Brit Reacts to Day in the Life at American High School

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[@ThickDaddyTrucker]

Truckee/Lake Tahoe area is insane.... Look it up. (FYI this isn't far from where the famous "Donner Party" had lunch).... Insanely gorgeous area to visit/live, but it's in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and it's cold cold with tons of snow (literally can't open the door to your house because there's to much snow). Next video? Look up Trucker & Lake Tahoe home prices, or a tour of the city

[@thegriffin88]

I like this video a lot. It's the reason I actually started watching you and a few other people. The views on American life day-to-day from the perspective of a foreigner. My mom is from Barbados you see, so I've grown up my whole life with half of my family living in another country and having that kind of view from the other side, what things I take as normal being radically different. It's probably one of the reasons I went into studying anthropology, to find another culture to experience like that. So I love watching you react to what I consider 'normal'.

[@shanecrothers5792]

This not how a typical US school is this is a rich community

[@alphawolfgaming1024]

School in Texas ends at 4:30 p.m. 17:12

[@angelabatko8491]

When I went to hs it started at 8:30 got out at 3:00 Now I think it starts at 9:00 gets out at 3:40 in our town Also this is a resort area so nicer than the average

[@theatomicwookie9953]

Lake Tahoe?!? Jesus Christ, he sure hit the exchange student lottery, didn't he?

[@xo2quilt]

Truckee, not Lake Tahoe. Close though!! Less than 30 minutes to Tahoe...and less than 30 minutes from where I live.

[@corvus1374]

@@xo2quilt The teacher asked how he likes Lake Tahoe.

[@catsmeow5566]

yeah, lucky he didn't end up in my current area. He would have been bullied and probably assaulted by the bigots out here.

[@michellem9444]

Yes, lunch breaks are staggered at most schools. My son's school has 3500 students. No way they'd all eat lunch at the same time.

[@patrickcox8990]

looks like they have free roam of the school. my school did a 1 hour break for the whole school, and we were free to roam the campus.

[@deonlepharaoh]

Same here, it was like that at every school I went to

[@dawn_68]

Same. Lunch was technically 30 minutes with a 15 minute “advisory” before so they can clean up and prepare for the next lunch period. 4, 5, and 6th period

[@magsstewart5488]

Busses went to both bus stops, and some individual homes. If you lived way out in the country, the “bus stop” was the end of your driveway. Edit: When I said “end of the driveway,” I didn’t mean a 50 ft driveway. Out in the sticks the houses are generally set WAY back on a large acreage. Your driveway could be 1/2 mile long.

[@mariahazcueta3621]

Came here to say this. I had to walk half a mile each way to my stop.

[@Sassyglbeauty]

It was very rare for me to- if ever to have a bus stop directly at my home. It’s almost ALWAYS at the end of the road.

[@themourningstar338]

Yeah, the bus never stopped at my house, which was on a narrow road owned and maintained by the homeowners. So the bus stop was always at the end of that on the county road, about a half mile from my house. There were several group bus stops along the county road, but no stops for individual houses. What sucked was several times per year on the ride home (usually due to our driver having to cover 2 routes), all of us kids who lived on that county road would instead get dumped off at the end on the highway LOL. That was a 1 to 2.5 mile walk depending on your house (about 1.5 for me). Only the first half mile was flat/downhill, then up a really steep hill and more uphill the rest of the way after that.... Made even more sucky when the neighbor's flock of 70+ angry aggro geese were blocking the river bridge before the steep hill (no way around either), and we'd all have to huddle together in tight formation and fight our way through them using our coats/jackets as melee weapons and backpacks as shields 😂😂

[@GoodHunter9]

I grew up on a 30 acre farm with my neighbors to the north, south, east, and west all being corn and bean fields. My bus stop was always my driveway. The funny part is that in elementary school I actually did ride the short bus because it was the cheapest way to get me to school without my legally blind mom driving me.

[@magsstewart5488]

@ Yeah, our spec Ed busses do door-to-door. 👍

[@marvincasteel4876]

One thing to keep in mind, this school is in Lake Tahoe, California, it is a big ski resort town in the winter, but it is a rich area to live in, so this is not typical of all American high schools! lol

[@lesterine77]

Lake Tahoe is I'm Nevada.

[@scwyd6769]

@@lesterine77 its on the border

[@zbadeee1993]

This is actually Truckee CA, right outside of Tahoe, California side. But yeah, not your typical high school

[@Niteowlette]

I was going to say the exact same thing, lol!

[@MrCho14]

@@lesterine77 The border runs down the middle of the lake and the population is pretty spread between the two. There are even places like Heavenly where the border runs through the city area.

[@markmartineau1015]

The schools generally also have a baseball diamond and a track for running to go with the football field. Our day may end earlier but if your into any extracurricular activities they would be held after reg school hours.

[@BBKkrime]

There is not many kids in the lunch cafeteria, because truckee high school has open campus, and most kids leave campus at lunch, many American high schools have open campus, and the kids go to local restaurants or home to eat.

[@MxPotato84]

None of my schools had that. We were locked in all day. Only going outside for PE or to do a science experiment. If we stepped outside without a teacher, we would have detention. If we went out of campus, we would be expelled.

[@deonlepharaoh]

​@@MxPotato84damn that's tough for a high school...I remember 1 of the 3 highschools I attended was like that and I definitely didn't stay there long lol felt like a prison with metal detectors everywhere (this was early 2000s tho)

[@MxPotato84]

@@deonlepharaoh dayum!! Thats wild! Metal detectors before the school shooting era?!?!

