SHOCKED BRIT Reacts to "Day in the Life at American Public High School"

Reacting to a day in my life at an American public high school!
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[@LA_HA]

It would be awesome if you watched videos about: -- Harvard University -- Phillips Andover And Phillips Exeter, both are very old elite high schools (in American years) and have been the top academies Here since they've opened. -- You might want to check out Stanford University, which is the premiere university on The West Coast. In California, of course. It's part of an elite university system called The West Coast Ivies that included several University of California campuses (UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC San Francisco, UC Irvine, etc.) and private Unis (USC, Claremont McKenna, Pepperdine -- built on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Marymount, and Mount St Mary's). Some of the elite high schools include one in Bel Aire called Harvard-Westlake (private), Beverly Hills High (as in 90210), Pacific Palisades, and another called Gretchen Whitney in the ABC School district. All public. This is plenty to choose from and you'd love them. Like a lot of Californians, California schools are obsessed with their beauty, success, and being The Best. They're Exceptionally competitive with their East Coast rivals. Even the public universities are very pretty and offer students Everything, which is why they're so expensive now. Hope you get a chance to check out some. Thank you for the fun reactions

[@jibberjabber3477]

Freshman = 9th grade Sophomore = 10th grade Junior = 11th grade Senior = 12th grade

[@oldageisdumb]

To clarify: Senior is the final year of mandatory schooling. College starts after

[@LulusMom1961]

Freshman 13 years old, by senior year you should be 17 and driving. They taught driver's ed in Senior Year in my day! 1979

[@MoreAdamCouser]

Thanks for this!

[@carterhealy]

@@LulusMom1961high schoolers start at 14 not 13 and drivers ed would was in my sophomore year cuz where I live we can drive at 15

[@LulusMom1961]

@@carterhealy I think the ages are different per state? I could get a permit at 16, but I know farmers could get licenses at 15. Our football coach was the driver's ed instructor as well. Small town life!

[@revgurley]

Grade 9 is Freshmen, Grade 10 is Sophomore, Grade 11 is Junior, and Grade 12 is Senior. (about ages 14-18). Then college/uni (basically the same thing for us) after graduating from Grade 12. And then you start over - first year in college is Freshmen, 2nd year Sophomore, 3rd year Junior, and 4th year Senior. They don't do it for Masters programs, though. You just attend as many years as you need to complete the Masters Degree.

[@stischer47]

I don't of any university that allows unlimited time to finish Master's or PhD. Any examples?

[@revgurley]

@@stischer47 Didn't say that. An MA may take 2 years, an MDiv takes three years. Didn't want to bog down the comment with unnecessary detail. But now it's here.

[@guntotingleftist8004]

Honestly, if you keep paying, they'll let you stay. ​@@revgurley

[@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944]

Happy Birthday Adam! Those aren't crickets you hear. They're cicadas.

[@thegrasslands4187]

Came here to tell him about the cicadas but you beat me to it!

[@MoreAdamCouser]

Thank you!😂

[@0515tommyboy]

The "Advisory" period he had is called "Homeroom" in a lot of other schools and would be analogous to your "Registration" period.

[@jacobhiles1]

This has too be a public high school in a rich neighborhood. an indoor track and basket ball court in the same room with a ping pong room and 7 tennis courts. This is a rich neighborhood at that point.

[@kevinadams5592]

Oak Park is a very rich neighborhood in the Chicago burbs

[@tr-lj2vx]

This isn't even a big highschool. Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, where I went to highschool, is bigger, much nicer and is really pretty average in terms of highschool's.

[@TheRagratus]

You're wrong, middle class area.

[@TheRagratus]

​@@kevinadams5592No it's not. It's middle class.

[@amandavanwyk5424]

@@tr-lj2vx I was going to say the same thing. This is an average high school for the region I live in. Most newer high school look like this.

[@jabreck1934]

My high school was established in 1889. “ Western philosophy of education“. Ojai,CA The motto,” teach a child how to ride, shoot and tell the truth” Still has a gun club, two shooting ranges and GymKhana field.

[@sarahnerhus5090]

OVS?

[@LA_HA]

Nice. The only way it could be better is if they taught Latin and Philosophy

[@jabreck1934]

@@sarahnerhus5090 Thacher

[@jabreck1934]

@@LA_HA Latin and philosophy classes available

[@tomricker1342]

Definitely a school in a better neighborhood! Big inner city schools include metal detectors at the entrances and armed security that moves in groups of at least 5 officers, And that was in the 1990's !

