This probably depends on whether you're attending a public or private school too. I mostly attended private schools because my school district was shit and it was a lot more like how the British one was described. Never saw the principal except at assemblies or when you fucked up, girls had to wear skirts of a certain length and have their shoulders covered and boys had to have specific styles and colors of belts and ties, essays had to be in a particular type of format..... The only American part of them was the graduation.
I'm American, but went to university in the UK, and one of my friends I made there asked me, after watching the movie Easy A, if American high schools were actually like this. For her, this was so strange, wearing your own clothes and also the distinctly diverse cliques of groups and clubs. For me, despite a film cliche, my school was very much like that. There really were the misunderstood band kids, the preppy crowd, the burnout hacky sackers, the brainy introverts who ate in a classroom, the jocks & cheerleaders, the Christian youth group, etc. My British friend thought this was hilarious and also so exciting. She wished her school had been that freely expressive, and I told her I would've much preferred her school experience. lololol
im going to college right now and its far more relaxed than secondary school, i am able to wear my own clothes and stuff like that, although im sure every American has been able to do that since grade school
indian schools and british schools yea pretty similar with the restrictions, however, It's a completely different scenario if u were to compare govt schools vs private schools in india though. Indian private school definitely have way more restrictions than the govt ones
I like how there was some real discussion about education, and the differences in detail. I'm sure that there are different areas in the U.S. and U.K. (rural) where school is pretty different than what these two women experienced, but this gave us a good idea, and the videos that they reacted to were really very funny. 😁
Nah most of the UK is exactly how she described it. I'm from a small village and I know I had the same experience as people in cities. She basically summed up education for every single person in the UK cos it's always basically the same experience. Uniforms are slightly different but there aren't really any "public" schools that don't require uniform.
Goodness. My schooling in Florida was vastly different than both. Where were the mention of riot gates, the metal detectors and locker checks with dogs sniffing for drugs??
The American schools I’ve been to were sometimes quite harsh. I didn’t wear a uniform and my high school did celebrate graduation but the teachers and the learning was strict most of the time and it just made me feel less comfortable in some classes, my grades weren’t as good as they could’ve been. The only time dresscode was annoying was usually in middle school.
You talking about the elastic ties once you were an academy reminds me of my secondary school. I’m British and when my school changed to an academy we had clip on ties so that everyone had a tie that was the same length
In English class in the US we were taught to write in MLA format and creativity wasn't a thing at all. It probably depends on the school and the teacher you get.
I am from India, it very similar to UK school system. That is serious and formal Teachers and principal. Its more of a sargent and rookie army joinee relationship. I used to think American school system was always better since it always promoted positivity. But as I grew older I think in a way I gained lot of discipline and more matured and take life seriously (in a positive way as in ambitions ). Growing up in USA I don't think I would have achieved those due to me having too much freedom and thus skipping schools and not giving fks what my teacher said. But I would also like the teachers to encourage creativity like US schools. And yes a little less strict and punishment 😭
I feel like with American schools it all depends on what region you live in. Mainly because in certain parts of the southern region, different states have different teaching methods and codes of conduct. Whereas in the northern region some states follow the uk ways of learning and code of conduct. Dress code was very strict in my school. It cost $20 for a uniform shirt and you had to find pants that were the correct color with no added designs. I was sent home because my shirt didnt have the school emblem on it. It was the school colors but just that one thing had me sent home.
In the UK you have to buy the whole set and extra, definitely over £100 for it and even the PE kit was around 60 because it's all specific to the school. Though there are options for second handed uniforms for poorer students. I'm talking about public schools by the way.
As an American we couldn’t express are emotions at all, I’m just going to say the rules we have: No bracelet No necklace No earrings You have to wear a belt or you’ll be suspended Only uniform and nothing else No ponytails ect Pants below your knees Shorts below your fingers tips If you use a phone you’ll go to kid jail or get sended away to a school where you can’t see your parents? They choose your shoes You can’t show your arms You can’t show ankles If you talk you’ll go to detention If you smile you’ll be yelled at No hugging, walking close to someone If your late by 30 seconds you’ll have detention Etc And the uniform cost abt 20-40 dollars
I remember finishing high school in the UK we got told during after lunch/afternoon assembly on a Wednesday where they had pictures of all the students in year 11 from when they started high school to present day from our school id that we didn't have to come in unless it was for an exams, we then spent the rest of the afternoon getting out shirts signed, though we did still have to come in uniform for our exams I do remember on last day of exams there were a lot of ripped ties and school diaries on the ground
My American schooling experience was definitely more similar to the British schools than the way American schools are claimed to be in this video. The only things from this video that were accurate to my experience were the (very minimal) dress code and graduation being a super big deal. Even then, most of the students don’t make too big of a deal about graduation, it’s really just the culture around it so teachers and parents make it a way bigger deal than it is.
same. I kinda wish they actually compared topics sometimes instead of analyzing comedy tiktok’s… my highly ranked public high school in the Northeast was cool and relaxed and people got along but it was still very strict academically and had a very high passing rate with most kids going on to college.
I wore a school uniform from year 1 until year 8, & then I went to a Rudolf Steiner school, a private, but non uniform wearing school, & it took a pretty long time to get used to not wearing a uniform anymore. I loved it so much once I got used to it though! Mainly, because I got bullied in Years 7 & 8 for not wearing 'fashionable' black trousers as part of the uniform.
Back when I was in 6th form (a little over 20 years ago now - I’m old), we would have sixth form ‘balls’ in the last week of every term, that basically meant someone found a failing pub that was willing to turn a blind eye and sell alcohol to us, and we would all go and get completely trashed on aftershock or worse. It was always on a Thursday, so we would turn up to school the next day either still drunk or massively hungover. The whole sixth form block would stink of stale alcohol. The teachers ignored it and pretended it didn’t happen. When you finish school in UK, you all finish at different times because you all have different exams and one person may finish 2 weeks before someone else, so it’s a sort of weird ending. Then everyone is working summer jobs and getting ready for Uni. The only time everyone comes together after that is results day in mid august. Even then, not everyone turns up. You might go out clubbing later to celebrate though
Also, when you finish school, you still have like maybe 2 months before your exam results so you often don't know what you're next step is. Like you celebrate that your exams are over but not that you 'made it' because you might have failed and be looking at doing resits (if you really want the exams)
Cady here 🇬🇧 this was really funny watching the videos and comparing school life! When I watch it back it sounds crazy to hear some of the things about our school, it was a crazy time in my life! Do you guys miss school?
I got swat knotted a lot and omg the exam memories you talked about 😂 My English teacher did the film and pausing thing 😂 mind, I got an A in literature 🙌
No ties at my school when I was there but I remember getting pice of paper saying how to modernise school uniform they just introduced it just before current school year. What they have now is actually shirt white see though ones, jumper with a v neck shape & Tie & black trousers or skirt. When I was there it black trousers,black shoes,normal jumper, & polo shirt.
When I first started secondary school they still had white polo shirts with a black sweatshirt that had the logo on as the uniform but by the time I started year 9 the uniform changed as the school became and academy. The new uniform still had the same black trousers and skirts but switched to white shirt shirts with a grey knitted wool jumper with clip on ties. We never had ties that actually needed to be tied so never experienced swat knotting but instead our ties were very easily pulled off of people that didn't expect it and people would then run off with each others ties lol. By year 10 we got a new head teacher and they got a lot stricter with uniform rules, they even started mandating skirt length very strictly and there were some instances where they would check with a ruler if they thought girls skirts were too short and make them be worn knee length. Apparently after we left in 2016 it somehow got worse lol
When you are a teenager, of course! You don't like to wear a uniform. But, when you grew up, you can understand that's the best. Why? You would ask me. Because the most important thing at school, is that students differ from each other by intellect, not by fashion. And, especially in girls. You can observe the enormous differences that are generated, how they displace one another, how they discriminate against each other. And if you think about it, even if they go to school in street clothes, they still dress in uniform, depending on the group, some will dress as punks, others as hip hoppers, girls of one style or another. There is more bullying in the classroom, at recess, and less attention on what is really important.
