Brit Reacts to a day in the life of an american high school student
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Realize that American schools vary enormously. There are like... 3100 Counties in the US, and around 12,000 public (those are the free schools in the US) school districts. The rules, budgets, standards, etc. are administered on local and state levels mostly, and only for a few aspects by the Federal government. Theyre all different sizes, some look like hellholes, and others posh, what they teach and the quality of the education vary enormously... etc.
True that many schools have different start and end times. I have been to 3 different high schools in my state, 2 of them started at 8 am and 1 started at 7:30 am
Yeah very very true
Only around 12,000 schools? In my town alone, as far as public schools go, there are 6 high schools, 13 middle schools and 40 elementary schools. I live in a town of around 300k people.
Start times for schools where I live is about 7:40 to 3:10 for elementary, 8:20 to 3:50 for middle school, and 9:05 to 4:35 for high school. Of course, if the stundent joins band they. Can stay as late as 7 pm or cross country can arrive as early as 5 or 6 a.m. Also, physical education is a required course until part of high school. In high school, you are required to have so many PE credits to graduate. However, if you join a sports club or team you can take P.E. until you graduate. Lunches vary. They are not the best, but they always offer a hamburger or pizza line if you don't want whats on the lunch menu for the day. Not to mention if it's open campus, you can go off campus to buy lunch. Uniforms are only required in private schools. Public schools allow you to wear what you want. It varies from district to district. Smaller districts may have a dress code. My granddaughter cannot wear leggings, and shorts cannot be shorter than her tips of her fingers with arms down. As for lockers, the population of students where I live is higher than the number of lockers. They assign lockers to lower classmen. Upper classmen do not get lockers. The assumption is they likely drive to school, so they can use their cars for storage instead of lockers. Thus, the reason why students take their backpacks everywhere. Not all upper-class students have cars.
@@dawnak.3056 Be sure to read it a little closer, he said 12,000 public school districts. Each district could have many schools.
When you kept saying you hadn’t seen lockers was after he filmed hallways full of them. They are beige and built into the walls.The outdoor clapping was sending off the golf team to the state championships. My high school was 7:50 to 2:50. Most folks had after school activities as well. Uniforms are rare in public schools but more common in private or religious schools. School bus stops are in your neighborhood - where I grew up my stop was never more than a couple blocks away. And yes just students going to a particular school at each stop / bus route.
Thank you! I came to the comments to see if anyone would explain what they were clapping about. Lol
u hitting all the points and real quick an consise too
Graduated in 1989, i got up at 6 to be at school by 7:30, class started at 8 ended at 3:30. We had a 30 minute lunch, 7 classes. Buses pick you up from designated bus stops, usually near neighborhoods..but some have to pick individual kids up from outside their homes in rural places. Teachers rearrange their rooms how they like, u shape, rows, and even circles. Some schools have uniforms, we didn't growing up. We did wear school colors on homecoming football week.
Yep this ⬆️
When did your summer holiday start/finish? What holiday/vacation breaks do you have through the school year?
@@giddygrub7176 Ours started late may or early june through to August. Back then we had-spring break (1 week)-thanksgiving (1 week)-christmas (1 week)-several 1 day off things like memorial day and such. In school we also had flag day and field day, where you played outside and brought a snack lunch. We also had field trips to local museums, space and Rocket center, The mounds state park, and Tannehill parks.
The yellow busses are only for students and usually only deliver to one school, so each school usually has it's own set of busses. Pickup is based on where the students live so you usually only have to walk a block or two to get to it and usualy wait with a few others in the neighborhood. If you lived in a big school district like I did, you often had to get on the bus at least an hour before school started (remember how big the US is). Most public schools do not have school uniforms. You really only see a lot of uniforms in private (pay for) schools. Lockers are pretty common in 12-18yo grades. Everyone get's thier own locker, but locker size varies greatly from school to school. Lunch/dinner varies a LOT from school to school. Some let you go off campus to get your lunch, some have mini food courts with multiple restaurants, and some basically give everyone the exact same 'hot' meal for everyone who doesn't bring thier own.
What’s weird is that you guys are willing to wear blazers to school no questions asked
Right! Like they have to go to their banking jobs immediately after school 😂
lmao I went to private schools in the US and my high school did have a blazer that we students could wear as part of our uniforms. I feel like a lot of Americans underestimate how nice uniforms can be. you don't have to think in the morning about your outfit and kids who couldn't afford trendy clothes don't have to worry about blending in. from first glance, you can't tell who the popular kids are and who isn't. it unifies the class, and its pretty nice.
Blazers in my school were mandatory for some years, especially 6th year. I refused to wear a blazer i think they are uncomfortable. Eventually if you continue to ignore that rule and wear your own hoodie/jacket they cant do anything about it.
@@benji0099agreed. I loved not having to worry about clothes for school. When I see how kids dress st MY kids public high school I’m just horrified. More skin showing in class than the waitresses at hooters. Or kids wearing pajamas. I think it’s terrible that kids are not dressed to be successful and it shows in the testing of our schools.
All dressed up and no air conditioning? Nah
The outdoor buildings are called “portables” they are a/c controlled classrooms on the exterior of the building. Usually used as a way to alleviate the number of students per class vs the limited size of the building (sometimes for special Ed/ in school suspension).
Mine had one for carpentry/ shop class
What was confusing him was the ramp to the door. It looked like a box to him.
They may have an ac unit but they don't have ac
@@SamNo27mine do
Many schools have trailers to accommodate the overloaded population for that school. That was a wheelchair ramp as schools must be wheelchair accessible.
About the weight training class, in the US you have to take a P.E. (physical education) class which normally is just a generic class where you just do random exercises every day and usually have to run a mile once a week or once a month and are timed for your grade, but you can also take very specific classes for the P.E. credit, like weight training, Yoga, dance, or even some sports, just depends on the school you go to, they don't all offer the same courses, but most highschools have a weight training class from what I've seen.
High school starting time depends on the school district, region, and distance. School buses have specific routes depending on the school and the students needing transport.
It depends on the school, but 9 times out of 10 in regular public school (1st-12th grade) you can wear pretty much what you want. As long as it's within the Schools guidelines. In private schools most times you will need to wear a uniform.
When he was walking down the hallways, he was walking past the lockers. He just didn't film them closer and they blended in with the light-colored walls. When I was in school, I was assigned a locker. I'm not quite sure how they distribute them now. What you get for lunch definitely depends on the school. Most times you'll see a traditional lunch meal offered. And then it will be a section where you can get othet fast food options.