[@spaceshiplewis]

In a huge US High School there are basic expectations for high schoolers (Does not apply evenly to schools or students, rural and urban schools are different and, of course, rich kids and poor kids will not receive the same treatment) -Freshmen = 9th grade, 14-15 age. Newbies, the youngest in the school. They have fresh eyes and not a clue. They mostly still have to be dropped off by their parents or ride the bus, or if you are very rural, you might just take your tractor to school... and then nap because you worked on the farm since 4am. -Sophomore = 10th grade, 15-16 age. They are now more familiar with the school but still small fry. The kids can now drive! -Junior = 11th grade, 16-17 age. They are familiar with the school and have established themselves as someone in the school. They aren't just yet sick of high school. -Seniors - 12th grade, 17-18 age. They rule the school body, but also, they are sick of school, called senioritis. They are granted more freedom to go off campus. They are fretting over SATs and Precollege exams.

[@jeffreymcelroy]

Definitely more upscale than any schools in Vegas. High school here begins at 7 am. Lunch serves meals of not real great food. Most schools have a large gym and a smaller gym, one football field, and maybe a baseball field. A few do have pools but most use a community pool for competitions. And yes, lots of yellow school buses!

[@kristamcnair1430]

My kids actually have to be at high school/middle school respectively by 6:50am. 10 minutes for school breakfast and back in homeroom by 7:05. We live in Cochran Georgia and true enough, it's a low key rich ass country town, but this is nothing lol. Heck we had AP classes in the middle grade and I'm 37 lol 😅

[@TripleDinLV]

When I started at Eldorado in 87, it was 6:15 am for Early Bird (NJROTC Drill/Leadership), the classes started at 7:05 am, and we let out @ 2:30 pm. Sports started @ 2:45, but Late Bird classes started @2:35 until 3:30. Then, there were only 8 public HS in the Las Vegas area (includes Basic and BC), and Gorman. Now, CCSD has 73. And 380 elementary and middle schools.

[@bryanjenkins8830]

You share the same birthday as my baby boy! He just turned 1 on the 25th. Happy belated Birthday bro!

[@sslerlin]

Calc -calculus..not crickets, its cicadas He walked to school the yellow buses are out front for students who live far away

[@katgard3736]

I graduated back in '96 and we had both McDonald's and Taco Bell serving food in the cafeteria. I can't believe this school just served what they cooked.

[@cookiepadilla7883]

It depends at what age you graduated middle school. Cut off requirement is *you must be 5 yrs old by end of Sept. of same year to start kindergarten. If your birthday is after this, you start kindergarten at 6 yrs of age. Freshman = 1st yr. of H/S =13/14 yrs old Sophomore = 2nd year = 14-15 yrs old Junior = 3rd year = 16-17 yrs old Senior = 4th year (graduation if requirements are met)= 17/18 yrs old. Hope this helps.

[@bonnielucas1941]

It apparently varies as my granddaughter's bday is Sept. 6th. Their cutoff was Sept 5th. My daughter had to jump hoops for school to let her start. They made her take a test. She was ready, though. Had been to pre-school for 2 years. She's 10 now and doing well.

[@JIMBEARRI]

Calc = Calculus. In case you couldn't guess. That high school is in a VERY affluent suburb which is why it's so well equipped. That was a "Pizza Roll".

[@meloc2001]

That is an extraordinarily large and well funded high school, but it seems like the typical day I would have had back in the stone age of 1987 (minus the tiny cell phone camera, vlog, and computers)

[@Ameslan1]

Adam Couser, if you see a high school course in the caption such as AP English.. that means Advanced Placement English meaning he is getting college/University credit while he is in high school. That means he is a smart student also known as an "Honor Student" which those classes are for gifted or those students who are smarter than the average student. Calc is short for Calculus. Calculus is an advanced math class

[@leannefowler9912]

My bonus daughter is taking AP lit & calculus and honors economics and her lowest grade is a 99. She has a 105 in AP calculus. That girl is extremely gifted and outsmarted me years ago!

[@Ameslan1]

@@leannefowler9912 Wow! Fantastic! You must be proud!

[@leannefowler9912]

@@Ameslan1 EXTREMELY!! She made a 31 on the ACT! Super proud of all 4 of my girls bc they all have their own strengths and weaknesses but I’m very blessed to have 4 amazing girls 🩷

[@ruthsaunders9507]

No necessarily. Just means you do better than average in that subject.