Some kids get bullied for not being able to afford popular clothes. School should be about learning and socialising and choosing new outfits out each day not only costs a lot of money but distracts from the former and can make the latter more superficial.
I’m a teenager and I’ve always loved uniform lol. Even as a little kid I liked uniform. I understood that if my school didn’t have uniform then that would cause me so much stress and I would spend ages trying to pick outfits and stuff. In my country it’s common in the last year of high school that you’re allowed to wear mufti. You’re still allowed to wear uniform but no one does because of social pressure. I went to a new high school and I was really worried that my school would also allow mufti for the last year but luckily they decided that you had to wear the uniform throughout all 5 years. I was very happy about that because most schools in my city don’t have uniform in the last year so I thought they would also choose to do that. I really love uniforms. When I was like 12, I got my grandparents in the UK to send me some cheap white school shirts (my actual school had a colourful ugly polo shirt) so I could like just wear them and dress up and pretend I had a cute uniform. Going to a school with like a cute uniform is very important to me. I could never go to a school without a uniform. I actually looked it up and have checked every high school in my country’s school uniform and I know which one is the cutest lol. I’ve actually designed school uniforms myself like 3 times. I just really like uniforms.
In Sweden (where I live) we don't wear uniforms and we also don't have any dress codes. I used to romanticize school uniforms, I thought they looked really cool (probably because of Harry Potter). And while I do see how uniforms can be good, I think It's important for young people to express themselves and experiment with fashion (among other things). I used to dress very alternative and I never experienced or witnessed any bullying, especially not because of fashion. Maybe I would've been bullied if I went to a British or American school though, who knows.
As an Indian I relate to British schools more... Its true we don't see our Principals ever...Only if you get punished or in a yearly gathering or an Assembly meeting. To be Strict or not to be, it is completely depending on what kind of a person the Principal is...... But I personally love Discipline....and there needs that slight strictness....otherwise there will be Hooligans everywhere In the british way students brains are developed more, beacuse of teh kind of school exercises American way is WAYYYYYYY more Open and Welcoming... But students may misuse that priviledge... Americans literally don't realise how privileged they are.. Ask yourselves Why People want to immigrate/relocate to USA............? _(but you guys are kind of dumb)_
The last time I saw my heat teacher was during my leavers ceremony when I left for sixth form, I only saw here like 12 times in my whole 5 years at that school
I’m a brit. When I finished secondary school we had a graduation party at a country house. You had to buy a ticket to go to the party & we all had to dress up. We also had an book we could purchase that the class reps had created with our pictures in and we had all had to submit a couple of paragraphs of out time at the school or thanking friends or about ourselves or whatever to go with our picture. So graduation parties do happen in uk. University graduation parties can be big in uk too.
Yeah my secondary school did that too, but they called the party "prom" (which happens after you finish sixth form/year 13) where girls wear dresses I guess. I wasn't interested so didn't go and the books that were created (for year 7 to 11 not sixth form) by the school reps were so unfair, like it had mostly photos of similar friendship groups!😑 Worst idea to leave student reps do the book!😐
@@galaxynova3215 the books we had weren’t like that. They were made for year 11 students and they were not friendships groups at all they were everyone in the form groups. Like Harry Potter has 4 houses my school had form groups. I was form F. So in the section of the group for F there was a picture of our tutor & then everyone in for F. It was the same for every form. Not everyone wanted their picture I’m the book so if anyone refused to have their picture then they just got a male/female silhouette I’m the book but no one in the school was missed out and there was no bias/discrimination. If people wanted just their friendship groups they could make their own books. I got some coloured paper and created a book and got all my friends to write personal messages in it as well as getting the end of year leaving book. So not all class/form reps are biased they can do a good impartial job. I also remember that my school you could buy a CD 💿 with pictures on. For a week or two you could go take pictures of yourself and you with friends and then they were all compiled together and put onto the disk. That way people who wanted pictures with their friendship groups had pictures on the disk. I didn’t have many friends but I still got the disk as I was still in it and I have pictures of my friends to look back on even if I don’t see those people any more.
In my secondary school, we got yearbooks at the end of Y11, where we all had a choice of whether or not we wanted a “quote” of some sort (mine was, “What is the meaning of life?”). In this yearbook, we were all placed in our houses (we had 5), and most of us had pictures from Year 7 and Year 10 (as a comparison). There was also a prom at a hotel (which I didn’t go to). Apparently, it was one of the crazier things to have happened this year (this was back in July). Anyway…
I live in new Zealand and I haven’t graduated yet but I saw the graduation for the year above me at school. It was weird because they had like the whole graduation ceremony with like awards and a certificate and stuff but all the kids were in normal school uniform and it was all the teachers who were wearing the cap and gown lol.
@@rachelcookie321 oh wow I am originally from NZ myself. When I graduated high school in Australia, we didn’t wear cap and gowns but had a graduation ceremony in front of the whole school, then at night a graduation dinner with our parents and peers and after that we got changed and went to a mates house to get drunk 😂 In year 6 (final year of primary) our teachers personally organised us cap and gowns as well we did a year 6 dance. But our exams and things is very similar to the UK, I know this from other videos but also my uncle is a teacher there.
@@Rebekahlavy that sounds cool. When I “graduated” primary school in New Zealand we had a year 8 dinner a few weeks before the end of year and an award ceremony a couple days before the end of year. Then on the last day it was just like a regular end of year last day of school but at then end the whole school made arches with their arms and the year 8s had to walk out under it. It would of been so cool to have caps and gowns. I don’t know if there’s a graduation dinner or anything at my school for high school. I know there is formal in June which has a nice dinner but I don’t know if there is one at the end of year too. I suspect lots of kids do go get drunk though. Idk how similar the exams are in New Zealand to Britain. I mean, they’re similar in the way I think all exams are. You do the exam in like the auditorium with all the tables set up away from each other, and you got a clear pencil case, and you got a clear drink bottle, and you got phones turned off in bags, and you got an exam person sent from the education board to watch over the exams. I feel like that stuff is pretty standard exams. But then like our exams work differently here because you technically don’t need to take exams. Like if you get enough credits during the year, then there’s no reason to take exams. I just take exams for fun lol. Like our whole grades don’t depend on the exams. I know how the exams and stuff work in the UK because I’m from Scotland and my dad is from England and I’ve done a lot of research on the education system there to see if I should move back to the UK to finish school (the answer is no because then I would have to repeat a year because you have to go through like a whole 2 year system).
thanks to Cady, I'm now willing to learn more about UK culture! I love her bright smile, voice, accent, personality, and everything. I also really love Hallie too❤️ always happy to see nice people be a good friends each other
Americans put an unusual amount of emphasis on graduations, to the point of adding it to completely pointless parts in education. Such as going between elementary school to jr high. Thats not a graduation, thats just "you aint a little kid now, but still a kid" I remember even as a 12yr old thinking it was really dumb i was in this grand ceremony to literally come down to the solution that my classes are going to be a bit harder and no more recess lol
Lmao Aw I remember I had a graduation from Kindergarten, then a graduation from primary school to elementary school, then the usual graduation from high school.
@@arjunbprasad5265 Trust me if there is something Americans will always know, its the fact that we dealt with yall very good and got our freedom. with the help of France of course, even a 3 year old would know that.
In mainland Europe, USA and Canada it is normal to wear your own clothes, so UK, Australia and New Zealand are in the minority of the western civilization?
Also, in Ireland, it is compulsory. Australian and Kiwi uniforms are very casual, at least until high school or in public schools, just a coloured shirt with the school logo and either black shorts, trousers, skorts, or skirts depending on gender and preference.
I can easily tell the age group of a British school from its uniform (this is just from my experiences but it's kind of the stereotype) Primary: school-colour jumper/cardigan, school-colour/white polo shirt, black/grey trousers/leggings/skirt and tights Secondary: navy or black blazer, (jumper/cardigan), white shirt, school-colour striped tie, black trousers/skirt and tights Each "section" is separated by commas, interchangeable items are separated by slashes and dependent-on-school items are in brackets.
