As a german who went to 6 different schools, i can say that this is pretty accurate for some schools, but there are differences between the schools, and even at the same school, the lessons can be very different with different teachers
Kenne ich irgendwie. ich hatte was weiß ich wie viele sportlehrer und das lustige, der einzige der sport studiert hatte war der der am schlechtesten war I know somehow. i had, i don't know how many pa teacher i got, but that on from them who studied sport was the worst
@@Iskarot1435 ja, aber ich glaub für sport ist es nicht so wichtig ob man das studiert hat, ich hab grad nen Physiklehrer der kein Physik studiert hat und mir mal erzählt hat dass er früher ne 5 in physik hatte, das ist dann halt scheiße
As a German teacher of English who graded lots of presentations about London this morning, I can confirm that teachers here sometimes take a student's seat to become a member of the audience and listen to the students.
Be aware of this: You don’t use students when talking about kids. Students are only people who study at an university and and PUPILS are school kids attending primary or secondary school.
@@s.h.5720 There might be a difference between AE and BE here. I'm fairly certain the word "students" is used for most school and university attendees of any age in the US these days, while Brits still make a distinction between the two. As I was talking about presentations about London, maybe "pupils" would have been more fitting...
At least in my school, there was no separation between boys and girls, only the grading was different. Also, the court looks like an "All-in-one", can probably be used for soccer, handball, basketball and more, even though it has the official size for none of those.
it is. that's usually what courts look like in european gym classes. they have the lines for all the different sports. that way, regardless of what's being played that day in class, they can use the same court, instead of constantly changing courts or needing to make lines every time
For us most of the time it was ether all the boys or all the girls first and that the others, just to make the grading a little easier for the teacher, but aside from that, tere was no real separation of boys and girls in PE
It is a all in one but the layout is the layout for floorball (Unihockey in german). In german, swiss and austrian schools they play sometimes floorball. And the layout is almost universal
Trust me, if you're a shy kid who doesn't like sports or who was scared of many things like climbing or getting a ball thrown at you in elementary school and you go to PE and get yelled at by the boys when you don't catch a ball, picked last when the students choose the teams and then people are disappointed when you're in their team - it's pretty damn easy to hate PE. Also many PE teachers are brutal, they don't care if you're sick or hurt and if you're trying hard but not succeeding they call you lazy. As someone who hated school in general but was good at it, PE always ruined my good grades and felt super humiliating, because everyone would watch you fail and some people made fun of you (at least you could hide it when you're bad in other subjects). And ofc I was never in the mood to run through parks in the cold on a school day when I haven't eaten yet, barely slept, had a test I didn't study for enough after PE and with the only motivation of not getting the worst grade for running. Yeah I'm so glad I'm out of school, PE was like hell.
yeah. I love sport and am pretty good at most of em, but i relate. PE was shit. Teachers were so incompetent and mean to the not so sporty ESPECIALLY Women.
And let's not start about having your period in PE... however you felt you had to participate. that gone so far that i once literally passed out because i did sport with my period. The teacher didnt even care and thought i lied even though all the other students saw it. AND even though i always did my best and never forgot my clothes or didnt want to participate or lied to be sick.
Oh, I can relate. I'm extremely bad at sports, even if I try. Today in PE, a basketball fell on my head and when throwing the ball, I missed it more than I chaught them. So you are not the only one to hate PE (Sorry for my english)
Exactly my thought. Ususally the worst (at least in Germany IMHO) tend to be football/soccer (or any team sport in general). it was rare, if youd hatnot at least a handfull of other students who were in a soccer team and would become extremly competetive and angry with anyone in their team who didn't play as good as someone in their regular team. So as someone who didn't liked sport and/or wasn't good at it, that could easily be like hell, every single time.
My highschool was nothing like that 😆 We were much more people (30) in a big classroom. We didn't have gender separated PE classes. We didn't have to sing alone in front of the class (thank goodness). I guess schools can be very different in Germany.
I guess that school is some expensive high-class private school. They are nothing like the public schools - smaller classes, much better equipment, the teachers are supposed to be better (dunno if it's true). The school that I attended was by no means comparable. Also seperation of boys and girls is very unsual in state-run schools. She's probably from one of those stereotypical "crazy rich" Asian families that send their kids abroad for school education. They can afford to pay tuition for such schools. Most people cannot.
@@denisb6718 I'm from Germany and went to 4 different schools there and I can tell you that the school in the girl's video wasn't a private school. The equipment and class rooms looked very average for a state run school. I've been to a private school in Germany before and they look very different to her school. Most public schools in Germany don't even use chalkboards anymore so I would say that her school looked rather poorly equipped. It's probably just a small school because in bigger cities most schools have at least 30 students.
If you're in a "music class," you may find yourself auditioning alone or playing an instrument. Some schools also have other “specialized” classes. The students then often have 2-4 lessons extra for this special subject.
German high school is a lot harder than US high school. I had never seen a multiple choice or true-or-false question on a test before going to school in America. In Germany it was always short essay, come up with your own answer type things. No 25 or 50% chance to guess right. Also, we don´t have varsity sports, stuff like that has to be done privately after school at a sports club. German schools also lack the American "school spirit". No pep ralleyes, no home coming, no prom as such (although the Abi-Ball does become more and more similar to prom). There are also no sports scholarships for university. You either have the grades to make it or you don´t.
there are scholarships in germany, yet we dont have any people on look out for talents, you have to send a request or in my friends case the teacher did, then you get evaluated seperately if you are good enough if you are in a team after school it is more propably to get scouted than in school
i think that school in the usa is generally not really hard, most exchange students i know were excellent students in serbia, went to the usa for a year and, in their words, it felt like a long break from school. when it's time to come back, you have to do a test to be able to come back to school, and all of them were on the brink of failing and having to just not go to school for a year / be transferred to a bad school. according to them, what they taught in 2nd and 3rd year of highschool in the usa was stuff that we did the previous years, and most of the studying they were doing was for the test to get back to school over here. they pretty much just enjoyed themselves in the us instead of focusing on studies as they have intended to before going.
@@ukrivu Oh yeah! I was a senior at a high school in Western New York. I really sucked at math in Germany, but I was put into one of the more advanced math classes. Honestly, some of the stuff was a repeat from fifth and sixth grade.
We had multiple choice Tests in math classes from 7-10th grade in germany. Our math/astronomics teacher was super chill and I loved her lessons.. Yes, I loved Math during 7-10th grade and I also loved her Astronomy lessons. 10/10 I would definitely do another 10th grade with all my teachers back then. It was so much fun compared to A-Levels or other stuff
As someone who didn't like PE: It's so competitive! I could never be good enough in anything. I am not good in sports and what ever I did just felt like people are watching me and make fun of me. In class you can just sit silently on your place and be invisible, that's what I prefered
I totally agree! Actually, I've always liked to exercise and to be outside. BUT: Everybody in my class was better than me, at everything. So when teams were elected for team sports, I was always elected last, like: always. Other students would make fun of me, some teachers would also make fun of me. I started to hate the entire class, sometimes I would hide in the toilets for 45 minutes.
About the teacher sitting among students... I'm a teacher myself and I always sit among students when there is someone presenting something. First of all, the view is much better, and secondly I can also tell if they spoke loud and clear enough for students in the back of the room to hear. Gymnasium is from age 10 to about 18, so the last two years in a gymnasium are equal to American college, it's where you are prepared to enter universities and study whatever you are interested in. You are getting a very wide spectrum of knowledge at a gymnasium, as in order to get your degree (Abitur) you have to do German, maths, at least one foreign language, arts, sports, natural sciences, history, geography and religion oder ethics classes. Older students tend to wear black clothes, colors are for kids ;)
I'm pretty sure you need two foreign lagnuages for abitur. The second at least in some basic degree. My wife has russian and english while I went to evening school and had to pick between french and latin, besides english...
@@2kReels I could pick up to three languages (English and a 2nd was mandatory, the 3rd optional) over the years, but I actually just had to take an exam in one of them (Prüfung). But, to do so, I had to do an aditional science exam. It may differ from state to state in Germany. (I had to do 5 exams, 4 written, 1 oral. I did German, which was mandatory, and math, also mandatory, physics and English. Oral was history. - that was in Saxony Anhalt a fw years back.)
@@2kReels yeah, maybe depending on the Bundesland? ^^ But back in NRW in early 2000s we had to pick two. Everyone had english, but then it dependet, also you didn't need to go full out with the second language. I had latin until only the 10th class which was "good enough" for the abitur. But people who joined in from the Realschule and only had english, but didnt chose a second language before, now had to learn french (as this was the only available language besides english at that school, but spanish was also common)
By the way for many students in Germany it's not even very common to eat lunch at school. We have class from 8 am to 1 pm with 2 breaks in between the classes. After that we can go home, eat lunch, do our homework and enjoy our free time. However, there are extracurricular options in the afternoon, like singing in a choir, playing in a band/orchestra, sports clubs, chess, languages. The options vary from school to school. So if you signed up for one of these, of course you can have lunch at school. Older students at Gymnasium in 11th and 12th grade usually have lessons between 9 am and 5 pm. Their schedule comes much closer to how a uni schedule would look like, as they can choose a specific course combination for their final Abitur exams at the end of 12th class. So sometimes I would only have one class from 9 am to 10.30 am, then go home and drive back for the class from 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm..
Not only did I dislike PE class... I hated it. One reason, I was so lazy during my teen years... But also it was always a mess. The teachers treated the fit students much better and one time we even had a teacher yelling at a boy that was an the brink of collapsing after a run we had to do. It was more like being in the first part of "Full Metal Jacket" than being in school. After graduating from school I started hitting the gym and found that sport can be fun, if you are not constantly shamed and yelled at ✌
Unsere Aufgabe war es, den Basketball hin und herzuwerfen. Der Lehrer pfeifft, wir sollen zu ihm kommen und ich drehe mich um. Mein Freund hat aber bereits den Ball geworfen, so dass ich am Kopf getroffen werde. Lehrer kommt und gibt mir 'nen Anschiss weil ich nicht aufgepasst habe... XD
I was always talking with someone when I was supposed to catch balls when we played soccer in school, later they didn't bother me with that anymore, I was just denying to play that, I wanted to do some gymnastics, climb or something, that was fun for me, but constantly playing soccer all the time every day, I hated it, floorball was better, but still annoying after so many years in school.
PE makes children hate sport instead of making them like it. So the most people stay with "i hate sport" attitude until they die because they don't even search for a type of sport they like, because of PE.
Hey Ryan. Its difficult to understand but german school are ALL different. 😅 In our school for example boys and girls do sports together Ty for the video!
i mean yea, its very complex. Each state has its own school system and in each school system there are more than 6 school forms (Förderschule/Sonderschule, Hauptschule, Sekundarschule, Realschule, Gesamtschule, Gymnasium and you can possibly even count private schools since they often do it also very differently)
@@cantinadudes ye… Im at a Gesamtschule and its really nice but to explain to others its… 😂 EVERYTHING is different. We can talk to our teachers with their prename and „dutzen“. Also we dont sit at two-man tables, we have tablegroups with 6 students on one tablegroup. And there are a lot of different things… 😅
Hey Ryan, it‘s a handball court. Handball is most likely the second or third most popular team sport in Germany after football/soccer. You as a sports guy should definetely check it out!! It‘s more physical than football and super fast. There are even some American youtube videos about handball!
Fun fact: Although football/soccer is by far the most important professional team sports from a commercial point of view, there seem to be already even more amateur handball players (and volleyball players as well) out there in Germany than amateur football players. P.S.: I did mix something up here, but I won't change my comment. See below, what I did wrong.
@@Sin_VAL Thank you, you are right I looked up and found out mixed something up. Truth is: Football only is on rank 8 of sports regularly done by German adults. But the prior sports are (from top to bottom) swimming, cycling, running, hiking, fitness, skittles/bowling, gymnastics. So at least it is the first place pure teams sports (all of the other ones you can do on an individual basis for football you do need a team).
here in Czechia, the most popular sport in schools is probably floorball for some reason, all schools have tools for that and it was always more fun for me than soccer which I hated
At my school there was no seperation between girls and boys in PE in school in general but we ended often in just boy or girl classes by the profiles we choose. The court should be a small football court. The nice thing abozt football is to play it you dont need more than 4 stones to mark the goal. Size doesnt matter so much. But also such courts mostly have basketvall hoops too or lines for other sports on the ground so you can play the sport you want. We never had to sing infront of class. We had to play the flute and sang as a group.
