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Things may be very different from state to state and may very will have changed over time, but when I was in high school, a foreign language was mandatory for everyone on the college preparatory track. Our choices were Spanish, French, German and Latin. The sound in the background as he is walking to the football game (according to ChatGPT) are the mating calls of Cicadas -- 2024 is a rare co-emergence of two different broods of periodical cicadas, happening for the first time in 221 years, affecting 17 states from Maryland to Iowa, and down to Alabama and Georgia. Cicadas emerge from the ground when soil temperatures reach about 64°F (18°C), and lasts around four to six weeks, during which the cicadas will engage in their characteristic LOUD mating calls.
Catholic school? Only asking because of the Latin, haha! 😊
@@starparodier91Prince William County Public Schools, Virginia, 20 mins from Wash. DC, in the 90s had Latin as a choice. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah my Texas high school required 2 years of foreign language and had: German, French, Latin, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian
@@starparodier91 No -- a Detroit pubic school that focused on college prep in the mid 70's .. I took 4 years of both Latin (very handy if you're pre-med) and French (very handy if you live in Detroit)
@@changeworkssystem6024 Oh well by the mid 2000’s in the Denver Metro area my friends in public schools never had Latin as an option. I was always under the impression it was a Catholic school thing, but that’s all I’ve ever known.
I wish someone would make one of these about a SMALL public high school so you could see how the rest of us live. These giant, fancy high schools you've seen so far are just as foreign and amazing to me (born and raised in the US) as they are to you, no joke.
Tiny schools are the exception. The average high school has 850 students.
I went to a school with about 1800. The school in the video is very large though.
@@Zhiperser - How do you know tiny schools are the exception? You seem to be under the impression that most all cities/towns are L.A., N.Y, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco, when the vast majority are not. Not to mention how many High Schools any one city/town has - your city has a population of 120K but only 2 high schools, you get large Graduating classes. You've got zero data to back up your claims. You're just talking out your a**. I was born and went to school in the most populated State, and my graduating High School class was the first to break 100 graduates (1980s) - in CALIFORNIA.
@@Zhiperser That's all very true on a national level but in areas where the population density is very low (large portions of the west), they're much more common than other places. Where I live there are only three or four high schools within a two hundred mile radius that have more than a few hundred students. Almost my whole region is made up of fairly small schools, and a good percentage of even those students are bussed into towns from ranches spread far and wide. It's definitely not the norm overall, but in some pockets of the country, it's almost all we know.
@@theoriginaledi Sure, if you live so far out that your school is tiny it's going to be more likely that you're surrounded by other tiny schools. It doesn't change the fact that most people aren't experiencing that. It really isn't the "American" norm.
80% of the population lives in the eastern half of the country and most of them live east of the Mississippi. Rural areas in the east are more likely to have consolidated county high schools. The distances in the west make this less likely. So they get to pull their resources and have larger student bodies.
I appreciate your attitude. At no point did I say tiny schools didn't exist. While this was a larger than average school, once you get to about 500 students it scales up and isn't a very different experience except for how many people are there, how many more options you get, and how many people you might never know by the time you graduate.
@@cup_cuppy_cuppers5817my school had 2400-2600ish students in a town of 28-30k when I was in high school. Small schools are definitely the exception, even smaller towns have big schools now.
It’s not just sports that are important in American schools. It’s also band and drama and choir and dance and a few others. We have lots of extra curricular activities in school.❤️🤗🐝
Unfortunately school sports programs are often much better funded than the arts. I was a chorus and theatre person
Band Geeks Unite!!
@@bookwoman53 right?? If only our orchestra was funded the way that they funded the football team!!
@@annajohnson5779 which instrument did you play?
@@bookwoman53 violin.
Oak Park and River Forest are quite wealthy suburbs of Chicago. This is not what it will look like in every "American public high school." Public schools are largely funded by real estate taxes. Wealthy towns collect more tax dollars and can afford nicer schools, like the one we're seeing in this video.
Well it was like my High School but I went to Maine South in Park Ridge 😂 which is another wealthy suburb that surrounds Chicago. 6 ❤
I graduated in 94…we didn’t even have AC let alone anything fancy lol years after I graduated, the new schools were built.
I attended Chugiak High School in southcentral Alaska which has been one of the top schools in Alaska. No wealthy families, but a lot of the local families were headed by folks with very strong work ethics, and ex-public school teachers!
I lived in a middle-class semi rural suburb and our schools were nice and the teachers were professional and serious about students learning.
These public schools are more available than you think.
Yes, I agree a lot of public schools are horrible, dangerous, and dirty.
But, I'm not sure those are the majority. Maybe they're the majority in urban areas. I wouldn't know about that even though I went to high school in "the city." And even that was pretty clean and safe
Our sports bring students, teachers and community together in a fun way. The entire family usually goes to the games ,grandparents as well.
Love that ❤
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This looks similar to when I was in high school. However, you're missing the overpowering Axe body spray that permeates the halls. In the 80s, it was Drakkar Noir. The guys practically bathed in it.
Jade East and English Leather in the 60's.
@@ladyca8366Jade East was still popular in the early 70s.
My husband taught at a high school that had separate homerooms for boys and girls. Each one was paired with a brother/sister homeroom.
