who provide private party rooms for birthday cakes, balloons, decorations, several tables for lunch/pizza and gifts, music, etc. Again, it's so much fun! You two should visit a trampoline park the next time you're stateside. You will leave completely exhausted, not only from the different apparatus, but your stomach muscles will hurt for days, from laughing so hard.
Just like Joel, my birthday is at the beginning of the school year, (the first week of November), so I was 16 years old & driving for the majority of my sophomore (10th grade) year so I was expected to drive my friends out to lunch since I was older than most of them. This also made me 18 years old for the majority of my senior (12th grade) year so officially I was "an adult" & able to write my own excuse notes to get out of class or be absent/miss a day of school....BEST EVER!! We still had only 10 absent/sick days to stay under, so I couldn't get too crazy & let the power go to my head.😂
@Lucy! WOW, crazy!! Thankfully, I only wrote a few notes, not to bring too much attention I guess. After forging my parents excuse notes for so long, it still was just soooo weird not having to after I turned 18. For me, writing my own excuses too often was almost like too much freedom to want to take advantage of or something... WEIRD I KNOW!🤔🙃😁 I can imagine the things our parents actually knew, that we thought they were oblivious to. LOL😂
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos, and that I like that y'all are "scatty" lol. To me, it makes the video feel more like a natural conversation, not only between you two, but to the viewers as well. Keep up the good work!
Pep talks are to relay a vision. Without confidence you don't put as much effort in emotionally hedging your bet. Even your immue system is depressed when you are. People on their death beds can hang on longer to see people if they have a vision to fight for.
When I was inHigh School here in the US Drivers Education was required. It got credits just like any other class. You had so many hours of class room training and you had to have so many hours of driving with the teacher. Once you past the course you could go to the Drivers Administration and take your drivers test and get your license. You could also get a drivers permit why you are in training and you could practice driving with someone in the car with you over 18 years old. Most kids got their drivers permit at 15 years old and their drivers license at 16 years old. High Schools no longer offer drivers Ed because of budget cuts. To get your license now you have to pay a private driving school. High schools no longer have anything to do with getting your drivers license in the US anymore
We had a place called the range where we would go to practice driving before we went out on the public roads. It was basically a humongous parking lot with several cars and the instructor talked to you with a radio in the cars. We would do the course, practice backing up and parallel parking, etc. I sucked at parallel parking and once i backed over the orange cone, and the guy said "car 5, you're killing my cones!" I didn't live that one down for a while. My daughter still thinks it's hilarious.
I believe the president said that America has the best testing in the world, because of the multiple studies and research that has been done. Some countries like China is believed to have stopped their testing. This also connects with the death count in America, if America does the most testing, then by default they would have more cases of covid 19. We also need to take in consideration of America’s size In population. Also the president is trying to give the American people hope, that we can live again, instead of being trapped in our house. He wants to give Americans the freedom that Americans have worked so hard to have. I love your channel, but just wanted an American opinion put in the mix. Hope you do well, and take my opinion into consideration.
I have never known anyone remotely to go on a "mall trip" after school. Most people just go to sports practices or home. Also, pep rallies are torture. It is the last hour of school, with everyone crammed into the bleachers, screaming while 90% of the people there don't want to be there. My high school would also have challenges when they would choose random people to come down and participate. One year my worst nightmare came true when I was chosen.
The pep talk is just something that motivate you. And btw that’s why American always want to win because we tend to believe we are the best and it rather 1st or nothing 2nd is failing.
I don't think America is the best, but I do love our "ideals" in the declaration of independence, bill of rights, and Constitution- basically liberty. However, as time has gone on our people have lost their commitment to these ideals. I'm into appreciating everyone's strengths around the world. I'm not very competitive I suppose.
'The Idea' is very important because eventually people will demand to cash that check. Thats how we kept moving forward, ending slavery, women finally getting to vote, the 8 hour work day, banning child labor, ending segregation, now women as political leaders....as Dr. King said "The arc of history is long but it tends to lean towards justice"
america was built on the enslavement of an entire race and the constitution was constructed to consolidate power and facilitate trade between states. the bill of rights was a last minute add on. this idea of freedom and liberty is a facade.
@@BOOOoOOooooOOON A lot of countries did, no one alive in America has owned a slave or was a slave , get over it already and the idea of freedom was a last minute thought? LOL SMH
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Hilarious. Needed this today.
public school is free private school cost money here to
Joel & Lia r u a couple?
Joel & Lia
Here in the States, when you turn 65, your Insurance rates actually go up, not down, for exactly the false reasoning you've mentioned, that supposedly the elders suck at driving. That can be true, but it can also be very false.
I think everyone should have to re-take their drivers exam, regardless of age, every 5 years.
Had a huge gym and the 'Pep Rally's were amazing,TV cameras on Friday's and cheerleaders and really no work on Fridays on ride'n out leaving school early to hangout the pep rallys were so loud and fun. Very fun video guys I really enjoyed this 👏
lol "I'd just keep my gym kit in there".... time to make you *more* jealous. We had hallway lockers *and* gym lockers.
Kyle Brown and we got new lockers each year lol
at my middle school we had gym lockers but weren't allowed to put our backpack in there like WHAT
Wtf! How can ur school afford it?
And wut would u even put in ur locker other than a gym kit?
Kyle Brown: Both the hallway lockers and the gym lockers were large ones, too. That doesn't happen everywhere now, though. Ours were free, we just had to pay a couple of bucks for the lock on the hallway locker. We had to provide our own lock for our gym locker, though. When my daughter was in high school, there weren't enough lockers, so they issued them to the lower classmen/grades and the upper classmen had to lug their books around in their backpack all day.
I love how they don’t know what a pep rally is
Alex Geoffroy lol
Absolutey cracked me up!😂😂😂😂. I was thinking, that’s not at all what happens 😃😃😂😂
It's amazing they don't have a clue, especially in a big city, large public high school.
I know
Isn’t it something to do with getting excited about a game? I’m pretty sure my American mate told me about it
I have been a Brit in American schools now for about 3 years. It’s been amazing! In our school (high school) nobody really uses their lockers, and the pride and passion at our schools are outstanding!
I graduated in 2019 an the only thing we used our lockers for was for our books an things like that.
_ AngelZ yep they’re just not as used now that people use the backpacks for everything nowadays. i’ve only seen about 3 people all this year use their locker.
my family is considering moving from england to america do you have any advice n stuff
Glamour Subliminals what part of America are you looking to move to? I lived in England (Hasting, East Sussex) for 20 years moved back home to Southern California with my teenage daughter
Trisha Wilson-Fenn im moving to florida
In America, we mostly start driving at 15 years old and can receive their driver's license at the age of 16. 🤷🏽♀️
In some more rural states like mine you can get your license at 14 1/2
There are kids around where I live that start driving between ten and twelve. A lot of these are from families that raise cattle and other animals. The laws around here know them well enough and they're pretty safe so they get a pass.