When i was in school there wasnt any seperation in pe class but often we could choose what we wanted to do. So normally all the boys wanted to play football while the girls doing more the track and field or gymnastic stuff. Maybe that happen in her class too. cause it looked like they all still in 1 class together but just doing different sports.
I hate German PE because it's just demotivating. It doesn't matter how hard you try. This just leads to someone like me, who just gets bad grades all the time. It's not like I don't like sports, I just don't like PE. Because it feels like no matter how hard I try, I'm never good enough. It just makes you not want to try something new, as you know you will never be enough.
We once had to go through multiple stations with differen task, I did all besides push-ups, yet the teacher said I need to do them aswell to get the next better grade, so I struggeld to do them (I am really bad at it) and half the class is watching... PE can really be fun, but really embarrassing aswell...
I fully agree. Bundesjugendspiele for example are terrible. I did actively train in 7th grade, 9th grade or something, and improved a lot, but it still wasn't good enough to pass according to the official lists.
Sadly this is the truth. Most teachers will say that they reward your effort and how much you improved throughout the year, but in the end they don't... As a boy, unless you're the German champion with multiple gold medals, you will never get anything better than B or C - no matter how hard you try. As a girl, you'll get a B just for breathing... So in the end, neither the boys nor the girls have any motivation.
@@andyx6827 Honestly, it also depends what topic they have to do. When we had to play soccer/football, the boys were way better than the girls, since most of them played it outside of school. The grade correlates between the person's strengths and what they're being tested on, so f.ex. choosing your preferred topics in PE during your Abi can be very helpful.
It’s insane how different schools are here. I‘m in 13th grade here in Germany and we always have pe all together. Boys and girls are in one class. We got to choose a pe profile in grade 11 so I only have badminton and fitness at the moment. The last time we had to do this kind of stuff in pe with the jumping was like 5 years ago. I think only middle schoolers do that. And in music class we never had to sing in front of others. We sometimes sing together as a class but not often
from a 12th grader in Northern Germany (sh) we do have to do the jumping and running, but we do have PE with boys and girls together, it's just graded differently.
No idea, if it has been said in the comments, but PE is mandatory in all grades of the German school system. Even in the higher grades. In the highest grades of the "Gymnasium" you can vote to take exams in addition to the grading of the physical activities. I hated PE, BTW. Was always my worst subject and took the exams to improve my grade. I remember getting "lippy" with my PE teacher once, and I never was rude to teachers - When he wanted to flunk me for the jumping you saw in the video. I was required to jump 2.4 meters at age 16 to get a passing grade. And I straight out asked him when I would ever need that skill in life
No, not in every school. There's no PE in 11th grade of Fachoberschule. But you're only at school half the time, the other half is spent at an internship :)
Also, you were surprised that German kids would sing in English, but a lot of pop culture from America is super popular over here (speaking as someone from the Netherlands, but I suppose it's the same with our neighbors :P). So if you want to sing a popular song, it's probably an English song.
English language songs sound much cooler anyway ... When I was a teenager (🦖- in a time long, long ago 😁) we had the last of the 70 Schlager stars still around, making music (those of you who know, let me mention GITTE), even most of the new German wave (Neue Deutsche Welle) was not cool, there was the odd exception, of course. But yeah, we mainly listened to UK and US music, too.
@@franhunne8929 there's good German music. I like Rammstein and Kraftwerk a lot. Falco is cool as well (not German but Austrian but oh well). But those aren't really songs you can sing in music class. Fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der autobahn...
importent to know is that in germany SCHOOL is in the hand of the state not the country. so imagine just america 50 states 50 different systems who in the end try to give them the same education ... its VERY different from state to state and also school to school
I live in NRW and went to a Gesamtschule so everything was completely different compared to what she's showing here at a Gymnasium. Boys and girls weren't seperated in P.E. and we only did track and field when we had a sports festival from grade 5 to 7 where each class competes against each other. You didn't always had to help the teacher if you were sick / injured, depending on which teacher you had or what mood they were in, they would also just make you sit on the bench and maybe even copy some pages of a sports book, or send you to another class. Yes, it's normal for teachers to sit among students when they're holding a presentation, it's to make them look at the whole class and not only stare at the teacher on the side. At my school we only had music class in grade 5, 6 and 8 (since we only had one music teacher). We were never forced to sing in front of the class, we got our marks / grades mostly through performing a short song we learned on an instrument and even then we could do it in private. Since we generally don't have AC it's common that schools don't have them as well. My school did have AC but it magically only worked in the office and teachers lounge. If it was too hot in summer we could get "hitzefrei" but the temperature was measured inside the office so of course it was never too hot for school 😉 I've never seen chips to order food at a display in a cafeteria. We only had cards that could be charged with money so it was easier to pay but you still had to get in the infinitely long line and order at the counter.
I went to a gymnasium in NRW and it was completely different as well. Most Importantly, we didn't even have a cafeteria because school would end around 1... But nowadays my old school does have one.
I have English friends, and I talked a bit about schools with them, too, but there was just one word that could not be translated into English. Whenever I tried to say 'Gymnasium' all they thought of is a gym, even adding that it's a special kind of school wasn't enough, "a special kind of gym."
Hey I’m also from Germany 💜 The court is used for all kinds of sports (soccer, basketball, handball and so on) In the cafeteria in my school we had like 5 different menus to choose from. Always something vegetarian as well. One basic meal with just pasta and soße, something with meat and some kind of lasagna or so. And with everything you could get vegetables. Salad was free and you could get as much as you wanted at a little buffet for it. Water (with bubbles and without) was also always free and in the first break you could get milk and chocolate milk free as well. We also had nice plates and utensils. From fort until 7 or 8th great you had to go to the Mensa to eat, after that you could go to the city or so to by something yourself. Running and Leichtathletik ( the jump thing in the video and also throwing a ball as far as possible) were required to do every year so they could to an equal greding system for everyone. But you also had to choose between a few kinds of spots (like soccer,dance, handball,…) to be greded in every half school year. We don’t have extra subjects (cheer,football, choir,…) like you after school hours or at last they are not as popular to go to. English is our second language which we start to learn in second or third grade (I don’t really remember but it’s almost at the beginning of our school life right after we learn how to read and write) and in 7th great depending on which form of ‘Highschool’ you go to, you are required to learn a third language (French,Spanish which are the most popular to learn,or Russian or Italian or sometimes even Chinese or something). We also have something like AP classes, those are to ones in which you graduate you have them more times during the week then the classes you don’t graduate in. German and math used to be a must to graduate in as an AP curse but the pupils that are graduating after next year don’t have that requirement anymore. Also a big difference is that it’s more likely that the students have their “Klassenzimmer’ (class room) in which they stay all throughout the day and the teachers come to them to teach. ( I believe in America it’s the other way around, we’re the teacher steys in one room all day). And also we don’t have all the subjects every day, PE is just once a week and math and other subjects also just twice a week so we don’t have the same lesson plan every day. Hope that was informative and love your reactions 💜
as a kid I dreaded p.e. class. not necessarily because of the physical activity itself, but because I got graded on it. it doesn't matter if I improved my personal record, as long as I didn't hold up to a certain standard I was still failing. it gets pretty frustrating pretty fast.
We never had boys and girls separated at PE. The only "semi-exception" was the "Oberstufe" (the last 3 years) where you could pick a main focus, eg football (soccer), basketball, track and field, etc. The football class was exlusively male and the gymnastics one exclusively female, but that was due to people's preferences. Even swimming was mixed at all times.
About PE class, where I am from (Lower Saxony) we had something called 'Bundesjugendspiele" (federal youth games) and that's the only circumstance I connect with jumping distances, you would also be graded in something like your throwing distances, sprinting time and so on. The grading system is different for both genders and so, usually tracked separately. Every kid will get a badge and a certificate in the end if their total grading is rather bronze, silver or gold. Those gradings will also influence your school grade in PE class. Grading both genders in different ways is very common due to the body differences made by nature, sometimes it's not really fair. I totally agree on the sick or injured people part, if they're still able to walk, they're still able to help haha. Teachers, not all of them are as relaxed as the one in the video, but usually teachers will sit among the students when someone besides them is presenting in front of the class and that's happening a lot. Also, they're grading the presenting skills and have to get the viewpoint of the normal audience. When it comes to singing in front of the class I really feel bad for those students, at my school we had different music classes that you had to choose between (when I went to the Gymnasium). You could rather choose the choir class or the class for learning how to play a wind instrument. Usually only choir kids would get grades for singing and the teacher would normally play the piano for melody reference. Lookwise the classrooms really brings me back to my school days, so yeah that's totally a german Gymnasium. But the cafeteria is so different to the one at my school, it's so small! Back in my school we had two dedicated rooms for the cafeteria with around 14 or more tables where 8 students could sit at. And that's when the huge room is not all open, since it also acted as a theater with a stage and so on. The cafeteria had a range of usual snacks you could buy at a grocery market but also warm meals to buy. Our school had a huge yard for the students to get fresh air and we weren't allowed to stay in the hallways anyways so rather you go into the huge yard or into the cafeteria. We even had teachers patrolling in the hallways and at doors to pretend students to stay in the hallways. So it comes naturally to take a walk outside. Since the Gymnasium is for the 5th to 13th grade there is even a playground for the younger students and table tennis options for everyone to play or sit on. The school system is different from what she explained shortly... So as I know it from here, its regular school (Grundschule) for every kid from 1st to 4th grade, in 3rd and 4th grade you will get a recommendation for the continuing school (Weiterführende Schule), it could be Oberschule (lowest education), Realschule (middle education), Gymnasium (highest education). At Gymnasium you have 13 grades and you make your Abitur (highschool diploma), that's what you can use to go to university. The're many other ways to get into a university, but that's the simple resume. Have a great day~
I hated P.E. class ("Sport") back in school, and even today entering a "Turnhalle" (building for P.E.) makes me feel uncomfortable. 😅 I had mostly As and Bs at school, but always got my only D in P.E. Some kids bullied me, and one particular teacher, Herr Kaschel, mocked me several times in front of everyone (20 years ago). I definitely prefer learning from books, as for most classes you can understand everything in a matter of days or weeks (in principal), whereas P.E. requires months and months of training to be able to run the mile in the demanded time and to jump as far as the books say you should. Hated it..
This red field is a „Hartplatz“. All the different lines and the different Colors stand for different sports. For example, the yellow lines symbolize the soccer field or the blue lines show you where the basketball field is (i think). You have a great grip on this ground and it’s super practical because you can play almost anything on it.
I think there are lots of differences between schools, even in the different Bundesländer (states/regions) because in my school it looks completely different. Also the different Bundesländer have their own plan of what theme students learn in each year
It's common that teacher sit in the middle of the students, especially if like the kids have to do presentstions or something where the teacher doesn't have to talk all the time
You should make a video about German Christmas markets. There is a nice video from DW from 2021. And get some soft ginger bread and mulled wine from Aldi. Those should be quiet authentic.
Most of the teachers take a seat between the students when one student has to have a presentation or somethimg similar. It takes away the fear of talking in front of the class a little bit more and the teacher has a different point of view. In order to be a teacher in musics in germany you need to play at least two instruments. Most of the schools have several instruments, cause teaching how to play is part of the teachers' job. Not every school in germany has a cafeteria. It's more and more common but a lot of schools still haven't a cafeteria.
teaching how to play instruments is part of the job? why don't we learn to play from them then? maybe it's just my school being extra but my music teacher never taught me to play an instrument, we had extra teachers for that who weren't really part of the school.
7:08 yup, definitely. During a presentation, the teacher would usually sit at the student’s table (the one who’s presenting) or some other free table. Usually at the very back so he can see all students and there are none behind them doing things.
You say you would hate to sing in front of a class. That's why some students hate PE class: they hate to perform in front of classmates who are much better. They fear to be looked down on due to their performance, be the last one to be picked for a team because everybody knows they are not fast, cannot throw a ball etc.
Everytime I had to sing or dance infront of the class, I suprisingly got ill. But I played the piano, so my music teacher was fine with it. Grüße an Herr Bitter
The teacher's name just reminds me how funny most of them sound. My class teacher at that time was called "Swan" = "Schwan" or "Unspoiled" = "Unverdorben" and very appropriately the math teacher "Sick" I never liked the math teacher because he dropped a whole class from Realschule to Hauptschule. He threw us some paper on the tables and said: "Do it!" And then he sat down and read his newspaper. Next day there was a test about it. All got bad grades.
