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There are more than 20,000 high schools for over 15 million students throughout the US and I can tell you that campus conditions range from bottom of the barrel to almost unimaginably superb - socioeconomic conditions for each metropolitan area tend to be the key factor
There is no single building plan for schools in the US, they can be completely different depending on the state or even the school district. Mine didn't look remotely like this, it was actually built in 1919 so looked like an old brick building of that era. Also, the class sizes had long outgrown the original building, so they had added on annex buildings to meet the demand, so you had this multi-building complex that looked more like a small college campus than a high school.
As a former US high school student, I can tell you that there is a huge variation in quality from high school to high school. Generally, they are somewhat comparable in the same county and maybe even the same state, but they become quite different across state lines. That being said, this high school is incredibly small compared to mine and the layout, schedule, food, demographics, and atmosphere look completely different. Those school buses though do look exactly like the ones that would take some students to and from school upon request from the parents.
That school is just outside seattle, I lived an hour south and Dang we wish we got somethings they have
I don't know where you went to school, but I wouldn't say schools are comparable within the same state, or even the same city 😂
@@adventuresinlaurenland Generally, they are comparable, but there will always be cases where they are not at all comparable even within the same city.
My school buses look a bit different but they are still pretty much the same
This is not a low income inner city or super rural school. Thus is defintely a suburb. What is offered as classes will vary widely depending on the income of the area.
Outside seattle, Washington plates on busses
Hey Luka, the break in between periods is often called a "passing period" of about 10ish minutes or so for students to get to the next class. Sometimes you have to walk across campus from one period to the next so this time allows for students to make it on time.
We got 5 minutes when I was in school (20 years ago lol) Somehow we were able to get where we needed to go and do a little socializing as well.
Damnn 10 minutes??? We only got 4 at mine
@@nalsra0 I don't remember the exact time that my highschool had, maybe around 7-8? Was also a pretty big school
Lucky, mine didn’t have one
I didn't know it even had a name. I just called it a break or in between class to grab books from a locker on one side of the school and run to the other side before the bell rang for class to start again
As an American who graduated high school about 30 years ago, this is as new to me as it is to you.
I agree except I went to high school 60 years ago in one of America's then-wealthiest suburbs and top-rated school systems. Our gym was nothing like that. We had a big "gym" where school vs school basketball games and other sports could be held and we had a locker/changing room and showers and that was about it. We had 6 1-hr periods each day and ½ hr for lunch. School was basically 9 AM to 3:30 PM. One of the periods was gym and one was either shop (wood or metal working, auto mechanics and so on) or "home economics" or typing or something practical. So basically 4 academic periods per day, usually English, math, science (chemistry, physics) and some form of "social studies" like US or World history. But the school in this video seems very elaborate and well-funded compared to my day when things were a lot more spartan.
I went to my 50th high school reunion recently, and I am with you this school an amazing thing to see. My school was in a rural area, it wasn't a large school, it was a wooden structure with wooden floors, we has no air conditioning, and coal burning stoves in the class rooms. We had outside toilets, we had few books so we doubled up with another student to read our lessons. We had good teachers that worked hard to teach us, and they expected discipline in the classroom, and they got it too. Our curriculum in high school was English, American Literature, English Literature , math and advanced math, science and advanced science, health care, U.S. History, World History, Civics, U.S. Government, Economics. We had fun classes Home Economics for girls, and Shop for boys. Physical Education.
I loved school, and my school mates, I have good memories going to that old school house, our teachers did the best they could to give us a good start, and some of us became nurses, teachers, engineers, carpenters, farmers, housewives, members in our little class after graduating lived in California, Chicago, Atlanta, Virginia, but most of us stayed close to home. Things have changed more than I could have imagined, but we saw so much history in our young years, assassination of John Kennedy, Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, assassination of Martin Luther King, and desegregation of our schools that went off without a hitch our principle gave us a stern talk before blacks arrived to welcome them and treat them well, and we did, we saw the Space Race and our landing on the moon.
I won't go into the great music we listened to in our school days.
If you have taken the time to read this thank you for letting me share these sweet memories with you.
I also graduated high school 30 years ago but my high school was similar to this except obviously less technology. A few years ago my old school district built a new high school that is bigger and nicer than the one in this video.
I graduated in 2019. My 4000 student HS was overcrowded dangerous and the teachers were awful. But the school right down the road is one of the best in the country lol. Go figure.
@@bigjimmy6956 Yep. That pretty much sums up high schools in America. The one I attended was similar to this one. The new one replacing it is even nicer but there much smaller poorer high schools in our general area.
The schools here in our town not only promote the kids to work on laptops, but they actually supply the kids with their own laptop that is their property for the entire year, much like in my days when you had your own learning books. The kids bring them to school in the mornings and bring them home each night for work. Laptops and computers have become the basic of teaching and learning now.
Crazy, this is the high school I went to!
