European Reacts to A Day in the Life of an American High School Student
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The quality of the public schools unfortunately depends on where you live.
And the amount of money each school receives is based upon the tax value of the homes in the area.
Hence, rich neighborhoods have more money per student to spend.
It's a major reason "inner city" schools will never improve, the system is rigged against them (plus all the other factors like family culture, parental involvement, TIME to help kids, etc.).
Schools are usually funded by property taxes and populations willing to pay for better quality schools and faculty. Some districts have special schools for high achievers with entrance exams and high competition.
Yes we moved from the city to the suburbs for the schools.
@@MrVvulf It's not about the amount of money. It's the quality of teaching and teachers don't have a reason to improve their teaching abilities. This is due to the presence of the teacher's union which should be dissolved. Teachers should be forced to compete to teach. If they suck at it and cause studnets to fail, they are out. If they are successful in helping students then they stay.
@@ItsMe-ic1gb I agree that the unions are counter productive and should be abolished, but that's a separate issue. In many jurisdictions bad teacher's cannot be fired without going through a years long process.
However, the "where you live" part of the original comment is the pertinent part of the discussions which follow.
82% of kids go to public schools in the USA. 4-5% are home-schooled so about 13% go to private schools.
The terms private and public schools are reversed on Europe
@@kramermccabe8601 If true, are the definitions of private and public also reversed in Europe? Because, you know, public is for the *public.* All ye normals. And private is, well, private. Exclusive. A club you ain't a part of unless you got the funds. :\
Oh yea no such thing as computers either. We weren't 't even allowed to use calculators either.
Not sure about the rest of Europe but in the UK a public school is open to the public for a fee (like a pub is a public house where anyone can have a drink for a fee.) in other words what we call a private school. Not sure what they call a school owned by the public.
@@chere100 What Kramer is talking about is "public" school in the UK refers to a private tuition-paid school, while what the USA calls public is called a "state" school that is funded with tax dollars. In the UK the only "private" schooling is when a child has a personal tutor/teacher like was done for many decades with nobility.
This is Kamiak High School a public school in Mukilteo Washington, a wealthy Seattle suburb with a large Asian population.
More than 90% of K-12 (ages 5-18) students attend public schools in the USA. Public schools are free to all, citizen or not. Even children from undocumented families can attend public schools. Private schools can be very expensive, often over $50,000 per year, although religious schools are usually subsidized by the church and are more affordable. In a wealthy community like Mukilteo there are high local taxes which help to pay for excellent public schools.
Well put, do a vlog on regular public school. If you move here your children most likely won’t go to a public school like this one because of the wealth gap. But my mother sacrificed by living in a small apartment with us in a suburban county with the 3 of us so we can attend a public suburban public school, the difference is very apparent. It’s definitely 2 Americas here
I thought this might be the case. I was getting suburban public school vibes from the vlog.
I would say Mukilteo is a well to do suburb but certainly not wealthy, that would be Medina, Bellevue, etc. The average household income is $123,036 and per capita is $62,514. Usually in a family household it’s a duo income because both parents work. And there is a large Asian population here, probably due to our proximity to Asia and also the scientific and tech industries.
I was wondering where the school was. I noticed a large number of asians.
wow I'm from seattle and I was sitting here like 'wow it's cool to see other places in the US that have a big asian community' I had no idea it was filmed around here lol, my school was very different.
I would say that the majority of kids attend public schools. Private schools are attended by more affluent families or attend private religious schools like Catholic, lutheran, Christian etc. Most average American families cannot afford private school tuition. There are some costs for public schools for extra curriculum or sports (depending greatly on which state, city, county you live in).
Not necessarily more affluent. Most of our teachers kids went to catholic school.
@@garycamara9955 yeah they arent cheap, but most private schools arent exactly expensive/totally unaffordable either. daycare in some places isnt too much cheaper than the majority of private schools in areas I have lived in. lots of people can afford it, but why spend a few thousand dollars two or three times a year when you can save it up.
Wrong I went to a Christian private school we are middle family public school is propaganda machine parents need to get their kids out my parents sacrificed things so I could learn real history
I went to private Catholic schools from K-through high school. Can’t afford them now for my daughter, tuition has quadrupled here.
Haven't been to a public school since elementary school growing up, but I didn't go to Private schools either. They were charter schools which are schools that, while receiving government funding, operate with complete autonomy from the school systems and offer specialized education. I remember one year I didn't do so well in a couple classes and attended summer school, kinda sucked but oh well. During that time they were seeking to hire new teachers and they instructed us that the candidates would give us instruction and demonstrate their lessons to the class and it was up to us to decide which teacher(s) and teaching style we liked most.
I think it's a really good system but that's just my opinion. We did not have textbooks or lockers/locker rooms though since I learned in a project based environment. Not a reading one.
Whether you are American or not the Public Schools are available for free. There are some special fees such as lab fees for Chemstry or fees if your stuent joins clubs or takes extrsa-curricular activities. The Yellow School bises take kids to school who live distances away.
"Free" means the people in that school district pay through taxes even if they don't have kids that go to that school.
@@Thesinistereyes1property taxes.
@@Thesinistereyes1 correct
@@Thesinistereyes1 Yeah? That's how all "free" stuff works in a society. You pay in, take advantage of it if you want/need to, and it's ultimately cheaper for everyone. Basically how the police, fire folks, military, libraries, and public school work in the USA. It _should_ be how prisons and healthcare works too, but sometimes the USA feels the need to be stupid.
