If A British Kid Went To An American Highschool | American Reacts

[@Susan-nm3sx]

This is hilarious, my best friend and his family, emigrated to the us, many years ago, his then seven year old, rode the yellow school bus for the first time, came home later that day, with a black eye and a pizza! 😂 he got picked on by two kids, kicked the crap out of them, and his teacher gave him a pizza for not grassing them up! 😂🖐🏻🇬🇧

[@CactusBrannigan]

Good lad for not grassing, hopefully he got his own back

[@stephenmillergbl]

This just isn't how it is in school it's how the British working class are with each other. Sarcasm is the highest form of wit.

[@vanman757]

But, the lowest form of humour... As the saying goes

[@ThEhObBiT1959]

I do love it so , my neighbour is more than half my age and male tried to bully me a female OAP, he complained to my husband because I was sarcastic towards him. I do love it so.

[@Si_Mondo]

​@@vanman757The saying is that it's the lowest form of wit, actually... it's also the quickest, I used to snap back!

[@Risktaker-1974]

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.” ― Oscar Wilde

[@straightenyourcrowntarot7598]

'Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence' Oscar Wilde.

[@Britishshadow]

My godson went to American school. Hated it. They made him sing the song, which he said was dumb, they said he was disrespecting the flag. He said they were overly confident on bs, and got very bored at school, as it was not stimulating. They were overly sensitive, never understood jokes. He was back in the U.K. the following year.

[@gerardflynn7382]

Did he have to stay back a year?

[@candice3559]

My sister went to a Canadian school when she was 11 ( 56 now) she aced every exam, she said she kept being prodded by the kids and told to talk.

[@martindunstan8043]

​@@candice3559I hope she wasn't 'prodded'by any teachers whilst there🤣👍

[@dannyking4138]

@@candice3559 what you mean like Liverpool FC was made by proddies

[@paulinezarzoso6181]

Im so glad your laughing most ppl from real America dont get the uk humour its it's normal very dry witty and a bit sarcastic.

[@grimlordgaming8904]

That's about spot on because us brits done f around and don't need guns to make people regret things

[@thedagz6460]

Yeah I think people tend to forget that we quite literally live in each others laps compared to most countries lol, like we learn pretty fast to either make jokes out of everything/everyone OR to be able to back your words up when needed as its only a matter of time when you're born a cheeky bastard 😂

[@harryjohnson9215]

Range Weapons on the streets are for those who don't know how to fight. And any melee weapon without knowledge of how to fight with it, is useless.

[@danielcharnock8975]

Facts

[@smurfsup8434]

As a Brit that works in schools - I can confirm that British kids are actually like this 😅

[@johannacarey9642]

Some ❤

[@Deadman7600.]

@@johannacarey9642all

[@TheCraigy83]

Maybe down south , up north we took our bb guns to school😂 played with them in the toilets at break time + after lunch break , nobody smoked

[@Deadman7600.]

@@TheCraigy83 I live up north and I can tell you, you are the exception.

[@TheCraigy83]

@@Deadman7600. Like half my class/ most the lads , i'm talking 97 - 98 '

[@shazzzabanazz4789]

I was Northern Irish kid in American summer school lol my accent alone was enough to keep people away

[@rogermoore9795]

That'd work in England too. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Medusa13579]

Every cloud eh !?

[@AndusDominae]

3:25 if Chad doesn't get his belly opened up in the next few seconds this isn't the slightest bit realistic. 🤣

[@7ChakrasTarot]

Lmao sick to joke but increasingly a reality a broken nose if not. 😅

[@rossicourvosi218]

Someone is getting poked up

[@residenteaglemedia6046]

Swiss cheese man be leaking like a sivve

[@WillH199019]

I'm from Scotland and went to college over in America. Yeah the "bottle of water" bit brings back memories 😂

[@jamieswain4888]

This is like glee meets kidulthood 😂

[@BritishguyDude-we3qd]

Some of the most brutal fights I've seen have been the ladies of our island.. they are savage they bite punch kick pull hair it's wild

[@7ChakrasTarot]

Super true from a UK teacher the girls are terrifying.