Edit to add, the commons is the lunch room for the main campus, if you go out and across a bridge to the other campus there is another lunchroom there. You can eat at either one.
I work in this school
District and every student (even in elementary) is assigned a laptop or Chromebook. I’m elementary they stay at school and high school they can take them home. I have not worked in the middle schools so I am unsure if they take them home. However even in elementary school they’ll do assignments on their laptop.
School is 7:20-2:00
Schools can be radically different from each other. I did my freshman year of HS in New Jersey and it had the vibe of the school in this video. It was a huge school, though, so even if you had to move through the lobby to get to another wing or go across the street, most people didn't have time to waste.
I did my last three years of HS in Florida and in all honesty, it was horrible. An embarrassment of our school system. The chain link fencing helped it feel more like a jail than a school and the attitude of the administration matched it. It may have been a bit like your school.
We started high school at 7:20 and ended at 2:35. We had 8 class periods plus a 30 minute lunch. Classes were 45 minutes each. High school ends early, but athletes and people involved in school groups usually were there another few hours. US high schools also give insane homework, so the real day of a typical high schooler in the US is pretty darn long
7:20 sounds waaay too early. Getting out that early sounds nice but ain’t no way in hell I’m capable of learning anything at 7 in the morning
@@Alex-kd5xc If you think that's early my school started at 6:50 LMAO, and got out at 2:20. Though if you had 0 period, like I did my junior and senior year, you started at 6:05 and got out at 1:35
The Commons would be the entrance to the school and likely all the various wings branch off it. It may also serve as the cafeteria. Each hall would be for separate topics. Science classes would be grouped together in one wing, English in another and social studies in another. So if your next class is in a different wing you would have cut through the Commons to switch wings
Like others are saying. Schools vary in the US. In the suburbs you can wear whatever you want (usually), the schools are big and modern, and often have outside areas for students to hang out. In the city schools you are much more likely to be required to wear a uniform and the schools are generally smaller (not really a bad thing). The overall culture is much different and I imagine Europeans will feel much more familiar with the city schools than the suburban ones. Some schools also barely have security whereas my old HS had security, gates, daily bag/locker checking, and surveillance cameras spanning several blocks from the school.
When I was in H.S. nobody even thought to have security. Never was necessary. Things have definitely changed since the early 70s
I went to school in a large city and the schools are not smaller nor did any of them require uniforms except for the private or parochial schools.
Hey Luka! As many others have pointed out, quality of high schools vary greatly in the US. Mostly because each state gets to decide what their curriculum and rules for schools are. Beyond that, each state’s counties may have additional rules and protocols for the schools within that county. It can get very confusing lol
I’m a high school counselor in rural NC so I’ll answer a few of the questions you asked as they pertain to my specific school:
School Day- 8AM-3PM
School Buses- they are in fact real and the way most of our students get to and from school. Ours are parked on the side and behind the building though.
Weight Room- Most high schools in North Carolina have a weight room as well as a gym (this one was really nice in comparison to ours). You must take 9th grade PE before you’re allowed to take weight room or advanced PE. There isn’t an age requirement since a lot of our athletes use the room through sports which they can play as soon as they get to high school.
High School Age Range (typically)- 9th graders are 14-15, 10th graders are 15-16, 11th graders are 16-17, and 12th graders are 17-18.
I gave a lot of unasked for information 😂but I hope it helps answer some of your questions!
In my small 600 student Catholic high school the school day starts at 8:00 and ends at 3:15. The passing period is 5 minutes and consists of 2 buildings, the main building with all the classrooms, cafeteria, gym, commons, weight room, offices, etc. and the second building is the bigger STEM classrooms. The main building has 4 stories so we have to run up the stairs to barely make it to class in time.
I live in the US and my school is probably more like the lavish Luka knows. To be fair I go to a small school in a small town so it is drastically different to wherever this school is
His school seems really chill because between periods in a normal school they give you like three minutes to maybe five minutes depending on how big your school is to run to your next class. For me, it was the same in college and I had a huge ass campus and they gave us like five minutes to run across campus and they would like a yell at you and doc points off your grade for being late to class when they knew they were in buildings far on the opposite end of campus it was so dumb. They should give you like 10 minutes to get to your class. Just at least for a break as well.
Don't read too much into it. This kind of thing is basically Instagram, for all the candidness and insight it will give you (very little, I'm sure). You're seeing a curated image, and I'm guessing it's by someone very privileged going to a school with a lot of resources and strongly buffered from the rest of the culture.
Looked that way to me too.
Not all schools are like this in the US. There was no time to hang around between classes. We wouldn't be allowed to vlog. School ended at I believe 3 PM. One cafeteria. We couldn't walk the halls with food. Students were barely ever on their phones.
Since moving to the Midwest I have noticed the schools are more enclosed than when I lived in California likely because of the weather. My school in California has exterior corridors so usually you had to go outside to go from one classroom to another or to the Cafeteria. If you watch a lot of movies set in California schools you will sometimes see this. We also almost always ate lunch outside unless it was raining. Our lunch tables were set up in a courtyard. When I moved to the South it was in between. Both interior and exterior and corridors too. In the South it was common for part of the school campus like a gym or stadium to be across the street.