America is a Colossus compared to most other puny little countries, some things are just not easy to do in grand scale. Thats why we have levels in government: local, county, state, national. Each state is like its own country, and each state has their own interests and and the levels under it do also. Thats why no state is the same, in the Republic for which we stand gives us the liberty to lobby for our own interest and not just one person's. @@chere100
Good public school depends on the School District. Some districts have more money than others. School funding is raised by taxes(school levy) and are voted on by the people in the town. You can also see what the schools are like in every area. When we moved we choose the area based off of the school district for our kids. It makes a huge difference. Private schools are outrageously expensive. It's basically paying a college tuition. We have a lot of Asians and my kids are half Asian. We live in the PNW. Washington and California happen to have a bigger Asian population. Even at my high school we had a weighs and conditioning class. You have requirements every year and then electives. You chose your classes for the most part. You also have to take a foreign language. In most schools French and Spanish are offered. At my school you have to do a Senior project and it's a pretty big deal. If you don't do the project you don't graduate.
Mine are half Asian as well, and we’re from California, so your comments I can verify are accurate. Both myself and my children had the option to study a foreign language, with Spanish, French or German as the options to choose from. In fact all universities that I know of really want to see at least two years of classes studying another language. BTW I have one child now living in Washington; such a beautiful state!
This is just one school, on the west coast. Not all the schools are the same they differ greatly, depending on if it's public, private, etc., where it is, the funding it receives, a lots of other things.
If we didn't lift weights everyday at school we couldn't play football or any other sports
I had to lift weights before my track practices
I didn't play sports in school (bleah) but if I didn't feel like doing whatever they were doing in gym class sometimes they would let me lift weights instead. We only had a very small weighs room.
@@3DJapan I was terrible at team sports so I hated sports days in PE, but I loved weight lifting days! Lifting up something heavy didn't require throwing or catching so I was all for it!
If you do sports you usually have weight training as one class. It is public school.
I spent all my gym time in the weight room. It counted as part of gym class.
My son goes to a public high school in the U.S. His cousins were blown away by everything. The pool, the three gyms, the marching band, the cheerleaders, the school radio station, the sports teams etc.
damn thats must be a rich public high school 😨
you must live in a very rich neighborhood lol
@@user-rb4cj7mb8f hey a rich community and neighborhood means richer education
@@user-rb4cj7mb8f My public high school was in a very poor city and we had all those things at our high-school. Most schools have those things.
That looks like a public school. Most people go to public schools.
I feel like most private schools have uniforms of some kind other than that I have no idea why I can tell this is a public school.
First period is the first class (called home rooms and usually run about 50 min). Each period is another class/subject that runs around 50 min. Average day has 5 “periods” or classes. Did you notice how many buildings there are? In my graduating class from HS was over 2,000 students (San Diego, California). That’s a huge school for grades 9-12 (4 year high school)
our home room was at lunch, we had split lunch so half out at a time. So if you had 1st lunch you'd go eat then go to home room, and 2nd lunch did the opposite.
Home room isn't necessarily the first class.
My graduating class was 750, in 1966. Petaluma Senior Highschool.
Homeroom for me was only about 20 minutes.
I remember my high school technically having eight periods, but they split them between A and B days. So, you only had four classes a day. That was nice.
Yes, ALL kids can go to public school. Public school is paid with Property Taxes. Even if you rent your house, the landlord will usually pay the property taxes with the rent you pay. So, you pay your rent and the property taxes will be included in the rent. Also, emegency services (fire/police).
If the child doesn't speak english, the child will be mainstreamed and then have an ESL (English as a second language) class. I was a paraprofessional teacher and i helped a non english speaking student for a couple of months. He very quickly was paired with another student who helped him navigate and he learned english very quickly. The best way is to help them get into extra curricular activities (sports or other after school programs/clubs). I bumped into my student 2 years later and he spoke english with no accent at all. He was talking to me and my jaw dropped!!! 👀
I kept telling him to talk because i couldn't believe how perfect his english was.
Yes, this was a small rural public school. Only about 300 students from prek-8th grade.
Our Elementary School started at 8:20, but the bus came around our house sometime around 7:30 give or take. We were one of the last stops, so consider ourselves lucky there. But we'd still have to get up around 6:30 - 6:45 to have enough time to eat a quick breakfast, get dressed, and do other hygenic things. However being zble to drive at the age of 16, which gives most kids 2 years worth of driving while still in school, that allows a little extra time to get ready in the morning. You're kinda on your own time, not the bus's. What's funny is that my mom was a teacher, but never taught at the same school we went to while we were there. So it was just more convehient to ride the bus. Don't let those big yellow buses fool you. They absolutely suck. I don't know a single person who enjoyed riding those things. Discipline is out the window. It's a literal madhouse on those things at times. When i started driving, it was a huge relief to not have to ride the bus anymore. Instead of taking 45 minutes to get home, i could get home in about 5 to 10 minutes....from the time the dismissal bell rang at school. That included the walk back to my locker, swapping out books for homework, and then walking to my car. My house was beetween 2.3 and 2.6 miles from the school depending on which most direct way I went. And a lot of that was thru residential streets with stop signs every few blocks.
17:11 Public schools are free, but the quality of schools can vary from town to town. Some public schools are much better than others, so many people choose where to live based on the schools in the area. Private schools are pretty expensive. The cost for private schools can be anywhere from $5,000-20,000 per school year, per child. Depends on the private school. My kids are both in private Christian school. I pay $1,600/month for both kids for a 10 month school year.
While this school seems to be in an affluent area, many high schools get that big. They are in the district I work in. If you were to move to the US and bring children with you, the kids would be guaranteed free access to public education. Some districts (like where I work) have a very strict dress code (single colored polo shirt and brown/black/dark blue/beige pants/shorts/skirts). This access is also guaranteed to any child with additional needs, no matter how mild or severe.
A number of years ago, there began a big push to have computers for all the kids in schools. (Not just have computer labs). Since then, many many schools have purchased laptops (or chromebooks) for students to use (not keep).
Parents have to pay to rent those.
@mimikannisto4418 depends. In our district the kids all get tablets for the year.
@@roaaoife8186yes all the kids are given them for the school year free, and bring them home at night, but the parents must pay a fee if they are lost or damaged.