[@BritishguyDude-we3qd]

@7ChakrasTarot it's the dirty underhanded ways they fight more than anything else.. biologically the female of our species is designed to look after their offspring by any means necessary combine that with our personal history of being these tribes who were brutal and borderline savage the Romans in their first witness accounts of soldiers they were confused and terrified by us these battle hardened empirical warriors who conqoured most of Europe and had seen savagery, baught to fear by the mere sight of us when we were ready for conflict they were shocked at how violent we were and the woman were borderline feral creatures that would do anything without hesitation to mame and eviserate anyone or anything they deemed a threat to them or their pack the battle hardened Romans referred to them as force of supernatural more than people it makes you proud

[@gol4695]

Northern girls on a night out in December minus 4 No coat with hardly any clothes on Should be your first red flag

[@poppletop8331]

Girls!!! When my sister in law was in her 40s she went for a bouncer with her shoes in hands, (Don't mess with people in stilettos.) the bouncer hit her son (my nephew) before kicking him out of the nightclub. The lads crime was winking at the girl who was chatting with the bouncer. He wasn't in the bouncing job much longer after that, once everyone knew what had happened.

[@maybenot6075]

Thats london way, try schools up north they're way worse 😂

[@Xeroph-5]

Damn right, few years back someone got their eye scratched out in a fight. We don't fuck around

[@7ChakrasTarot]

Northface jackets would be involved lol lid game lol

[@suehead109]

Oh the days when kids from London sounded like they were from London instead of this ridiculous "gangsta" accent they use.

[@BAReactions]

it's a modern London accent due to a blend of cultures. accents evolve over time. It's like someone criticizing you for not speaking in Victorian English dialect.

[@suehead109]

@@BAReactions You make a fair point, regarding speech evolves over time, but in this case, it's my opinion that these kids are influenced by American culture. They seem to copy American slang and can someone please enlighten me as to the reason they insist on calling all police "Feds" what the heck is that about? This "new" accent sounds fake and contrived rather than something that changes gradually with time. imo it sounds utterly ridiculous, but I'm sure others disagree :0)

[@BAReactions]

@@suehead109 it's because you don't live in a working class multi cultural area of London. it's not fake, it's the modern street accent in multi cultural neighbourhoods. i think it seems more like cultural prejudice to me. did you think elvis was ripping off black culture with his version of rhythm and blues? and are brit pop bands all trying to be black because they make guitar music? this a slippery slope... And I guess all accent change over time literally by someone saying something a way that is not native to them (thus fake and contrived to you) but then more people adopt it and it becomes the norm. I dunno, happens to everything but seems to me you maybe look down on hip hop culture a little and make assumptions about it's culture you wouldn't about others. but then that's me making assumptions.

[@vaughanos5350]

Language evolves you don't clearly.

[@csav47]

​@@suehead109I find it funny how you used a word that has been used for over well over a decade, just showing how uncultured you are 😂

[@liontamer8961]

You earned yourself a life just for the video having ghetto kyote instrumental in the video.. that was the fucking beat back in the day🇬🇧👊😂

[@lovemepyt]

That part sent meee 🤣 getting stomped out to ghetto koyote is the picture of 2000s London school 😭🙌🏽

[@glowwurm9365]

So I’ll never forget my first term in a British School in West London (posh area) back in the late 90s (suspect it’s worse now). Witnessed a guy chasing another kid across the playground with a hammer and a knife, he threw the knife (missed the other kid) and somehow managed to drop the hammer in the chase. However when he caught up with the other kid he proceeded to crack the guy over the head with a brick he found once he’d caught up with him (more than once, lot of blood). Only stopped because a former pro rugby player PE teacher dragged him off the kid. It was at this point that I learned to keep my head down and avoid conflict😂

[@Plethorality]

Shizen. Thats awful.

[@ines_uk]

Wow. I have 3 boys going to 2 different schools here in west London and all are safe and haven’t really experienced any bullying or violence etc. You were quite unlucky. I think situation at schools have improved since the 90’s 😅 I can’t compare but never heard anyone here going through such experience.

[@jerrebrasfield4231]

We all have had mental cases in school.