[@Ameslan1]

@@ruthsaunders9507 Honors classes also tend to be more intensive or require more challenging work compared to the regular classes. But yes it is not just about being smart or intelligent but also motivation and being self-driven to do well independently

[@JIMBEARRI]

Believe it or not, the terms Freshman [1st year]; Sophomore [2nd year]; Junior [3rd year] and Senior [4th year] were actually first used in England in the 1600s. They appear in a book published in the City of York around 1670. They fell out of favor in England, but were adopted by Harvard College in Massachusetts and became standard for high schools and colleges throughout the US..

[@oliviawolcott8351]

13:25 welcome to america, where most of the school budget goes to sports.

[@shadowgirl363]

My school raised over 12 million dollars over many years to build a new track, bleachers, fields, and tennis courts. While we have wholes in the celings and it leaks when it rains and there aren’t locks on the bathroom stall doors there all broken 😂

[@kathybouziane5269]

4 yrs of high school. Freshman- sophomore- junior and lastly senior.

[@geosmiin]

This may be a richer high school! Although my high school was pretty big, *it just varies by the owner, the amounts of money given to the schools, and the school district.* my high school (Oakland Technical High School (before anyone thinks I'm doxxing myself I'm in college now lol), had two campuses !! It also has many awesome electives (such as animation, fashion, graphic design, engineering, politics, health, etc), many clubs, sports (a tennis field, two gyms (two courts for basketball), two weight rooms, and a track/football field) and cool stuff! My HS used to have mechanics/engineering activities (long ago) until the money was cut off (due to redlining, gentrification, etc but that's a story for another time). I really enjoy videos like this going in-depth about the places Americans go to and how people interact with the place and people). It's enjoyable to see how my norm (for the most part) and your norm are so different but similar in a way! P.S. I will typically list how the ages and grades work in American school systems. (they can be younger or older if they have skipped a grade or have failed a grade to other factors, but I am putting what is the majority) Freshman - 9th grade ages 14-15 Sophomore - 10th grade - ages 15-16 Junior - 11th grade - ages 16-17 Senior - 12th grade - 17-18 Lots of love from California :D

[@kellygriffin8232]

We had a huge gym plus an auxiliary gym. We had two tennis courts, the football field, the baseball field, the softball field, the lacrosse/soccer field and a track. My high school was huge and brand new bc the state decided to put a new school in the middle of the hood lol 😂 we used to get into our state of the art buses in the afternoon and find crackheads smoking crack and drunks passed out lmao 🤣 P.S. them cicadas be a menace 😂

[@kamiko70]

the last 4 years of high school are called as follows: 9th grade Freshmen, 10th grade Sophomore, 11th grade Junior, last year of school 12th grade Senior. - my birthday was the 27th, Happy Birthday brother Libra! - Calc = Calculous - racket sports = ping pong, LOL! - when the school has a lot of kids, they stagger the lunch periods. like freshmen and sophomores will eat first, and juniors with seniors next. i went to a small school for high school, so all the kids from7th grade to 12th grade went to lunch together. - my school had tennis, football, wrestling, volleyball (me). -

[@dwanemarsh4378]

As someone said, Freshman is first year high school. Sophomore is second year, Junior is third year, and Senior is last year in high school. This also applies to most colleges, as they use the same system. In high school, the "normal" ages are 15 to 18, with exceptions based on birth date. High school is usually FAR different than middle school, so kids have to adjust.

[@KTKacer]

Not bacon in the cereal, PECANS. (A wonderful type of nut) Freshmen is 1st year of High school, Sophomore is 2nd, Juniors are the 3rd year and Seniors are the last year of Highschool that's when you graduate at the end. Calculus (Calc) Concepts, probably a 1st lvl of Calc. It's the branch of mathematics that deals with the finding and properties of derivatives and integrals of functions, by methods originally based on the summation of infinitesimal differences. The two main types are differential calculus and integral calculus. So it likely covers this & other basics of Calc. We gpt 45 minutes, except in my 10th grade (?) I only got 15 minutes as my 4th period class let me leave 5 mins early so I could go grab some lunch, then 5 mins between classes and my 5th period class let me come 5 mins late. WE cannot have 1 field for every sport, too much crossover When Baseball is happening so is Track, so is Archery, so is Tennis, I THINK so is soccer, and Football starts just as track etc... ends. So our track for track & field was also the Football field.

[@AIU259]

Adam. that gym you are commenting on is one of several. I attended that high school as did my husband wayyy back when. there are at least 4 gyms. there are 2 full size pools. When we attended there were just under 4000 students there. My graduating class was 900 something. The school covers 2 communities and yes they are affluent but not everyone is affluent who attends there.