[@deonlepharaoh]

@@MxPotato84 the most famous school shooting occurred the school year before I was in high school but the high school I went to with metal detectors was in the hood in Dallas which was more strict on preventing violence compared to the Arlington high schools I went to in the same era

[@MxPotato84]

@@deonlepharaoh ahhh… my schools were in the suburbs of NY state.

[@rowanmayfair9249]

I feel like I'm watching in an alternate reality of what my high school was. It's like a sanitized version.

[@AlwaysWatching53]

Seems like a tv show. They need to show schools in the poor areas

[@chrisr267]

Pretty similar to what my high school was like in New Hampshire, and my nieces and nephews in Georgia and North Carolina, from what they tell me.

[@AlwaysWatching53]

@@chrisr267 i grewup in southern California wasn't like that school at all

[@rowanmayfair9249]

@chrisr267 You all were very lucky. As @AlwaysWatching53 said above, they really need to show the poorer, and yes, frankly, predominantly black and brown areas. I grew up there in Florida. It's a completely different universe. I'm not sure how old you are, but I have seen it change with magnet schools, and they're just newer and better maintained in nicer areas. I hope it is changing in every area. All kids deserve an education like that. 💜💜💜

[@rowanmayfair9249]

@AlwaysWatching53 ... and not the ones portrayed on film. Some are that serious but just show the average, poorer locations. Hell, my teachers used to take naps! I know my education was NOT from my schooling. I did that on my own. Ran as fast as I could out of school, got my diploma at 16, and started working at 15.

[@mybluefly5845]

Most US schools start at 800 am but a bus route can sometimes take 1 to 1 1/2 hours depending on where you live. My bus picked me up from myhouse at 6:30 am. We got to school around 7:30 or 7:45. Halfway during the school year the bus driver would reverse route and then I would get picked up at 7:30 am. Mrs Verna was her name; she was old and wrinkley and always had a cigarette hanging out her mouth, but she was as sweet as pie. Things to love about the 1980s

[@shirleyz7400]

What a sight that must of been with the cigs. Those were the days! 👍😊

[@juliegore3380]

My bus driver was Earl.. he just passed away.😢

[@CalcaC-y6z]

I watch these fascinated as an older person. I graduated from high school in 1999 and so much of it is very different from my experience. I went to a regular middle class area school but it was CROWDED. Between classes you just got pushed along with no personal space unlike what I saw here. Classrooms looked basically the same, just the halls surprised me. Our school was from 0750-1450 because many teens were expected to pick up their younger siblings so our hours were staggered so the youngest released latest. Lunch was also staggered to keep it manageable. We had the cafeteria, student center, and outdoor seating so it wasn't too crowded. We still had people eating on the stairs or wherever but it felt normal.

[@danatate8803]

Aww...graduating in '99 does NOT make you old. Warm greetings from Oregon 😊

[@theatomicwookie9953]

@@danatate8803 I graduated in '97 and I certainly feel old.

[@danatate8803]

@@theatomicwookie9953 1978 for me!

[@danatate8803]

@@theatomicwookie9953 I get it. I think it's the time we live in. Best, neighbor 💙💜 ♥️

[@OlySasquatch78]

I’m class of 96 and it’s weird that I’m now older than most teachers.

[@changeworkssystem6024]

Lake Tahoe!! The kid hit the JACKPOT when it comes to beauty, nature and the vibe!! He's up in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada. MAJOR tourist destination. Truckee is on the California side of the lake.

[@Andrew.C04]

When I was in school (14 years ago) in Arkansas, The school has a list of all the students who signed up to ride the bus with their address. The buses are given those addresses and in the morning they start furthest from school to closest, so if you live furthest from school you might have to catch the bus at 6am instead of 7 if you live closer. After school they drop off students in reverse so starting closest to the school to furthest from school. you have 2 types of classes. For classes some schools classes are "blocks" which is 4 classes 1.5 hours each which rotate every other day so as an example say you have Algebra, History, Art, and Biology on Monday, Tuesday you'd have 3 classes like English, Spanish, PE (Physical Education) then Wednesday it'd be back to the 4 classes. then you have "periods" which is 7 classes 45 minutes each per day. When I was in 5th grade back in 2003 I'd walk 1 mile to the bus stop at 5:45am to catch the bus. If you live in an area that's easy for the bus to turn around or there's another way out so it doesn't have to turn around the bus will come to your house otherwise there'll be a spot you either walk to or your parents take you in the car to wait for the bus.

[@arich9326]

And my high school did a version of periods but we also had modules and our periods are not 45 minutes but each period was two 20-minute modules put together. And we only had one 20-minute module for lunch.

[@SarahJeanCole]

This is Lake Tahoe which is in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and it's considered the purest body of water in the WORLD!! I vacation here in the summer sometimes. It's absolutely gorgeous and so clean.

[@Ameslan1]

Lewis, you are right.. American Public Schools do not have uniforms for students. American PRIVATE Schools many private schools where parents pay for tuition to attend wear uniforms. I myself went to private school and we had to wear uniforms.. Blazer, Tie and slacks. Also often American religious schools like Catholic schools that some parents enroll their children to attend have uniforms as well.

[@cherokee2451]

Public school all my life we absolutely had uniforms.

[@Ameslan1]

@@cherokee2451 That is very unusual in the United States.

[@cherokee2451]

@Ameslan1 it maybe different state to state but I went to a few different public schools in my state an all had uniforms. One of the reasons was so the kids who were poor wouldn't be bullied for wearing the same clothes often. We were all equal.

[@Ameslan1]

@@cherokee2451 I will repeat myself again.. It is still very unusual for public schools to require uniforms unless like you said have some exceptions.. Most public schools in the USA do not require uniforms.. Mainly because of cost factor especially with poor inner city schools. They can barely pay for essentials like books and pencils.