Harley Retherford yeah that’s what happens around here too. It’s just not legal to drive on the roads until you’re 14. Doesn’t mean people who are like 12 don’t do it anyways tho
But in Miami, NY, Chicago - cities with good (or at least somewhat decent) public transportation and extremely heavy, and sometimes dangerous, traffic) - a lot of kids don't start driving at 16. Many kids in Miami don't start driving until they finish high school and earn enough to pay for a car, gas, and the higher insurance rates that occur in big cities. A lot of times they don't require cars until they go to college or possibly even after.
I think the actual age is 14 years and 9 months, before they can get a permit.
American pep talk: "You're the best. You're amazing. Be the best you can be. You Rock!!"
British pep talk: "Your tea is getting cold."
“you okay mate? your tea’s gettin a bit chilly”
@@mia-lc2om my favorite is from a renowned British mountaineer after he singlehandedly rescued two climbers on mount McKinley in winter “nice chaps” he said. “Just a wee bit in over their heads”
Lol. It's funny because its true 😂🙊
Shall I be mother?
Brits are jealous of American High Schools
Me: This does not compute.
I know because I remember our food not being so great in the 1970s and 1980s. The worst school foos I ever had was up in Pennsylvania when we lived there for 2 years. Ughh barf. The hamburger didn't even taste like beef or turkey burger but tasted gamey. Yuck! It would make me sick so I would usually eat pizza if I could.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 in nevada,its also mostly gross! What I dont like is the packaging is excessive because it mostly microwaved
Highschool was fun ass hell. Sneaking off campus, river parties, going to football games, playing sports, all that crap I miss.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 omg our food was so good in North Carolina at school back in the 70s. Freshly cooked everyday, baked spaghetti, hamburgers, pizza, were the faves. When we got to awxindaey schools and had ice cream as an option. And a la cart foods if you didnt want the plate lunch. Ph and brownies..... soooo good. Even peanut butter sandwiches had honey in them. So sweet with a carton of milk. There were a few years I carried a small amount iui my if nestles quick in a small cube wrap of aluminum foil, so I could have chocolate milk. Yummmm
Folks, they're focusing on the 'extras' at school, and I've heard a fair amount about Brit H.S.s ... apparently at most Brit Public H.S.s, there were *very* few options for school-related extracurricular activities. The Private schools were, I guess, a little better - but not lots better. It seems that 90% of American H.S.s had/have significantly more going on than most Brit schools.
Oh, and Joel & Lia ... a pep rally is _way_ more than somebody giving a speech! The marching band (or a select part of it) will perform, usually really 'rousing' music, and the cheerleaders will put on a little show; at my school the brass portion of the band would accompany the students and staff at singing The Star Spangled Banner. And there would be some mini-speeches by various coaches and school-staffers. And those students/athletes (& sometimes staff) who'd recently earned awards would be presented with them; and any team who'd recently won a Championship would parade the trophy around. A good pep-rally really could 'get you pumped'! [And I wasn't even an athlete or anything!]
Competition between other schools is really big in the US
A huge part of the pep rally.
I always had the inside of my locker door decorated with pictures, notes/encouraging things, and maybe a mirror. Also, before school started in the morning, it was common to gather with a group of friends at your locker to socialize.
Mixing up pep talk with pep rally. At my h.s., a pep rally had the whole school assemble in the gym.....on the bleachers. The team was introduced and we would all go nuts with applause and support for both the team and individual players before sending them off to play a championship game.
At my HS, we had these every week, not just for championships.
My friend and I got kicked out of pep rallies our freshman year, from the first pep rally, for the entire year. Because the seniors made a sign that said, "Freshman suck!!" So my friend made a giant sign that said, "Seniors swallow!" For us to hold up. Needless to say it didnt go over well with administration who did NOT think we were funny.... we were just sent home during pep rallies for the rest of the year since it was always the last period of the day.
I was that kid that hid in classrooms with the cool teachers. I hated pep assemblies because it was all about the athletes. There were never any assemblies for any of the other students and it peeved me so much. Attendance was mandatory and they always threatened students with suspension if they were caught hiding in the bathrooms or the library, but it was never enforced unless the kids were caught smoking or leaving school property.
Back in 80s we had pep rally every Friday during football season. I usually went to cafeteria to hang with friends instead.
Pep rallies at my school were every Friday in the morning during football season. The pep rallies had themes and games people could participate in and then a “spirit war” towards the end,good times.
We had to clear our locker at the end of every school year and were reassigned a new one each year. In my high school lockers were assigned by halls which were connected to one's school standing: freshman, sophomore, junior or senior.
Our leaders tend to err on the side of positive rather than negative. We aren't sugar coating things, we understand the gravity of the situation but we've been through enough to know we can get through this too. We think we can, so we do.
No time to hangout at the mall after school--too many after-school activities or homework.
I wish we'd had uniforms because It would have made life so much easier.
I switched school in my high school years but the 1st one i went too u kept the same locker for 4 years. It was 2 stories too. And the 2nd one u got a diff locker each year because it was in the assigned grade hallway. Exceotions were special education students who kept the same locker all 4 years
In my school, you were assigned different halls based on your grade.
When I was in high school we got the same locker all 4 years. But we did have to clean them out at the end of the year. At one point someone kept something that smelled like beef in their locker (they were 8th graders who came to my high school to take high school math courses). When they no longer needed to store their coats, and lunches, and backpacks, in a locker one of them left a brown paper bag of with their lunch in it and forgot it.
It made the surrounding lockers stink and eventually a janitor went in and cleaned out the locker.
This. Though I went to a Catholic school, so we wore uniforms. It did make it easier....
Lia: I just want to be stroked.
Me: .........
Also me: another thing that means probably different things between y'all and the US. 😅
It took me a second also! LMAO! 😲😳🤯😁😂🤣🤣
We might say we like to be "stoked" :)
@@Trifler500 so your stroked is stoked? We use stoked here but not in the way we use stroked. It's so amusing finding our differences.
Theresa Saintsational no, our stroked generally refers to a specific sexual act, hence our moment of 😳.
As I understand it, to an American, being "stroked" is the same as being "petted" to a Brit. At least according to commentors in another video I watched where this came up. In the US, "petting" is innocent, while "heavy petting" is like sexual caressing.
What you call "state school" we call "public school." And yes, it's is free in the sense that it's paid through taxes.
Yes and at my public school the boosters paid for everything the “important” sports needed, I.e, football, baseball and men’s basketball
Julie Carlstrom agreed. That's why we're #1 in basketball but basically nothing else.
Less in college, people in US would say they go/went to state schools too. Not in lower grades because they are not run by the state, rather local school districts vs. entire states.