[@ChaoticCobras]

for my school i got up at 6am, i lived about 15 minutes out so i was the 2nd bus stop. i had to get on the bus around 6:40, by the time we got to school it was 7:25 and our first class started at 7:40am. We got out of school at 2:40pm and i got home at 3-3:10

[@ModRockfan1992]

My rural high school only had a baseball field, a softball field, and a basketball gym Our sports were baseball, softball, and boys and girls basketball Pre-K - 12 school Our clubs were Beta Club, 4-H Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and Future Business Leaders of America That was it

[@LA_HA]

What? That sounds nice. What's wrong with it?

[@ModRockfan1992]

@@LA_HA Nothing. It was just tiny Our school buildings were old, but the teachers were nice and helpful The students were a mixed bag, but that's every high school

[@greatgreyowl2583]

American schools are as varied the communities they are located in. From who makes the team, to do we have enough kids to even have a team, if everybody is on it.

[@dcbs8691]

High school cafeteria food is disgusting. I never ate lunch there. Always left campus or brought my lunch. This high school is the west suburbs of Chicago. I was born and raised in Chicago. This area is upper middle classes with the rich families mixed in. I say this because it’s a public school not private. I know in the UK public vs private is somewhat different in definition. Public in the US means everyone can attend where private is paying big bucks for their children to attend.

[@thegrasslands4187]

When I was in High School, they allowed vendors to provide lunch. We had Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr, and Subway. Inside our cafeteria. This may seem awesome to some people, but I think it was a way to avoid free school lunch. So many kids had no money to eat lunch. We weren't in a rich area, and it was the only High School in town at the time. There are 3 in town now and the one I went to no longer has vendors.

[@Dr_Kyutoko]

My Senior year of high school I had AP college credit English for zero hour, meaning before school even began. Calculus. Biology II another AP college credit class. Concert Band. Economics. Aaaaaand... give me a moment, it was twenty one years ago... uh...I can't remember the name, but it was a Social Studies type class. And then since I was in two college level courses and one was before school, two Study Halls, so... I kinda just left school early every day since I wasn't required to go to those.

[@rj-zz8im]

Not all High Schools are like this...I went to HS not too far from here (like 90 miles) and I had a whopping 27 in my grad class and 99 in the entires high school. This video is in a suburb of Chicago.

[@garymacmillan]

30 years ago Oak Park was a very high end place. Suspect it still is.

[@benmurphy9956]

advisory is like homeroom, a place that is not an established class to learn. but a place where you can get some advice, basically.

[@AIU259]

that sound afterwards is not crickets. That is the sound of cicadas

[@AC-ni4gt]

The loudest bugs I ever met.

[@AIU259]

@AC-ni4gt freaky looking too

[@TnT_F0X]

Looks the same as mine, material wise. We had an open layout, basically a 100'x100' 10' ceilings with 7ft movable walls to make classrooms... Math for you Camelot people... 30 Meter x 30 Meter with 3 meter ceilings and 2 meter movable walls. It made heating and cooling way more efficient, but also let us send paper airplane notes when teachers weren't looking.

[@TnT_F0X]

Now that I think of it... if my high school was completely emptied, and archeologists found it, They'd have no idea what it was for, they'd probably think the odd wall shapes were symbols to contact aliens.

[@KarenFrank-q7u]

Freshman is 9th grade Sophomore is 10th Junior is 11th And senior is 12th Usually 17 or 18 by senior year

[@sherilynkd]

In TX when I was in high school- freshman - 15 yr old sophomore - 16 yr old junior - 17 yr old senior- 18 yr old This can very a little depending on your birth year. In TX, we used to have to be six by Sept 1 to go into first grade. Then some are moved up and miss a grade due to high scores. Others get left behind a year or two until they finally make the grades and pass. This may have changes over the years.

[@JasonMistretta-wf5ip]

This may have been mentioned below, but just in case I will type it. AP means Advanced Placement. This student was in several "AP" classes which means he is an Honors Student (Very smart guy). Also "Calc" was short for Calculus (Math). 11:57. "Where are the yellow buses? I was expecting to see yellow buses." Adam, just as you said that he passes a yellow bus. Look over his right shoulder at the time stamp I gave. One was right there--hahaha!!

