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when i was in school. from grade six to grade twelve every 45 minutes you went to a different class room. and sure, a lot of times youd have a few kids in most of your classes.
teachers have their own rooms. and youd have the smart kid class and dumb kid class and one inbetween commonly.
so depending how good you were at certain subjects, youd get different classes. but maybe not at the same time.
an english teacher would probably teach at least 4 our of 7 periods.
my highschool had 4000 students. six buildings, and 25 security gaurds. mostly just glorified hall moniters. its not like smaller schools were off duty teachers could hall monitor. they need breaks too.
Here in Texas mist high school kids drive their vehicles to school and leave during lunchtime to grab a bite at a fast food restaurants , they gave her lunches here and so many places close by for them to go eat at..
Remember, you're only looking at one person's school experience from the millions across the country. 😊
Though it may be a US school, the experience will differ throughout the country.🙂
In fact, education is different in each of the 50 states. There is not an education standard that is set for all states. This is a very big country. And over 3500 million people.
Think of it this way; we are like 50 different countries in a difficult marriage.
Absolutely, Renee. The school experience is as varied as the life experiences in this huge, diverse place.
I believe this is Chapel Hill High School. It sure looks like it. If so, it’s in Chapel Hill, NC. A very well heeled town, where many of the students parents are college professors at UNC, Duke, NC State or NCCU (a very well thought of HCBU). The folk in Chapel Hill/Carrboro pay a fairly high tax for their schools. The Chapel Hill/Carrboro school system is one of the best in the nation. When my kids were in East Chapel Hill (at the time US News And World reported it as being the 10th best public highschool in the nation) parents joked that their kid could go to any college so long as it was 1) UNC, 2) Harvard, 3) Yale, or 4) MIT. The pressure on the students is intense. Every year, at least one student killed themselves. The paper chase starts in 6th grade. The counselor have the students start trying to decide where they want to go to college and building and appropriate resume. When my youngest had just tired 6, and in first grade, a school counselor asked me “what do you (meaning me) want her to do and where do I want her to go to college. When my eldest was in 7th grade, he was invited to go sailing for the summer with his grand dad in the Caribbean. I had other kids parents calling me up to protest. Their kids wanted to have a fun summer, instead of going to talented and Gifted school, or math/science camp, or immersion language camp. The pressure is intense. Not all schools system in the USA look like this.
Also the home work takes between 3 and 4 hours. This in addition to sports and clubs ( needed to build your college resume)
Those are some short shorts on those girls. Each school has some restrictions on clothes, I do believe, or at least they used to. I'm old.
I'm over 60 years old and even when I was in highschool ( grades 9-12 ) we picked our own classes. Homeroom was the only class with the same students 😊
Yup 👍
Same.
same for me when i was in HS in the 90's. we also only had 4 classes too, lunch was an hour and we could leave if we wanted.
Same. We had required classes but I chose when
I'm 61 and we didn't get to pick classes until 6th grade, as they then were prepping us for high school. It could be just that's when modular classes came in style.
Just wanted to point out something you probably didn't realize: his French class is AP French. AP stands for Advanced Placement. What that means is that at the end of the year, he can take the AP test, and if he does well enough on it, that class will count toward college credit. So he's essentially taking a college class in high school. So it's a great way to get college credits for free. Also, the AP classes usually have weighted GPAs. The highest GPA is 4.0; that means straight A's. But AP classes can go up to 4.5, since they're college-level classes. So some kids will graduate with 4.5 GPAs and the like. Great for high school transcripts for college admissions!
I thing he said all his classes were AP to
Not exactly free everywhere. I had to pay for the AP exams to get the college credit. Taking the class was free
His school seems to have APs for everything but some schools only have a handful. Of course, when you get to college, the ones you took may not be on your degree plan so you're screwed again.
It's great. I was dually enrolled my Junior and Senior years. I graduated with almost two full college semester credits.
Same thing where I live…the AP class itself was free but the AP exams weren’t. Cheaper than paying tuition at a community college for sure! But for kids who couldn’t afford the exam just got weighted credit toward GPA.
My son's high school lunch break is only 20 minutes. His school is overpopulated, so that's the only way they can get all the students fed. My son says that after they go through the lunch line, there's barely much time left to wolf everything down. EDIT: My son's HS has about 3300 students.
I never had a lunch period longer than 30 minutes in school, and in high school we had open campus,so we Rantoul the fast food nearby a couple times a week.
Every school in the US is different. No two schools are the same.
I never had pancakes during the week, and I almost never had eggs either. I ate cereal or bread most of the time.
What are you talking about? I used to LIVE in the projects lol I never rode a school bus. I actually skipped school in kindergarten!
Obviously Americans don't wear uniforms unless it's a Christian school or something.
There's so many things about British schools that are better than American's, like security.
Every class is in a different room.
Yeah, school lunches suck. Not healthy. Boo.
I didn't eat lunch in class. I ate at McDonald's 😂
My high school had about 1,300 students.
Oatmeal.....everyday!!!
It's sad that school lunches are so bad now. When I was in high school (in the 80s), the lunch ladies made INCREDIBLE homemade food: fried chicken, meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetables, rolls and bread. It was SO GOOD!!!
Breakfast for me when I was in school was either cereal or cold poptarts.
My school lunches (graduated 20 years ago) were amazing. I always looked forward to them. Steak and gravy day was the best!
There are _plenty_ of schools in the projects here in the US. This guy is livin' the Suburban life. I grew up rural. My school bus ride was almost an hour each way (first one on, last one off). Every place is a little bit different. The High School across from me has about 8 kids per grade. Tiny little rural school. Their experience wouldn't be anything like this guy's.
We had a Belarus student stay a short visit with us and one day we were to send him with a packed lunch for the American experience. I ended up giving him a large brown grocery bag filled with 2 sandwiches, pudding, cookies, ding-dongs, twinkies, apples, bananas, soda, water & those packaged pies. (I knew he would share with his fellow students) The whole family wrote on the bag wishing him a "great day". When he packed his suitcase to go back home, he took that bag back with him.
That's very thoughtful. I'm sure it meant a lot to that student.
The pledge of allegiance was every morning before first class started. At least in our schools. From first year all the way to graduation.We we're also allowed to leave campus for lunch, to go to like taco bell or McDonald's if we wanted. We had an hour lunch. Also when I was a junior and senior they incorporated a taco bell, a McDonald's and a pizza hut into our cafeteria. Kind of like a mall, food court.
Wow here they get 30 minutes and cannot leave campus. There are no fast food places close to high school where the Jr an Sr get to leave if they drive. So everyone either piles in with a driver or bring their lunch. The lunches are free but a mix of "healthy" and junk. Such as sunflower butter and jelly or veggie meals and rarely lunchables type pizza.
We had pledge of allegiance and a prayer in home room. I guess you can tell I was in school many years ago. I graduated in 1969. We picked our classes but we had a certain amount of classes that had to be taken but we chose which classes we took and when just as long as the required classes were taken in the 4 years of high school.
We also had fast food 'restraunts' in our cafeteria too and students worked them for class credits. SO they gained work experience and class credits at the same time- getting a leg up before actually entering the work force. We too could leave school campus for lunch if we weren't in the mood for school lunch. Or had errands we needed to run quickly. We started school at 7 am and school was over at 1:30pm.
@@IamKitKumi my high school days were earlier than that 🤣🤣🤣 I graduated in 1969 and we weren’t allowed to leave the school grounds. I think we started early to but school ended at 2:30.