I went to Christen school for a couple of yrs in CA and we didn’t have a uniform. The girls did have to wear skirts or dresses and boys had to wear nice slacks. We had 1 yr wear they finally let the girls wear certain kinds of pants in the colder months. If I’m remembering right school started at 8am and got out at 3pm (maybe 2:45) usually we only had 5-10 min between classes. So most people carried a few periods worth of books w/u. In the 80’s we didn’t have that kind of gym. I think the football players had weights they could use. The buses have set up stops in neighborhoods were the kids close stood and waited for the bus. I got lucky and it was right across the street so I’d wait 5-10 min before to go out
Private schools (which you call public schools) usually require uniforms. Most of our public schools (which you call private) don't have uniforms, but some communities (school districts) are starting to implement them
As another commentator said, everything will vary wildly between different schools, even in the same city/district. Some of the general similarities you’ll find is that the school hours will be 0800-1500 plus or minus one hour as a standard, for younger kids it may only be 0800-1200, divided into roughly 6 classes or periods. Sometimes you’ll have a “zero” period or a 7th period in high school. The zero period is usually for extra classes if they are offered; music or arts classes may be slotted here sometimes if they need a longer block. The 7th period is usually for after-school sports; similarly to the zero period, physical education specifically for those on teams is usually pushed to the 6th period so they have a combined 6&7.
Schools are usually pre-school/pre-k for 5 or under, elementary/primary school for grades 1-6 ages 5-11, middle school for grades 6/7-8 ages 12-13, and high school/secondary school for grades 9-12 for ages 14-17; the ages are expected starting age. College/university/post secondary school is ages 18+ and will generally run 2-4 years for undergraduate depending on the degree and another 3 years for graduate school.
In American high schools every student is assigned a locker, with a lock, for their coats, books, any personal items that they may have, etc. And many students decorate the inside of their personal lockers with pictures, etc. With regard to physical education (PE), of the 6 or 7 classes each day, one of the classes includes a physical education class. This will include a workout gym like you saw in the vlog, a full court(s) gymnasium for basketball or other gym activities such as volleyball or calisthenics, many offer a gymnastics facility, outside track for track and field instruction, and in the larger schools a full-size indoor swimming pool for swimming instruction. Each grading period a student will be enrolled in a physical ed class on a rotation basis. This all came to a head in the early 1960s when President Kennedy mandated that physical education had to be a part of a total middle school and high school curriculum. Many primary schools also have gymnasiums.
All the schools in my area took lockers away in light of all the shootings over the past couple years
@@hugefootballfan2914 Oh wow! I didn’t know that. Man, that’s sad. (The reason behind it I mean, the locker thing would be annoying though!)
@@KimC657i graduated in’99 and they’d already removed lockers from school primarily for anti drug/weapons on campus efforts. But also there weren’t enough lockers for the population boom anyway.
This was in Sacramento, California
I graduated in ‘07 and we didn’t have enough lockers for all the students so you had to pay for one and they were always inevitably the farthest area from your classes so it ended up useless anyway. Often friends would share one locker.
We also were only required to take a single semester of PE and we could defer it to summer and take a 3 week multi-hr PE but because it would be super hot they couldnt require outdoor cardio so we hung out with friends and it was essentially free summer camp.
I went to this high school, it’s in Washington. 8:38 they were doing that because they were sending the Golf team off to state.
There are two different lunchrooms. The commons (circular room they went to in between a lot of classes) then if you cross the bridge you can go to the other building and there is another lunch room in there. There are a lot of food options. There is a rotating lunch menu, a student store (cups, bagels, candy, etc) and when I went there they had fresh baked cookies at a cookie stand. This school has about 2200 students.
There were white lockers when they were talking about gifs.
He missed them. Lol I was laughing when he said he didn’t see lockers. I said I did you missed them. Lol
2200? Mine had 400 students in the entire school and it took three towns to get that many students. Honestly, I could tell it was a West Coast school. East Coast schools aren’t usually that nice unless it’s a private or preparatory school.
@@adeleennis2255 my graduation class was over 500. This school is in a town with a population of roughly 25,000. It was built in the early 90’s and one of the nicest in the area at the time. Although as they’ve built new and remodeled older schools in surrounding areas they’re all pretty nice. I had no clue schools were so different on the east coast.
@@adeleennis2255 The graduating class of my high school had 376 students four decades ago. My older sister's senior class had 750. Difference is they built a new high school and split the student body. The school district has grown to become the third largest in Texas with 13 high schools. The largest one having 3,500 students.
I was thinking it had to be in Washington because the school is mostly White students.
You did see lockers… they are set into the wall and blend in. He’s walking past lockers in the hallways.
And I had to take weightlifting for my PE requirement because I was late picking my classes and that was the only option. I was a small 90lb girl so the PE teacher and I were both frustrating to each other. I kept saying “damn dude you want me to just lift the bar with no weights on it? Ok it’s 45 lbs which is over half what I weigh but here I gooooo…
I’ve got herniated discs in my back and a shoulder that routinely pops out of joint now. I’d advise staying away from the weightlifting class unless you’re a football player, a wrestler, or just a juice head.
It was funny that he was commenting about not seeing lockers as they literally walked by them. 😂 I guess the neutral tones of the ones in this school made them blend in
@@jeffbartholomew1152 ours were bright blue so hard to miss lol. This school looks a lot cooler than where I went to school though. I’m guessing West coast, Pacific Northwest somewhere. I’m in southeastern US. Our schools are barely passable. It shows in the demographics. (I can say that, I live here and am a product of said school system)
@@sweetwater156 I went to hs in VA so I understand. My school had red and gray lockers to match the school colors. Part of our high school was built in the 60’s and was miserable and the other part was “new” and miserable lol
Tbh if you're in any sports, you're in athletics since the start, so lifting the bar is just basic work
I played a bunch of sports and I was the strongest girl in my school when it came to bench Squat was another story.
uniforms are mainly worn in private schools. Our schools in the Midwest USA start about 7:45 a.m. and let out around 3:25pm. They get 20 to 30 minutes for lunch. School year is from mid August to late May.
