American reacts to a typical day at a German School

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[@guyfawkes5012]

Getting arrested for a 10 YEAR OLD being alone outside is INSANE..

[@DanielBright-vt5zk]

As an Australian I see kids walking to school who are around 8 years old. This is why no one likes America.

[@DanielBright-vt5zk]

This woman was arrested for letting her kid walk but trump getting lots of charges that's fine. America has problems

[@benbobomb]

Funny thing, I was visiting my family in Texas 25 years ago as a 10 year old. They were living on a military housing complex with a basketball court right across the street of the house. I was outside playing basketball by myself and about 10 minutes later the police showed up and questioned me who I am, where I’m from and what I was doing there. Obviously I was playing ball. Well, I‘m from Germany and wasn‘t that fluent in English so they asked me where I lived and talked to my mother (who lived there) and said that I couldn‘t play there anymore. Such a stupid situation even in a gated and protected military community. No other kids were outside there ever.

[@user-yk9rm5mh9x]

Land of the free indeed

[@miztazed]

"Land of the free" ;)

[@eisflamme2438]

"land of the free" but kids are not allowed to walk to the store. amazing freedom.

[@ebbhead20]

@@eisflamme2438 and you cant meet 7-8 teen girls that invites you to do shots with them just because they want you to.. it has to mean something 😎

[@la-go-xy]

It's a danger growing up without learning to be self-sufficiant, self-reliant by experience, getting fresh air and daylight, imho!

[@Oi....]

To be fair, Europe is so much safer than America, we have fewer crazy folk who want to do you harm. We're Civilised, not the wild west!

[@foamheart]

Because everyone is afraid of each other. It's the "land of the fearful".

[@SoulOfAPsycho]

When you order freedom on wish

[@EManu1899]

I’m from the German countryside. I often played in the woods alone or with friends in this age. My parents just told me to be back for dinner.

[@MiaMerkur]

Countryside but on a farm meant NOT strollingbin the wood but working on the fields and working in the barns for animals plus for me as girl working in the house and babysitting younger and handycapped brother. Almost no play at all.

[@EManu1899]

@@MiaMerkur are you from Germany? My mother grew up on a farm and I know a lot of guys who also grew up on a farm. They all had happy childhoods.

[@WapitiAal]

I also played in the woods very often and my mom had told me to go home when the streetlights turned on.

[@MiaMerkur]

@EManu1899 i am from north germany, catholic area with very old parents ( born 1921 and 1926). They grew up with "Mägde und Knechte" and the stories sounded like slaves and that these workers should be replaced by the 7 children now. My elder brothers even were not allowed to finish the school...

[@e.albrecht4033]

I live in the countrysite and we habe a forest kindergarden with an outhouse. The kids play most of the time outside also in winter. There ist no bad weather only bad clothing.

[@oktoberfest1980]

I'm a german Mum. Kids start elementary school at 6 here, and it is pretty standard for them to walk or travel on public transport alone.

[@oktoberfest1980]

and re. the backpacks - the kids don't have lockers or anything, so they have to transport all their books etc

[@bjornhofer2647]

@@oktoberfest1980 Meine Kinder haben ein Regalfach in der (Grund)schule, wo sie ihre Sachen lassen können.

[@fabigrossi2976]

To clarify, children start attending school at 6 years of age, not at 6 a.m. 😃

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!

[@Odysee89]

the freest nation in the world... they say... its "endangerment" to have a kid playing in the park... such a joke

[@CathrineMacNiel]

clearly they become endangered by getting to close to the Outside, connecting with the real world on their own and even, the most shocking possibility, touching grass!

[@Odysee89]

its honestly so so sad, to live in a country where the government has to tell you... "dont let your kids walk around alone because its too dangerous... but we also dont care weapon-laws and treating those in need to improve is oh so expensive"...

[@vomm]

In Germany you would get arrested for it too because kids which are not supervised tend to destroy property

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@vomm arrested for the shit your kid did yeah (Eltern haften für ihre Kinder), but not for having your kid unsupervised outside.

[@vomm]

@@CathrineMacNiel What? No, parents cannot be arrested for what their kids did, don't believe everything whats printed on signs made by companies lol. Kin liability is not legal in Germany.

[@itsraining3000]

13:25 It's an insect hotel We try to help our local insets by providing accommodation and shelter. Many insects, most notably bees, are under intense pressure caused by the loss of natural fields and meadows, as well as the use of pesticides. You know when you were saying "this looks rural or somebody is not mowing their lawn" - areas like this get maintained, but they will not be cut down. They offer living spaces for many insects and smaller animals, rodents, etc. Even in larger cities, such as Hamburg, you will often encounter spaces like this and community gardens in very built-up areas.

[@Mymerlot]

We have these in the UK too!! 😊

[@la-go-xy]

They get into bloom quite n7cely, too sometimes.

[@bmanuvmoosb]

Police: You endangered your child! Also Police: We are gonna arrest you and your child stays home alone. How stupid is that?

[@e.albrecht4033]

@@bmanuvmoosb there ist no Police in Germany who will arrest you. Germany ist the real Land of the free.

[@wiebitte2741]

right, and even seeing or hearing mom getting arrested can be a very unpleasant if not traumatic experience

[@MajorBattleship]

I am german and I know when I was this young my mom told me that if our village church is clocking 18 times that means 18o'clock (for americans 6pm) I have to go home cause we are having dinner. But until this I had very fun playing with my friends football going to the lil forest behind our village and building stuff out of wood it was very cool but this puhh...

[@Nishna-Flambino]

The woman getting arrested! That's ridiculous! And with handcuffs! Because she is so dangerous?!

[@Attirbful]

the land of the free….!