@@annpachini2155 Ahhhh! I graduated in 86. 🤣😂🤣 my kids had NO such freedoms as I did and todays school lunches? ughhhhh Horrid things they try to pass off as food. In fact at one school lunch for parents n grands we were led through the line with my poor baby going, okay you want this...NOT that...and you will NEED the mayo packets! The bread was like card board and the goulash type entree was more sage and salt than anything else. Lunches were taken to school after that!
Same class??? That’s wild. Different people in each class when I was in highschool in US
Me too!
Pledge of allegiance was done EVERYDAY. And as a Texan, we also had to do the Texas pledge😂 I went to a bunch of schools and it depended on the teacher or students if ppl stood for it or not. Younger kids usually stand for it. Once you get to high school it was more of a choice. Most kids stood in my suburban high school but most didn’t in my inner city high school. I moved a lot so went to a few schools.
We had to stand AND had to say pledge AND put our right hand over our heart,....all thru K-Sr HS. This was 1961-1974. No one even THOUGHT about not standing or saying Pledge of Allegiance. We just didn't think like that. I grew up in L.A., California suburbs. There was 700 in my Senior Class in High School.
We picked our classes, you started with Homeroom..attendance was taken. Next we all went on to our first class, but no..we all didn't go to the same classes, we split up and all went our own way. you may or may not see the same people from homeroom during the day. It was split into 2 semesters with a final. I had 7 classes a day, got home around 3:30. This was back in the 80's
The high school experience seems to vary a LOT state by state and school by school. My school day started at 7:25 AM, and ended at 2:10 PM. We had a rotating schedule of classes, so each day we started with a different class. Classes were 45-50 minutes each typically. Lunch was 25-30 minutes. The vast majority of student bought lunch in the cafeteria, even though, yes, it was kinda crappy. Btw, nobody eats pancakes and waffles on a school day morning. That was a special Sunday breakfast thing for my family. And the pledge was mandatory for us, we had to stand for it every single morning.
and then theres my school which technically started at 9am and would end around 4:05pm. but there were also elective courses you could take which would start at 7:30 and only be mon-thurs. if you took that class period you also had the option to not take a course during the last period so you'd leave school at about 3:02pm instead but you could also just stay for the full day like anyone else.
They can't force kids to do the pledge. There's been successful lawsuits when schools force it. Even back in the 80s & 90s, I didn't stand. My Dad didn't believe in children who aren't considered mature enough to consent to important decisions making required oaths. It always felt like group indoctrination.
Lunch at my high school was 25 minutes. 45 minutes would have been a dream. Of course, this school also seems to start super late, mine started class at 7:45am. The schools here all operate independently so it's not uncommon to have huge differences like that. About the only thing that is pretty much universal is the big yellow bus, but even that process can differ. Where I live, the kids in town have stops where several kids get on and off the bus, and the rural kids out in the countryside get picked up at their own driveways. The bathroom stall doors are not nearly as high as you've been led to believe, by the way.
I had the same experience as you. Imagine that 45 minutes for lunch! It would have been nice.
Yup although mine runs along the line of 22-23 minutes. Not much different but still horribly short
@@charlottedrolet9000it’s not it’s kinda boring after 25 minutes 😂
Ditto, 25 minutes. And the only breaks you get are while you are walking to a new room for a new class. In the UK, do the teachers move around? I know they do in some countries. My high school was very large with 3 floors and multiple annexes. Jr High (now changed to middle school) had 4 floors, but less space. So, sometimes you have a friend you walked with if you met in the hallway on your way and you could exchange a few words, but absolutely no breaks . In elementary school in the 50s and early 60s,, we had an hour for lunch (20 min walk home, 20 min lunch, 20 min. walk back to school) and 1/2 hour recess (on the playground unless the weather was rainy or snowy) in both mornings and afternoons, But even young kids now days sometimes don't get a recess, just planned PE, which I think is horrible. Kids need time to be left alone to be kids - they learn a lot just by being kids, not just by study.
Man I used to wait in the lunch line for longer than your entire lunch, we always rushed to get to the front of the line so we could get as much of the 45 min as possible😅 but my school had around 22 hundred people so the size probably makes a difference.
the busses do come straight to your house in more rural areas but in dense neighborhoods they just stop at a dedicates street corner.
By the way, this kid is some kind of genius. Those initials AP mean that he is taking college prep classes that are harder than the average classes the other kids take. It is very unusual to have 10 of them. There are usually only 6 classes a day in high school, so he's taking those spread out over the year. Each year in high school there are certain classes everybody has to take, and other classes that are optional. Those are called electives. They may be useful, like home economics or wood shop, but some of them are like pottery or painting. Everybody in every grade of school from 7th on is required to take physical education. For most schools that used to be every day, but I think nowadays some schools have that less often. I personally took typing and shorthand (in the age before computers), and I left high school perfectly trained to be a secretary. I did this for years until I decided to go in the army and study nursing. I was able to make a perfectly good living with the training I received in high school. Nowadays many high schools offer training that makes you eligible for a good job immediately upon graduation. I know a girl who just graduated high school with a CNA or nursing assistant degree, and she entered college right away for an RN or registered nurse degree. She can work her way through college with the CNA and then graduate with an RN.
The pledge of allegiance is said at the beginning of EVERYDAY in school. Not just the beginning of the year. Every grade says it every single school day.
We always put our right hand across our heart and stood for the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.
This is Chapel Hill High school in North Carolina, really nice area of central NC. On his way to school you noticed the scenery, Chapel Hill and much of NC is quite scenic and lush with greenery. btw nearly every high schood in the US has a soccer field lol
My high school did not have a soccer field.
When I was in high school we had different classes. We switched every 45mins to go to our next class. There are two semesters per year, so you'd have different classes each semester. You also have different classmates. The only schools that have uniforms are typically private schools.
Me too. Did we go to the same school? 🤨
Ya me too. I went to school in California.
It was every 55 minutes for us. went to school 8:30-3:15
The school district that I live in ,up until last year, had to wear uniforms for all of it's public schools.When I went to school there we didn't have to. About 10 years after I graduated they went to uniforms.Last year they switched back to regular clothes but with a strict dress code.
Public schools in NYC have uniforms
For sure in The younger grades
No breaks when I was in school. Homeroom started at 8am and lasted for 15 minutes then off to 1st period. A few minutes to get to each class (i.e., a few minutes between classes with bells ringing to let you out and bells ringing when you were supposed to be in the next class), 1/2 hour for lunch, 7 periods, then off to basketball practice which went from about 3:15pm to 6pm, shower, picked up at 6:30pm (or walked home--about 20 minutes) then dinner, then study, then bed at about 10--then wash, rinse and repeat through Friday. Saturday morning was coaching little kids in basketball starting at 8am (before practice)--finished at 11, then basketball practice followed from about 12pm to 3:30pm.
School experiences vary from state to state. Bus routes also vary. Mine stopped at the bottom of our neighborhood and I had to walk, but other stops were directly outside a house.
Pancakes and waffles?? That's like a "maybe every few saturdays" thing, and it was one or the other, not both in our household. I was lucky if I remembered breakfast on a schoolday. XD
Quick note - reason you see flags in every classroom is because of the pledge. Generally, the first period (class) is when the intercom will come on and share school news or announcements, followed by leading the entire school in the pledge each day.
The idea is that the kids are to stand, face the flag, and recite the pledge with a hand over the heart. Now...whether kids actually stand and recite the pledge is a different matter, and most non-Americans find the practice baffling. But thats why the flags are there.
