Showing a Brit a Real American High School Curriculum

Today Corry and I look at a couple real American high school curriculums and look into what classes you need to graduate! Meanwhile Corry finds out something he didn't know about Scotland...
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[@Nina-ns1tl]

I'm German and in 11th grade I did an exchange year in the US. Since I had to return to my regular curriculum after, I wanted to take French. When I told them I've already had 6 years of French at that time, they didn't even know what to do with me.

[@utuk3333]

Well, yeah - that's because 15% of the population speaks French in Germany, and less than 1% of the population speaks French in the United States. In fact, there is no non-English language in the US that are spoken by 15% of the population or more.

[@ribbonsofnight]

@@utuk3333 Yeah but the percentage of Spanish speaking people is easily enough to be significant in parts of the USA. Taking nationwide statistics just hides that.

[@screamtoasigh9984]

Better than Israel, a friend in Israel has a new girl in his English class, junior year of high school, she's from Canada. The friend is fluent in English as well. It's mandatory to take English, they're in the advanced class, and they were correcting the teacher so much she has them play on their cell phones in the corner so they don't interrupt. They should either have a language waiver or have the kids teach the class. Nina's school should have had her do independent study - read a book in French and write a report or do a presentation.

[@screamtoasigh9984]

@@utuk3333 uh what? Press #2 for Spanish. 13% speak it in the US. 45% of people in California. If you only do American citizens you would be correct, but if you include population to be illegal aliens it's 13% there are like 20 Spanish tv channels.

[@NnanaLS]

@@utuk3333 huh?! In which Germany? Where? I’d be interested to know as I teach French myself (mother tongue) and been living in the country for 14 years

[@zarameg3907]

A- Where are you from? B- Oh I’m from Scotland A- Oh I love the Scottish accent! B- Oh no I’m from Scotland, South Dakota

[@evan]

Hahahaha

[@pauliedoodle1939]

Lol there is a place called Scotland in South Dakota? Every day is a school day haha.

[@callumparker3293]

So many places in America named after places in different countries, it's so confusing to me

[@natashalongley3517]

@@callumparker3293 yeah just found out after researching the tiny town where I live and it coming up in Massachusetts.

[@Chelsea-ch8oh]

There's a town in Maine called China ...

[@kat_wayward]

as a german, seeing the way school works in the US is so confusing with all the credits and stuff like we don't have that at ALL

[@luis_zuniga]

Katharina Eifler as a Mexican I agree.

[@milkyway6021]

agree too

[@swikaharra]

Agree our high schools were so structured that all courses we took were mandatory....and after grade 9 we go into specialization .... science/technology/art and there is another second specialization in grade 11. For instance one can go to mathematics, earth and life sciences/join a technology or economy stream....and so on. Art student can specialize for instance in German literature from grade 11

[@katm2140]

Think of the credits like a way to keep track of what a student has done. The subjects are all divided up and we count what has been successfully completed.

[@kat_wayward]

@@katm2140 no yeah I get that, we have that at universities but not at schools at all. We mostly only have mandatory courses and credits dont exist at schools at all

[@leolunchbox4543]

I go to an American school, and I gotta say... dude you went to a wild school. Your graduation requirements are so so different! And your class offerings are much better funded than the highschool(s) I've attended! We didn't get any culinary or family development or any language but Spanish (No French, German, etc, but one of the schools I went to did have Mandarin, but you could only take it if you had it through elementary and middle school)! And music classes are NEVER individual instruments. I've never seen Piano I or Piano II on a course listing. And we're required to take as history: Global studies (modern geopolitical issues and geography), World history, and US history (1 year of each), + econ and US government. It's so weird that you didn't take full world history?

[@aimisakee5446]

Back in my high school in WI, we had culinary, metal arts, health care, engineering, computer related (programming or web design), family development, starting a business, interior design u name it! Practically All the uni related subjects are there. There were also 7 languages offered at our school; Spanish, French, Latin, Italian, Japanese, German, Russian. We also have AP classes.

[@RoseTheNose]

this is pretty much the same as my school i got to rn

[@IrsidaSheshi]

@@aimisakee5446 Whoa, where was this? What's Wi? Wisconsin? Where??

[@aimisakee5446]

@@IrsidaSheshi I no longer live in the U.S now

[@GopherAtl]

@@aimisakee5446 ...since moving did you forget the name of the state you liveed in?

[@jessicadufort8762]

“I generally feel like Americans would benefit from something not American...” he sheepishly remarks. I concur!

[@cheyennediaz4110]

Hmm... if they actually taught US history properly it could be pretty beneficial for a US citizen. Because... yeah, it feels like most people don't know their own country's history here. Much of the important stuff that could actually develop critical thinking is often left out.

[@addie451]

I saw Khan Academy split the events into three frames. Culture(I think?), Community, and Places Overall I’m not sure how I’m supposed to use all of this. Am I supposed to use it to predict stuff? I’m not sure how as a citizen (Of US) I use the French revolution to function as a citizen. It’s interesting but...also don’t know about the enlightenment.

[@Endoptic]

@@cheyennediaz4110 They don't want critical thought. It'd contradict their increasingly official indoctrinations.

[@chaosmastermind]

I disagree. All that crap is irrelevant to us.

[@burntcake3985]

@@chaosmastermind that's pretty ignorant.

[@TheCrizon]

The problem with saying "US education" is that nearly every state has different educational standards. Edit: I'm saying this not as a defense of the us system. It's one of the major reasons that's it's so bad in particular areas.

[@skmo1004]

***districts too

[@Katness07]

In 8th grade my school had Montana History. We had to learn all 52 counties, county seat and even which county number (our license plates used to start with the county #) also, the mountain regions, rivers and indigenous reservations. They started with state history, then US History then world history.

[@artofthepossible7329]

@@Katness07 I'm pretty sure that's geography not history.

[@Katness07]

@@artofthepossible7329 The history and geography were all wrapped up into one.

[@bebespeaks7827]

@@Katness07 8th grade in WA state also requires WA state History. Different school districts do it in different ways, mostly bc there’s no up to date curriculum and basically individual schools have their own pre-made kits, or large storage bins of workbooks for photocopying, textbooks, nonfiction resource books, atlases and maps for geography, hands on materials etc, and just get traded between social studies teachers in the middle school years. Some schools might do it in 6th grade or 7th grade , given that all 6/7/8 grades are in the same building/school name. So a K-8 school might cover WA state history any grade from 5th grade to 8th grade, and any 6-12 middle-high combo school might offer WA started history to both 8th and 9th grade students, depending on when they enroll and begin at that school. The last textbook unfortunately was published in 1994, so by the time my 4th grade teacher attempted WA state history, the book was given to us kids by mandates and rules, but the book was useless and outdated. We had a bad earthquake in 2001 that year, it was definitely too late for that old paperweight to have any use. WA State schools today still don’t have an up to date or online curriculum for what is a state-mandated course, talk about lack of priorities.

[@abbywhyman2462]

Evan: "Naval Science" My brain: the science of belly buttons

[@notaspy9936]

dude same

[@Cricket-zp6wi]

《Laughing Uproariously!》

[@ribbonsofnight]

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki did quite a study into belly buttons, his research is worth reading (well watch a video on youtube of him speaking anyway)

[@Asha2820]

Philosophy?

[@Ami_E_Bowen]

I thought the same thing and then thought; “Why does the word navel have to do with both a part of a mammel’s body as well as anything to do with the ocean/sea/water, etc?” Oh and let’s not forget navel oranges. Such a strange word and it’s meanings.

[@smode983]

Wow, you went to a way better American H.S. than most of us get here. Room to take 17 electives? Hell, that 17 elective choices even exist in one school is wow! Our school district doesn't even have homec anymore.

[@cyclesofstrength]

Yeah we had no home economics, no wood shop, no culinary whatevers

[@maxedwards6378]

Why would you even need home ec or anything like that in today's day and age? Seems like a waste of time to teach in a school.

[@JamesTDG]

My dad misses schools providing home ec

[@JamesTDG]

@@maxedwards6378 wood shop teaches you how to handle and maintain tools, cooking let's you learn to cook for yourself (very important if you don't wanna only eat tv dinners till you die), home ec helps teach you how to maintain your house. Don't bullshit a student that literally researches how fucked up schools are funded and handled.

[@taylor41]

@@maxedwards6378 homec isnt useless lmfao

[@ashley_laura]

It’s Design and Technology where I’m from in the UK or Design Tech, covered everything from graphics and word work to electrical systems.

[@jmurray1110]

are were technology and design but it was mostly wood and laser printers particle with stupid tests questions like draw a new box cover for the sega Saturn

Ours is that, plus cooking for some reason! Cooking is apart of technology lmao

[@rebekahl840]

DT for me

[@thesonofasniper]

Yeah in my school it was DT, would do a term of each until we picked gcses in y9. Wood work, food, textiles, graphics, electrical and another I forgot

[@Dizzy_frog]

Food was completely separate at my school. I had to take it for 3yrs (I actually did 5yrs) but my sister only did 2yrs of food. As they dropped 1 technology in yr9, although they couldn’t drop IT. They offered DT (graphics became a separate subject for my sister), textiles, IT and food.

[@kabobawsome]

Interesting thing, you can literally tell where you are in the US by the language requirements. As you get close to the southern border, classes start to ramp up foreign language course requirements, and put more and more funding towards Spanish programs.

[@kaitlynmessaro4561]

I live in Texas, and we have both Spanish and German because our town is German, but with a strong Spanish/Hispanic/Latino population

[@aimisakee5446]

I used to go to WI public high school. They offered Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French. I don't remember if we had Mandarin... Probably not?

[@pumpkinwarrior7138]

@@aimisakee5446 ooh interesting Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Latin (only the nerds took this one), Italian were what we had at mine iirc

[@cheshirecat6518]

I went to junior high in Buffalo, N.Y... for us it was French. Funny how I never thought of it that way!

[@ashafavs]

they offer arabic here. only arabic. nothing else. just arabic. you don’t have a choice by the way. you take arabic.

[@codyscious]

I have to say, only 1 year of "world language" sounds so strange to a European... when I graduated high school in France, I had studied English for over 9 years, and German for 7. Of course it makes sense for it to be different in the US, as you guys speak the universal language, but it sounds shocking! I think it's super cool that you can choose electives though!!

[@melz6625]

Ich hatte Französisch 6 Jahre, aber Französisch ist wirklich schwer. Wie ist es Deutsch zu lernen als jemand aus Frankreich?

[@Atropabelopa]

it's really misleading. In the US or at least for me in California, most schools have 2 sets of requirements. Requirement 1 is for graduating with a basic High School degree. Requirement 2 is if you plan to go to college. So at my high school getting a diploma required 1 year of Foreign Language. But to go to college, it was required to take 3 years of Foreign Language. And even with the requirement being 3, most would take minimum 4 through high school and many took 2 years in Junior High for a total of 6. (Either because they liked it or to make their applications look better) If I was to guess at my school probably 50% took 6 years and another 30% took 4 years. If you didn't meet the college requirement and then decided you wanted to get a college degree then you would have to make up the difference at community college before going to University.