Same here in Upstate NY from Kindergarten to 12th grade school starts in first week of September though & finishes at the end of June and starts at 7:42am but they have to be outside for the bus at 6:30am Monday-Friday & my daughters do after school activities every single day so they take the late bus home & usually get home around 4:50pm & in the winter here 4:50pm it’s relatively dark outside by then… my daughters are home just in time for dinner, showers & a small amount of free time before they gotta get up & do it all over again & I have 1 daughter who graduated high school last year, 1 daughter who graduates next month then 3 more daughters in high school & the middle school… I have to be up at 4:30am every week day just so I have a few minutes to wake up before all the chaos starts… it’s crazy… my oldest (oldest one in school still) is usually the first one up at 4:45am & the other 3 aren’t far behind… my days are like a circus, sometimes it gets absolutely insane when they start arguing over something… It’ll be AMAZiNG when they’re all done with school but at the same time I don’t want them to grow up… I struggle with the fact that my first baby is already 19yrs old because all I do is worry about her safety when she’s out, same with my other daughters but my oldest graduated already so she moved into the 1 bedroom apartment above our garage (still accessible from the house, thank god) but she’s trying to get used to being on her own before she goes away to college so it’s easier for her but I agreed to not put rules on her & give her complete freedom as long as she is always careful, safe & doesn’t do things she knows are wrong, she also shares her location at all times through our iPhones so we all know each other’s whereabouts at all times but it’s still so scary!! It’s so crazy how radically different schools are…🤨
As a highschooler, I find this funny. My school starts at 8, but most show up at 7:30am for breakfast, or to chill outside. We get off at 3pm and on Wednesdays we get off at 2pm, because teachers have a meeting at 2 every Wednesday. I live in town, so I don't take a bus, but depending on how big the school is, they will either show up at a meeting point where students will walk to, like a public bus stop, or the bus will stop in front of the house. Which they mainly do for younger kids. I also noticed that the students in that video can carry backpacks to class, which is a shocker for me, considering we don't get to. Probably because of gun threats, lol. My school is a public school, so we do not have to wear uniforms, but there is a dress code so students don't get "carried away" with what they wear. Private schools wear uniforms, which I don't know if every single one does because I have never been to one. School is strict about cameras and phones, but you can record or vlog if you have permission from teachers and the principal. In between the bell, they let us use our phone until class starts. My school uses lockers, and we aren't allowed to carry backpacks to classes. They used to let us carry our backpacks everywhere, but that was before I became a highschooler. I don't know if you will read this, but I hope this helps.
Did they increase break time between classes when they banned backpacks? When I went to school if you had to go to your locker (or to the bathroom) between classes you'd often be late to class, because the school was 2 floors, and if your classes were the furthest distance apart it could take 6 or 7 minutes between them. If you had to detour to a locker, it could add several more minutes. But we got 5 minutes between classes. No exceptions. You'd sometimes have to run (but get in trouble if a teacher was in a bad mood and saw you running).
@@Wiley_Coyote It used to be three minutes, then they changed it to four. My school is considered small, but they don't care at all. Most kids carry everything for every class. Our bathroom breaks are during lunch, which is 40 minutes long. But because we have a very small school no one actually complains much, there's only like 200 kids in my school and about 150 in the middle school. I don't find a big problem with it either, just a few lunch detentions and it's over with.
I noticed that most of the students in the video were wearing masks, so I think the school at the time of filming might've had various restrictions due to covid. At my school, for a full year in the height of the pandemic, we didn't get lockers but instead brought our backpacks everywhere for sanitation reasons. Usually, backpacks aren't allowed.
Yeah some American schools are very paranoid (for good reason I suppose). Like you can’t bring your backpack OR a coat into class because there could be a gun in it
@@musicalcrazedunicorn1460 when I was in middle school we got to stay in a designated spot, the teachers had to move to each class instead of students, to reduce chances of covid. That only lasted like a month or so before online school started up though. In high school, they don't care, whether there was a few cases or not, no backpacks were allowed outside of our locker while school was still happening, only if we were leaving early.
The breakfast/lunch provided also depends on location and demographics. I grew up in south Texas on the border in a city where the population is 98% Hispanic/Latino and we would get tamales as an option for lunch. My husband being from middle Georgia was shocked and jealous 😂😂
i grew up in north texas and even we got tamales as an option for lunch lol
Physical Education (gym class) is considered an essential part of primary and secondary curriculum. Practically every US kid has gym class at least once a week. A lot of schools offer varying options (specific athletic activities) for gym.
I’m in Upstate NY & to graduate high school you need 4 years of gym/p.e. credits, I learned that last year when my daughter who was a senior & a few months away from graduation was messing around in school & not changing for gym because she loves “Crocs”, slides & the little slip on “vans” sneakers which aren’t acceptable to wear for gym of course so I got a call from the school that she needed to makeup gym classes & stay after school for night school to do that in order to graduate. The only difference is that in our area students K-12 have a gym class every single day of the week, they don’t have a single day of school where they don’t have gym class & in our area they have 9 classes (periods is what they call them) but they have 9 classes a day not including after school activities or any night school classes & all my girls stay after school for something every day of the week & always have so K-12 school starts at 7:42am & ends at 3pm but they stay after school every day so they get on the bus at 6:30am & get home around 4:50pm… it’s extremely chaotic. I have to get up at 4:30am every day just to have a few minutes to wake up & have coffee before the circus starts, my oldest graduated & my 2nd eldest graduates next month then I have a high schooler, junior high schooler & a middle schooler left so it can get crazy very fast, especially being all girls because they argue over everything! Elementary school is K-3 here, middle school is 4-6, junior high is 7-8 & high school is 9-12… all separate school buildings that are situated exactly like a college campus except for elementary school, we have 3 different elementary schools in 3 different towns that all transition into the 1 middle school, junior high school & high school. It’s a decent size school. Reading all the differences in schools around the country & out of the country even is crazy, I think all education in the United States should be the same everywhere in terms of classes needed to graduate, credits, hours & stuff like that… I know here in NY too much is expected of these kids, they get up way too early & don’t get home till dinner time basically, I am glad that they no longer have homework ever since Covid, i don’t know why they chose to discontinue it but it took a lot of pressure off the kids… it was so hard when my girls were in K-3, having to wake up so early due to school starting at 7:42am.
My experience: I got up at 6am and school for my started at 7:35am and ended around 2:45pm
Weight training was unit of PE for me.
Lockers were a thing in my high school. And there were a lot. And we’re usually designated a locker.
I remember for breakfast we’d get cereal or a breakfast sausage and a pancake in the form of a corn dog. Lunch was usually pizza, salad, burgers and things like that.
17:41 they're called portables, or portable classrooms (although or playground equipment was held in one in elementary school). They're trailers, and typically added to the school as it's student population gets too big for the school building, it's cheaper, faster, easier to throw a few of those up than building a new building onto the school.
In Louisiana: Each Parish (County) has it's own School Board. Local sales and property taxes help fund the schools. The yellow school buses drive down each street to collect the students. The students are usually in several small groups for the bus to pick up. At one point the dress codes were so lenient that the schools were forced to demand uniforms. Each school has certain first bell and dismissal hours. Usually 8 AM to 3 PM. Some kids have to catch the bus while it's still dark outside due to long bus routes.
Some schools have uniforms others don't. Typically, in public education, there are no uniforms. I did used to go to a school in a really bad neighborhood with a lot of poverty and changing to uniforms was a huge debate. Going from the 7th to 8th grade, they did make that change. Students were disappointed but parents were relived.