I was lucky that my neighborhood bus stop was in front of my house but everyone else had to walk to it
Many schools, all I've heard of, have had free (taxpayer funded) breakfasts for the past 30 years and they're pretty good. Better than lunch. Pancakes, sausage sandwiches, biscuits and gravy, bacon, hashbrowns, cereal, milk/juice, fruit, eggs, etc. Ours allows for second servings so there's no leftovers. Breakfast is so important that those wandering in late can stop by for breakfast before heading to class. Sometimes, can't remember why, they'd bring by coolers with hand held items to the elementary classrooms. At the end of the day, only for elementary, they'd bring milk/juice and crackers for everyone but it was really so those with long bus rides wouldn't go hungry.
Wonder of UK has free summer time lunches? In the US, a food truck or van will set up at locations around the city and in rural areas and hand out free sack lunches (from school taxes) for infants through 21 years old.
BTW, that's a podunk little poor rural school district.
The USA is so large and there are small and large cities in each state. So you will find gated, policed schools where you are locked in all day and open campus schools where you can leave at noon for the lunch meal. We also have charter schols, home schools and I'm sure I am missing some. Students get to school by bus, others walk, drive, get dropped off, and ride horses. People in different, states and cities will need to comment for you to get an overall picture.
In the 70s, Dallas ISD, in all it's ignorant stupidity, decided to bus black schools to white schools and vice versus. Kids were bused every year to another school so you'd never be with your friends. You wouldn't be allowed to attend your neighborhood school until senior year. My jr high and hs were 4 houses away so make that make sense. I didn't blame the black kids for being angry but immediately, our huge 3 story jr high school went from nothing ever happening to full on war. Big metal gates were installed to be pulled down when the bell rang to start class and would go up only between classes for 3 minutes. Yeah, forget the fire codes. Also, they'd lock every classroom door during class. You couldn't leave class to go to the restroom and who'd want to? You weren't allowed out of class but for some reason I'd been called to the office once and was assaulted in the stairwell. Another time, our teacher went next door to handle a problem and I was SA'ed. You couldn't leave anything out on your desk or a coat on the back of your chair or it'd be stolen. I went the rest of the winter with only a jacket. No surprise my family had had enough of that bs and was part of the white flight out at the end of that year. Years later, I drove through my nice old neighborhood and lets just say it we locked all the doors and didn't stop.
Nice to see families expecting their kids to do household chores. This is how I grew up as a latchkey kid. I had to get ready on my own and was expected to do chores and be responsible for getting ready for school. Rules are awesome.
This guy takes a lot of “AP” classes, which means Advanced Placement, so he’s really smart. His other videos he speaks French, and it sounds like he may have spent the prior semester at a French school, probably as an exchange student. I was also surprised he had an architectural design class. We had squat for most electives (classes that aren’t part of the core curriculum). Even though this school looks like they have way too many students, it looks like these kids may turn out pretty smart and ok.
School lunches vary A LOT. It depends on how much the school is funded. You can run the gamut of pre-frozen mystery meat? nuggets that bounce with slightly watery carton milk, to decently made cafeteria buffet style cuisine to meals that are actually cooked and curated by a nutritionist in the cafeteria. Or you can just wrap leftover pizza in foil or slap together a PB&J sandwich and stuff it in a paper bag.
When I attended upper middle class schools in the metroplex, we had crappy mystery meat. When I went to a tiny poor tiny rural school, we had fantastic lunches where no one brought a sack lunch. We're now in a slightly larger rural school district and the custodians line up with big trash cans as kids go through the line and head straight to the trash cans before going to their friends' table to eat nothing but a bag of chips. Was a waste.
Grade E, for edible, meat and canned green beans with optional "cheese" spread.
So American: even the rabbit wants ice water. (And free refills.)
Once you get into middle school, you have your own individual schedule.
It depends. None of the many elementary, middle school, or high schools allowed selection of more than 1 elective - shop, a language, home ec, or typing.
A couple notes:
1) It’s weird to see a high school junior starting his day by making his cup of coffee. When I was young it was unheard of for a kid that young to just matter-of-factly make a morning coffee. And
2) I’m actually impressed with his healthy breakfast choices. I was stuck with oatmeal EVERY day! Not that it’s not healthy, but he really did make good food choices.
3) When I was in school, breaks between classes were literally 5-7 minutes long. You had to just pray you don’t need the restroom. It’s especially difficult if you have to go to your locker for a change of books, or if your next class is far away..like across campus 😮 We had to carry 25+ pounds of textbooks and notepads around from class to class because there just wasn’t time to go to your locker to switch them out. I noticed in this video that few students were carrying tons of textbooks around, or even wearing backpacks for that matter. Did you know that heavy textbooks are such a problem in our schools that many school districts or states have now implemented rules about how much weight children in the primary grades, and even some in junior high (grades 7-9) are allowed to be required to carry? No more than 1/4 of their body weight. Can you imagine a 7,8,9 year old being expected to carry a backpack loaded with books weighing 1/4 of their body weight?! The books (several) that a 13 year old has to carry around often weigh comparably to college texts.😰
4) my graduating class was 332 (so just 12th grade)
Ps. 10 AP classes?!?
My school has 3 minute breaks between classes so no lockers 😊
So true, 😂, had to run from one class to the other depending on how far they were.
Granted I graduated HS in '08, but for us it was 9 42-minute periods. The only break you got was the 4-5 minutes between classes where you had to be in many cases on the opposite side of the school every time. No breaks, not longer lunches, but if you got lucky in late HS you could schedule yourself an extra study hall in place of a class. From 6th-12th grade (in included 6-8 middle school since it was basically the same) it was constant educational pounding with your 42 minute lunch being the saving grace every day.
But every school is different. This video is just this school and shouldn't be considered "typical" because there is nothing typical between every school, other than "having teenagers"
In my area (SF Bay Area/California), middle and high school was roughly 08:00-15:00. In high school (grades 9-12, ages roughly 14-17) you chose your classes, albeit with certain state-mandated (state, not federal) requirements for graduation. If you wanted to qualify for more “elite” colleges/universities, you took specific classes to meet their basic requirements (e.g., there was “Basic Chemistry” and there was “College Prep Chemistry”).
Heyyyy, San Francisco here!!👋
Sacramento, California here - it’s the same here. I guess our state has so many colleges that most HS had similar setups
College prep would also be Max's AP classes...
I went to H.S. in Moraga Calif in the early 70s. It was basically the same, as well!
“college prep” (P) just means it’s a class that qualifies you for UC/CSU applications. if it isn’t college prep then it’s like a special education class. AP/Honors/IB Chemistry would be the advanced course.
The Pledge of Allegiance is done every morning of a school year
That totally depends on your school. I would say mostly it is not done in my area at all. Neither my daughter nor my grandkids learned it at public school and we stopped saying it after the 2nd grade (1967).
Isn’t it normally now private schools do it more than public?
No, in the South, it's mandatory every single day
Public school K- 12
At least in Louisiana
The thing to remember is every school district is different. Some schools have off campus lunch, some don’t. Some schools have 1-8th grade all in 1 school and some have 1-12 all in 1 school. The US is so big and every state has their own state laws that schools can vastly be different from one another depending on where you are and mainly what state your in.
