American High Schools Shocked Me as a European!

[@luxleather2616]

Pizza Day was the best lunch day (usually Fridays) that everyone looked forward to when I was in high school....we also had Taco Tuesday every week & we also had burgers as an option once a week....yes you can go to school on the big yellow school bus but most teens want to drive themselves to high school over here in the states....André that is a normal sized stadium for an American high school cus they usually have track & field & soccer & football games on the same field....Minnesota Vikings is NFL but some high schools probably have the same mascot as other professional teams cus there's a different mascot for every school in every town & city in the states

[@brent8133]

Yes I am nowhere from Minnesota and we were the Vikings. You see a ton of the same mascot lol

[@britt1784]

My school mascot was Pegasus because I went to an Arts magnet 😅

[@protorhinocerator142]

Yes but the quality of that pizza was much lower than you'd get at a real pizzeria.

[@tommygilbreath]

@@brent8133 Haha. Even in my hometown in CA we a Vikings HS (Bakersfield, CA). Mine was the 'Drillers' as our towns' claim to fame is being good at drilling for oil.

[@PhillipV-qm4mf]

Pure facts

[@dougfisher1266]

95% of American High Schools have a dedicated athletic field similar to this. This school strikes me as a good representation of an average medium HS anywhere in America. Although the video didn't offer much info, it is a great video for people outside the US to get a feel of a perfectly average American HS.

[@fooddog45]

My high school had a football stadium, soccer practice field with a track around it, swimming pool, baseball field, 2 gyms, weight room, film room for sports teams.

[@garycamara9955]

All highschools had that.

[@slickjack2618]

Andre, The school in the video is Swan Valley High School, located in or very near to Saginaw, Michigan (the state that looks like a mitten). It is a fairly small high school with something like a bit under 600 students. There are about 10,000 high schools of various sizes within the US. The school construction/architecture was familiar to me, as were the grey skies shown in the scene with the students being driven to school in the morning. I grew up and attended high school in a town about 25 miles away, although with a much larger high school population. The Swan Valley High School was constructed in the early 1970's, so the building is about a half century old. I graduated from high school and moved away from the area before this young lady's high school was even under construction. High School Team logos/mascots/nicknames often have little to do with the locale of the high school. The nickname for the school in the video was originally the Panthers, but was changed to something else when the school joined an athletic conference that already contained a team known as the Panthers. While the school's Viking logo owes much to the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, there is no relationship between the two institutions. High schools frequently adopt mascots/team names usually associated with professional or university sports teams. Generally, the student body will select the team name when the opportunity arises. Such team names are rarely changed and represent a lasting impact upon generations of students who attend the school in later years. - sj

[@dylnfstr]

600 students is tiny! We had 2400 when I was a first year Senior at a new school and by the time my sister was graduating from the same school she had 1200 in her graduating class!

[@jimgreen5788]

@slickjack2618, actually, a mitten wearing a hat (UP 😀).

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

I went to high school from 1987-1991. I can tell you that the cafeterias were NOT like this back in the late 1980s--hahaha! Lunches were heavily regulated with no "junk food" allowed. My lunch would be whole milk or skim milk or apple juice, a vegetable like carrots, a piece of grilled chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, & chocolate pudding. 1 meal. No other options! The lunch menus were mailed to our houses before the 1st of every month. If you didn't like the meal, then make your own lunch and bring it to school.

[@Xam_bladeball]

What about the 2000s before the healthy food regulation from Michelle Obama? Was it junk?