@@mic1240 yes, up until college the schools are run by districts, but are funded by the state.
@@elipeart they are funded, in most places, primarily by local taxes and local control.
A pep rally isn’t a pep talk, lol. It’s like an actual rally. The cheerleaders will dance and they will play different games with the players (basketball, baseball, etc..). Now the coach will talk at the end but it’s usually to hype the team up. There are a lot of school chants too.
They were do much fun.
Sounds like a cult
@@emilyruxton4955 The cult of Let's Be Excited About Our Team & Tonight's Game (attendance optional)? Wtf?
@@emilyruxton4955 British sports don't have their supporters?
WhiteCamry not in school, no one watches the “games” and if they do it’s by force because their using the pe hall so you can’t do anything but no one actually watches it
"After" school trips to the mall were always DURING class for me lol. I ditched my yearbook class all the time because it was my last class of the day and my yearbook teacher caught me at McDonald's lol the same day I ditched. He signed my yearbook "lunch anyone??" Lol
Jermaine Sam same
My parents would kill me 🤯
Growing up in southern California, I feel like my high school had pep rallies for everything. Football, basketball, wrestling, water polo, track, tennis, cheer, dance and we even had a surf team and a math team. They honestly got kind of annoying after a while, so people just used them as an excuse to goof off or ditch classes.
Eh, I liked pep rallies. Maybe it's just because I'm a band kid and I like preforming because most kids hated them because they wasted class time and gave them less time to do homework
My Highschool rarely has pep rally’s for sports just things like dances seasons and breast cancer
Not sure which i like more surf or math pep rally..... ; ))
I was in charge of organizing Pep Rallies. It was a great experience
It’s always a little culturally shocking to hear “pound land.” All I can hear in my head is like some creepy guy saying “oh yeah baby, I’m gonna take you to *POUND LAND*” 😂😂
Why did you say that
Now this is my favorite comment lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
im never gonna see pound land the same again
You have just ruined the Joys of poundland for me
@@fbiagent5616 its gotta be a dollar store huh
I went to high school in the 80's. That's when we had everything. We were able to leave for lunch and go to a fast food restaurant. Sometimes we came back. Lol
Stephanie Abney yes!!!!! All the cars tearing outta the parking lot at lunch, everyone hanging out at Naugles or Carl’s Jr., chatting at our lockers, slipping letters into the hot guy’s locker 😉....and pep rallies. So fun! I don’t even like football but loved the pep rallies, Friday night football games, and hanging out afterwards with everyone. Ahhhhhh those were the days 🙃
Melanie OMG! Naugles....I completely forgot about them!
Ah yes, DQ was right down the street!
Me too, I graduated in 93 but the school I attended we were allowed to leave for lunch, it was an adult education school so we were allowed to come and go as we pleased. Everybody would walk down to this little pond they called the duck pond and smoke.
Yeah sometimes xD
Apparently, the high school experience is different depending on where you grow up in America
Well ..... DUHHHHH!!!! Beverly Hills High school is a wee bit different than high school in Harlem.
Is really is I can confirm
I almost fell off my chair laughing/crying when Lia suggested testing hard athletic cups by throwing a ball at them! Ouch! Haha!
Ditto, that was hilarious!!😂
Kimberly K Right? Suddenly, my life flashed before my eyes and I think I had an out of body experience, haha!
What do you call a collection of athletic supporters? A Pep Rally.
My son’s coach, in coach pitch, used to have the boys get in a circle and knock on the cups to prove they were wearing them. It was hilarious!🤣🤣
"Cup check!" Tends to be a peer activity/chance to hurt your mate
"Confidence is key" is a true statement. Harvard social scientists affirm that just 120 seconds of powerful posture increases testosterone (dominance hormone) about 20%, while dropping cortisol (stress hormone) ~25%. So just believing in yourself can make you better. Think the Harry Potter scene where Harry pretends to give Ron some of his liquid luck and Ron does better without actually using the potion. It's essentially just the placebo effect at play.
Plot twist: the potion was real tho......
Confidence is a great thing. It definitely helps in so many ways! However, the whole American thing with saying (and acting like) we're the best at everything 1) often just isn't true and 2) really comes off most of the time as arrogant and annoying - and honestly, well, ignorant about other countries. I am American and British, and I love both countries! I also feel that I see both pros and cons in every place I've ever lived, and the American in me does find that American arrogance really embarrassing.
Town public schools are paid from the taxes paid by town people. So depending on the town where you reside, the school could be really beautiful or just be basic. But the schools in your town are free to attend!
In the US?? They're paid for by the state not town. The population & grades depend on the amount of money they recieve.
@@mermaid1717 Public schools are financed by real estate taxes collected locally, and subsidies from the state. There are some Federal dollars too sent their way. There is no tuition charged and textbooks are supplied free.
@@balakuntalamsridhar5789 hmmmmmm... so real estate went up in our area last year yet this year us teachers only recieved 1 case of copy paper to last the full school year. Just one example how bad the state cutback last year.
Public schools in US are also governed locally by either an elected school board (school directors), or one appointed by local elected officials. Sports, band and drama activities are additionally funded by the community at large through ticket sales, bake sales, and students selling their time. Drama activity consisted of 4 plays per year, plus a musical. Drama coach was a former Broadway correographer. Students did scenery, costumes, lighting sound and all music.
I had to say hello because we have the same name
2:14 at my school the police come a couple times a year at random with their dogs that sniff out drugs and go around the school busting ppl 😫😫😫
WHAT.
@@amberba2070 LMAO
helens midnight dreary bruh i could bring 8 knives and 3 pounds of weed to school and they wouldnt know 💀
@@amberba2070 Lmaooo sameee
They brought a drug dog to school I knew three people in that hallway that had weed in there locker and the dog smelt nothing the next year they retired the dog because the cops were finding drugs easier than the dogs
I had a business going from inside my locker in high school. Right before home room and at breaks, I sold candy, donuts, pencils, and what not. It financed by spring break vacations. High school was great :)
Good work Eaglebauer.
You should be a business man
i sold pot and shots of booze.....
I love how at 4:45 Lia straightens Joel’s back (corrects his posture) and they’re such good friends he lets her manhandle him however she needs to! True trust between FRIENDS! 🤗🤗
in america: private school costs money, public schools r free
(edit: “usually” taxes pay for schools in america, but im pretty sure they do that in the uk. when i say “free” i mean you don’t have to pay an extra 20,000 plus pay taxes)
My favorite parts of attending high school was homecoming games and dances, Jr/Sr Prom and graduation. I attended a very small HS not to much happening.
javi ruiz oh my goodness that’s crazy
Public schools in the US are funded through taxes. Only "free" if you don't pay taxes.