[@saraleh82]

My son goes to a public school and the kids wear uniforms.

[@princepookie]

the yellow school bus came to my house. might be different for evreryone else though. also schols start at different times in each state, and each district of each state, not the same around the board

[@bluflaam777LSA]

We were a rural and met at a mutual location. About 4-8 of us depending on what year or day of the week. Some would get their license and drive sometimes. Sometimes parents would take them. We had to go 18 miles as crow flies but could take up to 2 hours or more to pick everyone up. We were one of the first stops. It was always dark when we loaded and dark when we got home.

[@mish2575]

The city i started in had bus stops, the town I moved to picked up at every single house.

[@Amandaarford83]

Our schools have gotten a lot more elective classes that are offered over the years. My daughter takes Robotics at her school and they offer ESports classes for video gaming and they have some medical and forensic classes offered. A lot of our high schools offer enough advanced placement classes that count as college credit that you can have a year of college classes already come before even graduating high school.

[@MasterDanielson]

At the end of the video where he said that he has to look for his bus, it triggered a memory for me. I remembered trying to find my school bus after school ended. You could find the same bus that you rode on in the morning but see a different bus driver that is taking you to a different bus stop. And by the time that you found your bus driver, the whole bus is full and crowded. You would have to hang on for dear life when sharing the seat with two other people. I almost ate shit a few times because of how close I was to the edge of my seat and the ridiculous turns that my bus driver would be making. I used to really hate that 😂

[@karmanwilmot1648]

13:34-13:46 My school did have different lunch times for different groups. There were three different times. (Edit: My school's lunch tables were all the long ones. And every one of them was full. I had to sit in the hallway by the gym. Some sit on the stairs. Usually it's the least popular or more introverted that aren't sitting at the table. At least from my experience.

[@dedeesimmons1617]

Depends on the state, etc. Some public schools wear uniforms .

[@Born2BeWildOfficial]

why is it so fun watching this british person watching videos

[@tazmaniusserbantinio4482]

The cleanliness and condition of the school is very dependent on the wealth of the neighborhood that it is located in. A poor neighborhood will have a much more run down School. This school is obviously in a upper class neighborhood

[@1v1mebro_101]

Got that right. My elementary school was condemned right after I left 5th grade. Lol in Alabama.

[@PureLuv-of9fu]

Not true. No schools are rundown these days. Where this kid is living isn't wealthy at all. He goes to a typical, nice american highschool.

[@1v1mebro_101]

@@PureLuv-of9fu yes very true. My school like I said was condemned a few years after I left 5th grade. I attended one. But I’m 33 so this was quite some time ago. It could be different now so I’ll give you that.

[@1v1mebro_101]

@@PureLuv-of9fu they built a brand new school also that they moved to a year after I left. But the one I was in was pretty bad. I think a doctor bought it fixed the minimum of what needed to be fixed and started using it to practice out of but it was terrible.

[@MrCho14]

My school officially started at 8:10 for period 1, but you could opt to go to "zero period" which started at 7:10 if the classes worked out. This would allow you to leave an hour early which was good for those who needed to work after school to help with their families. If you were in sports, it meant you didn't miss classes as often for traveling to away games but it also made for a really long day.

[@Riandora99]

So a little rundown about how the school busses (at least for public schools in my area) work. The school collects a list of all the students addresses who need transportation. They plan routes for each driver to take, dividing up the stops to try to make each route as efficient and evenly distributed in the amount of passengers as possible. If your house/driveway is easily accessible to the main road they will pick you up right there. If the drive isn't easily accessible, the driver can't easily pass through or turn around, or the address is rather out of the way from the rest of the route, the student's have to meet the bus at a nearby planned stop. Usually this stop is just the end of a side road connecting to a main, nearby store/parking lot, or corner of a street block. There are also group bus stops, for instance in a crowded neighborhood, where all the student's in that area will gather to be picked up. Most common example being a street corner near the center of said neighborhood. The driver will stop at each place assigned on their route in the same order every day, usually starting with the address furthest away from the school, and in the afternoon, the route is just reversed. Generally, the school tries to keep each bus route under 2 hours with the driver's trying to finish their routes around 15 minutes before classes begin. Depending on where you are and which school you go to, they start at different times, but if we go with the classic 8am this means you could unfortunately be needing to be up, ready, and out waiting for the bus by 6am. My dad was actually a school bus driver when I was growing up. We lived really rural so we just kept the bus at our house and we had to be ready and out the door by 5:30 every morning. 😅 I definitely do not miss having to wake up at around 4-4:30 or the horribly cold winter mornings and scorching hot summer afternoon rides. Not to mention all the times I had to clean the bus, especially when kids got sick. 🤢

[@Brenda-f9y]

In the school district I grew up going to elementary school started at 9am and got out at 3:30pm, middle and high school started at 7:45am and got out at 2:45pm. We always had different lunch times for each grade. The schools had so many kids that there was no way you would fit all of the students in the lunchroom. I graduated with a class of 1,300. Also in high school some schools allow students to leave the school grounds for lunch, some students in high school left for the day at lunch either because they had enough credits for the year that they only needed to go half a day or some a trade school program for the last half of the day.

[@KARW37]

My US high school was not like this. In the 1980’s, we had cafeteria and bathroom fights. I was just glad when it was over.

[@AbbyGayleAnderson]

Yea kids didn’t always get along like this, things have changed for sure.

[@Bamagirl-uf8xn]

I went to a school in North Alabama that was K-12. There were 52 students in my graduating class. I lived in the country and the bus always stopped at the end of our driveway every morning and afternoon.