[@kellieweeks5600]

Some high schools share the same mascot. I live in Texas and our hometown schools mascot are bulldogs. But other schools in different states also have bulldogs as mascots as well.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Younger students ride the bus, but once you're 16 years old, being forced to ride the bus to school would be, like, *so* embarrassing, you would just *die* of humiliation. (Teenagers can be drama queens sometimes, and they are obsessed with popularity, and driving is very culturally important to them.) Nobody knows all the different school logos. There are hundreds of them in any given state. Most of us only know the ones around where we live, and a handful of schools from a little farther away (up to maybe 40 minutes) that play our own school in sports because they are of comparable size; maybe 10-20 school districts altogether. People who are *really* into high school sports might track multiple divisions, or a larger geographical area, and thus might know several times as many schools. But I can't imagine anyone memorizing all the school logos in the state of Ohio, much less the whole country. The other thing is, the names get repeated, a lot. Everybody knows a school in their area whose sports teams are the "Tigers", for example. "Vikings" and "Warriors" and "Knights" and "Spartans" and "Eagles" and "Bulldogs" and other names of that nature are also very common. But some schools have a nickname that's a little more unique, e.g., there is a school not far from here whose sports teams are the "Prexies", whatever that means. My own high school's biggest sports rival is the Bucyrus "Redmen". High schools pretty much always have a football stadium. I'm sure there's probably a high school somewhere that *doesn't* have a stadium, but there would have to be some very special reason for that, and it would be highly abnormal. Most schools also have a cafeteria, and an auditorium, and a chemistry classroom, and an office, and ...

[@DianeCasanova]

Back in the 70's, no one I knew had a car. Most high schoolers rode the bus, if they lived more than a mile from school.

[@protorhinocerator142]

The big yellow school buses are very real. My neighbor used to drive one and kept it parked at his house. When he started it up it shook my whole house.

[@lins5675]

I don’t know anyone that likes riding the school bus. The trip was usually very long compared to where you live from the school. Some kids would be on the bus for over an hour when in reality, they live less than 15 minutes from the school. Also, in the winters they were cold and in the late spring, summer, and early fall they were hot.

[@cp368productions2]

Riding the bus is location and preference, nothing to do with age.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

@@DianeCasanova Oh, sure, back then most households were only just getting their *second* car, so the kids didn't have their own cars yet. But now the median household has just about one car per driver, maybe slightly more.

[@catherinesearles1194]

She is not joking....Masha went to school in Russia. US high school is like a dream. Don't be late to school, try not to be late to class, try not to be absent, do your homework, do your class work, have fun. Meet people, join a club or a sport. Take shop or pottery or jewelry making, mechanical drawing, art, cooking.

[@shyryTsr2k]

High school was pretty fun. Sadly I dropped out before my senior year so I couldn’t graduate with my class but despite the many hardships I had I wouldn’t trade those memories for anything.

[@Xam_bladeball]

Yes I moved from southeast Russia to North Dakota and it was shocking

[@AxiomAttestant]

My High School was a trade school with culinary arts program, so we had basically restaurant food for lunch and freshly made snacks for morning break. The senior class all the different trade shops in the school built a house complete rebuilt and donated cars rebuilt and built lawn equipment and sold it as a package to fund the senior class graduation trip.

[@shyryTsr2k]

That’s super interesting! My high school wasn’t nearly as cool but it wasn’t a traditional public school either. It was a charter school that was almost entirely project based learning. That means that anything we learned we learned it hands on by creating posters, construction projects for physics classes and etc.

[@Melissatn]

This is actually a pretty average public school. The field is in pretty much all school because thats where the high school sports game are played. There will be a football field and track field. Some colder states have an indoor track field as well. Cafeteria food can be different in some schools. A lot of times exchange students are placed in easier classes. Every school has a school mascot. Sports locker rooms can be pretty nice especially including weight room as the football players especially use it. Schools have the school buses but not all students have access to it because it goes by neighborhoods / zones it all depends how far from school you live. Those who are considered to live closer dont get the school bus and either are dropped off, walk, bike etc to school (and some ppl have the school bus option but prefer to go by car). Those who use school bus tend to get to school earlier for obvious reasons

[@Diggin_Ohio_Jewels]

That’s Swan valley high School Vikings in Saginaw Michigan. Cloudy/ partly sunny mostly b/c of the Great Lakes. Michigan is known as “the mitten on the map.”