Steve Murphy i think that’s what they meant by “free”
by “free” i meant u don’t have to pull an extra 20,000 for private school,
Do y'all not count things like book fees when you say school is free? Because I consider that public school costing money
I can relate to being jealous of lockers in American schools😂 I think High School Musical was probably the reason... It looked like so much fun to decorate and to not have to carry 10kg of books on your back every day.
In most schools you can carry your backpack to each class but in my school we aren’t allowed to have carry bags to each class in fear that there may be a weapon. You must leave backpacks and large purses in your locker but it’s not the same for ever school.
Yes, schools are free. These are called public schools. Every child in the country can attend (regardless of citizenship or immigration status). They are funded by city/state/and federal funds (generated by Americans’ taxes). There are private schools which do charge tuition and have admissions criteria. They are funded by that tuition and donations, maybe alumni endowments.
American high school was absolutely the bomb. Went to HS during the 80's. So much fun at school it was sick. Some of the best days.
Me too! Best times!
British pep talk: Oh, get on with it.
American pep talks are alright as long as that jackass donald trumpypoo isn't yapping away with his lies. SUCH A NEUROTIC CREEP!
Okay, I was a cheerleader and our pep rallys were during school Everyone would gather in the gym up in the bleachers. We would run out on the court and start the cheers. The kids and faculty scream along and cheer. The band starts to play the school song, we do the cheer that goes with it, and the crowd is up singing along stomping their feet and clapping. The football players are introduced and run out as their names are called. The coach then comes out to tell everyone how we are going to win this year! Everyone is cheering, shouting and laughing. The last words before we leave are: WE'LL SEE YOU OUT THERE!!! Then it's over. (At least at my high school, that's how it was)
The feeling is mutual guys a lot of us here in the US when we were in school fantasize about going to a posh English boarding school.🇬🇧🛡🎻✒🤺💂
Only for the Posh chicks.
Right. I wanna go to hog warts! 😆
definitely!
Only for the very rich lol
Really tho lol 😂
I haven’t watched You two for months. And I’ve been sitting here smiling and smiling the entire time; while listening to you talk. So you are the BEST! 😂
You understand that now you HAVE to film the 2 of you on a trampoline! Who's with me on this???
Pep Rallies are typically on Friday's, and you'll get out of class for 30 mins, and the cheerleaders will do their routine to get you in the spirit to come to the game that night!
That's so cringe lmao
@@georgeespley9177 Not so much as you would think. We play a lot of games and compete for a spirit stick.
Only the athletes had drug testing in America..The school could never get away with random drug testing peoples kids..yikes the lawsuits..lol
I think she meant random drug search of her locker.
My school does it if its they know its like a group of kids, but they're not sure which one
A L I work in a High school and we had a shelter in place and the students had to put there bookbags outside the rooms because we had drug dogs come in for a surprise search.
Alexis Baumann some schools do random drug tests on the entire student body.
Alexis and all,
Where I am from, New York, I don't know if random drug tests occur, or if sniffer dogs actually sniff any more, as we never kept our drugs in our lockers. I'm just saying, meaning, you would be a fool if you did, no matter the conditions. We had lockers in the woods, under stumps or in the hollows of trees and such, about the wilds.
The dogs of course, are lovely.
I once had a dog, in college, for a good 18 years (the dog, not college) but you couldn't leave weed around her face, as she would just eat it. I once lost a little bit of hash and she showed me where it was, and deep away it was. I gave her a little taste for her efforts. She was a fine sniffer, but not at all trained to be.
She just had it in her. We were two peas in a pod. She liked a good larger now and then, just like me. It was hard to keep her off my feed. Don't blink, being the point.
I used to rolls joints, very nicely, at about 3 or 4 at a time, when I could be bothered to, We'd smoke one or two, with one or a few left over. Why there was always one joint missing in the morning, came down to the dog. My friends or wife could have had all they wanted, but they would let me know of it. My dog (Poe) tho, didn't speak english, so I seldom knew it was her, but of course, I always knew it was her. She'd always leave me one tho. Some things are better off unspoken, to be truly understood.
Hanging out at the mall was more of a generational thing in the U.S. We did that as teenagers in the 80's and 90's, but most kids nowadays don't. Part of it is because a lot of malls have gone out of business; part of it is because kids are staying home with their electronics and social media.
By the time I was in high school in the late 90's, hanging out at the mall already wasn't that much of a thing anymore. A few kids still did, but most did not. My friends and I found it to be really pointless, extremely boring, and rarely ever went to the mall at all.
We were into finding an actual activity to do like go to the movies, the park, a public event/festival if any were going on, hike, swim, go to coffee, occasionally take a day trip to do some activity in neighboring areas etc. Or we would just go to one of our houses to hang out and chill, talk, listen to music, burn cd's to swap, play a little Tony Hawk on PlayStation, watch a movie on dvd (or vhs), once in a while do a backyard firepit for a hot dog/smores roast... those kinds of things.
No I grew up in the early 2000s and 2010s and we definitely went to the mall. I think it's mostly where you grow up. In most parts of America there's nothing to do besides go to the mall, the movies, or some local fast food restaurant so those were usually our hang out spots.
Have you watched John Hughes films? They are iconic American 80’s high school! 💕 The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off...
Don't forget Some Kind of Wonderful and Weird Science
Nica Marie I just watched Some Kind of Wonderful the other day... 💗
Sixteen Candles still cracks me up. The quintessential 80s high school movie.
All of my favorites!! I would even throw in Adventures in Babysitting for the sake of nostalgia. 🥰
The Karate Kid is a great HS movie.
I agree with Joel, even here in the U.S., there are old unsafe drivers. Whenever I pass someone doing 30 mph on the highway, it’s always an old man with a hat!
What you call state school, we call public school and it is “free” because it is paid for with taxes.
We don’t have “primary school” and “secondary school”. We have elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Some places call it "Junior High" and, for some reason, the grades in the "Junior High" vary.
In central Ohio we have, Elementary k-4, intermediate 5-6, middle 7-8 and high 9-12. This wasn't instated until I was in high school, thank god. Too many different schools. And we had to pay $15 school fee each year.
@@Judy_R I gather that "junior high" is more a west coast thing. I've never heard anyone refer to it as junior high in the east.