[@starfire4628]

Are bless darling,🫡 I'm from North London, the kids in the 90s used to go from school to school and pick fight. I was never involved but the next day, I heard the whole thing of what happened to who and how. What you saw sounds easier than what I've heard. Imagine a whole school (or what seems like the whole school) going to another school to beat up someone (one person) just because of one person having disagreements with somebody,😮‍💨 not fight, disagreements😮‍💨 and this happened weekly, it got to the point that every Friday someone would ask whose getting beat up this weekend or which school is getting into a fight with ours this weekend🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ it didn't stop until my 9th year of secondary school, from 7 through to 9

[@tillywhim]

Sorry, but in the northwest in the 80s, the kid with the hammer, knife and brick would have been considered soft. If you were hard, you used your fists, your feet and your head. And that was just us girls. 😂😂😂

[@butchershoppequartet8690]

I'm in Kent in England, special needs teacher. I'm at the back of the class with my girl and ALL the class want my attention because I'm teaching. I'm engaged and I'm teaching.

[@lauramanton8144]

I’m from the north of England, even though we dint have the same British accent as this Londoner, we pretty much all act the same in this position 😂and we can fully go too far with a joke and probably make an American cry

[@RavenEsc]

I know this is all satire but... its not entirely inaccurate from the british side xD, Though not a majority I promise, tends to be the more public schools that you will most likely encounter that behavior, I can't speak for the american side though. But yeah, British humor is dark and dry, so if you try and say "its a joke" be prepared that we will go to dark places.

[@hendy643]

Public Schools are private, fee paying schools, Think Eton and Harrow, apart from in Scotland. They're called public schools because way back in the day, technically any member of the public could go to one. It's just that only the rich people could afford it. What you meant was State Schools. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

[@vaughanos5350]

​@hendy643 public school in England aren't private, the fact u call a public school private makes no sense whatsoever

[@hendy643]

@@vaughanos5350 Like it or not, that's how it is. The distinction is historic. Private schools are (or were) schools that had restricted entrance. E.g only the children of Lords, or Bishops or whatever. Public Schools are open to entry for any member of the public that can afford to pay the fees. State Schools are schools with no fees to the pupils or parents, funded by the Government.

[@RavenEsc]

@@hendy643 Where I grew up in the south, we call Public schools the ones where there are some fee's but generally the schools have your local bullies in, the kids on the street corners causing trouble. Private schools are prestige where all the kids in Uniforms and love to show off the fact they are in a Private school. *shrugs* regardless of what it says on the internet, this is just the on the ground regard for them.

[@hendy643]

@@RavenEsc Oh yes, but the common vernacular comes from not know the actual definitions. Where I am, most people call them private schools, but that's not what they are. The difference between the common usage and the proper usage, same as the word 'theory'.

[@easterdeer]

That was amazing. These guys are really talented! the bad American accents were just perfect 😂

[@weejackrussell]

It's one boy doing all the parts not several.

[@norfolkronin6307]

We've had to settle our scores with our fists and wits! Without the fear of guns in the background. But at the end of the day laughter is the greatest. Bless

[@deanrolph6912]

If the person is from Scotland they wont throw a punch, They always open with the Glasgow kiss.

[@aishageorge3056]

Head butt

[@kenpeacock69]

You mean a shot of heroin

[@andysadler6432]

im gen x we were more like a feral version of this, drinking ,drugs etc. i honestly dont think the standard american would last 5 mins in a uk comprehensive

[@gleadhill79]

Your laugh is so infectious...I just woke my mum up, it's 01:47 here in the UK! 😂🤣

[@karencooper3428]

This is accurate as far as the UK characters. I left school 38 years ago, and we had another nearby comprehensive, they used to finish the school day and term times at different times otherwise there was police and ambulances overloaded. The mother dead ting, I still go shit like that, we all do 😂😂. And that's another ting, the outcast is the mainstream here

[@spooky13bufu51]

dude you don't understand the brits in School banter go's hard. Most of what is said can be seen as an insult if you don't know what's happening Also You guys seem to forget we don't tend to hold back.. So telling us something like you mom died after you was done making fun just gives us more fuel to stoke the fire with. Which is why the saying "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can't ever hurt me." got big over here.

[@rayrayp4701]

I was 15 when princess Diana died. That same day my mate asked me what Diana stood for... I said idk. Mate says Died In A Nasty Accident

[@Si_Mondo]

​@rayrayp4701 I was 13, and was meeting with friends that day.... Princess Di jokes were being told immediately! 😂

[@rayrayp4701]

@Si_Mondo legit the jokes flew out hrs after her death. And don't get us wrong we Love Princess Di. And there was so many!