Not every school has bad technic etc. . Our school for example has apple tv to connect it with our beamers and everyone has an apple tablet in school...Generelly is our school a little different than that, for example the classrooms are bigger and we have a big big indor sports centrum where you can play soccer, handball, volleyball and basketball and more. In addition to this you can separate it into three smaller sports halls with big and heavy curtains from the roof, that go down with electricty. We also two sport days at our school. One is were everyone has to do different disciplines of sport and the other one is a dodgeball competion with the school rules. Its really cool!
I am a teacher, and I was pleasantly surprised watching my first school performance in Germany. A 10th grader dancing all by himself. He slipped and fell - I held my breath... prepared for his classmates to laugh - buuuut... they didn't. They all stood up, clapped and cheered. It was amazing! He got up and he kept on dancing...
As a german student, I can tell you something about school in Germany. It's in every school I know normal that boys and girls have PE together. Teachers normally sit or stand in front of the class, but sometimes, when a student does a presentation, they sit on a students desk. Many German schools have more than one building so you often have to go outside to go to the canteen. In my school the lunch is very delicious, but in other schools it's terrible. The lunch is cooked by a family from the Philippines. The kids of them also go to our school. In most of the schools in Germany, you order meals with a chip. But not everybody eats in school. It's illegal to leave school but most of the students leave school to buy something in a supermarket during break or go to the town center during lunch-break to eat a "Döner" or if they live next to school they eat at home. An eating chip is the only digital thing in our schools. All rooms in German schools have green blackboard and an overheadprojector. But overheadprojectors only work sometimes. In a few rooms, we also have digital projectors, so if the teacher has a computer, you can use it.
One use plastic utensils are illegal in Germany since July 2021. But even before a school cafeteria wouldn't use them, because students would probably have protested against the unnecessary waste.
to food - some schools have their own cooking team and the quality varies however in general europe has much higher standards there to begin with. other schools dont have their own cooks in house but order catering which is usually very hgh quality as its made by actual chefs at restaurants. As parent i get an email each week with the menu options for the following week and can order for my children what they gonna get to eat next week. theres usually a vegetarian option, a "sweet" option and a "meaty" option
I got to a German middle school and as far as I know there is no separation and there is something called the Sporthalle witch means sport hall it's a big building where we do pe and that court is for soccer/ volleyball you just put the net in the middle when it's volleyball hope it helped
Also in my high school in the cafeteria you could either pay for cooked lunch from a catering company and you could choose between vegetarian or not vegetarian meal but personally I never did that cause most of that food looked kinda nasty. So I usually just brought my own money to buy something from the cafeteria like sandwiches or even macaroni in a coffee cup with different sauces (cheese, tomato, bolognese). But I think that is different depending on the school. The school system works in a way where after 4th grade you choose between Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium. Hauptschule ends after 9th grade and has a quite bad reputation. Realschule ends after 10th grade and Gymnasium used to end after 12th grade but they recently changed it back to 13. Usually you have better chances of getting a job if you finished 12th grade and got the Abitur. The Abitur also is necessary if you want to study at any German University and of course a University degree will give you access to better higher paid jobs. Which is why a lot of students have the mindset of having to finish high school and get the Abitur. In my grade a lot of my mates started studying medicine or law after graduating. I think there are still a lot of flaws in the German school system. A lot of students suffer from mental issues like anxiety, depression or burnout because of the high pressure that is put on them even if it is not on purpose. On top of that from a personal standpoint my grades suffered heavily from being an introvert and not talking much which I think is just not fair. I somehow managed to get through high school but at what cost. Sorry for the long comment. I have been enjoying watching your videos lately and thought I'd share some of my personal knowledge and experience.
The field is just a multifunctional sports field for schools. You can play Tennis, Basketball, Handball and many other sports on them. IT is no official soccer field. As you said. These are bigger. I never had to sing in Front of the class. This is unique. Maybe it is just the teacher.
As a kid who didn't like P.E., let me tell you: grading was solely based on if the teacher likes you and if you are already good at it; if you like Fußball (soccer), basketball and Handball, good for you, bc those are the main sports that will happen, sad if you don't like them, you still have to do them. Upper grades (around highschool) it becomes better bc you can finally pick the sports you wanna do and aren't forced to do the ones you really don't like/hate (I myself was a kid not liking the "main three" mentioned above, so middle school sport classes were a real pain)
In Germany nearly every school is different (for example on my school boys and girls werent seperated in sports). There are also 16 different school plans and kerncirricula.
About being sick/Injured: Depending on the injury or sickness, students at my former high school eather helped the teacher or sat on a bench and watched the others during the lesson. Also at my school boys and girls were separated from class 7 to class 10 in PE. About singing in front of the music class: My music teacher let us choose whichever song we wanted to sing. My aunt is a music teacher too and told me that at her school SHE chooses the song the students have to sing. I loved singing in front of the class though ❤ About going to college after Gymnasium: It’s not like you HAVE TO go to college after graduating from Gymnasium (which is middle and high school combined in Germany), you just have the ABILITY to go to college or university after graduating. I graduated from Gymnasium after my 12th year (which is comparable to senior year at American high school) and started working for 11 months before I got into medical-technical assistant training. About the cafeteria: In most German high schools, the cafeteria is in the same building as the classrooms, this school is one of the exceptions. Also I‘ve never seen this chip technology before but maybe my former Gymnasium is kinda old-fashioned about that 😂 I remember we got a menu plan for a month where we could choose between two warm meals, one cold meal or one out of five different salads. We had to make a tick for each meal we wanted, hand it in a few days before, and our parents had to pay for the meals beforehand. And on each day there was a name list on the counter of the cafeteria, so we had to look for our names and the chosen meal next to the name, then cross it out and tell the cafeteria staff the meal we wanted. Kinda complicated I know 😂
School in Germany actually can be completely different. Like in our town there is a school in a old building but I am on a school with a big sports place (a big grass field, a basketball field, two volleyball fields and so on) and we don't have to sing. The lessons can be fun if the teacher is good
That is an all weather multi purpose court for small court soccer, basket ball, field hockey. Most schools don't have huge premises so you try to make efficient use of the space you have. (And maintenance is much less of a hassle compared to a well-groomed soccer lawn).
In my school boys and girls would get seperated in PE at an certan age, so the girls could have a female teacher and the boys a male one. That was supposed to prevent uncomfortable situations for the students, when the teacher for example has to help you with certain exercises and stuff :)
The court is a soft rubber like field, wich is used as an outdoor sport field. It gets used for every possible sport and theres lids you can open to put in posts for the volleyball net
I don't know if it is common in the US in highschool or college but I've seen like pizza Hut, Burkert king, and more fast food Stalls in school in Amerika. You wouldn't never see something like that here in Germany. When I was in school it was finished around 12-1. And there was a bigger 30 or 45 min break where a little stall was open where the janitor was selling little snacks like rolls with ham and cheese, chocolate milk. Pretzels etc.
Exactly. At my school we also had a small kiosk run by the janitor where you could buy sandwiches and snacks. But there was no cafeteria at all. We just didn't get a warm meal at school
Oh and that "pitch" of field is a Handball field. Handball is not that well known in English Speaking countries, but it is quite big in Europe. It is usually played inside. This isn't quite accurate but you could picture it as a mixture of football/ soccer (as you have to score goals) and basketball (cause you play it with your hands and dribble the ball on the floor when moving with it).
I live in germany and my school was so much different to this in the video! Seems like a whole different world to me 😂. But I also think my school isn't like the typical german school, cause it's a Waldorf school ( don't know if you know waldorf schools but I'm pretty sure there are some in the US)
I would say this is really accurate for lots of schools here - mine is just really different. Also, here’s how I view hating PE: The teachers often do t seem to care if you get hurt during the lesson/are already injured/sick. When in mixed lessons, the boys would yell at the girls for not catching because they’re scared of the damn ball, fight each other, the teachers would always favour the boys and ever appreciate the talents among the girls. I have separate lessons now, and among the girls we’d dance (🤢🤮) and the boys would get to do the cool things like gymnastics at the rings or double bars, simply because males are generally stronger than females, which is untrue in our class. Our teacher always yells at us for not understanding a way to complicated task. She also straight up calls us disappointments literally every lesson. The boys get all the cool teachers there. A few other reasons to dislike PE: if you’re not good at the sport being worked on at the moment, you’ll get in trouble, you’ll get picked last for teams sports, the people will laugh at you. At my school, we often have basketball/volleyball tourneys and when your class does the worst because your teacher is so bad they can’t even teach you the sport properly, it really sucks.
As a german student who hates P.E class: It’s just exhausting (depending on which teacher you have but we always had ones where we had to run a few rounds around the sports ground (I think it’s 400 meters) and that’s just fucking annoying) and the sports you learn are graded so exacting that you don’t have fun at all. The only exception of that is the lessons in between topics where you usually play something but if you have that few competitive boys who always take everything completely serious and never give you the ball because you’re a girl then even those are just useless
In germany, when we do a presentation, we go to the front of the classroom, where the teacher normally stands and the teacher sits down at our chairs. Also the students aren't usually sortet into boys and girls. Also like 50 percent of our music is english and most germans are pretty good at english. We have pianos in every music room and often the students play at them. Not all scools have cafeterias but if they have, the food is often very good. At our school, till 8th grade, the kids only have 6 lessons per day, so school till 1pm and then they get once or twice a week 8 lessons so school till 3:30 pm. But every school is different, many schools have other lesson plans so you can't just go to 1 german school and say ervery school is like that, that's not like it.🙃
8:28 AC is simply unnecessary. It only gets real hot for like 2-3 months here and the hottest periods mostly wall within the six weeks of summer school break so the rest of the time you can just open a window and let a fresh breeze in. If it actually gets too hot, like something around 40°C school usually gets cancelled for that day but that's rarely the case.
2:54 From Norway, and Swedish here. okay, as a kid who didn´t like PE. 1) I am clumsy so I just injured myself. 2) We only did sports I was only decent or bad at, so I never got to show what I could potentially do. 3) It always felt a bit judgy if the things you had to do wasn´t outright a game. So for me, I just felt judged and like a failure for maybe 2 hours, up until I finally got a teacher who took dancing, rugby, and gymnastics as seriously, and as often, as soccer and basketball. So I shot up a grade thanks to the introduction and time given to rugby and gymnastics. At least in Norway, every single PE class was something your teacher would take into account when giving you your grade, so it was never just "Have fun outside". You knew that what you did in that class counted even if it started off with a harmless game. The ones who loved PE were the ones who were good at the sports the teacher would have a lot of and place focus on. Or they were just restless and needed to move. Which is fair. A lot of the students were just neutral about it or didn´t like not having control over what exercises they had to do.
In my German school no one would ever want to sing in front of the class alone. And the teachers would probably understand and also wouldn’t make us do this lmao. In music we usually play instruments only and sometimes sing together. I also wonder if she is in a small town there. Never went to a German school like that one. It looks kinda cozy
That is a pretty small class room. In our school we‘ve got smartboards you can use as boards to write something or as a projector from the top that you can also use with the hand.
Schools and classes are different between each other and of course, time changes. I experienced 2 kind of cafeteria for example... way back (behind the wall during the last 3 years) my parents had to buy meal tickets I kept forgetting to bring with me. Later it was lunch-money. P.E. for me was mostly horror, unless it was playing games, since often it was about strength or endurance which was scored in some way or another... no good as couch-potato. Only a good teacher who was giving points for effort was making that somewhat better but still I seldom got above a less than medicore grading. What the girl mentioned about being able to choose was a life saver. Those classes I did enjoy since I could pick them.. and going swimming every other week during summer or playing soccer was definitely better than sitting in a room or attempting to do well with whatever torture devices were picked for the day. I still say "It is called light athletics for a reason" (literally translated for the "light" since "track and field" misses that component of German "Leichtathletik") Music classes... one of the horrors... only had 1 good year ever in 13 years of school. A teacher in her last year before becoming and official, licenced teacher was responsible while the normal teacher was sitting in the back, watching her, did some CATS-related stuff, cutting out a lot of the usual stuff so less singing and analyzing and working with sheet music.
Well, I go to a sports high school in Germany, which is quite different with the PE lessons; about 3 hours of sports/training every morning and afternoon, including Saturday morning. You have about 4 hours of school per day and lessons up to grade 13. However, it must also be said that swimming is the hardest sport.
My childhood was in the eastern part of Berlin, our music lessons in school were in a special room, equipped with a grand piano and a record player, because we were listening to classical music. For this, there were special editions on records.