You can put your kid in public school if you're not American or even here legally. Public vs Private (vs Charter or Preparatory) schools all depends on where you live. As a kid in Florida, public school was better. Now private is better in our area. However, we have several free charters/prep schools in the area. And private has a large range of prices depending on your income, if you can get scholarships, and if they are religious focused.
This is a newer (last 10 years) bulit school. However, my High School just hit 70 years in operation, 50 in this building. And 25 years ago, we got a plane donated to the school to start an Aeronautical program since we are by 3 Air Force Baces close by. They bulit a hanger and other specialty things for it. Schools here have focused extras, gyms, pools, sports feilds, college programs, and the like depending on what money they can get to fund its building and operation.
This is a good "typical" high school day.
Public schools really vary a LOT. There are good public schools and there are ones that are very bad. The district where we live isn’t very good so we opted to send our 4 children to a small Catholic school for grades kindergarten to grade 8. We paid something like $500/ month on average depending on how many kids we had there at the time. We were lucky to have a technical high school they could go to in the town next to ours after that. If you were to move here, you would want to move to a town with a good public school and do a lot of research ahead of time.
English Class is kinda a misnomer. It wasn't to learn English, but more about researching, reading literature, and writing papers, essays, etc. I hated it. Lol.
There was English, then later was English literature.
English was mostly grammar. I think in my school 12th grade was "English Lit".
I'm a public school teacher in the US but I don't know much about the average American public school. I attended tiny private schools when I was young and I've only ever taught at a tiny, rural public school. But having said that, this school (and yes, it's a public school) looks CRAZY huge and fancy and chaotic to me! I can't imagine going to a place like that every day.
Retired teacher here - my experience has been with schools this size. I think some of the chaos is because all the students want to get on the vlog. I’m wondering if the rules for tardiness were enforced that day because five minutes is usually the passing time allowed between classes. I also noticed that there was very little of the class content recorded. I’m betting that he had to get permission from the school’s administrators and teachers to do the vlog in the first place. Ground rules would have to have been established for the student to be able to do it. Since he’s obviously new at this sort of thing, he didn’t realize that he needed to be a little more “scripted” to have this come off as anything other than chaotic. He’s only a junior and has to start somewhere if he’s interested in the performing arts. Maybe in twenty years he’ll be the next Steven Spielberg.
@@courtneyraymer6586 Thanks for the insight - very interesting! I thought about a lot of that too. I don't know how long it must take to get from one class to another on a campus that large (we have three minute passing periods to allow for restroom breaks, but the building is so small that most students are in their next classes EASILY within 30-60 seconds) so I wondered how that must have worked. Also, I'm positive he must have needed very specific permission from all involved adults. Probably my biggest concern of all was that he showed all the other students' faces without blurring. I find it hard to believe that they ALL signed waivers. I would have hoped that some adult would have given him some guidance in that area, but it's hard to know how it all worked. Having said all that though, I agree it's well done for such a young kid. That's much harder to do than it seems at first glance.
Yes this is a very wealthy school district and a big school. This is privilege even here in the USA.
For real. Even just lunch options are a dead giveaway. My bf went to a school that would make a couple standard lunches but they’d also cater pizza from various businesses around town so if you payed like $2 you could get a couple slices of restaurant pizza like Dominos. I know some schools have waffle makers and sandwich stations. lol non of these were options at my school. You either ate what the school had or you left and bought lunch at subway (only in high school). If lunch was bad, I’d opt for the cheapest PB&J ever. It was like generic peanut butter and jelly. There’s no other way to describe it. It wasn’t good but wasn’t inedible. You got use to it.
Weight room is more than just to lift weights. It is a weight training safety class. Learning correct mechanical and physiological use of equipment. Fundamentals of form, technique, spotting,etc. Muscle group identification and use in strength, endurance, flexibility; repetition, toning, warm-up/cool down procedures, etc....
Seems like a very average public school to me.
I graduated in 2005, and attended 3 different high schools, (parents went through a divorce and the school boundaries changed).
I had a English class, science, art and gym my 9th grade year. In my state, 9th is still middle school.
Then 10th-11th i went to a big well funded school, we could take swimming, computer classes, weightlifting, all different kinds of art science and math, two different english classes (reading comprehension, then regular english lauguage), a foreign language class (usually Spanish, French or German) and I took occupational automotive tech for college credit. Our school was close to a community college, and if you excelled in certain subjects (computers, science math ect) and had good grades, some classes were college credit from a part time highschool/college teacher, and some they would actually bus you to and from the college for.
From 11th-12th, I went to a much worse funded public school, much larger class sizes (often 40-60 kids per class, minimim) and way fewer college credit or specific classes.
Living in a nicer, high income area usually means more taxes, and usually mich better funded schools and classes over all.
Even though public schools differ greatly, you usually have a core basic minimum passing level for the basics (science, english, math ect) and then you have higher credit classes, and if yiu arena good student/lucky, more fun or college credit classes.
Our schools changed a lot after I graduated, several large school shootings happened as well as 9/11. Shortly after i finished, they installed metal detectors at every unlocked door, started installing camera's even on the classes (they used to be public only areas such as hall ways) and my younger siblings school actually required clear plastic backpacks, and eventually banned backpacks all together.
I was a bit before cell phones, but my two boys (12 and 14) both bring cell phones to school every day.
I believe this is in the Seattle area
This looks like a suburban school of an affluent neighborhood. A big chunk of the funding comes from real estate taxes (a certain percentage of housing value dependent on county usually) so if the houses are expensive, then the schools can afford gym classes with weight training options and the kids can choose what kind of exercise they do for the 45min classes. For some impoverished areas in inner cities or really rural areas, they don't get that kind of funding. Some don't have enough money to replace old text books. Some high schools offer so many college level courses (30-40) that they can graduate college earlier while some high schools offer only a couple of them. The inequality is horrible. Some teachers have to crowd fund art supplies. Even the teacher salaries are hugely unequal.