I grew up in the Southern US and went to a Catholic school from K-12. Graduated in 2000. School started at 7:45 and ended at 2:45 from kindergarten to 12th grade. We said the Pledge and prayed in homeroom every day, all the way through school. We had 30 minutes for lunch. School lunches were available only for K-5th graders but the food was fantastic. The kitchen staff was made up of moms who's kids went to the school over the years and the majority of them stayed on even after their kids had graduated. Everything was homemade from scratch recipes and it was all delicious. There were so many moms who would call the school lunch ladies to get certain recipes so they could make the food for their families. All you'd have to do is come home from school and tell your mom that "the lunch ladies make the best food ever" and they'd be getting a call. 😂
There were 2 cafeterias (or lunch rooms) and the lunch periods were staggered between 11:00 to 12:30. The younger kids K & 1st ate first, then 2nd & 3rd and finally 4th & 5th, in the cafeteria on the elementary wing of the school. The 6th-8th grade students and 9th-12th kids ate in 2 periods in the big dining hall in the high school wing at 11:30 and 12 noon, respectively. The dining hall had small concessions that sold candy, cookies, chips and soda, juice or milk, but if you wanted a full-on lunch in the higher grades, you had to brown bag it.
We had the same style of uniforms from K-6 and when you reached 7th grade, the "uniform" became more like a strict dress code. The boys could wear maybe 3 or 4 colors of trousers and 5 or 6 colors of collared shirts. No T-shirts or V-necks. They could wear a pullover sweater, vest or sport coat/blazer, depending on the seasons. The same was true for the girls, but we had a choice of trousers OR skirts. Hemlines were to be no more than half an inch above the knee and we'd have to go to the nurse or the principal's office and have it measured if a teacher or other school personnel thought it was too short. 🤣 I had only 80 kids in my graduating class.
in rural areas yea the bus will come right to your driveway , in more urban denser populated area it goes to the corner or a common pickup spot where everyone that lives in that area walks to, normaly not much more than say 1 or 2 blocks walking distance. students that live within 5 or 6 blocks of the school wont get picked up at all they walk unless there is a major Rd or Hwy they have to cross.
lol lots of bells get one at the end of each class letting you out and another letting you know next class is starting , for me in elementary school granted im talking about the 1980's lol we said the pledge at the start of every day it was the first thing we did once class started every day once i got into High school i dont remember doing the pledge other than at events like sports games or prep rally's. yea depending on size of school anywhere from 10-15 min brake between classes with around 30 min to an hour mid day for lunch those are what the Bells are signals for.
Thus was how my bus picked up.i had to walk about 3 blocks over to catch it
Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist in history. Check out some of his songs. He was amazing. From the 60s. I recommend foxy lady or all along the watchtower. We always got an hour for lunch but we would usually go to McDonald’s or Taco Bell. My high school was quite large we had about 3700 students. But that was 9th through 12 th. Also our football stadium was big probably about 1000 seat, our basketball court was big as well, baseball field was decent and track and soccer were decent. Gigantic swimming pool and auditorium. We also had a radio station.
NO! Jimi Hendrix was awesome, don’t get me wrong, but he’s not the GOAT. The GOAT is Stevie Ray Vaughn. Hendrix actually learned a lot of his skills/tricks from Stevie 👍🏻❤️
@@Venus-lx1jq oh I never had heard that before! Thanks!❤️
You have to remember that a student picks and chooses what classes they take. Obviously, there are required classes which depend on what direction you want to go. Thos guy is taking almost all AP (Advanced Placement) classes, which means he is university bound and is an excellent student. He will be in classes with older and younger students.
The Pledge of Allegiance is said every day in the home room, which is where you start every day. Home room is not really a class. Daily attendance is taken and other administrative stuff happens every morning.The sound was the bell to start class.
There were less than 400 students in my highschool.
You must have went to a small high school, my graduating class was 425 students, we had students from 5 different towns as those towns did not have a high school.
I liked public (in the US that means your local taxpayer - supported non-private) high school. There was no bullying per say --- my English friends when i lived in London told me that bullying was a thing in their high schools. I went to high school on Long Island, a suburb of New York City and there was alot to do, people also seemed to be friendly across all sorts of interest lines. My English friends described High School as a horror show.
I went to public school in Texas, and in Michigan. I was bullied in both. I think it matters where you live and other factors as well
After 6th grade, you have individual classes and switch/walk to the next class. That is our 10 - 15 minute break between classes. Lunch was sometimes as low as 30 minutes. I rode the bus all my years. It picks up several at a few stops per neighborhood. When I lived in TN I had a stop across the street and down a bit. BUT, if I missed the bus, I would have to run down this massive hill and up a big hill to try and catch the bus at a different stop. The bus ride was at least an hour long. So most mornings we were waiting in the dark for the bus before school. Most schools now have security guards and some have metal detectors you have to go through. At the beginning, one guy can't open the door, but then swipes something to get the door to open. So they do have much more security than when I was in school. Another thing is that the school, football field, soccer field, tennis courts,.... make the school grounds pretty big. Plus the school building is 3 stories high and very spread out. So that 10 - 15 minute break usually is a mad dash to get your books out of your locker and quickly head to your next class across campus. Oh the good ole days.
We had 3 minutes to get to our next class in my high school.
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High school is typically of this format:
- school is usually from 7 am to 4 pm (hours vary)
- 8 "periods" or equal time segments. These consist of classes, lunch, study hall (reserved study slot), etc
- dress codes are rather lax, and usually private or catholic schools still use uniforms
- the first period usually does the pledge of allegiance
- if you're doing sports, you'll typically stay longer for practice or competitions
- practically everyone can take the free school bus, but pickup is at designated bus stops. If resources and space provides, you can drive and park on campus.
7-4? That's ridiculous. We started at 8:30am and were out at 2:30pm.
@@SMcK17you only went to school for 6 hours a day? Even with only a 30min lunch that doesn't seem right. In Florida it was 7-8 hours depending on school.
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Did you miss that part?
When I went to school in northwest Kansas, we started at 8:30 am and we're out at 3:25 pm. We also had a 45 minute lunch time.
@@A_Name_ Yep, it was always six hours here in Ohio.
For me (NY) our classes and classmates change every year, sometimes you might get some of 6he same people it just depends on how you did the year before. Also we get our schedules on paper but you can access it on your school districts website
I didn't have to worry about having a phone at school because I graduated in 1985, years before cell phones. Which is much better because we actually communicated with each, not through a phone.
When I was in high school (California) 2 classes, 10 minute break, 2 classes, 40 minutes for lunch, 2 classes, then school is done. 8:00am - 2:30pm
Uniform policies changed over the years. I went to school in the 50s and 60s. Usually only Catholic schools up to grade nine had uniform requirements. If I recall correctly, each Catholic school had their own uniforms. After grade nine students attended public high schools. In high school, we had lunch waves (staggered lunchtimes) and 30 minutes to eat including the time it took to get to the cafeteria and get through the lunch line. My HS graduation class had less than 400 students.
We had an hour for lunch. There were 2 lunch times because the school cafeteria would not hold all the students otherwise. We only had 745 students though.
We had 745 graduates
We have 22 ish minutes for lunch😥
No phones allowed? Hell, there weren't phones when I was in school. The Internet didn't even come about as we know it today until I was almost done with college. Email was a brand new thing during my last two years of college. The only electronic things we had was Scientific Calculators that were about the size of today's largest smart phones. I think my Galaxy S23 Ultra is about the same size as my old graphing Calculators. We always thought they were cool because you could type in letters on the screen.
We also didn't have cell phones. I knew very little people who had cell phone in high school. If anything they usually had a pager LOL. There was internet but it wasn't as prominent as it is now. I would say it was after Columbine that you started to see more kids with cellphones. LOL I think I still have my scientific calculator in a drawer some where in my apartment. Also I think I opened my first email account when I was 18.
I am a little younger than you. By high school I had a brick phone. I don't remember ever dialing out with it. My mother was a visiting nurse and if something was wrong with one of her patients she couldn't leave until it was dealt with. I was used to her occasionally being an hour or 2 late to pick me up. Before the phone I had to stay put. With the phone she could give me her ETA and I could tell her I would catch a ride with someone else or go get a snack.
