Brit Reacts to Day in the Life at American Public High School

[@JoannDavi]

There are better high schools. There are worse high schools. This one seems a bit above the average.

[@timothydixon2545]

No this is about Average across to the rest of the United States when you’re not in a major city is about average, it’s not above average is not below average. This is about what the average school looks like. Sorry you didn’t get to go to one of those what I mean I’m just saying.

[@jaytm6719]

@@timothydixon2545Maybe it’s average for larger cities but it’s definitely not average for high schools across the US dude. My high school was the largest in our county in SouthEastern Ohio. Same school Joe Burrow, Cincinnati Bengals QB went too. And our school was no where near as large as this one.

[@Saturnnsaturn]

​@@timothydixon2545 definitely slightly above average, as a former military kid I feel like there's always one school like this in suburban areas that are slightly nicer and larger than the other surrounding schools with areas for extracurricular other high schools normally don't carry

[@timothydixon2545]

@@Saturnnsaturn trust me this is more than just a little above average I’m a military brat too and I’ve been to DOD schools here in the US and overseas and civilian schools I graduated from Glenbrook south in Illinois and we had an indoor Olympic sized pool I’ve been in above average schools trust me when I say

[@Lulabee2024]

@@timothydixon2545 NO it isn't. You sound like a snob.

[@romarobbins270]

An indoor track makes perfect sense for the area, considering the winters in the Chicago area. In other places, the track would be outside, often surrounding the football field.

[@MetroCSN]

There are two tracks, one indoor and one outdoor, and two separate seasons. The indoor track season in Illinois is from late January to end of March, second from April to May, with the second one the most famous. Many of the larger schools in the Chicago Area have "fieldhouses" that allow spring and fall sports to practice indoors or during inclement weather, like OPRF

[@mariahx9428]

nah ours was outside 😂 and i also live in the midwest

[@MetroCSN]

@@mariahx9428 Most of the North Suburban Chicago high schools have indoor and outdoor tracks. Some of them like Oak Park-River Forest have full fieldhouses.

[@catw6998]

@@romarobbins270 For shizzle ;).

[@catw6998]

@@mariahx9428 yea, like it’s crazy when some of those open sports arenas playing football. This bad storm delayed a game for, I think an hour. Wonder how many folks may have missed their rides home or paid B sitters twice? I realize it’s cheaper to go without but…. If it had been a covered dome, just saying.

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Many schools across America are the only high school in their town so the whole town supports them and many of the towns residents will go to the games.

[@lavluka6210]

i love that culture so much

[@gacaptain]

Yep. That’s the way it was at my high school. The whole flippin county supported them. The games were a big deal. Students loved to go to socialize with other students even the out of town visitors sometimes. And all the adult alumni of the school would show up cheering on too. It was a carnival like atmosphere around the concession stand where they would be serving hotdogs, hamburgers, popcorn and other treats. The home and visiting bands and cheerleaders would compete with each other during the game and at halftime. Just a great all around experience.

[@dianajemison105]

I never thought of that. I think we have 50 high schools in the city I live in. And, that's just the public high schools.

[@catw6998]

@@dianajemison105 For us, we had surrounding towns with HS, or who would we compete with? Although being on a B/B team, we did do some traveling.

[@SoniaAlese]

Theres like 8 highschools here with thousands of students and people still come out to the games.... they get such big crowds that they can't host at the highschools anymore and use the college stadium that's bigger! And local vendors come out and make money selling tacos and lemonades etc... so it isn't just small towns that get into it

[@karmanwilmot1648]

2:35 I live in Washington, my high school started at 7 Am. Every time I hear people from the UK say 8 Am for school is early, I weep inside.

[@dennissvitak5475]

US towns and cities are more spread out. You need the busses for three full cycles of students, coming and going. When the UK schools are within walking distance, then they can all start at the same time.

[@Kaylan0713]

omg yes!! My bus came at 6:30 am we arrived at school by 6:50 am and we had to be in Advisory (our first class of the day) by 7:15😭i would've given anything to start school at 8

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

If anything, more time after = more break.

[@Gennamel2]

Yep. Mine in both Maine and Washington state started at 7:15am.

[@HappyGothGal]

I had band before school, had to get there at 6am 😩

[@daveray44]

We had a german foreign exchange student stay with us for a year. He was pretty well shocked with high school here. Even the cafeteria was mind-blowing. He was pretty athletic and joined several sports teams. I thought he was going to cry his last day of school here

[@jimmyb.6272]

When I went to school, classes started at 7:30am

[@creinicke1000]

I'm assuming the school day did start earlier, but the time stamp was just for the first class after homeroom.

[@carlbeaver7112]

Yup. We got on the bus at O-dark thirty. The milkman hadn't even got out of bed yet.

[@briagolden1]

Yes, 7:15 am for me... Orlando FL.

[@the_dog_says_moo]

In Iowa in the 80s, we started at 825am

[@reverendphillipwaselik7467]

Yup.

[@Ameslan1]

Hey Thurston, just to let you know.. a class with AP in front of it means Advanced Placement for example his first class AP English means he is getting university credit while he is in high school. It is an honors class for students who are what are called above average student "smart" but also self driven and independent meaning self motivated. The AP classes are more intense than regular classes.

[@MetroCSN]

It is not automatic university credit. There is an AP test they must pass, but it is the top level of multi-level class offerings in the subject.

[@pinktastic6159]

AP is just more challenging. International Baccalaureate classes count as college credits. My nephew did those and you can't start med school early, so he had to add a second major. Already fluent, he laughed and picked Spanish. Went to college in Spain. My neice did AP, scholarship to Harvard.

[@MetroCSN]

@@pinktastic6159 Depends on the school system. In the North Shore communities, all the AP classes are for college credits.

[@piedpiper5886]

Actually, you don’t get credit until you take the AP exam. In my school, we have AP, and Duel Credit classes. Duel credit classes count as 6.00 on a 4.00 scale. They are actual college classes for high school students. Duel credit classes are taught if they can get a PHd to come in and teach it. You can earn up to two years of college while still in high school through Duel Credit. AP classes are only 5.00, on a 4.00 scale, and are just advanced high school classes, where you may or may not receive college credit depending on exam results.

[@Zytroxy]

@@pinktastic6159AP counts as college credits depending on on the score you get on the exam

[@donnaoleske6804]

High school Friday night football games are so much fun! The stands they showed here were only the "home" side. There was another set of bleachers on the "away side". Most schools get a few thousand fans. Pretty much the whole school goes, it's a social event for the students. Our school had girls gym, boys gym (much larger), baseball field, soccer field, basketball courts outside, tennis courts, and an outside swimming pool. Me and my twin sister were cheerleaders and got to participate with the marching band. Best days of my life!