[@Parisym]

@@Attirbful“free“

[@DanVibesTV]

@@Parisym "fee" ;)

[@Attirbful]

@@Parisym indeed… laughable, isn‘t it?!

[@SuperGeronimo1975]

​@@DanVibesTV👍

[@confusedbystander2898]

That contraption at 13:20 is called Insect-Hotel. It boost your plants growth and helps the insects to survive.

[@Alexandra_Magdalena]

I was about to comment that 😊 We love insect hotels and bird houses 😍🥰😊👍

[@eucitizen78]

@@Alexandra_Magdalena Yes we do 😄👍

[@manub.3847]

Here in Germany, children usually learn to walk alone within the first six months of primary school. Yes, they often find classmates on the way to school. Parents usually also arrange to secretly "follow" the children on their way to school for 1-2 months. Just to make sure that the little ones a) don't dawdle, b) stay together and c) obey the traffic rules.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@AnnetteLawrence-mv2tz]

Good grief. I walked to school and home again every day unsupervised from the age of 7. By the age of 10 I was taking my younger sibling to school. We lived in London. Guess what…. We’re still alive!

[@Ceen328]

But, but, everything and everybody is out to kill you. Fentanyl in halloween candys and drug cartells shooting you up in drive bys, and hurricane. /s But honestly, same here in germany. Fucking fearmongere media. If they don't have anything real to report, maybe just shut up for a change.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!

[@alexradojkovic9671]

My mum was at work by 7am, so I locked up and walked alone to first class at school from the age of 5. I've only seen her at school on the first day when I was enrolled. Plus a few other times when she had to see the teacher because I was in trouble. For minor infractions (talking in class etc), I would just be given the cane by the teacher (generally between 2 or 6 stroke on the hands). Corporal punishment in schools however, was outlawed about 50 years ago in Australia.

[@wilfriedheinrich4175]

Our Kids were 6 years old. After view weeks in elementary school, they walked alone. Most with buddies, living around, but sometimes without them. It took them about one kilometer near the center of Hannover.

[@Lefuet1983]

Same here in Lehrte. It even forbidden to bring your child at the second class to school. They have to go allown or with buddys to school.

[@kingbookser]

I walked alone to Kindergarten when I was 3 years old and from than on was always walking alone to school until high school, where I had the same way via public transport as my mother and sister. Wtf is wrong with the USA

[@wilfriedheinrich4175]

@T-elegraamm_YT_RyanWass Hi Ryan, I sent you a gmail.

[@1972Ray]

MY USA daughter walked to school at 6. The very idea that all 74 million kids in the US don't walk to school is absurd. In our part of the US state of Maryland, school buses will not come if the school is withing two miles. Our county has 110,000 school kids, so in just my small area of the US, thousands of kids walk to school. The US isn't small like Germany, there is a lot of variety in the US, so saying "American kids can't walk to school" is nothing but ignorance.

[@1972Ray]

@@kingbookser You're commenting on an incorrect premise. It's absurd to even think that kids don't walk to school in the US.

[@easylemon2547]

We don’t have lockers thats why the backpacks are larger

[@lidewijvos]

Same in the Netherlands, only lockers at high school

[@Gaby-rs2uk]

It depends on the school. We had lockers in the 80ies, but you had to pay a small amount to rent them. I never did. My kid could have left everything in school. That was a big problem, as we never saw what he did in school, we never could check homework and we never could practice anything for a test. Once in a while I went to school and collected all the single papers and stuff from this school box and tried to understand what it was all about. I would have loved him to bring it home, but school said: Children should not carry so much. Also school: Kid does not have any order in his stuff, kid did not practice for exam, kid lost paper, kid did not do his homework properly - parents should check better.

[@SCuttherapper]

My first thought on the thumbnail was: How else should they come to school - flying? 😂

[@Jonas-d8n]

true...

[@joethewolf3750]

Yeah, school backpacks are taken ridiculously seriously here. They're also pretty expensive - and, as you saw, half the size of the kid. If one of em tips over onto their back, they're like a helpless turtle, I imagine. It does make some sense, though, since lockers are not at all common in Germany, at least where I live, so you have to carry everything you need to school every day.

[@vomm]

School backpacks usually have this crazy invention called a "buckle." If you open it, you can take off the backpack, even while lying down. It's really wild.

[@joethewolf3750]

@vomm people usually have this crazy invention called a "sense of humor". If you have one, you can understand I was making a joke, even without me plainly stating it. It's really wild.

[@vomm]

@ Sure, people who say dumb things always choose the "it was a joke" card.

[@veladarney]

@@vomm Whereas people like you are real fun at parties ...

[@Nigolasy]

@@vomm Someone seems mad he didn't get the joke 😂

[@pixelbartus]

The thing you said seemed very german is an "insect hotel". Nowadays it is very common to have such places in our gardens, to give endangered insects a refuge. Often there are also nesting aids for wild bees

[@TheCatMurgatroyd]

damn us Germans! giving refuge to people AND INSECTS? What's next? When have we gone too far!? /s 😂

[@mariosthu4869]

What if the Police look after safety when the child walk to school instead arresting mother.

[@joethewolf3750]

But that would take actual effort! They're only trained on arresting and abusing people who can't fight back like mothers who didn't do shit wrong, peaceful protestors with a face full of pepper spray and starving homeless people.

[@CathrineMacNiel]

also arresting with handcuffs and everything? What if there was a boiling pot on the stove? Your Police is super reckless.

[@martinglockner9314]

​@@CathrineMacNielWould be funny if bc they arrested the mother, the kid was now home alone. Then someone should call the cops on the cops.

[@TheUlli1964]

@@CathrineMacNiel Is the kid alone at home now?

[@martinajurickova5750]

@@TheUlli1964 they said nothing about being alone home, the law was about being alone outside :D the logic!