Being in California, all our schools tend to have exterior hallways and dining areas. Also there aren’t lockers anymore.
Also all lessons in our school district are on computers that are issued to each student. All assignments are online and can only be submitted online, usually using google docs. The teacher’s presentation is online too and can be reviewed by the students for review or if you missed class for some reason. Starting around age 10, there is basically no paper in the classroom. Obviously that’s different for ages 5-10 when handwriting and fine motor skills are still being practiced.
Not every school building is the same or has the same layout. Also, some schools run at different schedules. In my school, we had about 20 minutes between when the busses dropped us off and our first period, so yes, students congregated in the hallways talking to each other and stuff. They usually sounded a warning bell about 6 minutes before you had to get to class, and then everyone would start moving towards their homeroom (first period of the day, not actually a class, more a short period where a teacher would take attendance and morning announcements and the pledge would be recited over the loudspeakers).
Academy is what we wpuld call Private schools. Very expensive in the US.
My kids went to a Charter school which is different than public and private, they have to follow the curriculum set forth by the county and state, however, they require involvement with parents, volunteer hours you have to meet per annum, but the school calendar can fall a little different than the county schools.
No, I think "academy" would be like "charter schools" our "magnet schools" and are part of the public system but free of many of the rules of regular schools. Britain certainly also has "private" schools which they ironically call "public schools" and are also "very expensive" and elitist.
@@BTinSF yeah their school system sounds very confusing but you maybe right. Hopefully I explained our school system a bit for him but not sure he even reads the comments.
They give you time in case you have to go to your locker and your locker is on a different side of the campus. Yes, we all got there early (i graduated in 1980) and hung out in and around the school. The commons or cafeteria areas tend to be where we all congregate to hang out and chat. 14-18 is high school age and then you go to Uni. We had all kinds of activities. I chose archery, but i chose drama, and art as electives.
School started at 8am and ended at 3pm. Six periods each an hour long, five minutes in between, and an hour lunch. Personally, started high school at fifteen. People that got to school early would walk around what seemed like aimlessly with a friend or just on their phone. It was a nice school. During my high school years I never once saw a school bus. In the ten years since graduating I still almost never see them. Maybe the other three high schools saw them.
The district I work for in Texas - we give every kid an iPad or laptop in the district. We have around 32,400 students. Pre-Kinder & Kinder get iPads, 1st grade - 12th grade all are issued laptops and use them all the time during school.
Most public schools now require kids to have laptops. It has all their resources like etextbook and assignments.
Wow I wish we have Laptops in the 1980s in my high school
@@theonlyonestanding8079 in the 90s I had a brick laptop but it was only good for word processing 😆. My computer in the 80s was black with green characters. That thing weighed more than me.
@@theonlyonestanding8079yeah they definetly make a ton of things easier. But we had ones that had pens for the laptop which costed about $50. Everyone basically immediately lost them and had to pay for it lmao. People would be stealing each others pens too
@@banditbuddies728 I never used it until I bought my first laptop and tablet in 2015 Samsung
@@SherriLyle80s I had a Commodore vic 20 . I never used it . There wasn't much I could do with it. I did one program to duplicate a word and that was it
This may have already been answered but in a lot of schools the students are issued a laptop or chromebook to use for school. They complete their assignments on them and submit them electronically.
It's been a while since I was in high school. That said, having a routing through the commons as the fastest way between classes is very possible. Schools will often have classrooms for the same subjects grouped close together, and going from History to Graphic Arts he probably was needing to go to a different wing of the building, and the commons areas are often a hub for that. The break between classes when I was in school was fairly short, just long enough to move between the classrooms if you hustled when I was in school. If your classes were somewhat close together, and your locker was between them you might have time to make it to the locker and swap out books between classes. But generally you'd have like about a stone or two of books in your pack and just go straight from class to class.
I would say this is representative of most suburban middle class school districts. Our local high school Largo High just got rebuilt
My high school was nice but we only got 10 minutes between classes so people would usually go chill on “Main Street” (the main wide, open hallway of the building) or at “the well” which was a little cafe we had at the school. If it was one of the lunch periods, people would hang out around the cafeteria but it wasn’t uncommon for me to just go to my next class so I could hang out with and talk to my friends before the next period started. We had a nice campus though with a weight room by the football field, and everything was updated. Each student also had their own MacBook Pro used for classes, projects, and we took them home with us every night. Our school started at 8am and got done at 2:45pm. On wednesdays we started at 8:30am and still got out at 2:45pm
Middle school: 6-8 grade. Ages 11-13
High school:
9-12th grade
Ages 14-18
Yes, buses are always out front, dropping kids off.
And kids hang out throughout the whole school. Wherever you want.