[@broncobra]

I remember back in the day - lol... I was the center for the high school football team. At halftime, I would swith into my band gear. I played tuba. Had a solo one time for a game, Teacups For Two? Anyway - back into the dressing room to get geared up for the game again. We were pretty good. Went to State playoffs. Fun fact, Jay Novacek was the QB. His dad was the coach. Jay went on to play for the Dallas Cowboys. You might remember him? He was in my class/grade.

[@christypriest30]

My high school stadium has a capacity of 11,249 spectators. But football is extremely big in the south and we were won Sports Illustrated and ESPNs contest on the best high school sports town in the US. Our nickname was always Winnersville USA

[@Demaenetus]

@broncobra, I remember him well. One of the best tight ends the Cowboys ever had.

[@broncobra]

@@Demaenetus Small town of 3400. Graduating class of 80 kids. 1981. Of course I knew him? lol. He went to Wyoming, because he thought he would have a better chance of standing out. It turned out to work out very well for him. 9th Grade until Senior year, he was the QB, I was the center. My brush with greatness? lol. I lived in Houston 12 years. I always wanted to at least go see the workouts? Never made it. Wish I would have.

[@broncobra]

It is sad how life works out sometimes? His wife shot herself.

[@Anibonita2000]

This was my high school. Oak Park and River Forest High School. In Oak Park. It's a well off school, financially. But not all schools have the money to have the same things we did. It's not really a new school. It's about 150 years old now. But they do take pride and keep it up. OAk Park is a Suburb across the street from Chicago West side.

[@jacklewis5452]

The current building was built in 1907. Oak Park is a wealthy town but it takes on the feel of being in the city because its laid out on the same grid as Chicago. It is bordering the west side of Chicago which is one of those very high crime rate areas of Chicago.

[@Anibonita2000]

@@jacklewis5452 They do keep adding to the school and fixing it. When I was there I know they said it was over 100 years old. But maybe they meant the school itself, when it was still like one smaller building with the tunnel leading the the other part of it that was (I think) across the street. The tunnel is still there in the green room. But now it leads the the Main Auditorium (I believe). They used to tell us ghost stories about the tunnel when we had to go through it. Haha.

[@broncobra]

I'm from Nebraska. In the early 80's I had a couple buddies from Oak Lawn. We all went to WYO Tech in Wyoming. We roomed together, and later got hired by the same company down in Houston. I always called it Illinoisy? Drove them nuts, lol. Good times.

[@AltAlt-ov5em]

You hired companies from us Texas I can dang tel you it was a lot of money since we had to pay two much for a kitchen renovation that was over 400 k for a kitchen

[@JIMBEARRI]

It is a big school. It's located in a fairly wealthy suburb of Chicago. The school buildings and athletic fields cover 5 city blocks, and even include a multi-level parking garage. The original building in the complex was built in 1907 in "Prairie Style" architecture

[@RyanESmail]

Preschool: 4-5 year olds Kindergarten: 5 - 6 Elementary: 6 -12 years old Middle school: 11-14 High school: 13-18 years old

[@wilhelm-z4t]

I've also heard elementary school called primary school.

[@MariJeanMelissa]

@@wilhelm-z4t primary = k-2

[@MariJeanMelissa]

pre-k = 3 & 4

[@AC-ni4gt]

Are there even 13 year olds in a high school?

[@nataliewalters2759]

Preschool is 3-4 year olds Kindergarten is 5-6 Elementary is 1st year through 5th year so 6 up to 11 years of age . Middle school are ages 11-14 High school is 14-18 ( foot ball , basket ball huge games )

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

There’s a TV show called ‘Friday Night Lights’ about high school football inspired by a book of the same name. Friday night lights refers to the stadium lights during the games. High school and junior high football teams typically play or Fridays. Of course the TV show is set in a Texas town that takes high school football way too seriously, for most schools like this one the games are fun but fairly laidback community events. Gym can refer to PE class, and apparently he took ping pong. Or the gymnasium where indoor sports and most indoor PE classes take place, or even the whole associated area like locker rooms etc. They have an indoor track because Chicago winters are very cold and have lots of snow.

[@vivienneclarke2421]

It was an excellent movie before it was a series. I saw the movie,which then inspired me to read the book. I've never seen any of the series tho....

[@Maredie1]

Went to Permian. It was nuts. Game days were wild, homecoming not much classwork done. Cheerleaders wearing these massive homecoming mums that went over their shoulder. Seems like the entire town showed up.

[@janfitzgerald3615]

Oak Park and River Forest High School is in an upper class neighborhood of Chicago named Oak Park, so they have the tax base to support really nice schools. This school has a “field house” where all the sports equipment, etc contained, so indoor track, basketball courts, racquet sports, but it also has outdoor baseball, football, soccer and track. It’s quite cold and snowy during the winter in the Chicago area, so indoor sports is necessary. High school football games are usually held on Friday nights and is a big deal. There was even a television drama titled “Friday Night Lights”, a reference to the lights on the field. Since his sister is a freshman “ninth grade” she’s probably on the junior varsity team, they play before the varsity team, which is generally older students, like juniors and seniors. He’s part of the school yearbook class, the name of the yearbook is the “Tabula” and they work on it almost all year. so that’s why he was watching and photographing the football coach speaking to the team.

[@rbtsubs]

And John Hughes centered many of his movies there

[@lydiaedwards8100]

In my county, our schools are funded by the county. ( We are the 5th largest school district in the USA) Each neighborhood has the same budget for its schools, and any parent can request that their children be enrolled in ANY public school. Of course, some schools have wealthy PTAs , so they can add some special activities or programs. Less affluent neighborhoods often have schools whose staff will write grant proposals to private companies or prominent individuals or requests for additional funding from the state or federal government to provide extras for their students. ❤

[@rebeccadavis3522]

When I went to high school back in the day, we had six classes each day at 55 minutes each, 30 minute lunch, and our first class started at 7:10 am and school was over at 2:10 pm. If you had to stay after school for detention or extra help, it ended at 3:35 pm. Any sports practices would start at 3:35 pm and end around 5:30 or 6:30 pm.

[@kathy5hoech391]

1st class in the morning can be marching band. Outside, on the wet(from dew), grass.

[@MissJojo7682]

I'm in southeast Texas, and my kids' high school begins at 7:15am.

[@ARenae1]

ArkLaTex here .. 7:45-3:50 M-T

[@dangauldin6497]

715am is when my HS started as well here in the st louis area. But being out by 230 was always nice!

[@andiross3176]

Texan here. When I was in high school, like eleventy billion years ago, our graduating class was over 1000 kids. And Friday night football games are a huge deal! We have high school stadiums (for the entire school district to use) that cost millions of dollars to build and can seat 10s of thousands of people. And usually both sides (home and away) are packed. If you haven’t seen the movie Friday Night Lights, put it on your list to watch!