[@codyscious]

@@melz6625 Für einen Franzosen ist Deutsch auch ganz schwer zu lernen! Ich habe kein Deutsch gesprochen seit mehr als 2 Jahren, und ich habe schon alles vergessen...

[@codyscious]

@@Atropabelopa thanks for the details, that makes a lot of sense!! I also think that coming from a non-english speaking country, learning a foreign language is probably prioritised more in the curriculum, since nowadays it's more and more necessary to speak English at the very least. I think the main difference with what you describe is whether students have a choice or not in taking a foreign language: in France, a minimum of 2 foreign languages (including English) is necessary to graduate high-school, regardless on your plans for higher education. Students can also take a 3rd if they want, as an extra-credit class.

[@stephaniebingman8990]

Those are the absolute bare minimum requirements. If someone wants to go to a good university, they’ll probably take 3+ years of foreign language. I took a foreign language every year I was in school except second grade. And I studied three foreign languages (Spanish, French, Latin) So by the time I was 18, I took Spanish for six years, French for six years, and Latin for four years. “Electives” for graduation purposes is just anything that’s not required. It could be a core class.

[@hypatia4754]

I did English As A Second Language in primary school and then always came first in "normal" English because I was actually taught how English worked.

[@sarahgreen1029]

Best highschool class I took was Forensic science. We solved fake crimes and calculated when people died using body temperature, rigor mortis, and maggots.

[@evan]

Wow!

[@leahegeloh8929]

My friend has to write for school a Seminar paper about forensic

[@YvonneWilson312]

OMG I would have loved that!

[@sarahgreen1029]

it was great! We did some pretty random stuff like splattered fake blood everywhere and went through Michael Jacksons autopsy. The only not as cool things were playing with the nasty bugs and some of the photos we had to look at.

[@emmacheese6107]

Sounds awesome I'm coming to USA just to go there! 😂

[@akirataifu8470]

Man, this guy's school was so well funded. My highschool didn't have half the extra curriculars and upper science courses he listed.

[@Electric_Fence_Pence]

Same here, we had your basic mathematics, social studies/history, science, and literature classes. Although my school was a semi rural county school so we had quite a few vocational oriented extra curriculars like agriculture, welding, construction, automotive repair, engineering, healthcare/nursing, etc.

[@akirataifu8470]

@@Electric_Fence_Pence Automotive and culinary were defunded a little while before I got to highschool.

[@blk1735]

@@Electric_Fence_Pence Those vocational classes are really useful.

[@evan]

NJ has TAX

[@heatheraddams5240]

Exactly!! My school had none of this. My school only had 15 percent of this high school.

[@michaelconroy4937]

Corry: “When are we gonna learn Algebra?” Teacher: “We’re passed that... this is complex Calculus...”

[@ilikeferrets123]

This actually happened in my class lmao

[@Mushiixx]

Sounds like my college. We have "Basic Math" but is calculus.

[@gracemb6528]

i literally couldn’t tell you what calculus is lmao, i’m from the uk and just know geometry is shapes

[@stephaniehb9921]

@@gracemb6528 we learn calculus in the UK

[@gracemb6528]

@@stephaniehb9921 we probably do i just couldn’t tell what but of maths it is for the life of me lmao

[@goldie3441]

Fun fact: In Austria you put a lot (a lot!) of emphasis in the two world wars (at least in my school) In my 7 years of lessons, we worked through the whole topic twice with almost 3/4 of a year just for WWII We really don't want to repeat what had happened when someone doesn't get accepted into our university of fine arts (it's still nearly impossible to get in though, but that's due to the almost one-on-one lessons about learning the specific techniques required for some of the courses)

[@KD-vb9hh]

lol

[@SoraLivesHerLife]

Americans: "Getting a driver's licence is expensive" Germany: *laughs in the background*

[@hannajung7512]

But then... when done with your education to get a license in Germany you actially can drive a car without killing yourself and others... ;-)

[@hannajung7512]

@Kosch KX actually, Germans criticize themself all the time, and saying that you are proud to be German will bring you strange looks. Many Germans think we should be more like americans and develope more national pride. But you know what: national identity and national pride has never done anything good for a nation. It only suffercates necessary criticisem and quells progress.

[@hannajung7512]

@Kosch KX I know they die a lot less frequently, then in other nations and ine of the teasons is the good education you get before being allowed to drive compared to these other nations.

[@hannajung7512]

@Kosch KX well, interessting claim, that does not match with my experience, I am sure you can offer a reputable poll, since you said you had your data from there. I experience people being extremly critical of Germany as a whole here.

[@hannajung7512]

@Kosch KX I am a German citizen...

[@C3yl0]

Disclaimer: all these electives are not offered in all public schools. These electives that he went through such as: Biomedical ethics, must be from High Schools located in middle and high class income areas in the USA.

[@pcstew3]

My school basically had no electives but still made you take elective courses so by senior year ppl had like 5 "elective" classes of study hall. Or you could take college courses, no in between. So yeah kids were forced to go to school for 7 hours for 5 of those hours to basically be study hall haha

[@Wynn_Silver]

Yeah, I didn't have anything available like he's showing here. But I live in a fairly poor, middle of nowhere chunk of the US.

[@rothern3761]

Hell I come from a pretty well off part of the country and we didn't have nearly this amount of choice and opportunity. What kind of silver spoon was he born with?

[@Em-rp9ho]

Our electives were pretty basic: band, choir, art, speech, info tech, woods, agriculture, and welding. There were a couple others that would pop up as a focused English or history courses, but nothing as in depth as what was listed in this video.

[@cristobalgarces1675]

I guess I'm lucky then. My high school was neither high class nor located in a high income area. But we had tons of career courses from law, nursing, photography, engineering, cooking, and cosmetology.

[@kalieriley8719]

That fact your school had money for all of those electives is amazing. I’m from Oklahoma and our public schools cut all funding for the arts electives but didn’t for the sports programs.

[@emjayay]

Oklahoma has low taxes and low school funding but like the other less advanced states they do like their team sports. After all, it's just above Texas.

[@shannonhensley2942]

I'm from Nebraska and the only schools that had those electives were the ones with rich alumni. The reason I know was because the school I went to only started losing funding when they opened the school to other parts of the city. After I graduated they had an alumni monthly news letter that at the end they practicly begged for money.

[@amandagogolin5920]

I am a NJ teacher, NJ requires that students take arts classes in order to graduate. The arts is very valued in NJ school system.

[@bryanhempel4764]

In Oklahoma we stopped voting for teachers raises because all the money goes to the Union leaders and not the teachers. If Oklahoma would get rid of the Union our teachers would be paid more and our schools would be better. It sucks but we have the right to homeschool in our constitution so a lot of parents homeschool their kids.

[@mayloo2137]

You were lucky. We didn't have any kind of art program except Drama or band. Drama was an option; Band was considered extracurricular so it took place after school classes

[@rissa_rarity_611]

For the record, not all American high schools have drivers ed. I'm jealous tbh 😅 We just called it Technology but there was a woodshop class for people who actually knew what they were doing. In Technology, we worked a little with wood but most of it was playing a game called Bridge Builder on the computer and basic design drawings.

[@TheNinjaNiky]

Well NJ is one of the hardest states to drive in and one of the most strict so it makes sense. I also live in NJ

[@BrandonLeeBrown]

Some places require private or school driver's ed to get a license before age 18. Also many insurance companies give a discount for a grade of B or better in driver's ed. After age 18, you only need to pass the DMV test, but without driver's ed, you won't get any insurance discount. Insurance for boys costs about twice that for girls.

[@LizDinVT]

"I love my country, but we need to start seeing other people" - bumper sticker in US

[@itwoznotme]

i love that!

[@Believez..]

Oh my Lord 🤣

[@priscillaroberts7945]

Tell that to Ann Sacoolas.

[@jessicakeskemety22]

I would buy this!! Let’s make it!

[@theire483]

When I was in school (US) English in some form was required all 4 yrs. In my Jr yr English was journalism, in my, my sophomore yr it was mini courses which included: Shakespeare, Gothic, Greek mythology, I cannot recall the 4th one (so you know I was in school many moons ago), they were divided over four semesters instead of the entire school yr focused on one particular study. It was your choice. PE or ROTC required all 4 yrs which included: floor ex, field hockey, track, swimming, volkeyball, basketball, dance, badminton. It also included sex ed, and CPR, and driver's ed. These everyone must pass in the state where I attended: Consumer ed required given as part of (in my case) law, driver's ed, proficiency skill (usually taken in 8th grade if not then in high), US Constitution given in 8th grade. 3yrs science: chemistry, biology, physical sciences. 4yrs history: US, American, World,African-Americans or law. 3 yrs math: in my case: Algebra I, Sophomore yr Algebra 2 and geometry. 1 yr Home Ec, art, music In the case of the boys I don't think they did the home ec. In yr 2 you need to select a major: there were too many to name: General business which includes a separate class career analysis. Aviation, horticulture, cabinetry, office procedures, automtives, commercial art, Orchestra, band, vocals, drama, accounting,architectural drafting etc. These began in yr 2-4. You take these classes as 2 classes. Typing as a separate class yrs 1-4. It is 2 classes in yr 4 (periods). Electives such as a foreign language were not required. Sciences are 2 classes on certain days. There's more, but enough for now....note there is nothing about computers mentioned. Yep we had them, but it depended on the major you chose. The requirements in most schools today are less than years ago.

[@ngib059]

As the video goes on, the fear in Corry’s eyes grows EDIT: woah that’s a lot of likes

[@TokiDokiNara728]

"You don't really have enough history to warrant two years and not learning anyone else's history." Not only that, but by the time we get to high school it's about the sixth time we've gone over the same events, as it's the same history we're taught again and again in the lower grades - at a different depth, granted, but as a student it's so boring to go over the same dates and people over and over again. And then my community college required ANOTHER US history class as part of the basic curriculum requirements (just in case we missed the first 8 times I guess).

[@IXSICNESS]

To be fair, I dont see a problem of going over the same stuff but in more depth every year. That is probably the most effective method of learning. But given that you are reinforcing and expanding established knowledge each year it does seem that some of the time dedicated to that subject could be better spent elsewhere without much of a negative impact on students ability to learn american history. I hope this makes sense.

[@nathandias6771]

Where I live we do three type of History classes, one for national history, one for international history and another optional one for local history that usually gets mixed with the national history one. Works just fine as we do two cycles, one in middle school and another in high school.

[@shovelofjustice4322]

2 things 1. Where I'm from you take world history and geography, us history, and a semester of gov and a semester of econ so we do learn about other histories 2. I took AP us history which I think was really beneficial because not only did we learn about the wars and atrocities of American history but also all of the laws that were passed and repealed and all the instances of the people's voice being used to enact change that is still relevant today so maybe it's kind of help young people know their freedoms and where they come from I guess but idk

[@kelcritcarroll]

Its part of the brainwashing they implement here in the usa

[@FirstNameLastName-wt5to]

I’ve never heard of two years of US history. We took one year of US history, one year of World History, one year of European History, and Government/Economics.