I went to school in the 1960s and 70s in Atlanta. We walked to school since we just lived a few blocks from our schools. We only got 30 minutes for lunch. We had to wear long pants and button-down shirts. We had an excellent school library. Every day began with the pledge to the flag. We had 2000 students in our high school.
Schools are not based on cities or states but school districts. Each school mainly follows the same rules for that school district, then whatever state or federal rules there might be. And each student usually has their own schedule (kind of). Home room class at the beginning of the day usually stays the same but similar students will have similar classes. Usually based on your level, ability and interests.
For me school was dope. I only hung with only certain school friends and I was never home unless I was watching a TV movies on certain days. Going to the lake on weekends with gurls we were linked up with and just hanging out.
I’ve taught for 30+years in 3 districts and been a student in more districts than I can count (military brat) and they all had several things in common. Yes, big yellow buses everywhere, pledge of allegiance in morning, periods 40-50 minutes including lunch, and each person has their own schedule (after elementary anyway). I know there are exceptions to these but those are common to districts I’m familiar with. There were lots of differences as well. I attended several districts that didn’t have stall doors at all. I attended one middle school in Los Angeles where we were patted down for weapons. In New York where I teach now we have lock down drills to practice what happens if a gunman enters the school, really no shit.
The lock down drills are a part of reality but so sad they are needed at all!
Starting in Jr high, I used to have to catch the bus at 6:30 every morning. As luck would have it, our driveway was the pickup point for our neighborhood.
In high school a lot of the newer classrooms were "open concept" so they were more like an office setting where the "rooms" were sectioned off by movable partitions and you could hear everything going on in the classes around you. Lots of sound dampening but it could still be distracting.
I was in highschool in the early 80's. Class schedules were geared to the individual. You had to take math, science, english, phys-ed. US History and a foreign language. Music, art, home economics, wood and metal shop, were all electives you could take through out the year. Your homeroom were alphabetical and it was the only time you would see those kids in most cases. School was fast paced and extended to after school sports and clubs like photography, marching band, sports, drama, yearbook, school paper, chess club, debate team, cheerleading. Most Kids took the bus unless they had access to a car when they got their licence then they could park in the student parking lot.
While I haven't been in school myself in a very, very long time, I can relate back to my kids in the late '80s and early '90s at their schooling. Elementary school use to be grades 1-6, and you started 1st grade at about age 6. During these years, you are in one classroom with the same set of kids in almost all schools. Then came junior high school, which consisted of grades 7 & 8. Some schools allowed these student to move from class to class, and some kept them in the same classroom, just as in elementary school. Eventually, the prevailing thought was that 1st graders in the same school with 6th graders was not good, so Junior high became grades 6-8. Just about everywhere, High School starts at grade 9. And during all of high school you generally pick your curriculum and move from class to class. As you move up in the grades (in high school that is) you get more choices as to what you can take, and at what time - you get to set your own schedule more and more. In High School you can also take what are called AP classes, which are a definite step above the regular high school class, and are usually college credited. For these, you either get tested, or you had previous outstanding grades in the subjects you are interested in. Throughout all of junior high and high school school, you have your own locker at the school (and put your own lock on it), where you can keep whatever you want in it. Most people kept some clothes, and books that they do not need that night or for the weekend. In this video, there are several AP classes shown, and you can seethe letters 'AP' as well.
Furthermore, outside of elementary grades, there is NO break anytime anywhere. It is all classes and lunch, or sports. You did your socializing at lunch, or after school. Of course, there was socializing all the time, even in class, with notes being passed around, or whispering, or whatever. School usually started at 8AM and ended at 3PM. As you got to be a junior (11th grade) or a senior (12 grade) you could change those times by taking less courses. If you lived far enough away, you took the bus (yellow school bus) to go and come back home from school. If you were close enough, like I was and my kids, we rode our bike to school. They also used the yellow school bus for expeditions to museums or whatever, and far away sporting events. The school teams always traveled in the yellow school buses for away games, which was usually half the games. Just about ALL schools have a gymnasium, with a full size basketball court in only some elementary schools, a football field, and in the past 30-40 years, a soccer field as well. But all Junior High schools and senior high schools have a gym, and with bleachers that roll up & out to accommodate lots of spectators. Almost all high schools have a soccer program, and usually with a separate soccer field from the football one. Most schools that have a soccer program have a male and a separate female program. My daughter was quite good, and she played on the high school soccer team.
From this you can see where and why there is so much spectator enthusiasm in the US, since it starts at such a young age. The high school gyms are almost always a lot bigger than the junior high ones, partially because the number of students increases per school as the age goes up. I went to a very small school in Minneapolis, and it consisted of maybe 400 students from grades 9-12. But my wife went to a very big school in Northern Minnesota, where just the 12 grade was over 1,000. When my kids went to school, the baby boom was over, so the number of kids per school year went down. And migrating from high school to college, everything got sooooo much bigger. College football stadiums range from medium size (roughly 45,000) to very large stadiums (115,000), as you saw in one of your videos. The school sports enthusiasm gets amplified at the college level, and they attend the game (all major sports) in mass, as you also saw in one of your videos. The attendance was not scoped out special just for that video, for it is fairly common to be very high for each event. Of course, schools that do poorly in a sport will not have as much school enthusiasm, and their attendance levels with be lower. Add to this that there are almost 900 US colleges in the US that have a college football program, and thus play in some league. So, what you saw in that video was just a 'tip of the iceberg'!
More - info! In 2021, the average college football attendance was just a hair under 40,000. If you multiply that by the nearly 900 colleges (this is somewhat skewed also since many of the smaller schools do not have 45,000 stadiums, and maybe only 20,000) that have a football program, you get 36 MILLION students attending college football games EVERY Saturday from the beginning of September to the end of November. This also tells you how the NFL easily becomes the creme de la creme. There are only 32 NFL football teams, and each is allowed to carry only 48 active players (eligible to play) on a roster. This comes to 1,536 players total for the eligible NFL playesr for any given year. These players almost exclusively come from the college ranks. The average college football team size is 118, so again, times 900 colleges that carry a football program comes to 106,200 college football players! On the average, only 250 new players make it into the NFL each year. So, the ratio of college players to those drafted into the NFL is 250/106220 = .235%!!! That's not even 1%! It is just about 1/5 of 1%. Now you can see that you have to be REALLY good to get into the NFL. Of course, not all college football players want to get into the NFL (I do not know this percentage, and they may feel like I did when I entered college, that they may just get 'killed' if they do enter the NFL), so this ratio is a bit skewed. When I first entered college (a large Big Ten school), I thought about joining the college football team (I was quite good in high school, but not very big), but I got to meet a number of the players in the dormitory, and they were huge! So, I figured I would just get 'killed', and it also takes up all your spare time. You have to be pretty dedicated, and almost all year long as well.
You said a mouthful, but very accurate. All schools are different for each county and each state have their own rules and regulations for their schools.
Excellent post Vincent!
I was often awake by 5 am, and I would shower, get dressed, have breakfast, and get ready to leave school by 7:15 AM. Get to school around 7:45-ish, pick up my books for the day, and be in class by 7:55 AM. Normally used to go to bed by 10 PM or 10:30 PM.