[@domdavis8091]

Im British bro and ill tell you straight we do go over the top way to much 😂😂😂

[@CIndy_The_Skull]

mate the mum bit is giving me flash-backs, way to accurate lmao. I was a horrible kid. but we all were. haha.

[@andytraill]

The reach for the knife before the dance battle 🤣

[@TheBubbafadass]

The immediate reply to "my mother died last year" should of been............ so that's why she didn't move much?

[@paulgreen758]

the funniest thing ive ever seen, but from a British point of view we cant comprehend the last part

[@pool-of-life]

I was. A British kid that went to both junior High and high school ( Brooklyn).. Average student in the UK, suddenly a braniac in the US system.. Top ( in year) in biology, geography, " shop" and science... Remiadial English though! !! Go figure... Crap at maths... Still am 😂😂😂

[@onecupof_tea]

What's 'shop'.

[@pool-of-life]

@@onecupof_tea Shop. I remember it being, what in the UK we'd call metal work / wood work or tech studies.....

[@Si_Mondo]

The GCSEs we do at 16 are the academic equivalent of the US High School diploma. That's why you were ahead; even our shitty state School system is better than theirs.

[@grahamwebb1367]

banter can go dark real quick it's true lol

[@Egamer-mc9648]

you should react to his video on americans going to british school

[@TruthTeller144]

As a Brit, I can confirm this starts in high school and never ends, got to take the banter peeps, we go hard, all the way,

[@chocolate-teapot]

Kinda accurate, when I was in highschool all we wanted to do was get high, fight and f**k.

[@hysterikole1]

I'm 52, that's still all I want.

[@mrskgiggles]

I’m 40 and this is still how I imagine it 😂

[@D00M3R-SK8]

the t-shirt on the head, when he plays a girl though :D

[@harryjohnson9215]

Bear in mind that in the UK we finish high school at 15/16

[@unboundmisfits1715]

Im british from Buckinghamshire and our dark humour is brutal whole class laughs and joins in, suck your mum is level 2 out of level 10 on things we say and sometimes we carry it on and make it worse, sometimes does get out of hand, i left school in 2015 and the way this dude is talking its called (chav) easily best slang words, everything went to shit 5 years ago with knife crime, i know someone who atabbed someone up for a packet of biscuits but us english dont fuck about, i think our music makes the statement

[@tillywhim]

I love it when you get a video that makes you laugh, I always end up giggling along too. 🤭🤗

[@nanapaula1031]

I’m a Brit mum believe me when I tell you my girls Say no more 😂

[@CyanideSunshines]

The acting 😂😂😂 brilliant 😂

[@JohntheLNERP2]

Reminds me of my old school absolute hell hole and there was this one American kid who was acting like he owned the place and he even mugged my mate a few time so it wasn't long until I gave him a proper British welcome 👊

[@richietwinz6824]

Johnny Carey is a legend over here in the UK, funny AF!!!

[@chsh1]

@10:39 Is that Natwest Pigs on the window sill !?

[@3SeveredHeads]

So funny 😂😂😂😂❤ the 'chad' video omg lol 🤣 Great reaction ❤

[@7ChakrasTarot]

Tea and crumpets without butter 😅❤

[@85stace85]

My son has that red jacket hes wearing, I told him he looked like an American highschooler when he bought it😂

[@ravenrisby]

I’m from the uk this is funny to watch his reactions to it if he was walking around here he’d been constantly laughing at us we don’t see the humour because we act different lol I lived in new York for sometime took a wile to know what crisps are 😅

[@billylewis7859]

Concrete domes - di Louis slippers £10 bag . Classic

[@D00M3R-SK8]

10:07 them piggie banks in the background there, are worth a ton of money now. I sold mine in like 95, and got like 100-300 quid a piece for them. They must be worth loads, now. You got them from Natwest building society for saving up cash. The Dad one must be worth a few grand, easy.