[@marydickerson6111]

If anyone from that high school reads this, you need to retire that flag and take better care of the next one. If you don't know how to retire it properly, take it to the nearest VFW or military post. Allowing the flag to touch the ground is an absolute disgrace! I didn't serve this country to see our flag knocked to the ground and shrugged off, like it was nothing. Please somebody retire that flag, with the honor she deserves!

[@qwazse4]

With all due respect, US Flag code does not require a flag to be retired should it fall to the ground. So long as the standard remains in good condition, it deserves to live out its usefulness. However, that stand should never have been relied upon. A student should have been appointed as color guard for the opening ceremony. It says a lot that an international student and friend take it upon themselves to recover the colors. Thank you for your service and I will let my scouts know of your comment so that they will be attentive to the potential need for someone like them to take responsibility and and make up for other people’s neglect.

[@jeffcammack9733]

All the schools I went to had a bunch of bleachers, a track for running, a football field, and also an indoor gym with a basketball court, wrestling room, weight room and an indoor track. And I'm not young by any means.

[@chateaumojo]

In California, the high schools have swimming pools.

[@tommygilbreath]

@@chateaumojo Not always, it only depends on how old your HS is. The one I attended was built in 1893 (competitive swimming was not a thing then)

[@wandapease-gi8yo]

School buses are very expensive to run. They usually only go to certain sections of outlying neighborhoods or towns and run on very early schedules. I lived in a small town and the High-school was across the town and up a hill. Walking was over an hour for short legged me. I had a car.

[@DJHockeyGoalHorns]

Almost every middle and high school in the U.S. has sports teams made of only students from that school. Almost every high school has a stadium, as well. The biggest sport by far is football, and high school football is a big deal here. I would react to something high school football related!

[@tommygilbreath]

Friday Night Lights for the win

[@kylekeller2554]

This guy ain't lying. I'm from Houston but now in Vegas and I used to watch hour long weekly highschool football reviews every Friday night without cable to see the best team in the city, mainly 5a but 4a too. I'm from Houston Clear Lake minutes from NASA and the beach. You should react to any big Texas or them from the south east

[@cp368productions2]

Not really. A lot of schools have had to merge their teams together.

[@tommygilbreath]

@@cp368productions2 Darn bro, you seem pretty bitter here. Out of curiosity, are you a HS student?

[@DJHockeyGoalHorns]

@@cp368productions2I've literally only ever seen this for club teams like hockey or lacrosse or rugby

[@Acoconut1214]

My school had hot foods like the daily meal like pasta with salad,, hamburger, chicken sandwiches, pizzas, hot dogs, fries. And cold food a salad bar and deli sandwiches, and a snack bar for chips and cookies.

[@tmars11]

I live in a bigger suburb in Ohio. My high school had 2900 students. Our football/track stadium was huge and seated 18,000 people. Our baseball field had a seating capacity for about 700. And we actually had a small limited menu Taco Bell in our school. Not when I went there but later on. And by the way I love Taco Bell! We also had a restaurant that was run by students that were interested in learning the hospitality industry. You could grab a great meal there for about $2. Great video as usual Andre!

[@lindacarroll6896]

There are probably hundreds of high schools with a Viking as their mascot. My high school in Fremont, CA was the Vikings.

[@607Delta]

You mean his 10 seconds of “research” gave him the wrong answer?! 😂

[@barbaraeverly1922]

I went to El Cerrito HS -Gauchos

[@seryndipityarts]

The thing you kept seeing as a corn dog is not, it's a breadstick with cheese baked inside. Brand name you could look up is Bosco Sticks, not sure if that's the exact ones in schools but it's the same idea. They're really tasty with a slice of pizza!

[@suzyware7421]

I’m American and am 55. I can assure you when I grew up….WE NEVER HAD ANYTHING LIKE THIS!

[@dyzzee7861]

Crazy part about American schools are they are built by the same companies that build the prisons and also supplied by the same companies that supply persons. That's why so many American school says it feels like prison cuz it literally is without the guards and the ability to go home, well some school still have guards but they can still go home.