@@pflgrz I attended junior high in SC in 1988 and then in the mid 1990s it was changed to middle school
@@pflgrz I went to Jr. High in 1969 in Rhode Island, can't get more east coast than that. I was grades 7, 8, 9. Now it's a middle school with 6, 7, 8. I think they use 2 metrics to decide what grades, student populations and testing scores. It always comes down t o test scores. A 3rd metric might be teacher accreditation, when I taught in NJ, my accreditation allowed me to teach single subject (sciece) to grades 6-12. If you are only accredited for grammar school you could only teach up to 8th grade
At my high school, our pep rallies occurred in the gymnasium on Fridays (not every Friday) just before break (recess). We had over 1,300 students. The Sophomores and Juniors sat on the bleachers on one side of the gym, the Seniors were in the center, and the Freshmen sat on the other side of the gym, just behind the Seniors.. Basically, the performances and entertainments happened in between the Sophomores/Juniors and the Seniors. We had rallies before main events, for example, the Homecoming Float Parade where each clubs (and athletes) made floats and paraded. The band was always playing, cheerleaders and dance teams performed, and few students from each class, as well as the athletes, participated in what ever games the student government had set up. The student government were in charge of rallies, school events, choosing themes and locations for the school dances and amongst other things. Dance themes were always announced at the rallies. Before every rally ended, each class had to chant and whichever class chanted the loudest got to leave first (the seniors always got to leave first lol). We also had outdoor rallies where we had food, entertainments like obstacle courses. we didn’t hate our rallies because rallies meant classes were shorter haha.
As for the locker situation, my high school had medium sized lockers (both hallway and gym lockers) but I think my middle school had bigger lockers. We definitely used our lockers everyday. In the morning before the first class, during break, lunch and after school. My high school was walking distance, so not everyone drove to school. For those who did drive, they got their own parking spots which they got to decorate and paint on. Overall, I would say high school was a good experience.
As a high school teacher, I was always surprised that so many of my students would carry their heavy backpacks around all day instead of using their locker. My daughter who is graduating this year, said she did the same because the school, being so big, there's not enough time between classes to go to your locker. We got word that they will soon be allowing students to go into the school to clean out their lockers. My daughter told me she never used it, and doesn't even know where it is!
I work in a high school. We no longer use the lockers. The students have no books to carry. They barely even use notebooks or take notes. I think that's insane. Teachers literally print the notes for students now.
@@Judy_R yeah we don't do that. Some classrooms do have textbooks they keep in there, but everything is on the smartboard, Mac Books, & Chrome Books. Every classroom has a full cart of either Mac Books or Chrome Books in our school.
@@mermaid1717 Yeah, I have a locker, yet I've never had to use it. It has to do partly with the fact that our classes are so paperless that we dont need to carry all this stuff around. It's not efficient to go to your locker every period either.
@@zanderhamilton7908 WOW, times really have changed A LOT! I can't even imagine what that's like. I went to high school in the dark ages - the 1970's. Way before the Internet existed, Social Media or cell phones or iPads. But even so, I'm still glad I grew up when I did. Such simpler times.
I never used my locker because it was in an inconvenient place. My classes would be in every hallway except the one with my locker. 😂 Now I have a backpack with wheels so my back no longer hurts.
H.S. in the eighties, had a classroom locker for books and misc, and a gym room locker for gym clothes and shower supplies (towel, soap, etc.)
Pouf - We call them a footstool, ottoman or hassock. Take care
We call it a pouf if it is furry or fluffy.
Pouffe* from French.
Lol. I like the word pouffe. I always called it an ottoman, also.
I say ottoman or footstool, but I’ve never heard of a hassock. What part of the US are you from? I wonder if that is regional vocabulary.
I loved my letter (varsity) jacket because it was big and warm and was something of a status symbol, but the biggest problem with it was that, depending on when you get your first letter (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior year of high school), you essentially pay $300 for a jacket that you wear for a few years and then it hangs in your closet for the rest of your life.
We have trampoline parks everywhere in the US these days that people of ALL ages can go & jump. You just pay by the hour. My nephew has autism & his Medicaid pays a monthly fee to our local trampoline park for him to go anytime he wants & as often as he wants. Make sure you do trampolining next time you're able to get to the USA!!! Would make a GREAT video! They even have late night lights down for just adult jumpers too.
There’s the trampoline centre in northwest London. Joel and Lia should go and do a video.
Mer Maid true, my kids in CA; no lockers...so; heavy backpacks.
In my school (UK) you have to pay for a tiny locker TEN POUNDS! 😵😂
Mine too
What that’s crazy! In America the just come standard each year. Everyone has one lol
When lockdown ends, you guys should go to one of those places with lots of trampolines!!
We do have trampoline parks here. I'm sceptical of them because people are always getting injured as there's nothing regulating these places. I'm a gymnastics coach so I see it from a different perspective I suppose.
In the States we call it Shelter in Place. In the States lockdowns are procedures schools take whenever there's a shooter on campus. We have practice drills where we duck and cover under our desks, lights are turned off, and we remain silent.
PLEASE don’t judge all Americans by Donald Trump
Driving to school was the greatest thing because you were no longer dependent on the school bus. Legal driving age is 16 with driver's ed being taught at the age of 15. But most of the parking lots around the school were for students. The teachers had s separate designated area to park. Most students turned 16 during their 11th or Junior Year. Some as early as their 9th or Freshman Year. We had one kid who turned 16 his Freshman year. People were jealous of him.
Your videos really help to keep my mind off all the negativity going around. So thank you both. 😁
I graduated from a California school in 1985 and we didn't have lockers at all because someone set off bombs in some lockers and they took them away. Everything else you talked about was pretty accurate from my experience. Pep rallies, in particular, were popular because it was during class time and was much more fun than being in class.
1) At my high school not everyone had a locker. At the beginning of each year, if you wanted a locker, you had to go to the office and get one assigned to you, and then at the end of the year you had to clear out your locker. Most people wouldn't hang out at their lockers between classes cause we didn't have time to (we only had 5 minutes to get to our next class and sometimes it was on the opposite end of campus), but people would meet each other at their locker before or after school. I would use my locker to store my swim bag or soccer bag so that I didn't have to carry it around all day; sometimes I would store an extra set of clothes if I needed to change but didn't have time to go home. I wouldn't bring textbooks to and from school (I walked to school and textbooks were heavy), unless my teacher told us we needed them, so I wouldn't store any textbooks in my locker.
2) Football games are usually a big deal in high school, especially if your team was very good (mine was haha). Every friday night in the fall there is a game, and most of the school goes to support the team. I went to every single home game in high school and it was a blast! My college didn't have a football team so sometimes I miss getting to go to games.
3) The state of your gym really depended on how old your school was, how much money they have for the athletic department, where your school was located (cities with higher or lower incomes), and if the board thinks it's worth the time and money to re-do the gym.
4) Public elementary, middle (or junior high), and high schools don't cost any money for kids to attend. This means it usually takes a long time for any major repairs/construction to happen for a school, unless they recieve a generous donation. When I was in high school, the music and theatre buildings hadn't been touched since they were built in the 50's, and it took until the spring semester of my senior year for a new performing arts building to be completed. They didn't even start construction until my junior year. The original building were awful too. There were many seats in the theatre that were broken, and the sink in the band room bathroom broke and fell off the wall and sliced a girl's hands almost cutting off some fingers (she was ok). This all sounds terrible, but it isn't all the school's fault. Public education in america isn't given enough funding.