[@tannywel24]

When I went to school (Germany), it was very different (each state has its own school system). I went to school in the 90s. School started at 8 a.m. but finished by 2 p.m. at the latest. We didn't have to take our shoes off back then and we never had an assembly before school. But we had to go to school alone, without our parents, even in primary school. When I was in primary school, I first went to the bus stop in the village. From there the bus went straight to school. Later, when I was at secondary school (from the age of 10), I first had to take the bus into town to the train station, where I changed to another bus which then went up to school. Sometimes there was no bus up to school and we sometimes even walked through the whole town on our own.

[@schnelma605]

3:02 This is crazy: When I was 7 years old, I was allowed to ride my bike alone to the swimming pool 4.5 km away. OK. not really alone, I had to look after my brother, who was 2 years younger. Of course, there were precautions: such as a breast pocket with a telephone number and change for a payphone. And I had to call my mother to make sure everything was OK. When I was 10 years old, I took trips to a big city 30 km away using public transport...

[@matsudoambition2509]

Was walking to school alone at this age or went with friends playing in the woods, only rule was to be back at 18:00 for Dinner (and ofc the obligatory Wickie Episode XD)

[@timpie9346]

@@matsudoambition2509 "Be back at 18:00 - when the church bells ring"

[@trythis2006]

and kids are never really alone, there are always other people around and its just natural to look after a kid if something happens, kids are pretty damn safe overall i would say

[@MiaMerkur]

When I was 6 my father said: next week you have to go to school. I show you how to ride a bike and wich way you have to take. They only had 2, 3 hours to train me riding and then with bikes went to school and back, it was only 1 km and streight and only 2 streets crossing, so easy. I was under 6 when I had to walk 500 metres to get my dad cigarettes from the box in the city, we lived outside on a farm. When high school, Gymnasium, started, 25 km in the next big city, I took bike to the bus stop 1,5 km and public bus. That was totally normal in the 70ties.

[@henriettehansen9301]

Same

[@Roberternst72]

4:52 sooo… the mother gets arrested for reckless conduct leaving her kid alone (?), which results in… the kid being left alone??? Completely absurd.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!

[@kurtwagner4663]

10 years? The kid was 10?! I would get a toddler or a 6 year old or so. But 10?! What do they expect? Lock them up after school to the next day until they are like 16 or so? When I was 6 and started school, my mum brought me the 1st day and after that I went alone. 1,2 km or 0,75 miles alone lol And when my brother started school a year after me, I was responsible to take him. My mum didn't brought him once 😂

[@Flamebeard0815]

That's most likely the gist of it. I skimmed some of the articles about the incident - the kid and siblings seem to be homeschooling. So might be an extra incentive to harrass the parent(s).

[@kathilisi3019]

"if they're not old enough to drive, they're too young to walk", right? 😂

[@pr3nzlb3rg3r]

My kids walked to school by themselves with 6.

[@monal3544]

Turned out that the police made a mistake in that video an the mom is sueing them

[@steemlenn8797]

Yes, wait until they are 16 when they suddenly change into reponsible adults and can safely drive a 2,5t steel box that is so high you can't see a 10 year old standing 10m in front of it.

[@Powermongur]

I'm from Denmark, but when i was 10 i walked to school alone. Sometimes i would get some money to go to the baker to buy some candy. During weekends i went to my friends house and came home at night. Good times.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!

[@perryrhodan2009]

The fact that children can walk to school is also due to the fact that many people are careful not to cross the traffic lights when they are red. I also see a connection there. I think it is a shame that Americans make fun Off this Situation. You don't lose any personal "freedom" but children gain so much more from it. Nur ein punkt von vielen. Gruß aus Wiesbaden

[@KingSteven26]

Jaja "Den Kindern zum Vorbild", wir Alle kennen die scheiß Schilder... Also Ich habe als Kind noch gelernt mehrmals nach links und rechts zu gucken bevor Ich die Straße überquere, und das finde Ich bis heute deutlich sinnvoller und sicherer als blind der Farbe eine Lampe zu gehorchen(&vertrauen)!

[@perryrhodan2009]

@KingSteven26 Das hab ich auch gelernt in der verkersschule. Auch an der Ampel schauen, ist doch klar. Aggro Typ.

[@ani-rf4my]

​@@KingSteven26 Selbstverständlich schaut man nochmal ob die Autos auch an der toten Ampel halten. Kinder lernen mehr durch nachmachen als durch Regeln die vom Erwachsenen zwar gesagt aber nicht eingehalten werden.

[@Potatojiggle]

Children in primary school learn to write with a fountain pen mostly in 2nd grade we don't use pencils so much and they are totally forbidden in tests because someone could manipulate the test afterwards. This pencil pouches are filled with color pencils, markers and felt-tip pens and other things you need and maybe one or two pencils.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion

[@caccioman]

The Georgia incident is crazy on so many levels… CRAZY

[@maximilianmarch337]

The "backpack" you refer to is a "schulranzen" - a backpack especially made for pupils. Children take al the Books and stuff to school and back home every day. Few schools have lockers for every pupil. The weight of the "Schulranzen" often is a reason for disputes between parents and teachers. The pencil pouches are called "Federmäppchen" and like "Schulranzen" this also is quite a niche market. You might have fun to check out German pupils equipment - it is quite different from the states.

[@MiaMerkur]

And in the pencil bag is much more than pencils like rulers, Zirkel?, Geodreieck?, scissor aso.