[@KTKacer]

No, pretty much every American School has a full football field, soccer field (or fields), a track 400 M - usually around the fb field, along w/ the various track & field - pole vault, shot put, discus, javelin throw, long jump, high jump etc..... and a baseball field or 2.... (even the smaller schools like mine a single A school, meaning our graduating class were around 65 when my mother graduated in 1965, mine was around 82 when I graduated in 1984 (so SMALL). But our high school is also 76th? 74th? (I forget - somewhere in there) best HS in the USA. that's both academically as well as athletically, musically etc.... (we usually hit State in both track & field, football & sometimes baseball in our little single A school. (competing against Double & triple A schools, even).

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Doesn’t every high school have a football stadium and a baseball field? Even in big cities? That’s just normal.

[@derekboothe1462]

The only schools that I’ve seen that don’t and one school near me had 20 each that graduated meaning there is not enough students to play, they did have basketball

[@garyf917]

No, in NYC, many schools lack(ed) space for their own athletic fields, and may have to either share with another school, or use facilities not controlled by the Board of Education. Some schools still don't have football teams because of the added costs to outfit and insure them, as they were in poorer areas, or the Principals didn't want those responsibilities. That Money can fund other projects.

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[@catherinesearles1194]

It's not crazy..it's lunch.

[@James-s6b7z]

Our cafeteria was terrible... We always left campus for Burger King or McDonald's. However, we did have a track, football field, baseball field, tennis courts, and soccer fields.

[@shyryTsr2k]

Nice, I love hearing where others went to high school. It’s so different than mine

[@slgibbs1]

Almopst every American High School has a stadium and a football team. Even small ones like this school

[@cryptoran7777]

Taco Bell is OK fast food but there are a lot of authentic mexican food restaurants that put the Bell to shame.

[@1957Shep]

Very different from when I went to high school in the 70s. If I were to tell you how we described the food, I would be banned from KZbin. We had some very "creative" names for most of the items on the menu. 🙂 Lets put it this way. It helped if you were really, really hungry.

[@oldfogey4679]

1957 when I graduated from high school in 1973 we had no vending machines the food was nutritious and tasty!

[@1957Shep]

@@oldfogey4679 They kept trying to feed us soybean burger and such. Great diet food, because you would not eat any more of it than you had to in order to survive.

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

It took a bit to collect the clues but I believe this is Swan Valley High in Saginaw, MI.

[@saltybird]

On the school bus thing, there was a kid who got a Letterman Jacket with a Bus patch on it for riding the school bus throughout his school years (Elementary - High School). Weirdest but also kinda coolest thing from my childhood that lives in my head rent free.

[@gayleroberts-stewart3016]

School population under 600. Fairly new built because of loss if old building. That's the Swan Valley, Michigan Vikings logo. Pronounced with long " I" V-EYE-KINGS

[@p-wizzy96]

skol vikings

[@Beans-1111]

In my school it was so large that we had 5,000 students and 300 teachers. It was so easy to get lost.

[@SarahBroad-kw7fj]

My school lunches kindergarten to 6th were all approved by the state as required healthy meals but once you get to middle school and high school 7-12th grade then the state starts letting teens make the decision if they want to eat healthy or not. It’s so the teens learn to make wise choices for themselves.

[@RayWhiting]

It's a multi-head shower for 3 or 4 girls to shower at the same time.

[@strikethatreverseit9108]

The vast majority of high schools in America have a mascot. I'm in Illinois and my high schools mascot was a warrior. We were the "insert city here" high school Warriors. Mascots around my county at other high schools in different towns: Tigers, Kahoks, Eagles, Wolverines, etc. High schools also have their own colors. Usually it's 2. Like red and black, purple and white, blue and gold, and so on.