[@bookclub5021]

This all sounds so very complicated. In the UK, you start the year, you're given a timetable of all your classes and you follow that timetable for the whole year. At a certain age, when certain subjects become optional, they'll ask you in advance which of the humanities subject you want to choose (usually people either pick history or geography) and which language you want to choose (usually a choice between German, French and Spanish) and that's it.

[@lukewalker3]

It’s really not it’s very easy lol and in the UK if you fail you fail you can’t get credits or anything that’s why you guys have that because I willing to bet the pass rate would probably very low

[@bookclub5021]

@@lukewalker3 I'm not sure what you mean, but you're right in the UK if you fail a subject, you've failed it but it doesn't necessarily mean you can't into the college you want. It depends really. If you failed say, maths, you could probably still get into your chosen college (depending what you want to study of course) and then retake a math GCSE class in college. Lots of people I know were retaking one thing or another in college that they failed in school. This is important because it can be tricky to get into university if you haven't passed at least the 3 main GCSE's (english, maths and science). The US system does seem a bit complicated to someone not used to it.

[@lukewalker3]

@@bookclub5021 umm I guess so I’m from the uk and the USA system does not seem that hard to understand it and even in the uk even if you fail someone you can always redo even if your not good at something the uk is very much I will give you a chance your GCSE do not matter that much of your willing to do the job your be fine

[@Stu67nt]

​@@lukewalker3the government makes the pass rate at a set roughly 70 to 66% per year so only the top 70%ish of scorers can pass. As the way our gcse and a level grading system works is that everyone sits the exam its marked then they put everyone's scores on a normal distribution curve and split it up into the boundries. For example anyone who was in the 50th percentile or better will score at least a grade 5 (strong pass or like a c+ if i try put it in american grading but idk if a c+ exists).

[@abracabadass]

I'm Canadian, so about half my experience aligns with American schools and the other half seems more British. Like a swirly ice cream cone.

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

Which parts are similar to American High School? P.S. if it weren't so cold in Canada I'd move there instead of Portugal for educational security for my possible future children.

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

@Luis Martinez I don't know about Washington or Oregon but California has a state-required 2 years of a foreign language. I took Spanish all the way up to AP as a native speaker and two years of French. But we should be starting in elementary school so we learn for a lifetime rather than just 2 years. Learning a language that's not Latin-based (minus Romanian and some french words) is very difficult as a young adult unless you're immersed in it for months at a time, have some really good long-term memory, or a lot of time to dedicate to that. I was in college taking French again and let me tell you that it is way more difficult being sleep deprived, having 4 other sped-up courses, and only 4 months to learn than high school french where your most likely to be in a class filled with sophomores and freshmen and having at least 1 non-French French teacher. Those who are French are particularly picky about grammar and rather banal. Not that I liked the overly-animated and energetic teacher 2nd year of French teacher I got. She was the complete opposite and taught a lot of passe compose and vocabulary.

[@swikaharra]

@@ivetterodriguez1994FYI: university where is not free and if you move you may land a job as a house cleaners like most of Portuguese here. In simple words you will be a slave and your kids the future slaves that will support economic growth here. Centuries ago, slaves were brought by ships and benefitted from free travel (they have to pay for it later on) now slaves are willing to come and fly to land here ...they become slaves but they do not realize right away....they keep chasing the dream of succeeding ....until they can see it clear it was a trap and it is too late to go back and restart from zero again.

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

@@swikaharra Alright, so how about Catalonia? I just knew that Portugal has a good education that still values being entertaining. As well as Finland, but it's cold there. Maybe Germany?

[@TraceyJean]

I’m Jamaican. We had to learn Caribbean History, US History, and World History.

[@gagabarbidou5975]

"We do a lot of foreign languages" : 3 years. In France, the minimum for many people is 7 years of English and 6 years of another language (Spanish, German...). Many people even learn a 3rd language in high school. And I don't think we're the most extreme country. It's just that 3 years of a single language is nothing

[@homiej2548]

I mean thats because english is so commonly spoken. Why make kids learn spanish or french and they only end up using if if they do international travel.

[@gagabarbidou5975]

@@homiej2548 I'm not saying it's a bad thing that they have so little foreign language (I'm not sure how to say it, sorry, I'm not English). It's just that when he says he has a lot of "foreign languages" classes, it just shows how little he knows the world, because in the Western world, the US might be the only country that's worse than them. Once again, sorry if I made any mistakes, even if I've been learning English for 7 years, the foreign language education is shit in France

[@homiej2548]

@@gagabarbidou5975 Ah got you. And your english is pretty good, no worries

[@gayathrivp2685]

We do 12 years of the English language in 12 years we spend in school and 2 more years in pre-primary.

[@gagabarbidou5975]

@@robinkid_crusoe7697 everyone learns it. But many people still suck at it, to be honest

[@emily5844]

It’s so crazy watching Evan say “well in US schools.....” and then he says something I’ve never encountered in my whole life as an American 😂 what are they up to in NJ???

[@janethebluemouse]

His school sounds fancy

[@nerdymcnerderson5679]

Fr and 120 credits to graduate??? Nothing like that here in Texas

[@fezli8139]

@George Welch NY same but I was in NYC. I had a friend transfer from our school to NY Jersey after flunking out of basically every class from not attending. She was able to make up her 3 years of failure in 1.5 years in Jersey and I'm still not sure about how that worked. Apparently, most of the kids were pretty 'dumb'.

[@Killer_Turnip]

@@fezli8139 it's the "no child left behind" thing. basically teachers are pressured to pass kids just to get them out of the school system, it depends on what area you're in though. In my NJ school, unless you were in honors, there's so many "bobo" classes that are dumbed down. Although some things are not passable, like doing no work or not attending class at all. I've heard getting your GED is pretty easy here tho.

[@dreninho5691]

RIGHT!? MF landscaping?!?!?!

[@kevinmorris2959]

I fly over to London for work in a weeks time, I was telling a friend about it last night… she was convinced London was in Paris France… as a pretty “die hard” American… it upsets me that our education system has failed so many in so many similar ways, I don’t know if I would ever necessarily want to live outside of where I’m from as I’m a very “home body” type of person who likes where I’m from, but I do want to travel the world and experience other countries and cultures and diversities within those nations, and not from a tourist perspective like “oh I have to go see Big Ben!” But from a working class pub and have conversations with locals about anything and everything

[@israellai]

Hey, if there's a Prague inside Warsaw, who knows if there isn't a London in Paris hahahaha

[@lindylou7853]

Paris, Texas.

[@adrianboardman162]

Come to Saddleworth. It's pretty interesting. Not only was part of the film Yanks filmed there, but you have beautiful countryside. I also have a place near Blackpool which is quite fun.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

@@adrianboardman162 i watched the movie _"Yanks"_ at least a dozen times. but i think i watched the version that was for adults only. 😁

[@kezkezooie8595]

@@israellai I'm Australian and, although it happens less frequently now than in the past, I can't tell you how many times I've been told by people from the US that I speak English very well.

[@catbeara]

"Could I take Scots, maybe? Is that one of the languages there?" "I don't believe they know that's a language." 😂

[@lyrasilvertongue9517]

And it’s actually Gaelic aswell 😂

[@catbeara]

@@lyrasilvertongue9517 oh, well I think they're 2 separate languages? "Gáidhlig" (a Goidelic language) and "Scots" (a Germanic language)?

[@aceatlasska4343]

As a Scot I can confirm that Gaelic and Scots are two completely different languages, Gaelic is a Celtic language spoken by a minority of Scottish people (I think it used to spoken in the whole of Scotland but I'm not sure about that) and Scots is a language/dialect, it's sort of confusing since people tend to have different opinions on whether it's a language or a dialect, and many people sort of speak it to varying extents on a of spectrum from Scottish English (basically English spoken with a Scottish accent) to pure Scots. Scots is also quite diverse and there's different dialects and accents depending on where you live (and the angrier a Scottish person gets the more Scots they get of course). Gaelic has different accents too of course.

[@danielcowan87]

@@aceatlasska4343 Irish person here and fluent Gaeilge (irish speaker) have you ever noticed that so many people call Irish, gaeilic? It's very frustrating lol

[@aceatlasska4343]

@@danielcowan87 yeah I don't speak Gaelic sadly (would like to learn it in the future though), I tend to think of it as Irish (for what some people might call Irish Gaelic) and Gaelic for Scots Gaelic. You can tell the difference cos the "Gaelic" is pronounced differently. It's also really annoying when people mispronounce Scots Gaelic as "Gaylic", especially frustrating when Scottish people do it.

[@BanaiFeldstein]

Corry: American history takes two years? How? Me: I took two separate years of US history and they spent so much time making us memorize useless dates, we only got to about 1900 when the school year ended. Both times.

[@ArnieD17]

Teachers teach dates because they either don't understand history or are too lazy to teach it.

[@thearem4035]

We went through 200y of world history (1789-1989) in two years. Twice😂 (I’m German).

[@felixvelariusbos]

My high school history classes usually made it to after World Word II, but yeah same. I had to get into college before we learned anything past 1950s. I had to pick that through cultural osmosis which tends to not be reliable. It was always on the syllabus but somehow we always ran out of time. Which sucks since, imo, the recent history is what's often directly impacting you. Meanwhile though, I have fun telling my non-Texan friends that I had to take a year of Texas history in middle school xD Apparently it's not that common to have a state specific history class!

[@gwtpictgwtpict4214]

@@ArnieD17 Having known a history teacher, he taught dates because the curriculum and exams required it, he personally thought it wasn't very useful. Mind, this was 25 years ago and in the UK, other times and education systems are available.

[@eavening4149]

I believe that your family is supposed to teach you modern history, or you are supposed to discover it miraculously by yourself, because there is so much controversy about teaching more recent history and the political slant that can be imparted to students in multiple directions that parents object to.

[@MarioBecerraC]

"Do they have to learn Scots?" "I don't believe they know it's a language" I almost spit my coffee.

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

@Mario You can take Gaelic in some schools as a language option in Scotland. There are some schools, though not many, where you speak Gaelic and are taught all subjects in Gaelic rather than English.

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches I know. I live here, in Scotland. Scots is not too far from English overall, with some very different words as well. Gaelic is a very different language altogether. I simply provided information about the opportunities to learn Gaelic and Gaelic speaking schools.

[@patchso]

Mario: To be fair, most Brits (English?) don't know that Scots is a language. Fun fact: Scots is a sister language to Middle English, so, I guess, an 'auntie' language to Modern English. Oh, and of course, nothing to do with Scottish Gaelic. (Edit: which Shelley Philcox wasn't suggesting).