[@Naxatthedoor]

It was cool watching you react to this video, so many stereotypes about the younger American population were pretty much busted. Education isn’t “illegal” in the states, it’s all about whether or not you chose to pursue “higher learning” or not, many will argue “this kid lives in a rich neighborhood that’s why he has good classes🙄” but nonetheless this is a public school he’s attending, the only thing stopping someone from a “lower class” neighborhood from attending is distance, THATS IT. Bus rides are inexpensive, you have two working legs under you and you can buy used bikes for less than 100$ from most people. It’s all about if YOU WANT to get a good education and if your parents are willing to put in the effort to help you, take it from someone who was born in a “low class” neighborhood, you don’t have to conform to your environment if you don’t want to, things in your life will change once you stop using that as an excuse. Also side note: Freshman - 9th grade (14-15 yrs) Sophomore - 10th grade (15-16 yrs) Junior - 11th grade (16-17 yrs) Senior - 12th grade (17-18 yrs)

[@LA_HA]

Yep. Right on target, though there are tons of people who get into the comments of videos like this and say it a rich school/ neighborhood. In Illinois, it looks more like a typical middle class suburb. Each person tends to turn these videos into a comparative of their own life without knowing that there are far better schools in middle, upper, And wealthy suburban areas. It's just that no one is making videos about them because the students aren't interested in doing that. There are schools that look like Hogwarts or Harvard. And others that look like nothing special outside, but inside, they're unbelievable. It really is extremely variable and yet, there's a typical look to the middle class suburban school

[@Naxatthedoor]

@@LA_HA definitely a lot of projection, in LA (SFV area) some of the BEST schools in SoCal are only about 5 miles farther than some of the WORST schools in SoCal. That’s an extra 20 mins by bus or bike at most, or if they have a parent who’s willing to drop them off, that’s not even another 10 mins of driving. It’s actually pretty trivial how easily some people can change their situations, it’s sad.

[@LA_HA]

@@Naxatthedoor And the magnet schools often have transportation to and from school, so students can leave their horrible neighborhood school and go to a better one. There are even some charter schools students can go to. In NYC, there are only so many schools for this purpose and the utter heartbreak of the mothers and grandmothers when their kids don't win the lotteries to get in is deeply sad and angering. Unfortunately, it requires students and their families to care about education to apply. And also unfortunate is the teachers unions trying to get rid of all other educational options that threaten public schools. Even some religious and private schools will take scholarship students. The interest just have to be there.

[@Tracywhited2]

Oh. You know it's public ? Can I have the name of the school and the state it's in please ? I never heard him mention it.

[@dariadykyj2179]

Freshmen is first year - 9th grade. Sophomore - second year - 10th grade. Junior - third year or 11th grade. Senior is fourth year - 12th grade. Those that graduate 12th grade can go on to college or university and/or technical school.

[@DarrylPage-jc2yl]

My nephews went to this school (Oak Park-River Forest H.S.) -- located in Oak Park -- which is what i consider an inner-city suburb of Chicago. Its a very urban yet affluent community. The school is huge.

[@MoonlightSonata214]

These kids are walking to school in daylight at 7:40am. When I was on 1st shift in 10th grade, I was in History class at 7am and it was still pitch dark out. Everyone in this 8am English class is wearing masks, so this was probably from 2020-2021. You will notice, though, that even though they were made to wear masks, their desks are not 6 ft apart for that insane social distancing. Probably not enough space in the room to do that, so what was the point of doing it anywhere? This school is in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. I noticed that they just go inside with no screening. Some of our schools (like the one I went to in Miami) have had metal detectors at the entrances for many years, the same as when you go into a courthouse. First shift was for the nerds, and had lots of the AP (Advanced Placement) classes like English, Math and the Sciences, and started at 7am. Your first class in N. Ireland at 9:30am would be about the same as the first class in my school for people on middle shift, who had a lunch period and got out at 2:30pm. They were the ones on athletic teams and support activities like cheerleaders, flag corps and marching band, because they got the athletic fields after 2:30pm for the rest of the day. Late shift was from 1:15pm-5:30pm and had many of the arts classes like Dance, Drama, Art, etc. I had that schedule one year, and it was a dream being able to sleep as late as you wanted without ever setting your alarm clock (yes, clock - this was before personal computers and cell phones). Now, most schools require students to have laptops because lessons are assigned using Microsoft programs and must be completed and sent in to the teacher electronically using the specified program. "Economically disadvantaged" (I hate woke labels) students whose families cannot afford them are issued a laptop by the school. The reason our school was divided into 3 shifts was because there was no way to fit everyone into the school on the same shift, and that is still the case today. Even so, our school was 3 grades (10-12) and each grade had one required subject that was taught in the auditorium because it could fit half the class at one time, so it was used for 6 classes every day. The teacher was up front and taught using a microphone and overhead projector with the lesson projected on a huge screen on the stage. We had assigned seats, and there were 2 other teachers who acted as proctors, one for each aisle, and they had the seating charts by which they could check attendance and make sure people were where they were supposed to be. The also had microphones attached to really long babmboo poles which wre extended to each student as they were called on to speak. Each auditorium class had at least 800 students. It worked perfectly. It's sad that these students are watching CNN every day "for current events" because it just demonstrates how politically left academia has become - CNN is a super-lefty channel. Many parents have pulled their kids out of public schools and put them into either private or charter schools to get them away from this leftist agenda. Calc Concepts is Calculus Concepts - a math class. Students today use all sorts of apps to do math work, whereas we were prohibited from using even a slide rule or a calculator. We had the same classes but we had to work every problem and equation out ourselves and show our work (write down every step) so that the teacher knew we did it ourselves without assistance. That would be unheard of today, which is why kids are helpless without their electronic devices. The gym at this school has an inside track and all of the playing courts and activities because in that area of the country winter is brutally cold and snowy, and you can't have P.E. classes outside (you've seen Laurence Brown talk about Chicago winters on his Lost in the Pond YT channel). What they're calling pizza is more of a stromboli. Tabula is apparently the name of that school's yearbook.