In my school we had a lot of different lunches, pizza, cheesesteak subs, taco salad, burgers, mozzarella sticks with marinara sauce, vegan options, etc; there was a mad amount of options for sides always too. You always had to get a fruit or vegetable as a side and around holidays there were special meals. Before thanksgiving break we always had turkey with gravy and stuffing
must have been a larger school that was doing better financially. My school had one option or a pb&J and you only got the two sides that were offered and a tiny milk. That's it.
So this school is definitely a newer building with a more open "campus-like" concept. I went through school in New Jersey in the US and it was both similar to this and also very different. Generally in the US only private schools or religious schools (like Catholic schools for example) wear uniforms but there is a dress code. Skirts/shorts have to be a certain length, no spaghetti strap/strapless shirts, no backless shoes, no offensive words/graphics on shirts, no hats, and keep your hoodie's hood down -- that's how it was in my schools. In my district elementary school (grades k-6) started at 9:20am and ended at 3:20pm, middle school (grades 7 & 8) and high school (grades 9-12) started at 7:20am and ended at 1:40pm. We had the big yellow busses, and everyone had an assigned "bus stop". So the neighborhood kids would all gather basically at designated street corners and up to like 10 kids would get on at a time. This school seems to have way more options for courses they can take and very definitely is a newer school just based on the desks and chairs alone. Of course, I graduated in 2005 so we didn't have a lot of the tech classes as options. There were over 2,000 students in my high school, and over 550 in my graduating class. Every student had a locker. These kids seem to have more time between classes -- we had to absolutely book it to get from class to class between periods. Gym glass for us was co-ed and mandatory, and we had locker rooms where we had to change into gym clothes. While my school had a teeny tiny weight room, we used it maybe once a year during gym class on a rainy day when nobody else had it booked, otherwise it was playing sports or testing endurance or things like that. Universally the most hated period of the day. There were 3 or 4 periods that were designated lunch periods where you could go to one of the two cafeterias, or if you had a car you could drive off campus and go eat out. There definitely was NOT an area where students could converge and meet up or hang out, it was all about getting to and from class ASAP.
Our county high school is 7:30-2:35. No uniforms required. Kids that have cars drive to school, the rest are driven by their parents, some do ride the yellow bus. Most students are picked up outside their home, occasionally there will be a pick up point, if it is a small road the bus won't go down it to pick up students. Our next county over from us is huge. They do require uniforms in most of the public schools as well as the private schools.
Schools here do vary enormously. I went to a public school and we were permitted in high school to leave campus at lunch and go to restaurants and drive our friends with us to that lunch. I don't know how that school is now as that seems, in hindsight as it was over 20 years ago, now crazy for liability reasons alone. I loved my experience though and still know some of my middle school and high school teachers and my dearest friends are those I met in elementary/middle school (at the same place) and with them for years as we grew up together.
The school i went to is in the middle of a cornfield it would take us twenty minutes to go to the closest town to get food 💀
I am a high school teacher. Our school starts at 7:40. The school buses will pick up groups of students at the end of a street in a housing development. If a student has a severe disability, they will pick that student up at their home. As for the desks, the teachers can put them in anyway they choose, however, if they have a large class size, they might not have a choice but to put them into rows, especially if they have overcrowding. Smaller elective classes such as language classes, Spanish, German, cooking, sewing will have different arrangements as they will typically have less students. PUBLIC schools don't have uniforms, only private/Catholic schools have uniforms. High schools also differ drastically depending upon where they are. This is a nice high school however, some cities like Detroit have high schools that are falling apart. There poorer inner city schools are suffering greatly. He did pass lockers a bunch of times but most kids now don't use them as so much is on the computer. They just carry their bookbags with them everywhere. The kids were clapping because a sports team, I think the golf team was going off in those vans to a tournament. We often have students stand in rows to cheer our teams on if they have made it to a finals or states. The students are required to take at least 3 years of physical education.
In my specific county, Uniforms are required in All Public Elementary and Middle Schools. HS are given an option by school as to Uniforms, all but two HS opted to Require uniforms in their HS.
correction: All HS opted in for uniforms, except two High schools.
Yes we have classes for weight training,
I remember me and my friends would workout in class with music in the background
good times!
great reaction bro, love from California !
Schools vary widely in US. I live in Pennsylvania & some public schools wear uniforms, but mostly private. Physical Education is a mandatory part of the curriculum. My school hrs were 8:35-3:35. Yellow buses usually have a pickup spot for kids within a certain neighborhood. Traditionally, most schools have lockers, but I’m sure some of the newer built maybe don’t. You can get a wildly different experience even within the same school district so there is not a “typical American school”. A lot depends on money and whether you’re in a wealthy area or economically depressed.
I’m from Pennsylvania as well. The elementary school children wear uniforms.
the lockers have been in every background when dude is walking in hallways...
The “boxes” were extra room for classes. In elementary school I was in one of those for a few years. We all had our own lockers in middle/high school. We don’t have uniforms but we do have a dress code. Uniforms are only if you go to a private school typically. There are all sorts of high schools here though..mine wasn’t nearly as fancy as this one was. My school was 9:30am-3:30pm cause it was a charter school and they noticed kids did waaaaayy better with a later start time.
Start times vary. Historically, in Las Vegas area schools, kids can go to safekey, or enter for early bird classes or activities as early as 6:30. Breakfast is served every day too. Regular classes: high school 7:11am to 1:31pm, middle school 8:40am to 2:40pm and elementary school: (varies depending upon bus service) 9:15am to 3:20pm. Rough estimates.
School usually runs from 7:45am to 3:30pm depending on your state and school district but if you're riding the bus you have to get out there at least 30 min before school starts if not longer. I take my friend's kids to the bus stop because she and her husband have to be at work by 7 but their daughter's bus arrives at 6:50 and her son's at 7:15 so a 5:30 am wake up is NOT unusual, lol. Sometimes there's a localized spot to catch the bus which might be on a connecting main road to your street when you have a lot of kids going to the same school. Other times they stop either right in front of or a few houses away from your own house.
Private schools have uniforms and some public schools but for the most part, there's a dress code and we can wear whatever we want.
You missed the lockers. He was walking by them when he was talking about the correct pronunciation of GIF. You just didn't notice them because they were the same beige color of the walls, lol. Everyone has a locker assignment and you have your own lock for them. I think some schools provide them but I know we had to buy them specifically.
You have to remember, American schools are all about their sports but his weight training class may be an elective (extra/fun) class. Gym class is a standard class just like math, geography, history, English, etc. You're required to have so many "credits" to receive your diploma and graduate in each subject and after a certain grade, you don't have to keep studying a subject. For ex. once I reached my advanced math requirements in the 10th grade, I didn't have to take any more math classes for my 11th and 12th grade years.
