but even though my high school wasn't that great, it had the best students in the area, our school was so mellow, whenever we'd get new students form different schools they'd all be surprised of how chill it was <3
cool.....american highschools are the best....and you can have a driving licence at 16?:O
omg....in my country Romania and mabie other country`s in Europe you can`t have a driving licence for normal cars if your not 18....but you can have a licence for small cars at 16....:P
isnt so amazing compared to the skool i went to in india.........except we had shitty uniforms......,.and yeh.....underage kids drove to skool without a license bcoz they cud always bribe the cops....huh....good ol india
These American high school makes my school in England look incredibly shite! Most schools have to wear a uniform which is just gay, the only vending machines we have there only dispence water, my schools cantine sucks, the entire building looks old and crappy, oh and there are chavs everywhere...
Guys, most US high schools aren't half as pretty as this. I go to a high school where my Spanish teacher sometimes doesn't even show up for work, we get bomb threats literally EVERY week, the bathrooms always have a thick haze of smoke, and there are occasionally race riots.
@leach51395 I went to 2 high schools - one in Dallas TX which was a big, concrete block (needed for the heating and A/C needs) and one in Del Mar, CA, which was a wonderful, open campus much like the one is this video. Southern CA schools are very nice, and not particularly the norm for the US as a whole.
@leach51395 shit seriously? bomb threats? who gives them :L my school is nothing like yours it slightly less cleaner and we have bomb threats but there always fights swearing and beating up and people chuck chairs at teachers.
i totally hate the uk,and i was wondering does anyway know if i can move to america when i am 18? i am 15 atm but i don't know what i would do to get a visa to live in america any help plz?
@limeadam I think it's fairly easy for a UK citizen to get a holiday working visa so you can come to the US or Canada and work for a few months - many UK students do it during their gap year. To stay longer, you'd have to apply for a visa, which I think usually involves sponsorship from a company
@limeadam your not the only one trust me im 16 and i hate the uk to i soooo want to leave in calanfonia and go to a american high school i love america sooo much
@TheRockybalburke ohhhh i knoww its shit isnt it !! for 1 thing when i am walking to school its dark and cold and another thing is we dont get to wear what we want we have to wear a certain uniform but luckily its not blazer and tie !! and the teachers in england just cant control the class because we are so noisey and distruptive ! i mean we have some people who swear at teachers and stuff and they dont do anything about it !!
@TheRockybalburke ohh yeaahh i have been on a holiday to skegness b4 lol ! and i live about 2 - three hours away from there, u ever heard of worksop, thats where i live !
@TheRockybalburke yeahh it is isnt it !! hehe, and yepp it is close to nottingham. but worksop is a very small town !! and it hasnt like got many shops so i usually go to medowhall, if you have ever heard of that ??
@TheRockybalburke ohh ok and yes i havee heard of lincoln city lol x and medowhall is a huge shopping centre i think it has every shop you can think of !!
HOLY CRAP ITS MY HIGH SCHOOL! O.O That's so awsome!!loI San Marcos High School is old and smaller than most of the schools in the city(even though it doesn't look like it on the video lol)
pretty cool vid btw! an it's so cool you get to teach in Japan! =D
from what Ive seen California high schools are much different period from other school in the country. ie more freedom to be outside, interact with other students in different grades, just better overall.
I went to high school for 1.5 years in Texas and 1.5 years in California, and I would say they schools were very similar in many ways. Yes, the CA school was "outdoors" and more open, but my TX school had more spirit and school activities/clubs.
The more school spirit probably comes from the fact that TX takes football much more seriously than CA. No one does it big like TX. Your schools in TX and CA are leaps and bounds better than what I have seen in OK, NY, and now GA.
@myargonauts My high school was the outdoors 'California' type campus... except in the middle of Massachusetts... where we have winter. It was pleasant for the few months of the school year where it was warm, but less so on those bitter cold days. At least one person a year would injure their ankle on the ice while walking to class. And it was a nightmare for the janitors cleaning up all the melting slush.
Although I gotta say, I prefer the cold to the heat, but I think I'm just weird that way.
Well, I made this video for my Japanese students who are learning English and about America, so I don't often get asked questions about coming to America...
But yeah - I'm sure you'd really enjoy doing a semester or a year as an exchange student in America.
i'm at a UK school and we have only like 2 room's worth as a library...they have a whole seperate building... and since i'm in the sixth form (same grades as a british college would give just learnt in aschool enviornment) we do get priveleges like our own canteen and we can leave at lunch and we have free periods quite often and can go home during these if they are after lunch... can American students do this too?
I don't think you can leave school unless you're in a work program or go to a college for special classes, etc. We did have off-campus lunch once a week when I was in HS, but I don't know if they still do that
i wish i was american... british secondary schools are hell. It looks so good, and so big and so lenient! My.. we arnt even allowed to leave the canteen with our food :(
Ive decided.. im moving to america to learn :) ha ha !!