[@faithlesshound5621]

You can study the Scots Language as a topic at a Scottish University, as part of a degree in English. Scots authors aren't (or weren't) compulsory for Higher English at school in the way that Shakespeare is, but everybody studied Burns and Scott. There was the option to study Henryson and Dunbar instead of Chaucer. Scots isn't actually an official language in Scotland, but Ulster Scots is in Northern Ireland. That was the Protestants' way of balancing the Catholics' insistence on studying Irish. Whereas in Scotland, Gaelic isn't sectarian. Possibly more people learn to sing in Gaelic than actually speak it.

[@patchso]

@@faithlesshound5621 I'm English and I love Runrig and Capercaille, they do quite a few of their songs in Gaelic, It's a language that sounds great when sung! Also I'm wondering how different Scottish Scots and Ulster Scots are from each other. Mutually understandable?

[@Frahamen]

One year of foreign language is wild. We had at least 3 forgeign languages during our entire education. + Ancient Greek and Latin but that was optional. Languages was half of our education.

[@a_person4742]

In ireland we learn irish for about 12 years (6 -18ish) and a foreign language for about 6 years (12 - 18ish). Only learning english for so long is such a wild concept?

[@TheNinjaNiky]

It changes by school, I'm also from NJ also and we were 3 years too EDIT: that's only high school though when you choose a language. All together we learned Spanish starting from kindergarten

[@sj_leee4995]

in texas its 2 years

[@TheNinjaNiky]

@GMAngelone it's alright, everyone is going to have biases because of their upbringing, which is okay. But it's also good to know when you're biased lol. I always think it's important to know the other side, especially if you don't agree with it, because how can you argue against it otherwise? But a lot of others don't think that way, or they base their opinions solely on what they've heard in the media, which is never okay regardless of the topic lol

[@JimforbesRitte]

Yes. Even in England in the eighties, we had to do at least one foreign language for three years.

[@cam6963]

“Then we showed up and everything was good again” sums up all of the American history I’ve ever been taught....

[@snuklens]

Not if you take it in college. In highschool it's america good 😸😸. In college it's "FUCK THE US ALL THEY DID WAS OPPRESS OTHERS 😾😾"

[@JDawg-4]

@@snuklens I agree! It’s like there is no middle road.

[@ManiacalBlueberry]

Tbh Im glad my teacher taught U.S. history without any emotions behind it like that. We were taught different sides to each war and why it happened not only the baseline of the war but the little things that sparked it. I feel bad for people that didnt get that lind of experience.

[@helolange1132]

That's literally the opposite of most of the US history I've learned 😂 (I'm Brazilian btw)

[@briannanicole485]

I’m taking AP US History right now in high school and we actually learn a lot about the bad things the US did. I guess it really depends on your course and school 😕

[@ellipsis-]

"American TV shows are making so much sense now" same

[@DJSkywalker716]

I always took pride that my high school offered Japanese and Latin as language courses, though I find it strange yours didn't at least have German. Spanish, French, and German were like the standard 3 languages that you could learn at any of the schools. Sadly I missed out on Latin, but I took 2 years of Japanese which was fun.

[@aimisakee5446]

Mine too! Did you go to school in WI? We had 7. Latin, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Japanese.

[@DJSkywalker716]

@@aimisakee5446 nah, it was in NE

[@jaysefgames1155]

I did Japanese and Latin at my school.

[@Kal41686]

If it makes you feel any better I took 4 years of Latin and not used it a single time since graduation so that was a waste of a language. If you planned on going into law or medicine though it would have helped immensely

[@eiPderF]

I remember a transfer student from Iowa who told us our school was inferior because he couldn’t continue his German or play soccer. Way to be positive?

[@organisedchaosxo]

"Lady courses!?" There was more guys in my Food Tech class than women when I was in school so not sure what you're on about with lady classes.

[@cuca_]

Yeaa that came off badly, why did he say that 🥴

[@BlackCatBritt]

agreed. we called it "home economics" and we took it in like 6th grade. Taught us everything from basic cooking skills, to laundry, to sewing, and even basic cleaning and carpentry. tbh most people could probably have used a refresher before going off to college....

[@ManiacalBlueberry]

Home economics doesn't even exist in my school. We "learn" basic hygiene in health

[@lollylolly8186]

Yep I took Wood shop and Welding with many girls and the guys loved Home Ec where they could bake and eat.

[@Wimlan]

We had to choose between woodwork and sewing classes in junior high school. All the sporty guys in my class choose sewing. They used to sit between classes in groups and knit. It was kind of refreshing to see =D

[@maximushaughton2404]

My favourite quote, Ambrose Bierce: “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography."

[@emmacheese6107]

Hahaha I love it

[@midnightsunflower3473]

Yes

[@dynamicworlds1]

Ooof

[@milkman2808]

Lmaoooo

[@lennoxpenguin8369]

We literally just talked about Ambrose Bierce today in my British Literature 1 class.

[@disaster4550]

us schools are so confusing with this credit stuff, and when they say stuff like "this guy is from my english class" im so confused cuz we just go to school with the same exact class that we had since day 1 with the same people for 11 years and we all go to the same lessons that we didn't pick whatsoever also most subjects we have every year

[@calebfuller4713]

You don't get ANY electives ever? Damn, in Australia by year 11 and 12 it's ALL elective (except English - you have to do SOME English course!) 9 and 10 are mostly elective courses too.

[@lindakuntosova9434]

Yes! And it creates such a bond with the class so it's kinda sad they won't be able to experience it

[@FirstNameLastName-wt5to]

@@lindakuntosova9434 This is such a weird perspective to me. I liked getting to meet new people and not getting stuck with the same people year after year or even class after class. We did have the ability to choose our classes in a way that allowed us to be with friends sometimes.

[@fmcm7715]

@Dis Aster what country are you from?

[@disaster4550]

@@fmcm7715 Ukraine

[@21ruevictorhugo]

I’m an 80 years old American, from Massachusetts, and in high school I had four years of Latin and three years of French. I majored in English at a state college then some years later, my husband came back from Viet Nam with a huge box of math books from a place where they sold illegal copies of books. I opened one called “What is Mathematics” and I got hooked. So I went back to college and studied math and even went to graduate school at U Mass Boston. I now live in France and found that I had actually learned very little French in those three years. 😂

[@BlahblahBlop]

totally missed opportunity: how much wood would a wood tech tech if a wood tech could tech wood?

[@suadela87]

A wood tech would tech as much wood as a wood tech could tech if a wood tech could tech wood.

[@Ramtamtama]

@@suadela87 this is brilliant. Round my way we pronounce "take" and "tech" the same.

[@funkypigeondotcom7917]

@@Ramtamtama wheres that?

[@EgoBrain1]

🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻

[@resourceress7]

This is what my brain started chanting at that point, too.

[@MellonVegan]

That history bit is funny. In my 13 years of school in Germany, I had 2 years of modern German history (basically half a year of anything leading up to the founding of a unified German state, half a year of the Empire and WWI, half a year of Weimar Republic and WWII and half a year of Cold War/Reunification) and 7 years of just general European and world history. There is just so much more emphasis on the world in general (though I feel like you still miss out on a lot of history of the Americas and Asia).

[@lieutenantoin929]

World history minus Asia mostly, right?

[@MellonVegan]

@@lieutenantoin929 I think there was some Asian history in there but not nearly enough imo. Neither was there enough about Africa or South America (we only talked about the latter in Spanish). Then again, I remember a whole thing about Japan and some about China. Possibly India and Mongolia. But other places often get overlooked.

[@lizziejay5362]

Most states do US history, state history, world geography, social studies which is world wide not just US, US government on cultures, and world history as basic required history. Some north east areas unfortunately don't put much importance on history.

[@KD-vb9hh]

So in 13 years, you had 9 years of history. So if your first year of history was when you were 8, what did you study? That's kind of young to be learning about world culture/history in a very formal way. We also learned history-related stuff when I was 8, but it was just incorporated into the curriculum, there weren't separate classes with separate teachers, which is what these two are talking about. For example, I was in California, and we learned about the native tribes of California and how they lived. We did worksheets to learn facts and visited reservations to meet indigenous people. We walked around the neighborhood and looked at architecture and how that tied in with local history. We learned basic geography and about climate, which is of course part science and part of geography as well. So it's not like we totally ignore history and culture until we reach high school. I remember learning about all sorts of stuff when I was a young kid of say 7-12, like ancient civilizations, prehistoric humans, etc. Sometimes I feel like (some) Europeans go out of their way to find things to mock Americans about. Of course we didn't just start learning about stuff like history in high school. You have to build a foundation of knowledge. Then when we were around 12 we started learning about history in a more formal way. We did a year of world history in middle school (13 or 14) and another one in high school. We also learned two years of U.S. hist in the same way. There was a government class. Then, when we were seniors, we took elective history classes if we were serious about learning it. I took Asian studies and a philosophy course. So no, we don't just take a few years of history in 13 years of school, obviously not.

[@Rogasu]

@@KD-vb9hh in Italy we start studying history since elementary school (7-12) and we learn stuff like from prehistoric humans to the Egyptians, than in 12-15 school we study seriously from the Egyptians to WWII, than in highschool we study even more seriously from the Greeks to modern day. Even though a lot of Asian, African history is left behind. I know that sometimes some Europeans go way to far thinking that us educational system is total garbage, I think that's because there are a lot of dumb Americans in the internet, and I'm not saying that there are not dumb Europeans, most of them just don't speak English so is just difficult to find them.

[@lucie4185]

Oooh Evan do a History GCSE exam like the maths and English one!

[@phoebeboffey8182]

Yes omg that would be brilliant!

[@castlestar454]

Would love to see that. Maybe not doing it but just looking through and reacting to it would also be cool to see!

[@afloatingpineapple6170]

The marking for History is very different to other subjects though as it’s all essay writing, so it might not make the most entertaining video

[@alistairsamson299]

I think Evan should be made to study enclosure, the crop rotation system and poor law.

[@lucie4185]

@@alistairsamson299 oh god the three field system!

[@renepeters945]

Our requirements were REALLY different. At my school, in NY, even the credits were calculated differently. I took Latin as a foreign language. A lot of your options were clubs for us. For band, it was just band (marching AND concert in one) and stuff like jazz band was an after-school activity.

[@cat-uc5qx]

Remember, too, that curriculum and options are also affected by the socio-economic status of the school district. It seems that Evan's high school provided many options and that is not going to be reflected in every school district. I've lived in big urban cities and rural areas, both of which had schools severely lacking resources. *edit*: further, some school districts are in very religious counties and the education system reflects this in science and health curricula (at the very least).

[@pleasesetmeonfire1166]

I lived in a rural area and almost keeled over when I found out people were learning something other than Spanish with actual teachers. Even online options for us were limited. A school a few towns away had a sign language class, and I was super jealous. But my school didn’t even have a choir or drama club. We only had band, piano, psychology/sociology (split into 2 semesters), PE, and that was all our electives. Other than a weird Spanish Culture club, Quiz Bowl, and NHS, there were no other activities either.