This High School reminds me of my high school. I liked swimming more than weight training. We had about 3,000 students in our school. I live in the Midwest. Yes. It was a public school. It was kinda loud during our passing periods. Running from one side of campus to the other sometimes you had to turn on the speed to get to the next class on time. I had people in my graduating class that I did not even know their names. We kinda just hung out with our own friend groups because there were some kids.
I lived 12.5 miles from my high school. This might not be a far distance for many US students. It still meant more than an hour on the bus. We had about 4,000 students, so this was happening every morning.
Since before Covid, but especially during and after it, many of our schools in Minnesota have been using Chromebooks for each student, which we rent cheaply. The schools even have "Chrome Depot" that handles repairs and tech distribution. The bridge between parents and the school is a software system that shows everything: classes, grades, updates, contacts, field trip payment, and really anything else. It's fantastic.
The video really shows the diversity of the USA. We have a taste of everyone on the planet. Contrary to our crazy people's beliefs, we're near the top of the least racist as a countries. It's fantastic being an American among Americans. Our government and crazy people notwithstanding.
A shower takes 30 mins. Breakfast another 30, getting dressed and ready 45 minutes. I never got up before 7:00 .
Gary you make me laugh! Both myself and later my kids took about 30-45 minutes to do everything before leaving to go to school. Now when either of my two returned home after playing in a game, that’s when the 30 minute showers happened!
7:50 It looks like the Pacific Northwest that's probably why you're noticing that. But yes we are very diverse.
I think it is California, a lot of Asians, and every color there is. I have a family of every color. Black, white, Asian, adopted Chinese.
I recognize the school since I grew up in the area. It's in a suburb north of Seattle, so yes, the PNW. It is extremely diverse in the Seattle area because it is a tech center, much like California. There is an especially large Asian and Indian population here.
@EatPrayCrunch1 nice! My area has a Honda factory and one suburb is known for its large Japanese population and they have a Japanese mall. It's exciting for Ohio! But the Asian population in comparison is small compared to the PNW. Love how diverse we are 🇺🇸
When I went to high school in 1968 to 1972 There was only 2 kids who were not white. this was not unusual for the times. The two kids were from a Japanese family whose parents operated the only Chinese restaurant in town and the best berry farm anywhere. There were no black kids at all in my school. The first Hispanic kid came in 1971 and finished out her senior year with us. If I go back to my hometown now I see that it is fully integrated with people from all over the world. Makes me smile to see some progress.
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I used to student teach for a lot European students in an affluent public school district (kids of doctors, business people, researchers) in Massachusetts. The parents were so impressed by the quality of the facilities and education. The stereotypes about poor education in America are from our inequality; if you live in an area that is well off, you can get a world class education. Many states like mine have among the world's highest outcomes in terms of education while some states are much below average, since your education is determined more by the state and the local government than our country as a whole. Some states compare to Finland in education and some are below 3rd world countries.
I went to school in the 70’s in public schools. But even then we had gyms with weights, sports of all kinds, basketball, football, baseball, tennis, track, we also had band and several kinds of music classes, and any number of clubs and groups at school. They taught us to drive a car, shop classes and power tools and lathes, etc… there were big rooms for the kids to learn to cook and sew and other home care classes. There were lots of after school things too. public schools get a bad rap nowadays, but they are really well equipped back then. And they are free. 🤗❤️🐝
Similar experiences to what you wrote, both for myself (back in the day), as well as for my children many years later.
public schools get a bad rep now because more and more neighborhoods are losing money, so less and less money goes towards the schools, its one of the main reason people in poor neighborhoods say the system is set up agaisnt them, because it literally is lol.
I think I woke up at 7 as well, my high school was only a mile or so away. I decibel wasn't cooking eggs before school. I might have cereal or a frozen waffle.
In high school, you had the option of weight training or doing other forms of exercise, at least in my school. And k-8th grade it was the one mile run and all of sports like gymnastics basketball,soccer and track and field. There was a lot of different forms, even dancing and yoga.
When I was in high school we had 2000 students in grades 10-12. 9th grade was in the junior high because the high school wasn't big enough.
The school bus usually picks kids up somewhere between 6:45 - 7:30 a.m. where I live, but his school starts insanely early!
No, my High School started at that same time back in the 1980's. High School starts earlier than the younger kids. The buses need to stagger their buses & the HS kids will be heading out soon for jobs & college so they had better get used to it.
@@corinnem.239 I also grew up in the 80's ☺️ it really depends on where you are though, because now we live in a rural town and ALL of the grades get on the same bus and they stagger the drop offs. The middle school and high school are also sharing a parking lot. Imagine how shocked I was after growing up with each school having it's own assigned buses LOL
Typically High School. Located in Mukilteo, Washington close to Seattle
Private school tuition varies by area and school amenities. In my state (Maryland) the average private school tuition is a little over $18,000 per year. My daughter goes to a school with a large campus that includes full sports facilities (5,000 seat football stadium, multiple gyms, multiple tennis courts, weight rooms, Olympic size pool, equestrian center, lacrosse, soccer, baseball fields), two theaters, a robotics center, etc. Tuition costs us approximately $42,000 per year. If she were to board it would be roughly $20k more. Tuition in NYC, DC or LA can be far more.
In my state and most others have school for every child beginning at age 5. All students attend physical educ,art musicand library one class every day. Students with vision, hearing, speech, learning delays, autism, physical or occupational therapy free.