Haha, looks a bit different to UK school where you cycle or walk to school in the rain and wind, often in the dark during the winter... and plonk down in a disruptive classroom with a teacher who couldn't give a monkeys about their subject :))
@forced2witness you are right, im in UK and schools are boring and driving licence is from 17 years old, and in UK air soft guns are from 18 years ;d in america i think like a kid ;) UK is very security country, very boring country and secend time boring!
Not all American schools are remotely like this. the high school I go to is really ugly and we have 11 classes everyday. We don't get to drive to school until we are 17 and seniors and we don't have a cafeteria outside. I don't have uniforms either but I wouldn't mind wearing one. Much more convenient.
@princessasdfghjkl i live in the UK and we only have 6 lessons a day which start at 8:50 and they are 50 mins each and we finish at 3:10 but thats including break time and lunch. we have to wear uniforms but ours is a t-shirt and jumper with a logo on it ! but we are turning into an academy because people in our school are very badly behaved ! :( but it dosnt help as we have bad weather, well we have snow that is up to my knees at the moment!
Not all of them, but in the one i studied, they did have a pool, but we walked like for 3 mins to get there, it was outside the school grounds, but still was the school's pool, also the football field was outside, aside of the pool. but i must say, that in mexico they got a better high education, i studied 5th, 6th and 7th grade in mexico, and the rest in the usa, what they tough me in mexico in 5-7 grades, the usa school teaching tough me in 9th grade.(high school)
yeah most (emphasis on most) american high school don't have swimming pools. They're mostly in the hot states like California, Florida, Texas, etc. Even some of those don't.
When a person from another nation says that the United States sucks, I simply respond by asking them the question; "WHICH STATE?" Certain states are going to be doing great, while others are gonig to be an absolute crap-shoots. Oh, and for the record, I really don't eat at McDonalds, I prefer Subway. :)
Superb idea to help test over listening and reading comprehension, also a good cultural lesson. Thanks for the continued ideas, they are proving most useful!
i think it's because americans are mixed with tons of different races and ethic groups, whereas the british are just that - british. that IS their ethnic group.
@Westham97 im from the UK and we have to wear them too !! ;( sucks right ! ;P but ours is polo t-shirt and a black jumper with a logo on it and any black trousers u want !
Seriously though, America has been pretty fucked up recently. Oh well, every country has its ups and downs throughout history and America will be on the right track once we learn to leave other nations to their own devices. Unfortunately Obama appears to be just as ignorant as Bush in that regard even though he is less gung-ho abount blatant militantism.
The Americas High Schools looks great! I'm from Poland and it looks whole lot different here :) Awesome stadium I wish to play on one of these :) And this whole band thing o_O (i'm not interesed in that kind of things but this is great :D ) . Maybe I should do a video like this about Our High Schools .. Take Care! :)
ya sure looks great!......to bad our school system is a failure. I don't care how nice my school is, if the national average for graduation is only 70%, somethings obviously wrong.
The main problem is that we have this crazy notion that everybody is intellectually equal and try to cram the same curriculum down everybody's throat. Unfortunately such is not the case.
Most other countries seperate the academic underachievers into seperate schools around highschool age so that the smarter kids can be prepared for college. America needs to realize that some children are, in fact, better off left behind.
I'm sure with the surging waistline of many American kids, they can make other arrangements if you can't fit into the desk, or if you're handicapped in some way and need a special desk, they'd work it out.
Being a fat adult, I had this problem all the time in certain lecture halls at my college campus, where the little trays were just a wee bit too tight for comfort. :)
gosh you're all so lucky... At my school in belgium we have like 7 or 8 classes a day. I also have to wear a uniform(which I hate...) . We only get to drive at 18. but we are allowed to drink at 16. Which I find useless because I don't think alcohol is anything special...I'd rather drive at 16 and be allowed to drink at 23...
u no reading the coments (i thing im the only geek who does that lol) i never knew that so many people are intrested in american schools :D it makes me happy!
This Is Cool I Didnt Think That American High Schools Actually Looked Like This, They Are So lucky!! Im From A Part Of England Called Leicester And We Dont Even Get Lockers And At My High School We Have To Wear A tie , It Is So UnFair, We R Not Aloud To Drive Until We R 18 But We Leave Scool When We R 16, But The Law Has Changed So Everyone In Yr 7 Downwards Have To Stay On Till they are 18 lol, Im Nearly Finished Scool Now Anyway So Yeah
That's cool that you can show your students that video. I go to school in the US also. Though our cafeteria is inside and so are the lockers.
