American Schools vs. British Schools! | Americans React | Loners #58
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Uniforms were a life saver for me. I grew up poor. Dirt poor. We used to see how long we could sit in a cupboard with a tealight candle as a game because we couldn't afford to heat the house. There'd be ice inside the windows in winter. If our school didn't have uniforms I'd have to wear actual rags. Since there were uniforms I was wearing the exact same thing as everyone else. I loved it.
Uniforms used to be stupidly expensive in some schools though as some schools had very particular items that could only be sourced from particular suppliers.
@@drcl7429 thats why alot of schools, mine included, had student burseries. where if you qualified, the school/government would pay for stuff like uniforms, school trips, stationary etc. It helped low income families to get the stuff you needed. But I was like above the threshold line by a little bit so i had to pay for mine
She's from LIVERPOOL.
In the UK your " public" schools are called STATE schools and our "private" schools are called PUBLIC or INDEPENDENT schools. EVERY school will have it's own uniform.
We only graduate when we finish university.
Liverpool accent was influenced by Irish accents.
The English woman's accent is Scouse, meaning she's from Liverpool, which is heavily influenced by Irish. Belfast and Liverpool aren't that far away from each other, there's a ferry connecting the two countries, when a lot of Irish people emigrated they ended up in Liverpool.
While every UK school has a uniform, in my secondary school it was a colour code rather than, say, blazers, trousers, shirt and tie. As long as the top was dark blue, the trainers or shoes were black, and the shirt was white you could wear anything within those colours. Trousers could be black or grey; the tie (for boys) had to be the school's own, though, blue with red stripes.
Uniforms in U.K. schools are so pupils are all equal, to avoid pupils with parents who were less well off being shown up and embarrassed.
I'm not sure that is the actual rationale. I think originally it was to get used of the idea that you would have to wear a uniform or suit for working in a factory, office or shop.
Which is silly really considering we go out in the real world and then feel like we can judge people for things like repeating an outfit or not having brands. All it does is make people think that we should all be the same and that all people can afford the same. It can actually be a learning experience if children were able to love eachother no matter what their peers were wearing. But I guess that's a dream that will never happen.
Almost all schools in the UK have uniforms , both state and private schools (known confusingly as public)
She's definitely from Liverpool. Not a posh accent.
She would literally say something, 10 seconds later you would ask the comments the question she just answered! She said in the intro she is english, she said all schools have uniform, the education system in the uk is ranked significantly better - obviously tests would be harder than in America. No we do not graduate, we just get our exam results and move on to the next stage of education, no fuss. UK schools are stricter, its just a cultural thing, it creates well-mannered, better educated and overall more considerate people.
I would have hated having a graduation ceremony. My exam results came through the post and I was informed my exam certificates were waiting for me to collect but I never even bothered going back to pick them up. School uniforms prevent bullying over wearing the wrong label and reduces pressure on parents constantly being harassed by their kids to buy them the latest fashion to wear to school
In the UK at 14 you get to chose some of the subjects you will study for the next two years. In many schools once you have taken your final exam you don't have to return to school for the rest of the year. So students are leaving at different times. The same applies for when you take your 'A' levels again you chose your subjects and when you take your final exam that is it. However some students return for a set date when their school will end. It is quite common to see students coming away from school on that date with their shirts written on by their fellow students with messages a little like getting your plaster cast written on if you break a limb while at school.
The girl was probably from Liverpool or near there, same as the Beatles!
She's deffo a scouser
From the Wirral...
In my British school you weren’t allowed to have earrings, hair dye, we had to wear specific shoes, there was a kid in my class that got detention for not having his top button done up, we weren’t allowed too much makeup or nail polish
Yup same
UK has school uniform so it is not obvious who comes from rich or poorer families, Only up to age 16 when anyone can leave school. If you decide to stay on at school till 18 and do what we call A-Levels that is called the sixth form and you can wear your own clothes.