I'm American, but my public school experience in Mississippi was more similar to the British school experience--minus the quality and with a dash of prison system culture (including barred windows, iron gates in the hallways, ugly uniforms, visible "dog tag" IDs, etc.). Half of my teachers were underqualified coaches who would resort to bullying the students for kicks instead of teaching because they didn't know how to do the latter.
Public school life in Alaska -no uniforms - school at 8:50am - 3:30 changing to 4:00 because of snow days - we eat in our class because of covid - every Friday is movie night - everyone is nice
Interesting, hmm we in India have been following the Britz education systemo, and the accent we follow might be more Americano. I feel both has its merits, I think For a geeko guy British lifestylle wiil be apt, but for cool and creative people , merican ..
OMG, the American girl, her eyes color are so deep, that iris color is so light, almost like white (with a bluish hue). So pretty! 😍 Saludos desde México! 😊
With like the principal, in New Zealand I’ve had both experiences. My first primary school here was a bit big with 800 kids and the principal was like the British one. He was really strict and you would only ever see him at school assemblies but he didn’t even come half of the time. Half of the time the deputy principal would come saying the principal had a meeting or something so he couldn’t come. He didn’t ever talk to any of the students unless there was something really serious going on. The only time I ever really met him was when I enrolled at the school, he wasn’t even there when I got suspended, that meeting was with the deputy principal. My second primary school had a principal a lot more like the American one. It was a smaller school of like 300 and she knew every student’s name. She would wait out at the morning greeting every student as they came to class and she would say hi to all the kids when she saw them. Even after I started high school, a few years after I finished primary school, she still remembered me. I think it’s actually more of a female principal vs male principal thing. Because in high school when I first started I had a male principal and he was less involved with the students but then we got a new female principal and she was a lot more involved, saying hi to all the students and knowing all their names and stuff. I went to school in Britain when I was little and my principal was female, although it was a little stricter and less involved than female principals in New Zealand, I still felt like she was more involved than male principals in New Zealand and that she would of been more involved than male principals in the UK.
@@Brownieシ yea, British primary schools are a bit smaller. I think my primary school in the UK had about 200-300 kids. I don’t know about other parts of New Zealand but when I moved here there was 2 primary schools in my town, both with 800 students. My town is growing rapidly and the second primary school had only opened like 2 years before I moved here. Now there are 6 primary schools in my town and they all have like 600+ students (except the Christian school, they only got 200).
it depends on where you live. in the south school is easy because of their low education rankings LMFAO and I live in the south; but middle school southern "teachers" are rude asf and won't teach you..based on my experiences
Don't get it twisted if there's a global ranking of Universities around the world, US schools would still dominate the top 10...maybe outside of Uni of Oxford.
We once had a maths probability question which said "Neha eats a sweet does not regurgitate it, and eats another sweet" yeah I'd like to hope she didn't regurgitate it but thanks for the extra information i guess. I mean obviously if you don't state that valuable peice of information then my first thought is. Ah yes Neha must of regurgitated it i mean who would give such a thing to a child.
I am from Iraq. My school has strict laws. You have to wear a uniform consisting of a black skirt and a white shirt. The phone is forbidden to run in the school corridors. It is forbidden to speak loudly. It is forbidden to grow long nails. Hairstyles are forbidden. Except for a few hairstyles. Very tight clothes.
Wow very true (American here) wonder how the Aussie, Kiwi, South African, Asian countries, and the Red Heads (wink! much love), and Indian schools differ? I'm familiar with Germany and Swedish general area (your own your own) ... Makes me think of indigenous people as well. I am surprised I liked this video as much as I did. Thank you very much!
This is just stereotyping British schools. American schools aren’t all that so maybe don’t make it seem as if British schools are awful cuz trust me there not
My headmaster in the 60s was also a colonel in the army cadet force and if you saw him you would be expecting either the cane the slipper(beaten with a gym shoe) or rapped over the knuckles with a ruler. This reduced in the 70s and we also lost some of our drunk and predatory teachers but. Violence continued to be normal. Until I left in 1971.
I have a question is Hallie from the south? In the north, our schools are a lot like how Cady said schools are. We have uniforms and they are strict on how you wear them. I got sent home for having a little dot of white on my black uniform pants. Our tests are like theirs too.
I’ve lived on the West Coast and the South and have never worn uniforms in public schools except for PE class. The PE uniform was kind of strict because it had to be school colors and we had to buy them for certain athletic good stores. The only public schools I’ve seen with uniforms in the South are the ones with discipline problems.
Uniforms are definitely not the norm in the US. I'm from Minnesota, and the only schools where uniforms are mandatory are the pretentious private ones where parents shell out tens of thousands to get basically the same education.
@@cahinton. definitely not the same. Non religious Private schools offer better education in the US and schools in the Northeast offer the best education. Especially in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
I'm from Alabama as well and my school was more like how Cady described British schools were even down to the uniform. My whole county had uniforms. I went to a public school too.
I learned in Ukrainian school. And it's pretty different to both of described ones in this video. If we talk about graduating, (that's the most interesting part) it's like not very big deal and not like just saying "Bye!" But it is like sadness that "we already go from this school to another pathes of life" and nostalgie about time, spent there. But, now I live in Denmark and here graduating from schools and especially from gymnasiums is like in US. They rent a small truck but without a roof in conrainer. And they get in this "container", but standing all the road (they also can unwear themselves almost completely), get the music very loudly. The truck is going around the city (Copenhagen) and they are singing, dancing, fooling around and in all, having fun in it. They can also stop in some point of city and take into fountains and also splash and play there. People around always take videos of this actions (that's completely understandable because in Copenhagen there are always so many tourists and they probably haven't seen such celebrating). Maybe in other countries moving in such an opened container isn't allowed, but here students can celebrate like that.
as an indian i can relate more to the british education system but some of the students here in india (pvt school cbse and icse kids) try to act like american teens and behave like them lmao i dont understand
I did a exchange with my British school to a school in Pennsylvania, you guys get so much libertys like your lessons are so much more uni style education plus you get to chose what you eat in the cafeteria, my god i probably gained 5 pounds while i was out there
i’m in a british school and we can chose between hot & cold sandwiches, pasta, sushi, paninis, pizza, main meals, slushies, waffles, brownies, quesadillas, cookies, flapjacks etc
In my country, we wear uniforms like british schools(but without ties, boys had to wear ties for formal events, with the special formal uniform, but that was it, at one point they allowed some senior girls to design the new school uniform), but my school was more relaxed, like american schools in terms of grading, and the principals, I mean one of my peincipals would play the accordeon at school assemblies
I went to school in Scotland from the late seventies to the early nineties. At primary school (age 4+) we wore white shirts/blouses, school tie and black, dark blue or grey skirts/trousers. Most wee ones did not wear school blazers - I suppose it would be too expensive, as we'd keep outgrowing them! They were an option, though. Our school wasn't really strict but you could still get hit on the hand with a ruler by the teacher. They had stopped 'belting' with a leather strap by the time I got there. I think most of us liked primary school though. Secondary (aged 11/12+) - it was a maroon blazer, school tie, white shirt/blouse and again dark blue, grey or black trousers/skirt. They did enforce the skirt length too, I remember people getting sent home to change! Our Rector (the headteacher, even though we were a state school we kept the old traditions from having been the grammar school for the town) used to walk about the corridors in his academic gowns, making sure we were behaving. He was a nice man though - IF you were behaving yourself. We had homework from Primary One, the first year at primary school, onwards. Teachers didn't really get involved with your personal problems or give advice, their hands were tied in that way. Sometimes they organised extra-curricular activities like a school dance. We didn't have school counsellors or nurses either. They always seem to have that in American films.That seems like a good idea. Re essays and exams - yes you had to know the subject, but a lot of the time they were asking you to prove or disprove a point (subject dependent obviousl), or to make an argument for something, so you had to have done further reading and formed your own opinions based on that. Another big difference is that our secondary school had prefects, who were senior students who acted as a kind of police, to take some supervisory responsibility from the teachers. Basically they made sure there was no bullying, smoking etc going on on their watch. I'm told they could be bribed though.😆
Having studied in the Middle East (British influenced) with higher education in the US, I agree with the comment that in the US is based less on the authors analysis (technical) when it comes to areas such as literature, than your own opinuon and being able to make a point. Perosnally felt like in the US you can easily BS your way through instead of having proper knowledge about the material.