[@cygnusx-3217]

Oak Park is an affluent suburb of Chicago. Most inner city Chicago high schools do not look like this.

[@Ojisan642]

Most of America is not inner city Chicago.

[@ThePhillyspade]

@@Ojisan642most high schools are not in a affluent big city suburbs, including inner city and rural schools…let’s be real 😒

[@Ojisan642]

@@ThePhillyspade 55% of Americans live in suburbs. Some richer some poorer. This is in the middle.

[@ThePhillyspade]

@@Ojisan642 meaning? Ok 52% of Americans labeled themselves as living in the suburbs on the census (not assigned by an agency) but there is no true definition of the suburbs (according to the census where you got those numbers from) but what is defined is cities Metro area where 82%of Americans live. Oak park is an affluent suburb/township not the middle , own police, mayor ; Again, the majority of American schools is not like this, read the comments of the kids that went there telling you this, not far from Ferris Beuller suburbs

[@pinktastic6159]

They don't destroy things. Inner city schools get more money per student than wealthier areas but they destroy things and fight. Baltimore is one of the worst something like 9% of middle school kids can do grade level math. There's a lot of articles about how bad the schools are. Teachers are quitting because kids are so awful. Stop giving kids iPads, teach them to read.

[@kittyplay9410]

High School football is BIG stuff in the US. There was even a TV show about it called "Friday Night Lights". You'll have the cheerleaders and marching band out there on the field too. We have "Homecoming" games which are usually between your biggest rival school, and there will be a dance afterward and a crowning of the Homecoming Queen and King. It is a big deal. We have elementary school, usually grades Kindergarden to grade 4, middle school which is grades 5-8, and high schools which are grades 9-12. People start getting serious about sports during the upper middle years, like 7th & 8th grade.

[@Maredie1]

Went to Permian, at Thanksgiving i was with my mom and remembering how horrifically embarrassing to go to football games with her because she's so kind hearted if the panthers were wiping the floor (usually) with their opponents, she'd start cheering for the other team. Thought we were gonna get thrown off the stands. 😂 it's *serious* business in Odessa, and i was a book nerd.

[@geminiqueen7388]

2:50 most schools start around 7am- 3pm

[@casketman14]

Mine was 7am

[@ronsontag6841]

Back in the day, my HS classes started at 8:20 Am to 3.20 PM with 8 periods of 45 minutes each. PE or Gym was mandatory 2-3 days per week.

[@toodlescae]

We had to have P.E. every day in the 70's. It was boring when you can't participate because of a disability.

[@LoyaFrostwind]

We had P.E. everyday, but it was only required for the first 2 years.

[@anthonysalomone3698]

Sports are an important for junior high and high school. Games get lots of press and attendance. Some high school games are on a special TV station and are reported on during the local news programs.

[@haagatha]

High school football is the training ground for college football, it's huge. Even middle schools have football teams and cheerleaders. All the high schools in my area, Houston suburbs, have pools. Swim teams are popular around here. Most neighborhoods have their own swim teams. High schools start at 7:30am

[@redram6080]

There's a reason US constantly wins gold metals at the Olympics when it comes to swimming (and many other sports aswell).

[@shelleynull6532]

So in Southern California you don't see that many schools with indoor halls and tracks ever and that's because it doesn't snow. In Chicago their weather is very humid and hot parts of the year and lots of snow so it makes sense. Also the football games at my kids high school were played at a college football feild. They are huge events. With the entire marching band and all of it.

[@shelleynull6532]

Also many seniors have zero period so school starts at 7:00 am

[@stischer47]

Advisory is what we called Homeroom. It was where we met before First Period for roll call, announcements, and get ready for the day. As for the facilities, it depends on the school, the district, the city.

[@aidenroqz]

To us Gym class is PE to Europeans and other countries. Not all schools have an indoor track, but depending on the climate, if your school is in an area where it gets cold and/or it snows, they're more likely to have an indoor track, apart from the usual outdoor track. I went to school in NYC, we had an indoor track above the basketball gym. When there were basketball games, apart from the normal bleachers, we would watch the game from up on the track, it was nice tbh. Depending on how cold it is, and if it's not raining or snowing, we could've still had PE outdoors, but if it was too cold, we would most likely stay inside. We also had an indoor pool, so a lot of swimming meets were held at my school.

[@Texbec]

All sports are generally kept in one section of the school. The music you heard when he was going to the gym was more than likely the school band, also usually kept close to the sports area so it doesn't bother other classes. And games like this start in middle school. For elementary age children there are generally little league teams. They are not connected to schools, and yes they do still draw crowds of friends and family that show up to support the children.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

Some schools start at 7. :00 a.m. some start at 7:30 and some start at 8:00... Some even start at 9:00 depending on whether they're a primary or elementary school, middle school or a high school /secondary It really depends on how big a school is versus how much money is spent by that county and state on their school system... Some schools are top notch and have all the things I can indoor gym and or tracked some even have pools... Whereas others just simply have a gymnasium where basketball can be played and then all of their sports are taking place outside... And it also depends on how many kids are in the territory and come to that school...

[@Wizardjudge]

Oak Park is a fairly affluent community, the schools and facilities are definitely on the higher end.

[@darrenoetinger7876]

Many schools have indoor pools as well, depending on the affluence of district.

[@m-jay356]

Remember College football recruits from Highschool so its taken serious there as well. for some that means a college scholorship

[@Mammedhyena]

8 am is light work my school in Texas started at 6:30

[@karenjayne24]

I am 75y/o and my public high school was very much like this one. The school has grown over the years and it continues to thrive and ranks among the top US schools academically. The community is a middle-class suburban area of Philadelphia. The house that my parents built when I was 4 y/o still looks beautiful. It is a great area for families to grow and live.

[@kelcor74]

High School started at 7:30 am for me and ended at 2:10 pm. We had 7 periods (classes) that we would switch through like he did throughout the day. Varsity football and basketball games typically start at 7:00 pm on Friday night and always have a good turn out of students and parents. Plus you have the cheerleaders and band playing at the games.

[@Fuphyter]

When I was in HS in the 70s, we had a juke box in the cafeteria. We also had a lean to made from wood, leaning against the school just outside the back door. It was for smoking weed. No teachers addressed it too.

[@Michelle-ce1qh]

We had one in my high school cafeteria as well. I graduated in 1991. We absolutely loved it. They used the quarters from it to fund different student activities during the year.