[@ZeroTolerance-tk9ce]

My high school we were the WILDCATS 😸

[@mjpink8408]

My high school lunches were different each day. Pizza, salad, fruit cups, flavored milks, burgers. There’s also a snack line where you can buy chicken sandwiches, chips, flavored water, soft pretzels. My high school has a stadium outside of the building. During PE we would do the mile run outside during the spring semester. Sports are a great extracurricular activity for American students too. There’s also art and theater programs that are good extracurricular activities too. I was more of an artsy kind of your girl. My high school had a theater program that was a big deal. Usually the beginning of May each year, there were musicals. Around mid-March they’d start rehearsing and they’d be excused from classes for the day because the rehearsals would be during the entire school day.

[@Mary-x6p1z]

i went to a beautiful old school built in 1909 Holy Names Academy in Seattle.. you can see it online. all girls school with graded 7-12..it was also a boarding and i boarded there when i was a senoir.i loved it and we had very healthy lunches...never pizza or hamburgers. almost everybody in my class graduated from university . . since our school had an elevator, all lot of old retired nuns lived there. my kindergarten teacher was Sister Angel Guardian. and she was always called "the Littlest Angel" after the short story.(you can see it online)..because that was what she was like. when i was a boarder there as a senior, she was retired after 55 years of teaching kindegarden. to my surprise, she remembered me after all those many thousands of student that past before her. she used to come up to me and slip a piece of candy to me....during Lent. I was so lucky to attend such a school

[@-C.S.R]

I knew a girl real well that went to that school, she was on the crew team.

[@Mary-x6p1z]

@@-C.S.R i hope she liked going to Holy Names

[@bridgetpaul663]

Ahhhhhh, yes teenage angst. I remember those days well.

[@ronwilliamson-uz7kb]

Actually most schools where I live in Ohio have a stadium and an artificial turf field. Definitly not rich schools.

[@revgurley]

Back in the 1980s, salad bars were a big thing. My high school added a salad bar and I was in heaven. I really didn't like the greasy "pizza" or "meatloaf" they regularly offered. I don't think the salad bar is there anymore. However, we had Coke machine, which I know is no longer there.

[@TangentOmega]

In most states, students that live further than 2 miles from the school are able to ride the school bus, at all grade levels. The school buses have their own routes, they don't stop at the regular city bus stops. After getting their driver's license, they can drive their own car. The school has a separate teacher and student parking lot. My son's high school had a Domino's and a Chick-fil-A in the cafeteria.

[@AndrewMichaelRossi]

Swan Valley High School is in Michigan

[@srog3771]

Just so you understand that every school has the same quality of food. Some schools have really poor food options. States do a lot of the regulating as it relates to school lunch and some states don’t really care about education and children as much as others.

[@w1975b]

British chef Jamie Oliver went to schools around America years ago, trying to improve the lunches. He had a show about it. He did all that work, I can't remember if any of the schools kept the changes. I know for sure one did NOT.

[@catherinesearles1194]

They are not corn dogs.they are mozzarella sticks

[@reznya2700]

I dont know any schools that dont have a football field and track......

[@scottmcdonald9924]

High schools mascots or logos (vikings) can be in any state. And there are a quite a few that have the same name. They may have variations of logos and colors but the same name. This high school which looks new took its name and colors from the Minnesota Vikings NFL team. My high school was the largo(city) packers and are mascot was a pig (packer pigs). It was named after citrus packer in Florida who had a pig. He had citrus trees and packed them in crates and sold them throughout the states.

[@NOBUSWAGIN]

This is a pretty small average school. Definitely a bit smaller than my high school that had about 1000 students at once per year and we are considered a average size school

[@Lilly-er2sw]

When I graduated HS. Small town..but only one HS that had children from farming families 10th, 11th and 12th grade. 9th grade was in Middle School. About 500.per grade give or take a few. Friday night football?? Off the chain. (Late 70's)

[@Jackalhit]

Andre, don't know if it's been mentioned, but this high school is in Michigan.

[@catherinesearles1194]

Dancing should be illegal? You mean no one brought a boom box to school and turned the lights off in the cafeteria and had a dance? .Boring! No pep rallies! No basketball games with donkeys for a fundraiser on a Tuesday night? Teachers against students. You can only take a shot while sitting on your donkey as you're trying to get your donkey to go down court? No? That's a shame

[@brianelliott-tr7sl]

Most schools have a football field, an indoor basketball court, tennis courts, swimming pools

[@catherinesearles1194]

We.have nutritionists in every town school system

[@lisabrown9132]

All high schools have a football field and track for track n field.