Cafeteria food here can be hit and miss. What he didn't show is that some schools also provide breakfast. The food can vary and some offer fast food options. My high school had roast beef sandwiches from a place called RAX (miss them so much), pizza from Domino's and chicken sandwiches from Chick-Fil-A but we also had the option as seniors to actually leave campus during our lunch break.
I grew up in Philadelphia, which is a large city & we had to take public transportation (city buses, subway or the El train). Yellow school buses are mainly for elementary schools(5 years old to around 11 years old) or mentally challenged students. Even expensive private schools use public transportation if they live in the city. School never start later than 8:15am (across the country) because are the morning rush hour will become even worse if having to deal with school zone traffic!
My high school was old & it had bars on the windows & metal detectors when entering. We had to wear a PE uniform for gym class (from 5 years old until 18 years) & it was sweat pants or shorts, t-shirt or sweat shirt & had the school name & colors. A year after I graduated, the city had implemented school uniforms & they were khaki pants & a polo shirt of a specific color (varied by school).
Our high school (14 years old to 18 years old) was a big sports school. Men’s basketball (Kevin Hart went to my school & was on the basketball team - he’s small but fast!), football, baseball, soccer & tennis to a lesser extent. Woman softball, field hockey, basketball, volleyball, soccer & lacrosse. The top men’s sports 🏈 🏀⚾️ had large crowds. We had both cheerleaders & dance squads for games.
My school was very different than friends that moved outside the city. Their schools looked like mini universities!!
In Maryland there are 3 types of high-schools; private, public, and magnet. Private you wear uniforms and pay tuition, public no uniforms (there is a dress code) and it’s free, and magnet no uniforms is free but it’s geared towards science or art and you must apply. This school is super nice, my school had one window with bullet holes in it, no air conditioning, and was so overcrowded not everyone had a locker or a textbook. We didn’t have laptops or cameras for students. The trailers outside are extra classrooms for overcrowding. We had 12 at my high school. I loved classes in there because there was heat and ac during extreme temperatures.
Lol the amount of lockers they passed throughout the whole video has me cracking up :) they just blend in really well
My high school hours were from 8am - 3pm. Most Seniors (12th grade) and Juniors (11th grade) drive their own car to school and had their own parking space which they had to pay for. Some Sophmores (10th grade) drove as well if they were 16 years old. But most Sophmores and Freshman (9th grade) either took the bus or were driven to school by their parents.
The reason there are many busses is because they come to every students home to pick them up and drop them off , so no sir it's not just one certain road. Ww have school uniforms only in private schools but public schools you can wear your own clothes as long as they fit the dress code (length, coverage etc.) And as far as what you see on TV its pretty accurate .... We have lockers all over. We cant wait for you to come to the U.S. and experience things 1st hand. The movies and TV dont do it justice !!!! Love your channel ❤❤
I was laughing at how many times we saw lockers before you finally saw them! That made my day!
I MUST BE BLIND😂
Oh my gosh same I was like they’re right there they’re right there they’re right there and then he finally noticed the ones hiding behind that girl 😂
The Yellow buses are for school kids only and they pick up kids who live more than half a mile from school (others walk). The LONG bus would pick us up at the end of our driveway (rural area) at 7am school started at 8:15am. When school ended we had another hour-long ride home. The SHORT yellow buses took special education students to another school after arriving in the morning. They also took students who had detention home.
My school experience in the 1980's was similar to this, but also had many differences. Your parents will understand my school years better than you. Obviously, there were no mobile phones. You actually talked to each other, or you wrote notes to each other. This school vlog was similar to my Junior High school with lots of windows and light. My Senior High school was an old building with dark hallways and many stairs to walk up. It was a relief to step outside into the sun at lunch-time or after school.
Phones are banned during classes, they get taken away if caught out, or not in a phone drop off area. We actually talk, coming from a highschooler. Kids often get sent to detention for speaking during lunch or break, so if we don't speak to each other it's the schools fault for teaching us not to when we should be able to.
Year after COVID my school implemented quiet lunches so nobody could talk or they would get detention. They only did that for a year but now lunches are so quiet. And I wish we could step outside, can’t do that now.
school buses stop at a point close to the neighborhood or a point where kids can walk to a safe point for the bus to pick them up or drop them off. its a route buses take.
Depending on the school, how rural or urban the community, the distance, and other factors, the school bus may pick you up directly in front of your house or at a nearby location designated for the kids in your neighborhood.
School buses are also used for field trips and to transport school sports teams to games and tournaments.
In NY, graduated 2017, middle school started at 7:40 and ended at 2:40, we had one building for all freshman in the district and that started at 7:10 and we got out at 2, and high school started at 7:20 until 2:10.
We had 9 45min periods in a day. With a few different classes on A B C D days.
No school uniforms for most public schools, some schools have them but most school uniforms are private schools.
The type of lockers you see in movies and shows used to be a thing in the 70's and earlier. In the 80's they began removing them from schools. It was mainly because of kids leaving things in them over summer but also safety concerns. Most lockers in schools now, are for PE or are leftover from a bygone era because removing them is expensive.
my school just cut all the locks every summer and opened all the lockers.
Yeah I cleaned the lockers during the summer because I needed extra hours so yep some stuff is left behind
Typically public schools don’t have uniforms. School uniforms are still very common in private schools
17:34 those are portables, if there’s not enough space in the school or not enough rooms they build those outside and they’re like outdoor classes you can say
Every student is assigned a locker. You can choose to use it or not up to you.
They have better videos than this one
I grew up in rural America- my bus stop was the bottom of my driveway for graded school, but my town didn't have it's own high school. This was almost 30 years ago, we had a choice of five different schools, but you or your parents had to get you there. Not able to afford my own rig, I got to school at quarter to seven, classes start at 8. Some sports and the agriculture program kids had to be there even earlier (school still has dairy and beef cows, horses, sheep and chickens, and any one can get detention literally in the form of shoveling shit at six AM). I had a locker, but most semesters my schedule never had me going past it, so I rucked everything. My high school had a campus with a lot of buildings, and it was routinely mistaken for the state college a mile away (that they had the same architect for the main buildings probably doesn't help :P ). The gym you're seeing- thats normal, most states require you take two years of gym. Mine school also had a requirement that you had to take and pass two years of foreign languages. Classes run until 2.30, then you have tutoring, clubs and sports. The gym has a lounge area that would be locked up at 7pm, main building, tech labs and library were locked at 5pm. You could literally spend 13 hours there, and some kids did. And so did a lot of teachers so that those labs could be available.