[@D3__]

Schulranzen takes so much effort. Shorter it to Ranzen. Or go with Tornister. Federmappen also get switched out for Schlampermäppchen in later grades and then just a single pen near the end. Ah, my last year was so relaxed... no homework, I could just leave my two books at school, I just used a "normal" pen (bought a fancy one just to be cool) and I used a Ordermappe. No papers sorted. I just wrote on a sheet, flipped it to the back and continued on. I didn't care about organization. I barely even needed to look back up anything. Either I remembered or didn't care.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@Leenapanther]

@@D3__ The word depends a lot on where in Germany you grew up. In Switzerland we call these kind of backpacks Schulthek. I can recommed "Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache" for this. People from the DACH region answer how they call things and they then create a map. In Austria they call it mainly Schultasche.

[@KatSaal]

"Federmäppchen" it is called in the South, "Etui" in the north. All the "pencils" aren't pencils. There are only one or two. These are crayons. And kids up to ~8 years write with a fountain pen, later in high school with a ball pen or sharpie. In the "Oberstufe" (class 11 to 13) they nowadays have an iPad. Some write on a keyboard, some with the stylus. Pencils in Germany aren't indelible. That's why you aren't allowed to use them in tests and exams.

[@CycloneFox]

6:08 Sadly we actually do have metal detectors in some schools now, too. It's not a lot of schools and only in the biggest cities and only those schools which have been the most prominent for cases of violence. But they do exist.

[@danielr.5785]

My Kids are 9 yo and Walk to elemantry school by themself too. Its 1,2 km around 0,8 mile. Its.pretty normale.

[@DieGurke_]

With all the crazy "asylum seeker" and illegal Migrants you still let your kid walk alone are you crazy?

[@BluePhoenix_]

I was walking to Kindergarten on my own, when i was 4. I was walked to grade school once, so i knew the way, then i went on my own. Same with Gymnasium. Though there it was riding the bus, not just walking.

[@evadretsil]

8:19 in my elementary school in germany we had slippers in our classroom for everyone

[@robert1990robert]

that's how it was in my elementary school, too.

[@mats7492]

Same (1990s)

[@s.f.8867]

We not, but that was in the 1970s.

[@Cologne.1948]

Same here, mid 2000's

[@Brawlmilow]

Same but not anymore

[@MaryRaine929]

🤷‍♀️I don’t see anything creepy in a Dad being interested in how school in other countries work, but maybe I should prepare for the police showing up, cause I let my 12 year old ride public busses 40 kilometers away from home alone, just for fun?😂🚨

[@Techmagus76]

we have your address

[@Pacmail]

Ah, the good old "Overhead Prjektor". Still around these days in many classrooms. Take this, "Beamer" ;-)

[@juwen7908]

... aber das Video ist schon 14 Jahre alt. Dank Corona Fördergeldern haben die meisten Schulen heute Smartboards.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@coka714]

2:00 The crazy big thing is „ein Briefkasten“ for mails and newspapers. 😅

[@michaeljordan6549]

Kids walk to school from the age of 6 where I live in UK.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Not in busy city centres I wouldn’t imagine. Ridiculously , they are even dropped off in our definitely not middle class village.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!

[@joeaverage3444]

School gardens are very common here in Germany. It's a chance for inner city kids in particular to gain an appreciation of nature. Also, my aunt is a retired elementary school teacher, and she is also a beekeeper. She still has kids from her old school visiting her at her home as part of their curriculum, so they can learn about beekeeping and insects.

[@Ph34rNoB33r]

Haven't seen a school garden in ages. Might depend on the state, the ones I knew in Saxony were all removed after the reunion. It simply wasn't part of the curriculum any more.

[@WiltraudPotrawa]

The "thing" beside the door is indeed a mailbox with compartments for mail and newspapers. And in most schools kids are wearing "house-shoes" in their classrooms. The "strange thing" in the schoolyard made out of wood is, what is called an "insect-hotel" - an assembly of different kinds of wooden plates and blocks, where wholes have been drilled in. So a bunch of wild insects like wild bees, bumblebees and others (which are endangered) can find a safe place to put their eggs, so the species will not go extinct. Many people in Germany, owning a garden also have them - mostly quite smaller of course.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@caccioman]

In the garden you can see foldable „beer benches“ (Tables and benches which can be set up in outdoor beer gardens and for parties - its common to rent them from your local beverage shop) and the „german thingie“ was a bee hotel or hotel for insects, i.e. an assortment of nesting materials for wild bees and other insects, bc they have a hard time finding these nowadays

[@christinestrohmeyer1701]

Police coming, taking mom, not checking, if there is another adult watching said kid ... are they being arrested themselves, if kid decides to get dinner? 😅😢

[@smallblueangel]

Going to arrest because a ten year old is out alone is crazy!

[@jennyh4025]

6:48 my child walked to school alone age six and I can walk to and into the school any time of the school day without having to go through any security checks. But our children are actually used to being outside alone (in a group). The joys of living in German „suburbia“ and small towns.

[@jennyh4025]

Tables and chairs were already like that when I went to elementary school several decades ago… And we didn’t have regular school assemblies (my child doesn’t either).

[@Chuulip]

When I went to middle and high-school (2000-2009) in a small town, we had fences installed around our school ground... to keep us in, not to keep others out. Kids would sneak off to the store next door to buy snacks and it isn't allowed to leave the premises if you're a minor. However, we did not have closed gates because it wasn't allowed to lock us in. Instead, teachers would be on duty to check that nobody leaves. In reality, it was a loose rule and nobody really cared. For the most part, kids stayed on the play ground and if they did leave it was usually really just for a snack. Kids did definitely smoke on the playground though. Everyone knew it, everyone smelled it and when a teacher passed by, they hid their hands with the cigarettes. Nothing was ever done against it though.