[@oliviawolcott8351]

Calc is Calculus.

[@diamondhair11]

Freshman is 9th grade, usually 15 yrs. old. Sophomore is 10th grade - usually16 yrs. old. Junior is 11th grade, usually 17 yrs. old, Senior is 12th grade , usually 18 yrs. old. Then in college there are freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors also.

[@andrewjackson8421]

This school looks like a medium size school. He said it had 3500 students. I went to a small one with only 1100 students but it was more of a rural school so we had a lot of space too. Ours was all on the ground floor, but we had a huge gym, an Olympic size pool, tennis courts, soccer field, baseball field, softball field, football field with a running track around it. A faculty parking lot and a student parking lot. Plus a huge library, two cafeterias, vending machines, and a theater for assemblies, plays, and concerts. And this was back in the 80s! Now our school district was wealthier than the average public school district but that was seen more in the quality of faculty that we had. One of our science teachers, for instance had been a college professor but was paid more at our school. Our History Professor was actually one of the authors of our History Book. Our drama teacher had been on Broadway. Our Art teacher eventually left and moved to Paris because her art was being displayed in the Louvre. But compared to the teachers my friends had in other school districts, ours were gold! Most of the small schools had buildings comparable to our. Larger schools just had more floors and maybe bigger gyms.

[@yvonneconte3040]

1100 students is a huge school to me

[@emilylawrence891]

My high school in the US had 6 full size basketball courts in the gym, a full gymnastics room, and a weight room. Not to mention soccer fields, baseball diamonds, and the football stadium. Not every school has a gym this big but it’s not irregular

[@kristenlogan2594]

Wow I can't even imagine. Sports must have been huge at your school. 😮

[@DeVonMcDonald-u7m]

Yeah I went to this school Adam💀💀💀

[@TimSmith-uc4pk]

For me. When I went to school. Elementary school was grades 1 thru 6. Jr. High was 7 thru 9 and 10, 11, and 12 was high school.

[@LifeWKD772]

Happy birthday broo 🎉🎉. Love the videos keep it up man ❤you're hilarious.

[@OutdoorsWithPaige]

My high school looked nothing like this. It was a tenth of that size and we didn't have an indoor track, but an old dusty gym. It was the original building from the 1950s. I went to a high school a little over an hour outside of Philadelphia and it’s a public school as well. Quality of school is based on taxes and if you live in an area with lower income and taxes, your school won’t look like that one in the video.

[@markchristensen23]

Definitely a high end school, so not even remotely typical. Usually, schools are far more crowded and messy. Many with trailer houses nearby for some classes, because there's not enough room in the main school building.

[@renekizer7201]

Freshman is the first year of highschool. Senior is the last year of highschool. Second year is sofmore and third year is junior.

[@zookeeper2352]

Freshman = 9th. Grade, first year of high school. Followed by Sophomore = 10th. Grade, then Junior = 11th. Grade. The final year, Senior = 12th. Grade, the last year of K (kindergarten) through 12. Afterwards, College/University that goes freshman through senior again but at university level that would lead to a Bachelor's degree after 4 years of university studies. Another 2 years (approx) would lead to a Master's degree. Further years would lead to a Doctorate (time for this can be years). If a student isn't interested in University studies, there are many other types of continuing education. Trades, apprenticeships, etc.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

My grandchildren do not get books in school, everyone is given a laptop. They bring them home each day and plug it in overnight and it goes in their backpack to school each day,

[@puppypoet]

This is nothing like the schools we have here in Delaware. Not the public ones, anyway. Our high school (I graduated in 2000) was cramped and every staff member was grumpy and miserable. Nothing was this clean and put together. And nearly none of the teachers I had cared one bit about my goals or ambitions. They just wanted me to pass the class with great grades or else their bosses would publicly chew them out for having even one failing student. I wish I was lying.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

My school had two indoor swimming pools. and a indoor running track. Two huge gyms.