[@nugz_cards]

This school is in Michigan.

[@kevinerose]

There are at least 5 schools in each state with the Vikings mascot. So this could be any one of these states... There are many popular mascots in high school such as Eagles, Cardinals, Panthers, and the many Native Tribes are used.

[@Anyone290]

For my school. I had to wear a suit and tie every day. Latin was mandatory. Although, the food was like a restaurant.

[@Ltlmscrl]

I went to a really big high school with 2 cafeterias and an outdoor dining area. I can’t think of any food that we didn’t have honestly. There was a hot food menu that changed from day to day but separately from that we had a salad bar, sandwich station (like Subway on a smaller scale), pizza, and pre-made bistro sandwiches. We also had a snack area where you could buy bagels, muffins, soft pretzels, hot dogs, and slushies. Also many vending machines for grabbing a quick bite and a drink in between classes.

[@revgurley]

English tutor: a school lunch place is a "cafeteria."

[@CJWJR]

1. School food usually isn't that great...or at least at my high school it wasn't. 2. Taco Bell, or as some people call it "taco HELL," is not the greatest in terms of food quality. However, some people just love it.

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

My high school: Go Wolves! Since I am in California, we also go by Los Lobos!

[@lisal6121]

My high school cafeteria was on the top floor, 5th floor, we called it the Sky Top Cafeteria. It has great views. We had a huge assortment of hot foods, sandwiches, sodas, juices, coffees. It was always fun to meet your friends at lunchtime.

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

That locker room looks ghetto to me and my school was from the 50s . We had floor to ceiling windows in every class and most hallways . That looks like a bomb shelter

[@laurahoglin8208]

What part of the country? Heating in winter and cooling in summer certainly dictate the use of windows...

[@license2kilttheplaidlad640]

@laurahoglin8208 in Fucking Michigan! Yeah taadaa

[@KandiStomper]

Highschool (art) teacher here, the lunches at the school in the video is actually pretty basic, from what i can see. The lunches here are much more complex. Usually have 3 types of chicken sandwiches, 2 or 3 burger types and at least 4 different pizzas. Depending on the day we have teriyaki chicken and other special things for the specific day. 😁 i eat school lunches daily (mon-fri).

[@theboogeyman9813]

Every school has a football field, track and field, cross country course, tennis course.

[@scoobysnacks]

We had pizza and burgers on alternating Fridays. Those weren't corn dogs. They were mozzarella sticks.

[@ViolentKisses87]

This is a very typical 1970's built American school. All of these 70's schools have been torn down in my working class Ohio town and replaced in the past 4 years.

[@nugz_cards]

Many American High Schools use the same logos as professional teams like The Vikings or The Eagles

[@TheDrCN]

My senior year, I went to school by bus (yes, a yellow bus) every other day. On odd days I had a regular class in the morning, but on even days I had a study hall first period, so I could actually come to school late. I didn't drive though, I'd just ride my bike.

[@JeanneStratton]

You will find that the Minnesota schools are stellar! I live there I experienced it! It’s because they get brutal snow for a good portion of the year so their insides of schools have to accommodate the lack of outside ability during those months. You’re gonna see a lot of purple a lot of purple and gold. My ancestors were Viking. Both sides of my family are from Minnesota and I have lived there. The snow gets up to the top of the telephone poles. I’m not kidding.