We have an upstairs and downstairs. Upstairs are history classes and English classes. The upperclassmen (seniors and juniors) have their lockers up there. Downstairs are the offices, the gyms, athletic center, music classes, tech. classes(Engeneering, Achetecture)the Art classes, math classes and the other science rooms.
our lockers are really run down because everyone ends up punching it. pretty cool to see how schools differ from each other. imagine if there was only one school in the entire world and everyone went to that school, it would be pretty hectic and is 100% positive for fights.
i wish i went to an american highschool u can wear wateva u want and not sum ugly uniform lik my school has to wear lik we get given out to if we wear make up and were made ake it off
american schools looks wicked, i tired of wearing a uniform and they get there license at age 16!!!!, in australia you get your Learners at 16 then your licence at 17
Wow im from britain and our school is horrible compared to american ones. Ours are dull, but maybe thats because of the weather. We dont have a homeroom either, or lockers so we have to carry our bags around everywhere, all day. We have 5 lessons a day which last 1 hour each. Thanks for the video it was good to know about high schools, because when im in my middle 20's im moving over to michigan. :) xx
Haha I live in Hawaii and go to Leilehua High School and we only have 3 classes a day each about an hour and a half long. Our school is like a campus and we don't have lockers. Thanx for the vid and that's so cool that you're a teacher in Japan!!
I went to two high schools myself, and the 2nd one I went to was similar to yours. We'd have 3 classes a day, two hours each - two before lunch and one after lunch. And there were no doors on the classrooms... very hippie 60s atmosphere...
what where is she livin i live in cal too but my school is half that size and we dont even have lockers for our stuff so i cary everything. like 3 books each day. and i live in the suburbs.
My school is about the same as yours, minus the large pavillion area I see. Plus most of our athletic complexes and our eating are are inside since about 1/2 of the school year it is below freezing. We don't have a home room either, but our lockers are a fair bit bigger than yours. In michigan though, back in middle school, you always have a homeroom. My class size ranges from 15-20 in the advanced classed and 25-30 in the normal classes.
Aw She's so pretty! Wow I really wish I lived in America.... their high schools look so fun! And it's sooo sunny. I really want to go to an American high school before I leave school. English ones are so different.
wow some states are different i used to live in new jersey but we had homeroom every dad but now i live in north carolina and we have homeroom sometimes but in california you dont have homeroom at all thats interesting
hey, i am an international students whose studying in Singapore. i was just turn 16 n am lookin forward to move out to the states. currently, i'm studying in Singapore and i don't like being here. the school sucks and i have to pay more than thousand dollars just for the living costs.
so, i just wanna ask, how much is the cost living in CA? how's the school registration process for the admission of foreign student in CA or in public schools?
hmmm... California can be pretty expensive, but it depends on the area. School is free, but I think you have to be a resident. Unless you want to go to College in America - many opportunities for foreign students in California.
i live in california myself but its pretty expensive depending on where you want to live. but honestly right now isnt a very good time in americas finances so if you are going to want to get a house now is as good a time as any because the prices are dropping in housing. idk about registration but if u look on the web you could probably find something :D (and schools freeeeeee)
At the two high schools I've been to there were no lockers.
CoverUpRiot 2 months ago
woah that's a nice school O:
but even though my high school wasn't that great, it had the best students in the area, our school was so mellow, whenever we'd get new students form different schools they'd all be surprised of how chill it was <3
analivita 4 months ago
I go to ryan high by dallas and we're a pretty good school!!! :)
princessgirlsakura 4 months ago
cool.....american highschools are the best....and you can have a driving licence at 16?:O
omg....in my country Romania and mabie other country`s in Europe you can`t have a driving licence for normal cars if your not 18....but you can have a licence for small cars at 16....:P
EmyY2J 5 months ago
They just rebuilt my high school and it's amazing now. I still like that open-air feeling of California schools though.
fosterslover 6 months ago
I love american highschools they are really, really big and awsome and u can have a lot of fun
AMBER009100 7 months ago
isnt so amazing compared to the skool i went to in india.........except we had shitty uniforms......,.and yeh.....underage kids drove to skool without a license bcoz they cud always bribe the cops....huh....good ol india
kanthasingh54 8 months ago
I wish I went to a school like this. School in London is a disappointment.
HannahMarieRoberts 8 months ago
These American high school makes my school in England look incredibly shite! Most schools have to wear a uniform which is just gay, the only vending machines we have there only dispence water, my schools cantine sucks, the entire building looks old and crappy, oh and there are chavs everywhere...
lairyboy101 9 months ago
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in Greece for lunch we have a shitty sandwitch
alyctus 9 months ago
in Greece gor lunch we have a shitty sandwitch
alyctus 9 months ago
NAH GO NEW ZEALAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Susan5nah 10 months ago
Guys, most US high schools aren't half as pretty as this. I go to a high school where my Spanish teacher sometimes doesn't even show up for work, we get bomb threats literally EVERY week, the bathrooms always have a thick haze of smoke, and there are occasionally race riots.
leach51395 10 months ago
@leach51395 I went to 2 high schools - one in Dallas TX which was a big, concrete block (needed for the heating and A/C needs) and one in Del Mar, CA, which was a wonderful, open campus much like the one is this video. Southern CA schools are very nice, and not particularly the norm for the US as a whole.
myargonauts 10 months ago
@leach51395 shit seriously? bomb threats? who gives them :L my school is nothing like yours it slightly less cleaner and we have bomb threats but there always fights swearing and beating up and people chuck chairs at teachers.