[@hotpotato1898]

@@pleasesetmeonfire1166 hey we don't have piano, or psychology / sociology as an option for an actual class in my country :,)

[@harvkent8017]

We call woodwork “design tech” or DT but it covers more such as graphic design, textiles, woodwork, and cooking and then when you get onto GCSE’s you can either opt out or choose to do one of the 4 in which you do the exact same exam but then you get a final set of questions that is individual to your course (this was my experience at least)

[@eleanorsenecal6378]

also the coursework is slightly different, like the layout is the same but the stuff you do is different

[@harvkent8017]

@@eleanorsenecal6378 right yeah completely forgot about the coursework (probably because mine was so bad)

[@eleanorsenecal6378]

@@harvkent8017 fair lmao im doing mine atm and its shit so im kinda stressed over it

[@SobrietyandSolace]

We weren’t even allowed to do it until GCSE years which sucked and we didn’t get a fair chance to try the different kinds. Cooking wasn’t an option and there were extremely limited spaces in textiles. No metal work available.

[@ZizZap4]

At my high school the NHS was actually, like, A THING. We were expected to keep the honor by doing 50 hours of community service around the district.

[@dellavie4319]

"Keep the honour" -- Was your principal named Zuko, by any chance?

[@SkippingToTheEndOfHistory]

Interesting. When I was in the NHS, it just meant that I had a high gpa and there were no ongoing requirements whatsoever. That was back in the 80’s.

[@JamesTDG]

Community service reqs suck when you live in an area requiring a car to get anywhere

[@03Jules]

wow, for our nhs we had to do around 250 hours before we graduated (i think it was like submit around 60 per year minimum) dont ask why we were fucking insane for some reason. but you could like submit them as long as you hit that 60(ish not 100% sure its been like 2 years) so u could technically do like 100 one year then youd only be required to do another ~20 the next year. shit was whack but also it was like a huge deal ig for us you got like a lot of chords for graduation bc of the requirements

[@ZizZap4]

@@03Jules I'm trying to remember the specifics of ours because I know I got part of it wrong. I can't remember if it was 50 *each* of in-district and out-of-district service or 25 and 25 for a *total* of 50. Either way, that was per year. NHS was open to 10th grade and beyond, so it was either 150 before graduation or 300.

[@leepiekiel1740]

I've only seen your school so far, but as a fellow American I am shocked by how relaxed the educational requirements in New Jersey are!!! My school you needed 4 years of English, 3 for Math 4 for Science and 4 years for History (2 US and 2 World) and we needed 3 years of a foreign language and 2 years of an art/music.

[@suzanneford1571]

Thr funny thing is all 4 years of English are the same lessons just rewritten, at least in our schools

[@eleanorpimentel7917]

I feel like something that wasn’t really touched on at all is that American education and college admissions is really focused on extracurricular activities, whereas British schools don’t even have extracurriculars on their applications. So the American curriculum might look a lot easier, but for more ambitious students, it’s supplemented by a lot of demanding clubs and competitions and other activities. Edit: Sorry, to clarify, I didn't mean that British schools don't have extracurriculars, just that the UCAS application doesn't involve listing extracurriculars and British universities don't focus on it in admissions, whereas extracurriculars are really important in the US Common App and admissions process.

[@diannaa.62]

Well yeah extracurriculars are important if you are looking to go to a prestigious university even then you’d have to do activities that really make you stand out.

[@KJ-lb4tj]

The good universities in the UK totally rely on your ability to show leadership and ingenuity in all your extra curricular activities as everyone applying has triple A* in their educational achievement. Might not be a special place for it in the application form as it's just assumed you need to put all that in. But again in the UK, the usual extra curricular things that people do, gold in Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, grade 8 in two instruments... They're all run of the mill now, you need to demonstrate things way beyond that.

[@thedepressedavacado8267]

In the uk we have things like DofE

[@user-ny7wm8gb7d]

we do have extracurricular we have things like dofe and volounterring work

[@caitlin329]

Your personal statement for university often includes extracurricular activities. Or applications for apprenticeships, jobs etc.

[@erissmith845]

To clarify: Agriculture is farming. Landscaping is planning lawns, gardens parks and stuff.

[@digitized_fyre]

'this year were doing trigonometry' What the heck? We did that shiz in 2 weeks!

[@rainmer471]

I think he misspoke and meant geometry? Because geometry is the class after Algebra 1 and trig is a subset of geometry

[@owolis3013]

@@rainmer471 let's hope so 😭

[@pekularity8690]

No. He meant this year. How do you learn trigonometry in just two weeks? At my school it was at least a semester if not the whole year

[@gargeebasak9648]

@@rainmer471 we did geometry in 4 months. Complete geometry. But I'm Indian so ig that makes sense

[@rainmer471]

@@gargeebasak9648 I mean,,, Honestly that sounds about right. If you cut out all the practicing the same basic formulas for a week and the beginning of the year review unit on Algebra 1 and the end of the year unit on the start of Algebra 2, it would probably be closer to four or five months in my school as well. Alas, despite doing two years advanced math my class is apparently not smart enough to learn pythagorean theorem in under a week-

[@emikiwi]

I love how hilarious Evan finds everything about Scotland High School in South Dakota... and how alternately bemused and offended Corrie is! 🤣

[@Jahu-qs2us]

How is there less Maths than PE???

[@THESUPERIORONE.]

In my school we have 5 years of maths

[@THESUPERIORONE.]

@Subi in my school there it was once a week for 5 years In south Africa

[@evan]

PE every year

[@emiller6564]

The high school that I go to has pe required for one credit (one year) but if you play sports you can continue to the "advance" pe for all 4 years. 4 years for everyone seems really odd.

[@castlestar454]

That’s what really stuck out to me in this! Maths for three years but PE for four. What the hell?!?!

[@kpwxx]

This explains why Bella's class schedule in Twilight only seemed to have Biology and no other science! I genuinely always wondered about that, like, when do they study physics and chemistry?!

[@emjayay]

Depends, but most if not all high school students take Chemistry and Biology for a year each and often Physics as well. Like he said, there can be several levels of Physics.

[@MR-or6yv]

In my school, we all started with basic biology, but then progressed to chemistry and physics. We had a lot of elective science classes. Some people took astronomy, geology, or meteorology, but I preferred bio and took anatomy and physiology, field biology, etc. (There were others as well.)

[@toriw4103]

At my school we did bio the first year, then chemistry, then physics, then and upper level science of your choice (we could do physics as AP or pre AP)

[@EgoBrain1]

In Ohio. For science classes, you have to take physical science, biology, and advanced science to graduate. You can take chemistry and other science classes as electives.

[@bumblebee4me4ever]

At my school it was physical science, biology, anatomy, then an earth science. I’m only getting a chemistry now in college.

[@music4life813]

PA resident here. I didn’t do Drivers Ed in school 🤷🏻‍♀️ we just learned from anyone who already knows how to drive and schedule our own tests at the local DMV

[@valenciaketterley]

thats how we did it too but I'm from NE so i thought it was just a rural thing lol

[@alexismunoz8852]

Yeah in AZ you don’t HAVE to take a drivers Ed course to get your license. It just makes the process easier

[@KatyAnn623]

From NJ and this just clarified so much about PA drivers. No wonder we complain about them so much. JK (sort of)

[@evan]

@@KatyAnn623 hahahaha so true

[@faithflutist103]

At my school in PA, we had drivers ed for the knowledge part of it to help you get your permit. As an October baby though, I was already 16 by the time I had this course (pretty sure it had to be taken sophmore year), so didn't really help me. Behind the wheel lessons were not through the school, but I did take them to reduce insurance cost. Guess that varies by school or at least region.

[@tonytheriault1186]

The fact that there’s a Scotland, South Dakota reminds me about a great bit of trivia about American and Canadian geography. There’s a New Jersey, New Brunswick in Canada, and a New Brunswick, New Jersey in America. I found that out when I told someone that I was from northern New Brunswick, and they thought I lived in New Jersey.

[@wintergray1221]

London, Kentucky is not like London, England, either.

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

"We get to mess around with biomedical ethics" Hey Evan, just remind me NEVER to get healthcare from anyone who went to a New Jersey high school

[@evan]

Hahaha

[@peterc.1618]

I'm not feeling well, doctor. What's the matter? Someone's been messing around with my biomedical ethics.

[@eleanor5890]

Wait, so Americans didn't make a volcano cake in year 7 for geography homework?? Crazy

[@BlackCatBritt]

we had the chance to in grade 8 for Earth Science, which is basically natural sciences i.e studying rocks, geography, carbon dating, etc.

[@eleanor5890]

@@BlackCatBritt ah ok. So geography is pretty much incorporated into science lessons, that makes sense

[@tiny_mouse6448]

My school didn't get to do cool science projects like that because the students are too bad. Last year we had at least 1 bomb threat a week during the first semester. Someone once set a piece of paper on fire in the English 1 classroom. I also can't even count how many teacher quit because of us.

[@eleanor5890]

@@tiny_mouse6448 lmaooo sounds like a typical English school!

[@ManiacalBlueberry]

@@tiny_mouse6448 One time we had 13 fights at my school and we had the police called on us after the 3rd time. That was in middle school. In high school there was a fight in our school bathroom that ended up on the news. It was over shoes. 😒

[@Rosie-ww9tt]

What’s ironic is that in the two years of US History we don’t even learn a comprehensive amount of slavery, Native American history, American women’s history, minority studies in America, anything like that. So when you do get to college you think you have a good foundation of history for the country you live in and then you realize you’ve basically been lied to by process of omission for 12 years.

[@kasandralantz772]

Then when you try to tell non college educated Americans about this they tell you you‘ve been brainwashed by the liberals lol

[@Rosie-ww9tt]

@@shawnlee220 you’re absolutely right!Because we aren’t taught those things, we have to teach ourselves. So many people are so obsessed with the fake history we’ve been taught that they refuse to accept any different. Not having it as part of the curriculum erases marginalized groups from American history. They deserve to have their stories taught as they’re growing up and not watered down and twisted. We have a responsibility to teach ourselves, but the school system needs to change and be held accountable.

[@marilynsd1474]

my highschool focused heavily on those points, especially in high school.

[@emjayay]

I taught US History in California years ago and all that was in the curriculum. And kids do get US History all through grade/middle school. A lot is gone over more than once along the way, only in more depth in high school.

[@shutterchick79]

And you can blame conservative/white supremacist politics for that. They call it "revisionist history", which breaks down to "we don't like hearing about 'Murica's wrongdoing".

[@rockyember]

This was more "Showing a Brit how my highschool was at one school in one district in one area of one state in America" rather than showing a Brit how American highschool was in general. America is soo big, and so there are soo many different kinds of school, even within a single county. Funny video nonetheless! :)

[@ashley_laura]

9 courses a year! That’s it! In the UK I had to take at least like 14 courses that I can think of for the first 3 years and then 11 for my GCSEs and that’s not including the short courses I had to take alongside it!

[@Mikellarful]

it's typically 7-9 courses at a time. so every day you have 7-9 class periods and each is a different course. some courses will run the entire year while others run just a semester.