[@Angela-oz1vu]

I grew up 30 minutes south of San Francisco California. At our high school it's much different. We had long rectangular buildings, one story with out side hallways between them. Our lockers were outside on the exterior walls of the buildings. Our track was outside going around our football field. We had an outdoor swimming pool, and lots of field hockey and soccer fields. Our cafeteria was outside. We had a stage in the middle of the school in the middle of a grass area where we all sat on the grass and picniced for lunch while listening to bands play on stage and sometimes we had a local radio dj come play while we ate. We had a normal lunch line with lunch food, but also a salad bar and different windows for Pizza hut, Burger King, Taco Bell and other fast food places along with a desert bar. We could also walk home and eat thencome back to school. School started at 7:30am and ended at 2:30. We wore whatever we wanted and the sports were always fun games and packed with people.

[@frand9174]

In my city the gym is connected to the main academic building by walkways and passage ways, but it's a separate building, close to outdoor fields and facilities.

[@watermelonsaxophone6411]

This seems about right for a normal Highschool. I went to a poorer Highschool in Oregon, so my experience wasn’t nearly this nice, but that lunch food was like looking at a replica of what lunches looked like at my Highschool. Also being at Highschool sporting events is a big thing for the community. Many people who don’t even have kids go to the events

[@d2ndborn]

Tabula was the name of the school yearbook, Evry high school will have yearbook with all of the staff and student's photos and special class and sport photos. I it a custom to have your Friends and Teachers sign them. Most of the sports game are later in the day so parents and siblings and friends can come and watch.

[@pisces228]

I went to high school in a suburb of San Diego, CA. Our campus had many sigle-story buildings, so we got a lot of sun walking through campus between classes. We housed a creative and performing arts magnet school, so lots of talented students were on campus. School ran from 7:20 to 2:40, with six classes, a nutrition break, and a lunch period. There were a variety of school clubs, sports, and other activities to participate in. Friday night football games and gathering for pizza afterwards was very popular. I have fond memories of being with my friends mixed in with horrible memories of homework and tests. LOL

[@deanpreston3603]

Hi Thurs, Glad you enjoyed this video. This is very typical of an American High School except these days you will often see metal detectors and officers checking your bags before you get in the door. Very sad we have come to that. Loved your reaction. Great Job.

[@dwanemarsh4378]

I went to high school from '74 to '78 in south Texas. We had 350 students. I played football and track. We didn't have a baseball/softball team. Our football team won the Division 3 out of 4 yrs I played, and won the Texas State title once. You usually only play against other schools your same size, or close. e were considered a Class A school, which is one of the smallest. It goes all the way up to Class 5A, with thousands of students. I had a blast in high school, but some of the course we took, being from a rural, country area, would shock you. Such as FFA (Future Farmers of America), Ag (Agriculture) class, which was very fun, with welding, cutting torches, etc...

[@Anibonita2000]

The music in the hall is the OPRF Fight song.

[@vickiebabcock9951]

I have a grandson in highschool football, and two in baseball. I try to make all the home games. They're really a lot of fun to go to. You bring your portable seats that attach to the bleachers, sit back with a bag of popcorn, and enjoy the evening watching the game.

[@nolame100]

Yes, our school looked alot like this one!

[@portialancaster3442]

The football game in this video could have been shot in my high school football stadium in 1968, except we had a marching band and a hot dog stand. Very cool reaction video. Thanks for the memories. Go Team!

[@yugioht42]

My school was pretty well funded because of our status as a magnet high school. We had three gyms with different purposes. We had a regular gym for basketball and dodgeball, a gym that has an Olympic swimming pool we use for swim lessons but also the water polo team uses to practice. The third gym is hidden from the main school but it was very much new. It’s where the football players train and practice. We also had a football field and track. There is also a weightlifting room in the pool gym. Our science program was second to none as we were always allowed to ask questions and do experiments. We also had a world class physics lab for industrial physics and science based physics. Our business program was designed with real world applications in mind with businesspeople actually teaching us what works and what doesn’t in design. We also have a medical doctor teaching anatomy and is charge of the medical rescue team who responds to emergencies on campus with a team of student doctors in training. They are also at every game making sure players get off the field in one piece. Chicago has a medical program designed around the cook county general hospital which specializes in emergency medicine aka trauma aka A&E. They are world class doctors in the making. They also have great business education programs too.

[@RamblingRose08]

I'm in Northern California and went to school in the 90s. This looks pretty standard for my area. When i grew up your first sports teams were through the city and you could choose baseball, soccer or football (the kid's versions). Then when you hit Jr High (11 yrs old for us) you could quit the city teams and join the school teams (same 3 sports, plus swim team and tennis). Baseball and soccer games were right after school and parents and some classmates would attend. Football games were Friday night and family, classmates and the whole town would attend. Sometimes there would be a school dance afterwards.

[@kraven4444]

Damn Bro I thought only the weather was depressing in England. But it sounds like Childhood is too.

[@coletripp4814]

funny!

[@flarethedragon]

the gym at 5:30 looks very similar to the 'old' gym at my high school, where 95% of the PE classes were held. we also had a weight room, track, football, baseball, and soccer fields surrounding the school. a new theatre and gym were built shortly before my year started there, but it was rarely used for normal classes. we also had several shops, including woodworking, metalworking, automotive, Agriculture, etc. as well as a greenhouse. even so, we only had around 3-400 students across all four years that were attending.

[@JeanneStratton]

Another sidenote, the USA is really big, and a while one state might have tropical weather, another might get deep snow and experience all four seasons dramatically. You will find a lot more indoor accommodations for a multiple of sports in more severe climate - impacted areas. Like in Minnesota, next to Canada, where you get the deep snow, you’re going to have an indoor pool and a lot of indoor accommodations. Track, etc. It’s just logical. In a milder climate, all track and field, etc., is based outside. Most often the pool will be outside.

[@MaidenThailand]

There will be a number of people saying that this is a particularly rich school, but I will echo something I saw another comment say --- this one is just a bit above average. The gym facilities seem upscale, especially the indoor track+basketball court, but you have to keep in mind that the weather in that area leans towards really cold, so compensating in that way makes sense for a school in a decently-funded district. Other than the athletics aspect, I'd say the school is clean but otherwise unremarkable; the classrooms look a little small, and the meal options for lunch are typical. Their computers were nice, but 'nice' in that way of 'to standard' rather than 'sub-standard' that you would find in poorer schools. You were surprised by the photoshoot area, but I think that's just cultural difference rather than a upscale vs lowscale thing; yearbooks and yearbook club/committee seems exclusive to the US, so it makes sense our schools would have 'fancy' photography equipment and schools in the UK wouldn't. This is just the 3rd or 4th time I've seen someone react to this video, and I'm a little irked by the many people that throw shade at the original creator for saying he goes to an average American high school. It's hard to declare what is and isn't 'average' since the US school system doesn't have a national or even state-wide standard, but instead has self-managing school districts (and so a school in Illinois will be very different than a school in Texas, and a school in Dallas won't be too much like one in Houston, either). Still, the one we see here is simply well-maintained, not really lavish at all.