My sixth form had a uniform too but it was slightly different. There was a common room with a pool table, computers, sofas, drinks machines, kettle, whiteboards, lockers though and if you didn't attend classes nothing happened.
The last few weeks of your school life in the UK you only needed to turn up at school if you had an exam on one of your subjects. Consequently, school just... fizzled out. Once you had completed your own final exam then that was it really, you didn't need to go back into school until the results were published weeks later. You don't even have to do that now I believe, they are texted to you or emailed or posted or something.
I left school in the UK in 1978 and exam results were posted to me. I don't know if I could have gone into school to pick them up, but couldn't have done so as I was already working full time.
She's probably from around the Liverpool area in England.
Liverpool accent..but they did have a large irish population that has helped form the accent
Liverpool not posh middle class 👌
My kids started their school lives in a British school in Europe. It was a private school but had basically your standard British school uniform. Only thing was, instead of being able to buy school skirts from Asda at £5 or whatever, we HAD to buy from the school shop. My daughter (age 4) had a cheap-looking polyester skirt that legitimately was no larger than a cloth handkerchief and it cost me €27!!!! I still haven't gotten over that.
sounds very typical of a British private school, but even some state schools in the UK do it now too. My high school required us to purchase our blazers directly from the school, and they cost £50. And if you had a growth spurt you ended up needing to buy multiple over the years.
@@jupitersnoot4915 I kind of thought most schools had given up on blazers and if you wore a uniform you just wore your own coat. I would hate to think of how many blazers my teenage boy would have outgrown even in the past year!!!!
so as many people have stated schools in Britain have uniforms this is true for most places, i was educated in England for the beginning of my school life and later moved to a place in Scotland where the school did not have uniforms. i found that without the uniform other kids judged me on my clothes before getting to know me as a person making a lot harder to make friends with people who had different interests.
Here in the Netherlands u don't have to wear any uniforms and as long as the clothing u wear is't distracting others to much its fine.
I can't compare how dutch schools differ from British since i went to one for people with disabilities, yet regardless we shared alot of the rules, like always being at school when u needed to 5 days a week or the cops would come do a housecall asking why u were't at school without a good reason.
British schools have a lot of similarities with the Italian system about exams (we have LOTS of essays and oral exams and no one can bring anything else than a pen in case of cheating), about not having graduation ceremonies, seeing the principal only on the 1st day of school and when you get in trouble but never more. I’ve always been jealous of uniforms, wearing your own clothes is such a hassle in the morning.
As said in other comments, school uniforms at every school. Some may just say white shirt with a particular colour of skirt/trousers, or going up to stricter (often the posher ones) that say it must be set items from a particular store or supplier. Eton College's uniform is a tail coat, starched white collar and a top hat for formal occasions that costs about £1000 for the lot - but it's a very expensive school and definitely not the norm!!
Sex Education is a brilliant show, but as a Brit it feels like they based the school more on British public schools (private) or perhaps US High schools. The Inbetweeners is more like a regular British Secondary school.
I think one of the differences that's not touched on so much is that in US schools the principal is more of an administrative role, while in UK ones the principal/headteacher (i've seen both terms used) is also an experienced teacher meaning they have a better understanding of the on the ground job & while no longer full time in the role will often still teach some classes as part of their duties, whether a specific regular subject or stepping in as a substitute if necessary. They also usually handle discipline, i feel this is at least in part due to the practicality of not disrupting the regular teacher from teaching the rest of the class.
Yep uniforms are a thing & the near-extortionate prices of only being allowed to buy from the school's own shop are fairly common news stories alongside the now-traditional annual "shorts aren't on the uniform list for boys so they wear skirts instead in the heat" summer protest & "girls can't wear trousers is outdated sexism".
British " public" schools are called that because originally if you had cash your kids went to school, so members of the" public "could send their kids( no free schooling then ) but very posh/rich kids had governess/ private tutoring at home. Eventually in Victorian times the government decided to use tax money and " state / local authority" free to attend schools were invented.