In NY (during my time), we used to have around 8 periods (7 classes + lunch break), about 45 minutes per class, from 8 AM to 3 PM. Each class and the breaks depend on the school. Some let you take outdoor lunch breaks or indoors in the cafeteria up to the students. So typically, we often hang out with friends while we eat or chill, around 45 minutes. Commonly after Junior High school, we used (from 5 to 8 grades) to go together from classroom to classroom for each subject. That class all took the same subject classes. Everyone attends individual courses in high school, but our "homeroom class" was usually in 2nd period or 3rd, where we typically take our attendance for the entire day.
After the first year, high school's 2nd and 3rd years vastly changed. Some people get more classes some get fewer depending on what they need most for studying. I don't recall if it was my 3rd year. I only had 3 courses for 4 hours and then went for a work program that we used to get credits for the year while working as an intern. That would be from 11 AM to 3 PM. Some started late. My 2nd or 3rd-period class was their first class for the day, leaving at 3 or 3:45 PM.
Typically the school I attended housed about 3,500 students across two buildings for first- and second-year students in one building. Junior and seniors in another facility. They simultaneously shared a cafeteria, indoor gymnasium, and the field for Soccer, running track, Football, and Baseball shared. Basketball had its own courtyard. A Courtyard for outdoor lunch/hangout and auditorium for the year. The high school was large, and when the bell (buzzer rang), it was ... chaotic trying to get to class. It was rare to see someone from the 3rd year interact with the first- or second-year student unless they had the same lunch period or subjects (advanced classes). Or we had a scheduled auditorium announcement.
The 5 minute grace period was a blessing.
The School lockers mainly store extra books you do not need for the day. Some classrooms, usually homeroom classes, had lockers behind the class.
The random buzzing is the alarm bell that indicates the class change. Usually, you get about 5 minute grace period in between classes. PE was different because of the shift in the gym uniform. It was 8 minutes or so. After the grace period, you are considered late for that class and will count toward your final grade for that year unless you get a late pass from the previous teacher letting the current teacher know why you were late.
There are "extra credit classes" that are after 3 PM. It usually is optional but allows you to advance the school year and graduate a year earlier if you are consistent on the honor roll throughout the school year. Also, even if you pass all your classes, you are given more credits if you attend summer school. In my last year, I only had 4 courses for the whole day for both semesters. So I was home by 12:30 PM and returned to school the next day.
We had metal detectors at the boys' and girls' entrances. They often confiscated chains, spiked wristbands, knives, guns, sharp items, smartphones, and handheld game consoles. However, a few used to get away with it. As for smartphones, if you do have a note from the parents, for emergency reasons or because you'll be home alone, they will allow you to carry your smartphones in school for the years you'll attend. Still, it is often forbidden in classes unless you get a call, so you must step outside to talk about it or text.
Oh yeah, the start of the year varies between states and counties. For me, it was from September to late June. It was from August to late May/Early June for other states.
Lastly, I agree there are some aspects of high school I missed, but sometimes I am just glad I was done with it. My best year was Junior and senior years. Mainly because I got out of school about 3 hours earlier than expected for school programs or just advanced classes and during summer school to get ahead and start the next school year.
Freshman and Sophomore were my zombie years. It was nothing but school, after-school programs, homework, sleep, and repeat. 3rd year, I got to know other classmates and somewhat got friends but hardly knew them outside of school. We just shared an interest in video games, D&D, and tech/science music (metalhead) but never really hung out after school.
Dinner is a synonym for supper, not lunch. The large room for organized congregating and eating of lunch at school is called the cafeteria. Not the dinner Hall.
The movie "Dangerous Minds" is an accurate depiction of my Highschool.I went to school in American projects. (3rd ward in Houston). Our school had a police station on campus. We had to walk through metal detectors to get into the school. We couldn't have metal belts on. There was a dress code. This was also a public school. School sucked for me but I would say it better prepared me for the real world because you had to have "tuff skin" otherwise it was gonna be way worse for you. There were gangs in the school which is why we had a police department on campus. There were fights all the time, a couple stabbings when I was there, a couple riots, it was crazy. I was able to get outta there because my parent's got me into football and martial arts so I didn't get caught up in the gang life like most my friends. I have one friend on death row for murder. Other died from gang violence. Most didn't make it out. This is the reality for a large number of inner city Americans and still is to this day. You're just not allowed cell phones in these schools which is why you won't see a video on TH-cam like this one.
1) Some schools do have uniforms.
2) I’m almost 60 so it might be more now. In elementary (primary) school, you have the same classes with the same children for the first 5 years. Starting with the 6th year you start “changing” classes. Once you’re in high school (9th year), before you can graduate at the end of your 12th year you have to accrue a certain number of credits. Say you need 4 math credits to graduate. If you’re not very good at math you can take a general math class (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals). If you’re good to exceptional you can take algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, etc. So-six classes per day typically will include math, science, English (either composition or grammar) and history (American history, World History). There are two other classes during the day which are called “electives”, exactly what they sound like. Most high school students will also have a study hall (work on assignments, get help if needed).
3) I went to a private Christian school, there were only 19 in my graduating class. But it’s not unusual for graduating classes to be hundreds in number.
Most high schools (4 years) have a set schedule of required classes - English, Social Studies, Science, and Math (2 years of P.E.). There other classes which are a part of the curriculum are choice classes like Foreign Language, Art, Music etc. Each period is 50 minutes long, a 5 minute passing period between classes, 45 minutes for lunch.
These days, phones are used to do virtual work and accessing online textbooks.
CHASA determines schedule ( sports games between schools - football, basketball, tennis, soccer, swim, golf, volleyball, gymnastics, cheerleading, track, hockey, etc.
Yes our schools have baseball diamonds, football fields, soccer fields, tennis courts, swimming pools, gymnasiums, track and field stuff, I probably forgot some things. Our gymnasiums have lots of bleachers that pull out because a lot of people come to watch basketball or volleyball or whatever the football fields in the baseball fields have bleachers to or actual stadiums with whites and press boxes and refreshment stands. We also have huge parking lots because a lot of the older kids drive their own cars or pick-ups or Jeeps to school.
My daughter starts high school soon. High schoolers have credit requirements they have to meet to graduate. But you can meet those requirements in different ways. So there’s a lot of individuality in class schedules.
For example: she has to take a PE class…but her school offers dance classes. So she’s taking ballet.
I lived very far from my school. All the kids from my neighborhood would go to the corner and wait for the bus. There are specific stops along this route. They dont go to each house. Although some students get lucky on where their house is.
Wed be up at 6am,ready and waiting for the bus by 6:20am(pickup 6:30 am). We'd get to school around 7am.Our bus had the longest route because we went through the hillside. We'd see deer,turkeys and even a few black bears).
We'd have home room and then different classrooms for each subjects throughout the day. Class schedules were different between each student. While most would have the same class there would be some from homeroom who had different classes..
School meals-we got free school food. It changed every day. You always got a tray with a small milk carton and a choice between orange,apple and cranberry juice.
We had a lot of good choices of food. Their pizza was always very good. Especially french bread(use creamy italian on pizza). We also had a few drink/snack vending machines- juices,water(hs had these plus sodas).. We'd have about 30 mins for lunch in k-9th. 10th-12th wed get 45 mins..
We had student parking. We had a Olympic sized pool, a big gymnasium, auditorium,library, music room,art room,computer room, big football field, soccer/baseball field.
We got out of school at 3:30 went out to the busses and were home by 4:00/4:10pm.
When I was in high school we had the really tall lockers and had to share with someone. My bestie and I shared one and basically turned it into an insane 3D art installation. Any time we opened it, everyone would crowd around to see what crazy stuff we had going on.
Your request for pancakes and waffles cracked me up. In my family, that’s a special breakfast - weekends only, and not every weekend, even.