[@GertrudMathilde]

Sounds like my school 😂 Also the exact same years, 2000-2009.. 🤔

[@bellabellason9009]

Was going with 7 alone to school in Germany that the mom got arrested sounds crazy

[@ManafaeVOD]

I never took off my shoes in school, but that was over 20 years ago. And it doesn't seem like a typical schhol. In elementary school, school wasout around 12:00 in high school I was home 14:00.

[@chrstiania]

I guess that's there same here. Schools out at noon and then there's some kind of OGS until 4pm that's not at all mandatory but helpful if the parents are working

[@CoL_Drake]

its is different from school to school

[@piggypork700]

@@chrstiania ...and if your child is taking part in the OGS, so called open all-day school, you have to pay for it in most places, excep you are very poor...

[@GettingNervous]

I´ve never heard that kids took off their shoes at school.

[@MiaMerkur]

I also never heard of taking off shoes in school.

[@onnowillner699]

When I got on the high school I was only 11 years old. There I drove alone to the school. It was totally normal and everyone did it. In addition I want to ask if you already watched a short video about the german school system. it is pretty crazy how many options you have in germany. For example Mittelschule, Oberschule and Gymnasium all translate to high school, but are three different School types.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion

[@trythis2006]

the schoolbags were actually really heavy, all the stuff and books you had to carry was crazy

[@MiaMerkur]

Yes, too heavy to be healthy for small kids, they should finally make school trolleys. Or these that can be trolly or backpack in case of bad floors between.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!

[@michaelvonrautenberg2388]

Children who are not allowed to do anything grow up to be adults who cannot do anything

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@MUETZE198]

the taking off shoes part is new to me too but yeah it's pretty spot on to my elementary school time. giant backpacks, wich are actually really lightweight nowadays. I was schocked when I got my daughter her first "Tonne" (they got a bunch of names,Tornister the basic one, Tonne, Tonko, Ranzen etc.) cuz I still remembered my old one that could weigh up to 10 kilos with books the drink bottle and all, but they have goten to light nowadays hers is barely 5 kilo with all her books, a breadbox filled with bread and fruit and a big 1l bottle of juice

[@ni5287]

It's new too me to taking shoes of in school ... - And if it really is true, that they arested that mother... than America is going to dystopia even sooner...😮 hope not!! But take care, Ryan...

[@inge6280]

Ridiculous, getting arrested for your kis walking around outside on his own, 10 years old already, good grief. When I was 10, my parent didn’t know where I was half the time 😂

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@daemonbyte]

My son started walking home from Hört midway through 6yo. He doesn't do it often and it's only half a km down the road but why not? My 10yo has complete freedom to roam around the area. Visit friends etc.

[@markusoberndorfer4634]

In the 80s german kids had the keys of the house and three coins (Groschen) for the public phones with them. Today we allow 9 year old kids to operate with knifes, axes, saws, ropes and fire steel at the boy and girl scouts groups, also at the Royal Rangers that were founded in the US. Blueprints and scratched knees are part of childhood.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@Restmoore]

1:40 yes thats a mailbox not all look like this but this does

[@Restmoore]

@Tel-egraaam_YT_RyanWass yes because you want to scam people while impersonating a yt nice

[@DeJe63]

@1:28, its a mailbox/news paper container, @13:45, its beer garden tables and benches, fully foldable. btw. there are also big regions in germany you need a schoolbus (or driving youself) to get your childs to and back from school because of distance.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@jesskar]

„Backpack that’s also a chair“ really got me. That’s pretty accurate. I just love, how these kid’s backpacks kinda look like mine from the 80‘s. And yes. I sat on it, whenever there was no chair left, when I waited for the public transport.

[@Otte74]

8:50 this was the setup when I went to school (oh... Started school in 1980, so it's been a while 😂). A German Rucksack is a backpack and soft - these things are called Ranzen and yes, you can sit on them (well, as long as you are under 40 kgs ⚖️

[@danielr.5785]

And No, No Metal detectors, No locked Doors. You Just Walk in.

[@danielr.5785]

@Tel-egraaam_YT_RyanWass what about?

[@xrecix]

iirc some schools do lock the doors even in germany, but i could also be wrong

[@xinapweb]

​@@xrecix only a few. Maybe 10 in hole Germany.

[@solarwanderer2731]

I don't know when you have seen a german school from the inside the last time... but it is very common nowadays that entrance doors are locked here too.

[@lukasrentz3238]

@@solarwanderer2731 Seriously? I mean i´m out of primary school, where i could understand that, for quite a while not. But also at secondary schools?

[@Lari00n]

The country of the free??? Lmao. A 10 year old is able to walk alone outside. What's wrong in the States.... My boys walk alone since they're six!

[@juwen7908]

Have in mind that this school is a private school, very small with just 270 kids nowadays. It's also a full-time day school. Usually school days at this age at a public school end around 1:00 am. So, that's not really a typical German school day.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!

[@thorstenhuebel9022]

"Mom arrested after her 10-year-old son went on a walk alone"". If that would be a law in Germany it would filled up our jails as quick as possible 😁

[@MiaMerkur]

The whole econmy stands by. Too much single parent and both parents working over here. What are the policemen/ politicians afraid of? Are the american pupil so stupid they would go with a stranger? Or are they afraid of criminal kids destroying public things?

[@michelleschrock9141]

​@@MiaMerkurI heard a rumor that people are afraid that a man in a white van would come, scoop the kid up, put them in the van and drive away with the kid. They are afraid that someone would kidnap their kid and they wouldn't noticed it. I don't know if that is true not. We aren't that afraid of going out alone here in my german village. I go every morning at 7:30 out of the house to the train station to get to my workplace.