You do everything on tablets or laptops. No books any longer.
I graduated from an inner-city school in the early 2000s, my school looked nothing like that. It looks like it's a more recent building. I also know more recently, it's really common for classrooms to have their own laptops or require the kids to bring their own and cellphones aren't as regulated as they used to be.
From what I can remember, we started the day at like 8AM and ended around 2:30PM, with a 30 minute lunch session, we had 10-15 minutes to get travel between classes which was a struggle sometimes with how big the campus could be. My school was massive so they broke lunch down into 3 session of 30 minutes. So this school day seems pretty normal in regards to the starting and ending and how everything was broken up.
Every high school is different. I went from a very small high school to a very large high school in the city and I felt like I was in another country for weeks
All schools are different, North Gwinnett Highschool, first period is 7:10 AM and last period is in 2:10 PM. Just a lot earlier than the county above of us, Forsyth :/
Their last period is probably at 4PM ish probably.
I don’t like waking up early
I was born in the UK and moved to the US when I was 13, so I got to experience a UK "secondary school" vs an American "High School". I also attended 5 different high schools in different states due to my parents moving around for work, and I will say it definitely varies based on what state you go to school in. For example, the school I went to in New York State was a lot better than the schools I went to in Louisiana and Texas due to the higher curriculum level (this might be due to state funding and resources). It was a huge culture shock for me when I first moved here, for example wearing my own clothes to school was so foreign for me, and the emphasis on sports was way different. American schools seem to solely revolve around football/baseball/basketball and the pep rallies are an experience by themselves.
If that’s one thing unique about American high schools it’s the pep rallies and Homecoming 😀
When I went to high school (which was many moons ago), our first class started at 7:10 am and school ended at 2:10 pm. We had six classes each day and each class was 55 mins. long. You had only a few minutes between each class to go to your locker and exchange your books for the next class and be sitting in your next class before the bell rang. We had two lunch shifts where the entire school was split in half. Half the school would eat at 1st lunch and then second lunch would eat next. Lunch was only 30 or 40 minutes long. If you were a senior you didn't have to wait in line, you could just walk in and cut in the line and get your lunch (Senior Privaledge). We had six grading periods throughout the year and after the 3rd grading period the lunch shift switched. All the people eating first lunch switched to 2nd lunch and vice versa. 7th period, which was "afterschool" was designated for after-school help or detention. This time ended at 3:35 pm. Anything after 3:35 pm was dedicated to mainly sports related things. I played softball and practice started at 3:35pm and later to around 6 pm. Practice was everyday Monday-Friday for the duration of the season unless you had a game. Our high school consisted of grades 8th - 12th. We didn't have a middle school at that time. The reason that we went to school so early was that I lived in a small town and we only had like 4 buses to take all the students. We had two buses to carry all the students, 1 bus in case of breakdowns, and one that was used to carry students for sports. The buses would carry the high school kids first in the mornings, then they would go back around town and pick up all the elementary kids. In the afternoons, the high schoolers would be taken home first, then the elementary schoolers would come home next. Not only did this system work for our school, it also helped with the parents who worked full time. By letting the high school kids go home first, their was an older sibling at home to look after their younger brother and sisters until the parents came home. Sometimes kids who didn't have older brothers or sisters would get off the bus and stay with friends who did. The parents made sure that their children were taken care by older kids by paying them a little something for babysitting or they got off at a babysitters home. No latch key kids in my day. They were not allowed to stay by themselves until they were old enough to do so. I grew up in a small town in Virginia and our entire school could fit on the bleachers on one side of the gymnasium. We had approximately 250 students for the entire high school, and like I said before that included grades 8th - 12th. Also, a lot of our student body were made up of kids that paid tuition from another county to attend our school because one of the schools in the neighboring County closed. The other county was very large and it was closer for those kids to come to our school than it was to go to their own county school. We didn't have anything like what was in this students vlog. No big fancy school, no cell phones, no lap top computers, hell, we didn't have computers at all. This was in the day when the gym played host to all school dances, assemblies, sporting events, and graduation.
That is not a common room. It is the main hallway of the school. In most schools, there are about 5 minutes between classes.
This is one example of a school in the US, but schools are differently funded by state and location within the state. Most schools are funded by local property taxes, so a wealthy are with higher property values may have more money to support schools than an area with lower property values. My school was not constructed in this fashion because where I lived in California, the weather is less extreme, so the campus was more spread out. The buildings were in good shape and we had a pretty nice weight room. This was … er … a few years ago, so the technology was different, maybe a little bit hard to compare.
Some to most schools will have a central area that students are most likely to walk through during passing periods. it's typically not the cafeteria, but it can be nearby. My high school had a "Quad" where most people gathered (mostly cuz the cafeteria was right there) and there'd be music playing sometimes, or events during the spirit weeks.