[@rkat8326]

High-School football is called "Friday Night Lights," across the US, for a reason; popular in every town that has a team. Gives a town community pride, spirit, and at least something to do, if you're looking for a lively/rowdy atmosphere.

[@Kaizen_KyranTTV]

12:04 I always facepalm when people ask what the Tabula bit is about when it says yearbook right next to it

[@thseed7]

My High School started at 7:20 am and finished at 2:02 pm. Classes were 42 minutes with a couple of minutes to travel between. Gym and P.E. are interchangeable terms here. We had Basketball courts indoors that we used for a lot of activities and Baseball, Soccer, Football fields and the Running Track outdoors. Apple donates or sells a lot of tablets and computers to schools here. Think it's actually more for marketing/getting people hooked on their products. Most organized sports start between 5 and 10 years old here and everything gets crowds in attendance.

[@WHADATBOYNAMEIS]

middle & high school usually goes from 7:50am - 2:50pm

[@TrulyUnfortunate]

We had two gyms or two basketball courts. One of which was used specifically by members of the basketball teams. And of course two swimming pools. One for diving,we had diving platforms up to 10 meters. And the other for the Swim Team.

[@kraven4444]

Back when I went to school in the early 2000s we only had 4 "Lessons" or 4 subjects a day. 1.5 hours each. I can't imagine bouncing class to class every 45 minutes.

[@anthonyorsini]

I had something similar. We had "block scheduling" where we did 4 subjects one day and then the other 4 the next day so we could have meaningful engagement instead of popping in and out of 45 minute classes all day.

[@kraven4444]

@@anthonyorsini Same here we had "A day" and "B day" schedules... When I saw the 45 minute thing first thing I thought of was is that cause of the short attention span? If you have 8 classes that's like 7 or 8 breaks in between. probably 10 minutes each. Well over an hour in just brakes.

[@rafetizer]

My school had roughly 40 minute periods back in the 80's and 90's.

[@anthonyorsini]

@@kraven4444 probably onto something there. My middle school had the typical 45 minute periods and I really welcomed the change going to HS and having 90 minute periods. Especially as someone who generally used the last 10 minutes of a period to do my homework for the next one 😜

[@kraven4444]

@@anthonyorsini what’s homework? lol

[@DestinationMayhem]

GYM is PE, many high schools in the states have their own swimming pools, tennis and racquet facilities, field sports: football pitch, baseball diamond, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, sometimes tennis etc., and some even have American football stadiums and paramilitary obstacle courses for the (DoD sponsored) military J-ROTC programs (Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps - specific to a branch of the US military, e.g: Navy JROTC, Marines JROTC, Army JROTC, etc).

[@jaytm6719]

14:51 Elementary School brother.

[@jontastic]

High schools are like that, but most are smaller. As for the computers, I graduated in 1975. The only computer we had was a donated mainframe which was not working. But in university, I studied computer science. I used teletypes, card punch machines. As technology progressed, we had some crt screens, and higher speed printing terminals. At the time PCs were a long way off, home kit computers were available but were very primitive. I became an IT consultant, programmer, system administrator, network manager, supervisor, manager, database analyst, and head technical consultant for the largest healthcare organization in my area. Eventually the work I performed was used in medical research, improving the healthcare of over 8,000,000 patients. One system decreased errors, reduced doctor workload, while improving the healthcare scores of our patients, saving over nine million dollars as well. So what a high school provides doesn’t always matter. What matters is curiosity.

[@catw6998]

I graduated from HS in ‘76. I think classes, for the most part were broken down to 8, and 2:30 pm was the end of the day, well, for me it was. It all depended on the classes that you opted for each year. Some may have had shorter days. Some students walked or took the bus, it depended for the most part on how far you lived from the school. On really nice days, I rode my bike. When my family lived in the city, my brother and I walked or had our Mom drop/pick us up. Depended on how she felt that day, I guess. In the warmer months, it wasn’t bad walking. We used to check to see how much money we had on the way home. If we had enough, we’d stop at Abbott’s Custard Stand. Back to our HS days , suburbia. We used to go to quite a few football games. I participated in a few clubs, Audio visual, Spanish, and the yearbook. Also intramural- high jumping or pole vaulting. I tried uneven bars, Horse, and parallel bars. I wasn’t so good with the last 3 though. Did some swimming. I was good enough to go in the deep end but not that great doing fancy dives or on high dives. Some years much later after joining military, I had thought before hand of getting into Coast Guard but there was an issue that would prevent me for going too far in the waters. Oh Pooh, ‘cuz I really wanted to save people. Oh, computers. Early 70’s, nothing like what we’re currently seeing and only certain students in the higher placed Math were able to use them.

[@jontastic]

@@catw6998 yeah I am at the low end of genius. Could have joined MENSA but it seems lame to be in it.

[@Trillys7]

This is a very well funded school in a pretty wealthy suburb of Chicago. Most schools are not this nice.

[@MetroCSN]

I work for the wealthiest high school in Illinois and we have the most class offerings and sports teams than any other school in the state. We just spent something like $100 million for a new partial gymnasium rebuild. Since funding in Illinois is based on property taxes to a great extent, it is a case of the rich have facilities and faculty better than some colleges, there is a wide variance in educational opportunity, need, and facilities from district to district.

[@pinktastic6159]

Rich schools mean their parents tax dollars fund lower income schools. That's how it works.

[@MetroCSN]

@@pinktastic6159 That is not how it really works, since it is local property taxes, made to fund their own schools and programs, unequitable though it may be.

[@Purpless_ON]

I went to a HS in rural TX population of 2,500 while it was smaller, we had everything shown in this video. granted the median household income was 50,000$

[@MetroCSN]

@@Purpless_ON The high school that I work for is the wealthiest in Illinois and the communities are among the wealthiest in the nation. Average household income is about $850,000, house prices are now $1,000,000.

[@tinahairston6383]

P.E. is gym and it's a required class. Preschool, elementary school, middle school, jr. high school and high school are the various breakdowns of school systems. My elementary school school is now a preschool. My middle school is now an elementary school. My jr. high is now a specialty school. Sports are started as early as elementary school in after school programs. I have a friend who's son is almost 8 and he plays basketball after school. His older sister who is almost 14 plays softball but also does band class. So extracurricular activities (football, basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, marching band, etc) are just a way of life in US schools.

[@Mark-id8ff]

Typical suburban U.S. high school

[@PEPPER2323]

We had a indoor pool. For swimming meets the pool had 2000 seating. Every student had to have 3 months of swimming each year. You always had 45 minutes of a sport each day during school. Then take a shower before your next class. We had an indoor track as well.