Most kids go to public schools. My daughter attended private school for high school-it was a boarding school (she lived there during the school year)-and tuition, lodging, meals, and classes cost $33,000 per year plus uniforms, spending money, and books. For just under the same amount, she could have attended one of the more elite colleges in our state (Duke University) and country. Let me be quick to say that she received $30,000 in scholarships and financial aid and the school helped provide uniforms. She loved it and the education she received there (plus her stellar grades) got her a free ride (all costs paid) to attend an elite-ish private college (they accepted only 14% of their applicants). My son went to the local high school. His educational experience was mixed but he was able to get into his first choice school (a good state school). It helped that both of my kids were exceptional at testing, their SAT scores were high. My son played football for a year and was required to take ‘football weightlifting’ for his PE (physical education) class during that time. For reference, my daughter graduated high school in 2008 and my son in 2019. Neither child had a school provided computer. My high school was a new construction, only a couple of years old when I attended there, and it was noisy in the hallways because, well, we were kids, and the ceilings were really high and everything echoed. I suspect the high school in the video was located in California due to the number of Asian students. My daughter’s first high school roommate was from Korea (as in, she came to the states just for school). My son probably had a few Asian kids in his school because the area we live in does not have a high Asian population.
For lunch, many schools have a la carte sandwiches and burgers, stuff like that, in addition to the typical lunch tray option. Kids can pick one or the other.
When they say that's a "W" or that's an "L" that usually means a win, or a loss. It wasn't like that what I was younger either, it's a newer slang term.
I attended High School back in the late 70's and we had a weight lifting gym back then also. Not unusual.
We had SURF P.E. (For phys.ed) in Dana Point, California; in BOTH junior high AND high school!
PLUS, you could get PADI (Scuba Diving) certified, if you signed up.
Yup 😊
Now THAT is Coastal Southern California PUBLIC School!
( also, Oceanography/Marine Biology class- we went out on the harbor in a BJ boat and took Ocean Floor CORE samples) Once again...yup!
Orange County, California, BABY!
Ok, I went to high school in New Jersey from 1984-88. In 9th grade we had typing class and in 11th grade my high school got 2 computers and 1 word processor. The only kids aloud to take that class were those going on to college for business. My school was decent looking but not modern like this school. They seem to have long breaks between classes. I remember running to some classes depending on how far apart the classes were. Good times in high school. i had to edit. I forgot to say I hated science in school and my son has his BS in Biology.
We had TWO minutes between classes, and if you were late, detention. These kids aren't running to class with heavy backpacks like I did!
Yes this is public school and they are free. Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington, just north of Seattle, my daughter-in-law and her sisters all attended and graduated from this school. This is a little misleading time wise. The class times at Kamiak High School where this was filmed Monday through Thursday is Home Room 6:20 - 7:15, 1st period 7:20 - 8:15, 2nd period 8:22 - 9:17, 3rd period 9:24 - 10:24, 4th period 10:31 - 11:26, if they are assigned to first lunch that is 11:26 - 11:56, 5th period 12:03 - 12:58, if they are assigned to 2nd lunch 5th period is 11:33 - 11:28 and then lunch from 12:28 - 12:58, 6th period is 1:05 - 2:00 and 7th period is 2:05 - 3:00. On Friday they have a shorter day, eliminating Home room and 7th period, which is why he started his school day that day at 7:20.
This particular school building opened on September 3, 1993, it’s the second high school in that district, they had to build this second one due to population growth. There is a large Asian, Pacific Islander, Indian, Hispanic population in the Seattle area because it’s close to the Pacific ocean. There is a diverse population in all our schools here. PE class (physical education) usually has lots of options, weight lifting is one, cycling, also gymnastics, tennis, etc. I’m guessing this was filmed right after Covid because most of the students are still wearing masks.
School starts at 6:20 AM? That is crazy to ask teens to get up that early. It's not aligned with their natural clocks. Teens naturally need more sleep than adults, and they naturally stay up later. My school started at 8 AM.
@@amyb1078 I agree teens are naturally tuned to falling asleep later and rising later, and ideally school districts would flip start times so the elementary school students start first, followed by middle school and the high school. Since the buses have to transport all ages, school start times see, to be incremental. The school district I live in, which is west of Seattle begins their day at 7:15 and they are dismissed at 2:00. While that’s also early, it allows kids to have after school jobs and do homework. Our area is pretty blue collar/middle class so a large number of kids do have after school jobs to help pay for college or trade school.
@@janfitzgerald3615 I get that, but I think 8-2:30 or 3 makes more sense. I have to wonder if kids wouldn't do better academically and maybe have better mental health with more sleep.
We lived in a rural area of western Massachusetts when I was in high school. Our school took students from seven towns in the area, and we lived near the end of one of the school bus lines, so my trip to school took about 45 minutes. Since school started at 7 am, I was picked up at 6:15 am, which meant I had to be up by 5:30 am at the latest. The school day lasted until 3 pm, but there were always extracurricular activities. (Mine were most often music and drama. Others were on sports teams, etc.) Often I was at school more than 12 hours a day.
I graduated in 1977, so we didn't have any computers, let alone cell phones. Everything was handwritten, except (of course) for typing class. I hated typing class at the time, but BOY did it come in handy later on!
We had *one* lunch served in high school. No choices were offered, but it was all free, and the food was usually decent.
Schools have changed a lot since since the 1970s!
This is a VERY well funded public school.. PNW - guessing most of their parents are in the tech industry.. This school probably has multiple gyms for different uses.
There are a lot of schools around the US that size though.
Public school is free and majority is public school. AND it depends on what state you live in. Some have school boundaries and in some states you have to live within those boundaries for various reasons such as taxes, over population etc. Every state is a little different.. then there is bussing - it’s quite a rabbit hole to dig into.
Private schools can cost as much as college per year but do not have to have the same rules and laws in many ways.
The buses run 2 -3 loads of kids..
Elementary school, middle school and high school.. so someone must be the early bus students.. they usually have the smaller children go the latest but not always that way every where
I taught middle school for 45 years and retired recently. Kids are given Apple iPads to use all day and take home to do homework. They are collected at the end of the year. Most classrooms have a set of computers for daily use. Each state and each county vary wildly as far as money and resources spent for education!
American public middle and high schools can have a variety of schedules. I have both attended and worked in schools that had the standard 7 period day, but others had block scheduling. My middle school & high school both converted to block scheduling while I was in school. I had a total of 2 years with 7 period days & the rest was block scheduling. Block scheduling is where you have the same 7 classes with an extra elective & the classes are split between 2 days. Each block is 90 minutes instead of just 55 minutes for a period.