[@crypticcryptid4702]

@@funkyfranx Yeah, on the other side though, you mess up your GCSEs and it's over. Like you have one shot.

[@rbarber]

In America they take that many courses when they are 16-18 too while in the Uk we only take 3/4 then.

[@wolfzmusic9706]

we only do 8-9 GCSEs now so it’s changed since you were last at school

[@azelmamortlake4471]

Oh, I had ten periods a day, with an average of 2 that switched over after the first semester, so about 12 per year for all of high school.

[@cloudyazure]

I don't get why everything is so specific in the us school system. In the UK we just pick general subjects to do for gcse (ie geography, art, music) and then we cover specific subjects within that. Everyone needs to do maths English science as well

[@brandonhowell5096]

Its to give students the basic understanding of a little bit of everything so they have an easier time when they get to college if they need specific classes for what ever degree they are going for.

[@gabriellex3098]

brandon howell that only makes sense because US universities follow similar types of curriculums.

[@copyweirdo]

It really depends on the school. The staff student population, classroom size, and the funding. My school was pretty general. Basic level had geography, history, art. Example art 1. Art2: painting, sculpting, photography. Art 3: same. Usually art 2 and art3 are in the same classroom. Dance1,2,3,4. I think there’s a rule in my school where you can’t repeat the same credit. My school had specialized courses but they were at a separate campus where all schools from the same school district can meet. They were called career center.

[@BlackCatBritt]

tbh I'm glad of how structured it is, bc you get a sampling of everything and can put a name to it, so if you want to study it further in college, you can. The UK way seems WAY too broad and confusing. in the video, Corry even said he didnt realize they were doing algebra and whatnot bc they never explicitly said that's what it was.

[@cloudyazure]

@@BlackCatBritt most people do know when we do specific subjects, they just don't make a big thing of it.

[@riley7701]

YOU ONLY HAD TO TAKE THREE YEARS OF MATH???? i wish edit: wasn’t expecting this much interaction! at my school you need 4 math credits to graduation (i’m american btw)

[@janani1826]

They had middle school remember If you are in the uk it's still one year more than us lol

[@Eli_skels]

@@janani1826 some places in the uk also have middle school

[@muhilan8540]

You have to take 4

[@janani1826]

@@Eli_skels yeah-but what i said is still right It's because they have it up to 18 and we go up to 16

[@srcstcgngr2905]

It depends on the place and type of diploma, like for me because I’m going for a higher diploma I need four

[@666DeViLeSs]

I'm British but I live in the US and this was so helpful. So many conversations make so much more sense lol

[@michaela5986]

7:44 my brain heard “navel science” and i wondered how you can learn so much about belly buttons that it becomes a whole subject

[@kaitlynmeares5480]

lol i heard 'nasal science' and though they had to learn about noses

[@flowerdolphin5648]

I thought it was like marine biology, but then guns came up & I was like wait a minute

[@courtneypinaud02]

I thought of the nose

[@swan_tanya]

Lol same!

[@tm02-s03]

Same i thought i was the only one 😭😭😭

[@hanniwe]

One year of a foreign language -> „Hello. My name is ... . I do not speak your language.“ Should be enough to get you through 😂😂😂

[@suadela87]

Salut. Je m’appelle ..... Je ne parle pas français. Désolé. Parlez-vous anglais? No joke, that’s the most French I can remember after 3 years of high school French class (my school required 3 years, instead of 1... not that it helped much).

[@thrownswordpommel7393]

@@suadela87 Learn French, it's easier than trying to speak English with the French.

[@suadela87]

@@thrownswordpommel7393 clearly I have tried and clearly it has not worked. Don’t worry though. I can’t afford to go to France or even Quebec, and will not be able to annoy francophones with my lack of understanding.

[@Ma_Zhongying]

@Suadela Don't worry, Actual French is quite different to Canadian French.

[@michaelmurphy2112]

Also: "Where's the bathroom?"

[@KatesAdventures]

I'm Scottish and honestly a visit to Scotland High School sounds like a really fun day.

[@evan]

Hahaha

[@TK-cs1qc]

Secondary school*

[@GameRoll]

Uhhhh how are you verified with 1.14K????

[@virtualarmageddon6232]

@@TK-cs1qc they're not talking about an actual scottish secondary school, they're talking to the American high school called "Scotland High School" that's literally shown in the video.

[@kirstygallagher3675]

@@TK-cs1qc she’s talking about the one in the video from America, and where am from in Scotland it’s called high school

[@goldegreen]

Class of 2022 here, so a senior.. I go to school in a relatively well funded district in SE Michigan. You need 4 years of ELA, 3 years of social studies (2 of those being American and World History, respectively, and 1 of them being split between Government and Economics), 4 years of math (divided by type of math), and 3 years of science, though if you take a special career center course in junior year you get to skip out on physics, like I did! 1/2 a year of art, and 2 years of foreign language are required, though if you take a whole lotta art you only need 1 year of that language.The Career Center is a special thing where it takes up 2 hours and you get bussed to this other building that all 3 high schools in the district share, where you get taught high-quality, very funded career oriented classes. Mine was graphic design, it was fun but very regimented. Not many people take career center which is a bit of a shame. They also offer a community service class, where you can help either elementary school kids, or the cognitive impairments program. I chose to help the cognitive impairments program because it's right in my school so I don't have to travel.

[@shishik4571]

In my experience with US history, they talk about the wars that the US had involved themselves in. So yes, there is the 'revolutionary' war, the US Civil War, they go into the depths of slavery in the US, World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement and Jim Crow, the cold war, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, Stonewall, different presidencies, etc. The first half of this list is what they teach you starting from 3rd grade but the second half of this list are things I didn't learn until I was 16 (mainly because it's pretty hard to explain more than half of this to children especially when all of the important details are very explicit).

[@missahmoo]

Im sure your history teacher is very proud

[@shishik4571]

@@missahmoo my school has a pretty good history department. They try to be as unbiased as possible and make sure that we’re aware of how things really went rather than the narrative that was spun in the US’s favor, which is what tends to happen quite a lot in other places

[@marilynsd1474]

same for mine. only difference is we started US history and geography in 2nd grade, then did world history/geography though middle with some sprinkles of florida history. there were some biased teachers in mine (mostly highschool), but more on the "US is just a bunch of murders, we should die" kind of way.

[@chillysen2006]

wow i never learned about jim crow, the korean war, vietnam, stonewall, etc.

[@c.a.g.7707]

My schools always seemed to stop history lessons at the end of WWII.

[@katielaeger6174]

I’m in AP Environmental Science as a senior this year. What I’m learning is most of our government could benefit from picking up the textbook.

[@jeffreym68]

No doubt. When pres said he likes the poorly educated, he apparently meant as employees and coworkers, not just voters.

[@cbpd89]

I took that one in high school too! My favorite of all the sciences

[@tweetchick95]

I loved APES! One of our final projects was doing a presentation of what we wanted to do post-HS & our teacher got everyone gifts based on what their topic was. I talked about Zoology/Animal Care, so she got me a Jane Goodall book & left a sweet note on the inside cover ❤

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

My school didn't have that but we had horticulture and floral design. Both are arts though not sciences.

[@hybrid9mm]

All governments could benefit from that 😂

[@heatherteasdale9229]

Shout out to Horrible Histories, the amazing kids sketch show that teaches kids random history facts that are still showing up in a relevant way now that I'm halfway through high school.

[@depresseddavinci4749]

My teacher literally showed us the Henry VIII one of those the other day. 10/10

[@KyaKramer]

I honestly thought you were talking about the comics/illustrated books titled "Horrible Histories" by Terry Deary at first. They were awesome when I was a kid.

[@twig5543]

@@KyaKramer It's a show based on those books. The show is great, even for an adult. All the episodes are on netflix if you want to check them out 😁😁😁

[@shanelchamik2177]

Am obsessed with the show

[@annemasters9804]

Horrible Histories is currently getting me through AP European History.

[@derbaeckerhatnichtauf]

I'm a German student in 12th grade and I had mandatory English classes for the past 12 years. In 6th grade I had to choose between Spanish and French (some other schools also offer Latin, Italian...). I had to take mandatory Spanish classes for 5 years. Both languages have been pretty challenging at times but I am SO grateful for the linguistic skills that I was forced to develop, I'd never want to change that :) I'm currently learning a little French because I am amazed by the feeling of speaking the language.

[@ThePinkimojca]

I had mandatory German language in high school for 4 years (grades 9-12) and I'm so happy I don't need it anywhere. 😂 I am bad in languages but I cannot comprehend german gluing together words to form a new word. Also why do you write all of the objects with capital letter? Despite my dislike for German language I loved the teacher. She was great! Also had mandatory Italian for 2yrs and of course English.

[@abbeym6830]

Freshman year: World Geography or AP Human Geography Sophomore year: World History Junior year: US History Senior year: US Government and Economics But prior to high school, I had to take TWO years of Texas History

[@KingNedya]

Texas History is its own required class, that takes two years? Huh. Interesting.

[@harleyy6839]

Abbey M yeah I though it was weird he said no world history also in Florida we don’t have to take geography freshman year it either no history or you take AP human geography

[@rachelclark6393]

Okay but that's Texas, Texas is almost it's own sub-country. In Maryland we just did world and us history.

[@KingNedya]

@@rachelclark6393 I mean...If I remember correctly, it _was_ actually it's own country for a short period of time, so that makes sense.

[@rachelclark6393]

@@KingNedya I think there's just something so inherently American about that. Even when Texas is being obnoxious about being Texas the rest of the country can't help but sigh and be a bit proud of them. 😂

[@sleepypotata4150]

The American system both makes complete sense, but also baffles me at the same time.... ... .. . Brain...what?

[@kanda_franca]

the fact that algebra maths and calculus maths are different courses- i need to take a seat. how many periods do they need for just algebra???

[@copyweirdo]

Lol. The math is easily divided in my head. It make so much sense and idk why. The order as follows. Algebra I (graphs and variables and relationships), Geometry (proofs and shapes and cos/tan/sin introduction), Algebra 2 (algebra 1 but learn odd topics such as imaginary numbers and how to make hyperbolas and ovals with a formula), Pre-Calculus (sporadically cover and combine topics from Algebra 2 and geometry; memorize how cos/sin/tan graphs look like. Memorize formulas), Calculus I (learn beautiful continuous topics with its application, derivatives and some integrals and volumes around axis), Calculus II (integral galore and memorize McLaurin sequence).

[@kanda_franca]

@@copyweirdo it’s not the maths itself. it’s the fact that those are just topics turned into courses. like we took less than a month to go through calculus, but you can take it for a whole semester/year?

[@avalonsignoraalmas6150]

@@kanda_franca, at my school, we have calculus for one semester, and the classes are 1 hour and 30 minutes long. If you take it for a whole year at another school, the class is probably only 45-55 minutes long. Then some people take it every other day. Lol. It really depends on the school.