[@neonoires]

In a lot of places in America, especially in the South where I grew up high school started at 8:45 AM. We'd have 15 minutes of home room and then the official first period would start at 9 AM.

[@WHADATBOYNAMEIS]

sports are huge in america regardless of level. my middle school & high school had gigantic stadiums. game days and spirit weeks are serious business

[@johnslight7149]

While a lot of the things in this high school are common, Oak Park is an affluent suburb of Chicago. High schools in rural America are quite different. American schools are divided into (1) elementary school k-5 (2) middle school 6-8 (3) high school 9-12 [Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior]

[@Can_ix]

4:00 advisory is like a "study hall" period. at my school, we have grade checks and things that prepare you for post high-school, having mental health lessons, lockdown procedures, etc. other days, it's a "study time" period. my school uses an online pass system to go to other classes for makeup work, help on assignments, etc. also, was that CNN 10 I saw?

[@matthewedelstein7851]

it's a pretty normal American suburban high school in a middle class neighborhood. sports are huge in the US at every level.

[@sookiesterley2467]

I live in Wichita Falls, TX. This year, they closed down three high schools and created two new ones with the same blueprints on opposite sides of town. They're called Legacy and Memorial. I'm going to be starting my second semester as a sophomore at Memorial High School next year. You should check it out sometime. It has many windows. Like floor to ceiling windows.

[@AbigailGerlach-zt1sh]

My high school starts at 7:40. They used to start at 7:05. An indoor track is necessary if five months a year the temperatures are around 0° daily. Outdoor tracks are more usual. High school football is huge in the U.S. A yearbook is a publication basically made up of the pictures recording the school year. Football games will usually be Friday nights or Saturday during the day. They may have a freshman team, a junior varsity team, and then the varsity team. They each play weekly. Kids start playing peewee football at about age 5. Elementary school, middle school, high school and college all have their teams.

[@ljayeweareeveryone.8636]

Yes, this is what most high schools in America are like. I'm from rural Kentucky and my school is similar in many ways. His statement about American school breakfasts and lunches being unhealthy isn't true. Elementary (1-5) had a scheduled daily menu plan for the week. That is given out every Friday to parents for the next week. So, they can decide whether to pack their kids' food in case of specific dietary needs or allergies. Our middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) had several different choices for breakfast & lunches with drinks and fruits. The options are listed below. Drinks: White & chocolate milk (whole, 2%, or skim), apple, orange, grape, or pineapple juice, and orange drink. Fruit: oranges, apples, bananas, and apple sauce We also had vending machines for snacks and sodas/pop available in the lunch room and break areas. BREAKFAST LINE 1) Scrambled eggs with bacon/sausage and toast/muffin. A side of grape, strawberry, or mixed jelly and choice of drink and fruit. LINE 2) Oatmeal with or without added fruit with toast/muffin or cereals that came in different brands. Choice of drink and fruit. LINE 3) Daily scheduled meal for the week. Ranged from breakfast pizza, breakfast burritos, waffles, pancakes etc. Choice of drink and fruit. LUNCH LINE 1) Hamburger/Cheeseburger or pizza with fries. drink and fruit LINE 2) Full Salad Bar. drink and fruit LINE 3) Daily scheduled meal for the week. This could range from grilled fish, chili, chicken, pot roast, burritos (beef/chicken/vegetable), tacos, etc. with drink and fruit SIDE DISHES: beans, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, potato salad, green beans, peas, steamed carrots, steamed broccoli, macaroni & cheese, etc. 9th grade=Freshman 10th grade=Sophomore 11th grade=Junior 12th grade=Senior

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

I worked for a local school district for 35 years, and the HS started at 7 30 or half seven as I believe you refer to it.

[@RhondaKennedy63]

Oh and also schools in the Midwest and the East Coast have indoor tracks because they get the heavy Winters whereas when I grew up in California we had mostly warm sunny weather so the swimming pools, the basketball courts, the volleyball & tennis courts etc ...They were all outside.

[@user-to2sc3cm6m]

In one building makes sense in Chicago because of the cold. But in my high school in the deep south--land is cheap and it never really gets cold enough to snow or anything... So our gymnastics area, track, soccer field, tennis court, basketball court, and dance studio were all in one general area but not in just one giant building.

[@PJL7095]

In USA, there’s elementary (1-5) middle (6-8) high (9-12). There’s junior varsity team who play first then varsity play later. Football is HUGE so playing varsity game in evening allows parents to go as well as alumni. Eat dinner first then go watch the game. Scores are sent off to local news who will show all area team matchup scores & news may pick a game or two as the weeks featured game then go there to get clips of it to show on tv that evening

[@anjoleeeickhoff6800]