5) Pep rallies were mostly done to get the whole school pumped for a game so that students would go and support the team. Athletes tend to perform better when there is a crowd cheering them on, so the team would want people there. We wouldn't have pep rallies for every single football game, but we would have them for big or important games. The Homecoming game always had a pep rally and then a show at halftime to announce the homecoming court and the homecoming king and queen. And then any big rival game would have a pep rally as well. When my football team would make it to CIF (California Interscholastic Federation), which is like a regional championship tournament, then there would be a pep rally for the game. And then anytime we would win CIF and advance to the state championship we would celebrate. My high school would win CIF a lot, but would only make it a few games into state.
6) Yeah as a country we like to think we're number 1 in everything. It's partly pride, and partly ignorance haha. We are great at some things, but we need to work on other things, and it's ok to be patriotic and think that we're not the best at everything.
7) I can't speak for every school, but usually people wouldn't go to the mall after school. That was usually an activity saved for weekends when there were no other plans. People would either go directly to a sports practice after school, a rehearsal, a job, or they would hang out on campus for a while with their friends. If students were older and had a car, then maybe they'd take their friends home or to someplace to eat, but usually it was just a mad dash to get out of the parking lot as quickly as possible cause there were so many people leaving at once. It might've been this way for me cause there wasn't a mall close enough to my high school to make sense to hang out at. I also always had some sort of practice after school, so I don't really know what people did when they didn't have to go to practice; I only had enough time to change and then get to the field or the pool before practice started.
8) Schools used to have driving lessons a part of the school day, but in California, as far as I know, schools no longer offer drivers ed. Kids learning to drive after they got their permits had to find a driving instructor through a separate driving school.
9) I think letterman jackets (varsity jackets) are a great momento from high school, but they're very expensive for something you don't really wear after you graduate, unless you go back for the homecoming game. I didn't get a letterman jacket because it was so expensive, but now I don't have anywhere to put all my letters, patches, and stars that I got in high school haha
I really think Americans are somewhat optimistic about the current crisis because it really is being handled well in the United States. Even though we have a ton of cases, we also have a ton of people. Our mortality rate, the percentage of people who get the disease that die, is 5%. In the UK, it's 16%. Yes, our health care is expensive, but I really do believe it is the best in the world when it comes to quality. I live in Texas. Our death rate among people with COVID-19 is 2.5%.
I live and went to school here in SoCal (greater Los Angeles). Our high school didn't have lockers anymore, c/o 2003, back in the 80s there was an issue with explosives so they took em all out for general use. But we did use smaller lockers in the locker rooms for dressing out for P.E. I never went to a pep rally, Ugh, introvert here) And those varsity jackets cost $200-300 and you have to earn those patches.
My friends left after lunch seniors year, drove off, because they had enough credits to graduate. I failed a couple classes sophmore year so I have to retake US history and PE and stayed the full day. Near the end when "senioritus" kicked in I wouldn't go to school until lunch time and have my mom take me through the drive through at like del taco or something before going to school and I'd show up thinking I was so cool with my fountain drink in hand, along with my bag of tacos and some shades on LOL.
I never really thought about some of those things being kinda unique to the US. That explains why some exchange students seemed intrigued with some of it. I went to rural school (my niece attends there now). My entire class had 56 students and the entire school pre-kindergarten to 12th grade only had around 300...which is pretty much what it is now still. Grades pre-kindergarten to 6th grade are in one building at one campus north east of the city I live in with 5th and 6th graders getting lockers and changing classes, 7th through 12th is in another building at a campus south east of the city I live in. The school was founded by farmers in the 1920s and the city I live in grew into other school districts. There are three districts most kids here attend: the city’s schools, the school I went to, and another rural district that’s north west of the city. We have a private high school (religious) and a few private elementary schools (religious) as well within the city. Public school is free to attend, but extracurriculars cost money. Those nice gyms are because the schools charge money to attend the games and have concession stands. That’s also why they have nice game fields, etc. Some schools will do this for the arts as well. At my school the drama class put on two plays a year and admission was charged and there was a concession stand. The band played concerts which had an admission fee to as well. The school occasionally did art shows, science fairs, and talent shows which also had admission fees. There’s the all-school carnival which all students and parents, past and present, can attend. You buy tickets and play games, there’s food. There’s a raffle so you buy raffle tickets (kids sell them in the two weeks prior to the carnival as well). All the money belongs to that class. Like I was Class of 1998 so the money we raised went to school end-of-year trips in elementary and junior high and of course to the Senior trip in high school. They have a competition between the classes. The pre-k and kindergarten kids are ushers and flower persons. Every grade nominates a boy and girl from to represent them. Grades 1-3 compete for mini-prince and mini-princess, Grades 4-6 compete for mini-king and mini-queen, Grades 7-9 compete for prince and princess, and Grades 10-12 compete for king and queen. The grade each category that sells the most raffle tickets wins the crowns and are crowned in a little ceremony at the end of the carnival. I was the prince nominee in 7th grade, but the 8th grade class beat us by ten tickets!! Local businesses donate prizes for the raffle so it’s usually neat prizes like big television sets, $100 in gas, $500 in groceries, and other prizes that adults usually want to win (kids usually only buy the tickets, which are $1, to get their class to win). The prize drawing is before the crowning. There’s usually an auction afterwards of other prizes donated by local businesses (gift baskets, clothing, etc) that also raises money for the school. The carnival is in October. Homecoming is in September and there’s a dance that costs money to get into. There are other school dances: Halloween, Christmas, etc that also charge admission. The two weeks before Thanksgiving break, kids sell holiday candy items either for the class or extracurriculars (my niece had both band and FCCLA this year). Those items are delivered about a week after Thanksgiving break. There’s another fundraiser in the spring two weeks before Spring Break. Some extracurriculars will have some fundraisers before Fall Break in October, before Winter Break in December, etc. At the school I went to we also had Winter Formal and Valentines Ball which were fundraising fancy-dress events for different student clubs. Then in April is Prom which is only for the Juniors and Seniors (11th and 12th graders) and that costs money. There’s also an after prom party at the school which is a casino night event. You buy school dollars and play games with it (poker, blackjack, roulette, etc). It’s money raised for the student clubs. The school just got a bond voted on by voters who approved it. There going to remodel the elementary school and build safe rooms (in case of tornadoes). The school paid off its previous bond which went for improvements at the high school including for a new, bigger gym. So now the high school has three gyms: the original gym built in 1923 which now gets used by the science and art departments for showcasing projects, the gym built in 1987 which is now the practice gym, and the gym built in 2018 which is where basketball games are played at.
Love following you guys, n the uplift your personalities give was especially appreciated today.