OoCrazzzyoO 3 months ago
@OoCrazzzyoO i go to freedom high school, you might have heard about it in the news
MultiElte 3 months ago
whats the song at 4:10
Drakka100 10 months ago
@Drakka100 Dope Nose by Weezer
myargonauts 10 months ago
Hmm I wouldn't call it an "American" school since there are many types of schools in America xD Each state is like a different world ~_~
MaddieYchama 10 months ago
@olzabl123 the songs in this video? At which time? I can tell you...
myargonauts 1 year ago
i totally hate the uk,and i was wondering does anyway know if i can move to america when i am 18? i am 15 atm but i don't know what i would do to get a visa to live in america any help plz?
limeadam 1 year ago
@limeadam I think it's fairly easy for a UK citizen to get a holiday working visa so you can come to the US or Canada and work for a few months - many UK students do it during their gap year. To stay longer, you'd have to apply for a visa, which I think usually involves sponsorship from a company
myargonauts 1 year ago
@limeadam your not the only one trust me im 16 and i hate the uk to i soooo want to leave in calanfonia and go to a american high school i love america sooo much
thegorj10 11 months ago
@limeadam I bet it's just where your living in the u.k i'm 15 aswell and love the u.k. Maybe you neet to explore the u.k a little more.
iRushATI 10 months ago
You guys are lucky, we have to wear uniform for EVERY school in the UK.
matthe3234 1 year ago 2
i wish i went to school in america... the schools are ok but we have to wear uniform :L
bieberjonas27 1 year ago
god i hate my country (uk)
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
@TheRockybalburke ohhhh i knoww its shit isnt it !! for 1 thing when i am walking to school its dark and cold and another thing is we dont get to wear what we want we have to wear a certain uniform but luckily its not blazer and tie !! and the teachers in england just cant control the class because we are so noisey and distruptive ! i mean we have some people who swear at teachers and stuff and they dont do anything about it !!
soapfan97 1 year ago
@soapfan97 lol wow do you go to my school,you just described it exactly. and true the shit weather makes it very depressin
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
@TheRockybalburke yes lol x ahaa and yeahh it does make it depressing !! what year are you in then ?
soapfan97 1 year ago
@soapfan97 year 12 ,6th form u
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
@TheRockybalburke ohh right im a bit younger, im in year 9 now !! whats the town name where you go to school then ?
soapfan97 1 year ago
@soapfan97 oh k lol, i go to skegness academy in .... skegness
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
@TheRockybalburke ohh yeaahh i have been on a holiday to skegness b4 lol ! and i live about 2 - three hours away from there, u ever heard of worksop, thats where i live !
soapfan97 1 year ago
@soapfan97 lol wow that is strange!!! yeah ive heard of worksop its in Nottingham init ma brother goes uni there
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
@TheRockybalburke yeahh it is isnt it !! hehe, and yepp it is close to nottingham. but worksop is a very small town !! and it hasnt like got many shops so i usually go to medowhall, if you have ever heard of that ??
soapfan97 1 year ago
@soapfan97 nah lol not hear of there , skegness is tiny too if as you know i usually just go Lincoln city to do anything :P
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
@TheRockybalburke ohh ok and yes i havee heard of lincoln city lol x and medowhall is a huge shopping centre i think it has every shop you can think of !!
soapfan97 1 year ago
@soapfan97 ohhh lol medowhall that rings a bell , i know wat ur onabout :P, do u have msn
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
@TheRockybalburke lol, yes i do its cheekie_1233@hotmail.co.uk do you ?
soapfan97 1 year ago
@soapfan97 ofcourse i do silly girl why would i ask :P
TheRockybalburke 1 year ago
nice school ;)
i study at ROC Leiden,Netherlands
and its pretty nice though :P
check it out if ya want to
Greets from holland
070erwin 1 year ago
0.50 zenzen wakalanai !!! ahaha OMOSHILOI !!!!! demo , America wa abunai desuka ??? mata
coctailaqua 1 year ago
I love America. Thanks for the video. I hope
one day i will live and study in there.
Is there so cool like everyone is saying?
Hugs from Latvia. :]
jolantainese2 1 year ago 5
@jolantainese2 I'm living in Japan again, but i still think America is a pretty cool place. Good luck!
myargonauts 1 year ago
my school only has lockers for P.E , dance, and sports
michy285 1 year ago
0:50 ぜんぜんわからない！ ってｗｗ
何でこのTシャツ選んだんだろうｗｗ
Why he did choose T-shirts?