My high school had a large campus, with classrooms in many separate buildings. Between periods if your classes were on opposite ends of the campus, you would hardly have the time to take any breaks, as you'd be spending the time walking to your next class. The "commons" area in my school was the cafeteria and the areas around it, which had a lot of outside tables to chill at.
My classes went 1st period to 3rd period > 15 minute break > 4th period and 5th period > 45 minute lunch (12:15-1 PM) > 6th and 7th period (on Fridays, 1st and 2nd period were skipped). Due to the size of the campus, each period had a 10 minute gap between them, and teachers expected some students to be up to 5 minutes late (any later would require a written note from previous teacher) if their previous class was across campus. The day began at 7:20 AM and ended on 2:50 PM. On Fridays, the day instead began at 8:05, and ended at 3:05. Since the school served a large district, often kids would wake up at 5 AM to get ready and catch the bus at around 6-6:20 if they lived in the periphery of the school district (like myself). I lived in a fairly rural area as a teen, so urban districts will be quite different.
Since 1st and 2nd periods were skipped on Fridays, those periods were typically reserved for electives or other classes. Core curricula such as Math, English, Science, etc were always 3rd period and on. Each period on Fridays were longer, to make up for the skipped 1st and 2nd periods.
When I went to high school, laptops were pretty rare among students, with maybe the wealthiest ones bringing them. You could not use your phone or any other electronics during class time unless you were in one of the Computer science classes. Of course, after class and during lunch, the cell phones would come out and texts would fly (I went to HS in the early smartphone era).
The school mornings everyone would either got to cafeteria or gym to chill until classes start. You would see some buses outside, some arriving with kids others waiting to take kids to an alternative school.
There's a break in between classes. Ours was usually 5 minutes but that was back in the day. I don't know what it is now. There's no set schedule for all the schools to follow. Each State or County or ISD makes there schedule for the year. Start and ending depends on your school district, also on what grade you're in. If you want to enter the medical profession they have a class where you go to a hospital and study what goes on and how the Dr's., Nurses and other departments operate.
The buses will be there when they’re dropping off or picking up students. They use the same buses for elementary, middle, and high school so after one set they’ll be off for the next and during the day they’ll be parked in a depot somewhere.
my high school starts at 8:45am and ends at 3:45pm and we have 5 minutes in between classes now bc it’s like 4 floors
I think you have to realize that however much variation you think there is in the UK, in the US there's even more. US schools are primarily funded through property taxes, so you have a system where wealthy neighborhoods get the best schools and poor neighborhoods get terrible schools. And on top of that, education is almost entirely ran at the state and not the federal level.
At my high-school we would congregate in the courtyard in the middle of the schools rose garden and hangout, eat breakfast... play games, then we would go to our first period when the bell rang.. Of course if you have a late bus or you drive yourself, you dont have much time to hang out before school. Laptops are used during class, pretty much every class.
In high school, the students change classes for each subject. That’s why the students seem to be congregating. They might have time to say hi other students or stop at their lockers for different textbooks, but the break between classes is short, really just enough time to get to your next class. In my high school, we used both laptops and textbooks.
I remember starting school at like 7:15 or so am.....We'd finish the school day at 2:10 pm or so (middle school/high school). In elementary school, we'd start around 9 am & finish around 3 pm!
I’m in SoCal, our schools here are mostly outdoor schools. Elementary is K-5th grade, Middle or Jr High is 6-8, High school is 9-12th.
High school class period usual last 50 minutes each and you get about 3-5 minutes between each.
Our public high schools in California now start the day at 8:30am, end at 3:21pm, unless you have a zero period, then day starts around 7am-ish. Sports are 6th period and can last until 5pm, but if it’s game day it can end much later (especially if it an away game).
This is pretty much an average high school. What I liked about where I went was there were no school bells. Instead music was played to start the day, in between classes, and to signal the end of the school day.
Much better than bells, buzzers, or some other annoying sound.
Average school? Yea no this isnt your average Highschool experience lmfao.
@@Arti_The_Greatfor suburban areas it’s common, idk about other areas
Love u vids man
Your experience is what's mostly common in the States. Some instances they'll have 8 periods in one day, and some instances they'll have an A Day and a B Day where your schedule alternates from day to day
Keep in mind that each high school in the US is unique and different from each other.
For example, I live in San Diego and since it doesn’t get that cold here during the winter I’ve never been in a school where it’s all in “one” building (like you see in the movies, and in the video). My high school was all on ground level and it was made up of separate buildings and was “outside” (I did have lockers though which is unusual for “outside” high schools apparently). When I went to hs it was from 2007-2011 and there was definitely no laptops allowed during that time (so I guess it’s a younger generational thing these days). I was allowed about five minutes to get to each of my classes (called “passing period). I think my hs ended around 2:30.