I was grateful for the uniform, partially as a social leveller, but also simply so that you knew what to wear each day without having to think about it. When going on to further education, not only did it suddenly become clear who had money for better clothes but also you'd end up fretting over what comparitive rags to don every working day.
The Romeo and Juliet question is prtetty accurate.
We had a case I remember where we had to remember Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy and extracts from it and be able to quote it from our head and then write any notes and analyse it to note down how it relates and shows she's a 'unusual woman' and a very masculine woman.
I also did as little as possible to get the best grades. My elder sister would revise like mad for weeks before her exams, confined to her bedroom hours on end going crazy.
Not me, I never revised once in my life for exams & was out with my mates doing fun stuff. Pretty much walked through them getting top grades in the ones I wanted (maths, english, physics, computer studies) & couldn't care less about others (history, geography, languages) but still passed them regardless.
My sister would get so annoyed as she struggled with all her exams. Guess that's just the way it is.
I did feel sorry for her as even after nearly 30 years since leaving school she still brings it up how "easy" it was for me - yeah sis, you were just dumb (she hates me trolling her lol)
I remember a Maths exam that was 3 hrs long, I finished it in less than an hour (I loved Maths), when I asked the teacher supervisng the exam to leave he asked if it was for a toilet break & I said no, I'm finished. He was obviously taken aback then asked if I was sure & to check through first, I said no, I knew it was all correct to the best of my knowledge & I had nothing more to add to it. Everyone else doing the exam looked puzzled as I walked out. 3rd best marks in the year group. I could have probably gotten top but why waste 2 more hours for no better grade 🤣
My now adult kids still get a kick out of me doing mental arithmetic quicker than they can on a calculator - but I'm losing that edge as the old grey matter is getting on now 🤣
Hi yes all british schools have uniforms ! Public and private it doesnt matter your age or what school you had uniform. I remember when i was 3 in nursery i still had uniform its for every age aswell.
Our school was very strict and my son went to the same school as his parents. We are wearing a uniform.
in school we called the pulling of the tie a "swot knot" don't know why its called that but it was fun as people would have to redo there tie
Evan Edinger has a great video called school exams if you want to check it out 😁
100% strict you have to write in black pen and black pen only for GCSE exams.
She’s from the Wirral which is right opposite Liverpool separated by the river Mersey. And the liverpool (scouse) accent is not considered posh at all 🤣🤣 it’s a mix of Irish,northern English and a little bit of Norwegian weirdly 👀
Yes, she mentioned Rock Ferry. I'm from north of the river myself.
Don't forget the Welsh influence, Liverpool had the honour of being known as the Capitol of both Ireland and Wales, also Little Moscow.
When I went to school teachers would use physical violence on kids, often for very trivial reasons
Hi Loners! What Ilove in the UK from is the sens of humor and Élégance. 😄
Pretty much all school have uniforms. In fact i have never known a school that hasnt had a uniform. Some schools have trousers, skirts, shirts, ties and jumpers and others have a blazer as well. Yes rules were strict. Makeup was limited or restricted and no hair dye that wasnt natural. Only one regular ear piercing and no other piercings were allowed. If you didnt follow the rules you got detention and missed breaks and lunches. I have noticed that things are a little more relaxed these days with some school being more ok with nails and makeup etc.
When doing an exam, clear pencil cases and no labels on water bottles. No graduation but you do get a prom. oh, an shirt signing day where everyone comes in on the last day and everyone signs each others shorts with messages (usually rude). Even the teachers sign them. Education is legal requirement till age 18.
This is English schools only, Scotland has a different education system!!
I went to a pretty formal old school in the UK, had a bit more pomp and ceremony than some I suspect. Though passing a year wasn't made a big deal of, it was more... I passed? Whew... ok, on with my life then. They did make a big deal each year of those who were leaving the school in their final year though. Can't say for other schools, but it was pretty strict, the rationale I suppose, that the purpose was education, and anything that distracted you from that wasn't the purpose of you being there. Varied teacher by teacher though how relaxed they wanted you to be. Big emphasis on not disrupting the education of those around you.