ぜんぜんわからない！＝"I don't understand anything!"
mikanvlovev25 1 year ago
@mikanvlovev25 My t-shirt? :)
It's a joke... But it always makes Japanese people smile when I wear it in Japan. :D
myargonauts 1 year ago
@myargonauts Yes!
humm.....I don't know why that.. But It's very funny XD I thought "!" makes this word more funny...Sorry for my poor English
mikanvlovev25 1 year ago
where are YOU from? wow..she's 15?!! she looked like 17 to me^^ and i'm 16 ^.^
take care :)
oOSunyySnowflakeOo 1 year ago
@oOSunyySnowflakeOo Brittany is my niece and now she is 20 and going to college.
myargonauts 1 year ago
@oOSunyySnowflakeOo sry..i just thought because she did'nt do her driver's licence yet.
oOSunyySnowflakeOo 1 year ago
@oOSunyySnowflakeOo yeah - she got hers later than most kids in SD - you can get it at age 16 in CA
myargonauts 1 year ago
lol my high school sucked so bad compared to this.
eagledynasty81 1 year ago
Only non porno video about a high school
Unit06JAW 1 year ago
@Unit06JAW haha - that's a good thing I hope :)
myargonauts 1 year ago
it sounds amazing to visit an american school...in germany the schools are creepy...
snowy0owl 1 year ago
HOLY CRAP ITS MY HIGH SCHOOL! O.O That's so awsome!!loI San Marcos High School is old and smaller than most of the schools in the city(even though it doesn't look like it on the video lol)
pretty cool vid btw! an it's so cool you get to teach in Japan! =D
UchihaKyoko 1 year ago
american high school looks better than english school. We arnt even alowed to eat outside!!! and we gotta wear gay uniforms. fuckin bullshit
fartsam08 1 year ago
@fartsam08 I gotta wear pink shirts for my year in my school! I'ts shit! :(
cturismo864 1 year ago
from what Ive seen California high schools are much different period from other school in the country. ie more freedom to be outside, interact with other students in different grades, just better overall.
hrobbins 1 year ago 4
I went to high school for 1.5 years in Texas and 1.5 years in California, and I would say they schools were very similar in many ways. Yes, the CA school was "outdoors" and more open, but my TX school had more spirit and school activities/clubs.
myargonauts 1 year ago
The more school spirit probably comes from the fact that TX takes football much more seriously than CA. No one does it big like TX. Your schools in TX and CA are leaps and bounds better than what I have seen in OK, NY, and now GA.
hrobbins 1 year ago
@myargonauts My high school was the outdoors 'California' type campus... except in the middle of Massachusetts... where we have winter. It was pleasant for the few months of the school year where it was warm, but less so on those bitter cold days. At least one person a year would injure their ankle on the ice while walking to class. And it was a nightmare for the janitors cleaning up all the melting slush.
Although I gotta say, I prefer the cold to the heat, but I think I'm just weird that way.
OmNomNomAnimation 1 year ago
Wow, this is a really good insight on american high schools, would you reccommend spending time at an american high school as an exchange student?
theEggTimer3000 1 year ago
Well, I made this video for my Japanese students who are learning English and about America, so I don't often get asked questions about coming to America...
But yeah - I'm sure you'd really enjoy doing a semester or a year as an exchange student in America.
myargonauts 1 year ago
boring...
JustAccountPL 1 year ago
me? the video? American schools? my niece?
myargonauts 1 year ago
damn
i'm at a UK school and we have only like 2 room's worth as a library...they have a whole seperate building... and since i'm in the sixth form (same grades as a british college would give just learnt in aschool enviornment) we do get priveleges like our own canteen and we can leave at lunch and we have free periods quite often and can go home during these if they are after lunch... can American students do this too?
Ktiger305 1 year ago
I don't think you can leave school unless you're in a work program or go to a college for special classes, etc. We did have off-campus lunch once a week when I was in HS, but I don't know if they still do that
myargonauts 1 year ago
ah right lol i suppose american schools have got all want insde food wise etc.
Ktiger305 1 year ago
@Ktiger305 depends, at my school seniors are allowed to leave campus at lunch to get whatever they want. Free periods depends on the student.
eagledynasty81 1 year ago
i wish i was american... british secondary schools are hell. It looks so good, and so big and so lenient! My.. we arnt even allowed to leave the canteen with our food :(
Ive decided.. im moving to america to learn :) ha ha !!
holliemilson 2 years ago 2
you mean all British schools aren't like Hogwarts? haha - But I'm sure there are some cool things about your school...
My schools in Japan are somewhat strict, but the kids still managed to find ways of enjoying themselves.
myargonauts 2 years ago 2
Haha, looks a bit different to UK school where you cycle or walk to school in the rain and wind, often in the dark during the winter... and plonk down in a disruptive classroom with a teacher who couldn't give a monkeys about their subject :))
highmetal1984 2 years ago 23
We had to deal with that and potentially lethal avalanches off our school roof in the winter.
NoOne3234 2 years ago
@highmetal1984 I know exactly what your talking about
bethieboo2009 1 year ago
Thanks for the video Jason.l used this today in my class to teach Japanese students about American school life
Commitin 2 years ago
very cool! :)
myargonauts 2 years ago
This makes UK High schools look like shit.
forced2witness 2 years ago 31
@forced2witness secondary schools not high schools.
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TheMattyccc 1 year ago
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@forced2witness Does it fuck UK high schools are better the buildings are better how many american schools get £40/$70 million schools?
TheMattyccc 1 year ago
@forced2witness Does it fuck UK high schools are better the buildings are better how many american schools get £40/$70 million schools?