Not every German school has this technology at the cafeteria, my school (Gesamtschule) doesn't have that, but 2 years ago we got smart boards. I don't know how German schools are different to American schools, but honestly, we don't do a lot of interesting things, we're mostly learning and it's very very rare that we have something special. We're mostly writing and reading.
In my school boys and girls had PE together. And I personally hated PE, because I always got bad grades. I am overweight, yeah, but even if I put in my best effort, I got bad grades, because it wasn't the effort that was meassured - that counted for nothing! It was the distance you could jump, through, lift, run, etc. So pupils, who were "sporty" to begin with, got good grades, even if they did not put in any effort. In the end I gave up, because putting in effort and getting a bad grade or not putting in any effort resulted in the same grade.
At my school most of this doesn’t exist or is else, but the food is truely good and often enough, but you can also take a second fill I’d say and the second one is free, the fist one cost about three euros. Also we don’t have to go outside to get to the cafeteria. I am one a 'full day' school so i have about nine school hours but two of them break, in which you have multiple options, like AGs (they take one hour and you have to sign up to them in the beginning of the school year, they can be about everything, like gardening, sports(soccer, fighting…) or something creative like painting or whatever. They are only at one day of the week in the first or second hour of the long break), eating in cafeteria, going outside or in the library and you can borrow things from the school to play something outside or billiards inside or table tennis, you can get a kettcar or scooter, anything. Also at my school we have two sports halls and a football field with Racetrack around, or how you call it, and we have many maany sports objects in the halls, i can’t think of something not being there.
1:45 It's a multi-purpose small field. You can play hockey, handball, and 7-man footbal (futsal) on these. And if you split in in half volleyball, badminton, basketball. You can see the baskets in the back half.
Music lessons in my time at school (nearly 40 years past) - we did not SING in front of the class. We learned about notes, read orchestra-note-sheets, learned a lot about musical theory, met a few classic composers (Bach, Mozart) - something we would call General Knowledge. PE - hated it. I am not sportive, never was, never will be. And once I had tortured my teacher with my lack of attitude so much, she asked me why I did not just skip her class. I told her, I did not want to get written up. Presentations. We should have learned more about those, we had to do the odd one and I wasn't good at those. But later in life I developed a knack for them. Nothing of the "just imagine everybody naked" nonsense. Rather a "What would YOU like to hear about this, how would you like to be told, how can I make things less boring"-approach. Which worked! Even people from the last row of seats listened intently to my presentation, because I did not just read a text, I had made handdrawn slides, added a little bit of visual (that was before Powerpoint, we used an overhead projector), cracked a joke etc. It was not difficult for me, but I was VERY nervous, still, as this was a new approach. And it worked so well. Can only recommend that. Always remember, your audience has to mull about the things they hear, allow small breaks for their thoughts.
Our schoolyard had a field for handball (the size of an indoor handball field) and 4 basketball hoops and markings for 2 basketball courts (in a different color) a 75m track, a long jump pit and a place for shot put and disc. Before school started we played "schoolbag soccer" at the entrance to the gym. Your schoolbag was one of seven targets (in a U shape) and you had to try and kick a tennisball into the schoolbag of another kid while defending your own. In classes 1-6 and 11-13 girls and boys were together in PE, in classes 7-10 we were separated.
There isn't a cafeteria in every school. In the schools, where you have 7-8 hours a day, you have an hour to get food outside the school building by yourself. I lived like 10min away from that one school, and I was able to have a warm meal between 6th and 7th class at home, where others had to buy something in the nearby shopping center.
I am from Austria, i really liked my Volksschule and Privat new middle school in sacré Coeur Pressbaum. It's a school you have to pay obviously. Anyway. I really liked Chemistry and Music. Because one time wie played thunder from imagine dragons and i was allowed with the boys to spit fire. Yes we took both chemistry and musik together to do this amazing show. And the nice part is it was mostly the idea from the chemistry teacher. I loved her, she was really fun and showed us so many cool stuff. One time we turned 10 cent to, i think, Silver. Boy i could tell many more stories, fuck i loved it. Ps:i love your reaction videos, i found you today
we just call it sports class. was pretty fun always doing something physically. at one point I had a sports teacher who used to be german champion in shot-put.
1:53the court has lines for all kinds of sports and track and field events. The goals may be be for field hockey, or yes, small field soccer/football as well. Notice there are also baskets on the sides. This is really a multi purpose field.
In my school in germany we have a more modern furnishing, we have smartboards in the classrooms and specialy dadecaded rooms for chemistry, biology, geography and physics and these rooms exepct physics are in the (NAWi-Trakt). We also have a school orchestra.
In germany we have 3 types of Highschools (Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium) and in the last years a new type came and wants to combine the 3. Also many in germany think that our school system sucks and it does
I think EVERY school system sucks - there are just not enough hours in the day to teach all that needs to be known, you have to decide what you (as a government) think of as priorities - and let your money go there. Not everybody will like that. BUT - one my bugbears with the American school system is this "students have to be yay-sayers"-attitude. A student should not be punished for correcting a teacher when the facts are ON THE STUDENTS' side! A student should learn to respectfully disagree with a person of authority. A student should not just parrot a teacher, but be able to think themselves, weigh arguments, learn to take in information, see both sides - to make a well informed decision.
Grundschule - Elementary school (average age 6-10 yo) Mittelstufe - Mixture of Middle- and Highschool (average age 10-15/16/17) Oberstufe - College (average 15/16/17-18/19/20) There are three kinds of graduation. 1. Hauptschulabschluss Being in school for 8 years 2. Realschulabschluss Being in school for 9 years (you can directly change after this graduation to the 3rd) 3. Abitur/Gymnasialabschluss Being in school for 12/13 years (allows you to get to university) There are much differences between schools, also because of their area, but it is really difficult and complex to understand for a foreign. 😅
I don’t know any school in Germany where girls and boys are divided in PE. Overall it felt more like a private school (kinda uncommon here in Germany) with that and the small classes. I think 25-30 is more of a usual size
PE in Germany has students study all kinds of sports for a time, so everyone gets to try different sports throughout their school years. Of course most people won't be really successful in *all* of them you get at least to try many different things out while you're in school (and maybe sign up for it if you like it). And yes, it is the same in Germany that for many students PE is the class they remember hating because it is loaded with so much pressure: In other classes if you're not good at it you can just stay quiet for most of the time, keep your grades in exams to yourself. Your failure is not necessarily so public. But in PE you need to go do the whichever is being graded in front of everyone. Every single one of your peers can watch you failing, those who are good even more so because they need to focus on their own progress even less in order to get a good grade. I only had one teacher in those 12 years who would acknowledge that and tell us that he would not be grading the end result (as in how well we'd perform the exercise) but our progress and our dedication. He said if he'd see us try to improve, try to apply the technique and not give up, try to get ahead, that was what his class is about, that would make good grades.
We don't have AC in the scool, so in the summer and it get really hot we have "Hitze Frei" it means "heat free" when the temperture goes over a 37 degree celsius
The lack of AC in German schools and also the bad equipment standard in schools is actually a problem. In winter you have to sit there with your jacked or you would freeze to death, and in sommer you can't concentrate because it's so hot. (atleast in some schools)
When I usedto go to school , that`s now thirty-six years ago, boys and girls were always taught together in all subjects. In the summer , sport was always done outside. Then there were often training sessions such sprint, run, jump, shot trow, etc. instead. The boys always had to do longer times than the girls. What i didn`t like at all about my home economics school was, when you had to do sports for ninety minutes and then sew for another ninety minutes . It would have been better the other way around.☺💞
This is a multi-purpose sports-court, possibly belonging to the school campus, where - weather permitted - PE class would take place. As track-and-field is only done outdoors (at least in schools), you'd have to venture outside for it. So, long-jump is done there as you can see. The sports-ground shown there can be used for soccer, handball, basketball, perhaps hockey and volleyball as well. However, most of PE classes probably will be held indoors in the school's gymnasium.
Sports - boys and girls separation is dependent on school. In my primary school we weren't separated. In middle school/high school we were separated grade 7-10 and after 11-13 it was again together which was more fun since most girls aren't that good in sports. Parts of PE are jumping, throwing, running (sprint and doing laps) - every year there is a sports festival kinda like small Olympics for that; but we also had loads of team sports like basket ball, soccer, hand ball and gymnastics (learning to roll, handstand, doing a pull over on the bar) as well. In grade 11 -13 in my school we had to choose sports to join, which was our PE - so they had volley ball, badminton, swimming, track, etc. Music - you don't need to sing like that in every school. We would usually all read music sheets and get to try out different instruments that are easy to play on with simple melody, sing different types of songs together, listening comprehension (recognizing instruments in classical songs and culture education). Grading in our school was more about the theoretical stuff in music (with sometimes listening to music and answering questions - like what kinda rythm was that etc.) and how well you would take part in the lessons.
When I went to High School in School Exchange, they had a TV in every Room and they watched some Kind of News every Morning. And they had a Pencil Sharpener installed on the Wall. That was wired to mee :D
I never hated PE during my schoolyears. I think partly bc I was seemingly always lucky with the teachers and got the ones whos motto was: "do your best, I dont judge. all people are diffrent." on the other hand i was quite good at sports and always in the top 5 students, exept for Football. But i heard real horror stories from other teachers like yelling at students who are just not as good or physically simply unable to perfom really any kind of Physical activity. TLDR: I was lucky with the teachers i got, but heard horror stories from other students
The lines on the court of the beginning hints that it is an outdoor handball court. Handball is even less known/popular in the U.S. but in the rest of the world it is really popular. Fun to watch. I would recommend watching a best of handball clip sometime in the future. It is fast, hard and brutal 🙂
The part where he thought it was such a special thing that someone sang an american song😂 I mean it‘s a shawn mendes song which was all over the radio for idk how long… And usually we dont get graded for singing in front of the class(coming from someone who has musik as an „LK“ which is like i‘m a musik major but in high school)
11:38 „everybody is in black“ at my school it is asked to wear all black if you take theatre ( we call it „DS“ wich stands for „Darstellendes Spiel“ which one could translate too „depicturing arts“ but the words itself mean “Display Game”)
in our PE class boys and girls weren't seperated but given different rating systems for the same sport. The last thing we did in PE was running 3 kilometers. Boys had to run it in something around 12-13mins or so for an A+ and girls were given something like 14:15mins for an A+
So i go to a high school specified on economics and cooking and there the students cook and serve in the cafeteria for other students and teachers. It’s always soup and main dish or main dish and dessert
It's basically a multifunctional court. PE covers all kind of sports, hence the places are created so that you can do as many as possible on them. Hence the floor is hard, so that you can also do sports which require one, while with soccer, a soft ground is preferable but not needed.
9:51 We don't have that. And yes, technology is a bit behind in schools often. We got smartboards this year and they should not be damaged from us kids, but one of my teachers said that she was unsure if they will survive the rage attacks of the teachers. Because most of the times they don't work properly lol
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As a german who went to 6 different schools, i can say that this is pretty accurate for some schools, but there are differences between the schools, and even at the same school, the lessons can be very different with different teachers
Ja vorallem mit Lehrern die einfach nur ein Pack Blätter geben ahhahahaa
Ja, das ist echt scheiße
Es ist einfach die Wahrheit
Kenne ich irgendwie. ich hatte was weiß ich wie viele sportlehrer und das lustige, der einzige der sport studiert hatte war der der am schlechtesten war
I know somehow. i had, i don't know how many pa teacher i got, but that on from them who studied sport was the worst
@@Iskarot1435 ja, aber ich glaub für sport ist es nicht so wichtig ob man das studiert hat, ich hab grad nen Physiklehrer der kein Physik studiert hat und mir mal erzählt hat dass er früher ne 5 in physik hatte, das ist dann halt scheiße
As a German teacher of English who graded lots of presentations about London this morning, I can confirm that teachers here sometimes take a student's seat to become a member of the audience and listen to the students.
Be aware of this: You don’t use students when talking about kids. Students are only people who study at an university and and PUPILS are school kids attending primary or secondary school.
@@s.h.5720 There might be a difference between AE and BE here. I'm fairly certain the word "students" is used for most school and university attendees of any age in the US these days, while Brits still make a distinction between the two. As I was talking about presentations about London, maybe "pupils" would have been more fitting...
@@s.h.5720 pupils best to my knowledge is a BE term only ... don't think that its at all common at the US (I might be wrong of course).