No dinner halls in the US, they are cafeterias. Lunch is usually 30 - 45 minutes. No breaks. When I was in school your free period was spent in a study hall where you could do homework.
This is how a first day will normally go in my school but it’s different for every school.
So you get to school (by bus, getting dropped of, the sophomore, juniors and Senior sometimes drive to school or you ride your bike)
You go to the commons area and hang out with your friends or get free breakfast.
The bell will ring telling everyone get to class. Instead of going to your first period you will go to your “home room” this is where you will do the pledge, morning announcements, where you will get your schedule but on paper (you normally get these a few weeks before school starts but on your phone). You get your locker number and combination. Sport schedules, papers your parents have to sign. Where you watch safety videos that where made in 1900s. Then you will go to a assembly (aka where they gather all four grades and squash them into a gym to do “fun things”.
At the end of the demon ritual sorry I mean assembly you will go to your first period.
Then the bell will ring at the end of first and you will go to your second period.
Then the bell will ring at the end of 2nd period then you will go to 3rd. Then 4th period. 4th period is when you go to lunch. The school is split into 3 groups.
Group 1: Will go straight to lunch while group 2 and 3 do class.
Group 2: will go to lunch while group 1 starts class and group 3 start’s rapping up class.
Group 3: goes to lunch and leaves for their 5th period from there. Sometimes the students 5th period is off school campus so they have to get on the bus.
Then you have 5th period (the kids that are off campus come back)
Then you have 6th period. (This is where the seniors go home early because they don’t need to have a last class)
Then you go to 7th period
Then you go home. (If this is confusing I’m sorry it’s also very confusing on your first day of high school so it’s okay 😂. All School do it differently. In America school do a block schedule, a A day, B day schedule, a even and odd day schedule there is a lot)
Our school had 30 minute Lunch, and 5 minutes between classes. Lunch was also your restroom break. We had around 100 students in each age.
I think lunch is normally 30 minutes where I come from. Classes are 50 min. or 45 min School is 8:00-2:30. We had 3 groups that went. One at 11:30 - A lunch, B lunch was 12:00, and C lunch was 12:30. A and C lunches were high school, 15 - 18 yr olds ( 9th - 12th grade) and B lunch was jr high, 13-15 yr olds (7th and 8th grades).
We had 135 in my graduating class, that means there were 3 other grades that shared my hallways. The jr high shared the lunchroom but it had its own classes. Every year we had certain classes we had to take to complete out math, English, physical education and history quota but we were usually allowed 2 or so classes per semester (half a school year) we could choose. Drama, art, band, car repair, architecture, home and interior design, animal husbandry, agriculture (I lived in farm country), cultural studies, language, all kinds really. My son is a teacher's assistant for one of his classes this year. There were also university level courses offered you could take too. Anything with AP in it counts toward credit for University. We were usually in those required courses with people in our grade for 4 years so we get to know them pretty well.
You sign up the year before and when you get your schedule we would all look to see if we had classes together or our lunch was the same. Schedules changed every semester (mid school year). So after xmas break you'd come back to start a new schedule.
My high school had 3 separate indoor gyms like the one shown in this video. We also had a full size outdoor football stadium, full size indoor football field, a soccer field, 2 full sized baseball/softball fields, full track and several full size weight gyms.
In my school we had lunch three break times plus an elective that you can choose consisting of gym, art, Music, weightlifting etc.
Seven classes that you choose how you would in a college setting. All different students. & 10 minute break for each class. The bold means you have five minutes to go to your next class
Some classrooms arrange the desks together as you described. But they are individual desks. Usually arranged in long individual lines. AP means the harder courses. Phones are not to be seen or heard.
Goodness, this brings back memories. I graduated from high school 60 years ago, we had to travel from class to class. Many times a few of your friends were in each of your classes. The sound that you heard was the start and dismissal bell. Unless you live in a densely populated area most high schools are what they call open air. After talking to my older grandkids, phones are allowed in some schools but not in others. One of my grandson's school the phones are collected at the start of each class and retrieved as you leave it. Some schools if you bring your lunch you get a 30 minute lunch and an extra break for a snack in the afternoon. Most only give the 45 minute break and no other breaks.
I love watching your eyes. They move back and forth as you take in every inch of the screen. It's so much fun seeing your reaction to stuff here. You make me see that we take for granted things here that are luxuries to others. It's humbling.
Generally, there are designated (unmarked) corner busstops for school busses every few blocks, for all the students in those blocks.
I'm a teacher and lunches in most schools are only 30 minutes. In fact there's a law here in Texas that teachers must get 30 duty free minutes of lunch time... though it's often less.
When I was in high school we got 30 minutes for lunch. From wherever our class was, we had to make it to the cafeteria, stand in the queue, then eat & get to class before the tardy bell rang. Sometimes we'd grab junk from the vending machines or grab a burger or sandwich & go hang with our friends. My grandkids (elementary school) get 20 minutes to eat & a 10 minute recess. Not nearly enough time. And some elementary schools have a traffic light system in the cafeteria that turns from green to yellow to red as the noise levels increase, then the lunch monitors get onto them & it could cost them their recess if they don't get/stay quiet enough. I've always detested that system.
Lunch at my school was 30 minutes.
We had classes from 8:00-10:00, chapel from 10:00-10:30, snack from 10:30-10:50, classes from 10:50-1:00, lunch from 1:00-1:30, and classes from 1:30-3:15.
Aside from chapel, snack, and lunch, we had 4 minutes between classes.
A bunch of us that grew up together that went to elementary, jr high, and then high school would go across the street to eat our lunch's that we brought from home and play ping pong. The building is where we had seminary, which was our religous classes that we elected to take either before school started or during school. Depending on how many credits we needed. Public school at least in our state have all sports, soccer girls, boys, and mixed, swimming, xcountry, track & field, baseball, softball, volleyball, rugby, football, basketball boys and girls, wrestling, golf, tennis
When I went to school, from 1st grade until 6th grade, which was elementary school, I was in a class of at least thirty other kids and we all had the same teacher for the entire day every day. From 7th grade all thru high school, we started in what was called homeroom, where they took attendance for the first time in the day. That lasted all of 10 minutes. Then we all went our own way to what ever class we had first. At that point, it was pretty much the same day as he had.
When I was in high school, school lunch would start at 10:33am and end at 11:03am. We'd get 30 minutes for lunch. We could leave the campus and get food but very short amount of time, most students at my school would eat in the hallways near their lockers or outside. We also only had 5 minutes between classes. My high school also did A and B days. So, a lot classes. My first class would start at 7:45am. Many schools in America are different from one another. My school also had a football field, a pool, a baseball diamond, its own driving training course, and an auto shop in the back for the auto mechanic classes. It was a large school but definitely not the biggest one in the city I lived in.
where I grew up and taught, most people bought the school lunch... and some schools essentially have a food court with multiple possible lines you can choose to take.
eating lunch in a class room is unusual for US because classrooms are usually in use during lunch.
In my school there were 3 lunch periods. You had A, B, or C lunch depending on which teacher's class you had at the time. A the class was first and then class. B had the class split up with lunch in the middle... go to class, go to lunch, go back to class. C lunch was class first then lunch.
my lunches (90s) were 30 minutes long.
Though my senior year was spent in a school that didn't have a cafeteria and used a central community area in its place.
My school had like 3200 people in it I believe. We also had a pizza hut, taco bell, and then school cafeteria. Then for p.e. I had surf class, and then we also got to pick our classes. My mom taught at a high school that had multiple large 5 or 6 story buildings as well as basement classrooms, a massive track and field complex, football ball field , basketball courts, and it also had its own jail cell on campus with several armed police officers all over the campus.