There was summer school. It wasn't just for the screwups- they had professors from the college teaching advanced classes in the summer, and the tech and trades programs run apprenticeships in the summer. And the farm runs year round. There were vacations, sure, but there are always students on campus, seven days a week, fifty two weeks a year. You could also, if your grades were high enough, your senior year take first year classes at the college, but you had pay your tuition (discounted), your books and get yourself between campuses.
Since I graduate, they've reactivated the resident student program. The dorms are half full of foreign students, the other half is mostly students from out of state who's parents are shipping them in for the the agriculture, forestry or tech programs.
High school usually starts around 7:30, but a lot of kids have to take a bus to get there, which can be like 45+ minutes more, and arrives of course before start of school, so many kids are waiting at the bus stop around 6:30am.
We have to have the yellow school buses because there are *no* public buses. They just drive around and pick up/drop off school kids, usually one round for the high school kids, and then back out for the younger kids. And then the other direction at the end of the school day. Sometimes if you're lucky they'll pick you up right in front of your house, but more commonly kids walk to the end of a subdivision street and wait together. No kids walk to school anymore. First of all, no sidewalks, but also no one lets kids walk anywhere unsupervised, and if someone saw them doing that, they'd probably get child services called on them.
Most schools do *not* have uniforms.
You keep saying you haven't seen lockers yet - they're on all the walls of all the hallways! You're missing them! They're right there!! 😂
FYI - that's a wealthy school district. Most schools don't have weight lifting as a class option! They might have some weights somewhere for the sports teams, though.
School food is absolute sh*t. And there's usually about 20 minutes to stand in line, get it, and wolf it down.
The outdoor "boxes" can be extra classess if there's overflow in the building or storage. One of the schools in my town has them for both. The town is expanding and there's no budget to build an additional building, so those are used until the meantime.
Those blue things on the wall of some of the halls are lockers. They also have lockers in the gym shower rooms.12:31
Brings back memories...There were several shots with lockers, I was waiting for you to say there they are!
The "boxes" outside are what they call portable classrooms. It's to relieve crowding or if there is a speciality class that they cannot get room for they will put it into a portable also.
In America Elementary Schools are usually K-5 grades or ages 5-11, Middle School is 6-8grades ages 11-14, Highschool is grades 9-12 which is ages 14-18.
boxes outside are portables. usually theyre put around the school for more classrooms if they have no space of if the classes need to be taken out of the main building (missbehaved kids/ kids held back grades)
17:48 they're mobile classrooms. They build them when part of the school is under construction
Where I teach, it goes 7:40-3. When I went to school it started 7:10-2:30. This year some of the schools in our district changed to late start 8:45-4, but not all of the schools that are even in the same district have the same start times anymore. It varies by school a lot. The buildings you asked about are temporary buildings overflow classrooms. They are used when the school is being renovated OR when the school has too many kids for their classroom space, but not enough to build another school.
UK has these huts too to increase capacity. Less so nowadays. Freezing in winter, boiling in summer!
about the school buses: there are stops in neighborhoods where the buses will get you and drop you off. its not like a regular bus stop youd see in the city w a normal bus, they are stops specifically for the school buses
for uniforms, most schools dont have them. sometimes private schools have uniforms and some public schools could have them but personally ive never had to wear a uniform
Perspective from a U.S senior citizen... There are lockers in this high school. There was a time when backpacks were used by hikers, only. All textbooks were hardbound, so too heavy to carry all of them the entire day. You were assigned a locker and a combinaton lock. The school kept a master key which could open any lock. Did you ever see That 70s Show? In my senior year, the local police would bring in drug sniffing dogs to do random locker checks. I do recall certain student office aides finding out when that would happen, and spread the word by word of mouth (No cell phones).... There were Key Clubs back them. It was and is now a branch of Kiwanis International club, that gives students opportunity for community service projects. The Key Club is supposed to help build character and leadership skills.
Some school busses have stops (mostly i cities and towns), in rural areas busses stop in the best location for each student (this also happens to usually be driveways of each student because of the large properties and distances between students. When I woke up for the bus it was pitch black outside.)
When I was in high school, school started at 8:45 am and ended at 2:23 pm. There were two days ( Wednesday & Thursday) where we had a “block” schedule meaning that we only went to 3 out of our six classes and went to the remaining 3 on the following day. We still got out of school at the same time, but each class time was doubled. Also, we had lockers, but no one used them, they were actually removed during my senior year. However, I did attend a Charter school so we operated on our own terms.
edit: I went to school in Florida btw and I had a uniform 😢
I live in Long Island, New York and my school district. Everyone is required to take physical education to graduate. The only way you can opt out if you have a severe severe medical condition with a doctor's note
I grew up in south Texas. School was many years ago. I can still remember Tuesday was Mexican food, Thursday was usually turkey & dressing w/mashed potatos, Friday was fish. We also got salisbury steak, soups, etc. The choice back then was white or chocolate milk, and cake, pie, etc. By junior high most of us would just walk to a store and buy candy, chips (not your kind of chips) ice cream etc., high school we’d hop in the car and usually go to a hamburger stand. In highs school class started at 8:30 and ended around 3:30. You had a hour for lunch, and a couple 15 minute breaks. In high school you got 2 elective classes. My first class was working in the school office. My last elective was my last class which I chose as free and got me out a hour earlier than others. Like I said that was a long time ago. Our schools in my small town of a little over 10,000 had usually 30-33 students per class. Everyone had a locker. Nowadays most kids carry everything in backpacks for convenience.
There were lockers seen in majority of every clip of him in the hallways. Most schools have lockers, but most students prefer to just use their bookbags. And some schools you have to pay to have a locker, for example my school you have to pay.
I graduated high school in 1988. I believe we started at 7:30 and ended between 3:00 - 3:30. We had eight class periods and a 30 or 40-minute lunch break (I can't remember exactly). If you had sports practice or other extracurricular activities, you usually left around 5:00pm for home. Eat dinner, do homework, go to bed, and repeat. I lived in an affluent suburb, so experiences vary. A student had to live X miles away from school in order to be eligible to ride the school bus. Some students were picked up right in front of their houses. If there were a group of students who lived close to each other there would be one stop and the students would walk the rest of the way to/from home. Mind you if you rode the bus and your bus route was long or you were one of the first to be picked up a student could be riding the bus for 30-45 minutes before they got to school. This impacted what time you had to wake up. On days I didn't have a car to drive myself or get a ride with friends this meant I was often up at 5:30am and at the bus stop by 6:15am. I was long gone before my parents even had to wake up.
School buses, depending on how large and how well-funded the fleet are either DO pick kids up in front of their house, or alternatively, they have designated pick up points that the kids will all cluster at and wait for it to show up.