Kid in the video is definitely more on the privileged side. My hs was like half the size and was built fifty years prior. They literally tore it down the day after I graduated and built a new hs in its place so my hs doesn’t exist any more.
that's a nice school. Looks better than most private schools in my state
I went to 20 different schools in California and the greater Phoenix, AZ area and all schools are not alike. I've been to schools so poor they had no air conditioning in 115°f 46°c heat. School would be called for excessive heat days or get out early. I started school between 7 and 8 am depending on the school. However, living on farms and rural dairies I often had to catch the bus by 5:30 am to ride 2 hours as they picked up all the rural passengers. There were often fog delays of up to 2 hours so we had to wait in the fog until we knew the busses weren't coming so we weren't inside checking the clock or radio to see if they were just on delay or school was canceled. I was 6 when this started. Finally stopped for awhile at 7 then resumed for a couple more years from 10-11. This was the late 60s/70s so, times were different. Growing up poor I didn't see many nice schools until I reached 7th grade about 12 years old. My high school was new and cutting edge. It was shaped like a honeycomb and you sometimes had to walk through one classroom to get to another. Very few of the classrooms had doors. We hung out in the commons/cafeteria or in the locker area in between classes. We also had an outdoor designated smoking area. As I said, times have changed since I graduated in 1980. Also, you can challenge classes, take extra credits or take tests to graduate early. I was able to challenge enough classes I graduated 3 months into 10th grade. My adopted mother took her GED test for her high school diploma when she was 50 years old. It's a unique system and I preferred going to school than staying home even in the bad schools. It was fun and I always had friends to play with 😊
I graduated high school in 2023 and typically students get their first computer in the 6th grade or by 7th grade in middle school. The schools provide computers to the students that they get to keep until they graduate. We do majority of our schoolwork on computers instead of paper. I think it is crazy how British schools don't have computers in class. At my high school if we forgot our computer at home we could possibly get in trouble because we do pretty much every assignment with our computers and if you don't have your computer then you can't do your assignment which gives you a bad grade.
We couldn't have cellphones or laptops in my school because they weren't invented yet lol
In my kids' high school (near Boston, MA), every student is given a laptop by the school, and all work is now done on it. Nothing is done on paper or with books anymore. School is 7:15am to 2:05pm.
What happens when a laptop crashes and your kid loses all their work? That's the only downside with laptops for school. Easier excuse I guess than "a dog ate my homework "
Common room looks like it's in the middle with all the halls attached like spokes on a wheel. He probably just walls through on the way to his next class. We started at 7:20 am and finished at 2:00 pm
This look a lot like the school I went to just a bit smaller , granted I graduated from high school about 26ish years ago . We had indoor pools and diving , weightlifting and several gyms . The computer were older of course but now days the students get a laptop or tablet at the beginning of the school year that is theirs for that year. If I remember correctly we had 8-10 minutes “passing periods “ the time to get from one class to the next we needed that time to get from one end of campus to the other . The high school my son went to was also very similar. We have alway live in areas that had great school systems. One of the reasons why my parents lived where they lived and why I chose the house I did for my son. There is a very big difference form privileged area to public schools 100%
People usually hang out in the “common area”. It’s usually a big area a lot of students can congregate.
The high school here only goes Mon - Thurs. They are out around 3:30 or so. Schools can be very, very different here in the US.
Some people will have breakfast in the morning in the cafeteria... Some just hang out with friends before class starts
An American "High School" is very difficult if not impossible to generalize and make a judgement on what is typical. The experiance is practically defined by inequality rather than inequality being a minor aspect. Many go to school in objectively unspeakable conditions. It's almost like trying to portray a typical American neighborhood. It can range from Switzerland to practically looking like low income or third world.
ok a few things (maybe im wrong bc i graduated in 2015):
1. we do not all congregate in one area before school starts (def at some schools like this one but not mine), people would just hang out wherever before school and then head to homeroom
2. we WERE NOT allowed to use laptops
3. the yellow buses were only used to take kids who lived out of the district to and from school
4. nothing bc i didn't watch the rest of the vid lol
Everyone is friendly with everyone else. No conflicts, as far as I can see. It's really chill.
The layout of US High schools varies by building to building. The quality varies by school to school and the district their in. The more affluent the district the better the school. From NYC so the layout of each building is vastly different from each other. Some schools in NYC require students to through metal detectors upon arrival. We had 5 to between classes. My school shared the building with a middle school, the building was shaped like the letter H. When I was in school their were only 300 or so students in total from grades 9 to 12. In NYC the ages were 15 to 18.
My school started at 7:15 and we would get out around 2 also!
Alright, Luka, I'll break it down for you.
1. High school is grades 9-12 (typically ages 14-18)
2. School layout and construction differs from town to town, which includes all the differences in climate, population density, and funding (private schools are paid via tuition directly to the school from each student; public schools are paid via typically property taxes in that district)
3. Schedule is typically 7 am to 3 pm with 8-9 periods which are classes, lunch, and often a study hall (study break)
4. If you do athletics, expect to start a late ad 5 or 6 pm for practice; even later if you're competing against another school.