Back in the day, which is 90s now. I was pretty science centric, I had the syllabi delivered to my house (internet was new), so I knew what they were looking for.
I was fronted by my headmaster who whilst praising my uni. exams berated me for long hair.........a little confusing........??
She sounds like she’s from Liverpool known as scousers where the Beatles are from,we call state schools public school and from 4 years old uniforms are mainly worn there may be the odd school that doesn’t
I'm from wales so the education system is different. Uniform of course, was never a big deal about the tie. All schools main problem was skirts to the point one school banned skirts.I went to a welsh medium state schools so.My school was the only welsh comp in the county so they had to build a second campus. With any exams its gonna harder than the english schools exams. ours french lessons was translating it from french to welsh then to english. Don't get me started on the math exam, no amount of practice papers can prepare you for them.
Can you imagine what it would be like to take german in sixth form.
My yr didn't have a leavers assembly cause there was a welsh lit exam so we just got hoodies and sign our shirts. Tbh i don't want to know if they had any pictures of me.
My exams started may 2017, my yr was the reason yr 11 cannot go off for revision, why they need a fob to go into the bathroom (my friends didnt starts the smoking vapes in the toilets, we just went a yr of no p.e in the welsh toilets).
when the old campus was open in 1981, people probably didn't smoke, but when i got up there there was a lot of smoking corners. there 5 years, 10 smoking corners, eventually they stopped breaking up fights and getting to the smoking corners.
and still we aint considered the worst school in south wales. Very good teachers, good staff, excellent special needs department, just kids from rough areas
Here's the Pros and Cons between US and British exams, imo anyway. With essay answers questions, you have to know more about said topic, and know how to think about said topic to come up with a good essay answer, right? Well, the problem I always had with that as a young student is that you don't really have that nuch of a lived life experience to really come up with a long essay type answer to a lot of things. I always hated writing essays or papers back in school. But as a 50 year old adult now, i find myself writing essays all the time in UA-cam commebmnt sections. Why? Because i have 50 years of memories and life knowledge to draw from. You don't have that as a 15 year old kid. At most you'd only have what you have been learning for a few weeks or months. And look, i graduated college just as the Internet as we now know it (the WWW) was just getting started. When inwrote my final term paper in 1996, we weren't even sure how to cite websites yet. No rules had actually been set for that yet. I started a student job in 1994 and email was just becoming a thing. But my point is that with the resources everybody has today, there is no reason why there's so many stupid people out there. If i had today's resources, (internet, smartphones, etc) I would have been a freakin' genius back then. Why? Curiousity. I think the problem with the modern generations is that they don't care to know things. Because if access to the information is so easy and accessible, then they don't bother to even look it up whenever they might wanna know something. Forget Wikipedia, we had to go to printed Encyclopedias to find shit, and they were quickly outdated. We had a base set of World Book Encyclopedias from 1984 at home when I was growing up. And every so often, we'd get a supplimental issue that would have updated articles written in them that came with little sticker tabs that you could lick and stick into the base set that would reference the newer article. Only if we had Wikipedia back then.
Me as a german watching this about dress code and school uniforms... we don't have that. Our teachers were happy when we didn't come naked to school. Though i remember one time in summer when i was 15, that one trio of girls came to school in bikinis and flip flops (they had plans to go sun bathing at a lake directly after school). They only wore some hot pants over their bikini bottoms and that's it. The teacher asked them to cover their upper body up a bit more and 2 of the girls got their tops out: one had a spaghetti crap top and the other a net tunik. Both were fine. The last girl didn't bring anything and the teacher sent her home to get something and she was really complaining a lot. She came back half an hour later with a tied blouse over the bikini top, that didn't cover her belly at all. Was good enough.