American High Schools vary in size and therefore vary in resources and funding. I went to a High School of 600 students in a town of approximately 4000 residents. We had two gymnasiums which is rare to have two but one was older and original to the school and the 2nd gym was added in the early 1960’s but they were both usable still and the second one was in great condition. We had Gym/P.E. In the gym during winter weather and we had Gym/P.E. outside during warm weather. So track, flag football, field hockey, soccer, archery, golf, tennis, etc. during Fall and Spring and then basketball, volleyball, ping pong, 4-square, gymnastics, etc. during winter and our high school also bussed us to our local bowling alley to bowl for P.E. and they also bussed us to the next town to the skating rink to skate during P.E. Here in the States pretty much every school from Grade/Primary School, Jr. High/Middle School to High School have their own gymnasium no matter how small the school or town is. Sports of all kinds are big here. Mostly big in Jr. High/Middle School through High School. Our children went to a very small High School where their graduating class was only around 70 students but yet our High School has an indoor track and an outside track, soccer field, baseball field, softball field, football field, pole vaulting, long jump, broad jump, high jump, we have a bass fishing team, wrestling team, volleyball team, golf team, soccer team, track and field teams for girls and boys, and football team. Most students who play sports, play more than one sport at their school. We also have band that competes against other bands and performs a half time show at all of our home football games and they play and get the crowd going at all our home basketball games too. We have cheerleaders at all our football and basketball games whether they are home games or away games. Our Jr. High/Middle School also has the same sports usually or at the very least they will have basketball, volleyball, football and band. Most schools start early in the morning and go til 2:30-3:30pm each day. Most sports practices are right after school til about 6-6:30pm. If we have a game that’s a home game then we have time to go home after school and come back for game time at 6-6:30pm. If it’s an away game then sometimes we have to leave school early to get to the game and the school gives us a pass from our afternoon classes and then bus us to our away games along with the cheerleaders. Sometimes our away games are an hour away so by the time we play and pack up our gear it’s midnight by the time we get back to the school and then drive home. The school you were seeing here was in Chicago so I’m sure they don’t get bussed that far living in a huge city but us rural schools have to go quite a distance to play a competing school. You work on your homework on the bus ride there and if you have any time before the game or before the bus is ready to take you back to the school then you work on homework then too. Just because you got a pass from your afternoon classes to go compete does not give you a pass on that days homework in those classes. You have to get your homework ahead of leaving for your game and it has to be turned in the next day like everyone else. Also in America you have to have at least a C average on your classes to play sports and to continue playing sports or band. If at anytime your grade in even one class drops below a C then you are ineligible to practice or play until you bring your grade up so you have to be diligent about your studies while playing sports. Also in High School we have something called 0 Hour P.E. Gym/P.E. Is a required course in school and you get a grade for it just like your other classes. Students who play sports sometimes have a hard time fitting all of their mandatory classes plus the classes they want to take into their school day so High Schools sometimes offer 0 Hour P.E. to help any student who doesn’t have enough room for all their classes during the school day and it’s also for students who work in the early mornings to go straight to school after work and then get off school an hour earlier. So our schools “0 Hour P.E. ” started an hour before school each day. We had to be dressed out in our P.E. Clothes and in our seat on the bleachers for roll call each morning at 7am. So I got up each morning at 5:30am to take a shower, put my makeup on, dry my hair and curl it, work on a little homework that I didn’t have finished from the night before or studied some more for a test, drove to the school about 6:45am and started P.E. at 7am. Did P.E. til 8am when first bell rang to let us know regular school would be starting in 20 minutes. So then went down to the locker rooms under the gym floor to freshen up then had to get to first class before bell rang at 8:20am. School went until 3:20pm and during tennis season and basketball season I went straight to practice right after school and practiced til about 6-6:30pm then went home and worked on homework til about 11pm and got up and did the same thing the next day. I had a friend who worked at a bakery and she went to work at 2:30am each morning and she had 0 Hour P.E. so she came straight from work to P.E. then school all day then basketball practice but she did have 2 study halls instead of elective classes just so she could get her homework done before practice since she had to sleep after practice so she could go to work at 2:30am We also have a thing called Co-Op at our school so if you have a job outside the school that starts before your school day ends at 3:20pm, our school would let you have all your mandatory classes in the morning and you could leave after lunch to go to your job. Mostly kids who knew they were not going to college because either they couldn’t afford it or they were interested in the trades would choose co-op as it helped them make money if they were poor and it gave them a skill or it helped those wanting to go into the trades get some on the job work experience before they graduated. We also had a class called Building Trades that boys could take that would teach them all the ins and outs of building a house from the ground up or doing a whole house remodel. So every other year the school Building Trades class would select either an empty property or a derelict abandoned house and either build a new house or remodel the derelict house and the guys would work on it every day for the last 3 hours of school and on weekends. When complete they would sell the house and recoup their money and our town would have a nice house instead of an empty vacant lot or derelict ugly house sitting there rotting. It was a great program at our school and so many guys ended up going into construction or starting their own businesses after high school. We also had shop class, homemaking, Foods, FFA, FHA, Student Council, German, French and Spanish classes, Oral Communication’s, Debate, Art, Weightlifting, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Anatomy where we dissected frogs and cats. History, Economics, Consumer Education, Calculus, Trigonometry, Algebra, Geometry, English Literature, American Literature, Mythology, Creative Writing, Composition, Advanced Composition, Accounting, Typing, Shorthand, Business, Graphics, Graphic Design, and also Entrepreneurship where we made our own merchandise designs for our school, marketed them and sold them and then other businesses outside of school would hire us to design things for them which were only things appropriate for a High School school age class. High School keeps you hopping if you are active in school activities besides your regular classes or you have a job too. Oh I forgot our local Grade School kids get to go swimming at our local pool when school first starts each year in August as part of their P.E. time each day until the pool closes for the season. Living in a rural area can have its perks school wise.

[@PittieMom32]

My son started T-ball which is beginner baseball when he was 3. Both of my kids did sports from kindergarten on. During the school year it keeps parents running nonstop to practices, games, competitions, etc

[@jessilynneverlasting5079]

Starts at kindergarten, elementary school(primary), then middle school, high school (secondary), and onto college (university). Sports are worked into it all throughout the school levels depending on the area and resources

[@ashvanes484]

I'm a parent of teens, high schools in our area (New England) are pretty nice, and if one is over 40 or 50 yrs old, they often get rebuilt completely to modern safety standards, accessibility standards, technology. This is what happened in our town, so my kids are going to a 6 year old high school. It is WAY nicer than the high school I attended in a different region of the country. ETA: so a lot can depend on where you are in that cycle. sometimes some remodeling can help, but overall the plan is for a building to last 30 yrs. We don't have a lot of really old HS buildings for that reason. also, my kids use gym and PE as terms, but it's the same thing. And HS starts at 7:15 am, so kids are up around 6 am if they take the school bus.

[@SusanElizabethJonesArt]

Franklin HIgh started at 7:30am. Northside Jr High (middle school now) started at 8am, but I had to catch the bus at 6:30am. Yeah, I thought it was early, too. We had an indoor track in college, but not high school. Granted this was decades ago, but we didn't have tennis courts or pool or table tennis.... just football field, gym, and lots of flat land. I noticed all his classes are AP (Advanced placement). Never smart. And Tabula is the name of the annual Yearbook. It takes so much work to produce it, if you make the annual staff it takes up a complete period of the day. You aren't expected to do all the work after school, though there is a lot of that, too.

[@hunnybun2472]

For us, in San Antonio the school buses pick the kids up from 6- maybe 7 or 8 and for High school classes start at 8:40

[@sharonstaggers-moss8176]

Oak Park is a wealthy suburb outside of Chicago. That being said, it has state of the art equipment. Most high schools don't have an indoor running track that large. Newer schools do haveit so that students can run during the winters (especially in parts of the country that get really cold and lots of snow.)

[@StephanieJacobson-u1j]

Years ago, in the 60s, elementary school started 7am 2pm and 3pm. Junior High & High School 7 -3 Girls wore dresses back then.

[@nataliajoseph868]

I go to this school right now and I'm a senior. We do have an indoor track but we also have an outdoor track, the indoor track is in our fieldhouse which houses the varsity basketball and volleyball courts, advisory is a 15 minute period we have twice a week with the same people and teachers all four years just so we have a group of people throughout highschool. Our school is pretty average for the suburbs around Chicago and it isnt new its 150 years old but we keep doing renovations on it. We just redid the lower classmen cafeteria, our library and student resource center, and our football practice field and outside track, right now theyre redoing our stadium and athletic wing. Also Oak Park is a pretty wealthy suburb so we do have nice facilities, and we are one of the best school districts in Illinois, so we have really good academics and teachers. The bio teacher that let him film definitely isn't the norm at our school, we arent allowed to have our phones out for the most part but I had her as a teacher and she really is the sweetest lady ever. His last period of the day is yearbook, he is part of the graphic design team, there is also a writers side. Tabula makes the yearbook for the school so they get a lot of nice things like Macs because the yearbook is really important.