Weight lifting is a normal class for anyone that is involved in sports, even the managers. Certain classes may have a fee due to technology or equipment needed, especially the first few years. This might be more common in rural schools, which is where I attended & primarily worked.
Haven't been to a public school since elementary school growing up, but I didn't go to Private schools either. They were charter schools which are schools that, while receiving government/taxpayer funding, operate with complete autonomy from the school systems and offer specialized education. I remember one year I didn't do so well in a couple classes and attended summer school, kinda sucked but oh well. During that time they were seeking to hire new teachers and they instructed us that the candidates would give us instruction and demonstrate their lessons to the class and it was up to us to decide which teacher(s) and teaching style we liked most.
I think it's a really good system but that's just my opinion. We did not have textbooks or lockers/locker rooms though since I learned in a project based environment. Not a reading one.
Yes. It’s a public school.
This is a public school. At most private schools the students wear uniforms and the school is not usually as large. This school does have a lot of Asians, maybe it’s somewhere usually near the west coast where there are a lot of Asians. I didn’t catch where it was. Some are majority Hispanic or other ethnicity. Schools can vary greatly depending on their location.
I went to private school from Kindergarten through 8th grade. Then from there I went to my home high school. Meaning that there are schools in my state that are dedicated to certain neighborhoods and the kids in those neighborhoods go to that school and it's free for them. If you live in a neighborhood and you don't want to go to your dedicated school you can choice into a different school but there's a chance you don't get in to that school. I went to a public high school that was in a pretty wealthy area so we had a lot of options in terms of electives and sports. There are a lot of people who went to private schools but a majority of people I know went to public schools because it's just cheaper. I knew that I would always end up in my neighborhood high school and it was honestly fantastic. I definitely would've preferred public school over private school.
11:01 Looks like a well funded public school, probably 3000-4000 students age 14-18. I'd bet this is an upper middle class suburb near a large city.
If I recall, the defense department schools actually do some of the best job with student outcomes. They’re well funded, well planned, integrated, high expectations, and make sure politics doesn’t impact results.
love these kinds of reactions
I attended a public high school very similar to this one. I'm pretty sure it's a public school. And you mentioned how diverse it is. This school is nowhere near as diverse as the school I attended. My school also had very good gym facilities because in Georgia they take high school football very seriously. lol
Public schools are "free" (paid for mostly by local property taxes), and EXTREMELY variable in quality. Because local property taxes pay for schools and American communities tend to segregate somewhat by income, Poor students usually attend terribly underfunded schools and wealthy students tend to attend either private schools or extremely well-funded public ones.
That is somewhat true but in my state, the public schools with horrible performance actually spend more $ per student whereas the wealthy area spends less $ per student and still get much better results. Having discipline & high expectations towards students I think also plays a role.
I caught the bus at 6:30 am my last two years of high school because we moved out to a more rural area. I was one of the first pick-ups, so I got the longest ride to the school.
I hope this wasn't some sort of journalism assignment! When I was in high school in the '70s we learned to answer these basics: who, what , when, where, why, and how.
I got nothing from this. Where (generally) is this? What grade are you in? Why are some people in masks and some not? What are you learning in science? English? Can we see the white board in math? What do your friends want to do after high school? Is the school preparing you for life as an adult? I have lots of questions!
Am I being harsh?
Ah, he's a junior, ok, check one box.
RUclips for the sake of RUclips; now maybe I'm being too harsh.
This a super upscale school.
Cost of private school varies.
My elder daughter's school is 30k+ per year. It's super expensive, for me.
My younger's is 10k per year, because we're not Catholic. If we were Catholic, and members of the parish, it'd be more like 1200 per year.
My daughter is in kindergarten and her bus for school come at 6:40 am. But I remember when I was in high school, our school started at 7:23am and ran until 3:30. Yes, we did have a weights class. It was very popular with the athletes (women and men). My graduating class was about 1000 people.
Most kids are in public schools, and I don't know about other areas of the country, but here in Montana, the schools are mostly free. Depending on your income, lunches can also be free.
I had a wide range of quality in school lunch (and education) between 4 different school systems in 2 states in the US. It genuinely depends on the funding available and the quality of the teachers and other staff employed by the school system, plus individual state laws pertaining to education and the food program for public schools. Ive had better meals in jail than in some schools. One school system served some of the best food ive ever had, especially the deserts. It really depends where you go.
My public school inside of Detroit, MI, offerred: weights, swimming, wrestling, field hockey, la'cross, modern dance, basketball, football, tennis, volleyball, soccer, baseball, track & field. Ah and cheerleaders.
This looks like a public school in an affluent area. Local tax base (average income) has a huge impact on how the public schools are. Unjust: unless you are blessed, as I was, if you live in a lower income area, 1 of the negative consequences is BADLY underfunded schools.
I went to tiny Catholic schools, many, many, many years ago-- graduated high school in 1974 as Valedictorian, meaning top of the class. Tiny HS, all girls. I thrived there. Had a very dysfunctional home life, & school was my escape. Our HS was not fancy, few resources, but unlike the other Catholic schools in my area, we were ethnically & socio-economically diverse. And our tuition (cost of school, for only private schools) was much lower than other private schools.
I worked EVERY DAY after school, at school, for up to 2 hours, for a 50% discount on tuition. We lived about 5 miles away. My choices were public bus, or ride a bike. I chose to ride a bike, as bus had some scary people.
My husband went to very large, public schools, across the country from me. There were many thousands of students. He walked a long distance to school, preferred walking to riding the large school buses. I was involved in all the clubs at my school. Met during lunch. I was surprised, during senior year (grade 12) when girls in the earlier grades (9 & 10) said hi to me, by name.
We were blessed with mostly excellent teachers, all dedicated. Only a few were Sisters (Catholic nuns). I worked for 1 of the most brilliant -- & demanding -- women I've known. Sister Irene. She taught history & civics. Also was the college advisor for our school. I am more a language, literature & science person.