[@andreharris7211]

Went to a british military school in germany and we had some americans, most were well off middle class kids though. Usually did well in class. We also did some events with american schools in germany like science events. What i (and my teachers) observed is that the american kids were much more confident. They were much more slick doing the talks than we were, but more lacking in the substance of the science. I hate to think that school kids, especially in the uk, are this rough now. It is no badge of honour. I get that this is fiction though.

[@Si_Mondo]

They were that rough in the 90s.....

[@csiredbourn]

That made me howl laughing 😂

[@TheDrunkenJedi1]

We had an american kid start our school in north england, he said it was the hardest thing hes ever had to do, the sarcasm, insulting humor is on another level, we dont really do the 'cringe humor' we call eachother names all day, 'take the p*ss' out of eachother, dont take our selfs so serious, we had to apologise to him for calling him a c*nt and exsplain its normal here 🤣 i think as far as fist fighting goes we dont have many guns in the UK unless you have a licence so fist fights are a daily thing here, i dont think americans really get into fights because theres always that threat someone might pull a gun out, here its a daily thing 🤣

[@mrsmith374]

Good old British sense of humour, sarcasm is expected.

[@candice3559]

My sister went to a Canadian High school.. When she was 11 she's 56 now, they kept prodding her and telling her to talk...

[@pem...]

This made me chuckle 😅.... i had the same thing happen to me and I'd only started going to a school in Lincolnshire after moving from Yorkshire....not relevant but made me chuckle still😅

[@Nikki-yn7yv]

Absolutely relate to this I’m a Brit and went to school in the 80s in California ( northern in the mountains) grades 6,7,8 and part of 9. I thought I was getting my arse kicked on the first day with the biggest kid in school coming up to me in the hallway saying talk for me! Luckily all turned out okay

[@candice3559]

@@Nikki-yn7yv accents are fun aren't they.

[@candice3559]

@@Nikki-yn7yv I don't think brits are that interested because of our mixing pot. I had an online friend from cali for 4 yrs spoke to his friends acquaintances etc I soon got the gist that usa ers were in a bubble in the way that this massive country the people's accents are very similar even in larger distances compared to Britain. I'm in Staffordshire and can drive for 20 mins and the peoples firstly accents are very different and secondly their is a suppressed inner resentment about it. This reeks of some kind of psychological experiment surely. This poxy little island has some interesting phenomenoms. Diversity segregation no walls no where to go? Frustration? It's probably something to do with the lack of defense or elongated historical guilt, who knows. I'm probably jesting a bit, Because I'm fascinated with human psychology good and negative. Oh the other thing is that we are all being played. We deserve our stupidity.. It's motivational.

[@Nikki-yn7yv]

@@candice3559 lol I’m from Norfolk can you imagine 😂

[@mana3735]

That ending was a bit harsh, wasn't it? haha.

[@thymalo]

init wtf xD

[@antondp74]

Funny AF mate! 🤣🤣🤣

[@wayneanderton4953]

We don't play here in Britain

[@D00M3R-SK8]

I think it's just based on like what He has seen in movies and TV. I even commented on this OG video, when it came out, stating that most American high schools are nothing like "high school the musical" hahaha. He'd end up getting shot (I'm from UK, but know how rough the inner city schools are)

[@robinford4037]

Had a friend who went to America for 2 years. From 12 to 14 years old. The only thing I know is he was a demon when he had a basketball in his hands, unstoppable.

[@nubien9]

No lies were told 😎❤️💛💚🖤✊🏿🇯🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@William339Evans]

Many respects 🇯🇲 from 🇬🇧

[@BRITISH.STRUMMER]

😂 I used to love Johnny Carey, I feel like a lot of brits couldn't cope around so many yanks, but im aware it not like disney 😂

[@7ChakrasTarot]

Lol the roadgirl reaction to the head cheerleader 😅❤

[@oultonlee1]

Epic banter.

[@anitahargreaves9526]

Not seen you in ages, is this a new channel? Just subscribed.

[@scotmax8426]

fooooooooooook wow , the end was a bit darker than expected.. damn man. it must be bloody awful.

[@jazy13u]

Im from the UK and that bottle of water never gets old Americans say more funny tho.

[@loneranger4446]

Yeah, I'm English and went to high school in california in the late 80s.