[@karend1577]

My high school was smaller than the others but we did have a football team and cheerleaders. The games were always done in the evening... I recall that my younger brother played in the little league baseball. That was fun to cheer for his team.

[@SoniaAlese]

Yes football is very popular. I'm in California and we don't have an indoor track, we don't get snow here like Chicago does so a lot of stuff is fine outside... the winters are around 55 F degrees during the daytime and it does not rain often. When it does rain we did an indoor gym game or activity instead. The summers are extremely hot though so I don't know how those football players aren't dying out there at the beginning of the season. It cools down at the end of October/beginning of November. I couldn't imagine having to workout and it's 105 degrees F outside! But late fall, winter and spring are awesome times of year to be outdoors. My school day was 8:30am-2pm when I was in high-school. It was nice getting out early =)

[@pd-ou1tg]

I've never seen tabula in my life of going to American schools. It was always called Yearbook Club (volunteer-basis afterschool club) or just Yearbook (a credit-bearing class during the school day). Not doubting that's the proper name for them and many other American students, but we just didn't use the term in any of the schools I went to from elementary through high schools.

[@AnnieDC304]

I would guess that was the name/title of their Oak Park yearbook, not a term for yearbooks in general.

[@pd-ou1tg]

@@AnnieDC304 That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

[@catw6998]

@@pd-ou1tg we had a yearbook club but went with a different name for the yearbook, ours was Trail Blazer. It may have changed names over the years, like the Native American Indian soundings, re - sports teams. I’m surprised that football KC Chiefs were able to keep theirs. Many HS’s had to change. I don’t think that sounds too bad up against logo and name of team in other locales. It did change in later years.

[@angelagarutti6118]

I lived urban poor but we ALWAYS had macs in our schools we had grocery stores were people saved their receipts, that would put money to whatever school they wanted, so if they spent like a $100 like maybe $10 a bit, the store would dedicate towards whatever schools district they wanted and that paid for the Mac computers. So yeah, even though I was in like a poor area, we always had very high-end computers. And even tablets that we got to take home

[@elizabethbertucci9313]

Our high schools begin at 7:05 and end at 2:35. We have uniforms in our parish. Yearbook (his last class) is a publication that covers the events of the year. Students design it, conduct interviews, take the photographs, write the copy and sell the books.

[@TrueLibraGirl]

I live in Virginia. We have a mixture of dress codes depending on the school district. Some public schools have no dress code at all, some wear mandatory uniforms & some give students the option to wear street clothes or uniforms (but it must be the designated colors/styles etc). One of my nieces (12 y.o) is currently in 6th grade (1st year of middle school). Last year she chose to wear uniforms Mon-Thurs & street clothes on Fridays or whenever they had anything special at school (assemblies, field trips, etc.) Now she attends a military prep type middle school (not for bad behavior.) They actually have to have a certain GPA, take a test, then be accepted to attend. She’s the 3rd member of our family to go there. It instills more discipline & the classes are a lot smaller than a normal middle school because they have approximately 200 kids in the whole school (3 grade levels).

[@JeanneStratton]

The more I see this the more I am absolutely certain this is a cold weather, snow climate area. It might even be Minnesota.! When I lived there as a teenager, they opened a brand new high school and it was so modern, it boggled the mind! It was like being at a brand new , highly polished university ! The music department, the science labs, were stellar! In Snow area’s, often they really go all- out. And the students are very polite, so that almost cinches itfor Minnesota.

[@pabloperez1169]

I grew up middle class in a middle class neighborhood and my high school had 2 gymnasiums, a natatorium and outdoor track along with the football stadium that sat around 10,000. The cafeteria had a McDonald's and a Subway along with the regular food the school cooked. I always assumed it was fairly common until a friend told me his high-school did not have restaurants in his. We had a student population of a little over 4,000 students.

[@WolfRoss]

Southern California the PE is mostly outside. There was a gym for some activities. Chicago is very cold during the winter so it is more inside.

[@reaper1955]

I live in Idaho,and currently attend a school in one of the most underfunded school districts in the US. This is one of the nicest highschools ive ever seen. The biggest school in my state doesnt even get close to comparing to this. I think that in general most schools that are in a well funded and populated area are well kept.

[@CaseyinTexas]

In Texas, Friday night are reserved for high school football, Saturday is college football and Sunday is the NFL. College scouts from small and large school are mainstays at Friday night games looking for kids who may qualify to try out collegiate teams. If the kid proves to be a superior player, he could even get s full ride scholarship.

[@Wendy_Blank]

High School Football in America is its own culture "Friday Night Lights". If memory serves me correctly a tv series was even made about it at one point. Depending on where you live within the USA may drive the level of attendance and interaction. However, as someone that experienced 7 different high schools during my grade 9-12th grade years, from California to Massachusetts and 5 states in between. During that time period, high school football was a highlight of social interaction and school pride. It's an event that brings the community together. Kindergarten through 6th grade is Elementary School, 7th & 8th Grade is Junior High School (However, in some locations in the USA; Grades 6, 7, 8 & 9 is considered "Middle School", but not all states follow this practice.), while grades 9-12 are High School. Again, this delineation of grade/school identification is region specific as far as what they "group" the grade levels into. I hope that helps a little bit.

[@courtneyperry82]

It all depends. In my hometown, junior high and high school start at 7:00-7:45 am. Elementary school starts @ 8:30-9:00 am. Junior and high school would end @2-2:30 pm, and elementary would end @3-3:30. Gym is another word for P.E. High school football is serious in the US. Each state has a different curriculum. In NC we would have PE in the 9 and 10th grade along with health class. It's not unusual to have the latest technology. Football games are held on Friday nights. Junior high games are held after school. During my senior year, we were allowed to leave for lunch. If we had the funds we go get fast food. If we didn't have the funds we would go to the house that was the closest and have sandwiches and chips there. Good times.

[@SmokeEater509]

Tabula is the name of the yearbook. Yearbooks are a book containing snapshots of student life throughout the year, as well as a photo directory of students, faculty, and staff for the year. A big part of high school culture is signing each other's yearbooks at the end of the year.

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In the US, sports start with little kids (ages 4-16) with what we call Little League sports. These are complete with coaches, referees, uniforms, community sponsors and fund raisers. By the time middle school comes around (ages 14-16), schools have Junior Varsity sports. Varsity level is for high school students. Only the best high school players get a position with a college/university team.