Oh, by the way, school lunch in public schools are free in a lot of areas. I guess they used to have free lunches for low income kids. But kids would get teased about not buying lunch. Many schools also have free breakfast, to make sure kids eat a healthy meal.
Very complex subject to discuss!!
Blessings, Andrë. Please kiss your beautiful baby, from an old lady in Southern California.
The weight lifting gym is different than the gymnasium. Different building. I was on the girls weight lifting team in 2001- 2002! I place last for two years except for once because the competing school did have a contestant in my weight level. I weighed 98 lbs lmao
In the U.S. most public schools require students to have P.E. (physical ed) during the day. If you are a student athlete and play a sport for your school you may lift weights as part of training for your sport. Some schools also have weight lifting teams so of course they lift weights daily at school. This goes for girls and boys.
This is a public school. Public schools are funded by the taxpayers and therefore the more wealthy the district the better quality the school. So this is an area that is most likely large area and a good portion of the area are well off financially
We had 0600 morning lift session then school started at 720. Had 7 periods of class that ended at 1545 then went straight into practice for sports (football during autumn, wrestling during winter, track and field during spring). Wouldn't be "finished" with school until around 1800. Speaking from my own personal experience, varies wildly by area and the community the school is in.
Many schools have cafeteria style lunches that the kids can choose a variety of foods, including fruit and vegetables, that aren't very popular. Sugary foods are limited. The school I work at no longer sells soda, but has bootle water, milk, and juices.
Reading the commments is kind of funny cause I can tell who has never grown up in a poor neighborhood. I've lived all over the east coast and have had times where me and my mother were homeless, living with family members, and times were we bought our own house, vehicles, and could afford to live a comfortable life. During those homeless moments I attended schools in some poor neighborhoods and you could truly tell how the government really didn't care for those kids because their parents couldn't afford the governments help, while the private schools i went to were constantly having events, extra electronics and new books with some of the best teachers and this was all provided for by the neighborhood and government (we know exactly where our tution was going) When you hear someone in AMerica saying the system was set up against them, they more than likely are not exxagerating
Many underprivileged public schools actually get paid more per student than private schools. My mom teaches at a school where a couple of her kindergartners are homeless, a couple are in foster care, some have parents in jail or on drugs, etc. and her school gets 3 times government funding per student than I pay for my children’s private school. The differences between the school are astounding as you probably know from your own experiences. Some states are trying to pass bills where each student has a certain dollar amount allocated to them that will either go to the public school they attend or will be used as a deduction for private school. This would be a huge game changer for schools. We’d see an increase in private schools and under performing public schools will have to figure out ways to compete. As a former teacher, now stay-at-home mom, I can talk about schools, funding, child development, etc. all day! But I’d really look into what bills are being passed in your area. As we see with under preforming schools, you can’t just throw money at a problem and think it’s going to go away. More needs to be done and it’s far from a money problem.
I went to a midwest public school in a middle class area that looked pretty similar to his high school, but it was also brand new when I went there, I was the third graduating class.
We had a few foreign exchange students from Germany, Spain, and Italy. The German girl told me she was shocked to see that not everyone was fat like she expected, but actually most people there were really fit compared to her school in Germany. She was also surprised to learn that we had French classes, so she signed up, but ended up being bored because of how simple it was. She was expecting something like her English classes in Germany, but instead we were learning basic French grammar at like a 2nd grade level lol..
Something I've noticed now that I'm a few years out from academics - a lot of my old friends are starting to gain quite a bit of weight when they were all pretty fit in high school. I imagine what happens is a lot of students have gym class or sports, then they suddenly stop having dedicated exercise time built in to their schedule after school, but they don't change their diet at all and start gaining weight very quickly. The vast majority of overweight people I know did sports in high school.
For PE class there’s a ton of different things to do. You can pick weight lifting, regular running class, but most people pick regular pe that’s a bunch of different sports every day sometimes it’s basketball then tennis or soccer, or flag football, etc.
We worked out all the time in the 80s and 90s. If you played sports you worked out! We considered that o pool pretty important, and we won a lot.
My high school in the early 2000s had the regular county school lunch schedule, a potato bar, a burger bar, a pizza bar, and a salad bar. We only got 20 minutes to get the food and eat. So we had 10 minutes to eat. To be fair my school was poorly designed so 10 minutes of lunch was just trying to get to the cafeteria. Our school was set up like a set of connected wagon wheels connected by one hallway. It was a nightmare. The high school was 5 years old and they had to add trailers for classrooms and the gym would flood if it rained. I have nightmares about being there and I am 40.
Hey! Love your videos. For context, this video is of a high school student in Seattle. He definitely attends a more well-funded school located in a wealthier area. You can tell by the demographics of the students. Usually schools in America that are more White American or Asian American tend to be more funded. We still have tons of underlying racism that defunds or underfunds Black and Brown American schools.
So I have been out of high school for nearly a decade, and all I could think was, damn, that school experience looks different from what I recall during my time. For instance, my school was also a Rich School in Loudoun County, VA, one of the wealthiest counties in the country. The first thing I noticed was time my high school didn't start till 9 am, and we got out at 3:48 pm I wasn't usually awake until 7:30 because I had to be at my bus stop at 8:30 we also had 8 classes 4 each day on a rotating schedule.
I went to public schools my whole childhood (for free) but some were different. Some were "gifted" schools that got more public funding. I attended a "gifted" Jr High that had 8 daily periods (not including lunch). Then went to a "polytechnical" high school that had between 4 to 8 periods, depending on the grade. The first couple years they crammed in 6 required classes and two electives and the latter years were job prep so we had 3 required subjects and one 3 hour class that was in some form of career (agriculture, police science, finance/business, construction, child development, medical assistant, fashion and design, JrROTC, etc.).