At least in my school, there was no separation between boys and girls, only the grading was different. Also, the court looks like an "All-in-one", can probably be used for soccer, handball, basketball and more, even though it has the official size for none of those.
same here
it is. that's usually what courts look like in european gym classes. they have the lines for all the different sports. that way, regardless of what's being played that day in class, they can use the same court, instead of constantly changing courts or needing to make lines every time
For us most of the time it was ether all the boys or all the girls first and that the others, just to make the grading a little easier for the teacher, but aside from that, tere was no real separation of boys and girls in PE
we had a seperation i think from class 7 to 11. In the last year we got sports together again and the first thing we did was wrestling
It is a all in one but the layout is the layout for floorball (Unihockey in german). In german, swiss and austrian schools they play sometimes floorball. And the layout is almost universal
Trust me, if you're a shy kid who doesn't like sports or who was scared of many things like climbing or getting a ball thrown at you in elementary school and you go to PE and get yelled at by the boys when you don't catch a ball, picked last when the students choose the teams and then people are disappointed when you're in their team - it's pretty damn easy to hate PE. Also many PE teachers are brutal, they don't care if you're sick or hurt and if you're trying hard but not succeeding they call you lazy. As someone who hated school in general but was good at it, PE always ruined my good grades and felt super humiliating, because everyone would watch you fail and some people made fun of you (at least you could hide it when you're bad in other subjects). And ofc I was never in the mood to run through parks in the cold on a school day when I haven't eaten yet, barely slept, had a test I didn't study for enough after PE and with the only motivation of not getting the worst grade for running. Yeah I'm so glad I'm out of school, PE was like hell.
Couldn’t agree more. I hated it. I preferred math and science. It took me about ten years after school to find out that sport could actually be fun.
yeah. I love sport and am pretty good at most of em, but i relate. PE was shit. Teachers were so incompetent and mean to the not so sporty ESPECIALLY Women.
And let's not start about having your period in PE... however you felt you had to participate. that gone so far that i once literally passed out because i did sport with my period. The teacher didnt even care and thought i lied even though all the other students saw it. AND even though i always did my best and never forgot my clothes or didnt want to participate or lied to be sick.
Oh, I can relate. I'm extremely bad at sports, even if I try. Today in PE, a basketball fell on my head and when throwing the ball, I missed it more than I chaught them.
So you are not the only one to hate PE
(Sorry for my english)
Exactly my thought. Ususally the worst (at least in Germany IMHO) tend to be football/soccer (or any team sport in general). it was rare, if youd hatnot at least a handfull of other students who were in a soccer team and would become extremly competetive and angry with anyone in their team who didn't play as good as someone in their regular team. So as someone who didn't liked sport and/or wasn't good at it, that could easily be like hell, every single time.
My highschool was nothing like that 😆 We were much more people (30) in a big classroom. We didn't have gender separated PE classes. We didn't have to sing alone in front of the class (thank goodness). I guess schools can be very different in Germany.
Im from Germany and we have 3 types of Highschool so the things you hear can be very different
I guess that school is some expensive high-class private school. They are nothing like the public schools - smaller classes, much better equipment, the teachers are supposed to be better (dunno if it's true). The school that I attended was by no means comparable. Also seperation of boys and girls is very unsual in state-run schools.
She's probably from one of those stereotypical "crazy rich" Asian families that send their kids abroad for school education. They can afford to pay tuition for such schools. Most people cannot.
@@denisb6718 I'm from Germany and went to 4 different schools there and I can tell you that the school in the girl's video wasn't a private school. The equipment and class rooms looked very average for a state run school. I've been to a private school in Germany before and they look very different to her school. Most public schools in Germany don't even use chalkboards anymore so I would say that her school looked rather poorly equipped. It's probably just a small school because in bigger cities most schools have at least 30 students.
@@denisb6718 no, in good states like Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg, this is normal. In failed states like Berlin, Bremen etc ofc not
If you're in a "music class," you may find yourself auditioning alone or playing an instrument. Some schools also have other “specialized” classes. The students then often have 2-4 lessons extra for this special subject.
German high school is a lot harder than US high school. I had never seen a multiple choice or true-or-false question on a test before going to school in America. In Germany it was always short essay, come up with your own answer type things. No 25 or 50% chance to guess right.
Also, we don´t have varsity sports, stuff like that has to be done privately after school at a sports club. German schools also lack the American "school spirit". No pep ralleyes, no home coming, no prom as such (although the Abi-Ball does become more and more similar to prom). There are also no sports scholarships for university. You either have the grades to make it or you don´t.
there are scholarships in germany, yet we dont have any people on look out for talents, you have to send a request or in my friends case the teacher did, then you get evaluated seperately if you are good enough
if you are in a team after school it is more propably to get scouted than in school
So true. Being an exchange student felt like a one-year vacation.
i think that school in the usa is generally not really hard, most exchange students i know were excellent students in serbia, went to the usa for a year and, in their words, it felt like a long break from school. when it's time to come back, you have to do a test to be able to come back to school, and all of them were on the brink of failing and having to just not go to school for a year / be transferred to a bad school. according to them, what they taught in 2nd and 3rd year of highschool in the usa was stuff that we did the previous years, and most of the studying they were doing was for the test to get back to school over here. they pretty much just enjoyed themselves in the us instead of focusing on studies as they have intended to before going.
@@ukrivu
Oh yeah! I was a senior at a high school in Western New York. I really sucked at math in Germany, but I was put into one of the more advanced math classes. Honestly, some of the stuff was a repeat from fifth and sixth grade.
We had multiple choice Tests in math classes from 7-10th grade in germany.
Our math/astronomics teacher was super chill and I loved her lessons.. Yes, I loved Math during 7-10th grade and I also loved her Astronomy lessons.
10/10 I would definitely do another 10th grade with all my teachers back then. It was so much fun compared to A-Levels or other stuff
As someone who didn't like PE: It's so competitive! I could never be good enough in anything. I am not good in sports and what ever I did just felt like people are watching me and make fun of me. In class you can just sit silently on your place and be invisible, that's what I prefered
I totally agree! Actually, I've always liked to exercise and to be outside. BUT: Everybody in my class was better than me, at everything. So when teams were elected for team sports, I was always elected last, like: always. Other students would make fun of me, some teachers would also make fun of me. I started to hate the entire class, sometimes I would hide in the toilets for 45 minutes.
Same here
no need to be good at sport, its just healthier and more fun than sitting
Same i also prefer to sit in class silently😶 fun fact: thats what im doing rn🙃😅
Same here, for me PE was very demotivating because of the unfair grading system and being the last person voted into a team e.g. for "Völkerball"
About the teacher sitting among students... I'm a teacher myself and I always sit among students when there is someone presenting something. First of all, the view is much better, and secondly I can also tell if they spoke loud and clear enough for students in the back of the room to hear.
Gymnasium is from age 10 to about 18, so the last two years in a gymnasium are equal to American college, it's where you are prepared to enter universities and study whatever you are interested in. You are getting a very wide spectrum of knowledge at a gymnasium, as in order to get your degree (Abitur) you have to do German, maths, at least one foreign language, arts, sports, natural sciences, history, geography and religion oder ethics classes.
Older students tend to wear black clothes, colors are for kids ;)
Da hat sich ein kleines "oder" eingeschlichen ;D
I'm pretty sure you need two foreign lagnuages for abitur. The second at least in some basic degree. My wife has russian and english while I went to evening school and had to pick between french and latin, besides english...
@@2kReels i think english is kinda set as standard and then one additional foreign language
@@2kReels I could pick up to three languages (English and a 2nd was mandatory, the 3rd optional) over the years, but I actually just had to take an exam in one of them (Prüfung). But, to do so, I had to do an aditional science exam. It may differ from state to state in Germany. (I had to do 5 exams, 4 written, 1 oral. I did German, which was mandatory, and math, also mandatory, physics and English. Oral was history. - that was in Saxony Anhalt a fw years back.)
@@2kReels yeah, maybe depending on the Bundesland? ^^
But back in NRW in early 2000s we had to pick two. Everyone had english, but then it dependet, also you didn't need to go full out with the second language. I had latin until only the 10th class which was "good enough" for the abitur. But people who joined in from the Realschule and only had english, but didnt chose a second language before, now had to learn french (as this was the only available language besides english at that school, but spanish was also common)
By the way for many students in Germany it's not even very common to eat lunch at school. We have class from 8 am to 1 pm with 2 breaks in between the classes. After that we can go home, eat lunch, do our homework and enjoy our free time. However, there are extracurricular options in the afternoon, like singing in a choir, playing in a band/orchestra, sports clubs, chess, languages. The options vary from school to school. So if you signed up for one of these, of course you can have lunch at school.
Older students at Gymnasium in 11th and 12th grade usually have lessons between 9 am and 5 pm. Their schedule comes much closer to how a uni schedule would look like, as they can choose a specific course combination for their final Abitur exams at the end of 12th class. So sometimes I would only have one class from 9 am to 10.30 am, then go home and drive back for the class from 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm..
when i was in 8th grade we had school from 8:30 am to 4pm (not even omce 1pm) and i have always eaten lunch at school since 1rst grade) :)
Not only did I dislike PE class... I hated it. One reason, I was so lazy during my teen years... But also it was always a mess. The teachers treated the fit students much better and one time we even had a teacher yelling at a boy that was an the brink of collapsing after a run we had to do. It was more like being in the first part of "Full Metal Jacket" than being in school.
After graduating from school I started hitting the gym and found that sport can be fun, if you are not constantly shamed and yelled at ✌
Unsere Aufgabe war es, den Basketball hin und herzuwerfen. Der Lehrer pfeifft, wir sollen zu ihm kommen und ich drehe mich um. Mein Freund hat aber bereits den Ball geworfen, so dass ich am Kopf getroffen werde. Lehrer kommt und gibt mir 'nen Anschiss weil ich nicht aufgepasst habe... XD
@@aramisortsbottcher8201 ☝☝
I was always talking with someone when I was supposed to catch balls when we played soccer in school, later they didn't bother me with that anymore, I was just denying to play that, I wanted to do some gymnastics, climb or something, that was fun for me, but constantly playing soccer all the time every day, I hated it, floorball was better, but still annoying after so many years in school.
PE makes children hate sport instead of making them like it. So the most people stay with "i hate sport" attitude until they die because they don't even search for a type of sport they like, because of PE.
@@wafflehussle Could not agree more 👍
Hey Ryan. Its difficult to understand but german school are ALL different. 😅
In our school for example boys and girls do sports together
Ty for the video!
i mean yea, its very complex. Each state has its own school system and in each school system there are more than 6 school forms (Förderschule/Sonderschule, Hauptschule, Sekundarschule, Realschule, Gesamtschule, Gymnasium and you can possibly even count private schools since they often do it also very differently)
@@cantinadudes ye… Im at a Gesamtschule and its really nice but to explain to others its… 😂
EVERYTHING is different. We can talk to our teachers with their prename and „dutzen“. Also we dont sit at two-man tables, we have tablegroups with 6 students on one tablegroup. And there are a lot of different things… 😅
Belguim here, i dont think i ever heard of a school were boys and girls sport separately.. weird :-). Perhaps handy however
@@JeroenJA Ye, but i think it is usual in some regions.
Hey Ryan,
it‘s a handball court. Handball is most likely the second or third most popular team sport in Germany after football/soccer. You as a sports guy should definetely check it out!! It‘s more physical than football and super fast. There are even some American youtube videos about handball!
Fun fact: Although football/soccer is by far the most important professional team sports from a commercial point of view, there seem to be already even more amateur handball players (and volleyball players as well) out there in Germany than amateur football players.
P.S.: I did mix something up here, but I won't change my comment. See below, what I did wrong.
@@ReisskIaue i dont think so
@@Sin_VAL Thank you, you are right I looked up and found out mixed something up.
Truth is: Football only is on rank 8 of sports regularly done by German adults. But the prior sports are (from top to bottom) swimming, cycling, running, hiking, fitness, skittles/bowling, gymnastics. So at least it is the first place pure teams sports (all of the other ones you can do on an individual basis for football you do need a team).
here in Czechia, the most popular sport in schools is probably floorball for some reason, all schools have tools for that and it was always more fun for me than soccer which I hated
At my school there was no seperation between girls and boys in PE in school in general but we ended often in just boy or girl classes by the profiles we choose. The court should be a small football court. The nice thing abozt football is to play it you dont need more than 4 stones to mark the goal. Size doesnt matter so much. But also such courts mostly have basketvall hoops too or lines for other sports on the ground so you can play the sport you want.
We never had to sing infront of class. We had to play the flute and sang as a group.