[@kanda_franca]

@@avalonsignoraalmas6150 now im even more baffled. we have 50 minutes for each class and we can do all these maths in one year. maybe it’s differences in syllabus now that i think abt it? thanks for telling me this tho

[@pixelwarrior6440]

The american high school system is as hard as you want it to be, you have a lot of freedom and if you stack up on AP classes it will be significantly harder than regular classes.

[@spookyblaylock8853]

Mmmmmm... depends on where you're at.

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

International Baccalaureate is much tougher than AP. AP is hard because it covers a lot in 8 months and you just have to keep up. The hardest classes are probably Calculus, Physics, Music Theory, and Statistics. The easiest being the arts and languages. You would normally have 4 months in college stacked up with bunch of other stressful and sleep-depriving classes. If you can take AP in high school if you plan to go to a 4-year do it! Especially AP Statistics, foreign language, and AP English. Statistics is annoying and stressful. A foreign language isn't too tough if you don't have 4 other classes college-level on top of it and English is just essays 4-5 pages and you can learn much more about MLA and APA styles if you take AP English in high school. Even if you fail the end exam you gain much more knowledge and practice about what professsors expect from your essays. They only care about the exam so you can use scriptnotes online to find summaries of chapters from books. College English is just "read these 20-40 pages in your textbook, follow directions, and write essays", all classes besides math will make you write 4-5 page essays your first year, and it will go up to 9 once you progress to late under-grad and graduate school.

[@pixelwarrior6440]

@@ivetterodriguez1994 ive taken a total of 17 ap classes, the hardest being Calculus AB, Physics, Chemistry, and Spanish language and culture ( this was hard for me because I am not fluent in the language and struggled a lot in the class because I was one of the only non-native speakers, I still ended with an A but didn’t pass the AP. class ) but I definitely agree with your analysis.

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

@@pixelwarrior6440 Have taken English? You need to be well-grounded on MLA and APA for college.

[@pixelwarrior6440]

@@ivetterodriguez1994 i have taken and passed the ap tests for Both Ap English language and literature. I took every Ap science class, psychology, environmental science, computer science, biology, physics, and chemistry. I also took every ap history class, Us history, European history, human geography, world history, and then government and economics.

[@Lee-ox2vn]

Your school was so well funded lmao our only foreign language was Spanish (only 2 courses) we only had one AP course offered and half the teachers were coaches who had no business teaching

[@zeea6561]

In London, at the schools I attended, our "woodshop" was "design tech" because it was about product design - it also included other materials, but was mostly wood. Also I live in America now and I want to talk about Notre Dame University, you'd think "oh, so they have a French mascot?" NOPE, their mascot is a fucking Leprechaun. They call themselves the "Fighting Irish". Good lord.

[@carbon1255]

Norder dayme You mean. No way related to nohtra dahm. xD

[@MrDisasterboy]

My State in Australia has the partner Notre Dame. It's weird that it even exists.

[@iyzabel]

LOL, many years ago I was showing Paris to a friend of my stepmom's. They are both US citizens and her friend was a high school teacher in the USA. When we came to Notre Dame (Paris) I thought it was common knowledge it is a cathedral. She thought it was part of Notre Dame University. I had to explain that it had nothing to do with the USA, and went on to say construction started almost 900 years ago. Her answer: that's impossible, it can't be that old. Me: &-/

[@cynthiad6048]

Plus, the name of the school is generally mispronounced here in the US. "Noter Dame" is what you will hear often.

[@marc87supra]

@@iyzabel I’m a Brit but many of my family and friends live in Austin and the city really lays into how old the Driskill hotel is, they then seem bewildered when I explain that my parents house is older and it’s not exactly ‘old’ as there are 1000’s of houses of a similar age in a 15-20 mile radius.

[@tlandry9689]

It is important to note that American high school is the last 4 years of basic education. The definition of high school is different in Europe. Some European countries consider high school as starting in 7th grade. Thus, a direct comparison isn’t always accurate. Furthermore, This doesn’t represent a typical US curriculum. The national common core standards are 4 maths, 4 sciences, 4 English, 4 social studies/ histories (includes either world history or world geography) plus 2 foreign languages, 2 PEs, 1 art and 1 business/computer tech. That leaves very little room for electives. Where I teach, drivers Ed is not part of the high school curriculum. You do that on your own.

[@lizziejay5362]

Same! Most states meet this. I always thought the standard is the basic minimum as I know some that do more than this. Crazy how little they do there. 😦

[@merrygrammarian1591]

Texas isn't common core, but this is exactly what we did

[@DStead2239]

@T Landry It's pretty much the same here except school starts a year earlier than in the U.S.. My country has Primary School, Intermediate, College then University. Which is the same as Elementary, Middle, High School then College. Our core studies in College were tested over the first three years to achieve level 1, with two more years to follow for level 2/3. Our core subject's were English, 2x alternative language's, social sciences, science, mathematics, statistics, health, physical education, the arts and technology. You could choose many further subjects and were measured not only by level achieved, but also by merit or excellence.

[@Serenity_yt]

In Germany "High school" starts in 5th grade actually and depending on which type of Secondary School you choose, lasts until 9th, 10th or 13th grade. In all Schools German and English are mandatory (on top of the usual subjects History, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Georgraphy, Politics, Economics, Art, Sports, religious studies...) if you take the 13 years (which is the one that qualifies you for college) you have to take a 3rd language for at least 3 years, more commonly 5 to be able to graduate. The only thing you really choose is a focus (Stem, music, economics, languges) but that just changes the amount of time you spend on those subjects (you get them a year earlier or 4 instead of 2 hours a week sometimes you might get an extra subject but rarely) and how grades are done. You still have to take Chem, Bio, Maths and Physics if you do the Music focus just less hours than your classmates that chose Stem bc during that time you do extra music lessons. There are after school clubs too but most kids do their after school activities in outside clubs and go home around 1pm to 4pm (in higher years you get more classes). The only time you really get to choose is during your last 2 to 3 years of High School (in college track) there are still rules, like you cant drop German or Maths but you can make Theater, Choir, horse riding, psycology, Sound tec, ... one of your regular subjects if you'd like to do that (and your school offers that subject) to get those grades to count in your final grade, which can make or brake your college dreams (if you dont want to pay a shit ton of money for a private one). *In Germany you dont need college for a lot of jobs, the majority I'd wager are apprenticeship based (3 years of training half on the job half at a specialised vocational school) (mecanics, nurses, paramedics, policemen, prison wardens, some types of teachers, physiotherapists, most desk government jobs, bakers, butchers, hairdressers, cooks, hearing aid technicians, ...) so that's what kids do after the 9 year or 10 year High schools (for some like paramedic you need the 10 for some any graduation certificate is enough) And if your final grade after the 10 y is really good you can switch to college track with no trouble. It roughly looks like this: Primary school (1-4) Gymnasium Realschule Mittelschule (5-13) (5-10) (5-9) University Apprenticeship

[@ChickentNug]

American middle school was set up really similarly to high school from my experience, so I think it's a fair comparison

[@aetosia6490]

I thought my school had a lot of option courses but mans is out here with "civil engineering and architecture" and "principles of the biomedical sciences" (I'm Canadian btw)

[@mattiemathis9549]

One of the things I noticed going to school in Southern California was many times the quality of education depended on the teachers. I went to a somewhat mixed school. Most students lived below poverty and gangs ran rampant. There were other students that were very well off. (Or at least they were from appearances). I had so many teachers that wouldn’t give up on their students. They encouraged them to learn, find subjects the students were passionate about and set goals. They always encouraged us to change our own future. Considering it was free, I think I got a great education and learned many important life skills. I changed my future and it was because of my teachers encouragement. I’m not saying the system functions well. I’m not saying that, considering the amount of public taxes spent on schools, the system shouldn’t be better. There is also a huge difference between schools in more wealthy areas and those schools in more poverty stricken areas. This was a great piece! I have been trying to understand how the British education system works. Can’t wait to see the next video!!!

[@David-0100]

American schools are crap.

[@HotaruIchimaru]

Where tf did you go to school??? If i could've had an animation course in high school that would've made me so happy

[@hunterhagmaier]

Same

[@artandfiction4534]

Me too!

[@theire483]

They had an animation course when I was in school, long ago, it was called art.

[@tomrogue13]

I did but it was online and it sucked haha

[@big_banana7194]

@@theire483 lol

[@jennazeuq]

When you understand how schools are funded, so many weird decisions make so much more sense. It’s kinda sinister

[@cockycookie1]

That's capitalism for ya

[@antoniabaskovic1879]

Evan: "yeah but we had 9 classes" every european here: we have 14-15 a year, and at least one foreign language each year

[@ManiacalBlueberry]

American system splits off in two directions. Work or college. If you work then you take less classes to focus on that job or career you want to go for. But if you choose college then you took more classes and had to take two language classes. Plus after school stuff and volunteer work that many people did to look good for colleges.

[@LoreCatan]

@@ManiacalBlueberry ohhh that makes so much more sense. In europe it's unusual for minors to have jobs, so high schools focus on common knowledge and college study in absolute permanence. Every book I've ever been assigned to read [that wasn't in a foreign language class] until this year has been for college prep, this year's different because everyone starts 'Universal literature' in Junior year. I have 15 classes a year: 2 of which are electives, 1 is both music and art combined, 1 is general science [physics, maths, biology, astrology, chemistry etc.], 1 is P.E, 1 is World History, 1 is Universal Literature, 1 is my national language, 1 is English, 1 is French, *ONE IS LATIN [!!],* 1 is informatics, 1 is geography, 1 is Economics and 1 is Sociology. I don't have Religion because I opted out, otherwise I would've had *16* subjects. Being European is hard, ya'll complain for having 9 subjects in a week?! What do you do with all that free time?!

[@emmacheese6107]

@@LoreCatan and most of schools in America don't have to wear uniforms so they can wear comfortable clothes and shoes.Some schools in Europe don't have to either. Our uniform is an itchy jumper (optional but necessary because all the windows have to be open because of corona virus and its autumn and England), a blazer with shoulder pads, a proper white cotton shirt with the collar specially done, a tie with 4 stripes - waist length - black tailored trousers, black socks and black special shoes with a heal.

[@avalonsignoraalmas6150]

@@LoreCatan, we fill our free time with extracurricular activities because colleges want well-rounded students. That means being on sports teams, participating in fine arts, joining clubs, and doing volunteer work. It sounds fun until you realize you are spending out of your life at school. Lol

[@LoreCatan]

@@emmacheese6107 I actually don't have a school uniform, it depends from school to school where I live.

[@erinnswan7063]

I went to school in NY I had to take 4 years of Language, English, Math, Science, History. Also had to take Regents test which were state tests. We did study world history. We did not have all these electives. AP classes I took were hard because we had some crazy ass teachers who thought we should take extreme writing intensive classes while taking all the other courses we had.

[@RachMei]

this is a very late comment, but yes as someone who goes to school in NY. (specifically in the city). I wish he looked at some schools in New York or in Cities because I feel like their curriculum can be very different.