[@garycamara9955]

There were 750 graduates in my senior year. High school is 10, 11, 12th grades. Junior High is 7,8,9th grades. High School and Junior High are two different schools at different locations.

[@EugeniusTay]

Some schools wear uniforms. Some schools (usually private schools) require blazers. In my high schools (I went to two), we just wore what we wanted. It was a crappy fashion show every day.

[@SerenaSonoma]

I was sitting here blank faced at this video until he started talking to his teacher and looked so happy 😂 and now I’m just happy he’s happy to be here

[@PlantManC]

I didn’t have many kids wearing pajamas when I was in high school in the late nineties, but when I started college in fall of 99 we had a ton of people wearing them. Any 8am class was very casual as far as dress code.

[@JaneKaplun-js4lp]

I took a 7am class on Saturdays in college. It was required for the degree and for the students with a job this was our only option to take this class. The professor was so cool. The first thing he did was change the room so we would be closer to the coffee vending machines. He told us pajamas were acceptable. He also changed the starting time to 7:30.

[@dawn_68]

In high school we would get in trouble if we had our shoulders showing, too short of shorts. I was in trouble many times… now a days they wear crop tops to high school. I was baffled when I saw a picture of what my friends kid was going to school in

[@KevinWynsma]

Here in northern michigan, high school students go to school in the dark for almost the whole school year. And remember winter here, snow starts in November and might last into april. Right now sunrise is 8:20 and schools start at 8.

[@stefaniew3]

Where this school is, snow is around for the same time frame. It is one of the heaviest snow places in the US with an average of 206 inches a year 🥶

[@BubblePopper24-du8bb]

I’m here to see you freak out about our differences. So genuine. Thanks

[@ApocalypseSoldiers]

the school bus goes to your house if you're the only one in that area unless you were way off track the bus has to take, but if you had a few kids in an area you would have a central bus stop. the school district draws up the bus routes based on student addresses.

[@cac9089]

Buses stop at set locations for each route. The kids walk to the bus stop. The walk is usually less than a block. The instructor is making an exception to let him record his first day. No to pajamas. Most schools have a set dress code that the kids must follow. My school had 3 lunch periods. The rest of the students were in class. The weirdest lunch split their class half before lunch and half after lunch. The size of the school determines the variety of classes. Schools that have all 12 grades have a lot less selection. My class was about 450 people. We had lots of choices for classes.

[@abremacabre8868]

We don't do dinners at schools, mostly just lunch and maybe breakfast programs, depending on your class requirements you're usually dismissed to go home around 3-3:45 pm, lunches are done in shifts by grade and wing

[@krisdiperna3929]

In Great Britain, specifically England where Lewis is from, lunch is called dinner!

[@WhatsNextAmy]

In Jr High/ Middle school, we had lunch in the cafeteria and had an outside court yard to hang out. My high school we had a cafeteria could wander around or get in our cars and go out to eat. This was the early 80s in Miami.

[@casswatchesthings]

School start time depends on where you live in the US. Here it's 8 AM. Kids start arriving around 7:15 and wait to go to their homeroom. Buses pick kids up from their houses. Each year parents submit the address for their child if they'll ride the bus. The school makes routes for the buses to go by each student's home. If they live in a neighborhood with a lot of other students, a lot of times the kids will wait at the entrance for the bus to stop. Many schools still wouldn't allow recording except for special circumstances. Also, our school district banned pajamas a few years back because some students started wearing a certain pattern to signal that they were carrying drugs to sell and it became a big problem. So the district banned all pj's. If you were at my school where devious lick never died, there would be no soap dispenser or doors on the stalls and water would be spraying everywhere in the boy's bathroom. 😢

[@anthonyschmelzer2274]

13:58 bigger schools will stagger lunch periods and some schools will be open campus where you can leave during lunch.

[@FR33domLover]

I attended high school from 1957 to 1960 in Oakland, California (when it was still a very nice city to live in). Spent considerable vacation time in South Lake Tahoe (High Sierras, beautiful!). Oakland High School was much the same as the school in this video, though I didn't see any shop classes. We had wood shop, metal shop, auto shop and radio shop, as well as drafting. We also had a choice of either PE or (junior) ROTC (which included a rifle range -- there was no fear of guns back then). About half of us either lived close enough to walk to and from school, or used private transportation. We didn't have school busses, but the city busses gave students a break: we could buy "ticket books" (of tear-out tickets). We would drop one into the fare box for a ride. Each ticket was worth 7 cents -- a terrific deal even in those years. No uniforms, and an open campus. Sandwich shop across the street, but if you wanted something better, you could drive away for it. Just be back, parked (somewhere -- the school had no parking lot), and back in your next class on time.

[@trevoran100]

Ay bro, I’m here on the west coast in Cali. We have indoor schools out here fs, my high school was an outdoor school which is bothering me when I used to see these videos because they would say this is American high school but it was always indoor. Pretty much the case for many states I’ve been to they are indoor, but in my desert city they are out and I just wanted to put this out there that they are not all indoor and that is pertaining to all schools from preschool to college

[@revgurley]

Just asked, and neither hubby nor I took a yellow school bus. We had carpools with other student's parents, or in time, drove ourselves and our friends (I had a 4 person carpool to high school - me driving). The only time I've been on something that resembled a yellow bus was on trips to away football and basketball games. They'd fit the entire team plus cheerleaders on busses and haul us to some other school to play the game. I have such great memories of falling asleep on the bus on the way home while listening to early rap/hiphop (RunDMC, Beastie Boys, Slick Rick) because those were the cassettes the guys on the team had, and I'd borrow one.