TheMattyccc 1 year ago
@forced2witness you are right, im in UK and schools are boring and driving licence is from 17 years old, and in UK air soft guns are from 18 years ;d in america i think like a kid ;) UK is very security country, very boring country and secend time boring!
zzizioziom 1 year ago
@forced2witness In the UK we call it secondary school & yeah your right! I wish I could go to an american high school!!!
RandomRandomness752 1 year ago
Not all American schools are remotely like this. the high school I go to is really ugly and we have 11 classes everyday. We don't get to drive to school until we are 17 and seniors and we don't have a cafeteria outside. I don't have uniforms either but I wouldn't mind wearing one. Much more convenient.
princessasdfghjkl 2 years ago
WOW - 11 classes??? how long is each class?
myargonauts 2 years ago
Oh I guess technically I have 8 classes but 11 periods. like my schedule is:
Period 1-Phys.Ed
Period 2-AP Physics
Period 3-English
Period 5/6-Psychology
Period 7-lunch
Period 8/9-Calculus
Period 10-Economics
Period 11-AP European History
princessasdfghjkl 2 years ago
we have the same classes but i dont have PE or EH
youman24 2 years ago
and it's 45 min. and lunch is 30 min.
princessasdfghjkl 2 years ago
@princessasdfghjkl wow 11 classes i live in the uk and my school has 5 classes it used to have 6 and you dont want to wear uniform its horrible!
bieberjonas27 1 year ago
@princessasdfghjkl i live in the UK and we only have 6 lessons a day which start at 8:50 and they are 50 mins each and we finish at 3:10 but thats including break time and lunch. we have to wear uniforms but ours is a t-shirt and jumper with a logo on it ! but we are turning into an academy because people in our school are very badly behaved ! :( but it dosnt help as we have bad weather, well we have snow that is up to my knees at the moment!
soapfan97 1 year ago
what a school!!! compared to aussie schools anyway.
msbabymonkey101 2 years ago
Really good teaching aids, Jason.
You've accomplished your goal (what you set out to do) for your Japanese students.
U5NK8 2 years ago
song at 2.55 is by suzanne Vega called Toms Dinner
setttttt 2 years ago
ive never seen a video which is entertaining and stupid at the same time
well done
sebi777 2 years ago
Whats the song at 2:55?
yangistan 2 years ago
Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega
myargonauts 2 years ago
Weird, but I found that video really entertaining and I'm an American in Highschool.
yangistan 2 years ago 3
This video would is actually pretty interesting. I wish my teacher did this for my Spanish class.
WikitronNinja 2 years ago
thanks for the nice comment. My Japanese students enjoyed watching it too. :)
myargonauts 2 years ago
australia i 16 you can get your Learners then 17 your provisionals then your opens at like 18
tyoun55 2 years ago
man there so lucky for football we had to practice in ugly terrain so i t can better prepare us for the away games when the home teams field is ugly
bears57 2 years ago
I heard high schools in america have like swimming pools and other stuff. WHY CANT AUSTRALIA HAVE THEM. ==''
itszen 2 years ago
Not all of them, but in the one i studied, they did have a pool, but we walked like for 3 mins to get there, it was outside the school grounds, but still was the school's pool, also the football field was outside, aside of the pool. but i must say, that in mexico they got a better high education, i studied 5th, 6th and 7th grade in mexico, and the rest in the usa, what they tough me in mexico in 5-7 grades, the usa school teaching tough me in 9th grade.(high school)
kuLero760 2 years ago
what the hell!?!?!?!?!? my high school doesnt have a pool............ i wish i would sneak over there this summer
imdakingofny 2 years ago
yeah most (emphasis on most) american high school don't have swimming pools. They're mostly in the hot states like California, Florida, Texas, etc. Even some of those don't.
HoneyBaby778 2 years ago
cool I want this school too..
in germany :D
parislove2007 2 years ago
When a person from another nation says that the United States sucks, I simply respond by asking them the question; "WHICH STATE?" Certain states are going to be doing great, while others are gonig to be an absolute crap-shoots. Oh, and for the record, I really don't eat at McDonalds, I prefer Subway. :)
videoslacker 2 years ago 4
omg i want subway so bad right now......
imdakingofny 2 years ago
Superb idea to help test over listening and reading comprehension, also a good cultural lesson. Thanks for the continued ideas, they are proving most useful!
nyguitar83 2 years ago
i think it's because americans are mixed with tons of different races and ethic groups, whereas the british are just that - british. that IS their ethnic group.
jedmp17 2 years ago 2
Les écoles Américaines sont vraiment trop cool je trouve ! En France, les nôtres sont biens différentes ! Bien que cool aussi :)
MKRdusud 2 years ago
nous trouver l'ecoles en differents pays plus interessant que l'ecoles en america. Je suis l'un d'entre eux :]
hinataXkibaforeva101 1 year ago
i've noticed caucasian british people look different to caucasian North americans.
Alienmad462 2 years ago 4
so do you seriously dont have to wear a uniform?? i thought they just didnt in the movies!!! that sucks, im from australia and we have to wear them!!