The parents of the girls had no idea and apologized to the teacher at the parents conference. There might be no dress rules in german schools, but there is something called apropriate clothing. You don't go grocery shopping in a bikini or in a pajama or bathrobe in Germany, and you don't go to school or to work in those clothes either.
Almost all schools have uniform but there is no law or government rule. It's just a very ingrained convention. I'm sure people will say I'm wrong but I am sure there is no actual mandate.
Every school in the world have uniform private or public except some north European schools 😂
Were you describing Jack and Ozzy Osbourne? Where Jack would take Ozzy around to different places, mostly in the US, if I recall.
What about how you got to school and Prom??
Yes everyone has to wear a uniform, from (school nursery) reception to year 11. 6th form is smart office wear. College or University is normal clothes.
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UK like Australia public schools have uniforms so people aren't bullied for being poor plus it shows where you belong
If my daughter wears the wrong type of shoes they force kids to change them same with socks and stuff it's stupid
When I was at school the only time you saw the principle (in the UK head master) was to get the cane... He was a disciplinarian... If you got sent to the head master you were in real trouble...
In recent years uniforms have become far more popular...
It's always the girls that are fashion occupied and driven to our do each other. That's why uniforms became more popular... Boys are more interested in if it's itchy or too hot in summer - the practicalities...
Graduation? In the UK you get notified your certificates are ready and you wonder in when you feel like it to pick them up... I never understood why they didn't post them to you... Perhaps it was to confirm receipt and prove it had been issued to the relevant recipient?
In New Zealand primary schools (first 8 years) no uniform (unless private). Intermediate (middle school) and college (high school) all have uniforms whether public or private. Then after that it's university and because they're considered adults there's no uniforms. Graduations aren't a thing except for university and then it's still downplayed.
At the high school graduation examen in french we used to have philosophie you choose one of 3 subject with one question each and that all. A nigthmare
ye every public school in the uk has uniform, some private schools have no uniform tho
Uniforms are a good leveller.
We were released from school two days early to avoid prank day in the last day of term,
Uniforms are a good equaliser........if your revolution comprises of jeans & a T,........ you have my sympathy..........
She sounds like a scouser to me, i.e. she;s from Liverpool, home of the Beatles, maybe Birkenhead (which is the other side of the Mersey. Hearing an Irish influence in her accent is well founded, as historically a lot of Liverpudlian ancestry stems from Ireland.
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liverpool has a particularly weird accent partly due to during the famine among other times of english opression a large number of northern irish people were brought over as indentiture servants or moved there to escape, so there was some influence on the accents. Its also part of the reason why liverpool football club has such a connection to northern ireland with a lot of people here supporting them as well as liverpool adopting 'the fields of athenry' as one of their songs, its a very popular emotional irish song about the famine when men were imprisioned and shipped off as slaves, servants, prisions to places like australia, the carribean, west indies etc. This irish culture in those places still remains today with plenty of black irish from intermixing slaves.
Not just Northern Ireland, the whole of Ireland, and I can assure you Everton football club has strong connections to Ireland too 😉.
Never heard Fields of Athenry when I went, to Anfield, I'm now 87, Liverpool FC was always aassociated as being more Protestant because of the Scots whereas Everton was more Irish therefore had more Catholic support.
@@jjwatcherthe words are different. LFC sing "Fields of Anfield Road", but it's the same tune😊
Hi from Scotland. She is English. Liverpool.
You guys need to do something different with your mics. Either mount them on mic arms or get those little clip-on media mics.
yes all schools in the uk wear uniforms with tie male female
Hi..I saw an American young women,.. saw a Y. T. Video about,, a day in German school,, (no rules about clothes😮)... Watch,, 6 German culture shocks as American exchange Student,..
Yes, of course do British schools have uniforms. Everybody knows that.
Are the multiple-choice-exams in th US?
At least in German, you have to write down every answer, no matter if in maths, grography or English.