[@ApocalypseSoldiers]

yes in the US most schools have 2 or 3 different lunch periods depending on your schedule and alot of juniors and seniors leave for lunch

[@ItsWhatYouThinkItIs]

Yes they have a list of all the students they have on their bus. Days before the first day of school they do a dry run first. Our high school has some fast food spots in the cafeteria, kinda like at the mall. We had cosmetology, auto shop, engineering and STEM, and a medical program. In texas

[@spurmarks]

At his first class, he mentioned that this was Summer School, hence the smaller amount of students. Good way to prepare for what's to come in Autumn (Fall), and learn to negotiate a new school,.

[@Niteowlette]

Sheesh, my friends and I walked to school and walked home! More like rushed home so that we wouldn't miss any of Dark Shadows, which came on at 3:30. 1967 - 1973. 😄 Lake Tahoe is definitely a high income area.

[@teenystudioflicks1635]

Same here! Loved Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid)!

[@diamondsellers4737]

I live in the US (North Carolina ) in my school district they changed the rules and we started wearing uniforms in the fourth grade all the way up to high school. Then I switched school districts my junior year ( 11th grade) so I didn’t have to wear uniforms anymore.

[@PureLuv-of9fu]

This is a typical American highschool. Most have nice campuses and lots of support from local businesses, alumni and parents💖. This exchange student seems so nice and I hope he enjoys his time in the US 🙏💖.

[@mremington8]

My High School we arrived an hour early in the AM for drivers education training as an extra activity before school starts gym class we all showered afterwards so we didn't stink the school had its own food court including a pizza hut and Subway after school we had football/ gridiron training home and do it again

[@quxnjay]

Lunch is usally staggered. My school was an academy school when I was going so we basically had five different schools that focused on different academy cores (a business school, hospitality school, a stem school, a med school, and an art skill but they ended up merging the business and hospitality school and adding an engineering school). Lunch was during our 3rd block (3rd class of the day which was the longest block) and the time you went depended on your school. For kids who had classes in other schools (ex. My school didn't have Spanish 3 so my Spanish 3 class was actually in the stem school) you'd go to the lunch of whatever school your class was in. For regular schools you'd just get assigned a lunch time like "A" lunch might be let's say 12:00-12:25PM or "B" lunch 12:30-12:55PM

[@CarlGorn]

All school busses in the U.S. run on pre-determined routes with stops within 1 block of registered students. The bus companies coordinate with the school districts to determine these routes, since part of registering for school includes listing your home address. This day was probably pre-arranged as a recording day for promo purposes, both for the school and the exchange program. You wouldn't be able to do this just any day. Since the Tahoe area is a _nice_ area of California, a lot of students are eating outside. That's why the hall itself isn't so busy. You can see some of the outdoor seating at 14:00. Plus, there are some schools that allow food delivery for lunch, and no doubt some kids take their lunch from home owing to special diets like vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, et cetera. So you wouldn't even need to go in the hall to get your food.

[@daily3310]

15:39 I used to think that they would get mixed up a lot when I first started highschool. But you come to realize that as a teenager almost everybody has a unique phone case

[@karmanwilmot1648]

15:21 My highschool didn't collect phones. But then again this was around 2015-2018, where we weren't as phone obsessed as the current highschool generation. Almost nobody used the phone in class. But since the current generation has been using them in class so much, the schools came to the conclusion that the phones now need to be collected.

[@dee-dee-kun7834]

Graduated in '02. My school started at 7:30am and didn't end until 4pm. I had 8 classes a day and there were three staggered lunch blocks. Some hallways were more crowded than others, though, and since graduating the school took on additional construction.

[@garycamara9955]

I drove my own car in Highschool. 56 Chevy BelAire two dr hdtp. Hot sbc, Black Tuk n Roll, Chrome wheels, Big and little tires. Also a Hurst shifter on a 3spd, with overdrive. A Sun tach on the column and Stewart Warner guages in the dash. The inside of the trunk was also upholstered in Tuk n Roll. There was a Student parking lot. We weren't allowed to drive at lunch, so usually someone would park off campus. That way we could drive to lunch. We would go to the PDQ drive in, or the Scarf and Barf( the pink shack)

[@isaacsiedentop2821]

Our busses have stops every couple blocks in town, In Alaska I had to walk almost 1/2 mile to the main road. In the country in Illinois they stopped at the end of the driveway. One of my classmates had a 1/2 mile driveway so every once in awhile if the bus driver was feeling nice, she would take him to his house. The best my driver in Alaska did was wait when a moose was blocking the road.

[@saraha7632]

So this is a fancy high school. Probably in a more well to do city. My high school was small and never had fresh food like that. Most of our classes were in portables. One class sized building, not attached to anything. They never had good temperature control and they usually smelled awful.

[@jenniferrowland1339]

This is in the Lake Tahoe area Northern California. I know its an expensive state to live in (I'm a native) but its worth it. And the Sierra Nevada mountains are amazing

[@stevecullum]

3:59 It all depends on the state and/or school district. Some buses stop at each house on their list while some stop at bus stops in communities. And some don’t even have school buses for high school (they walk, drive, or ride the city bus). And not all schools start at the same time either.

[@riptidegamer]

My high school had A and B lunch, so 9th grade and 10th grade lunch and 11th and 12th were one two different times. I guess it depends on the school here. Also, my school was not as clean as this one, but it was not that bad either.