I lived a few blocks from the local high school, so until I got to high school, I would go join all the other smaller kids standing on the sidewalk outside of it. They'd drop off the high schoolers and then we'd get on the bus and they'd take us to our elementary/middle school.
The box outside of the school is called a portable. They can be classes, admin offices, a student museum project. We turned one of our portables into a museum of education about the Holocaust ...
You usually only see rows or groupings of desks (we don’t call them tables) in elementary (primary) school. After that, we have individual desks.
In college (at university) lots of classrooms are built more like auditoriums, especially in newer buildings.
busses usually have designated bus stops that aren't always marked as "school bus stop" and are usually just the corners of roads and students from the area walk there and wait for the bus to get to that point in the route.
The box looking buildings we had in high school were called "portables" they were a bit modular. They would move them around for particular courses. We had a portable set up as a murder scene for our criminal justice department, another set up for other random classes, we had a crime lab in one, an orchestra class in another a landscaping class in one, etc etc. We also had garage shops for our welding classes, automotive classes, boat/marine class, hvac, drafting, etc. Went to a tech school so there was a lot of random things. And we (as of 2007) were allowed to bring tools and knives with us to school....and sometimes things far scarier that knives lol
I go to school in america as well but I've NEVER seen a school that nice!! it looks so clean and really nice!!
Just watching this, I can already smell the cold air best described as the shape of gray.
States have different school starts and finishes .. with my school you have to be in first period before 7:30 but I’m usually up at like 5:00 for football lifts at certain times
In terms of food for my school we have multiple lines. We have like a sandwich line which consists of like chicken sandwiches & burgers, a pizza line, a nacho line, and a "traditional line" which consists of like random basic food. Eveyday of the week you have a select item or 2 for each line and a menu gets posted for you and you get the liberty of choosing what you feel like eating.
Most schools here start about 7:30 ish and school ended around 4pm ish. And they had what we call a bus barn or bus plant where the busses were kept when not used and then would line up to load kids up to take them home. When picking up the bus will sometime pick up/ drop off in-front of house but mostly there was a bus stop on each street or block corner
This is like a John Hughes high school. It is too perfect to be believed.
My highschool (Cincinnati, Ohio) started at 8:05, but you could also voluntarily choose an "early bird" class that would start at 7:10. I did that for my sophmore and senior year english classes because it was the only way to fit certain other classes into my schedule. I also had a once a week "night class" my junior year for a social studies elective from 6-8:30pm, so lots of long school days.
My high school was 8:50-3:50. A lot of (big) districts have the younger kids go to school earlier and middle and high school later so buses can run multiple routes for different schools within a district.
Its actually so interesting to hear the difference in schooling systems, but also every county/school district in the US is very different, so we can't really compare from only one school
1:06 My school(at least the highschool in my district) starts at 7:30, or 8:30 on Fridays, and it always ends at 2:45(unless there are after school activities). I usually get up at like 5:30 to get ready and be there by 7:15. The school I go to is around a 45 minute walk away from my house(7 min drive) so my mom will drive me to and from school. There aren't many public buses where I live, and the school bus stop is literally the middle school(15 min walk away) so it doesn't make sense for me to use other means of transportation. Some neighborhoods do just have a set bus stop that isn't a building, though.
3:50 Every school's layout is a bit different! My cafeteria is a big square with a stage on one side and outside seating as well, but it's not circular at all. Different subjects/classrooms will also have different tables- science/arts rooms usually have bigger group tables while ELA, math, etc will have individual desks.
4:50 Some schools do(for all grades), but generally they don't. Usually private or charter schools will, and public schools can implement them if they wish but most do not. Personally, I've never had to wear one.
5:14 In the US it usually goes elementary(ages 5-11), middle/junior high(11-14), and then highschool(14-18). After that you can choose to go to college, or if your highschool has a certain program you can do highschool and college classes at the same time before you graduate.
9:05 Usually taken as a PE class- but you probably have to do other lower level classes before taking it
13:34 Honestly, we don't really use lockers that more, but most schools still have them available if needed. I know some schools where everyone is given a locker and you can choose whether or not to use it. In others(like mine) you can ask for one if needed.
15:06 School lunch here is actually so bad sometimes😭 Personally I don't usually eat school lunch, but looking at my friend's it's either dry, moist, or moldy. They change what we get every day along with a salad bar thing and questionable milk or juice.
17:37 Those are usually called mods or pods- used for extra classrooms or storage
18:43 It definitely depends on the school. Most schools will have stricter rules against using them during class time, but it's really up to the teacher. Some will let you have it out and use it during non work time and others will take it if they even see you holding it lmao
School in my little town in Georgia started for elementary at 7:40to 2:40 middle it’s 8:35 to 3:45. And at my high school it was 8:35 to 3:35. Our high school had a giant staircase in the center that goes down towards the cafe and we had 4 hallways, 3 exterior buildings, one was the new and old gym, the other was for arts like music, drama, and art class. And another for shop like fixing cars and stuff. Then we had our football field in the back. Our school was one of two high schools in our town.
I graduated in ‘05 and class started @7am ended @3pm
Busses will pick you up at a stop near your home. Like the group of kids that live around that stop will gather there and wait for the buss to pick you up. Then, head to the rest of the stops 😄
School uniforms, are only for like private schools, MOST public schools don’t make their students wear uniforms BUT they do have dress codes. Like skirt length usually has to be “below finger tips” when your arms are down, and no flip flops, no pjs.. things like that lol
Weight training, usually substitutes gym (from my experience in school
Ive went to alot of different american highschools from moving around alot. Quality of lunch varied alot by school district as different schools contracted different catorers. Couple districts i attended had full salad and snack bars, as well as a full buffet with different stuff in it. Gotta pay of course.
in My High school for the first two year we started at 10 am but the last two years classes started at 7:30 am. The school buses have standard routes and pick children up at set points. Most towns outside of large cities don't have public transportation and school can be miles away, so either someone drives you to school, you take a bike or the school bus. Uniforms will differ from state to state or district to district. Most of the times if there is a uniform requirement it is at the elementary school level. Lockers at 6:22. Gym class was mandatory in my school and you had gym class every day and had to pass the class like any other.
Most schools do breakfast - lunches (per remembering my kids school) - they had a salad bar - pasta bar - sandwich grill ie: hot dogs hamburger -- far cry from when I was in school in the 60-70's where we all got a tray and food was loaded on - although I do remember days we got apple crisp - my favorite! LOL The outdoor buildings are portables - used vs building new buildings -- when you go inside - you can't tell they are a "trailer" - economical and they work!
