Koreans in their 30s React To American VS Korean High School Vlogs
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If you're getting out of school at 10 PM, forget developing interests, or talents, or creating things, or SLEEPING, do you even know your parents????? I would physically die.
I had no idea about this. That's interesting to keep in mind now when hearing about other differences.
Like, if you're eating two meals at school the food BETTER be good. If you have one meal but possibly brought food from home, there's much less of a reason to invest in making school food good.
And family dinner in America is a HUGE part of development. The whole routine each individual family and child has that makes up the 5 hours between school and bedtime.
How long is the Korean school year?
It is why young Korean people hate living there. It is a foundation for a lot of the problems that the country is seeing in terms of health
@@wabbajeck what problems do you mean?
@@laffingist218 mental health is a huge issue in korea. Most young people want to escape because of the societal pressures to succeed, academic pressures to be a perfect student (the education system is a whole essay worth examination) and the professional community (i.e job community) contains the same pressure as a lot of kids are scolded for not joining top companies. You can probably imagine that all of these culminate into a ton of smaller problems that combine together to make a much bigger one.
@@wabbajeck It's really sad, I hear the suicide rates are very high in East Asia, especially Japan. Is it in Korea too? I really admire the Asian type of school systems as I think it cultivates smarter kids than the public schools in America, but it's really damaging. I wish they would find a way to have a rigorous education without making it soul crushing.
"what if you're a slow walker?"
"walk faster"
LMAOO
Lol I remember my home room teacher telling us that on the first day of school in the 6th grade 😂 When I tell y’all I ran to my next class on the other end of the school I literally mean I RAN!
Nancy K LOL, they weren't tough on us middle/elementary kids about switching classes but in high school I get told that all the time
😂 I was like, MOM?! 😂
did she lie though
@@p0waaaOW My school system was weird so the 6th graders had their own school( an 'Academy') and then if you pass you went to a different school for 7th and 8th grade(The actual Middle school and then the High school) but like 6th graders are ruthless in the hallway😭 People be pushing and running you don't know how many times I tripped and fell trying to get to my next class😂 Also Hey Redveluv
I'm not even joking, the thought of staying at school until 10 or 11pm gave me serious anxiety
SAME
Especially in uniform
I’d simply pass away
I’d freaking pass out by 4pm
Indonesia school start at 07.00 dude and end 13.00-13.30
"what if you are a slow walker?" "Walk faster." Is stupidly accurate
Twenty Øne Piløts 😳
People pushing you bc you walk slow lol I just got major flashbacks to hallways
🤣🤣🤣 YES
You gotta walk through the crowd depending on how populated your school is
Imagine how bad it is being a 5th grader in a k-12 school. High schoolers don’t play lol.
they are studying more in a month than i did in my whole 4 years of highschool
ikr?? my school was ghetto so i passed exams easy bc they just regurgitated the same information at u every year bc they cant afford new teachers uwu! how was urs??
@Evangeline Moon do you think they are worse than koreans or japanese?
I can’t imagine high school me transferring to a Korean high school and surviving.
Yeah I studied when I wanted to and slept in class and still got good grades
and that’s on American school systems
It’s so weird hearing people say that the school food looks delicious because growing up in America everyone would say that their school food was crap, like I’m not even kidding lmao
Hard to make a delicious lunch for a buck
I bring lunch from home almost every day, idk
why waste money buying a lunch when you're going to throw It away anyway?
Same with the uk
ッ I used to go to this shitty school in Houston and the school food was litterally just💩 I moved to a new campus and I was overwhelmed by the variety and the quality of the food and everyone still said that the food sucked. I think they’re just saying that to be relatable
There were some good meals but they were rare.
I can’t imagine going to school from 8am to 10pm I’d literally go crazy
me too, especially considering in high school I was expected to sleep at 10 PM
I would kill myself
It's be good for kids in abusive households tho
@@randomguy8228 why do you think south korea has the highest suicide rates in the world
Bruh I would throw some hands
What the American boy didn't show was his homework time which can have you up till 3am. & even later if you're taking college classes while in high school
yeah I’ve always wanted to know how that happens? Is it like introductory college courses that one audits or what? As an Indian I’m not too familiar with that.
@@SunHazel92 idk about others but I had to take full on university courses
That’s a choice though lol not everyone does that lol
@Gaurii
For me and my school district you could earn college credits or work towards a degree while still in high school. (It’s called dual enrollment) Some of my peers where able to finish their first year of college doing this.
@@SunHazel92 My daughter does it by taking Advanced Placement classes. They're taught at her h.s. but supposed to be college-level material. Then passing the class and getting college credit are two different things, because to get the college credit you have to do a big either project or test at the end. Then they have college professors look at them to determine if they were successful enough to earn the credits.
It would be so dangerous if Americans had to stay at school till 10pm...the streets are not safe late at night :/
crowfeathers
It depends on where you live.
That would be terrible in Chicago
@@kari_naf2333 same, in houston if I did this, I would be a goner🥺
Sundown meant the crazies came out
@@orionsoutro1794 Boston too
When the blackboard slid down it scared the crap out of me
OMG same. I thought it was falling down 😂
Same I was like OMG SHES SO STRONG and then I realized it slides 😂😂
lmao i thought it was actually falling and it made my heart jump😂
Potato_qat _pq bro me too 🤣
Same😂😂😂😂😂😂
As an American Student, a lot of the "self study" was homework I did at home. Koran HS seems like taking American AP/Honors classes
"We were like 'Read the textbook, study hard. Not many options were given"
*agrees in Asian*
Disagrees in American
Agrees in Asian
Agrees in Asian-
But at least you remember everything you had to study back then, right?
I mean, if you don't know the stuff you had to learn, it must have been all for nothing, and that would be terrible.
Agrees in Asian :’D
Studying until 11pm can’t be healthy psychologically speaking.
I don’t think it is either, probably why East Asian countries have the highest suicide rate. Students have pressure from their peers, family members, teachers and society as a whole to study as much as they can, live as little as they can, and achieve more than they can, and that pressure can be and is way too much. Even after school you’re pressured to do more work. In Japan, they receive very few days for paid holiday and you’re expected to work over-time in your full-time job every week otherwise you’re viewed as lazy or something.
Lia FuJing AAAAIIYAAHHHH🥺😔
Oh I do that loll
the stress is insane. the certain tests kids have to take, entrance exams for HS, ect,
my bf and i used to have to study up until 2 am on a daily basis, not because we wanted to but we were forced to especially by our parents
but it doesnt happen anymore luckily because quarantine came around lol
"they need to go to bed early"
*goes to bed at 2 am
I guess thats kinda considered as early in the morning lol
u go to sleep?
Thats SOO me! The next morning I end up looking like tired potato
It's 6am rn for me I haven't slept
LMAO ITS ALMOST 1AM RN AND I HAVE SCHOOL
Going home at that time of night just would not be possible in America😕 it’s really dangerous to be out late at night especially if you’re by yourself, I get scared just from standing on my own porch at night. Shit even in the daytime it’s dangerous my school is around the corner from my house and I would never consider walking there by myself.