[@BB-yh5rd]

Even when I went to 1st grade in 1976 it's so cool to get on the yellow school bus for the first time. I have 7 sons, youngest is 3, every single kid loves getting on the yellow school bus. Little kids even get excited when they just see one driving around. Our house is 2 blocks from the K-5 grade school. My boys all get annoyed they don't get to ride to school on a bus. By about 4th grade you get a little "too cool" for the bus and find creative ways to miss it so you can walk to school and screw around.

[@torrieshabbar6185]

Tahoe is literally the most beautiful place in California/Nevada. In my humble opinion. It is gorgeous all year! There is snow skiing in the winter and in the summer skiing on the lake. So much to do there. Hiking, camping, fishing, etc..❤❤❤❤❤

[@robinsmith2815]

The buses all have routes. They know where to stop to pick up students. And there are a lot of high schools that do have uniforms but none involve the type of uniform that you had.

[@KS-ip5xn]

mostly private schools are the ones with uniforms

[@ambassadorbullies6868]

It's VERY common for teens to wear pajamas to school.

[@rowanmayfair9249]

😮 Kids are so lucky now.

[@Ana-db4km]

And for parents to wear pajamas and sleepers to Walmart,,, yuck !!!

[@jentommyontheroad8089]

Thursday was our last day (elementary K-5) with students before winter break and it was pajama day! I teach about 45 min away from this school on the Nevada side. Most of our students walk to school as the district only provides transportation if students are more than a mile for elementary, more than 2 miles for middle and more than 3 for high school.

[@karenedwards6713]

The first two years in high school you have all your core classes...math, science, history, English. When I went to school the last two years were more into your electives, classes the student can pick. We had Cooking, nursing, business, welding/metals, transportation, and others. My husband learned how to weld in high school and he later got Certified in Welding and he did that for years. The school was set up to teach you a real job skill. I took business and my senior year I left at lunch and went to work. I had to work a minimum of 15 hours a week. Most weeks I worked a full forty counting weekends. I only had 4 classes my Senior year. I think they have changed how the schools are set up. My son went, but he had to have a lot of help because he has a type of Autism. It got so bad that he didn't finish, but that was ok. All they wanted to push was a 4 year college. They didn't care about kids whose future didn't include college. He got so discouraged that he just quit. He has the type of Autism where if he likes doing something..he is great at it. If he doesn't want to do it...its not getting done. He has a hard time making change, but he can take apart a engine and put it back together no problem. It's so funny how the Good Lord made everyone different, but kinda the same😊

[@renacotti_art]

That kind of faucet is usually just in the kitchen. I've never seen it in a bathroom. Schools have dress codes some are stricter than others but most usually say no pajamas, slippers, or obscene slogans/images on t-shirts. In bigger schools, there will be more than one lunch... sometimes up to 3.

[@IAmLucipurr]

school started for me at 7:20am. even though I lived a street away I would wake up at 5am to wallow around in my bed and shower and do make up and stuff... and I'd STILL be late nearly every day lmao. sometimes if I needed to copy someone's homework I'd get there at 6:45 to go to the cafeteria and find someone in class to get the worksheet answers from 😂. 12 years ago the year after I graduated they changed the start time to 8:20am and I was so upset and jealous cuz I had to get up so earlyyyy. and that sink is usually set up for the kitchen. I've never seen a faucet like that in a bathroom 😂 I also had to wear a uniform in school up until 8th grade. it was a button down and a kilt lol

[@karmanwilmot1648]

16:08 The classes I took in highschool was a couple math classes, physics, Greenhouse, Agriscience, Horticulture, Health class, Advanced Health class, a few English classes, a couple History classes, Ceramics, Advanced Ceramics, drawing class, advanced drawing class, Business class, and PE. The ones I got the most A's in were ceramics, health, and the plant classes. (Edit: The health classes I only got A's. If A+ was a thing in my school, I would've gotten it too😅. My math and science classes sucked. Got a lot of F's in them. I had really bad math and science teachers, most students failed because of them.😒. I hope they were fired.)

[@zandraabatsis6340]

Bus will come to either designated bus stops or to your house if you are more rural. There are so many students in schools, there are different lunch times to divide up the students. Very few schools have uniforms, most do not. My schools were no where near this nice but that was back in the 1980s.

[@CJWJR]

There are some schools here in America where students are requir3ed to wear uniforms, but I wasn't required to wear one at my high school. I've never seen a bus driver get out of the bus like that, and hold a stop sign up for a kid to cross the road. That must be something that only that particular school district or state does.

[@MariaE41283]

I went to school in a NYC private school. It was the largest Catholic high school in the USA. The school has been in existence for 150 years. The average amount of students per year (9th,10th,11th, 12th) between 700 and 800 students per year. We wore uniforms when I went and they wear them now. The current uniform is a polo shirt and black khaki pants. Each year gets their own colors. There have been many changes over the years going from typewriters to computers, phone booths to cell phones, better food in the cafeteria every year. We didn’t have school buses. We used NYC buses and trains to get to the school. School started at 8. If you traveled from far, you needed to calculate that to get in on time. Classes ended at 2:35pm. We had so many after school activities and sports. We even had our marching band match with our cheerleaders and color guard in the St. Patrick’s Day parade on 5th Ave in Manhattan.