I feel like a huge component of reading literature is for the reader to form his or her own interpretation. Many authors are intentionally vague for this reason. At least in my experiences in writing literacy papers, I had to prove my theses through citing lines in text so I had to read it. And if it was a play, I was usually required to find and included professional reviews in my analysis.
@@morganmiller41 What level English did you take? I had two years of AP English in high school and there was no way with my teacher that anyone in my class could just read the summaries and pass. You had to cite quotes to back up your thesis arguments and list the page numbers with each quote you used.
This is Andrew's son speaking, YES, I am a brit but the school I go to is nice and friendly. Probably because it is a public school, not a private school. For an example of how nice it is, the teachers are only strict when it is nessaccary and when I was in year 4, I saw a tiny bit of the year 6 graduation party on the playground. Also, the headteacher is nice (by the way for you americans reading this, where I live in England IS spelt with no space in between head and teacher. A good piece of information for you to know).
From my past experiences in America, The students are divided into levels of aptitude/ knowledge. (Immigrant) - (First day, I was first put in ESL. Following several tests, they moved me to English II, then English I. Finally, to literature. A month later I was given the option to take another language). = middle school. Grade 6-8.
4:27 at our school, pulling on the tie to close the knot was called "peanutting". To combat it you put a 2p coin inside the knot so it didn't fully close and you'd be able to get your fingers in to undo it.
Yeah. The description of American schools is off, mostly because it varies so much in reality. EVERY State has different standards. Most School systems even within a specific state implement that state's guidelines in different ways. Plus, Private and Charter schools... mix things up.
The idea on american school being easy is completely false. american schools are academically quite hard, it depends on the area, but generally it’s difficult, and in some areas it’s even more difficult, especially in places with more prestigious universities, like new york, california, massachusetts, connecticut, etc.
My principal is chill and he hangs out with me and my orchestra class. We don't really have a dress code, but our only rule is no crop tops or spaghetti straps. Our tanktops have to be a tumb wide. (This is not in the school website dress code rules, but those rules were made a few years ago and they didn't change the dress code on the website, so we just memorized the new dresscode.) [I apologize for any incorrect spelling or punctuations.]
i think Us schools have more friendly and the way of their learning is more friendly and cooperative with students but on other side britishers have more sincere and disciplined in their life which feels like rude in nature but i like the britishers attitude which make them different from other nations.
Leaving school for me was just doing the last exam or coming in after the last exam happened and we had a goodbye assembly then i waited like a month until the results where public and just went to school to collect them then literally walk out and never go school again. it was raining that day, also UK Also school was chaotic their was always opposition to the teacher which most of the time was entertainment to get through the long boring lessons, always one kid that knocked on doors in the hallways. At least where i'm from well manners is not the way that's for south England only
Big difference is how we celebrate after exams are finished. In america idk wtf you lot do but for the uk as far as I know most people would go to a local park and get pissed. at 15/16 but of in the states ya cant even drink till ya 21.
Idk what school the first guy was talking about but in America the school principal is never NEVER nice. They scare the shit out of you and the schools look like prisons 😩 we had strict dress codes and definitely didn’t have easy questions on tests.
I go to a British high school which has two sites one is for the girls and the other one is for the boys wich is ten minutes apart all the girls roll there skirt and sleeves up we have to keep our lanyards on tie up our hair no mater how short or long it is but because of my religion we are taught to be kind and stuff like that so our head teacher is realy kind and our religious teachers are also really kind BUT the other teachers will give us like essays to do on the Blackheath an hour math exam for university students we even have to lock our phone in a phone locker and get it back at the end of the day,if you don’t have your PE cloths straight to a 30 minute detention but the sixth formers get to wear non school uniform
in my British secondary my school isn't really strict its only a bit strict so both and i see my head teacher sometimes when im skipping lessons but i try not to get caught and for people who dont know that guy is on UA-cam his name is mrthomasenglish and also some girls in my class roll there skirts up sometimes
This probably depends on whether you're attending a public or private school too. I mostly attended private schools because my school district was shit and it was a lot more like how the British one was described. Never saw the principal except at assemblies or when you fucked up, girls had to wear skirts of a certain length and have their shoulders covered and boys had to have specific styles and colors of belts and ties, essays had to be in a particular type of format..... The only American part of them was the graduation.
at least you didn't have a uniform
@@gallaghergirl3660 yeah
My British school didn’t have a principal…
@@tunisino35 because they are called headteachers?
@@Allyfyn yes and there were 3
I'm American, but went to university in the UK, and one of my friends I made there asked me, after watching the movie Easy A, if American high schools were actually like this. For her, this was so strange, wearing your own clothes and also the distinctly diverse cliques of groups and clubs. For me, despite a film cliche, my school was very much like that. There really were the misunderstood band kids, the preppy crowd, the burnout hacky sackers, the brainy introverts who ate in a classroom, the jocks & cheerleaders, the Christian youth group, etc. My British friend thought this was hilarious and also so exciting. She wished her school had been that freely expressive, and I told her I would've much preferred her school experience. lololol
Are u talking about our uni or our college bc I think our college is uni in America
im going to college right now and its far more relaxed than secondary school, i am able to wear my own clothes and stuff like that, although im sure every American has been able to do that since grade school
indian schools and british schools yea pretty similar with the restrictions, however, It's a completely different scenario if u were to compare govt schools vs private schools in india though. Indian private school definitely have way more restrictions than the govt ones
You can take phones in school in the US and the UK, while in India you can't.
Yeah I wonder why they are pretty similar, -definitely Britain wasn't responsible-
@@ranjanbiswas3233 HAHAHAHAHAHA LMAOOO 😭😭🤌🏼
@@HackedPC Some British schools don't allow to take phones to school.
@@landinggear0018 I know right. I'm british 😒😒😒
I like how there was some real discussion about education, and the differences in detail. I'm sure that there are different areas in the U.S. and U.K. (rural) where school is pretty different than what these two women experienced, but this gave us a good idea, and the videos that they reacted to were really very funny. 😁
not all places ln the UK are rural
@@704commentkan ?.
@@704commentkan nobody said it was
Nah most of the UK is exactly how she described it. I'm from a small village and I know I had the same experience as people in cities. She basically summed up education for every single person in the UK cos it's always basically the same experience. Uniforms are slightly different but there aren't really any "public" schools that don't require uniform.
Goodness. My schooling in Florida was vastly different than both. Where were the mention of riot gates, the metal detectors and locker checks with dogs sniffing for drugs??
We're not that young lol
yessss
What the...!?
Same in Texas
Oh and sometimes you get strip serach in the juvenile. They send you there if they think u have something on u or in u
Hello , Cady 🇬🇧 and Hallie 🇺🇸 , this channel always makes great duos putting together someone from US And UK , Hallie was good choice 👍
How bout cady
The American schools I’ve been to were sometimes quite harsh. I didn’t wear a uniform and my high school did celebrate graduation but the teachers and the learning was strict most of the time and it just made me feel less comfortable in some classes, my grades weren’t as good as they could’ve been. The only time dresscode was annoying was usually in middle school.
You talking about the elastic ties once you were an academy reminds me of my secondary school. I’m British and when my school changed to an academy we had clip on ties so that everyone had a tie that was the same length
In English class in the US we were taught to write in MLA format and creativity wasn't a thing at all. It probably depends on the school and the teacher you get.