I went to high school in the mid-‘90s and ours were pretty large. They were stacked 2 high but we cleaned them out at the end of every year since we had designated areas for Freshman through senior years. I also was in Texas so totally let me know if you wanna know more state-specific info. Also, I pretty much think all British schools are either Hogwarts or Bad Education/Inbetweeners. Hahaha
In America, it's teen age drivers that are the worst. That's why insurance is higher for teen age drivers.
at my high school the parents were worse drivers than the students in the parking lot after school everyday
In my high school, the seniors would get access to the parking spaces closer to the school, others had to park farther away from the school. Those were definitely good times!
4:04 Wait you guys don't call them an ottoman?
I always called it a foot rest.
An ottoman is something completely different
As a 70 year old, I must say you two have a really warped view of what it is like to be 70. I ride a bike about 5,000 miles a year, I do all of my own gardening, and I have no problem at all driving. 70 is the new 55.
Thanks Tom. I’m 65 and the worst drivers today are the people of all ages on their damned cell phones!
Mall trips were the best! When I was in middle school the mall was right across the street. So everyday after school everyone would walk over to the mall to hang out. And at my high school the lockers weren’t that big and every year we’d get new ones. My freshman year I had a locker on the bottom so I had to kneel to get to my locker and then the next years I had middle lockers.
In my day, lockers ran from just above the floor to about 5'6" up. The locks were combination locks. Either built into the door or separate padlocks. No keyed locks. We would store our books and other supplies in them. To try to lug every book you had to every class all day would break people's back. And big backpacks weren't a thing then either. Then being the mid to late 80s.
I loved my locker too! When they remodeled the high school, they tore them out!! My son had to carry his backpack around ALL day😨 ..... it made me really mad 😡
@@Judy_R it's funny, I can't remember what his text book situation was 🤔..... just the uproar about back strain issues 🤗
@@Judy_R ooohh... that was sweet!! I don't have grandchildren, but I'd like to think I'd be that kind of grandma 🤗💕..... my grand kids would know all about Joel and Lia for sure
@@Judy_R She sounds wonderful, Judy! I'm glad for your kids. Hugs! 😘❤
@@MaryMary-pr4iu I love how you said that - that if you had grandkids they would for sure know all about J&L. So many of us just adore those two so much!! 👍😊❤ Jean
Where my daughter's went to middle school, about 4 years ago, they could only go to their lockers when they got to school, mid-day, and at the end of day. To top it off, they weren't allowed to bring backpacks to class, so so they basically had to lug 4 classes of supplies around half the day, then switch them out for the next 4. It only lasted for one year, but it was a miserable year for them
American public schools are paid for by taxes, while parochial and private schools are paid for by parents, and they're expensive.
In america, when I played baseball we wore cups too... the teammates often “cup checked” each other by smacking each other down there 😳
All the time😎but when I played in middle school football we didn’t have to wear any they didn’t even issue them to us lol
My highschool let you pick your locker if you actually went on schedule pick up day to get your schedule and depending on your extracurriculars you had several sections of lockers to choose from, otherwise you were assigned a locker and it was usually a poop one.
Don’t be jealous! It looks fun in movie and tv shows but high school in reality sucks.
You two are hilarious! Your videos always brighten up my day. Thank you 😄
I am a foreign language teacher at the high school level. I think I would be much happier teaching at a British school. Students are typically horrible and working conditions are not the best. I get verbally attacked on a daily basis by "students", have been routinely physically threatened, and twice attacked. What we have is an entire generation of people that cannot think for themselves and have been given participation trophies for everything. In fact, at my school the teachers have been instructed not to fail a student unless they do not come to school in the first place. Movies and TV lie! :*(
Saying "I'm the best" doesn't necessarily make you feel like you are the actual best, but it does make you feel like you're better than you think you are. It comes from the idea that if you reach for the impossible, you'll get further than you would have had you just reached for the best you think you can do. You can always do better than you think you can.
Loved the genitals protection tangent, J&L are here to educate the world!
When I was in high school in the 80s we walked to and from school or drove if you had your own car, and had those big lockers you describe, had all the time in the world before & after school to hang out and talk while using them, and shared our locker with a school assigned locket-partner. When my kids were in high school in the past few years those lockers were long and slender, literally half their former size for fear of assigned locker partner theft. And the school bus schedule didn't allow them time to use their lockers or spend any social time at all!
that thumbnail though 😂
In the late 70''s & early 80''s, my private high school (parents paid tuition) had: no backpacks, no coats in classes, no purses or jeans. We had large lockers and allowed to put stuff inside the locker - not outside. Our gym lockers were only used for gym gear or changing between stuff. You had to take your gym stuff home once a week for washing.
The lockers were inspected once a semester or term for food hoarding and drugs. (usually done by a dog so most lockers were not opened) Gym lockers you had to use a padlock you had to buy The regular locker had a combination lock on them and no keys were given to students.
My high school had the gym with the shiny floor in it with the schools name and team name on the floor. It sounds like the schools in the UK failed to learn to use what a lot of schools in the US use. Ducktape or Floor tape for a team name on the floor during sports seasons. Mine did that until they could afford to get it made by a flooring company. The centerpieces are generally removable on most gym floors - even the wooden ones.
Not everyone lived near nor went to a mall from my school. Though, I do have a school jacket - it is not for sports - it was because I liked them and it does look different than the sports ones.
I really don’t understand why Brits are so hard on themselves. You shouldn’t be ...Brits should be proud of their history and their country and yourselves. America is proud of the UK we are proud to be your friends
George Vangordon jr Proud to be their children!(jk). It is kind of like an older generation telling a new one why they’re lucky and what new things they have.
What you call a “pouf” Americans call an “ottoman” lol
Yes, I remember after-school trips to the shopping mall. (Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.). So, the kids are still doing that?! The more things change, the more they stay the same!
Hello. I live in Burlington,N.C. It's a small world isn't it?
Kids have to be chaperoned by an adult in most malls now.
Where I went to high school, we would have a few pep rallies a year where everyone in the school would gather in the gym where the band would play, and the cheerleaders would cheer. Sometimes the dance or step team would come out as well. It was basically a hyped up gymnasium filled with students and teachers. We would have these on Fridays either before a rivalry football game or a homecoming game/dance! I should find a video of one of ours and send them to you guys. 😂 You’d think we’re nuts!