Westham97 2 years ago
just hold out until university good buddy, no uniforms there :-)
ensortion 2 years ago
@Westham97 im from the UK and we have to wear them too !! ;( sucks right ! ;P but ours is polo t-shirt and a black jumper with a logo on it and any black trousers u want !
soapfan97 1 year ago
america has the most beautiful girls but it is a fuck country make to much war fuck amerika EU 4LIFE but the school is nice!!!
KiffenderMolch 2 years ago
Yes, and every Austrian has been a saint!
cough-Hitler-cough
Seriously though, America has been pretty fucked up recently. Oh well, every country has its ups and downs throughout history and America will be on the right track once we learn to leave other nations to their own devices. Unfortunately Obama appears to be just as ignorant as Bush in that regard even though he is less gung-ho abount blatant militantism.
andyhoov 2 years ago 2
The Americas High Schools looks great! I'm from Poland and it looks whole lot different here :) Awesome stadium I wish to play on one of these :) And this whole band thing o_O (i'm not interesed in that kind of things but this is great :D ) . Maybe I should do a video like this about Our High Schools .. Take Care! :)
PiO199 2 years ago
yes please - a video response showing your school would be cool. :)
myargonauts 2 years ago
ya sure looks great!......to bad our school system is a failure. I don't care how nice my school is, if the national average for graduation is only 70%, somethings obviously wrong.
crazybearBK 2 years ago
The main problem is that we have this crazy notion that everybody is intellectually equal and try to cram the same curriculum down everybody's throat. Unfortunately such is not the case.
Most other countries seperate the academic underachievers into seperate schools around highschool age so that the smarter kids can be prepared for college. America needs to realize that some children are, in fact, better off left behind.
andyhoov 2 years ago
i live in Canada and i must say that the US has great looking schools and so much spirit with nice big stadiums.
brapclap 2 years ago
thats a really good school for public !
dance4life643 2 years ago
is this a public or private school ???
dance4life643 2 years ago
public
myargonauts 2 years ago
im going to live in america next year im sooo excited :D
dance4life643 2 years ago
Great video i want to live in america beacuse english schools are crap but oh well maybe i`ll go to college in america
IWillLoveFood4Eva 2 years ago
lol nice video
next year i will be in america for 10 month i hope it looks like this school :)
1994german1994 2 years ago
the best thing about this video is them seats that are attached to the tables..typically american ... what if somebody cant fit into it tho?
ShizzleMyNizle 3 years ago 2
I'm sure with the surging waistline of many American kids, they can make other arrangements if you can't fit into the desk, or if you're handicapped in some way and need a special desk, they'd work it out.
Being a fat adult, I had this problem all the time in certain lecture halls at my college campus, where the little trays were just a wee bit too tight for comfort. :)
myargonauts 3 years ago
gosh you're all so lucky... At my school in belgium we have like 7 or 8 classes a day. I also have to wear a uniform(which I hate...) . We only get to drive at 18. but we are allowed to drink at 16. Which I find useless because I don't think alcohol is anything special...I'd rather drive at 16 and be allowed to drink at 23...
TheOnlyJu 3 years ago
21* is the drinking age here in the USA, not 23
GLS2010 2 years ago
ah , sorry I thought it was 23. But still I'd rather drive at 16 and be allowed to drink at 21 :)
TheOnlyJu 2 years ago
but you never drunk before 21? cause here drinking age is 18 and most ppl start drinking when they are 12 - 13 years old....
Lalmix 2 years ago
lalmix what country areyou from..drinking age is 18 in ireland and most people start at 12-13 too
iTzTebagz 2 years ago
spain dude look at my profile
Lalmix 2 years ago
im irish
iTzTebagz 2 years ago
ye i know u are irish im saying im spanish, and ye ppl here start drinking very soon.... got a friend that started when he was 11...
Lalmix 2 years ago
u no reading the coments (i thing im the only geek who does that lol) i never knew that so many people are intrested in american schools :D it makes me happy!
hinataXkibaforeva101 3 years ago
yep - this video is one of my most watched vids
myargonauts 3 years ago
This Is Cool I Didnt Think That American High Schools Actually Looked Like This, They Are So lucky!! Im From A Part Of England Called Leicester And We Dont Even Get Lockers And At My High School We Have To Wear A tie , It Is So UnFair, We R Not Aloud To Drive Until We R 18 But We Leave Scool When We R 16, But The Law Has Changed So Everyone In Yr 7 Downwards Have To Stay On Till they are 18 lol, Im Nearly Finished Scool Now Anyway So Yeah
angellraverr 3 years ago
That's cool that you can show your students that video. I go to school in the US also. Though our cafeteria is inside and so are the lockers.
We have an upstairs and downstairs. Upstairs are history classes and English classes. The upperclassmen (seniors and juniors) have their lockers up there. Downstairs are the offices, the gyms, athletic center, music classes, tech. classes(Engeneering, Achetecture)the Art classes, math classes and the other science rooms.
Only Seniors can drive.