I am from India, it very similar to UK school system. That is serious and formal Teachers and principal. Its more of a sargent and rookie army joinee relationship. I used to think American school system was always better since it always promoted positivity. But as I grew older I think in a way I gained lot of discipline and more matured and take life seriously (in a positive way as in ambitions ). Growing up in USA I don't think I would have achieved those due to me having too much freedom and thus skipping schools and not giving fks what my teacher said.
But I would also like the teachers to encourage creativity like US schools. And yes a little less strict and punishment 😭
I feel like with American schools it all depends on what region you live in. Mainly because in certain parts of the southern region, different states have different teaching methods and codes of conduct. Whereas in the northern region some states follow the uk ways of learning and code of conduct. Dress code was very strict in my school. It cost $20 for a uniform shirt and you had to find pants that were the correct color with no added designs.
I was sent home because my shirt didnt have the school emblem on it. It was the school colors but just that one thing had me sent home.
Yes me to
In the UK you have to buy the whole set and extra, definitely over £100 for it and even the PE kit was around 60 because it's all specific to the school. Though there are options for second handed uniforms for poorer students. I'm talking about public schools by the way.
As an American we couldn’t express are emotions at all, I’m just going to say the rules we have:
No bracelet
No necklace
No earrings
You have to wear a belt or you’ll be suspended
Only uniform and nothing else
No ponytails ect
Pants below your knees
Shorts below your fingers tips
If you use a phone you’ll go to kid jail or get sended away to a school where you can’t see your parents?
They choose your shoes
You can’t show your arms
You can’t show ankles
If you talk you’ll go to detention
If you smile you’ll be yelled at
No hugging, walking close to someone
If your late by 30 seconds you’ll have detention
Etc
And the uniform cost abt 20-40 dollars
@@-AV33-No ponytails? What about hot weather? Also, did they allow you to cut it short?
I remember finishing high school in the UK we got told during after lunch/afternoon assembly on a Wednesday where they had pictures of all the students in year 11 from when they started high school to present day from our school id that we didn't have to come in unless it was for an exams, we then spent the rest of the afternoon getting out shirts signed, though we did still have to come in uniform for our exams I do remember on last day of exams there were a lot of ripped ties and school diaries on the ground
ript? lol
@Karen A.T.H. haha, I didn't even notice, though in my defence, I wrote this at 4 in the morning
My American schooling experience was definitely more similar to the British schools than the way American schools are claimed to be in this video. The only things from this video that were accurate to my experience were the (very minimal) dress code and graduation being a super big deal. Even then, most of the students don’t make too big of a deal about graduation, it’s really just the culture around it so teachers and parents make it a way bigger deal than it is.
same. I kinda wish they actually compared topics sometimes instead of analyzing comedy tiktok’s… my highly ranked public high school in the Northeast was cool and relaxed and people got along but it was still very strict academically and had a very high passing rate with most kids going on to college.
Graduation isn’t a thing here in the UK which makes sense
Hallie here! Hi everyone!👋 Thanks for welcoming me to the channel! 🤗🥰
P.S. I'm sorry for all the 'like's hahaha.
Hi! 😊 I enjoyed every minute of the video, so funny and interesting at the same time. Hope you and Cady will make more similar ones. Greetings! :)
@@grazynawilczynosek959 Thanks!! 🥰
Hello , Hallie , i'm happy to see you and Cady in these videos 🇺🇸🤍
@@henri191 Thanks Henri! 😆
Welcome Hallie 🇺🇸 I am so excited for you to be featured as an American representative on World Friends.
Roll Tide!!! 😊
I wore a school uniform from year 1 until year 8, & then I went to a Rudolf Steiner school, a private, but non uniform wearing school, & it took a pretty long time to get used to not wearing a uniform anymore. I loved it so much once I got used to it though! Mainly, because I got bullied in Years 7 & 8 for not wearing 'fashionable' black trousers as part of the uniform.
An opinion-based adjective without a further adjective/adverb causes ambiguity so their definition of "fashionable" may be different from yours
Back when I was in 6th form (a little over 20 years ago now - I’m old), we would have sixth form ‘balls’ in the last week of every term, that basically meant someone found a failing pub that was willing to turn a blind eye and sell alcohol to us, and we would all go and get completely trashed on aftershock or worse. It was always on a Thursday, so we would turn up to school the next day either still drunk or massively hungover. The whole sixth form block would stink of stale alcohol. The teachers ignored it and pretended it didn’t happen.
When you finish school in UK, you all finish at different times because you all have different exams and one person may finish 2 weeks before someone else, so it’s a sort of weird ending. Then everyone is working summer jobs and getting ready for Uni. The only time everyone comes together after that is results day in mid august. Even then, not everyone turns up. You might go out clubbing later to celebrate though
Also, when you finish school, you still have like maybe 2 months before your exam results so you often don't know what you're next step is. Like you celebrate that your exams are over but not that you 'made it' because you might have failed and be looking at doing resits (if you really want the exams)
Me as an indian -: why i feel like i went to a british school
me realizing -: ohh yeah india was under british
The biggest difference between UK and US schools is that, Brit school kids can pretty much expect to go home alive at the end of every school day.
😂
people are crazy in london, a bunch of knife crime
You've obviously never played rock chicken.
Apart from knoives.
Cady here 🇬🇧 this was really funny watching the videos and comparing school life! When I watch it back it sounds crazy to hear some of the things about our school, it was a crazy time in my life! Do you guys miss school?
I got swat knotted a lot and omg the exam memories you talked about 😂
My English teacher did the film and pausing thing 😂 mind, I got an A in literature 🙌
Only gave swat knots to my friends though! ***
No ties at my school when I was there but I remember getting pice of paper saying how to modernise school uniform they just introduced it just before current school year. What they have now is actually shirt white see though ones, jumper with a v neck shape & Tie & black trousers or skirt. When I was there it black trousers,black shoes,normal jumper, & polo shirt.
When I first started secondary school they still had white polo shirts with a black sweatshirt that had the logo on as the uniform but by the time I started year 9 the uniform changed as the school became and academy. The new uniform still had the same black trousers and skirts but switched to white shirt shirts with a grey knitted wool jumper with clip on ties. We never had ties that actually needed to be tied so never experienced swat knotting but instead our ties were very easily pulled off of people that didn't expect it and people would then run off with each others ties lol. By year 10 we got a new head teacher and they got a lot stricter with uniform rules, they even started mandating skirt length very strictly and there were some instances where they would check with a ruler if they thought girls skirts were too short and make them be worn knee length. Apparently after we left in 2016 it somehow got worse lol
Where did you go to school?! Aelreds/Newton High?
When you are a teenager, of course! You don't like to wear a uniform. But, when you grew up, you can understand that's the best.
Why? You would ask me. Because the most important thing at school, is that students differ from each other by intellect, not by fashion.
And, especially in girls. You can observe the enormous differences that are generated, how they displace one another, how they discriminate against each other.
And if you think about it, even if they go to school in street clothes, they still dress in uniform, depending on the group, some will dress as punks, others as hip hoppers, girls of one style or another.
There is more bullying in the classroom, at recess, and less attention on what is really important.
The uniform isn't even that bad
Some kids get bullied for not being able to afford popular clothes. School should be about learning and socialising and choosing new outfits out each day not only costs a lot of money but distracts from the former and can make the latter more superficial.
I’m a teenager and I’ve always loved uniform lol. Even as a little kid I liked uniform. I understood that if my school didn’t have uniform then that would cause me so much stress and I would spend ages trying to pick outfits and stuff. In my country it’s common in the last year of high school that you’re allowed to wear mufti. You’re still allowed to wear uniform but no one does because of social pressure. I went to a new high school and I was really worried that my school would also allow mufti for the last year but luckily they decided that you had to wear the uniform throughout all 5 years. I was very happy about that because most schools in my city don’t have uniform in the last year so I thought they would also choose to do that. I really love uniforms. When I was like 12, I got my grandparents in the UK to send me some cheap white school shirts (my actual school had a colourful ugly polo shirt) so I could like just wear them and dress up and pretend I had a cute uniform. Going to a school with like a cute uniform is very important to me. I could never go to a school without a uniform. I actually looked it up and have checked every high school in my country’s school uniform and I know which one is the cutest lol. I’ve actually designed school uniforms myself like 3 times. I just really like uniforms.