[@jrc150]

In the US there are federal, state, and local requirements and determine the curriculum.

[@india1846]

thats kinda like england scotland northern ireland and wales

[@Tatusiek_1]

@Rosemary Mountain Yes every state has different cirrculums, i’m from Texas and ours was quite different from his, here you need 2 or 3 mandatory language credits depending on your district

[@ranasiaclark8030]

Each school has a different curriculum 😂

[@KrishnaDasLessons]

@@Tatusiek_1 I live in California and only 2 years of World Language is required in high school. Yeah each American state has unique educations systems.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

As a British concert band player, the fact that Evan’s clarinet teacher was always hungover is so apt 😂😂😂😂

[@soacecase]

“I have fired many, many… guns” that is the literal most American thing I have heard from a non-American. Edit: The funniest part about the comment is that it was entirely a joke and a substantial amount of Americans don’t own guns or want to. I myself have never even fired a Nerf gun, my mom said they were “too violent” and would “corrupt my innocent soul.”

[@Jprager]

Not as many would as you think 🤔

[@GarrisonFall]

Interesting that the Brit said that because he had to go through 'Cadets' (semi-military) to be able to use a firearm; one of the few opportunities a UK citizen would have just to touch a gun.

[@Jprager]

To be honest. Unless you’ve taken self defense classes how are police or anyone meant to defend themselves on other countries. Like I’ve seen British police have to baton people and it looks so irritating. It’s like you can’t even really defend yourself against a really large assailant

[@terynb4407]

As an American I have never fired a gun

[@soacecase]

@@terynb4407 not even a Nerf?

[@padwoofpadwoofington3151]

UK here and while it's been a while since I was in the school system, When I was being educated, our equivalent to the US woodwork/workshop would have been "DT - Design Technology", but this was a bit different, for us each year you would choose one of 3 possible options to take for your DT lesson, either Workshop - Woodwork, plastics moulding, CNC machining or Home Economics - Cooking, Craftwork, Materials work or lastly Graphics design - CAD design and production and product design and marketing. Generally speaking, the 3 classes would work on crossover projects throughout the year with the Graphics design class designing things to be produced by the other two classes.

[@NaughtyHyena68]

Cory has definitely never driven in the US other wise he would know that having a lesson on how to drive is VERY beneficial to one's health lol 🤣

[@dianeshelton9592]

Except Cory has probably had to learn to drive and take a test in any event, not in school time. You cannot drive anywhere in Europe without taking lessons and a test

[@shadowkyber2510]

@@dianeshelton9592 same in Australia, you have to be 16 and do a written test to get your Ls. Then you have to drive 100 hours with someone with a license, have your Ls for a year and do a driving test which takes an hour. Then red Ps, do a online awarness test. Then green Ps, and finally after like 4 or 5 years all up you get your full license

[@yufenagain6031]

@@shadowkyber2510 wow man, in America you just take a written test then straight to the Permit. You take a driving lesson if you are under 18 older than 14 1/2. You can start driving with a permit at 15 and can get ur license at 16. You have to log your driving and get 60 hrs of driving day time and 10 night with a permit with a supervisor. Then you go to the DMV and do the the driving’s test. (Although things have changed with covid and I think you only have to take the driving test if you want your restrictions to be lifted). Our process takes one and a half years to be a full and complete driver.

[@hotpotato1898]

@@shadowkyber2510 actually, it's 120 hours :,)) at least in my state

[@hotpotato1898]

oh and 20 of those hours have to be night

[@RandiPoitras]

Bear in mind that this is clearly a city school curriculum. If you’re from a small town, you don’t have all these options. Mythology?! My school had 1 band class between 3 combined grades and the only language options were french, german or spanish

[@brody1216]

This is a small town actually! Compared to other NJ schools this one has pretty basic options

[@brandonhowell5096]

I grew up in a small farm town and my school had mythology as an elective you could only get into it if you where junior or senior though since in my school 11/12th you get to choose what english you took

[@RandiPoitras]

My school had 1 band class for 3 combined grades and the only language options were french, german or spanish

[@robertgronewold3326]

I would have LEAPT at Mythology if I had a school that did that.

[@brody1216]

Oh also we only had one band class for everyone as well (which was during a lunch period so most people had to eat while playing, gross) and French or Spanish

[@patafoinification]

As a french person who graduated the "Lycée" a while ago now, it's soooo different ! We couldn't decide so much on our classes and didn't have "advanced level" classes. We just had three specializations to choose from (science, economics or literature) and a couple optional courses to add on to that. What you're describing looks more like my uni experience. But I think the new french curriculum for the Lycée is actually closer to this model than before. Very interesting :)

[@portuguesefan3]

This was exactly the same as my experience in a high school in Portugal, with the only difference that we had 4 specialisations that we had to choose before the 10th grade, science, economics, literature or arts. Then everyone who was in each of these 4 specialisations would have all the same classes, with the exception of like one or two optional courses that you could choose. Basically you would be with the same people in all your classes for the 10th to the 12th grades.

[@saraperlstein]

Ooh, that's kind of like how it used to be in Denmark. We used to have to choose either math or languages as a specialty. We did have a lot of freedom with electives, but most of our classes we had with the same people. Nowadays, there are a gazillion specializations though - everything from civics to music to engineering, I believe - and I believe you have less freedom with the individual electives, since you already sort of chose when you chose your specialty.

[@Laurent69ftm]

There are no class labelled "advanced level" in France but the regular classes are more difficult than AP classes. Even in vocational high schools, for example cooking/serving/hotel high schools where their math is considred basic, they still do 2 years of calculus.

[@emnat321]

6:53 Is this why I was put in ESOL for years upon years despite speaking fluent english????

[@JaeWilmot]

I never realized how different high school is depending on where you are in the US. In my high school all the class credits were either .5 or 1 credit (depending on whether it was a half semester or year long class) and my class only had to take 2 years of science class (one had to be biology because it’s state required). I only had to do 3 PE classes, one had to be health class. I had 3 history classes which starts in 10th grade and you had to do contemporary world history, US history, and civics(which for where I’m from is generally a senior class only and my teachers made sure we knew what was going on in the world outside of America and some history about other countries). The languages we had were Spanish, French, German, and Japanese.

[@PlaceholderAlex]

I believe most high schools use credits to represent years (0.5 is a semester, 1 is a full year). It also seems that my state is very different with the PE/health requirements. I only had to take one semester of health and 1 year of PE, adding up to 1.5 credits of health/PE.

[@crazedsecy]

I graduated HS in 1977 in NYC. I took general science, biology and chemistry (optional), art, music, 4 years of English, 3 1/2 years of gym, hygiene, history, economics (part of history), algebra, geometry, trigonometry (optional), and language (I took 4 years of Spanish). My extracurricular was that I tutored Spanish, class secretary and clerked in the office.

[@Luke-nn4pm]

My school has no PE, requires three years of science and two of foreign language

[@jennygreat4846]

I can concur that most American high schools (and colleges) use credits

[@riley7701]

the way american schooling has progressed is fascinating to me. when my mom was in high school she took two AP classes. now i am currently taking five. there’s so much pressure to get a bunch of APs just to get into increasingly more expensive colleges

[@alexismunoz8852]

by the time I’m done with high school I’ll have taken 9 APs. My mom dropped out of geometry after one day.

[@ohawwgeez3112]

Ahh APUSH the most stressful class I took.

[@analils]

ok but low key, taking a class or two at a community college will be more beneficial than doing a bunch of APs, you still get college credit and get some experience in being in an actual college level class.

[@eggpusher2585]

@@ohawwgeez3112 I actually loved APUSH, my teacher was great. AP Euro on the other hand..... Let's just say the best thing about her is she let us watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail (skipping the Tale of Sir Galahad) after we took our test.

[@eggpusher2585]

@@analils agreed. I wish I didn't do AP classes at all.

[@MsRainingDays]

"You have to take 9 courses." Laughs in east European.

[@aliceam7566]

In Jamaica I had to take 14-17 courses in 7th grade including dead languages

[@chrisberry9017]

It was interesting to hear you discussing the study of another language. When I was working, and we undertook a lot of projects in the US (I’m a Brit), we used to say that we were two nations divided by the same language. The first time I ever visited the US, I hadn’t got a clue what some Americans were talking about! I have no problem at all communicating with my German and French friends.

[@NicoleSelvaggio]

Me, another american: **laughs in two years of world history** Also me: **doesn't know most state capitals**

[@victoriae725]

There are fifty of them, and it's not like life will reward you if you know them all!

[@fionadreesbach3685]

Me, yet another American: *laughs in two years of world history and a year of European history* Also me: *doesn't even know all the states*

[@viddork]

I've never understood why people balk at taking math(s) ("When will I ever use this in real life?"), but learning state capitals gets a pass. Imagine someone who only knows Sacramento, and no other cities in California. Or Olympia is the only city they know in Washington. Useless.

[@certainempathetic]

Me, another American: **laughs in world geography, world history, government, and economics** Also me: **state capitals who??????????** I know Austin, becausw Texans really only care about Texas lmao. In middle school you will literally take a course called "Texas History" where they glorify Texas and say "slavery wasn't THAT bad here :)" and US history isn't even required. And for some reason they let you take pre-cal in freshman year if you managed to take advantage of all the "summer math" courses in middle school. I took Algebra 2 as a freshman because I missed the Geometry course. It's insane, and I'll be a certified EMT right out of high school if I continue down my chosen "elective path", it's honestly ridiculous, I don't even live in an uppity and rich area, it's just LIKE that?????????? Though it might be because I live outside a military base.... My point is: Texas be funky

[@certainempathetic]

@@tommytwothumbs7928 have you ever heard of this thing called "more than one boat"

[@lennedykee8558]

his set up and like camera quality are SO good. it’s literally insane.

[@evan]

Ah thank you!! Spent ages on it

[@missbeaussie]

Not to having to choose your major until the 3rd year of college is wild

[@tomrogue13]

Most ppl I think declare their major right away when they get to college, well when they enroll, but you can start as "undecided" and you'll do 2 years of general education

[@andthatsshannii]

It’s easier to choose what you want in the UK because you have to do almost everything the school has to offer for 3 years before you choose your options

[@MissesLykaa]

"just one year of a foreign language" Looks at me having done 8 years of English, 5 years of French and German and Greek, 3 years of Latin....

[@eliasklein9311]

I had 12 years of German and English (only 8 years properly though), 6 years of Latin and 4 years of Spanish (Austria)

[@jeffreym68]

Even in Texas I had a year of Spanish and two of Latin before the rest in college (maybe 4?)

[@Lia_Kani]

I have 13 years of english and 10 years of mandarin ( i still sucked at mandarin )

[@jackystar5099]

I'm a native Spanish speaker but my parents made me take Spanish in high school. I learned I don't understand how Spanish people speak and overall grammar.

[@sarahtwirls8945]

12 years of Irish, 5 of French, 12 of English and 1 of Spanish