When i was in school there wasnt any seperation in pe class but often we could choose what we wanted to do. So normally all the boys wanted to play football while the girls doing more the track and field or gymnastic stuff. Maybe that happen in her class too. cause it looked like they all still in 1 class together but just doing different sports.
I hate German PE because it's just demotivating. It doesn't matter how hard you try. This just leads to someone like me, who just gets bad grades all the time. It's not like I don't like sports, I just don't like PE. Because it feels like no matter how hard I try, I'm never good enough. It just makes you not want to try something new, as you know you will never be enough.
We once had to go through multiple stations with differen task, I did all besides push-ups, yet the teacher said I need to do them aswell to get the next better grade, so I struggeld to do them (I am really bad at it) and half the class is watching... PE can really be fun, but really embarrassing aswell...
I fully agree. Bundesjugendspiele for example are terrible. I did actively train in 7th grade, 9th grade or something, and improved a lot, but it still wasn't good enough to pass according to the official lists.
Sadly this is the truth. Most teachers will say that they reward your effort and how much you improved throughout the year, but in the end they don't...
As a boy, unless you're the German champion with multiple gold medals, you will never get anything better than B or C - no matter how hard you try.
As a girl, you'll get a B just for breathing...
So in the end, neither the boys nor the girls have any motivation.
@@andyx6827 They trained breathing their whole life, it's only fair they get a B for it XD
@@andyx6827 Honestly, it also depends what topic they have to do. When we had to play soccer/football, the boys were way better than the girls, since most of them played it outside of school.
The grade correlates between the person's strengths and what they're being tested on, so f.ex. choosing your preferred topics in PE during your Abi can be very helpful.
It’s insane how different schools are here. I‘m in 13th grade here in Germany and we always have pe all together. Boys and girls are in one class. We got to choose a pe profile in grade 11 so I only have badminton and fitness at the moment. The last time we had to do this kind of stuff in pe with the jumping was like 5 years ago. I think only middle schoolers do that. And in music class we never had to sing in front of others. We sometimes sing together as a class but not often
Same, I’m from North Rhine Wesphalia and pe isn’t separated
from a 12th grader in Northern Germany (sh) we do have to do the jumping and running, but we do have PE with boys and girls together, it's just graded differently.
No idea, if it has been said in the comments, but PE is mandatory in all grades of the German school system. Even in the higher grades. In the highest grades of the "Gymnasium" you can vote to take exams in addition to the grading of the physical activities. I hated PE, BTW. Was always my worst subject and took the exams to improve my grade. I remember getting "lippy" with my PE teacher once, and I never was rude to teachers - When he wanted to flunk me for the jumping you saw in the video. I was required to jump 2.4 meters at age 16 to get a passing grade. And I straight out asked him when I would ever need that skill in life
No, not in every school. There's no PE in 11th grade of Fachoberschule. But you're only at school half the time, the other half is spent at an internship :)
Also, you were surprised that German kids would sing in English, but a lot of pop culture from America is super popular over here (speaking as someone from the Netherlands, but I suppose it's the same with our neighbors :P). So if you want to sing a popular song, it's probably an English song.
English language songs sound much cooler anyway ... When I was a teenager (🦖- in a time long, long ago 😁) we had the last of the 70 Schlager stars still around, making music (those of you who know, let me mention GITTE), even most of the new German wave (Neue Deutsche Welle) was not cool, there was the odd exception, of course. But yeah, we mainly listened to UK and US music, too.
@@franhunne8929 there's good German music. I like Rammstein and Kraftwerk a lot. Falco is cool as well (not German but Austrian but oh well). But those aren't really songs you can sing in music class.
Fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der autobahn...
Lol we sing in English?
That‘s new to me
@Roozyi Well.. many of these english songs actually are european.. and very often not even from an english speaking country.
@@pok81 True, a lot of Dutch bands make music in English as well.
importent to know is that in germany SCHOOL is in the hand of the state not the country. so imagine just america 50 states 50 different systems who in the end try to give them the same education ... its VERY different from state to state and also school to school
Bildung ist länder sache ist also von Bundesland zu Bundesland unterschiedlich nur das es einen gewissen Standard gibt
I live in NRW and went to a Gesamtschule so everything was completely different compared to what she's showing here at a Gymnasium. Boys and girls weren't seperated in P.E. and we only did track and field when we had a sports festival from grade 5 to 7 where each class competes against each other. You didn't always had to help the teacher if you were sick / injured, depending on which teacher you had or what mood they were in, they would also just make you sit on the bench and maybe even copy some pages of a sports book, or send you to another class.
Yes, it's normal for teachers to sit among students when they're holding a presentation, it's to make them look at the whole class and not only stare at the teacher on the side.
At my school we only had music class in grade 5, 6 and 8 (since we only had one music teacher). We were never forced to sing in front of the class, we got our marks / grades mostly through performing a short song we learned on an instrument and even then we could do it in private.
Since we generally don't have AC it's common that schools don't have them as well. My school did have AC but it magically only worked in the office and teachers lounge. If it was too hot in summer we could get "hitzefrei" but the temperature was measured inside the office so of course it was never too hot for school 😉
I've never seen chips to order food at a display in a cafeteria. We only had cards that could be charged with money so it was easier to pay but you still had to get in the infinitely long line and order at the counter.
In other Gymnasien, it can be different too. Schools are different
I agree in every point and I am from NRW aswell 😉
I went to a gymnasium in NRW and it was completely different as well. Most Importantly, we didn't even have a cafeteria because school would end around 1... But nowadays my old school does have one.
I have English friends, and I talked a bit about schools with them, too, but there was just one word that could not be translated into English.
Whenever I tried to say 'Gymnasium' all they thought of is a gym, even adding that it's a special kind of school wasn't enough, "a special kind of gym."
Hey I’m also from Germany 💜
The court is used for all kinds of sports (soccer, basketball, handball and so on)
In the cafeteria in my school we had like 5 different menus to choose from. Always something vegetarian as well. One basic meal with just pasta and soße, something with meat and some kind of lasagna or so. And with everything you could get vegetables. Salad was free and you could get as much as you wanted at a little buffet for it. Water (with bubbles and without) was also always free and in the first break you could get milk and chocolate milk free as well.
We also had nice plates and utensils.
From fort until 7 or 8th great you had to go to the Mensa to eat, after that you could go to the city or so to by something yourself.
Running and Leichtathletik ( the jump thing in the video and also throwing a ball as far as possible) were required to do every year so they could to an equal greding system for everyone. But you also had to choose between a few kinds of spots (like soccer,dance, handball,…) to be greded in every half school year.
We don’t have extra subjects (cheer,football, choir,…) like you after school hours or at last they are not as popular to go to.
English is our second language which we start to learn in second or third grade (I don’t really remember but it’s almost at the beginning of our school life right after we learn how to read and write) and in 7th great depending on which form of ‘Highschool’ you go to, you are required to learn a third language (French,Spanish which are the most popular to learn,or Russian or Italian or sometimes even Chinese or something).
We also have something like AP classes, those are to ones in which you graduate you have them more times during the week then the classes you don’t graduate in. German and math used to be a must to graduate in as an AP curse but the pupils that are graduating after next year don’t have that requirement anymore.
Also a big difference is that it’s more likely that the students have their “Klassenzimmer’ (class room) in which they stay all throughout the day and the teachers come to them to teach. ( I believe in America it’s the other way around, we’re the teacher steys in one room all day).
And also we don’t have all the subjects every day, PE is just once a week and math and other subjects also just twice a week so we don’t have the same lesson plan every day.
Hope that was informative and love your reactions 💜
as a kid I dreaded p.e. class. not necessarily because of the physical activity itself, but because I got graded on it. it doesn't matter if I improved my personal record, as long as I didn't hold up to a certain standard I was still failing. it gets pretty frustrating pretty fast.
We never had boys and girls separated at PE. The only "semi-exception" was the "Oberstufe" (the last 3 years) where you could pick a main focus, eg football (soccer), basketball, track and field, etc. The football class was exlusively male and the gymnastics one exclusively female, but that was due to people's preferences. Even swimming was mixed at all times.
About PE class, where I am from (Lower Saxony) we had something called 'Bundesjugendspiele" (federal youth games) and that's the only circumstance I connect with jumping distances, you would also be graded in something like your throwing distances, sprinting time and so on. The grading system is different for both genders and so, usually tracked separately. Every kid will get a badge and a certificate in the end if their total grading is rather bronze, silver or gold. Those gradings will also influence your school grade in PE class. Grading both genders in different ways is very common due to the body differences made by nature, sometimes it's not really fair. I totally agree on the sick or injured people part, if they're still able to walk, they're still able to help haha.
Teachers, not all of them are as relaxed as the one in the video, but usually teachers will sit among the students when someone besides them is presenting in front of the class and that's happening a lot. Also, they're grading the presenting skills and have to get the viewpoint of the normal audience. When it comes to singing in front of the class I really feel bad for those students, at my school we had different music classes that you had to choose between (when I went to the Gymnasium). You could rather choose the choir class or the class for learning how to play a wind instrument. Usually only choir kids would get grades for singing and the teacher would normally play the piano for melody reference.
Lookwise the classrooms really brings me back to my school days, so yeah that's totally a german Gymnasium. But the cafeteria is so different to the one at my school, it's so small! Back in my school we had two dedicated rooms for the cafeteria with around 14 or more tables where 8 students could sit at. And that's when the huge room is not all open, since it also acted as a theater with a stage and so on. The cafeteria had a range of usual snacks you could buy at a grocery market but also warm meals to buy. Our school had a huge yard for the students to get fresh air and we weren't allowed to stay in the hallways anyways so rather you go into the huge yard or into the cafeteria. We even had teachers patrolling in the hallways and at doors to pretend students to stay in the hallways. So it comes naturally to take a walk outside. Since the Gymnasium is for the 5th to 13th grade there is even a playground for the younger students and table tennis options for everyone to play or sit on.
The school system is different from what she explained shortly... So as I know it from here, its regular school (Grundschule) for every kid from 1st to 4th grade, in 3rd and 4th grade you will get a recommendation for the continuing school (Weiterführende Schule), it could be Oberschule (lowest education), Realschule (middle education), Gymnasium (highest education). At Gymnasium you have 13 grades and you make your Abitur (highschool diploma), that's what you can use to go to university. The're many other ways to get into a university, but that's the simple resume.
Have a great day~
I hated P.E. class ("Sport") back in school, and even today entering a "Turnhalle" (building for P.E.) makes me feel uncomfortable. 😅 I had mostly As and Bs at school, but always got my only D in P.E. Some kids bullied me, and one particular teacher, Herr Kaschel, mocked me several times in front of everyone (20 years ago). I definitely prefer learning from books, as for most classes you can understand everything in a matter of days or weeks (in principal), whereas P.E. requires months and months of training to be able to run the mile in the demanded time and to jump as far as the books say you should. Hated it..
This red field is a „Hartplatz“. All the different lines and the different Colors stand for different sports. For example, the yellow lines symbolize the soccer field or the blue lines show you where the basketball field is (i think). You have a great grip on this ground and it’s super practical because you can play almost anything on it.
I think there are lots of differences between schools, even in the different Bundesländer (states/regions) because in my school it looks completely different. Also the different Bundesländer have their own plan of what theme students learn in each year
It's common that teacher sit in the middle of the students, especially if like the kids have to do presentstions or something where the teacher doesn't have to talk all the time
You should make a video about German Christmas markets. There is a nice video from DW from 2021. And get some soft ginger bread and mulled wine from Aldi. Those should be quiet authentic.
Agreed.
I was just thinking this.👍
Most of the teachers take a seat between the students when one student has to have a presentation or somethimg similar. It takes away the fear of talking in front of the class a little bit more and the teacher has a different point of view. In order to be a teacher in musics in germany you need to play at least two instruments. Most of the schools have several instruments, cause teaching how to play is part of the teachers' job. Not every school in germany has a cafeteria. It's more and more common but a lot of schools still haven't a cafeteria.
teaching how to play instruments is part of the job?
why don't we learn to play from them then?
maybe it's just my school being extra but my music teacher never taught me to play an instrument, we had extra teachers for that who weren't really part of the school.
7:08 yup, definitely. During a presentation, the teacher would usually sit at the student’s table (the one who’s presenting) or some other free table. Usually at the very back so he can see all students and there are none behind them doing things.