[@Klebkatt]

I come from what's considered the rich prep school, but daaaaamn, we didn't have our own baseball field! If you wanted a track field, you went down to the middle school. We did have tennis courts, but not as many as this one. Also, you probably wouldn't see a school bus, as the guy either walks or drives, so there'd be either a diffrent entrance or time for drivers/walkers to leave. The classic yellow school bus is public school.

[@TheKuptis]

1:35 For high school: Freshmen aka fish -- 9th grade Sophomore -- 10th grade Junior -- 11th grade Senior -- 12th grade

[@Tiffany-ne9fr]

I loved my HS! All the usual classes, a plethora of foreign language classes. I took Spanish. I also took woodshop, sewing, a class about babies, Symphony Orchestra, PE, and many other great classes. During my Jr and Sr years, I went half days across town for vocational school where I took C++ and graphic design. I also did Navy ROTC, where I joined the rifel team and orienteering team. Yes, we used pew pews at school, but during the rifel team, they were not real ones. We had 3 gymnasiums. 2 had a basketball 1 with track and weights. We also had an Olympic sized swimming pool, 3 soccer fields, 2 foot ball fields, 7 tennis courts, archery, a shooting range, and so much more!

[@dark14life]

Yeah, this is pretty normal for an American high school. This is a fairly large one. I think he said 3,500 students? And just outside of Chicago so yeah, pretty big high school. Would almost definitely be Division 1 for athletics. By comparison, I went to a small, Division 3 high school in Ohio with around 350 students (1994-1998). We still had pretty good facilities. Our stadium pulled triple duty, having a football field that doubled as a soccer field, with a track around it for track and field. The baseball diamond was just a few hundred feet east. And a gym with a basketball court. It looked like your typical high school that you'd see in 90's movies. Damn, those were good times.

[@lyssmath3720]

Every highschool is different. It all depends on location, school district size, and how many kids are in a class. My graduating class was exactly 100 students. So my school wasn't as big as this one. But it is kind of similar. There are a couple of other videos floating around of different schools.

[@easybreezy4559]

That school was huge! The amount of stairs, I’d get so lost lol my high school was super tiny 😂

[@IceKnight81]

He didn't show the swimming pool area. My family grew up in Oak Park, its a nice school. By todays standards, its very wealthy.

[@wickedtokensmoke]

My school only had one gym and the roof was falling in on it. This is a fancy school by far not the average.

[@RavenWarrior]

3,500 students in that school?! Wow. Mine had 400 students. I can't even imagine. Good thing that school is as big as it is.

[@penniea9098]

i was 14 in the ninth grade( freshman) 15 in 10th grade (sophomore) 16 in 11th grade ( junior) and 17 in 12 grade(senior) i believe our senior year would be like sixth form.? not sure on that after high school we either go to a junior college, a university, a trade school or just get a job. i was younger than most people in high school most seniors are 18.

[@markupton1417]

Kid captioned his history class and misspelled "definitely". Tells you ALL you need to know about public education.

[@sarcazen3171]

This is a very nice school and its big - there are many underfunded schools that are quite different from this experience. That said, this does a good job representing what we want to give to all the kids.

[@LaShumbraBatesAuDHD]

This school is Oak Park and River Forest Highschool (OPRF) in Oak park Illinois. Not too far from where I grew up right on the edge of the city on the west side of Chicago that butted right up against Oak park. Two areas so close but so far apart economically. I knew a few families from my church, and some friends and family of my own that attended that school. I definitely didn't go there. 😅 I wish my school had all of that. 😅 Our school's tennis practice was held at the park across the street from the school.

[@mamastarshine]

This is not a typical American high school. These ppl have money. Normal high schools dont have a lot of the things this school has.

[@chateaumojo]

Its got 3500 students. It's a big tax base. Of course it's got tennis courts and, due to the winter Chicago weather, it has an indoor track etc.

