What is school like in America?

[Overkilled]

Living in Britain ice always wondered about the parallel universe that is the American high school? Is there any actual order (school uniform, formal black shoes etc), how long is the school day?

Can anyone from the US clarify?

[IsaacDaGrazin]

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ikr! ive always wondered my self

[ALwin]

Living in Britain ice always wondered about the parallel universe that is the American high school? Is there any actual order (school uniform, formal black shoes etc), how long is the school day?

Can anyone from the US clarify?

 

It's probably just as diverse as schools in the UK, where some schools do not require a uniform, others do.  The school hours are the typical hours, but there are some that might have slightly different hours in special cases.  The duration of classes can also depend in some special cases.

[Dobbsjr]

1. Most schools don't have a uniform. Just a dress code that no one follows

2. 8 am to 3 pm(15), so 7 hours

[IsaacDaGrazin]

1. Most schools don't have a uniform. Just a dress code that no one follows

2. 8 am to 3 pm(15), so 7 hours

ooooh thanks!

[Overkilled]

What's the general atmosphere like in American schools?

[Bhav]

Worse than a Norwegian prison.

[Dobbsjr]

Worse than a Norwegian prison.

I don't know if I should think that's a bad thing or a good thing.

[ALwin]

What's the general atmosphere like in American schools?

 

Depends on where you live and the school district.  I'm fortunate to have gone to one of the top 10 schools in Manhattan when I was a kid growing up in New York, and did highschool in a private school.

 

If you're in a poor district or a school district with problematic communities, it may appear as if the schools are bad.  But don't let that fool you, there are students who are eager to get a better education and teachers willing to teach.. but they are being limited by the poor funding and support they receive.  And on the opposite spectrum in the richer school districts and communities there might be teachers who are there only for the money and students who think they can live off their parents' money.

[Redicat]

There you don't even have to go to school.

 

Freedom yaay...

[NeatSquidYT]

There you don't even have to go to school.

 

Freedom yaay...

Umm....

 

1. Most schools don't have a uniform. Just a dress code that no one follows

2. 8 am to 3 pm(15), so 7 hours

3pm? Jesus Christ. UK schools are usually 3:45

[oskarha]

I don't know if I should think that's a bad thing or a good thing.

Could be worse.

[Overkilled]

Umm....

 

3pm? Jesus Christ. UK schools are usually 3:45

8:45 to 3pm for me only like 30 minute break and lunch tho

[Dobbsjr]

Umm....

3pm? Jesus Christ. UK schools are usually 3:45

Ha that's nothing. Korean schools(I moved 2 years ago) are usually are from 8pm to 5:20pm

[asim1999]

I have wondered the same as OP so good thread.

I was wondering, what are the school lunches like? Also are there more fights and riots than in British schools? 

I go to a grammar school so riots are at a minimum and food is decent (albeit a big expensive).

[Guest Kloaked]

1. Most schools don't have a uniform. Just a dress code that no one follows

2. 8 am to 3 pm(15), so 7 hours

 

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Basically the tl;dr

[rccarz5]

I have wondered the same as OP so good thread.

I was wondering, what are the school lunches like? Also are there more fights and riots than in British schools? 

I go to a grammar school so riots are at a minimum and food is decent (albeit a big expensive).Schoo

In my town at least which is overrun by rich white people who like to be pc about every detail the schools are all about healthy food. In high school I only saw 1 fight which was started by these kids who commute to our school from the ghetto in Boston. They started to yell the n word and how much better they were than everybody.  

[Slash003]

It depends on the area. You got your nice neighbor hood, with your nice schools that are all happy go lucky. Then you have the slums and poorer areas and everythings shit. That's where I live. 7:30-2:30. Its terrible for kind hearted people, ruthless people somewhat thrive but if you want to test some manipulation skills ( you dirty bastard) this is the place since most of the influential people here are dumb as shit.

[Dobbsjr]

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Basically the tl;dr

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough - Albert Einstein

[LtStaffel]

Then there are homeschoolers, who get picked on for not socializing. But what do you get in trouble for doing at school? Socializing it's a pet peeve of mine

[OcramBro]

It's pretty diverse, interesting, and easy going. Unless you live in those special places where there's just a bunch of rednecks that wear camo and treat hunting as if it were the holy grail

[Redicat]

Here it usually starts 9AM to 5PM.

[Bhav]

I went to a grammar school in the UK too, and got straight B's at my GCSEs, and straight Cs at A Levels, and those were like the lowest grades in the top classes. It only made me feel dumb.

[Verthaa]

Typically only private schools require a uniform, which I love because I attend a public school. Right now my school starts at 8am and goes until 2:05pm, so about 6 hours (unless you take a seventh period, which would add another 1.5 hours). In terms of atmosphere, everyone is pretty nice, though that might just be my school because everyone is fake as f**k. I've found that in a lot of movies and shows about high school, they all depict the football players and cheerleaders as bullies or backstabbing meany-butts, though the only people that give me shit are the people I am around daily. That's just my school, where everyone is the son or daughter of some executive at a large tech company (i.e. Intel or Corsair). My hometown is literally called "the bubble" by surrounding cities because we don't have stabbings or other violent crimes, and when something does happen, it's quickly swept away because all of the plastic mocha-drinking Range Rover driving stay-at-home moms cry about it for a week or two then forget about it and it's back to Yoga or pilates (is there a difference?). Someday I would like to check out another school in a not as rich area to see what it's like. Rant over.

[Darkman]

1. Most schools don't have a uniform. Just a dress code that no one follows

2. 8 am to 3 pm(15), so 7 hours

My school is 7:30AM to 2:19PM. Also sometimes the dress codes have bullshit things as in I cannot wear something that shows a part of my shoulder. Even if it is a tanktop for gym class. Also my school doesn't allow clapping in lunch because apparently it is disturbing nearby classes when the lunchroom is far from classrooms, and I'm not allowed to juggle unless I want a suspension for a week.