She's scouse (from liverpool)
Hi from Berlin. Off topic: German schools do not have uniforms. Students are fairly well dressed, even without any kind of dress code and definitely no ties, you would be ridiculed. Your peers are more likely to make a "dress code" as most don't want to be an outcast. Wearing very posh clothes would set you aside as well as punk or ripped clothes. There are few private schools, which are frowned upon by many, suspecting the parents are paying for good grades. No official graduation ceremony, your final document picked up at administration at your leisure.
BOTH of them... "Like", "like", "like", "like"...
She's a scoucer from Liverpool like the beatles
She’s a SCOUSER.
Another Brit here... yes all have uniforms...like harry potter..
Liverpool 😁scousers accent from English lady..
10:56 Please tell me what you were looking at across the room lol
Loners, there are more cities than London in England, trust me on that.
She's from Liverpool
Lot of countries have school uniform for example asian countries
or maybe react to Taking Advantage of my School's NO DRESS CODE for a week by Simply Sofia 3 years ago
Fun fact this is all true no exaggeration I took my gcse's and we couldn't have extract just a small piece of text
After lunch, 4 days before we where supposed to leave school, we were called to the hall for an assembly, The head and our year teachers where there, and basically we where told how good we where, and that we would all be missed, etc. but as the year before covered the school in toilet paper and flour and set off fire extinguishers in the classrooms when they left. so we where to all told to leave Quickly and quietly, as normal school was still on for the other years. And not set foot on school property again, unless you where returning for 6th form at the start of the next academic year. If anyone is found on school property that shouldn't be here the police will be called. That was our graduation. ❤ But they where still great times ❤
Same
public and private have uniforms
Liverpool (Scouser) English Definitely NOT posh 😂
You stop wearing uniform when you enter 6th form (16 - 18yrs)
maybe you like to react to SWEDISH SCHOOL LUNCHES - Sweden cares about it's children by VLADA'S PLACE 4years ago
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the United Kingdom.
I think she’s scouse probably from liverpool
I hate the way some youngsters are saying the word 'like' all the time when it not necessary!
She sounds like she's from liverpool
Why do Americans think London is UK, it's like saying new York is America, we have north and south accents the same as usa, and a Liverpudlian accent is different to a mancunian or a brummy accent,
Hell my country is pretty small compared to most and even here you CANT make statements like "all teachers here are super strict", or "nobody cares what you wearing" (and many more) simply becouse there are many types of schools with dif. rules and even if you compare 2 schools of same "type" they often still differ bec. of dif. leadership and staff. So trying to make SINGULAR description of US schools from 1 coast to other is pure lunacy. 😏
A Scouser.......Liverpudlian..........undoubtedly.....
Well, actually from the 'other side' of the river Mersey - on the Wirral !
So many comments 'in the UK' - but its not the same education in the UK. Scotland's is seperate, and far better than Englands. My kid went to an English primary, but on moving to Scotland, he had to redo a year he was so far behind.
Scotland has free higher education, England charges like the USA. Scottish school qualifications are totally different from Englands as well.
As usual with Americans, far too many interventions, cannot enjoy the subject. Why cant they wait until the end !
Scot.........
She a northerner
She sounds scouse i think.
Every school here in England has mandatory school uniforms…very very rare to find one that doesn’t. Also for us public school is the normal school and Private school is where all the posh bastards went 😂
When i was 13, back in the 1980's, i got into a fight with a 16 year old who was bullying me. When we got put in front of the head teacher, he got 2 weeks detention, i got a week and 3 hits of the leather strap on my hand. the head teacher said this was " you hit him when he was on the ground, gentlemen dont fight like that"
It is local, not Welsh nor Scottish. My best bet is Yorkshire, but if not Cornwall. (Yes I know they are not connectedd geographically, but sometimes it can be a bit hard to differentiate between the different regions.)
Are you nuts, not posh, it's Liverpudlian from Liverpool, probably bastardized Irish...
No she has a English accent lol you wouldn't understand Scottish or Irish lol
There is no such thing as a British accent! There are hundreds of them.