5. At minimum, all students can take the school bus for free, but you have to go to a designated bus stop. Miss the bus and you're screwed unless you can get a ride. Other methods are a private ride (like from a parent) or when you're old enough to drive, you drive yourself (you'll likely need to buy a parking permit due to limited parking).
6. That whole gathering in the cafeteria culture you see appears to be specific to that school. Usually, when you're arriving is really crowded, so you often only have time to go to your locker before the first class period. If it's a colder climate, you cash expect the school to open up a common area like the library or cafeteria for students to congregate before 1st period.
It's been 25 years since I was in high school, so I'm not clear on each school's rules on cell phones, laptops, etc, but I'm sure it differs from district to district.
i went to a catholic high school and this was pretty much how it was because our buildings were more modern, but there are older high schools that aren't this nice. but it's pretty much like this unless you're in a poor area. but even the poor areas have fairly nice facilities. granted, i live in an urban area that isn't blighted.
Most High Schools in the US do not use lesson plans out of books anymore. The lesson plans are now on the computers.
I went to a public school in Florida and it was similar to this
I live in a 1 million plus person county with 163,000 public school students. Next year's total budget is scheduled to be 7.2 billion dollars with 3.2 billion dollars earmarked for the public schools. The largest concerns are portable classrooms (the vlog showed those), test scores, and now, mental health issues.
The most affluent schools here are located in affluent neighborhoods, and have significant financial participation by parents!
In my high school, it's in downtown, so we don't have those yellow busses. Instead of yellow busses. Students just use the city busses that are parked in the front
That school has the most depressing lunch room I've ever seen haha.
there is elementary school middle school and high school most high school students graduate at the age of 18 in the United States but parents also have the option to homeschool their kids with little or no restrictions.
My old school sounds like Thurston's.
We had a set of weights and an multibench in an old closet.
It was a rural school, bunch of farm kids, really didnt have a need for a weight room.
They tore down that school and rebuilt a modern school. The weight room looks like a college level weight room now.😅
Not everyone eats in the lunch room. In my High School you could pretty much eat anywhere there weren't classes. We also had lunch trucks that would come to sell food just outside the gates in case we didn't want to eat cafeteria food.
My high school started at 7:30AM and I left at 2PM. I had 7 different classes and lunch. I went to high school in the 1980s and we had 3 minutes to get to the next class. If you were late, you could not enter the class.
School in the US can vary greatly from state to state from curriculum to funding to school layout. From my personal experience this is a very well funded and organized school (assuming this is a public school that receives state funding). Depending on the average income of the area and students attending, the state gives funding to schools for equipment and nesscities needed. The higher the area's income is the more funding a public school receives (at least in CA)
My school for example was much smaller than this school. Didn't have a library and had more of an outdoor concept with no hallways so we had to walk outside to different buildings. We didn't have an lockers so I had to carry my backpack and sports bag around all day 😭 Even worst was that high school kids weren't allowed to ride the bus unless you lived outside town limits cause my area didn't have enough busses to accommodate all the kids in the area. I lived at the edge of town but didn't qualify so I had to walk an hour to and from school.
We had 8 periods, with Mon and Thurs being periods 1-4, Weds being all periods and Tues and Friday being periods 5-8. School started at 8am and ended at 3:15pm except Wednesdays we got out at 2:30pm.
My school didn't have nearly as much cool stuff as that school. We didn't even have the funding for the materials needed for any of the arts classes + repairs for the track. We also had an issue with keeping teachers so getting through the curriculum was rough.
When I was in school we started at 7:35am and ended at 2:25pm. Many times I didn't get home until 5pm or so because of extra curricular activities. My parents were so happy when I got my license. His campus look pretty compact. My high school was actually a Jr High and High school that were combined into one campus. Made it tricky getting to class on time if you had to switch buildings.
My daughters high school issue chrome books at the beginning of each year and EVERY lesson is done on it now.
Welcome to big bro monitoring our kids at school lol
None of the schools I went to had a Common Area like this school.
Usually you get 5-6 minutes between classes so depending how far your classes are from each other you have a time to kill sometimes you get back to back classes on the other side of the school so you have to hustle to get there on time at least at bigger schools.
They are newer thats why. That place where everything congragates is called the commons area in my school. My highschool would blow your mind from the full size theater to the three basketball courts the football field the crazy weight room and baseball field. I went to school in Utah so there was also a building for religious studies but no swimming pool.
When I was in high school back in the late 1970s we started at 7:00 am and finished at 2:00 pm with 7 periods.
We have designated areas set for students in high school called "home room". Basically, it's a way to let other teachers who a student has, of who's in school for that day.
Home rooms are used as class rooms throughout the day. My high school home room was the classroom for local history/geography.
All high schools in the US have gyms (with weights), basketball/hockey arenas within the high school.
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When I was in high school, there was no age limit to go to the weight room, by the way.
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Because I live in Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvanian high school isn't complete without a wrestling room.