You say you would hate to sing in front of a class. That's why some students hate PE class: they hate to perform in front of classmates who are much better. They fear to be looked down on due to their performance, be the last one to be picked for a team because everybody knows they are not fast, cannot throw a ball etc.
im from germany and i didnt even know thats there are still schools that have boys and girls saperated
Everytime I had to sing or dance infront of the class, I suprisingly got ill. But I played the piano, so my music teacher was fine with it. Grüße an Herr Bitter
The teacher's name just reminds me how funny most of them sound. My class teacher at that time was called "Swan" = "Schwan" or "Unspoiled" = "Unverdorben" and very appropriately the math teacher "Sick" I never liked the math teacher because he dropped a whole class from Realschule to Hauptschule. He threw us some paper on the tables and said: "Do it!" And then he sat down and read his newspaper. Next day there was a test about it. All got bad grades.
Not every school has bad technic etc. . Our school for example has apple tv to connect it with our beamers and everyone has an apple tablet in school...Generelly is our school a little different than that, for example the classrooms are bigger and we have a big big indor sports centrum where you can play soccer, handball, volleyball and basketball and more. In addition to this you can separate it into three smaller sports halls with big and heavy curtains from the roof, that go down with electricty. We also two sport days at our school. One is were everyone has to do different disciplines of sport and the other one is a dodgeball competion with the school rules. Its really cool!
I am a teacher, and I was pleasantly surprised watching my first school performance in Germany. A 10th grader dancing all by himself. He slipped and fell - I held my breath... prepared for his classmates to laugh - buuuut... they didn't. They all stood up, clapped and cheered. It was amazing! He got up and he kept on dancing...
As a german student, I can tell you something about school in Germany. It's in every school I know normal that boys and girls have PE together. Teachers normally sit or stand in front of the class, but sometimes, when a student does a presentation, they sit on a students desk. Many German schools have more than one building so you often have to go outside to go to the canteen. In my school the lunch is very delicious, but in other schools it's terrible. The lunch is cooked by a family from the Philippines. The kids of them also go to our school. In most of the schools in Germany, you order meals with a chip. But not everybody eats in school. It's illegal to leave school but most of the students leave school to buy something in a supermarket during break or go to the town center during lunch-break to eat a "Döner" or if they live next to school they eat at home. An eating chip is the only digital thing in our schools. All rooms in German schools have green blackboard and an overheadprojector. But overheadprojectors only work sometimes. In a few rooms, we also have digital projectors, so if the teacher has a computer, you can use it.
One use plastic utensils are illegal in Germany since July 2021. But even before a school cafeteria wouldn't use them, because students would probably have protested against the unnecessary waste.
to food - some schools have their own cooking team and the quality varies however in general europe has much higher standards there to begin with.
other schools dont have their own cooks in house but order catering which is usually very hgh quality as its made by actual chefs at restaurants. As parent i get an email each week with the menu options for the following week and can order for my children what they gonna get to eat next week. theres usually a vegetarian option, a "sweet" option and a "meaty" option
I got to a German middle school and as far as I know there is no separation and there is something called the Sporthalle witch means sport hall it's a big building where we do pe and that court is for soccer/ volleyball you just put the net in the middle when it's volleyball hope it helped
Also in my high school in the cafeteria you could either pay for cooked lunch from a catering company and you could choose between vegetarian or not vegetarian meal but personally I never did that cause most of that food looked kinda nasty. So I usually just brought my own money to buy something from the cafeteria like sandwiches or even macaroni in a coffee cup with different sauces (cheese, tomato, bolognese). But I think that is different depending on the school.
The school system works in a way where after 4th grade you choose between Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium. Hauptschule ends after 9th grade and has a quite bad reputation. Realschule ends after 10th grade and Gymnasium used to end after 12th grade but they recently changed it back to 13. Usually you have better chances of getting a job if you finished 12th grade and got the Abitur. The Abitur also is necessary if you want to study at any German University and of course a University degree will give you access to better higher paid jobs. Which is why a lot of students have the mindset of having to finish high school and get the Abitur. In my grade a lot of my mates started studying medicine or law after graduating.
I think there are still a lot of flaws in the German school system. A lot of students suffer from mental issues like anxiety, depression or burnout because of the high pressure that is put on them even if it is not on purpose. On top of that from a personal standpoint my grades suffered heavily from being an introvert and not talking much which I think is just not fair. I somehow managed to get through high school but at what cost.
Sorry for the long comment. I have been enjoying watching your videos lately and thought I'd share some of my personal knowledge and experience.
The field is just a multifunctional sports field for schools.
You can play Tennis, Basketball, Handball and many other sports on them.
IT is no official soccer field. As you said. These are bigger.
I never had to sing in Front of the class. This is unique. Maybe it is just the teacher.
As a kid who didn't like P.E., let me tell you: grading was solely based on if the teacher likes you and if you are already good at it; if you like Fußball (soccer), basketball and Handball, good for you, bc those are the main sports that will happen, sad if you don't like them, you still have to do them. Upper grades (around highschool) it becomes better bc you can finally pick the sports you wanna do and aren't forced to do the ones you really don't like/hate (I myself was a kid not liking the "main three" mentioned above, so middle school sport classes were a real pain)
In Germany nearly every school is different (for example on my school boys and girls werent seperated in sports). There are also 16 different school plans and kerncirricula.
About being sick/Injured: Depending on the injury or sickness, students at my former high school eather helped the teacher or sat on a bench and watched the others during the lesson. Also at my school boys and girls were separated from class 7 to class 10 in PE.
About singing in front of the music class: My music teacher let us choose whichever song we wanted to sing. My aunt is a music teacher too and told me that at her school SHE chooses the song the students have to sing. I loved singing in front of the class though ❤
About going to college after Gymnasium: It’s not like you HAVE TO go to college after graduating from Gymnasium (which is middle and high school combined in Germany), you just have the ABILITY to go to college or university after graduating. I graduated from Gymnasium after my 12th year (which is comparable to senior year at American high school) and started working for 11 months before I got into medical-technical assistant training.
About the cafeteria: In most German high schools, the cafeteria is in the same building as the classrooms, this school is one of the exceptions. Also I‘ve never seen this chip technology before but maybe my former Gymnasium is kinda old-fashioned about that 😂 I remember we got a menu plan for a month where we could choose between two warm meals, one cold meal or one out of five different salads. We had to make a tick for each meal we wanted, hand it in a few days before, and our parents had to pay for the meals beforehand. And on each day there was a name list on the counter of the cafeteria, so we had to look for our names and the chosen meal next to the name, then cross it out and tell the cafeteria staff the meal we wanted.
Kinda complicated I know 😂
School in Germany actually can be completely different. Like in our town there is a school in a old building but I am on a school with a big sports place (a big grass field, a basketball field, two volleyball fields and so on) and we don't have to sing. The lessons can be fun if the teacher is good
That is an all weather multi purpose court for small court soccer, basket ball, field hockey. Most schools don't have huge premises so you try to make efficient use of the space you have. (And maintenance is much less of a hassle compared to a well-groomed soccer lawn).
In my school boys and girls would get seperated in PE at an certan age, so the girls could have a female teacher and the boys a male one. That was supposed to prevent uncomfortable situations for the students, when the teacher for example has to help you with certain exercises and stuff :)
The court is a soft rubber like field, wich is used as an outdoor sport field. It gets used for every possible sport and theres lids you can open to put in posts for the volleyball net
I don't know if it is common in the US in highschool or college but I've seen like pizza Hut, Burkert king, and more fast food Stalls in school in Amerika. You wouldn't never see something like that here in Germany. When I was in school it was finished around 12-1. And there was a bigger 30 or 45 min break where a little stall was open where the janitor was selling little snacks like rolls with ham and cheese, chocolate milk. Pretzels etc.
Exactly. At my school we also had a small kiosk run by the janitor where you could buy sandwiches and snacks. But there was no cafeteria at all. We just didn't get a warm meal at school
3:56 We have those kinds of courts on our yard a lot. They are made so we can use those for Basketball, Football, Hockey, Handball and so on
Oh and that "pitch" of field is a Handball field. Handball is not that well known in English Speaking countries, but it is quite big in Europe. It is usually played inside. This isn't quite accurate but you could picture it as a mixture of football/ soccer (as you have to score goals) and basketball (cause you play it with your hands and dribble the ball on the floor when moving with it).
I live in germany and my school was so much different to this in the video! Seems like a whole different world to me 😂.
But I also think my school isn't like the typical german school, cause it's a Waldorf school ( don't know if you know waldorf schools but I'm pretty sure there are some in the US)
I would say this is really accurate for lots of schools here - mine is just really different.
Also, here’s how I view hating PE:
The teachers often do t seem to care if you get hurt during the lesson/are already injured/sick. When in mixed lessons, the boys would yell at the girls for not catching because they’re scared of the damn ball, fight each other, the teachers would always favour the boys and ever appreciate the talents among the girls.
I have separate lessons now, and among the girls we’d dance (🤢🤮) and the boys would get to do the cool things like gymnastics at the rings or double bars, simply because males are generally stronger than females, which is untrue in our class. Our teacher always yells at us for not understanding a way to complicated task. She also straight up calls us disappointments literally every lesson. The boys get all the cool teachers there. A few other reasons to dislike PE: if you’re not good at the sport being worked on at the moment, you’ll get in trouble, you’ll get picked last for teams sports, the people will laugh at you. At my school, we often have basketball/volleyball tourneys and when your class does the worst because your teacher is so bad they can’t even teach you the sport properly, it really sucks.
As a german student who hates P.E class: It’s just exhausting (depending on which teacher you have but we always had ones where we had to run a few rounds around the sports ground (I think it’s 400 meters) and that’s just fucking annoying) and the sports you learn are graded so exacting that you don’t have fun at all.
The only exception of that is the lessons in between topics where you usually play something but if you have that few competitive boys who always take everything completely serious and never give you the ball because you’re a girl then even those are just useless
Ryan: "How can anyone hate PE? It's so fun!"
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In germany, when we do a presentation, we go to the front of the classroom, where the teacher normally stands and the teacher sits down at our chairs. Also the students aren't usually sortet into boys and girls. Also like 50 percent of our music is english and most germans are pretty good at english. We have pianos in every music room and often the students play at them. Not all scools have cafeterias but if they have, the food is often very good. At our school, till 8th grade, the kids only have 6 lessons per day, so school till 1pm and then they get once or twice a week 8 lessons so school till 3:30 pm. But every school is different, many schools have other lesson plans so you can't just go to 1 german school and say ervery school is like that, that's not like it.🙃
8:28 AC is simply unnecessary. It only gets real hot for like 2-3 months here and the hottest periods mostly wall within the six weeks of summer school break so the rest of the time you can just open a window and let a fresh breeze in.
If it actually gets too hot, like something around 40°C school usually gets cancelled for that day but that's rarely the case.
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From Norway, and Swedish here.
okay, as a kid who didn´t like PE. 1) I am clumsy so I just injured myself. 2) We only did sports I was only decent or bad at, so I never got to show what I could potentially do. 3) It always felt a bit judgy if the things you had to do wasn´t outright a game.
So for me, I just felt judged and like a failure for maybe 2 hours, up until I finally got a teacher who took dancing, rugby, and gymnastics as seriously, and as often, as soccer and basketball. So I shot up a grade thanks to the introduction and time given to rugby and gymnastics.
At least in Norway, every single PE class was something your teacher would take into account when giving you your grade, so it was never just "Have fun outside". You knew that what you did in that class counted even if it started off with a harmless game.
The ones who loved PE were the ones who were good at the sports the teacher would have a lot of and place focus on. Or they were just restless and needed to move. Which is fair. A lot of the students were just neutral about it or didn´t like not having control over what exercises they had to do.
In my German school no one would ever want to sing in front of the class alone. And the teachers would probably understand and also wouldn’t make us do this lmao. In music we usually play instruments only and sometimes sing together. I also wonder if she is in a small town there. Never went to a German school like that one. It looks kinda cozy
As a german who goes in 12th grade and just been a exchange student in the US would say that high school in the US is way more fun.
That is a pretty small class room. In our school we‘ve got smartboards you can use as boards to write something or as a projector from the top that you can also use with the hand.
Schools and classes are different between each other and of course, time changes. I experienced 2 kind of cafeteria for example... way back (behind the wall during the last 3 years) my parents had to buy meal tickets I kept forgetting to bring with me. Later it was lunch-money.