[@catherinesearles1194]

Not every school system needs school busses

[@Debbie-wb9mj]

We had 2 lunch lines also.. One regular school lunch.. one for burgers fries and milk shakes.. Some schools have soda machines.. Every high school has a stadium, even small schools. Our gym locker room is really different.. We had individual showers and dressing room.. for privacy fifty individual with shower curtains for the dressing room and shower.. Three gyms.. one for boys and one for girls.. a shared weight gym... girls got the weight room twice a week.. Boys got the room three times a week. The only time you even seen a boy was on the track field. We had a track field.. Tennis courts.. Pool.. for the swim and diving team. In the summer it's open to the public.. We had golf teams.. football stadium.. . basketball.. Yes our high school was huge.. If your classes were spread out.. You basicly had to run from one building to the next to make it to your class on time.. The bus thing.. You could not ride the school bus unless you lived 1.5 or two miles from the school. If you lived within that range you drive to school. Each school district sets their range for riding the bus.

[@JeanneStratton]

Also, every town has emergency accommodations in place for students! If the weather changes and they’re caught in this weather and cannot make it out to their farms, or homes, etc., there are friends, family, and volunteers who take them into their homes near the school or places that CAN accommodate! Also, they declare SNOW DAYS! An announcement is made over the media radio TV. Whatever, that is a stay home day no going to school because it’s too dangerous to traverse back-and-forth. So depending on the weather, everybody is gleeful and playing outside and then going inside to their toasty warm homes. 😊

[@jnmsks6052]

Yes, if you qualify to ride the bus (live within the school district and far enough away from the school), you can ride the yellow school bus all through High School. My parents only let me drive to school if I had band practice after school, so I rode a yellow bus to school from the time I was 5 all the way to 17 when I graduated. I was one of the very few students with a driver's license riding the bus basically every day.

[@JeanneStratton]

Also, every town has emergency accommodations in place for students! If the weather changes and they’re caught in this weather and cannot make it out to their farms, or homes, etc., there are friends, family, and volunteers who take them into their homes near the school or places that CAN accommodate! Also, they declare SNOW DAYS! An announcement is made over the media radio TV. Whatever, that is a stay home day no going to school because it’s too dangerous to traverse back-and-forth. So depending on the weather, everybody is gleeful and playing outside and then going inside to their toasty warm homes. 😊. Most of the time these emergency snow volunteers are always prearranged. Everybody knows where they need to go. Everybody knows who to expect.

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

We only had pizza on Fridays. Most of the time in high school I would go to the salad bar for lunch.

[@yugioht42]

My high school was built in the 70s so it’s more modern dumping the traditional one building for everything for multiple buildings. It was originally designed for the buildings to house the classes for each grade in the separate buildings with a cafeteria separate. That changed as advanced classes were introduced along with the gifted classes, the autistic students needed their own classes, gyms had to get put in, and it goes on. Now classes are everywhere and classrooms have to be shared except a few. Now hallways are designated as specific class areas like the AP hall where all the AP classes are held, the gifted hall, the physics hall, the science hall, the English hall which also is the foreign language hall. The computer hall is there. It’s just what it is. There’s even separate buildings for the tv studio we have and the music classes. We have two gyms, a football stadium, a practice field, a regulation Olympic pool which water polo and the swim team use, we also had auto shop which unfortunately went away.

[@carolrothauge6615]

The bus depends on distance. You can ride if you live more than a mile away from the school, or are going more than a mile away from school like friends' house, etc.

[@lisal6121]

We had two athletic fields, football and a smaller one, 5 tennis courts, basketball gym, swimming pool and a water polo team, volleyball courts. When you’re a senior you can take golf, bowling and surfing because everyone had a car so you would carpool to the beach etc. for those physical education classes (P.E. to abbreviate it)

[@AlbertScoot]

This place looked very similar to my experience in hs, though I went to an inner city school. A lot of the schools in the USA are newer due to city expansion. A lot of schools in the North are larger and enclosed due to all the snow in the winter too.

[@lydiaedwards8100]

That food does look tasty. There are specific food elements that have to be available for these lunches, though. Even if an item is a burger or a slice of pizza, the fat , sodium, and sugar are limited. The kids at this age have more variety and choices than younger students do, of course.

[@KevinNiven]

Our highschool had fantastic food! Phoenix Az

[@ronwilliamson-uz7kb]

I think your underestimating how many schools there are in the US. There is probably a hundred with the mascot vikings.