Depends where you live. America is a big country. A place like Santa Monica is less dangerous than St Louis.
not to mention my parents never would have let me. im 28 years old now and if im ever in the city or when i used to live there, my parents didnt even want me out at night. and im an adult lol. yea i rarely went out at night alone in the city cause it was a bit scary but i did just a couple times and never told them so they didnt have to worry xD
i live nova scotia Canada and we take the bus a lot where I live and my parents don't let me out after 8 but my friends are also going to the mall etc
i heard that in korea, it is very dangerous for girls to walk outside in the night. i can't confirm this but i have heard A LOT of people say this.
it’s pretty dangerous in korea as well, the u.s. is just more lenient with schooling
The honors and ap kids can sometimes have 4-6 hours of homework a night. Plus we have other extracurricular activities like sports and clubs. I think it all depends on the student when it comes to studying, we decide what our future will be and the schools don't really pressure us into making decisions. But at my school, it starts at 7:20 am and ends at 2:15 pm.
Yea when I have music or volleyball I would be leaving school at 7 or sometimes later when we had games with other schools and I was in 6th so it’s dangerous to walk home, then eating dinner and hw so I was always up extremely late and I still don’t have a great sleeping schedule
Did any other Americans instinctively flinch when she said that the third grade study area was open until 11pm🤣🤣🤣 I had to remind myself they meant high school students not elementary kids🤦♀️
Oh 😂😂 thanks for clarifying. I was so confused.
yup same here..
and also that their streets are safer and more regulated than in america 👀
Ikr?!
yep
I already feel stressed in an American high school I can’t imagine in a korean high school
Yeahhh that it they study too much and I can't stay with it
Yeah that’s why so many students commits suicide
the suicide rate says it all
@@somethingcreativ235 there is literally no escape. We humans weren't built to look at a piece of factory made paper all day and night. It. would make anyone crazy.
@@roverclover3178 We are not built to stare at the decks of millions of illuminating blobs all day long either(screens) but we almost do that pretty much whenever we have time.... its not about what it is physically... but about what meaning it holds for us... and how are you personally connected to it... school curriculums almost in any country is absurdly general and most of the time we have no real reason to study specific something other than the fact that it has been decided for us by some committee.... which makes it very unappetizing/unappealing because its not personal....
We don't realize how huge of potential we are curbing by doing this...
I wait for the future where there is actual AI involved in learning and every student is learning a highly personalized curriculum which has been decided for them BY THEIR OWN reaction to materials in differnt topics/genre/art, and after all that.. they also have a personal say in this to the extent that they can ask to study something just because they wish to explore it, not because its for general good or because they might be naturally inclined in it or not.
8:56 dhsksla I thought the board fell down but then I just looked like a clown🤡
same lol
Yeah I always go to the school library after classes end to get homework done, but the library closes at 4:30 pm so I don’t ever finish my work, and when I get home, I just feel so lazy so I always procrastinate. It would be really nice if American schools had study areas that stayed open that late. I feel like I would probably be a lot more productive.
You know you could go to a public library right?
@@randomguy8228 That also depends on where you live and the environment. I did not say everyone, I said for me it was difficult to find a place to study, even libraries. Even here where I live now, the library is smaller than a McDonalds lol and with no bus system, options are limited
@@its_m3_mimi yes, but American school should push students to study more like Korea does (though again- 10pm is extreme
I think it's because we put more emphasis on individual freedoms in the US. We are free to choose if we succeed or fail on our own!
i think in america there’s more of a focus on being a “well rounded student” and also being in a sport and club. then after that was done for the day you went home and did homework
hmmm interesting I've heard that in North America people focus more on a 'spike' or to hone one skill that you are really good at, and in Asia there is a lot of pressure to be good at everything. That's why they make you take all the subjects, while in here you get to choose.
apple obviously i don’t know how school is in asia, i went to school in the us but i feel like most americans played at least one sport and was in at least one club. i definitely sense a lot of academic pressure over there, obviously if you go to school until 11 pm
Amanda Speaks yeah it’s very encouraged to do a sport or club because it looks good on college applications and the more the merrier - we also have to do volunteer hours, Koreans don’t have volunteer hours
@@amandaspeaks5076 ah I see your point I think I was mostly referring to academics
Mira Kabana yes, i was a cheerleader from kindergarten to 12th, did 500 volunteer hours my senior year alone, was the director of the art club, in nhs, and nths. because being smart isn’t enough 🤣
I barely can keep my grades up now imagine how I would be in Korea especially since I procrastinate a lot 💀
me 😭😭
Same
😂 your not alone
Chinese high school had a similar schedule as Korean high school. As someone with ADHD and procrastinate everything in my whole life, I did pretty well there. We don’t need to organise our tasks but get what is needed to be done on a daily basis (homework). I imagine American high school assignments are similar to Uni assignments. Instead of smaller daily tasks, I assume that you would have to organise everything by yourself to get one assignment done in a longer period. Despite still getting quite good marks, this difference had led me to struggle to hand in my paper on time (which would incur a lot of late penalties) when I started my Uni in Australia.
I arrive school at 9 and we start at 9:30 Lol I feel bad for you
you guys have mandatory studying??? til 9PM???? please, our teachers just want us to get our homework done and some of them sit and wait for the bell with us 😭
😂😂😂😂😂😂
True lol
i'm literaly sitting here with 15 overdue assignments, will i do them? orrrrrr will i carry on watching netflix and ignore life.Yes,i choose the second option.
even though american high school gets out early, often there are after school activities like extra study, sports, or dance.
Not to forget, they have extra classes & had to study on their own at night time til' 11pm. It kills me when I watched a video bout' SKorean students who study so hard everyday so they can b accepted to high prestige unis such as Yonsei.
Yeah and parents who work till 5:30 have to pay for their kids to stay after school that long if they are younger. The typical work day for adults is 9-5 but school is 8:30-3 usually
@@torchlight3173 true, but in Korea, there are lots of people still roaming around that late and it's very lighten up not like in America where you only have one light every 5 blocks and barely any people
Or detention if you're a COOL KID like me heyoooooo just kidding I never got in trouble.
@@shxmctw That depends where you live in Korea and America.
“What if your a slow Walker?”
“ Walk faster”
WHEN I TELL YOU I FELT THAT IN MY SOUL 😭😂😂
“What is your a slow Walker?”
“ Walk faster”
not only that, I don't know about your school but in mine you could receive a detention. So by being late, despite it may not being in your control, you would be required to then stay late after school as punishment. It's a shame that some students (I remember even having to do this in my case) had to choose to either be late or skip using the restroom, and we also carried 20+ pounds worth of books so we didn't have to stop at our lockers to get the next classes books out. Side note: in my school we weren't allowed to use back packs, so we had to carry our books out in the open, which made it even more of a pain and difficult. I don't miss high school at all!
Lol
@@tyzorg omyghosh.. I feel so horrible and I'm not even the one who experienced it all. that honestly Is just so... idk, harsh for me. too harsh for me..
in the UK you don't have any time, when one lesso ends, the next starts lol
@@tyzorg Holy crap, I checked and my backpack weighs 43 pounds, I cant believe it. I'm not even a in high school yet, which is crazy to me.
I’m from Spain and my schools didn’t have any cafeteria so I think that having lunch and diner in a cafeteria would have really saved me a lot more time, and also having decent libraries.
Our schools are not that well equipped as in Korea so I think that is what demotivates the students 😕
jajaja i’m from Spain too, and while my school did have a cafeteria, the food was awful, i even got food poisoning once, we couldn’t record our classes like the korean and american student did, phones are strictly prohibited and teachers will take away your phone, cameras aren’t allowed on school grounds either.