In Sweden (where I live) we don't wear uniforms and we also don't have any dress codes. I used to romanticize school uniforms, I thought they looked really cool (probably because of Harry Potter). And while I do see how uniforms can be good, I think It's important for young people to express themselves and experiment with fashion (among other things). I used to dress very alternative and I never experienced or witnessed any bullying, especially not because of fashion. Maybe I would've been bullied if I went to a British or American school though, who knows.
As an Indian I relate to British schools more...
Its true we don't see our Principals ever...Only if you get punished or in a yearly gathering or an Assembly meeting.
To be Strict or not to be, it is completely depending on what kind of a person the Principal is......
But I personally love Discipline....and there needs that slight strictness....otherwise there will be Hooligans everywhere
In the british way students brains are developed more, beacuse of teh kind of school exercises
American way is WAYYYYYYY more Open and Welcoming...
But students may misuse that priviledge...
Americans literally don't realise how privileged they are..
Ask yourselves Why People want to immigrate/relocate to USA............?
_(but you guys are kind of dumb)_
i havent seen my principle at all in all the years i've been in school. I can completely relate
The last time I saw my heat teacher was during my leavers ceremony when I left for sixth form, I only saw here like 12 times in my whole 5 years at that school
People who don't want to millions of fellow Indians without toilet access want to move to USA
India was a British territory once, so it's quite normal to have the same system..
I’m a brit. When I finished secondary school we had a graduation party at a country house. You had to buy a ticket to go to the party & we all had to dress up. We also had an book we could purchase that the class reps had created with our pictures in and we had all had to submit a couple of paragraphs of out time at the school or thanking friends or about ourselves or whatever to go with our picture. So graduation parties do happen in uk. University graduation parties can be big in uk too.
Yeah my secondary school did that too, but they called the party "prom" (which happens after you finish sixth form/year 13) where girls wear dresses I guess. I wasn't interested so didn't go and the books that were created (for year 7 to 11 not sixth form) by the school reps were so unfair, like it had mostly photos of similar friendship groups!😑 Worst idea to leave student reps do the book!😐
@@galaxynova3215 the books we had weren’t like that. They were made for year 11 students and they were not friendships groups at all they were everyone in the form groups. Like Harry Potter has 4 houses my school had form groups. I was form F. So in the section of the group for F there was a picture of our tutor & then everyone in for F. It was the same for every form. Not everyone wanted their picture I’m the book so if anyone refused to have their picture then they just got a male/female silhouette I’m the book but no one in the school was missed out and there was no bias/discrimination. If people wanted just their friendship groups they could make their own books. I got some coloured paper and created a book and got all my friends to write personal messages in it as well as getting the end of year leaving book. So not all class/form reps are biased they can do a good impartial job. I also remember that my school you could buy a CD 💿 with pictures on. For a week or two you could go take pictures of yourself and you with friends and then they were all compiled together and put onto the disk. That way people who wanted pictures with their friendship groups had pictures on the disk. I didn’t have many friends but I still got the disk as I was still in it and I have pictures of my friends to look back on even if I don’t see those people any more.
In my secondary school, we got yearbooks at the end of Y11, where we all had a choice of whether or not we wanted a “quote” of some sort (mine was, “What is the meaning of life?”). In this yearbook, we were all placed in our houses (we had 5), and most of us had pictures from Year 7 and Year 10 (as a comparison).
There was also a prom at a hotel (which I didn’t go to). Apparently, it was one of the crazier things to have happened this year (this was back in July).
Anyway…
I need a whole series about Cady's school experiences.
I don't feel like this is the most accurate and generalized American schooling experience honestly.
Australia is very similar to the uk with the exams and how we learn but graduation is middle ground big deal. Depends on what your school does really
I live in new Zealand and I haven’t graduated yet but I saw the graduation for the year above me at school. It was weird because they had like the whole graduation ceremony with like awards and a certificate and stuff but all the kids were in normal school uniform and it was all the teachers who were wearing the cap and gown lol.
@@rachelcookie321 oh wow
I am originally from NZ myself. When I graduated high school in Australia, we didn’t wear cap and gowns but had a graduation ceremony in front of the whole school, then at night a graduation dinner with our parents and peers and after that we got changed and went to a mates house to get drunk 😂
In year 6 (final year of primary) our teachers personally organised us cap and gowns as well we did a year 6 dance.
But our exams and things is very similar to the UK, I know this from other videos but also my uncle is a teacher there.
@@Rebekahlavy that sounds cool. When I “graduated” primary school in New Zealand we had a year 8 dinner a few weeks before the end of year and an award ceremony a couple days before the end of year. Then on the last day it was just like a regular end of year last day of school but at then end the whole school made arches with their arms and the year 8s had to walk out under it. It would of been so cool to have caps and gowns.
I don’t know if there’s a graduation dinner or anything at my school for high school. I know there is formal in June which has a nice dinner but I don’t know if there is one at the end of year too. I suspect lots of kids do go get drunk though.
Idk how similar the exams are in New Zealand to Britain. I mean, they’re similar in the way I think all exams are. You do the exam in like the auditorium with all the tables set up away from each other, and you got a clear pencil case, and you got a clear drink bottle, and you got phones turned off in bags, and you got an exam person sent from the education board to watch over the exams. I feel like that stuff is pretty standard exams. But then like our exams work differently here because you technically don’t need to take exams. Like if you get enough credits during the year, then there’s no reason to take exams. I just take exams for fun lol. Like our whole grades don’t depend on the exams.
I know how the exams and stuff work in the UK because I’m from Scotland and my dad is from England and I’ve done a lot of research on the education system there to see if I should move back to the UK to finish school (the answer is no because then I would have to repeat a year because you have to go through like a whole 2 year system).
thanks to Cady, I'm now willing to learn more about UK culture! I love her bright smile, voice, accent, personality, and everything. I also really love Hallie too❤️ always happy to see nice people be a good friends each other
Americans put an unusual amount of emphasis on graduations, to the point of adding it to completely pointless parts in education. Such as going between elementary school to jr high. Thats not a graduation, thats just "you aint a little kid now, but still a kid"
I remember even as a 12yr old thinking it was really dumb i was in this grand ceremony to literally come down to the solution that my classes are going to be a bit harder and no more recess lol
Lmao Aw I remember I had a graduation from Kindergarten, then a graduation from primary school to elementary school, then the usual graduation from high school.
In the uk, you only graduate for university (college)
i never got a graduation for middle and elementary
I thinks it’s a cool thing tho
You don't get break time!?
For my graduation we have to throw ties in the air🙄
Well...the brittish teacher wouldn't say "point 8th of an inch" (4mm)
I like how not just the flags have similar colours 🇬🇧🇺🇸 , but their hair are similar as well 👩🏻🦰👩🏻🦰
🤣go and look at the history you will understand why everyone looks same.(rip for native Americans)
@H why shouldn't I ?
@@arjunbprasad5265 they're saying the genocide of the Native Americans isn't a laughing matter
@@arjunbprasad5265 Trust me if there is something Americans will always know, its the fact that we dealt with yall very good and got our freedom. with the help of France of course, even a 3 year old would know that.
@@bodyofhope no it is not but what is happening now has lots of humor.
In mainland Europe, USA and Canada it is normal to wear your own clothes, so UK, Australia and New Zealand are in the minority of the western civilization?
Also, in Ireland, it is compulsory. Australian and Kiwi uniforms are very casual, at least until high school or in public schools, just a coloured shirt with the school logo and either black shorts, trousers, skorts, or skirts depending on gender and preference.
I know like five British schools that were there own clothes were I live😭I didn’t go to any of the
I am from the US, back in the 1970's, We had a list of books to read ,one a month and We had to do monthly book report .