The last two years of High School I never even used my locker because it was so far away from my classes that I would never have time to go to it to get my books I needed for class and get to the class on time. You got in trouble if you didn't have a note for being late. So I did have a large locker, but I never decorated it because I never used it. My school didn't have football for a long time and finally they got it many years after I graduated. I call your poof a hassock or sometimes they are called an ottoman. You only pay for school here if you go to private, so same as the UK. Where I live you can get your license when you are 16 so I got mine just a few weeks after I turned 16 and drove to school my last two years. It was nice but I suddenly got more popular from people who wanted rides to school... 🙄
I'm from Texas and we take high school football seriously! Lol! When I was in high school, our "spirit organization" was HUGE! We had 26 cheerleaders, 250 pep squad members, 75-80 high kick dance team squad and over 300 band members! WE WERE LOUD AND PROUD! LOL! of course that was in the 80's and I notice that school spirit just isn't as wide spread as it used to be, which is a shame...
Pep rallies are to get the spectators excited about the game.
Also a reason to get out of some class early.
In my 73 years, I've heard the furniture you call a pouf referred to as a hassock, foot stool, ottoman, and I guess Little Miss Muffet called it a tuffet.
A pep rally isn't something done before every game, but only before a big game, such as a long-standing rivalry with another high school, or before playing in a state play-off game at the end of that season. The purpose is to fire up the players, obviously, but also the fans so they'll be part of the excitement by attending. Certainly, the cheerleaders will come out and lead some cheers, the team will be introduced (as if they're not already known by everyone in the school), and probably the coach will also speak for a short time.
I have seen many elderly, drive the wrong way on a one way street.
I've always heard that, "brits are snobboy" and I disagreed, because I've watch a few other Brits reactions and they are very kind and genuine, so I didn't understand... until I watched a few of your videos... I now understand why they say, "brits are snobby" and not only snobby, but condescending and self absorbed.
🤣🤣 OMG! I couldn’t stop laughing😂😂 i’m a Brit and I agree with everything you said. BTW you are the best TH-camrs ever, in the world.🙂 I love the tangents, I am the same❤️😄
We have very large (indoor) trampoline parks in the U.S.A. They are so much fun for all ages, starting from toddler age, all the way up to adults. In addition, there are game machines, flying trapeze, rings, ladders, slides, large balls, etc., over foam pools to drop into. Many families hold their children's birthday parties at trampoline parks, who provide private party rooms for birthday cakes, balloons, decorations, several tables for lunch/pizza and gifts, music, etc. Again, it's so much fun! You two should visit a trampoline park the next time you're stateside. You will leave completely exhausted, not only from the different apparatus, but your stomach muscles will hurt for days, from laughing so hard.
Just like Joel, my birthday is at the beginning of the school year, (the first week of November), so I was 16 years old & driving for the majority of my sophomore (10th grade) year so I was expected to drive my friends out to lunch since I was older than most of them. This also made me 18 years old for the majority of my senior (12th grade) year so officially I was "an adult" & able to write my own excuse notes to get out of class or be absent/miss a day of school....BEST EVER!! We still had only 10 absent/sick days to stay under, so I couldn't get too crazy & let the power go to my head.😂
@Lucy! WOW, crazy!! Thankfully, I only wrote a few notes, not to bring too much attention I guess. After forging my parents excuse notes for so long, it still was just soooo weird not having to after I turned 18. For me, writing my own excuses too often was almost like too much freedom to want to take advantage of or something... WEIRD I KNOW!🤔🙃😁
I can imagine the things our parents actually knew, that we thought they were oblivious to. LOL😂
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos, and that I like that y'all are "scatty" lol. To me, it makes the video feel more like a natural conversation, not only between you two, but to the viewers as well. Keep up the good work!
We dont call it state school but public school and yes it’s free.
Pep talks are to relay a vision. Without confidence you don't put as much effort in emotionally hedging your bet. Even your immue system is depressed when you are. People on their death beds can hang on longer to see people if they have a vision to fight for.
Your tangents were hilarious. 😂
When I was inHigh School here in the US Drivers Education was required. It got credits just like any other class. You had so many hours of class room training and you had to have so many hours of driving with the teacher. Once you past the course you could go to the Drivers Administration and take your drivers test and get your license. You could also get a drivers permit why you are in training and you could practice driving with someone in the car with you over 18 years old. Most kids got their drivers permit at 15 years old and their drivers license at 16 years old. High Schools no longer offer drivers Ed because of budget cuts. To get your license now you have to pay a private driving school. High schools no longer have anything to do with getting your drivers license in the US anymore
We had a place called the range where we would go to practice driving before we went out on the public roads. It was basically a humongous parking lot with several cars and the instructor talked to you with a radio in the cars. We would do the course, practice backing up and parallel parking, etc. I sucked at parallel parking and once i backed over the orange cone, and the guy said "car 5, you're killing my cones!" I didn't live that one down for a while. My daughter still thinks it's hilarious.
I believe the president said that America has the best testing in the world, because of the multiple studies and research that has been done. Some countries like China is believed to have stopped their testing. This also connects with the death count in America, if America does the most testing, then by default they would have more cases of covid 19. We also need to take in consideration of America’s size In population. Also the president is trying to give the American people hope, that we can live again, instead of being trapped in our house. He wants to give Americans the freedom that Americans have worked so hard to have. I love your channel, but just wanted an American opinion put in the mix. Hope you do well, and take my opinion into consideration.
I agree!
I have never known anyone remotely to go on a "mall trip" after school. Most people just go to sports practices or home. Also, pep rallies are torture. It is the last hour of school, with everyone crammed into the bleachers, screaming while 90% of the people there don't want to be there. My high school would also have challenges when they would choose random people to come down and participate. One year my worst nightmare came true when I was chosen.
Actually things are not as bad as the media says.
The pep talk is just something that motivate you. And btw that’s why American always want to win because we tend to believe we are the best and it rather 1st or nothing 2nd is failing.
I don't think America is the best, but I do love our "ideals" in the declaration of independence, bill of rights, and Constitution- basically liberty. However, as time has gone on our people have lost their commitment to these ideals. I'm into appreciating everyone's strengths around the world. I'm not very competitive I suppose.
'The Idea' is very important because eventually people will demand to cash that check. Thats how we kept moving forward, ending slavery, women finally getting to vote, the 8 hour work day, banning child labor, ending segregation, now women as political leaders....as Dr. King said "The arc of history is long but it tends to lean towards justice"
america was built on the enslavement of an entire race and the constitution was constructed to consolidate power and facilitate trade between states. the bill of rights was a last minute add on. this idea of freedom and liberty is a facade.
I hope you move to the country you think is best then?
@@BOOOoOOooooOOON A lot of countries did, no one alive in America has owned a slave or was a slave , get over it already and the idea of freedom was a last minute thought? LOL SMH
@@mac11380 why so touchy?
You're the best Joel and Lia out there!
Is anyone else just taken back by how stunningly beautiful they are every video?
Haha thanks so much
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 XD no problem! Haha Thanks for gracing the fans with your beautiful smiles! 😁
Average. Two eyes a nose and a mouth. They look average nothing stands out. Stunning, ehhhh Nope!