[@SamLin-ss5zt]

I went to private school in ny we had the bus stop at every house and we’d show up late often because some of the moms would chat up the driver so her kid could get out of bed

[@rynellealara]

He is waking up super early because he has to take the school bus to school. School bus schedules typically try to schedule kids to arrive about 15-20 minutes before the start of actual school to account for any bad traffic. Also, depending on the school district and whether the community is rural or suburban, school buses may pick up students at or near their residences (nearest street corner) or at pre-assigned further school bus stops. The teacher doesn't officially start their day until the first bell rings, so they don't have to necessarily greet or talk to students until then. In some school districts, teachers may start their day 30 minutes before class starts. Yes, students may show up in their pajamas, but most schools have a dress code. However, even without a general dress code, most students want to show off their wardrobe since everyone else is dressing pretty cool. What you are seeing is a high school in Lake Tahoe/Truckee which is located at the border of Nevada and California. The school spaciousness is a result of a lot of available space, a healthy budget in the school district, and not a lot of permanent families. The Lake Tahoe/Truckee area is relatively rural compared to a suburban city that, historically, has a high influx of people only in the summers (for boating and swimming in Lake Tahoe proper) and winters (for nearby skiing). Most people didn't stay the whole year in Lake Tahoe or Truckee, so these cities would get a huge influx of tourist dollars and taxes and were able to sustain a relative healthy revenue stream. Truckee, specifically, became a magnet area for those in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento area to flock/move to during the pandemic because folks found themselves able to live anywhere with the rise of remote work,. However, too many people flocked to Truckee that rent prices there became the same as the Bay Area, and long-time locals hated the new influx of people who made their rent prices and rental availability worse. In addition, home prices also skyrocketed in the Truckee area as well as homes were being snatched up and bought by tech or biotech money, which squeezed out the standard, local home buyer.

[@garycamara9955]

School bus yellow is a specific color, its only used on school busses. Yes the school bus came to our house, but we were in the country, not in town. School starts around 8:00.

[@sgcrayna1357]

Answering some questions. Some schools will have specific locations for bus stops and some go to every house just what makes logistical sense. Generally schools start early in the US to make more time for after school activities ie sports. Paying or not paying for lunch is based on the average income of the families that go to the school at least in my state.

[@sgcrayna1357]

Also yes there are usually multiple lunch periods my school of 1200 had 4 lunch periods

[@honeyvsenpai]

We used to have sooo many choices for lunch at my school. Regular school lunch, hot subs, subway subs, salad bar, baked potato bar, dominoes pizza, chick fil a sandwiches. You could also buy food from the culinary class (normally whatever was cooked during their classes).

[@rachelprovenza1942]

Our schools in my Louisiana parish start at different times. Middle school is first at 7:30, elementary at 8 and high school at 8:30 am. They share buses.

[@razillie]

Very different experience from when I was in High School. It depends on the state you live in and even the district the school is located in. For my high school, we had 9 daily periods, each lasting about 45 minutes with a 15-minute homeroom between 3rd and 4th periods. Lunches were broken up into 3 or 4 periods and weren't divided by grade in my school. 4th period was the first lunch period and 7th period was the last. We had your average classes math, science, English, and social studies (history) as the main 4 but you also had to take a language and PE. Our weekly schedule was divided into 4 days that rotated. The days were set as A, B, C, and D. PE class was every other day so on your A and C days or B and D days. With the way it rotated, you sometimes had PE twice a week or three times a week depending on what letter day the week started on. You could also take extracurricular classes such as choir, band, orchestra, tech, art, culinary, sociology, psychology, etc. We started our days at around 7:24 am and ended at 2:15 pm. This was just my individual experience and for reference, I live in the Finger Lakes region of NY. My husband on the other hand grew up in the Southern Tier of NY and had a very different High School experience than me. Even though we lived in the same state while in High School each school's approach was different.

[@catherineburkehomes]

So the school buses stop at specific spots on a route at specific times. Each student eligible for school bus gets assigned to a specific bus. First round they pick up HS kids for a 6:45 arrival, 7am start. Second round of pickups is Middle School, 7:45am arrival, 8am start. Elementary & Kindergarten has an 8:45am arrival with a 9am start. Then the same idea for the let out time: 2:45, 3:45, 4:45. The idea is that since afterschool care is so expensive, the older kids can likely take care of the youngins until the parents get home somewhere between 5-7pm.

[@maruka1716]

This is a very nice school in a town with a higher than average income. It's also an area known for tourism, for outdoor recreation around the lake in the summer and for nearby ski resorts in the winter. Plenty of American schools have older furniture and less space. School buses have fixed stops, usually set to serve multiple houses or one big apartment building. In my town, the older students went to school 8:00 to 2:00 and the younger students 9:00 to 3:00, specifically because there weren't enough buses to take everyone at the same time. So they sent them around twice, once for the older students and then again for the younger ones. As for subjects, the subjects are usually fixed in the lower grades and more flexible later on. By the last year, "English" might be broken up into "Modern Literature," "Journalism," and perhaps other subjects based around reading and writing. Math might be broken up so that some students are doing calculus while others are still on trigonometry, even in the same year. Students who want to be lawyers and those who want to be engineers might have very similar schedules for the first ten years or so, but are likely to move apart in the last two as they follow their own interests.

[@caroladarling1002]

School buses will stop either at a bus stop when there is a lot of kids in a short distance or at a house if they pass by on the way to another stop.

[@DavidEckard]

So this video is filmed in lake Tahoe? That's a place you should put on your bucket list for places to visit in the States. The water's so clear you can see something like 70 ft down. More than 20 m.

[@LadyMutare]

School buses in some smaller districts have the bus come to your house at specific times, you sign up for it. In other areas it is a group waiting area.

[@verycutest]

There are a lot of types of school schedules in the US. My high school had staggered lunch schedules. There were 2000 + students at my school too. 1000 of which was my incoming freshman class. I went to the school that they filmed "10 Things I Hate About You." It has been renovated since the film though. My son's school has only about 600 students. They have block scheduling so they have 10 class periods. 1-4 Monday and Thursday. 5-8 Tuesday and Friday. 9-10 on Wednesday. Basically the schedules, classes offered and school sizes can all differ from regions, states, and even within the same cities.