[@_Zeph_]

The part in the school garden was an insect hotel. Various materials like wood and stones with different holes so that the insects can move in. This will also have been a full-day school, most schools finish at 1pm

[@APCLZ]

13:33 those are typical, although, probably smaller versions for kids, beergarden tables, called "Bierbänke". It's very commonly used in schools as well :)

[@strickblog]

This is in elementary school. The kids have ergonomic backpacks (when they are older these ones are no longer cool enough), adults normally are not allowed to come into the school. My kids had English in elemantary school. At this school they change shoes to house slippers, the classroom often has carpets. This changes in further grades, there you keep your shoes and also there is no carpet. The silver thing next to the door was a mailbox. German doors for the houses are very thick and heavy - secure and stable - and so the door handle is sometimes bigger. The thing you did not know is an insect hotel.

[@juwen7908]

Echt? Hab noch nie Teppich in einer Schule gesehen. Reinigungsalbtraum! Die Kinder haben den Dreck ja nicht nur an den Schuhen...

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!

[@real-life-cooking]

​@@juwen7908Bei mir hatte das Gymnasium Teppichboden (Nadelfilz)... Man war statisch aufgeladen, und immer, wenn man versehentlich jemanden berührte, bekam man einen Schlag!😂

[@DeadpoolTesla]

My mum showed me the way to my school 1981 on the first two days, and then i walked it every day alone...

[@juwen7908]

Yeah, that's how we do it usually in Germany. At least when I was in school. Nowadays more and more people drive their kids to school, because of the traffic. Which is insane, cause this fact alone causes even more traffic!!! 🤯🤯🤯

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@okoterrorist5039]

I don't know any school in Germany were you take shoes off.. maybe it's the walldorfschule, there special😂

[@ulrikesextro4187]

I thought the same when I watched the assembly during which they sang a song.

[@Roberternst72]

10:07 I don’t even remember school assemblies in elementary school back in the early 1980s… Combined with taking off the shoes, I think this looks like some odd private anthroposophical school, like a Waldorf…

[@dieterk2965]

Yes, was my first thought too.😅

[@MiaMerkur]

Yes, maybe private and good, but not odd. Do you think being over public standard is "odd"?

[@Roberternst72]

@@MiaMerkur No, I believe being odd is odd.

[@MiaMerkur]

@Roberternst72 but it is not odd in the first place. Tautologie hilft nicht, sieht eher dumm aus.

[@Roberternst72]

@ Anthroposophie ist definitiv „odd“… und das ist noch sehr, sehr diplomatisch ausgedrückt…

[@katjavonbauske]

I was 5 - walking by myself to Kindergarten… it’s been in the GDR System though. My mom just watched from the window if I made it over the street (Fußgänger Überweg). And the rest I‘ve been walking alone on a car free path- i guess 8-10 minutes. We also did go by ourselves to the groceries to buy stuff for our familiy or even playing in the woods with friends. Building wood houses. 😅

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion

[@miztazed]

Just for info: in Germany most Elementary and Middle Schools also lock their doors as soon as teaching begins. You just can enter the school building by ringing a bell of the secretariat.

[@BluePhoenix_]

They often have a fenced, or walled off playground. So most of the time it's the front gate that is locked. Not necessarily the school building.

[@Fideliaa]

Mine wasn't, my sisters neither, so I don`t know if most schools is true, but there surely are some

[@GettingNervous]

Very dangerous in case of an emergency (e.g. fire).

[@feuerling]

​@@GettingNervous the doors still open from the inside.

[@viomouse]

Have never seen a school where you couldn't enter school grounds before in Germany. My elementary schools door was locked though.

[@85Onne]

My kid started going to school and back by himself on public transport when he was 7. Like a lot of his friends. He comes home after practice in pitch dark at 6 pm... I love living in my small European country (I live in city of about 400000 ppl) 😊

[@rawfish_8.3u]

10:43 Are "pencil pouches" not a thing in the US? I'm surprised that this seems to be something unusual to you; where else would you keep your pens & pencils?

[@HiFiListener]

I'm from germany and back in the days my friends from the neighborhood and I were playing outside, without being watched by any adults, at the age of six. It was just that way and it was normal. Nowadays, some parents are a little bit more protective. But there are still a lot of young kids playing outside without any supervision.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@jorlipus5618]

In watched this and thought to myself: "wow, this does look like a school from before my times". Until I realised that this is EXACTLY the year, I went to primary school... I'm old

[@APCLZ]

uhm, you're a baby

[@charlotteice5704]

14 years ago! I was also in elementary school at that time, so this was like a window into my childhood. My school was a bit less advanced though, we didn't have the newfangled plastic chairs, only wooden ones. But they weren't attached to the desk either, and I don't think this was ever a thing in Germany as even the ancient school chairs and tables from the 70s that I know of are separate pieces. The only thing in Germany coming close to those attached things is the chairs with the tiny armrest table or the university auditorium style seating (i.e. ascending rows of tables with the folding seats for the lower row attached in the front) that was in one of the physics rooms of my high school before it was renovated. When these science rooms are renovated, they tend to choose concepts that allow for more flexible seating plans, though, so instead of one long table mounted to the floor with some outlets and whatever is needed for that subject, they build pillars with these connections or have them come down from the ceiling. As said, this allows for more flexible seating arrangements. The underlying educational principle behind this is that teachers like to tailor the seating arrangements to their way of teaching the class and the behavior of the class. It is also preferred for this do be dynamic, so students may change seating for a single lesson or even exercise, and this causes a need for multiple chairs at a single table sometimes, and for some activities, the chairs and tables may even need to be put away in the most compact form possible, so attached chairs like they are common in the US are simply not practical. Taking off our shoes was also a thing at my elementary school. Every one of us had a dedicated pair of house shoes, typically something like crocs or birkenstocks that we kept at the school to put on inside the classroom. When we started elemtary school, we each got a little cotton tote to decorate with our names and hang our house shoes onto the coat rack with. I speculate this is done in order to both foster a sense of the classroom being a quiet, indoor, homely place in the children and have them keep their dirty shoes outside the classroom because there are lots of sandy, dirty places to play at in a typical German schoolyard and children of that age just have absolutely zero consciousness for this type of thing, as they should have as little children. Elementary school still ends this early nowadays, but after-school child care (Ganztagsbetreuung) that takes place on school grounds has become much more prevalent due to a larger share of parents working. There, the children can do their homework and play games together with child care professionals until the parents are done working and can pick them up.