[@D0G0FW4RRogue]

I’m British and as a kid I thought American highschool was all letterman jackets and muscle cars

[@gemmashannon9148]

This is hilarious 😂

[@7ChakrasTarot]

The thumbnail's hilarious. Should be a Northface jacket lmao

[@oddpoppetesq.3467]

13:20 oh hell yeah we always take it to the next level, but from Brit to Brit, we get if it's banter (Jokes, for the slow Americans out there 😉) and we kinda get if it's serious. It's out weird sense of humour, get with it or get gone 🤷

[@kts_beautyjournal9309]

That took a dark turn

[@Emineismaildesanchez]

You gotta come to London . Especially south London

[@Aubury]

Hmm, Some family moved to California, the pledge of allegiance rather hit the buffers at school, they were English, nothing to do with me. But they never came back.

[@billymechanic]

usa average I.Q 70 United Kingdom Average I.Q 100 say no more

[@Plethorality]

Seriously!!?? Only 70!!?? What can you do with only 70?

[@BRITISH.STRUMMER]

Welcome to the modern world, us, being an economically worse off country (even though our currency is worth more) has a better education system The funny thing is our education is shit n all

[@Medusa13579]

That's not true. 96 is considered to be educationally sub-normal. So 70 would be very deficienct, the whole country wouldn't be able to function.

[@billymechanic]

Seriously do you guys take everything you read to heart??? Its a joke with a twist on truth!.

[@BRITISH.STRUMMER]

@billymechanic I caught on mate dw

[@mortalwombat78]

He aint lying 😂😂

[@dannyking4138]

That’s actually how it would go

[@mortalwombat78]

My daughter said she was sitting on a bench and one girl came up to her and said MOVE 😂😂. She said she'd never moved so fast. The girl picked the whole bench and went away with it. The next day she waved at my daughter like nothing happened😂😂😂

[@7ChakrasTarot]

He's put so much effort into this and it's cathartic for how shit tv high school is. 😂❤

[@pilotmonkey-vp5ls]

Its all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits

[@AngelaVara-i4l]

I liked that.

[@Gilly9244]

Not gonna lie that’s how we all see you yanks 😂

[@irnbruboygamer3924]

ACCURATE JUST ACCURATE

[@irnbruboygamer3924]

i know cos im a brit

[@HalfDread87]

Stomping a man to ghetto kyote is mad lol

[@iancarter8050]

I did walter johnson high school in bethesda it was horrible the guys didnt like me because of my accent, the girls loved it though lol

[@emmanix6317]

The first one is so true in British schools with the bullies

[@vviewerv915]

This was funny 😂

[@7ChakrasTarot]

13:15 is what would actually be said 😅❤ its funny americans are shocked. Teachers have to listen to awfulness like this constantly and stop it obviously. But yrah I cant imagine US school kids saying it

[@emmalouisesutton565]

We women in the uk turn the air blue too 😂

[@jeffreymonks8507]

WOW too much cockney stuff for me. Only one part of the UK talks like that.

[@leew6091]

That got very dark. Hairdryer looked nowt like a gun though.

[@zeeo3147]

WHERE HAS YOUR FOOTBALL CHANNEL GONE???

[@mana3735]

Yeah...that's American high school in the movies.

[@adamjones7172]

How soft as shite is it in real life??

[@mana3735]

@@adamjones7172 D you really think a school in the Bronx or any other major US city is like that?

[@stevehaddon151]

​@@mana3735yep

[@goo-r1k]

Well duh.. he said his only intro to American school life is through Disney channel so of course it has a movie vibe. Secondly America writers, write the story's from THEIR experience nobody in Britain thinks 100% of school are like that. You proved OUR point, Americans hate when they are the butt of the joke.

[@mana3735]

@@goo-r1k I'm English, you plum.

[@7ChakrasTarot]

Okay but to the americans is this what the yanks are really like?? 😅

[@7ChakrasTarot]

I got shit off other teachers for saying what grade after living in europe lol 😅❤

[@johnmonsell6132]

This is pure bollocks .😊

[@markbucknell1]

Is that our British accent now? Don’t understand a word of it? 😬

[@virtualatheist]

To any Americans watching who ever attempt to join in with banter, be aware that we really are this brutal, so be prepared.

[@nickyphoenix2470]

I cant lie ....id have been in the principals office way too often....