[@AltAlt-ov5em]

This isn’t rich if this is rich then my school is billionaire but then again 3 billionaires attend mine

[@AIU259]

that area outside where he is talking to all of his friends at lunch was called the mall. When I attended, that was the student smoking area

[@benmurphy9956]

seems like you could fit my old high school in this building about 8 or 10 times. I went to a very small college preparatory high school. my graduating class was literally 20 people.

[@ChitteringFiend]

When I was in high school (even junior high) school started at 7:30. The day ended at 2:35. I’m not gonna lie, this definitely looks like a newer school in a well to do area. Mine was nothing like this.

[@Bellastrega1960]

Freshmen..first yr, sophomore..second yr, junior..3rd year, senior…4th and last yr

[@MelNel5]

This high school looks like the one in our neighborhood, except the padded track is outside.

[@ScottyM1959]

In high school you have: 9th grade: Freshmen, regardless of sex/gender 10th grade: Sophomore 11th grade: Junior 12th grade: Senior

[@Charmcity199]

That may have been a late start day. Most high schools (at least in my state) have 1st period (aka the first class) at 7:15am

[@alyannawafa9608]

my first class at my school starts at 6:30 am 😢

[@WhodatLucy]

Yearbook creates a school book with all the pictures

[@kieranshae]

School starts earlier these days, my first class started at 8:50am

[@kristamcnair1430]

I'm slightly above the curb because I started community college in the 11th grade (a junior) I was blessed enough to get my high school diploma and associate's when I graduated a senior in '05. But it's not just upper echelon schools...and yes, I road the bus lol 19-3 😂

[@Purplbacon]

Oak park, Illinois - Day in the life of a *wealthy chicago* suburb high school. Trader Joe's cereal with pecans & coconut milk.. try stale fruit loops and 2% Normal high school - no ping pong tables, no tennis courts, no California spanish architecture.. in the midwest!

[@RowanBlake]

This is a school in a wealthy area, not all American schools look like this. I wish they were more equal but it is based on the taxes that a neighborhood pays. Some schools have Olympic-sized swimming pools and all the extras and some schools cant afford books for the students to learn from. It is very un-equal here.

[@angelinasplayhouse9627]

Freshmen is 9th grade around 14-15 Sophomore is 10th around 15-16 year olds Junior's are 11th 16-17 And seniors are 12th 17-18

[@sarahmiech3904]

Happy belated birthday, Adam!

[@xo2quilt]

That's a massive high school!! Ther school in my town has 200 students, kindergarten through 12th grade! OK, small town too!!

[@catherinesearles1194]

Every child in my toen from kindergarten to 4th grade has an ipad in class. From 6th to 12th every student has a chrome book.

[@aura81295]

"Most of all, do something fun today" 😁👏

[@robertvien5693]

Adrian Brody is a great actor to play a high schooler at his age

[@dariadykyj2179]

This is why our school taxes are triple the amount of our real estate (property taxes) !

[@Sgt_MoDog_USMC]

All these people saying this is such a HUGE school... no it's not. When I graduated HS in 1983, my graduating class had 1,560 Seniors graduating 12th grade alone. LOL

[@Jdbob972003]

This is a very high income area, Adam, not a typical public high school! Try looking at one in the inner city....Totally different, and even scary! BTW, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY Adam!! Enjoy your trip to Disney!!

[@PhxVanguard]

inner city schools aren't typical. suburban schools like this are.

[@mnn1265]

When I taught high school in California the school was about 1000 students, which is less than a third of the size of this school. That is a large high school that is well funded which means it is in a nice area with good tax base. In America, the local schools are funded mostly by the local property taxes so if you live in a place with high home values you will have a much better school than if you have a lot of lower priced housing. America has some of the very best schools in the world and also some of the worst.

[@manxkin]

I’m “old”, well oldish. I can assure you that my high school was nothing like this. Well, it sort of was but not so much. That made no sense! I still have my yearbooks. Those were cicadas by the way.

[@adamcampbell8794]

Yes, you can have nice things in the suburbs. An inner city high school would be much different.

[@hardtackbeans9790]

Calculator concepts?? LOL!! I think Calc concepts is what we used to call pre-calculus. Those are not crickets. They are much larger, more deadly insect. Okay maybe not that deadly since we used to play with them as kids. They have sharp spurs on their legs though.

[@Cat-mz9fm]

Freshman = 9th grade 14-15 years old Sophomore =10th grade 15-16 yo Junior = 11th grade 16-17 yo Senior = 12th grade 17-18 yo

[@Leah-99978]

calc is short for calculus. and AP is advanced placement

[@michelleponzio]

I went to Sterling High School in NJ. It was nowhere this big.