[@bmkmymaggots]

I have never took my shoes of in my classroom :D

[@avr7120]

I did back in primary school but you had to have slippers you put on instead

[@miztazed]

My son needed house shoes in his elementary school. They all have to took out their street shoes in a changing room before teaching.

[@PotsdamSenior]

We did, from Grundschule to the end of Realschule. So much more comfortable!

[@bmkmymaggots]

@@miztazed good to know, seems like a good idea

[@ayla6854]

I was walking alone to school in elementary school too. 😅 For the first year, it was just a ten minute walk. Second year was a new home and school, but I think I also went on my own after a few times getting accompanied so I could memorize the way. Which was longer and involved public transit. Fourth grade on, after another move, my way to school took one hour on public transit, plus a twenty minute walk. I went with my younger sibling, who had just gotten enrolled in elementary. High school was closer again to home. I'd use either public transit or walk. An hour long walk to school and a thirty minutes back home (I was getting bullied and didn't want to go to school, so when I had to go because I failed to convince my parents I was sick, I was slower getting there, even though it didn't feel like I was). TLDR: I used to go to school in Berlin on my own, from the very beginning. It lead to me being confident in finding my way, even abroad.

[@Felix3ize]

Why is everyone who is getting arrested handcuffed per se?? It didn't seem like she would be dangerous to the cops or herself

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!

[@Leenapanther]

Swiss here: These backpacks are very typical for that age. Children usually use them from grade 1 - 3 (Funki, Scout, Amigo) and then get a new one for 4 - 6 grade (Seven, Racoon or Invicta). The kind and brand of backpack you use is an evolution. Every generation has their favorite brand. The ones mentioned were popular during my time in the 90s early 00s. We did change shoes at primary school level. We would wear house shoes (Finken). A lot of high school Students nowadays use Fyallraven Kanken backpack. Every time I see them, I think that barely anything fits in there.

[@jensartz2880]

And guess what, they‘re not even getting shot at while they‘re in school! Unbelievable, isn‘t it!?

[@jambalaa4546]

As a german: I was walked to school only a few times since 1sst grade elementary. My mom came along to show me the way. When I knew it a few days later I went off on my own. Those large backpacks (Schulranzen) are there because whe usually don't have cabinets in school and have to carry everything with us we could need for the day. "6th grade private school with biology"- day was hard. Granpa put my backpack on a scale once and it weighted a hefty 14.8kg (32.6lbs) and I was 11 yrs old.

[@alidemirbas6566]

ICE is not pronounced like ice or icecream. Say it in 3 letters. (Just my usual advice to Ryan, has nothing to do wirh the video, maybe he gets it this time) My children are not allowed to bring knives in school. Back then in the 80s when I was a child there was no such rule, neither in elementary school nor Gymnasium.

[@CodeNascher_]

probably also says HIFF instead of HIV

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

I think in the last video he replied to a comment explaining that, so he should be aware now (even if it took like 2y). The videos are probably uploaded a little delayed so there still is a chance he gets it right tomorrow. 😅

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

I.C.E. or I-C-E I = pronounce it like the first letter of the english words "idiot" "inter" "intelligence" C = pronounce it like the "C" in Caesar the "C" in the musical tone "cis" E = pronounce it like the first letter of the english words "Energy" "Elementary" "Emerald" (City) "Ethno" "Endorphin" I(diot) - C(aesar) - E(nergy)

[@anniebe4992]

German 90s kid We didn't take our shoes off at school but I think we did at daycare and after school daycare (wearing house shoes). we had individual desks and chairs but the desks were for 2 people school assembly was like once a year but we learnt that the American kids assembled every morning to sing/say the pledge of allegiance, hands to their hearts

[@vegankowalski5193]

That's NOT a typical day. This was a typical day 15 years ago.

[@mauer1]

yeah i guess today they walk to school at 10 for the one hour they actually have a teacher and then they try to get around making self works.

[@vegankowalski5193]

@@mauer1 English?!

[@craddocraddoc]

@@mauer1 Not really. Primary school is still quite well staffed. The major difference would be a lot more whiteboards, different clothing (I feel this looks like the 90s for some reason) and less group acitivties, but mostly because Hohbuchschule Reutlingen has a specific activity related teaching program.

[@mauer1]

@@vegankowalski5193 No teachers.

[@vegankowalski5193]

@@mauer1 no germans

[@mikmook4781]

Reminds me of this story from years ago (late 90s I think). A Danish mother was in New York and she'd left her kid in a pram outside a restaurant. Someone called the police and she was arrested, strip searched and had her child taken away from her. She wasn't being negligent, she just came from a country where you can leave you child alone for a few minutes without worrying that they'll be murdered or something.

[@Tomschu]

Elementary school, 35 minutes walk to school. 2 hours back from school. First stop, toy shop. Second stop, bakery (bought sweets). Then accompanied each friend to their front door.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion

[@styrkjarsteibjorn1860]

I'm from Germany. My Daughter is turning 6 this year and in Summer she's starting school. We just filled out a form in which the school asked, if its okay to send her home alone, when school is finished.