My school’s library wasn’t that good either, you could be working next to a group that’s talking, and even though you weren’t with them or talking they would throw you out, forever, i remember i went to the library when i was 8-10 and one day i was thrown out for being next to a group that was talking.
And teachers…. ufff, some were super strict and others were not but they all gave a lot of homework, i think the only year in which i haven’t got a lot of homework is this one because of the pandemic (which doesn’t make sense because during confinement they sent a lot, like, too much)
I definitely agree that schools in Spain should be better equipped, but it should be different, our culture isn’t as work centered as korea (and east-asia as a whole)
@@iwachann2576 True, I've been through that too. Our culture is different and we are not work centred at all :(( (En mi caso, soy una persona a la que le encanta salir a estudiar por las bibliotecas, cafés, etc. pero en España se me hace incómodo por todo el ruido y las pésimas instalaciones. Basta ver a los opositores y estudiantes españoles "studytubers" que siempre cuelgan videos estudiando en casa, en España es impossible hacerlo en otra parte jajajaja) y ni mencionar la "variedad" de libros que hay en las bibliotecas xdxd
@@querryberry uy si, jajjajajaja, yo también estudio en casa, no tengo bibliotecas cerca mío, pero a las que he ido, búa, JAJAJAJAJAJ, lo dejo ahí
I went to a private school where each class was only 45 minutes long, and we got out at 1:15 everyday (unless we had electives). All elective classes got out at 3 anyway so it’s still really early.
We used to have 8 hours of school till 10th grade but we had like 12-13 subjects to study along after that 11th and 12th grade we had like 6 subjects so the school duration decreased from 8 to 6 hours
ok, now I feel like 7 hours of school isn't that much anymore
i have 12 hours :(
@@esmecollins9926 I have 14😭😭😭😭 (not really I have 8 hours then I head to the library to study for 6 more hours than come back home my parents are so strict with school🤓) so I usually come home around 7-8pm I'm in middle school👁👄👁 I go with friends to prevent any bad things from happening and I have those secret knives tools😳
Ikr? I didn't even pay attention in class most of the time and didn't even study at home (except doing homework).
My parents didn't even care if we're not studying for exams as long as we didn't play games during exam period.
@reak smey Bellin HUH???
@reak smey Bellin how do u learn everything u need to learn in 4 hours?!🤯
“They called it self study but it was more like forced study”
“Amen”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m so happy everytime you upload together 🥺♥️
I agree and I like it when they upload together too!
I have a interesting question, if you were in sports or a club, did it cover it or no, cuz I do debate and baseball, I’m from the USA
I never knew y'all would have to have dinner at school 😩 That's so draining.
I taught at one of those Korean after school English academies and always felt so sorry for my students. They were there until 10 pm, had their regular school homework, our academy homework, and attended several other academies. It was usually school, then something like piano or taekwondo, then math, then English academy. Poor kids always looked so tired and stressed
The biggest dofference between high schools in Korea vs the US is that I've never hear someone say "That looks good" to american lunches.
Dulce I have said that before
Not on the days there's cornbread on the menu. That ish be bangin
Omg I totally agree, our lunch is so gross I go off campus to eat at a fast food or something from home.
I love school lunch...
@@nickallen1776 school cornbread always be hitting different. that shit smacks
Unfortunately nothing in the U.S is the same so it depends on your school,area,district,city,and state how long,how many classes,type of school,etc
Yeah I was about to say the same thing. In Virginia Beach, instead of having every class in one day, we had 4 classes a day and alternated between different sets of classes every other day (A-Day and B-Day). There was a lot of forgetting if it was A or B day after a long weekend lol
Finally someone said it!
Funding also makes a huge difference. If you live in a poor area, chances are your school won't have a vast amount of subjects to pick from. The fountain water doesn't look fresh, your being given the same food they give in prison for lunch, the teachers are entitled or lazy, there's not enough desk for the kids in the room, your library is nonexistent, and soo many other things.
Mariah Johnson same
that's because is everything is completely government funded. If school was even semi-privatized, the schools would have more control over education.
I was in Korea until 11th grade, so I'd like to share some perspectives.
1) The food is actually a lot better than in American School. I remember dinner is usually better than lunch.
2) Yeah, no developing interest and talents, and creating things. Do that before 5th grade.
3) I think they made it illegal for the private tutoring service to open after certain time after I left, but during my time, kids often had tutoring after they get off from school at 10pm.
4) For 11th and 12th graders, our school gave an option to stay until 11pm. I think it was truly optional for 11th graders, but for 12th you had to have pretty good excuse not to.
5) That being said, I used to get off from school at 5:30 school so I could prep to go to art school.
6) Going to school on Saturday was a thing until my time. They were changing it when I was 11th grade..
7) Summer break wasn't really summer break. We had Self study time at school (AKA forced study time) even during summer breaks.
8) I don't know if they still exist, but there used to be privately run study room that opened until 2am. Lots of students studied until 2am. Lots of students slept or hung out with their friends there.
9) There was a saying that you could go to Seoul University if you slept 4 hours a day, but not if you sleep 5 hours a day. It was truly a cultural shock to me that people in the US say teenagers need 9+ hours a sleep. THAT WOULD NOT FLY IN KOREA.
10) Yes, the family relationship definitely suffered. My mom made a point to have breakfast together, and she picked me up from study room around 1~2am so we could have some time together, but my brother and I practically became strangers to each other.
11) I slept A LOT in school. And that probably explains why my test result wasn't so great.
12) Not related to academics, but heating and cooling in Korean school SUCKED SO BAD. No central air. Our A/C could be turned on only for an hour on extremely hot days. In the winter, we had a heater in the center of the classroom. Thankfully it was on the entire time in school, but if you were more than 2 seats away from heating, it was still really cold. In American school, I was still hot in short-sleeves during winter, and freezing with cardigans in summer.
13) Oh, our 1 hour lunch was more like 30 minutes because our school squeezed in 'listening session' for English and Korean during lunch.
14) All these self-study time in school is actually school and DOE's attempt to narrow the gap between riches and poor.
15) 12th graders are generally treated like a king in the household.
16) Despite all that, I think I was pretty happy in Korea, a lot happier than most Americans assume I must have been. Humans are truly adaptive, and you get used to the routine and learn to find happiness in small things like running to the snack bars and chatting about nothing with your friends in between classes. At least we were all in it together.
In the US, we say that teenagers need 9+ hours of sleep, but we still don’t allow them to get that. Even still, very different attitudes towards studying in the two cultures.
I’m a senior and in all my four years of high school I cannot remember studying once (I have never failed a class and I’m graduating with my AA degree, take what you want with this information)
I love how they were all like "oh they must go to bed early." No, American high schoolers literally just don't sleep. They go to school, then to after school and extracurricular activities, then study, maybe eat somewhere, and get up the next morning.
To be honest I think that depends on the student. Personally I had so much free time on my hands I didn't know what to do with it. I started feeling like high school was such a waste of my life, and my brother said the same about his school. I know many kids from back then that would slack off and just graduate instead of getting good grades. In my experience, the kids that don't sleep at all are the overachievers trying to get into really good colleges or just pressured by external forces. They study more than they need to for school, which is cool! I think kids like this will go far but the public school system itself is just too easy. Even AP classes were nothing like we were promised, they always said that they would be college difficulty but they weren't even close. Now that I'm a junior in university and look back at high school, I laugh at AP classes where sometimes I did my homework in 30 minutes before the class it was due. Clubs and sports could take a lot of your day, but that too was a special type of kid. Most of my friends and classmates didn't bother with things like that and just went home.