I can easily tell the age group of a British school from its uniform (this is just from my experiences but it's kind of the stereotype)
Primary: school-colour jumper/cardigan, school-colour/white polo shirt, black/grey trousers/leggings/skirt and tights
Secondary: navy or black blazer, (jumper/cardigan), white shirt, school-colour striped tie, black trousers/skirt and tights
Each "section" is separated by commas, interchangeable items are separated by slashes and dependent-on-school items are in brackets.
As a British girl, I've never, EVER seen my head teacher, and I've been at my secondary school for 3 yrs lmao
So so same . we say headmaster.
I'm American, but my public school experience in Mississippi was more similar to the British school experience--minus the quality and with a dash of prison system culture (including barred windows, iron gates in the hallways, ugly uniforms, visible "dog tag" IDs, etc.). Half of my teachers were underqualified coaches who would resort to bullying the students for kicks instead of teaching because they didn't know how to do the latter.
For next time please do a versus video about "Bullying in UK vs US"
or the different of Showing off in UK vs US.
Thanks.
Public school life in Alaska
-no uniforms
- school at 8:50am - 3:30 changing to 4:00 because of snow days
- we eat in our class because of covid
- every Friday is movie night
- everyone is nice
She said principal? We say head master
Interesting, hmm we in India have been following the Britz education systemo, and the accent we follow might be more Americano. I feel both has its merits, I think For a geeko guy British lifestylle wiil be apt, but for cool and creative people , merican ..
OMG, the American girl, her eyes color are so deep, that iris color is so light, almost like white (with a bluish hue). So pretty! 😍 Saludos desde México! 😊
I visited Mexico last month-such a beautiful place with wonderful people! 💕 Thanks!!
With like the principal, in New Zealand I’ve had both experiences.
My first primary school here was a bit big with 800 kids and the principal was like the British one. He was really strict and you would only ever see him at school assemblies but he didn’t even come half of the time. Half of the time the deputy principal would come saying the principal had a meeting or something so he couldn’t come. He didn’t ever talk to any of the students unless there was something really serious going on. The only time I ever really met him was when I enrolled at the school, he wasn’t even there when I got suspended, that meeting was with the deputy principal.
My second primary school had a principal a lot more like the American one. It was a smaller school of like 300 and she knew every student’s name. She would wait out at the morning greeting every student as they came to class and she would say hi to all the kids when she saw them. Even after I started high school, a few years after I finished primary school, she still remembered me.
I think it’s actually more of a female principal vs male principal thing. Because in high school when I first started I had a male principal and he was less involved with the students but then we got a new female principal and she was a lot more involved, saying hi to all the students and knowing all their names and stuff. I went to school in Britain when I was little and my principal was female, although it was a little stricter and less involved than female principals in New Zealand, I still felt like she was more involved than male principals in New Zealand and that she would of been more involved than male principals in the UK.
800?! I only had around 120..
@@Brownieシ what country?
@@rachelcookie321 Britain
@@Brownieシ yea, British primary schools are a bit smaller. I think my primary school in the UK had about 200-300 kids. I don’t know about other parts of New Zealand but when I moved here there was 2 primary schools in my town, both with 800 students. My town is growing rapidly and the second primary school had only opened like 2 years before I moved here. Now there are 6 primary schools in my town and they all have like 600+ students (except the Christian school, they only got 200).
I love the way the us girl was talking about creativity and the uk girl was talking about rules and restrictions
So basically American school content is ridiculously easy and still many people dont graduate? :'D Thats kinda hilarious. And it explains things.
Not necessarily. Based on if you live in the northern or southern part of the us.
Depends on where in America you live, but I would say for the most part American schools basically want you to graduate one way or another.
So basically you didn’t read the comments before drawing conclusions. 😂
it depends on where you live. in the south school is easy because of their low education rankings LMFAO and I live in the south; but middle school southern "teachers" are rude asf and won't teach you..based on my experiences
Don't get it twisted if there's a global ranking of Universities around the world, US schools would still dominate the top 10...maybe outside of Uni of Oxford.
The UK girl is scouser, isn't it ?
No I dont think so she might be just with a subtle accent
Yes definitely
yeah she is
We once had a maths probability question which said "Neha eats a sweet does not regurgitate it, and eats another sweet" yeah I'd like to hope she didn't regurgitate it but thanks for the extra information i guess. I mean obviously if you don't state that valuable peice of information then my first thought is. Ah yes Neha must of regurgitated it i mean who would give such a thing to a child.
If one of you can count the amount of time they said "like" 😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣
We used to call the "swot knot" a peanut
Drinking game: take a shot every time one of the girls says "like."
well, i am drunk in the first 3 minutes
I am from Iraq. My school has strict laws. You have to wear a uniform consisting of a black skirt and a white shirt. The phone is forbidden to run in the school corridors. It is forbidden to speak loudly. It is forbidden to grow long nails. Hairstyles are forbidden. Except for a few hairstyles. Very tight clothes.
Irrespective of anything....the real boldness and dynamisisum belongs to USA.
Wow very true (American here) wonder how the Aussie, Kiwi, South African, Asian countries, and the Red Heads (wink! much love), and Indian schools differ? I'm familiar with Germany and Swedish general area (your own your own) ... Makes me think of indigenous people as well. I am surprised I liked this video as much as I did. Thank you very much!
Australia, New Zealand has strict on in uniform. But Australia teachers are really Nice.
The US woman's accent sounds mixed. Did she grow up in another country as well? Or is it a speech impediment?
This is just stereotyping British schools. American schools aren’t all that so maybe don’t make it seem as if British schools are awful cuz trust me there not
My headmaster in the 60s was also a colonel in the army cadet force and if you saw him you would be expecting either the cane the slipper(beaten with a gym shoe) or rapped over the knuckles with a ruler. This reduced in the 70s and we also lost some of our drunk and predatory teachers but. Violence continued to be normal. Until I left in 1971.
OMG Essex Schools Bro 💀💀
If you heard of Thurstable then you know what I mean
I have a question is Hallie from the south? In the north, our schools are a lot like how Cady said schools are. We have uniforms and they are strict on how you wear them. I got sent home for having a little dot of white on my black uniform pants. Our tests are like theirs too.
Iirc she mentioned in a previous video she's from Alabama
I’ve lived on the West Coast and the South and have never worn uniforms in public schools except for PE class. The PE uniform was kind of strict because it had to be school colors and we had to buy them for certain athletic good stores. The only public schools I’ve seen with uniforms in the South are the ones with discipline problems.
Uniforms are definitely not the norm in the US. I'm from Minnesota, and the only schools where uniforms are mandatory are the pretentious private ones where parents shell out tens of thousands to get basically the same education.
@@cahinton. definitely not the same. Non religious Private schools offer better education in the US and schools in the Northeast offer the best education. Especially in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
I'm from Alabama as well and my school was more like how Cady described British schools were even down to the uniform. My whole county had uniforms. I went to a public school too.
4:35 Peanutting is what I know that as (the pulling the thin part of the tie to make a tighter knot)
My teacher is very funny and he says like stop smiling but it was a joke I think he does late to lunch early to lunch benched
I learned in Ukrainian school. And it's pretty different to both of described ones in this video. If we talk about graduating, (that's the most interesting part) it's like not very big deal and not like just saying "Bye!" But it is like sadness that "we already go from this school to another pathes of life" and nostalgie about time, spent there. But, now I live in Denmark and here graduating from schools and especially from gymnasiums is like in US. They rent a small truck but without a roof in conrainer. And they get in this "container", but standing all the road (they also can unwear themselves almost completely), get the music very loudly. The truck is going around the city (Copenhagen) and they are singing, dancing, fooling around and in all, having fun in it. They can also stop in some point of city and take into fountains and also splash and play there. People around always take videos of this actions (that's completely understandable because in Copenhagen there are always so many tourists and they probably haven't seen such celebrating). Maybe in other countries moving in such an opened container isn't allowed, but here students can celebrate like that.
Fantastic
Where in the US is American Hallie from? She has a 'different' accent .
I can’t really hear an accent??