All high schools (grades 9-12) have required gym classes. Usually a different sport is covered quarterly.
Thing to note most is that different places based on funding have wildly different schools. My hs was a step down from this guys as it wasn't a big campas like this but still big. 2600 kids between all 4 grades while I was in school but some places could have 5000 while others have 100. Also, the number of students doesn't always account for better funding but people tend to put money into schools their children go to so it can be a factor.
Most private schools and public schools also interact with sports and academic activities too while I know a lot of other places separate them. Actually not too much different in many privates schools compared to public from what I heard from friends except usually private schools are extremely religious.
Was playing volleyball at a private school once and they had asked me to leave since I was trans and queer. Thankfully under the city they were in rules I wasn't able to be turned away though my own school could have that year (it was changed the next year).
Honestly, as good as the schools are or aren't really doesn't matter to most people. Hs is just a bitter sweet memory for most people anyway. There will also, anywhere you go public, be a variety of backgrounds. America is just like that really. A kid in a mustang will drive past a kid with everything they own in their school bag.
There is a large Asian population here because he goes to school near Seattle, Washington and the west coast has a larger Asian population than the rest of the country. There are multiple historical reasons for that, proximity to Asia probably the biggest one.
I graduated high school in Ohio in 1987, yes, I'm old, lol, but this is pretty much just like my school except cell phones and laptops obviously, but we had weight class and a big weight room. We even had our own radio station and radio class which I was in. I got my radio broadcasting license and that was before cd's were used, we spun albums. I was on the air as a deejay every day. There are different types of classes to fit different interests and opportunities in addition to regular classes. I took three years of German and was an exchange student for a month in Berlin before the wall came down. My whole family, grandparents, aunt and uncles donated money to allow me to go. Basically, I was in a great public high school ranked high in state for education and they still are, I was lucky, income had nothing to do with who could attend. We were a mix of well off families, which I definitely was not, as well as rural farm kids, lower income kids (me), a bit of everyone and this was like watching a flashback of my time. Just saying much of everything you saw is a normal school, though yes technology has come a long way but I'm glad I went through school before everything changed. My school bus picked up at 6:30 am. Schools, though similar across the country are a lot the same in many ways, will have their regional and economic differences. Even though my story is outdated, wanted to give more perspective how our schools have been, not just a current day picture.
It's a public school. Not all public schools look this good. It depends on the affluence of the area. Wealthier areas collect more in taxes for the district and therefore can afford nicer facilities. Physical education is required in high school. It was only required freshman and senior year at my high school. We had lots of options for our PE classes though. I took Gymnastics and indoor sports for two of my PE classes. The schools are noisy during passing time (between classes). It brings back long ago memories.
I’d wake up at 6, get ready, have breakfast (oatmeal, toast or cream of wheat where my go to’s), I’d willingly watch the news because I was a weird kid and like knowing what was going on in the world, then I’d walk to school, which was only a couple blocks away. School started at 8:45am and ended at 3:30pm. I went to a small school, about 300 students in just the high school. But in the bigger cities, school like this definitely exist!
I forgot to mention, lunch was about 30 minutes long. So we’d have to eat quickly if you were toward the back of the line. Periods are usually about 50 minutes long. Also don’t know about other places in the world, but in the US, students change classrooms every period rather than teachers switching rooms. Tbh teachers switching rooms makes more sense because it reduces congestion in the halls but that’s just not how we do it.
If I had to take a guess, the weight lifting room is exclusive to athletes. In my school it was. But generally gym usually consists of lots of running or playing badminton, basketball, flag football, kick ball, softball, in my cases, running to our local park, doing something there, then running back for our next class.
Most Americans don't have to travel too far for school, but in some rural areas with low population, students may have 1+ hour bus rides (a lot of that time is spent winding around residential streets picking up or dropping off students). Though someone getting up at 5 am is almost always going to be their, or their parent's, choice to have extra time and not have to rush to get ready. Him saying his school starting at 7:20 am would be earlier than many. More common would be 8-something.
This is definitely a more high end public school, my school kinda looked like this but you can tell by the quality of things it’s a school that has good money, probably because most of their students go to nice colleges later on.
I used to know people that would wake up at 4:30 to get to school on time. Since some districts can be very big, there are multiple school options, and since the school closest to them was really bad, they would travel 90 minutes or 2 hours or something because it was worth the better environment and better education.
A lot of people with kids choose to purchase homes in areas with good school districts (or change their address through various means 😂) so their kids are in safe, desirable schools with high rankings. Home prices are often determined by quality of schools. These neighborhoods are generally also more affluent, desirable, safe & family friendly than areas with poor quality school districts. There are some exceptions like sometimes the area is good but the the school district for that neighborhood is poor so most of the kids from that neighborhood will go to private school even if their parents are not rich, but they may go to a private school that costs less money bc it’s better than being around a school with drugs, violence & where kids score very low on standardized tests (due to poor academic environment). Each school will have different demographics depending on the region, state, city & neighborhood.
Kids pay 20,000-25000 US dollars a year for the private schools in my area. Way more than college in my area. My kids go to public school. I have a decent job and still can’t afford it. Some kids can qualify for reduced private school rates/scholarships. My kids have never expressed interest in going so I haven’t looked into it too closely.
My sons high school classes were three hours long. Everyday was different classes. They alternate classes by the day and every other week. . This was in Pennsylvania. It was more like college classes.
We also have pools, basketball courts, football and baseball fields.
That's an affluent public school, by the looks of it. Public schools vary in terms of the resources they have because they are funded by the local property taxes. Higher value homes=more money going to the local schools. Also, it looks like it's a warm climate, so they change classes outdoors. My school was a lot older and less fancy.
Public schooling varies drastically depending on the wealth of the school district. If you can afford to live in a wealthy area, like this one, obviously is, then you're good. This isn't the reality in most public schools. School districts are a major factor for parents when buying a house for this reason. They're both really good & really bad public schools in the US. You should be aware of this if you're going to move here.