@@Misha-fv2vd That's understandable. I've known a lot of student who were those kids that dreamed of going to Harvard, and the time schools started just made it impossible for them to get any sleep. Where I'm at, buses are already picking up kids at 6 am.
@@kathrynunknown1365 I mean, I went to a magnet high school in the end. I woke up at 4 am and the bus left by 5:15. But the days still felt worthless, and I felt this at every school I went to cause I moved around a lot as a kid. It doesn't matter how early you wake up, if the work the school is giving you isn't challenging then there's just no point. Some of my favorite classes I almost failed, because for once things were challenging. That was AP Chemistry, Calculus, and an English class in 6th grade that went above and beyond in expectations. I think public school care less and less about the kids developing these days, even the teachers get lazy. Of course not all, there are great teachers out there but the public school system is a joke. It's about money and just getting you graduated any way you can.
What kind of model student are you? I immediately go home and spend 7 hours on my phone
@@Misha-fv2vd I couldn't have said it better.
That girl: "american schools expect a lot from you, and sometimes you just don't have those abilities" Zoey's reaction was every student from different countries hahahah
I’m American and I had the same reaction as Zoey to that comment.
I’m American and I had the same reaction as Zoey. 😂😂 my parents did not play around about school work.
@@Deargagusgorm Americans have the 2 easiest school system in the world, they have no rights to complain 👁️👅👁️
Rosé's solo i mean they do tho, they’ve lived there their whole life and it can be hard for someone even if it’s “easy”
Elizabeth I am American. I was a teacher in the American public school system for many years. The state in which I lived and taught is well known for its educational excellence. Elizabeth, write a thesis on your assumption. Including footnotes stating your resources, or course. It’s due Tuesday, 8:35 AM.
meanwhile in latin america we have 8 hours of school with a 20 minutes recess and 7 minutes to walk to another classes, but now we have zoom class
I'm so glad we didn't stay at school till that late at night, I had sports practice in the afternoon after school while evenings I spent with my mom and siblings. And I'm so thankful for that time with them growing up.
there’s no way you’d be able to keep american kids in school that long. you can barely keep them in until 3.
maiti fstr tbh, they wouldn’t last
Honestly I could see myself sneaking out 🙂
I actually could do it. But I wouldn’t like it.
boi yeet yeah i’d ditch
I would just skip the rest
I used to wonder why so many teen KDramas were shot in schools, and I get it now. Korean teenagers basically live at school, and it makes me really sad. My loved ones always told me that high school was the last time you got to be a child, and it feels like this has been stolen from Korean teenagers by their school system/culture. Whilehighschool in America is hard, and we do stay out late and have other responsibilities, we at least have some choice in what we do, and where we work. They have no choice, and all get treated the same, there is no variance, how are they supposed to become individuals and discover themselves?
This is why many trash America sadly. Because of our very large amount of societal, educational and occupational freedoms, we are often the result of poor decision making, but we are among the happiest in the world. If you study a little on asian cultures, you will find a sad history of repression of feelings, as it is something to be interpreted as weakness.
I'm not Korean nor live in Korea but I'm in 6th grade I literally have to study more than 7 hours AT LEAST even if the subject isn't hard I have to redo it (I'm Asian but I only stay in school for 5-6 hours)
But I'm trying to learn Korean cuz my parents mostly want me to study there cuz it's more educational and I mean it's true
And a fun fact:even tho everyone at my school is Asian they don't study at all so it's also easier to me to get better grades too
@@Phoenix-nn6fq actually America is on the 19th place in happiness... nordic countries on top with Finland first. Finland also lie very high on PISA so i think we can learn something from them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2019_World_Happiness_Report www.oecd.org/pisa/publications/pisa-2018-results.htm
At least korea doesnt have school shootings
Stefan Tudtud They make up for it with high suicide rates.
I am from America, and I only have 4 classes per day, each class being one hour and twenty minutes long. The first class begins at 8:30AM, and the last class ends at 2:40PM. I can't even imagine studying all day long and even at home... Korean students work so hard. I get inspired to word herder when I see them. I am also surprised that Korean schools use only blackboards. I've never seen one in my school. We only use whiteboards.
Just watching the vlog of Korean HS, it made me tense. In France i had school till 6pm some days and class 6 days a week, i thought i had it bad ... i can't even begin to imagine how tiring it must be to study that much when i understand the importance of good sleep.
"what if you are a slow walker?"
"*walk faster*"
i have to get across 2 wings of a building in 5 minutes
*there is no walk, only run*
Lol. I have three minutes to walk from the band room to my locker that's nearly at the other end of the school, and then to algebra that is literally at the complete end of the other wing of the school. Fun times
Same. I have to go from the gym on one end of the campus to the freshmen academy all the way at the other end. Plus dont get me started on rolling the big ass vibraphone from the band room all the way down to the practice field in the farthest corner of the campus every day after school
@@hipeople9856 I kept my locker in my backpack. Probably why my back hurts these days lol
And then you get scolded by the teacher because you’re 10 seconds late....
why do the students have to walk to classes? why not the teachers walk to classes?
I think when the American girl said that they 'expect too much', she wasn't really meaning that they necessarily work students too hard. In Korea it seems like the classes are more hands on, and nurturing to each student. In America, our public school system is known for being poor ( not only in money, but in quality). Therefore, our classrooms aren't always the most productive places and our teachers may not be very flexible ( they are underpaid, underappreciated, and lack training). So when she said, " Teachers expect a lot from you, but sometimes you just don't have the abilities", I think she was referring to resources and environment. Of course if you have the money, you can invest in a private tutor or an after school program; though, I don't think that should be necessary for good grades. It is very common for a student in America to say " Did you get the homework? I really don't remember learning this in class." or " Oh my God, that test was brutal. Is it just me, or did we not learn this?". You could argue that the students should investigate and figure it out themselves (in a dated textbook), but it just goes to show how alone we feel in our studies.
On another note, we are also told that if you play a sport well (football, soccer, etc), then you don't really need to try at school and that getting into college will be very easy. The whole culture around education is very different; in my opinion it differs for the worse. I don't think that we need kids to stay out till 11pm studying, but I think America needs to look outside themselves to seek a better alternative to what we have now. To put it bluntly, what we have now is sad. It's joked about, but it's not a joke and should be taken very seriously if we want to see America progress in any way.
- American
The education system used to be better when my parents were in school, but now it just seems horrible. I'm in high school and I am learning things for the first time that they learned when they were half my age.
you literally described it perfectly
@@awesomecookiegacha8363 Thanks!
THE AMERICAN PART IS KILLING ME LMAO
Yeah it sucks sm I never learn anything useful and I'm in 9th grade learning slope for the 3rd year and the same things in Spanish for the 4th year
working from 8am-10pm sounds like mental abuse :') all my prayers go out to everyone who studies for that long
I just realized that I’m watching this while there are still korean students in school, studying. I suddenly don’t feel as depressed about school anymore🗿
One important factor not taken into account here: Americans start school up to 2 years later than many other countries, which means many High School students are old enough to have jobs. Part of the reason school schedules in the US skew towards earlier in the day is to allow for part-time work in the afternoon.
i thought it was because around the time schooling systems were put in place, children (especially those that would be going to public schools) still did work on their families' farms and so school schedules were modeled around that? like how we have summer breaks instead of winters so that we can work on the harvest. idk how factual that is but thats what i thought
@@picimp Of course you're right. The school system was invented by and large in Prussia (Germany) at a time when 90% of the people were farmers or heavy workers and the light of day had to be put to good use (& lamp light was expensive for normal folk).