Schools certainly vary quite a bit across the country. Even within my own state, it's wildly different sometimes. I'm from Appalachian Kentucky and I moved to Lexington, Ky after high school. My husband's brother was still in high school when we met and his school was nothing like mine, not even the social order lol. And I went to school in Michigan for a short time when I was a kid, and when I returned I was behind in a lot of classes. My high school started at 8. I don't remember what time it ended, but I think it was 3. There are designated bus stops.
The things that are probably similar across the country are yellow school busses, lockers, and individual desks, although science classes and computer labs have larger tables. Some schools have uniforms, but most do not. There are dress codes though.
Our food was similar to yours from the sound of it. Pizza, fries, chicken nuggets, things like that. We had rolls that were really good (a bread item). Some kids would pool there money and buy a whole tray of them for the table lol
We did not have classes for weight training, just PE. But, I went to school in the 90s, so. lol. But my middle school PE class was better than my high school one because there was a fitness center right behind it. In high school, we hardly did anything but play basketball and run laps. In middle school, we had 2 days of playing basketball, kickball, dodgeball/paramedic (something the teacher made up that was like dodgeball lol), or running, 2 days at the fitness center playing tennis and racquetball/handball, and 1 day of swimming. They wouldn't let us use the weight equipment.
This guy's school looks wildly different than mine, although mine has been renovated recently. This one looks modern, and kinda cavernous lol. Mine had been built in the 60s. Everyone should be designated a locker, but schools are pretty crowded these days, so idk. You missed a lot of them at the beginning of the video lol. Those buildings outside the schools are portable classrooms for overcrowded schools. Not something we had in my school, but we weren't overcrowded.
Common room becomes cafeteria at lunch,often concert performance space,assembly space etc. The tables all have wheels
I live in South Carolina, and in the rural areas most buses pick up students between 6:20 &6:40 the ride takes a lot longer, but classes would typically start at 8:15ish.. it not exactly the same in every school but they All start by 8:30 !
Thank you for such a fun video. It brought back a few memories of high school, but a little different (I went to a suburban public high school for one year, then transferred to a high school in the city to go to their specialized magnet program).
Seeing your interest in the physical education class, I really think you'd have a blast from watching PE classes from the past:
During the 60s, La Sierra High School in Cerritos, California had such a high level program, it was recognized by then President John Kennedy.
There are similar videos showing physical education classes in the 40s, 50s, and 60s at various schools.
Check them out. They're pretty insane considering what PE classes are like now.
Thank you again for the entertaining and informative videos
in my school district, we're in a decent-sized city with dozens of public schools, so different neighborhoods have buses that then center at depots, where the students exchange onto buses to their own schools (often multiple schools share a bus that will drop off at one school at a time)
High School where I am in California is 8:30- 3:30, unless you do a specialty art like band or choir then you might start at 7:00, that's called zero period. First period is 8:30. We essentially never have uniforms in state run public schools. School bus pick-up/drop-off spots vary depending on whether it's an urban area or rural area and also depending on age; a kindergartener in the country side or even suburb will likely get dropped off at their house, but the older the child or more urban the area the more likely they will walk to a bus stop.
i went to private school, which i believe is what you all in the UK call public, versus public here is what you all would call state school. so we had uniforms. khaki slacks, white button ups (white polos in summer), navy blazer or cardigan (for mass and assemblies only) and girls had navy, white and green (think notre dame colors) skirts. it was pretty strict, as far as you couldn't be on your phone unless you were in the amphitheater, quad/commons or lunchroom. each person was assigned a locker at the beginning of the year during return/new student orientation. you were also assigned a lock that you could pick a combination for. our lunches were nothing too cool. we had a salad bar and a local pizza place called sardella's would bring in pizzas every day, so pizza bar. the "regular" menu would rotate. so in the fall and winter we would have things like grilled cheese sandwiches with chicken noodle or tomato soup. baked potatoes with chili, etc. in the spring burgers or hot dogs with fries (chips) or these nasty watery steamed veggies. my parents usually gave me a $5 every morning so i would get a slice of pizza, an arizona green tea and a snack from the vending machine instead of being subjected to the lunch lady food. lol, but all in all it wasn't very dissimilar to this video. everyone was pretty chill. we had this english teacher named Mr. Kelly who was an absolute nut. every once in a while he would get a real serious look, also like he was going to lose it. then suddenly he would duck behind his podium and up would pop his arm, with a cookie monster puppet on it. and he would start belting out the "C is for Cookie" so, in a very convincing cookie monster voice.
in the last 3 years of my high school i went to minuteman in Lexington mass they used to have mcdonalds in the school for lunch before i was there but it was deemed unhealthy. when i was there they replaced the mcdonalds stuff with a massive bacon double cheese burger or a breaded and fried chicken sandwich, both of which came with seasoned fries. i had that everyday for 3 years
For the question about where the bus picks you up from. In my area the bus picked up a group of kids every few streets where the subdivisions met the main road. So you'd be standing at the end of one street, and vaguely see the next group of kids like a half mile away.
My high school was from 9am - 2:45pm. However, my extracurricular activities meant that I was on campus at 7am for marching band rehearsal and until 6pm for tennis/football practice. And sometimes even longer whenever we had to work on activities put on by the student government.
Uniforms are mostly found up to middle school and uniforms in high school are mostly for private schools. Your high school is our high school. And your “university” is our “college/university” (they’re the same thing for us for the most part).
He walked by lockers the 1st time at about the 6:25 mark. My PE classes included how to play golf (& football, baseball, volleyball, etc) & the physical exercise alternated with physical health classes. My high school was built in the 1970s and was a 2-story block plus a couple annex buildings (shop class, etc). We didn't really have a common area unless you count the central entry hall. I have managed to forget the lunches, possibly a trauma response, although you could buy ice cream.
Uniforms were implemented in my hometown (Louisiana) after I graduated and we had lockers. When we moved back to Louisiana my kids had to wear uniforms. My daughter graduated in 2016 and she had lockers and my son (2 1/2yrs younger) was so excited to have lockers. Unfortunately they did away with lockers the year he was to start having them. The new schools have no lockers. Students have to carry everything with them. And our uniforms are basically khaki or navy pants/shorts and Polo type shirts or “spirit” shirts which are tshirts with the school name/mascot
The school busses pick you up outside your house or at the end of your road in most cities. When I was in school it started at 7:45 and lasted till 3:45. Most schools that require uniforms are private but some public schools as well.
In the cities/districts I went to high school, there were only lockers assigned for physical education or if you were in a sport when you needed a place to change clothes and keep your belongings. We didn’t really need them because our own textbooks we got for the year were kept at home for homework, and if we worked from a textbook in class, the classrooms had a set of their own that you’d take from a shelf and return before leaving.