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Oh, you can even lift weights in the high school's weight room, and track. As an adult. I believe you cough up US$20/month, but you lift weights, train cardio, run the track, etc.
Again going on my experience, which ended in 2010......
School started at 8:10am. Through none 50-minute periods, including lunch, school ends at 2:50pm
At my school district they give everyone a computer from 1st grade to 12th grade.
I end at 3:15 pm and start at 7:45am 🙄.
One thing my school does that I love is off campus lunch so we can go wherever.
My school was a bit different than this. We had 5 minutes to get to each class period. There were Scout 9-10 buildings, each subject (math, English, etc.) in a different building. Our lunch was about 30 minutes. School started at 8:30 and ended at 4:30. We were not allowed to have phones out whatsoever, so it’s weird how this guy was even able to film.
I went to a REALLY poor school here in the US. About 25 years ago and this was waaay nicer than my school. We didn’t have vending machines. We had several minutes between classes to get to another class.
The high school I attended did not have one large central building. It comprises about 10-12 separate single story buildings with open courtyards in between them. There was no building to congregate in before class started. However, yes.....we would congregate in the open courtyards we called "quads" before class, between class, during lunch and after school. The quads have bench seating areas and were, and still are popular gathering areas. For contrast, the high school on the other side of town was completely opposite. They have a single large multi-story building and I am sure they also congregated in the large areas indoors.
Laptops are issued by schools starting in 6th grade in my area, my daughter has never had a textbook issued, only novels.
American public (read: state) schools are funded by local property taxes. Since many mid middle class and upper income families live outside of the inner core of the city, the schools there tend to be nicer and have better outcomes. Schools in the city core often are not as well funded as large suburban schools. So, yes, there are schools in Texas with 50 million pound plus stadiums and nice fine arts programs, the vast majority of American kids deal with way less. Then you look at the South and find horrifying data on schools and graduation rates and teen pregnancy rates in places like Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and sadly Texas. This in turn has an effect on home prices - it drives them up in areas with good schools. Meanwhile, the city cores have rotted while school tax revenue goes to the suburbs. Richer folks who live in the city core will often send their kids to private school on top of paying inflated prices for nice homes with close proximity offices in city centers. And the prices for private schools even in Texas cities can be huge - think tens of thousands per year. A private elementary school can cost 50K+ per yes in places like Manhattan. By choosing nicer suburban schools, parents sometimes have to sign up for longer commutes, which again implies more costs. I wish we could come up with a better way to do this.
Interesting-- in the US academies are more academically challenging than public schools. Public schools are free to attend and taxpayer-funded, while academies charge tuition and usually require students to wear uniforms. While 91% of the K-12 (ages 5 - 18) student population attend public schools, 9% attend private schools, including academies and boarding schools, although boarding schools only comprise 0.5 percent of the K-12 (ages 5 - 18) student population and tend to be very expensive. Since public schools are tax-payer funded, wealthier communities tend to have better public schools in terms of academics and resources. All public schools also receive funds from state and federal governments, but those funds tend to be performance-based, so public schools in low-income areas, where the local tax base is low, tend not to attract the best teachers and do not have enough resources. As a result, students do not tend to get a good education in these areas, resulting in poor-performing schools in low-income areas, resulting in less governmental aid. It's so unfair and messed up. This can vary even more from state to state.
I went to two different high schools growing up because I didn’t match well with the first one and in the first one it was a giant school with a big campus. It even had like a football field on it. And my second one the whole high school was on one floor and there was about a max of maybe 300 400 students from my past one which was more like 2000 3000 students which was crazy. It was a big shift for me but I like the smaller school
Back in my hay days of high school here in America, we'd walk across from one side of the school to the other school building which we had the vo-tech of varieties of classes then to switch classes or have lunch and when it was time to go home we'd have to run just to catch the bus at the end of the day. Most students weren't even on their cellphones or doing ridiculous things this type of generation of kids being unruly nowadays or having random fights.... Sadly since after I graduated in 2005, things had gotten more ridiculous at the school I went to and now sadly our school system has become corrupted and can't wait till all the corruption within the school system and the school I went to gets cleaned out as soon as possible that way education becomes the focal point again.
I am trying to figure out where this is, and my best guesses are either Washington or Massachusetts, either around Seattle or Boston. It has to be somewhere that has a substantial Asian population, and somewhere that has substantial education funding. It doesn't look like California at all, and you won't see that much brick in California due to earthquakes. After listening to the voices and looking at the trees, I am going to go with Washington. They don't sound like New Englanders at all, and those evergreen trees look western, not eastern.
Its Kamiak, about 20 miles north of Seattle. My child is in the same school district, but different high school.
@@NerdGirlShan My sleuthing was on point! Thanks for the confirmation.
Yea we have gyms here I remember me and my classmates worked out like crazy 😂😂 good times 👍
Btw im from California
Tables changed for me on the class. Mathematics was Tables like this video. Physics was a group Table.
This definitely is not the average high school