I think they also didn’t change the school system now because colleges in America value extracurriculars, volunteer services, club services, other campus involvement, and investing in our own hobbies and individualism just as much as GPA so there’s a lot of time spaced out for that too. But we still have a lot of studying and assignments to do at home T^T
I think it's the other way around. Americans mostly start earlier than other countries from my understanding. Students in Texas can start as early as 3 (based on date of birth and income level) or 4. This dates back to the "American Dream" of working. The sooner a child can go to school, the sooner the parents can get back to work. This age requirement varies by state and type of school though, so it can vary.
I've heard koreans start school at 8 years old 🤷♀️
American lunch looks nothing like that i think he forgot to record the cafeteria part lmao
They are really disgusting since u can microwave It and it’s not healthful either that’s why a lot of Americans are over weight and since we have more freedom a lot of people end up with really bad grades and have a harder time going to college
cherryguk
I feel bad for some of the white kids in my school. (Not to be mean or ‘racist’) they be bringing lunchables and flavorless juice and thinking it’s a meal. I was honestly surprised. I usually have meals from home except in a packed container. Like rice, noodles, ect.
@@erwins.sacrifice2957 who's disgusting?
I watched the vid a few months ago and they are fixing th lunch room so they had to bring their on snack and eat in their classrooms
the food does look like that, often in my school you'd not be surprised if your food was molded, or just to plain gross to eat
imagine when they find out that in brazil high school classes are only in the mornings lol
I've never had a crazy culture shock until I saw the Korean school lunches. They actually look....edible, like good?!?! In America they literally give you stale food most of the time I'm gotten chunky expired milk before, the best thing I've gotten from school was like the off brand lucky charms cereal.
korea: 10 minutes passing time
america: 5 minutes passing time
*australia: what's passing time?*
in england too. class will finish at half past and the teacher of your next class excepts you to be there at half past. i’m not superwoman
rly i live in australia and we have so much passing time like some students would come to class 20 minutes late and the teacher wouldnt rly say anything
Harsan Sandhu no like assigned passing time, being late doesn’t count
In my school we get 4 minutes for passing time.. They want to shorten it to 2 minutes 😭
I have 3 minutes of passing time now this year we got a new principal so now we have 9 periods 9th period is when we go back to our homerooms for school based mentoring
if they think 4pm is early imagine their shock when they find out some seniors go back home in the morning after 2 classes
Or that some leave by 12 in their own cars to go to work
The earliest seniors in my school could leave was around 12pm (5 classes max). Plus could leave campus during lunch if they wanted
That’s true, but I wasn’t one of those people, would have been nice tho
I've never heard of that :0 And I go to American school, but all students go home at 2:30 unless you have after- school-program
Wait WHAT
I study at an international school so I move around to different classes too, but I went to Taiwan for an exchange student experience once and had to stay in the same class the whole day. After two weeks I honestly felt a bit claustrophobic and dare I say a bit depressed? I feel like it's really hard to sit in one class for the whole day.
this is how my school works
bus: 6:41
arrive at school: 7:15-25
first period: 7:30
second period: 8:17
third period: 9:00
fourth period: 9:43
seminar: 10:26
fifth period/lunch a: 10:58
sixth/seventh/lunch b: 11:41
eighth/lunch c: 12:15
ninth: 12:58
tenth: 1:41
get on bus: 2:20
buses leave: 2:23/24
I live in PA 💅🏻
ARE THERE ACTUALLY SCHOOLS HERE THAT START AT 9? MINE STARTS AT 7 AND EVERYONE GETS UP AT 5
CherryDigiArt mine starts at nine😳
I'm in secondary school in Britain and the majority of schools across Britain start at between 8:30-9:00
CherryDigiArt I wake up at 5:30 and my bus passes at 6:00. My bus stop is also 10 minutes away. I’m kinda ded
i wake up at 4:30 😭 cause of traffic
9:15 for official classes. School doors open at 7 for zero period, morning tutoring, morning training [sports:soccer, football, track, wrestling, basketball, swimming ie.], club activities, or study groups, or just hanging with friends. There are 4 lunches. And theres only 4 periods per day, considering we do block scheduling. School ends at 4:15 and after school activities start, clubs, tutoring, sports, ie. Until 7:00 that school doors officially are closed.
For American high schools, they're all different of course but the emphasis was placed on being "well-rounded" in order to get into college/university. So, having good grades wasn't enough, they also wanted us to play sports, volunteer in our community, be involved in school clubs etc. It's not as intense as a Korean school but for me a typical day my senior year (in the fall during the tennis season) was: 7 am - 3 pm: have AP/regular classes, 3-4 pm: practice for my school play (Macbeth), 4-5 pm: tennis practice/matches, 5-6 pm (a few times a week) volunteer tutoring kids at a local library, 6-8 pm: do homework and projects for school. It wasn't always like this, but things could definitely be pretty busy and hectic when building up experiences.
Right?! I woke up at 6am to get ready for my classes at 7:30 then I had soccer afterwards that lasted to 7 LOL
Only 2 hours of hmwk wow lucky
I had an away game and didn't come back until 11
Due to being in We the People and Band I also had to go on Saturdays
Yess
When I moved to Norway and went to high school I was pretty shocked. Classes never exceeded 15:30 and would often end earlier (around 14:15) and most people did almost whatever they wanted during classes (sleep, play games on the macbook pro we got for free by the school, ditch etc.) although I've heard they got pretty strict rules for ditching now compared to when I went. Homework was pretty easy and would often be done in a hurry in class before the teacher checks you (if they even did) or right before.
We all had lockers for your books etc. However my last 2 years I didn't even receive any books as I couldn't be bothered to make sure I had them all when the semester was over. My first year I had 3 examples of the math book while missing a Norwegian and a history book when it was time to hand them in again :3
We had 10-15min break between classes except lunch which was 45min. You could get to school with any transport necessary, usually by own vehicles (moped, light motorcycle or car) or public transport (subway, bus). Depending on the teacher being a few minutes late wasn't a big deal and you're allowed to go anywhere between classes (we usually drove to kebab-shops or shopping malls for lunch).
Apart from general studies(math, history, social studies, english, norwegian, biology, geography, religion, gym) I also had 5 media courses with sound-design/production as main course which was mainly chilling in a music studio for a whole school-day every week making music. All in all a pretty non-challenging environment for a decent student so we would often smoke weed during breaks just to make it fly by even faster.