I graduated high school in 1984. We picked our own classes. We had to pick four years of English. Two years of math. Two years of history. Two years of science. And two years of either physical education, sports or band. Everything else was electives. You got one credit for each class. You had to have 21 credits to graduate. So if you were like me and hated studying, you took all the prerequisites first and got them out of the way. So you take 6 classes in 9th grade. 6 classes in 10th grade. 5 classes in the 11th grade. And 4 classes in the 12th grade. The best part was that my high school had an incentive. If you had at least a C average and no absences, you were exempt from taking the final exam for that class. B average you were allowed 2 absences. A average you were allowed 3 absences. But it wasn’t all work. We had pep rallies and rock bands would come to perform for us. We got an hour for lunch.
I was in the class of '86 and at the time we had about 2,000 students attending. My school is located in Encinitas, CA. Not as new as this school and we always had to walk outside to get from one class to another. A lot of schools in southern California are not under one roof. We do not see much rain and it does not snow in areas near the ocean. My high school not only had an American football team but we also had a surf team that would compete against other local high schools. Tony Hawk the skateboarder also spent a year in my class and still lives nearby.
Absolutely rolling at the fact you thought we only did the pledge once a year 😂
My school had literally all the sports , football, field , soccer field , baseball field , track field , volley ball courts , basketball court wrestling gym
My schol was being renovated my sophomore year and it was wild! We would have to walk through plastic covered domed pathways for going out to different buildings and it took extra time to get to classes due to areas being sectioned off. The schools here, especially high schools, are really hig so they can't be completely renovated over the summer holidays. They have multiple buildings and separate sports facilities, so it unfortunately takes a LONG time!
Yeah our school gyms and Football fields "Soccer fields and Baseball spots are always on point 👍🏼
In high school, I showered at night, got dressed for the next day, overslept, threw on my shoes, grabbed my backpack, and ran to the public bus. We didn't have yellow school buses where I grew up in CA.
Bus pickup depends on where you live. In our area it stops at individual houses on rural routes.
Agree with many.. each high school is different. Small towns vs. big cities are a major factor.
When I went to school, it was nothing like this. We had no breaks. We had 5 minutes between classes. Lunch was 30 minutes. Recess was only allowed in the elementary school. Middle and high school had physical education for exercise.
Our lunch was 20 mins. We had 3 separate lunch periods to get about 1600 kids fed. 20 mins for each group to get to the cafeteria, get your food, eat, and clean up after yourself. 500+ kids in each group.
Like everyone mentioned, it’s all different. Even one borough of NYC to the next will be different. I left Manhattan after 5th grade expecting to go into Elementary 6th on Staten Island but 6th grade was actually middle school there and I was totally unprepared for all the class switching! Also never had lockers, even in HS. I had to carry my stuff around. I was sad because I expected lockers like saved by the Bell. lol
Homeroom had the same kids for the school year but all classes were different, some we chose. We started way earlier than this kid. His morning was way too easy lol
I had a bus pass for the public bus system. Lunch was 40 mins, no breaks, just a couple minutes in between classes to get where you need to go. We weren’t allowed to leave but I was a constant cutter. Would walk out with friends and ride public transportation wherever we wanted to go in NYC. NYC is one of the few places with good PT in America so sometimes I wish I had lived somewhere else during my school years so that I would’ve actually stayed in class lol
My high school population was roughly 1500 which is small compared to others on the Island. Curtis has 2600 and Tottenville has 3600 just to name a couple.
Our high schools mostly have (American) football fields but many also have soccer pitches as well!
In cities like NYC, highschoolers get public transportation passes. The yellow bus is for elementary and middle schoolers or for people of all grades on trips to the museum, theater, etc.
All my schools were big. Gray. Squares with chain link ventures and barbed wire.
It's been a loooong time since I was in High School; but a lot hasn't changed.
My daily schedule was similar to his - 4 class periods, lunch (45 mins too, IIRC), then 3 or 4 more class periods, then after school activities or sports.
At my school, my schedule was individual to me, but I could have a lot of the same students in each class, if we were taking the same classes. I had more of a consistent shared scedule as a freshman than as a senior; because when you start high school, everyone is doing basic required classes.
As a senior, you have way more choices of "fun" & specialized classes, because you (ideally) did your required courses in previous years. For example, my senior year's classes were mostly elective classes - Yearbook/School Paper, Assistant in School clinic, Art, Mythology/Literature, Computer Aided Drafting, & Swimming. The only required basic course I had was Math/Algebra.
At my school, we had an Open Campus for upper classmen - which meant we could leave school for lunch, if we wanted to. Most kids didn't bring lunch; they either ate in the school's cafeteria, or went off campus for lunch. We had pretty much every fast food place you can imagine, within walking distance (McD's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Subway, Pizza Hut, BlackJack Pizza (regional pizza chain), GoodTimes (regional burger chain), a Chinese food restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, an American café, and a chain grocery store).
My school had roughly 600 kids, among all grades. So we were considered medium-sized; but kind of small for a big city school.
We had most state & high school sanctioned sports: American Football, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Golf, Wrestling, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, Cross Country, & Cheerleading. The only ones we didn't have were Hockey, Field Hockey, Water Polo, Lacrosse, & Gymnastics. However, if someone wanted to play one, we could play for another nearby school that did have it.
Rugby, Skiing, Fencing, Martial Arts, Boxing, Badminton, Dance, & Weightlifting weren't sanctioned - so you'd have to play for a private club or rec team. I live in a land-locked mountain state, so there's no Surfing here, either.
I'm 54 and when I was in the early grades we pretty much stayed in 1 class. As we got older we had separate math and English classes( though sometimes you had the same teacher so you didn't leave ) by the time you got to high school you went to a different room for each class and you didn't have the same kids in every class. A lot of you classes were electives so not everyone took the same ones. In fact you might be in teh same class as some a grade or 2 ahead or behind you. Also you got to pick your classes for the most part.
the pledge of allegence is done everyday at school. usually in the first class in morning.
The pledge of allegiance to the flag is said at the beginning of each school day.That is why there is a flag in every classroom. Each day at the start of the first classrooms recite the pledge of allegiance in most cases
At the Independent Boarding College Prep High School where I taught, lunch was 20 minutes. Classes began at 8am, and ended at 3pm followed by sports, in which everyone was required to participate. Dinner was 30 minutes followed by clubs and meetings. Study hall began at 7:30 and ended at 10pm. Breakfast was at 7-8am.
I had 800 students just in my graduating class (so probably about 2400 total students)! We had so many people in our school district back in the mid-80s that we were on year-round schooling. This meant that only 2/3 of the students were in school at any one time. One-third of the students were on school break. So there were six full quarters (yes, that's correct), but you attended 4 of them a year. So your "track" (A, B, or C) would go for one quarter (two months) with another track. Then that other track would go on break and the one that was off would come back. Then after 2 months it was time for your track to take a break. So, you'd go for 4 months, off for 2, on for 4, off for 2. It meant if you had friends on another track, you didn't see them a whole lot. And the crappiest track had to go to school all summer and also only had Christmas Day and New Year's Day off... had to go to school on Christmas Eve. But no one had A/C in their houses back then, so being in school with A/C was better than being stuck in a hot house with nothing to do.
I loved the first day of school introduction paper. First question, put your name on the top of the paper, second question read all of the questions first. Last question, only do the first 2 questions. It was so funny to watch people racing to answer all the questions only to get to the last one and hear all the groans and laughter