[@MelNel5]

“Dinner Hall” made me think of Harry Potter. 🤣 We eat in cafeterias, or The Commons. Most Europeans are fascinated with our yellow school buses. It’s funny.

[@iorikomei]

Unless it's like a tiny school it's pretty much universal that schools have multiple different lunch periods, like when I was in H.S. there were three different ones that they divided the like 800 kids into; that lunchroom was very empty, like even with the ability to eat or hangout elsewhere the lunchroom in all the schools I went to was always packed, which was part of why I spent my lunch break sitting in empty hallways sitting and reading.

[@acefishon1359]

Phone in school what's that, lol I was in high-school in the 80s. Started at 8 am but for most part I showed up 2 hours late. In middle school I had catch the bus 6:15 am and didn't get home until 5 pm. Work in barns for 4 hours,shower ,eat ,gotta bed and start all over for 2 years.

[@lesterine77]

My daughters high school starts so early. We like in a country area and if she ride the bus in the morning she would have to be at the bus stop at 545 am. It's crazy.

[@nicholaskrakau8897]

Lewis my school started at 7 am until 3:15 pm 8 classes in a 7 hour periods. First day period 1 - 7, Day 2 period 8,2 - 7 Day 1,8,3 - 7...... I am sure your school served you fish fingers and custard at lunch. 😂

[@deenamiller360]

As for the bus stops, each driver is giving a route, lists of addresses, before school starts. You would then drive the route in your car timing the stops. In the state of SC, there must be .2 miles between stops so it could be at a house or intersection of 2 roads. But you will only find that 1/4 of high school students ride the bus. Another 1/4 are driven by their parents. And the rest drive themselves or ride with friends. All classes in the morning start and end at the same time. But when it comes to lunch, some go eat and others go to their next class and eat later. It is staggered so all 2500 students are not crammed in the dining hall at the same time. Seniors will sometimes go off campus to eat at a nearby fast food restaurant. My granddaughter’s high school offers a salad bar, quick food ( nuggets or burgers), sandwich bar, pizza bar, and a regular meal. They also offer a dessert bar and ice cream bar. As for phones, at my granddaughter’s school they are allowed to bring phones and none of her classes take them away, some actually allow them to use them unless talking a test.

[@denisewaterworth9303]

In many parts of California, they have gotten rid of any lockers. Books are picked up before school starts, kept at home, and school has another set in the classroom. Reduces wear and tear on the books and eliminates the need for students to need lockers where contraband can be hidden.

[@verlishdieverrukte6933]

That pair of black and white "pajamas" could have been something known as "chef's pants." They are extremely durable, and commonly water and stain proof. Some ppl have started wearing them as fashion.

[@Veganjohn]

I have seen (and used to ride in) yellow school buses all my life. In the US most (but not all) school buses are painted yellow. If you live in a really rural area your school bus may pick up/drop off at or very close to your house. When I took the bus I had to walk 6 blocks to get to the pick-up spot

[@vcwloves9864]

Some schools are "open campus" during lunch. This means that students can leave campus to eat lunch. However, yes, they block off lunch times. Some students have lunch at one time, and others at another. When I was in high school, I didn't have lunch time because I left school at 1 p.m. Students who work and are passing classes were able to substitute work hours for classes. My school didn't end until 4 p.m., so i got 3 hours per day off so that I can go to work.

[@bryandeviney4072]

School buses usually have a route, sometimes they'll have a stop and sometimes they'll stop right at the house. It really depends on where you live and how the school district works. A bus usually is only set for kids who live further out. If you live close enough to the school a bus won't come and you'd just have to walk, bike, or drive (depending on if you or your friend already has a drivers license.)

[@Victoriant1]

Lake Tahoe is absolutely gorgeous you should look it up. Lunch is done on rotation so that lines are quicker and seating is easier so you may have 1st lunch or 2nd lunch. Depending on your schedule that semester decides what rotation of lunch time you’re in. Plus there are usually more than one place to sit for lunch. There are outside patio seating areas as well etc School understands that life is very busy now a days and you and your parents need access to each other. For example your parents texting you to let you know your little brother is sick and if you could catch a ride home. Giving you time to source out a ride without it being at the last minute if you’re not a buss taker. Or hey can you go by your little sisters school and pick them up from school or so and so’s house after school because they can’t make it. Just things like that that you can make a quick check of your phone between classes. Plus your schedules and syllabus can be on your phone.

[@BobbyCYeah]

different times for lunch schedule, and a lot of students who drive to school go to eat off campus at a fast-food restaurant

[@granthosier8518]

This high school is actually in Truckee California. About 15 miles from Lake Tahoe. It sits at about 6,000-foot elevation in the Sieria Nevada Mountains and has a population of just under 20,000. This video was obviously taken before winter arrived. Right now, they are probably under about 3 feet of snow.

[@juliegore3380]

My school had a smoke hole… ‘85! 😊the buses usually drive the same route every year and you go there and wait.. it’s always on time!

[@tyramc32]

We have dedicated spots as school bus stops. Certain house that are further from the town/ city might pick you up at your house. But most kids have to walk a block or two to the bus stop.

[@sandramccune-amiethyst]

School bus routes differ depending on the school district (inner city vs suburban vs rural). Essentially, the bigger the town/city the more school buses have standard stops and routes like public transport buses. Conversely, the more rural the more likely that the bus drops the student off closer to home. In the most rural areas (typically farmlands) buses drop each student off in front of their individual homes because houses are so far apart.