I go to Norwegian school NOW and a lot has changed. It's still very lenient though. You can basically do almost everything. Ofc it depends on the school though, but mine is pretty lenient.
okay wow and I thought my 10 classes were too much wowiee
but this makes me wanna record my school day so others can see how school is in different countries
THEY WENT TO SCHOOL AT 9am. omG
I’m over here waking up at 5 am to get ready for the bus that passes at 6am ;-;
My bus comes at 7:30 and school starts at 8:00 or sometimes 9:00 depending on our schedule :T
I have to go to school at 6:30am, and 7am is considered as late at my school ;-; **screaming in the inside**
I live half an hour away from my school and it takes 1 he to get there Bc of the bus passes....it’s originally starts at 7am but my dumbass living so far has to wake up two hours eaLier
Same I- I didn't eat my breakfast lol
Ikr I literally had to take my German final at 7:15 in the freaking morning
Most people in Korea live in apartments and my aunt who lives in Seoul says it's not uncommon for apartment buildings to lock any and all access points to the roof around exam periods because of the high suicide rate over there 😵
Wow...that's sad
thats really sad
Thats horrible...
They put too much pressure on the children
🥺
i feel like american school has been going downhill every year. we are learning so many things that we will never use in life, especially in math. if i don’t talk to my principal about my schedule (for the next year) on the last day of school, i don’t get the classes i want. i only have 5 classes. lunch is at the beginning of my 4th class.
Omg Im asian and Same every school teaches that are actually useful ends up at sixth grade or something 😭
I’m in California. School started at 7:30am if you got there early you could get breakfast then it’s 1st period, nutrition break, 2nd, 3th, 4th, lunch, 5th, and 6th the last bell rings at 2:30pm something...schools over go home or go to your clubs or your afterschool programs
“So many students work so hard and still have difficulty getting into the college they want” this broke my heart. Not speaking for everyone but I know very many people from my school who did the bare minimum and got accepted into really good colleges. I have the most respect for students in not only Korea but Asia and foreign countries.
You don't need good grades in America, you need rich parents.
Sören V Sometimes you do need good grades. But yeah, having a lot of money does help a lot. :/ In America, expect to find capitalism in everything. Even in education (where multimillion dollar companies **cough cough** College Board **cough cough** prey on kids).
??? Thats a problem in the U.S too, I don't know what you were alluding to
Unfortunately Asian nations tend to have a very big problem with student suicide because of this, so I'm not sure if it should be respected
Yeah some older american parents are so proud of their grade C students getting accepted to colleges and getting a little state funded money. But I would never break their hearts to tell them how much the standard has changed in America and how college is turning into an extended high school.
I kind of understand why students in the US don't typically stay out studying that late. In a lot of areas it really just wouldn't be safe for them once they leave to go home.
lol between other humans and the wildlife no
Sadly that's very true. If you do after school activities or classes we get out around 6:30pm. My grandma lives like 10 min away from the school and I would never ever walk home unless last option. It's just too crazy out here😔
thats true but by the time you're like a sophomore in highschool a lot of people start driving so they could get rides w friends and stuff
@@cyankeungkhamphong6080 People might legally be able to drive at that age, but only about 10% of the people in my high school had cars. No one in my friends group had one. That's an awful lot of students left in potentially unsafe conditions.
we get 15 minutes each passing period to get to our next class, we have 2 lunches, if you're in the first lunch you'll go to lunch first and during second lunch it will be like a study hall, or vise versa if you have second lunch. we also have A and B days, so we only have 4 classes a day :)
Back in school i was only in from 8:45 till 3:20 and when i went to college i was only in for 2 or 3 days a week and only for 1 hour on some occasions you definitely have it Ruth
They went to school at 9am!?!?
Me: *cries is 6am*
Wow I would have been sleep deprived if I have to go to school at 6am.
@@mochisugacube7022 It was horrible when I was in highschool. I had to get ready real early! Good thing I'm in college now XD now I can just set all my classes for the late morning or afternoon
It ok we will end early 😁😀😁😁 but mine start at 7.15/7.30 with assembly and I always late for it hahaha
Woah, and I complain about my school! School usually starts at 8:15-8:20 or on the lucky tuesday when we begin at 8:40
@@Eternally_Moon lol at least you didn't have to do algebra in first period. Speaking of which I now gotta deal with college algebra. Not even exaggerating this tiktok captured what it's like very well vm.tiktok.com/tTuqJY/
When teachers say, "your homework will only take one hour"
me: We have 6 other classes! And what if the other homework takes longer? It would be passed midnight before I am done with all my homework. TF?
On top of that, extracurriculars!
IKR teachers can be so annoying sometimes! Somehow my teachers always give tests on the exact same day and I’m like “are y’all collaborating to make me miserable?”
I mean yeah, but just do the damn hw
Sir Hugglebutts Obviously, but the point is that students sometimes get an overload of homework from nearly every class they have (including extracurriculars/electives), plus studying, so that doesn’t give them enough time to eat, spend time with family, relax, and sleep so they can re-energize for the next day.
Yes but for me most classes hw Is usually due in a week so weekly hw not everyday also I have 4 classes and the rest 4 in the other day.
My high school started at 730 and ended at 230. Back then (90s) kids weren't so buried in homework that they couldn't have after-school jobs, so I worked three evenings or so a week (and weekends) at a craft store. The idea of staying at school until 10 at night is just about enough to give me hives even at my age, lol. My high school had ONE BATHROOM for 1300 kids, so there was always a traffic jam, no matter what time of day it was. I got more than one bladder infection from just trying to hold it all day.
Wow, as an American I was really surprised by the studying until 11pm. A lot of us still do this because there's a lot of homework, but we'd do it from home. But even then it wouldn't be common to do nothing but study for that long every day- only the most motivated students would go that far. I'm also curious how extracurriculars are in Korea. I know my friends in sports get home pretty late and can be super busy. Many students have extracurriculars so they could get home at 5-9pm depending on how intensive the club is.
in America if they tried to hold back students after school for studying they’d probably call it child labor or something 😂 Koreans are so disciplined and smart. Edit: i’m sorry if i was insensitive to others factors that i am fully aware occur within the lives of these students, i didn’t think that deep into it I was just trying to make a joke as an American student.
Disciplined, smart, and depressed lmao.
Yeah, and with no social life and time for hobbies/sports in their best years, when they develop. Which results in depression, anxiety, and social distancing. Sometimes even worse. I envy their hard working and dedication, but they are robotic with it, and i think most of them hate this system, but there's no choice.
@@DoctorStrange01 yeah i feel so bad for them I didnt work even half as hard in HS and still got into the school I really wanted to go to. I cant imagine working that hard and then still having low chances of getting into my preferred school.
Although I didnt go because private schools are very expensive af in California
Inteligence has nothing to do with the time you spend in the school... being in school for so long it's not healthy.
Yeah that's why their suicide rates are sky rocketing..I'm not American but I'd rather have their easy education system then be depressed and overworked like in SK.. education is important but student's mental health should be put into consideration too
Going to high school in the US is weird. The culture and experience varies a lot by region, and even just from school to school. We have poor schools and rich schools, private, public, homeschool and alternatives.
Just the other day two teachers from one of the middle schools in my area got arrested for drugs. LMAO
don't forget charter schools 😘 like private schools with the uniforms and stuff but instead of the people attending the school paying for it, sponsors and other things pay for it
I'm watching this like a year later and right when I'm about to start school tomorrow lol. It's so nice to see the difference between Korean and Americans in school. I have 6 periods in my school but we have a block schedule where we only take 3 one day and then the other 3 the next day (odd numbers one day and then even numbers the next day). It's so different to know that Koreans finish their classes from around 4:30pm to 5pm. My classes finish at like 2:55pm except on Mondays I get out at 1:55pm. I don't actually get home until like 3:15 to 3:20 pm though because the bus drives from my high school to the actual town I live in because the high school is in another town but it's like a 15 min drive from where I live and it stops like a 3 min walk from my house.