"maths" being captioned as "math" pained my soul in unimaginable ways
The American girl come from which state of US ? Thanks
as an indian i can relate more to the british education system but some of the students here in india (pvt school cbse and icse kids) try to act like american teens and behave like them lmao i dont understand
I did a exchange with my British school to a school in Pennsylvania, you guys get so much libertys like your lessons are so much more uni style education plus you get to chose what you eat in the cafeteria, my god i probably gained 5 pounds while i was out there
i’m in a british school and we can chose between hot & cold sandwiches, pasta, sushi, paninis, pizza, main meals, slushies, waffles, brownies, quesadillas, cookies, flapjacks etc
Lucky i am at a boarding school so we get what we are given lol
great as always😍
I’m my high school the teacher backed people croissant and brought sweets for all the year 11s in his class he is also amazing!
BTW I am British
In my country, we wear uniforms like british schools(but without ties, boys had to wear ties for formal events, with the special formal uniform, but that was it, at one point they allowed some senior girls to design the new school uniform), but my school was more relaxed, like american schools in terms of grading, and the principals, I mean one of my peincipals would play the accordeon at school assemblies
I live in the US and have to wear uniforms 4:09
I went to school in Scotland from the late seventies to the early nineties. At primary school (age 4+) we wore white shirts/blouses, school tie and black, dark blue or grey skirts/trousers. Most wee ones did not wear school blazers - I suppose it would be too expensive, as we'd keep outgrowing them! They were an option, though. Our school wasn't really strict but you could still get hit on the hand with a ruler by the teacher. They had stopped 'belting' with a leather strap by the time I got there. I think most of us liked primary school though. Secondary (aged 11/12+) - it was a maroon blazer, school tie, white shirt/blouse and again dark blue, grey or black trousers/skirt. They did enforce the skirt length too, I remember people getting sent home to change! Our Rector (the headteacher, even though we were a state school we kept the old traditions from having been the grammar school for the town) used to walk about the corridors in his academic gowns, making sure we were behaving. He was a nice man though - IF you were behaving yourself. We had homework from Primary One, the first year at primary school, onwards. Teachers didn't really get involved with your personal problems or give advice, their hands were tied in that way. Sometimes they organised extra-curricular activities like a school dance. We didn't have school counsellors or nurses either. They always seem to have that in American films.That seems like a good idea. Re essays and exams - yes you had to know the subject, but a lot of the time they were asking you to prove or disprove a point (subject dependent obviousl), or to make an argument for something, so you had to have done further reading and formed your own opinions based on that. Another big difference is that our secondary school had prefects, who were senior students who acted as a kind of police, to take some supervisory responsibility from the teachers. Basically they made sure there was no bullying, smoking etc going on on their watch. I'm told they could be bribed though.😆
Having studied in the Middle East (British influenced) with higher education in the US, I agree with the comment that in the US is based less on the authors analysis (technical) when it comes to areas such as literature, than your own opinuon and being able to make a point. Perosnally felt like in the US you can easily BS your way through instead of having proper knowledge about the material.
True, in middle/high school sometimes I didn't even need to read the book. A lot of us just looked up chapter summaries at most.
I feel like a huge component of reading literature is for the reader to form his or her own interpretation. Many authors are intentionally vague for this reason. At least in my experiences in writing literacy papers, I had to prove my theses through citing lines in text so I had to read it. And if it was a play, I was usually required to find and included professional reviews in my analysis.
@@morganmiller41 What level English did you take? I had two years of AP English in high school and there was no way with my teacher that anyone in my class could just read the summaries and pass. You had to cite quotes to back up your thesis arguments and list the page numbers with each quote you used.
@@anndeecosita3586 I just took regular English but the class is called Language Arts. Never took AP classes before.
@@anndeecosita3586 same
This is Andrew's son speaking, YES, I am a brit but the school I go to is nice and friendly. Probably because it is a public school, not a private school. For an example of how nice it is, the teachers are only strict when it is nessaccary and when I was in year 4, I saw a tiny bit of the year 6 graduation party on the playground. Also, the headteacher is nice (by the way for you americans reading this, where I live in England IS spelt with no space in between head and teacher. A good piece of information for you to know).
From my past experiences in America,
The students are divided into levels of aptitude/ knowledge.
(Immigrant) -
(First day, I was first put in ESL. Following several tests, they moved me to English II, then English I.
Finally, to literature. A month later I was given the option to take another language). = middle school.
Grade 6-8.
S-six
C-crappy
H-hours
O-of
O-our
L-lives
4:27 at our school, pulling on the tie to close the knot was called "peanutting". To combat it you put a 2p coin inside the knot so it didn't fully close and you'd be able to get your fingers in to undo it.
Yeah. The description of American schools is off, mostly because it varies so much in reality. EVERY State has different standards. Most School systems even within a specific state implement that state's guidelines in different ways. Plus, Private and Charter schools... mix things up.
My high school principal brought in celebrities to put on mini concerts …she was super nice that way
I was like I was like, Iwa I was like was like erm..
Schools seem more strict in the UK.
Where I go to school it is a clip on tie so we don’t drag each other on the ground until we got wot we want
I love how the guy writing the subtitles just failed to understand Cady's british accent at a few points.
The idea on american school being easy is completely false. american schools are academically quite hard, it depends on the area, but generally it’s difficult, and in some areas it’s even more difficult, especially in places with more prestigious universities, like new york, california, massachusetts, connecticut, etc.
3:56 Sixthform
My principal is chill and he hangs out with me and my orchestra class. We don't really have a dress code, but our only rule is no crop tops or spaghetti straps. Our tanktops have to be a tumb wide. (This is not in the school website dress code rules, but those rules were made a few years ago and they didn't change the dress code on the website, so we just memorized the new dresscode.) [I apologize for any incorrect spelling or punctuations.]
And this is why I hated English literature
i think Us schools have more friendly and the way of their learning is more friendly and cooperative with students but on other side britishers have more sincere and disciplined in their life which feels like rude in nature but i like the britishers attitude which make them different from other nations.
you should add a third person, an Australian, we are like in the middle of these two
Leaving school for me was just doing the last exam or coming in after the last exam happened and we had a goodbye assembly then i waited like a month until the results where public and just went to school to collect them then literally walk out and never go school again. it was raining that day, also UK
Also school was chaotic their was always opposition to the teacher which most of the time was entertainment to get through the long boring lessons, always one kid that knocked on doors in the hallways. At least where i'm from well manners is not the way that's for south England only
Big difference is how we celebrate after exams are finished. In america idk wtf you lot do but for the uk as far as I know most people would go to a local park and get pissed. at 15/16 but of in the states ya cant even drink till ya 21.
We went to the pub with our teachers - in our school shirts!
Oh, teenagers still get their hands on alcohol. It's just illegal.
That's why Americans still use inches, and yards.
Geography ?...Ok, I'm done
You don’t have to care what Americans use. It’s not affecting you. 😂
1:23 so true
6:03 I live in England and this is just 💀
Idk what school the first guy was talking about but in America the school principal is never NEVER nice. They scare the shit out of you and the schools look like prisons 😩 we had strict dress codes and definitely didn’t have easy questions on tests.
Mines were actually super chill lol, except for like one
The school I went to was all girls school I can relate to both British and American
I go to a British high school which has two sites one is for the girls and the other one is for the boys wich is ten minutes apart all the girls roll there skirt and sleeves up we have to keep our lanyards on tie up our hair no mater how short or long it is but because of my religion we are taught to be kind and stuff like that so our head teacher is realy kind and our religious teachers are also really kind BUT the other teachers will give us like essays to do on the Blackheath an hour math exam for university students we even have to lock our phone in a phone locker and get it back at the end of the day,if you don’t have your PE cloths straight to a 30 minute detention but the sixth formers get to wear non school uniform
I’m my primary school the teacher was amazing. She was a really nice lady and everybody loved her.
in my British secondary my school isn't really strict its only a bit strict so both and i see my head teacher sometimes when im skipping lessons but i try not to get caught and for people who dont know that guy is on UA-cam his name is mrthomasenglish and also some girls in my class roll there skirts up sometimes
We have a leavers assembly in the UK