P.E. for me was mostly horror, unless it was playing games, since often it was about strength or endurance which was scored in some way or another... no good as couch-potato. Only a good teacher who was giving points for effort was making that somewhat better but still I seldom got above a less than medicore grading. What the girl mentioned about being able to choose was a life saver. Those classes I did enjoy since I could pick them.. and going swimming every other week during summer or playing soccer was definitely better than sitting in a room or attempting to do well with whatever torture devices were picked for the day. I still say "It is called light athletics for a reason" (literally translated for the "light" since "track and field" misses that component of German "Leichtathletik")
Music classes... one of the horrors... only had 1 good year ever in 13 years of school. A teacher in her last year before becoming and official, licenced teacher was responsible while the normal teacher was sitting in the back, watching her, did some CATS-related stuff, cutting out a lot of the usual stuff so less singing and analyzing and working with sheet music.
Hi Ryan, it is a handball court.
Yes. Look at "Connor Sullivan first time see handball": th-cam.com/video/ePT-5__ZvsM/w-d-xo.html
Well, I go to a sports high school in Germany, which is quite different with the PE lessons; about 3 hours of sports/training every morning and afternoon, including Saturday morning. You have about 4 hours of school per day and lessons up to grade 13.
However, it must also be said that swimming is the hardest sport.
My childhood was in the eastern part of Berlin, our music lessons in school were in a special room, equipped with a grand piano and a record player, because we were listening to classical music.
For this, there were special editions on records.
Not every German school has this technology at the cafeteria, my school (Gesamtschule) doesn't have that, but 2 years ago we got smart boards.
I don't know how German schools are different to American schools, but honestly, we don't do a lot of interesting things, we're mostly learning and it's very very rare that we have something special. We're mostly writing and reading.
In my school boys and girls had PE together. And I personally hated PE, because I always got bad grades. I am overweight, yeah, but even if I put in my best effort, I got bad grades, because it wasn't the effort that was meassured - that counted for nothing! It was the distance you could jump, through, lift, run, etc. So pupils, who were "sporty" to begin with, got good grades, even if they did not put in any effort. In the end I gave up, because putting in effort and getting a bad grade or not putting in any effort resulted in the same grade.
At my school most of this doesn’t exist or is else, but the food is truely good and often enough, but you can also take a second fill I’d say and the second one is free, the fist one cost about three euros. Also we don’t have to go outside to get to the cafeteria. I am one a 'full day' school so i have about nine school hours but two of them break, in which you have multiple options, like AGs (they take one hour and you have to sign up to them in the beginning of the school year, they can be about everything, like gardening, sports(soccer, fighting…) or something creative like painting or whatever. They are only at one day of the week in the first or second hour of the long break), eating in cafeteria, going outside or in the library and you can borrow things from the school to play something outside or billiards inside or table tennis, you can get a kettcar or scooter, anything. Also at my school we have two sports halls and a football field with Racetrack around, or how you call it, and we have many maany sports objects in the halls, i can’t think of something not being there.
1:45 It's a multi-purpose small field. You can play hockey, handball, and 7-man footbal (futsal) on these. And if you split in in half volleyball, badminton, basketball. You can see the baskets in the back half.
Music lessons in my time at school (nearly 40 years past) - we did not SING in front of the class. We learned about notes, read orchestra-note-sheets, learned a lot about musical theory, met a few classic composers (Bach, Mozart) - something we would call General Knowledge.
PE - hated it. I am not sportive, never was, never will be. And once I had tortured my teacher with my lack of attitude so much, she asked me why I did not just skip her class. I told her, I did not want to get written up.
Presentations. We should have learned more about those, we had to do the odd one and I wasn't good at those. But later in life I developed a knack for them. Nothing of the "just imagine everybody naked" nonsense. Rather a "What would YOU like to hear about this, how would you like to be told, how can I make things less boring"-approach. Which worked! Even people from the last row of seats listened intently to my presentation, because I did not just read a text, I had made handdrawn slides, added a little bit of visual (that was before Powerpoint, we used an overhead projector), cracked a joke etc. It was not difficult for me, but I was VERY nervous, still, as this was a new approach. And it worked so well. Can only recommend that. Always remember, your audience has to mull about the things they hear, allow small breaks for their thoughts.
Our schoolyard had a field for handball (the size of an indoor handball field) and 4 basketball hoops and markings for 2 basketball courts (in a different color) a 75m track, a long jump pit and a place for shot put and disc. Before school started we played "schoolbag soccer" at the entrance to the gym. Your schoolbag was one of seven targets (in a U shape) and you had to try and kick a tennisball into the schoolbag of another kid while defending your own. In classes 1-6 and 11-13 girls and boys were together in PE, in classes 7-10 we were separated.
There isn't a cafeteria in every school.
In the schools, where you have 7-8 hours a day, you have an hour to get food outside the school building by yourself.
I lived like 10min away from that one school, and I was able to have a warm meal between 6th and 7th class at home, where others had to buy something in the nearby shopping center.
As a German I would say that every school is different. In my school we don’t have these chips
I am from Austria, i really liked my Volksschule and Privat new middle school in sacré Coeur Pressbaum. It's a school you have to pay obviously. Anyway. I really liked Chemistry and Music. Because one time wie played thunder from imagine dragons and i was allowed with the boys to spit fire. Yes we took both chemistry and musik together to do this amazing show.
And the nice part is it was mostly the idea from the chemistry teacher. I loved her, she was really fun and showed us so many cool stuff. One time we turned 10 cent to, i think, Silver. Boy i could tell many more stories, fuck i loved it.
Ps:i love your reaction videos, i found you today
PE class in the last 3 years of High school in Germany was really fun, we did one semester of wild water kayaking
we just call it sports class. was pretty fun always doing something physically. at one point I had a sports teacher who used to be german champion in shot-put.
1:53the court has lines for all kinds of sports and track and field events. The goals may be be for field hockey, or yes, small field soccer/football as well. Notice there are also baskets on the sides. This is really a multi purpose field.
In my school in germany we have a more modern furnishing, we have smartboards in the classrooms and specialy dadecaded rooms for chemistry, biology, geography and physics and these rooms exepct physics are in the (NAWi-Trakt). We also have a school orchestra.
In germany we have 3 types of Highschools (Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium) and in the last years a new type came and wants to combine the 3. Also many in germany think that our school system sucks and it does
I think EVERY school system sucks - there are just not enough hours in the day to teach all that needs to be known, you have to decide what you (as a government) think of as priorities - and let your money go there. Not everybody will like that.
BUT - one my bugbears with the American school system is this "students have to be yay-sayers"-attitude. A student should not be punished for correcting a teacher when the facts are ON THE STUDENTS' side! A student should learn to respectfully disagree with a person of authority. A student should not just parrot a teacher, but be able to think themselves, weigh arguments, learn to take in information, see both sides - to make a well informed decision.
i luv ur energy, much love from germany!
Grundschule - Elementary school (average age 6-10 yo) Mittelstufe - Mixture of Middle- and Highschool (average age 10-15/16/17) Oberstufe - College (average 15/16/17-18/19/20)
There are three kinds of graduation.
1. Hauptschulabschluss Being in school for 8 years
2. Realschulabschluss Being in school for 9 years (you can directly change after this graduation to the 3rd)
3. Abitur/Gymnasialabschluss Being in school for 12/13 years (allows you to get to university)
There are much differences between schools, also because of their area, but it is really difficult and complex to understand for a foreign. 😅
I don’t know any school in Germany where girls and boys are divided in PE. Overall it felt more like a private school (kinda uncommon here in Germany) with that and the small classes. I think 25-30 is more of a usual size
PE in Germany has students study all kinds of sports for a time, so everyone gets to try different sports throughout their school years.
Of course most people won't be really successful in *all* of them you get at least to try many different things out while you're in school (and maybe sign up for it if you like it).
And yes, it is the same in Germany that for many students PE is the class they remember hating because it is loaded with so much pressure: In other classes if you're not good at it you can just stay quiet for most of the time, keep your grades in exams to yourself. Your failure is not necessarily so public. But in PE you need to go do the whichever is being graded in front of everyone. Every single one of your peers can watch you failing, those who are good even more so because they need to focus on their own progress even less in order to get a good grade. I only had one teacher in those 12 years who would acknowledge that and tell us that he would not be grading the end result (as in how well we'd perform the exercise) but our progress and our dedication. He said if he'd see us try to improve, try to apply the technique and not give up, try to get ahead, that was what his class is about, that would make good grades.
We don't have AC in the scool, so in the summer and it get really hot we have "Hitze Frei" it means "heat free" when the temperture goes over a 37 degree celsius
The lack of AC in German schools and also the bad equipment standard in schools is actually a problem. In winter you have to sit there with your jacked or you would freeze to death, and in sommer you can't concentrate because it's so hot. (atleast in some schools)
When I usedto go to school , that`s now thirty-six years ago, boys and girls were always taught together in all subjects. In the summer , sport was always done outside. Then there were often training sessions such sprint, run, jump, shot trow, etc. instead. The boys always had to do longer times than the girls. What i didn`t like at all about my home economics school was, when you had to do sports for ninety minutes and then sew for another ninety minutes . It would have been better the other way around.☺💞
This is a multi-purpose sports-court, possibly belonging to the school campus, where - weather permitted - PE class would take place. As track-and-field is only done outdoors (at least in schools), you'd have to venture outside for it. So, long-jump is done there as you can see. The sports-ground shown there can be used for soccer, handball, basketball, perhaps hockey and volleyball as well. However, most of PE classes probably will be held indoors in the school's gymnasium.
Sports - boys and girls separation is dependent on school. In my primary school we weren't separated. In middle school/high school we were separated grade 7-10 and after 11-13 it was again together which was more fun since most girls aren't that good in sports. Parts of PE are jumping, throwing, running (sprint and doing laps) - every year there is a sports festival kinda like small Olympics for that; but we also had loads of team sports like basket ball, soccer, hand ball and gymnastics (learning to roll, handstand, doing a pull over on the bar) as well. In grade 11 -13 in my school we had to choose sports to join, which was our PE - so they had volley ball, badminton, swimming, track, etc.
Music - you don't need to sing like that in every school. We would usually all read music sheets and get to try out different instruments that are easy to play on with simple melody, sing different types of songs together, listening comprehension (recognizing instruments in classical songs and culture education). Grading in our school was more about the theoretical stuff in music (with sometimes listening to music and answering questions - like what kinda rythm was that etc.) and how well you would take part in the lessons.
When I went to High School in School Exchange, they had a TV in every Room and they watched some Kind of News every Morning. And they had a Pencil Sharpener installed on the Wall. That was wired to mee :D
I never hated PE during my schoolyears. I think partly bc I was seemingly always lucky with the teachers and got the ones whos motto was: "do your best, I dont judge. all people are diffrent." on the other hand i was quite good at sports and always in the top 5 students, exept for Football. But i heard real horror stories from other teachers like yelling at students who are just not as good or physically simply unable to perfom really any kind of Physical activity.
TLDR: I was lucky with the teachers i got, but heard horror stories from other students
The lines on the court of the beginning hints that it is an outdoor handball court. Handball is even less known/popular in the U.S. but in the rest of the world it is really popular. Fun to watch. I would recommend watching a best of handball clip sometime in the future. It is fast, hard and brutal 🙂
The part where he thought it was such a special thing that someone sang an american song😂
I mean it‘s a shawn mendes song which was all over the radio for idk how long…
And usually we dont get graded for singing in front of the class(coming from someone who has musik as an „LK“ which is like i‘m a musik major but in high school)
11:38 „everybody is in black“ at my school it is asked to wear all black if you take theatre ( we call it „DS“ wich stands for „Darstellendes Spiel“ which one could translate too „depicturing arts“ but the words itself mean “Display Game”)
in our PE class boys and girls weren't seperated but given different rating systems for the same sport.
The last thing we did in PE was running 3 kilometers. Boys had to run it in something around 12-13mins or so for an A+ and girls were given something like 14:15mins for an A+
So i go to a high school specified on economics and cooking and there the students cook and serve in the cafeteria for other students and teachers. It’s always soup and main dish or main dish and dessert
It is a multifunktional court. You can play pretty much everything on it, from soccer to hockey, basketball, handball and so on.
It's basically a multifunctional court. PE covers all kind of sports, hence the places are created so that you can do as many as possible on them. Hence the floor is hard, so that you can also do sports which require one, while with soccer, a soft ground is preferable but not needed.
9:51 We don't have that. And yes, technology is a bit behind in schools often. We got smartboards this year and they should not be damaged from us kids, but one of my teachers said that she was unsure if they will survive the rage attacks of the teachers. Because most of the times they don't work properly lol
I had no music lessons in school. Not every school offer music . But often there are voluntery music lessons like a school chorus.
The field is for everything, for volleyball, football (soccer how you called it), hockey etc