Dang the self-study is insane.. lowkey I think I need that.
the lunch here in america is HORRIBLE it’s so nasty
leave me alone
Fr the country has so much money but can barley use any of it to give us proper meals...
My school literally reuse the leftover, the one from other pupil's plate . They don't even care if it's already bad or not
Depends where you live and what school district you go to my high school had a salad bar. And sandwich station that served boar's Head meat.. sooo our school lunch was bomb! Lol
I pack a lunch or starve because school lunch is so nasty
my american school has pretty good lunch. i dont have much to complain about.
I feel guilty about hating school in highschool when korean students go through this.
Don’t feel guilty about something that makes you feel bad. We’re all different and process things differently and stress takes form in different ways. At least that’s what my therapist says
Your struggle is still valid.
Grif Cheese not really it’s the culture difference I hated my school year for one reason and that was waking up to early tbh I would of liked staying after school longer then getting up super early:(
Where I went to school we started sometimes before the sun rose, I would arrive around 6:40 - 7 so that I could work on schoolwork before class started. Typically our classes ended around 2 pm, but many people stayed until 4-5 for extracurricular activities (clubs), and some to work on homework at school. By no means expected though, it was always busy around the school until 4:30. I would always work on homework after school because my parents wouldn't be able to pick me up until they were done work and I had to stay for a lot of activities. I feel like there was not too much studying needed in my school (for me), but there was definitely a LOT of busy work (boring pointless work). Our lunches also started around 10 am, which was way too early if you were unlucky and got a class that sent you to the first lunch.
Leaving school when theres light is nice bc a lot of the time you leave home when the sun is just rising. My high school started at 7:40 but if you had to ride the bus sometimes you'd get picked up at 6:45am. Plus a lot of kids have jobs and do sports or clubs to boost their college applications which takes up a lot of time
American high school: only 5 mins to go to your classes
Me: *run to my classroom*
The teachers: STOP RUNNING
ME: I ONLY HAVE 5 MINS, YOU WANT ME LATE OR WHAT, MY CLASS IS ON THE THIRD FLOOR
Korean high school: very very still
I only have 3 minutes, but we only have 2 floors and its only 1 building, we don't have multiple buildings till collage near me.
Lol I have 10 minutes but we don’t have floors since is in California there’s only classrooms outside, the school ends at 2:45
@@Hi1mMe we only have 3 minutes and 4 floors
Bruh fr like my 1 and 3rd period classes are in the far portables and my 2nd and 4th are on the top floor of the school (we only have four periods a day) and we only had 5 minutes so i was legit running from one side of the school to the other every passing period. Doesnt help thar hallways and stairwells are so fucking crowded I literally couldnt even move most of the time
we had 5 min and 10 floors :'((( it was so hard to get to class on time if you had a 1 -> 10 transition
When I went to American high school, classes started at 7:20 and I often had to get to school and hour early and leave a couple hours late for sports practices. Even with APs though, nowhere near as bad as Korean school 😬
I remember I was In a program at my high school which was pace and my God was that the worst
Yeah, my American high school started at 7:25 am. I remember having to catch the bus at 6:40, and getting home after 5:30 because of the college prep program I was a part of. And then homework on top of that, but I can't imagine staying studying to 10 or 11 pm everyday.
My junior year school schedule had a zero period, which was basically an extra class before school starts so I would have to get to school at 6, and I had marching band practice 3 in the afternoon till 5 or 6 from freshman to senior year, I was busy during high school, but not as much as Koreans
I had to get out of an early college school cause my at home panic attacks started happening at school. Then I tried AP for a year at regular highschool and broke down crying in class twice. My anxiety made things hard for me even though I was top 4 percent of my class. I cant even imagine what S. Koreans go through
@@jplibra2230 Man, zero period in the winter was freezing cold 🙁. I always took the bus to school and had to wait outside the gates before class because my bus arrived 20 min early and we weren't allowed to enter the campus before 6. My choir practice also lasted until 5-6 (depending on how much the director felt like yelling at us that day) 2-3x a week. My cross county/track teams had practice pretty much every day but we could choose which days we wanted to participate as long as we fulfilled a certain amount of hours. Me and my friends were nerds tho; we would all grab some bubble tea after clubs and volunteer/study at the library until it got dark and ride the bus home together.
You probably won’t see this because it’s like a year after the video but here is my school schedule (Scotland)
Note - we move rooms and get 5 minutes to get there if you are late by 5 minutes you get a demerit (like a point off kinda thing)
- we also got to chose our own subjects
Mon + tue.
Start 8:50
First period 9:00 - 9:50
Second period 9:55 - 10:40
15 minute break to eat food
Third period 19:55 - 11:45
Fourth period 11:50 - 12:35
Lunch 50 minutes
Fifth period 13:25 - 14:15
Sixth period 14:50 - 15:05
Seventh period 15:05 - 15:55
End
And the wed, thur, fri is the same times except no seventh period so it’s Monday and Tuesday are long days and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday short days.
Disclaimer- it might not be the same for everyone this is just my school
Having gone to school in three different countries and one with a similar system to the Korean one, my favorite school system was South African private school (Should be pretty similar to private schools everywhere). School in Kenya was similar to South Korea, so there was a crap ton of school that no one actually needs. Private school had smaller classes, more focused learning, a crap ton of activities and a ridiculous amount of opportunities. I hated it then, but as an adult, it’s the best form of education. For one, the material was challenging, but also well rounded. By the time I immigrated to America, I had read books and novels in 8th grade that you read in 11th and 12th grade in the U.S. I spent two years in school practically doing the same amount of work I had already covered. I feel like the Korean system is unnecessarily rigorous and doesn’t really make you well rounded. While the American one is so lacking in rigor that it doesn’t prepare you well enough for College.
american school looks relaxed in this because most of the stress happens after school. most students are involved in activities in order to appeal to colleges, and those go late at night. I play basketball, and the busy part of the season could cause me to be home at 9pm. study spaces are unusual, so all homework and studying is done at home or maybe a public library. the american vlog ended with the end of school, but it didnt show all the work done after. if youre in advanced classes along with activities, it can definitely be hard to keep up. i usually go to bed at 1 and then have to wake up at 7 if im lucky.
but that's not the "Average American school life" most students may not take AP classes or are not trying to buff up their college application.
Lauryn W and also a lot high schoolers have a job
@@abigailosose6830 With the high school I went to, there were actually fewer people with no after school activities then there were students with after school activities. Then again, you can't force everyone to pursue intense schooling schedules. In the end, you don't necessarily need to buff up your college application to get into a college. You can go through a community college and then go on to 4 years college. It's only if you want to go to a private college or Ivy league school.
This two could put on High School Uniform and you would never realize that they are in their 30's
My highschool schedule was pretty similar (in the US). My classes started at 7:20 (I took an extra class in the AM), then school was out by 3:20. A lot of people had after school clubs and extracurricular activities. I did track and we'd practice until 5. Then I'd have dinner at home and do homework afterwards until bed (if I was doing what I should). I usually worked ahead during class and during lunch. It was nice to be able to decide how to spend my evenings.
One of the korean school classes was “law and politics” i wish they taught us that in american high schools.😭
SAME!!