SvartexXxMadame 3 years ago
cool - thanks for the info
myargonauts 3 years ago
our lockers are really run down because everyone ends up punching it. pretty cool to see how schools differ from each other. imagine if there was only one school in the entire world and everyone went to that school, it would be pretty hectic and is 100% positive for fights.
unrealerror404 3 years ago
of course, i just couldn`t imagine that terribel situation!
photieelicious 3 years ago
i wish i went to an american highschool u can wear wateva u want and not sum ugly uniform lik my school has to wear lik we get given out to if we wear make up and were made ake it off
blueeyedgal08 3 years ago
uniform is my love
Abeisababe 3 years ago
uniform shows formality :)
photieelicious 3 years ago 2
american schools looks wicked, i tired of wearing a uniform and they get there license at age 16!!!!, in australia you get your Learners at 16 then your licence at 17
jonnyzweck 3 years ago
be clad in holland you only get youre licens when youre 18.
but whe are alouwd to drink when where 16
IFRI1990 3 years ago
Wow im from britain and our school is horrible compared to american ones. Ours are dull, but maybe thats because of the weather. We dont have a homeroom either, or lockers so we have to carry our bags around everywhere, all day. We have 5 lessons a day which last 1 hour each. Thanks for the video it was good to know about high schools, because when im in my middle 20's im moving over to michigan. :) xx
bethybabes08 3 years ago
in mi skl we ave lockers
chazzeyboy 3 years ago
Haha I live in Hawaii and go to Leilehua High School and we only have 3 classes a day each about an hour and a half long. Our school is like a campus and we don't have lockers. Thanx for the vid and that's so cool that you're a teacher in Japan!!
RedHot10592 3 years ago
I went to two high schools myself, and the 2nd one I went to was similar to yours. We'd have 3 classes a day, two hours each - two before lunch and one after lunch. And there were no doors on the classrooms... very hippie 60s atmosphere...
myargonauts 3 years ago
what where is she livin i live in cal too but my school is half that size and we dont even have lockers for our stuff so i cary everything. like 3 books each day. and i live in the suburbs.
sumoplayer10 3 years ago
i love american schools they sooo much better than the ones in aussi thanks for the tour !!!
loveslcms 3 years ago
Hey, I'm Lauren from Michigan.
My school is about the same as yours, minus the large pavillion area I see. Plus most of our athletic complexes and our eating are are inside since about 1/2 of the school year it is below freezing. We don't have a home room either, but our lockers are a fair bit bigger than yours. In michigan though, back in middle school, you always have a homeroom. My class size ranges from 15-20 in the advanced classed and 25-30 in the normal classes.
Eaglegirl12 3 years ago
Hey Lauren -
Thanks for the info. Always good to know for my Japanese students.
Britt is starting univ in Colorado this fall, so she'll be having some colder temps too.
myargonauts 3 years ago
id love to live in america!
Kellykopter13 3 years ago 3
Aw She's so pretty! Wow I really wish I lived in America.... their high schools look so fun! And it's sooo sunny. I really want to go to an American high school before I leave school. English ones are so different.
RoseSlipper 3 years ago
wow american high schools look well cool if only i could go to one, cus english schools are like well shit compared to them!!
:>
Jackararpter 3 years ago
god there schoollsss look fun
mrlovalova22 3 years ago
haha 18 and u still cant drink
Def2Fie 3 years ago
u can here in Australia when ya 18
LtBarnes2007 3 years ago
i like the video but you might manna get a better video recorder for better quality, maybe its just youtube messin with it, overall 5 stars
skydemon1583 3 years ago
also what was the name of the school again i couldnt hear it to well in the video
freeofgreed 3 years ago
at 0:58, the name of the school is written on the screen :)
myargonauts 3 years ago
wow dont i feel dumb
freeofgreed 3 years ago
wow some states are different i used to live in new jersey but we had homeroom every dad but now i live in north carolina and we have homeroom sometimes but in california you dont have homeroom at all thats interesting
freeofgreed 3 years ago
Wow, you get to teach in Japan! You are so lucky! I wish I could teach English in Tokyo too! You have become my hero of the day. XD
AriniaLendin 3 years ago
Really cool video for your students. I think the words did go away too quickly for your students to read, but I think it went good.
WhiteMatrix2006 3 years ago
hey, i am an international students whose studying in Singapore. i was just turn 16 n am lookin forward to move out to the states. currently, i'm studying in Singapore and i don't like being here. the school sucks and i have to pay more than thousand dollars just for the living costs.
so, i just wanna ask, how much is the cost living in CA? how's the school registration process for the admission of foreign student in CA or in public schools?
thks b4. really need your help. :)
neodigy 3 years ago
hmmm... California can be pretty expensive, but it depends on the area. School is free, but I think you have to be a resident. Unless you want to go to College in America - many opportunities for foreign students in California.
myargonauts 3 years ago
i live in california myself but its pretty expensive depending on where you want to live. but honestly right now isnt a very good time in americas finances so if you are going to want to get a house now is as good a time as any because the prices are dropping in housing. idk about registration but if u look on the web you could probably find something :D (and schools freeeeeee)
hinataXkibaforeva101 3 years ago