[@CherryGS]

wow... i used to walk alone to the kindergarten, walked to school (or in later years school bus) all the time. My parents never thought of driving me to school unless something very extraordinary happened. granted, that was in the middle of the 80s und 90s in (east and the unified) germany. But getting arrested for letting a 10year old walk alone (and not knowing where exactly he is) is wild. My parents didn't know where i was most a lot of the time. We played in abandoned gardens, down by the river, rode our bikes throughout the small town... only thing they knew i would be home at about 6 or 6.30, thanks to the clocktower of the church being visible from everywhere in the neighbourhood.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@현재김-f7w]

I was only in first grade and I was already taking the bus alone to school. Later, after we moved to another city, I always walked alone to school (the school was right next to my home though) and sometimes to the supermarket which was like 1 km away, but still in our neighbourhood. Hilarious the differences between different countries.

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion

[@McTec_Industries]

This was quite wholesome to watch and I'm slightly jealous right now. Life was a lot easier when you where a kid. Oh well, thanks for reminding me I'm getting old. XD

[@TheOne74613]

13:18 in most places this is called an insect hotel, it provides shelter for bugs and also serves as breeding ground for many bugs

[@janetringenberg7305]

These pencil cases are filled with lots of colored pencils and felt-tip pens, erasers, rulers, fountain pens and the infamous ink killer. The backpacks are actually not ordinary backpacks but backpacks specially designed for notebooks and books. The lunch is also kept here. They are much more stable and are nowadays made of very light material, because the books that the children have to transport are sometimes very heavy for such small children's backs. Some varieties even had a scale built into the handle as a gimmick, which made us parents aware that small children sometimes had to carry 4.5 kg of weight. We then found other solutions here and there.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion

[@spezifisch4468]

6:41 i finished school three years ago but a few months ago when i was back in my hometown i was craving a snack from the schools cafeteria (you can only get it there i dont think any store has that) and just wandered into school, paid and left 😅

[@SabineGrunau-x7b]

usually you would have a pair of "House shoes" at school, you don't go barefoot. And this is only in schools that have carpets on the floors

[@klarasee806]

13:28 "That thing" is an insect hotel where several wild bees, bugs and flies can find a home. You can find them in many German gardens, also on public ground, in woods and in parks - and also in most schools and kindergartens, since they are perfect diy projects for groups of all ages. Also, many schools, like the shown, have their own gardens, so it‘s very helpful to have many insects there, of course. Other than in the USA, biodiversity really is a thing in Germany and in many other European countries.

[@danielanoll4069]

We had a little gang of 6 or 7 kids who met up at the house of the boy who lived closest to the school. Then we went the last bit together across a park. In the winter the park was still locked ( because it was still dark) and we were supposed to take a detour around it. It was more fun climbing the gates though and sneaking across...

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!

[@glasfuechsin3085]

I went to primary school in Bavaria in the 90s. Weekly assemblies were not a thing, might differ from state to state. I think we did take off our shoes, but we would wear slippers instead while in the class room. We didn't learn English before middle school, but I think it's different now.

[@Alina46351]

Well, that pretty much wraps up our first type of school Grundschule for grades one to four, at least over here in Nordrhein-Westfalen (groundschool, sounds like grounding, I know.) Then, we have four different types of schools: Schools for difficult children (worst), Hauptschule (main school, the second worst), Realschule (real school, middle type of thing) and Gymnasium (the best of the best, where I go to too). So, from schools for difficult children, all the way to the gymnasium is a far thing. The gymnasium is for the most civilized, disciplined, and smart kids, while it gets lower with the other schools. You either stay (at least at my gymnasium) until 13th or 10th grade. Whereas if you choose to leave after 10th grade, you're forced to go to a thing called Berufsschule (job school) where you will learn the rest. After that, it's like college in the US, you either go to a university or not, your choice. (I will, by the way)

[@Bramfly]

Yep in The Netherlands it is more common to use a bicycle for that, however walking to school is quit normal as well.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!!!

[@Rick2010100]

As a 10-year-old, I spent the whole day outside with friends in the summer, riding my bike or going to the public swimming pool. I was only supposed to be home by 8 p.m. I grew up in a peaceful, medium-sized German village (12,000 inhabitants), but it might have been different in a big city.

[@viomouse]

No it wasn't. Starting in 2nd grade I took my bike through the 160k city for my ballet class and we roamed all over the place after school. (90s and early 00s)

[@Tele-graam_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!

[@Al69BfR]

9:44 The arrangement of the desks always seem to me depending on the type of lessons that‘s going to be teached. If it‘s just the teacher mostly presenting by writing on the blackboard it‘s better if everybody faces towards the teachers desk. If it‘s more of a cooperative class where kids interact in smaller groups, this table configuration from the video is probably the best. In middle- and high school we often had the tables arranged in a U shape with or without tables in the middle facing to the front, depending on the size of the class. This one is imho good for discussing topics with the whole class where everybody can see everybody with ease. And the U with tables in the middle was in chemistry class where there were for terminals with a sink and access to electricity and gas. So that way the cables and tubes could be kept as short as possible.

[@MiaMerkur]

I cannot remember having not single desks in elementary school or high school. Only in Oberstufe ( senior high?, College?) there were group work.

[@Gaston413]

7:07 In Germany, even small school children always have to carry their books back and forth between school and home. For this heavy weight they need robust backpacks. Somehow, even today, we're not quite ready to have all the books with us on a light tablet. The German state is not big on quick, innovative changes.

[@ginafromcologne9281]

The wooden structure in the garden is an insect hotel to attract bees, ladybirds and butterflies. I got a bee hotel in my garden and it's always full.

[@Te-legrrrram_YT_RyanWass]

I would prefer if we have private discu-ssion!

[@AnbuKakashi038]

8:19 I don't know that either 😅 we always kept our shoes on throughout the school building