Sad thing is, many schools in the US offer classes like that as electives, and people still don't choose them because they'd rather select an elective that gives them an easy grade/easy credit. I do think all schools should offer these classes, though, as I've heard there aren't nearly as many schools offering these classes as there should be 😮💨
that's boring ig
Where does this American live that he's just arriving at school at 8:30 AM, that'd be the start of my second class lmao
Lol its my third class. School starts at 7 am each class is 30 mins....catch the bus at 6 wake up at 4....share vines at the bus stop....smoke smarties on the bus...kinda miss school now...quarantine rlly got me to miss school f
My first class began at 8:45am so we had like 45 minutes to eat breakfast in the cafeteria. Until my senior year (this year) school busses passed at 7:50am so we had less time for breakfast
At my Highschool, school starts around 8:15 but the middle school starts at 8:30 and the elementary starts the earliest at 7:00
Where i live in Canada it's 4 period per day and we start a 9
EXACTLY
my school was super overcrowded so every lunch they’d encourage upperclassmen to go off campus and get food at one of the fast-food places nearby to help decrease the overwhelming amount of people that’d flood the cafeteria every lunch period
My school did this but people stopped coming back lmao. they split the lunch periods into 3 and then everyone was banned from leaving campus for lunch by the time I was a senior.
Same!
@@epicOway dang, they ruined it for themselves 🤭
My school don’t let students walk out cuz by our school we have a bridge and usually homeless ppl live under their so it was a bit dangerous cuz by our school there was Waffle House,five guys, Starbucks, shake n stake, Panda Express and etc but now we just order food instead of going walking but we don’t order all the time cuz ppl don’t spend so much all the time
And that's the exact reason why some schools have multiple lunches. To prevent having over 300 students in cafeteria at once
The schedule they found is actually more like a middle school schedule than a high school one but there’s one like an hour difference, high school days start an hour earlier at 7:45
I went to high school in California and our normal first period started at 7:55 but I took a zero period so I could take more classes and that started at 6:45 am.
We would end at 2:50 pm and then we had sports and stuff until around 5:30 or 6:00 depending on what you did.
It was honestly really nice to have a passing period and move between classrooms (ours was 7 minutes) because you got to be outside and walk with your friends and get some exercise (especially since my school had so many stairs).
This is so interesting I can’t imagine getting out of school so late, I feel like you would never see your family or friends.
When I see Korean students studying like that, it makes me feel bad for all the times I intentionally slacked on my homework :( I absolutely hated school, I wouldn’t be able to survive studying all day
Same here and I feel like I should be doing better since I’m Asian but I try my hardest and I just can’t get good grades :(
I can agree to that, since when I went to highschool I couldn't do homework. Especially when there's deadlines, I just ignore it and slack off at home, because I really couldn't do homework at any places neither school or at home. I'll just do whatever else than doing homework at home, fx playing videogames etc.
At school I just slack off too.
It's really making me feel bad that some of this students really try hard, meanwhile I was too lazy and unmotivated back in highschool.
Snoopy Nono you shouldn’t be getting good grades just cuz you’re Asian! Idk how to word this properly but just because you’re Asian doesn’t mean you’re a genius or have Academic interests so don’t put yourself down like that pls :(
this is insane how do these kids have a life, friends, hobbies, other activities, anything??? :(((
They dont..
In the weekends.....but you'll get used to it anyway, its stressing but that's just what you have to do being Korean, actually Asian😥been doing this since middle school, so kinda used to it anyway
@@megangounawan4185 you are used to it because you dont know of any other way of course, human being can get used to anything. that doesn't mean that system is good.
@@mayaamis yeah, I don't think it's a good system for health. But at least it helps for my future and everybody's future. I don't know in the us, but school here is pretty use full
@@megangounawan4185 I'm not from US I am European and we have good education here, it can be done in normal hours while still preserving quality of life. Same goes for work. This is the main difference between Asian countries and Western ones. In the west we work so we could live, where as lot of Asians live so they could work.. it's sad. highest rates of depression and suicide in your countries proved time and time again just how wrong that is and you should strive to change that as a society.
my school has 4 minutes in between classes and school ends at 3:35 pm and start at 8:00 am. but schedules vary from student to student so you could start or end earlier or later depending on what classes you're taking
i’m going into my junior year of high school, i wake up at 5am to get ready and sometimes even 4am to study before i shower, after i’m done getting ready for the day and eating i have to be at the bus stop by 6:45 (although the bus comes at 6:52) and my school day starts at 7:20am (first bell rings with 5 minute warning at 7:15) i have school until 2pm, 4 classes for about an hour and fifteen minutes to and hour and thirty, something called one lunch where every student and faculty eats lunch at the same time (good luck trying to buy lunch) i don’t usually stay after school unless i have clubs so i’m typically home by 2:30, then i just study in my room for a while and take breaks to get water or a snack, eventually i ear dinner with my family, pack my lunch for the next school day, study/hang out until around 10-10:30pm and go to sleep by 10:45 (at the latest)
In American schools, if you graduate with a 3.0 then you can still get into some decent colleges compared to the Korean system
JasmineN Williams Not really... College in the United States is way easier for me than in high school. I only spend like two days a week studying and I have a 3.8 GPA (bio major)
For me, college is harder because the teachers way of teaching isn’t necessarily the best for me. Also for Monday and Wednesday I’m in school for 12 hours arriving at 8am and leaving at 8pm.
JasmineN Williams College is way more chill and easier then high school was for me.
College was not bad at all lolol didn’t study and got a 3.84 and got top accounting student. I think it needs to be harder tbh
I had a 2 year award from the president and still had to have paid 25k to attend college. I just didn't go and became an artist/dance choreographer.
*Seeing the american boy just go home*
Me: cries in marching band and all ap/honors classes
bruh thats a flex if i've ever seen one
im in 10th grade rn and if you see this can you tell me what APs you took and why. also can you tell me if regret taking any?
@@Username-1939t9 I'm in 9th grade actually but I've taken 2 10th grade classes this year bc my middle school offered honors 9th literature and honors algebra. Idk if this helps anymore but I've taken 9th honors literature, honors algebra, 10th honors world literature, honors geometry, honors biology, and ap human geography. The funny thing is, there isnt really a reason I picked these classes. I was in the "advanced kids group" in elementary school for some fucking reason idk and the teacher put everyone in that group in all advanced classes in 6th grade so every year I just got put in the next advanced/honors class. If you were to pick ap classes idk just go with the regular classes you already find easy and pick the advanced version of that. Or if you think you could handle them all just go all in and you can always drop out of the ap classes and go back to regular classes. Sorry if my advice sucks I dont really know what I'm doing man I'm just trying to pass these classes
@@Username-1939t9 oh and I personally hate ap human geography but that's just bc the teacher sucks
You chose that life for yourself though haha. Band and AP classes are optional (though I will agree, AP classes are the worsttttt 😥)
For my school we have 4 blocks each day, each lasts 1 hour. We have an "A" day "B" alternative schedule. "A" day consists of 4 classes and then the next day we switch to "B" day the next day which consists of a different set of 4 classes. This was so done so that we have one whole day in between the next time we had that class again so that we have enough time to do our HW.
i felt that when she siad that 5 minutes is too short beause i remember my Sophomore year, I had piano in a 900 building and my next period was geometry at the 700 buiding and with the amount of people that went to my school, the outside hallways were so crowded and i had to walk fast to make it on time to class.