[@randabeast]

More like thousands

[@wendysherbert3257]

Sometimes schools have “morning announcements” being shown. Often they will do things like a stretch, school news, fundraiser info, football game info etc… students will often run the broadcast for fun or for future careers…

[@garycamara9955]

We went across the street to the little store they served lunch. Hot dogs hamburgers, french fries. They also had a fountain. We of course also had a cafeteria.

[@Trifler500]

A lot of schools have the same food schedule each week, so five different meals during a week, but they repeat each week. Certainly not every school though. Some schools have their own kitchen, and some have a catering company bring food in.

[@waynevictory5208]

You could pick what you eat in fact you could leave school and hit the store for lunch at the restaurant across the road from the school if you wanted.

[@Pokyhawk]

I did a quick search for you and, unless I'm mistaken, the school in your video is in Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.A.. That's assuming the viking logo on the poster 11:56 is the mascot for the school.

[@Majorpain32677]

Yes Andre every big public school has a pretty good size stadium and a track and field and tennis courts and sometimes even a separate soccer field

[@ZeroTolerance-tk9ce]

I rode a yellow school bus an hour to and an hour from every day for years. Believe me, it gets old pretty quick. PS: When I was in elementary school our cafeteria food was outstanding. We had pizza one day a week and we had sloppy joes once in a while. The corn dogs in the video are called "pig in a blanket" or at least they were in my school. When I got to high school the food was inedible, I took a packed lunch every day.

[@carleenjackson8692]

What you think is a corn dog is actually a deep fried mozzarella stick. Depending on the school district you live in determines whether you ride a school bus. City school students usually walk to school if they live within a mile of the school, otherwise, you ride a bus or parents take them to school. A lot of the high school students also can drive to school. Most of our schools here have their own stadiums and have their own football, basketball, and baseball teams.

[@nugz_cards]

It is Swan Valley High School in Saginaw Michigan

[@danamartin8286]

Sure high school kids ride the bus! And preschoolers. Everybody.

[@O2life]

But you don't always get to pick whether you ride the bus or not. School bus service varies widely. My high school had school buses, but I was not on any of the routes, so I was driven or drove myself in.

[@emilyb5307]

In regard to the buses - yes they run through high school. However, high school is when teens get their license and many would prefer to drive if possible. The alternative is being crowded onto an uncomfy seat with loud chaotic kids and a rattley old bus. School food? 90% of anyone I've spoken to said their school lunches were mediocre at best. That was a mozzarella stick you were looking at! Most schools have a track/field for sports, they're very big here. She's not joking, from what I can tell, about liking it here better. She was just listing regular things for high school here and comparing it to her experience in Russia.

[@gotham61]

Swan Valley High School in Saginaw Michigan. It is a public (free) school. With just 536 students, it is quite small as US high schools go.

[@jabreck1934]

The motto of my high school (Est. 1889) “ teach a boy how to ride, shoot and tell the truth“ Still has a gun club, two shooting ranges and three gymKhana Fields. Many historical alumni including Howard Hughes. I was very fortunate to attend. The Thacher school, Ojai,CA

[@GiftsAmimalsGiveUs]

I graduated in 2008 and my school had off camps lunch or you can have lunch on campus. Lots of people would order pizza hut. I didn't really pay much attention to what was going on in high school. I just went and graduated.

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

10:15. You were wondering where this school is. It is Swan Valley High School in Saginaw, Michigan.

[@lydiazerne9590]

Most American high schools serve pizza, but not all good quality. The quality of ALL foods depends on the budgets of district. I grew up in PG County Maryland. An exchange student from Jersey UK stayed with my family and road the bus with me to high school my senior year. Many ignorant students thought he was from NEW Jersey. 😂 Buses were often over crowded so he would try to get a ride from a friend whenever possible.

[@UncleUncleRj]

I live in a small California town, this is very similar to the high schools we have here.

[@CTBauer]

The school is Swan Valley High School in Saginaw, Michigan.