Every year the teacher of his 'sister' Homeroom had the girls write a list of the top 10 things they wished boys knew about girls.
"We hate your Axe Body Spray" was number 1 on the girl's list for 4 years running. It stayed in the list for all 7 years he taught there.
Honestly, though... I would rather smell Axe that boy BO!!!
Ah Drakkar Noir...that takes me back to 1986 and a certain guy named Rick...
This is Oak Park, a VERY wealthy area, so this high school is WAY bigger than your regular high school.
Indoor track is NOT something you find in a normal sized high school.
Freshman - 9th grade 15 yr old
Sophomore - 10th grade 16 yr old
Junior - 11th grade 17 yr old
Senior - 12th grade 18 yr old
Usually only French or Spanish are offered . . . Occasionally German.
There's a flag in every classroom.
Most lunches are good.
Nachos has lots of veggies and dairy and is a good lunch.
Most schools also serve pizza 🍕 , 🍔 burgers, and 🍗 chicken of some sort.
His sister is on the JV (junior varsity 9th & 10th graders ) Varsity is usually 11th & 12th graders - with an occasional talented 10th grader.
My grandson was on the varsity soccer team all 4 years because he was so good - only played about 3-5 minutes in each game his 1st year but scored every time the coach put him in. He was co-Captain in 11th & 12th grade.
Oak Park is nice, but hardly "very wealthy". Highland Park, Winnetka, and Kenilworth are richer Chicago suburbs.
The bottom line is parental input for school standards. I graduated from a high school in which there was no access to outdoor tracks during the school year, so all schools had indoor tracks, and those with swimming pools had indoor pools (and offered public swimming access to the townsfolk for a small fee), as well as outdoor hockey and skating rinks and bobsled hills, and groomed ski trails (often groomed by the sport sponsors or the family members of those involved in skiing).
Yes USA uses Freshman, Sophmore, Junior, and Senior all the time for high school and also University as well.
You are correct - he misspelled "fascinating". And " definitely" and "origin". Careless errors that English speakers make. This school is in the suburbs of Chicago. It's well-known and quite old. Their most famous graduate is Ernest Hemingway.
My high school is class of '77. Correct spelling was expected. We had these devices called dictionaries that took seemingly forever to track down a word you weren't sure of. Now words are written on a computer that automatically and instantly shows spelling mistakes.
@@georgemetz7277 Do you remember the 5-minute dictionary drills in which every class had a set of dictionaries, (as well as often a set of encyclopedias) wherein English classes periodically held races to look up a word in the dictionary?
This is NOT a typical American high school. This is definitely a very nice high school in a very good neighborhood.
This is Oak Park River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois. Famous alumni include Ernest Hemingway and McDonalds founder Ray Kroc. This school has a long history of excellence.
Looks similar to my kids highschool in Hernando county Florida
@@jesslove727That's because it is fairly common to attend a nice school.
There are always people that think all schools look like their schools.
haha
Extra curricular activities are huge for American students, usually in the form of sports, clubs (like clubs for journalism, language groups or math, etc.), plus do things like volunteering and being in student government. They’re good for development, but also they’re looked at for college admission. When I was in high school, most of my friends trying to get into college (especially if they wanted good scholarships - we weren’t rich kids) took Advance Placement (college level) courses, tried to keep a better than 3.5 gpa, plus would be in at least one club and either volunteer or play a sport.
To be honest, I would say it took more work to graduate high school than it did to get my Bachelor’s degree. Though getting a masters was harder than either for sure.
I'll explain to you about school lunches in high school.
The school is required to serve the four basic food groups... but there are also menu items that you can buy in addition to the standardized school lunch. Like French fries, chili, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, etc. And like that kid, my lunch would mostly consist of chili fries and nachos with jalapeno.
note: not all schools offer stuff you can buy. and some schools also will just give away extras as well
That's was my highschool's curriculum too, but I am old.
My highschool had a subway Dominos and Taco Bell in their launch room lol but I never had lunch my whole middle school or highschool career I just waited till I got home lol
Nachos cover the 4 basic food groups...
I loved half my school lunches and hated the other half. We had options luckily.
I took 4 years of Latin in high school, and, YEARS ago, computer programming was considered a foreign language.
Definitely, an upscale suburban high school.
The Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior designations are changing somewhat since the Middle School division is becoming more widespread.
Not really, middle school has been the norm where I lived forever and the terms have always existed independently.
Freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior still exist for grades 9-12.
@@ZhiperserI may be mistaken, but the op might mean that there are a huge number of schools that didn't use that designation but switched over in recent years.
My older family members went to Elementary School (Preschool - 6th grade), Junior High (7 - 9), and Senior High (10 - 12; freshman, junior, and seniors).
Many switched over, but several still use the older scheme
Portuguese courses are offered in Eastern Massachusetts. Mostly South Eastern since there is a higher concentration of Portuguese speakers.
My own local district offers Mandarin also. Not sure about Portuguese.
Currently in the school district in which I attended school, all high schools offer French, German, and Spanish. Immersion languages are offered as well including Japanese, Russian, and Chinese depending on interest. (Immersion programs involve all instructors speaking in the specific language to improve proficiency in understanding and usage.)
The Seal of Biliteracy is an award given by the Anchorage School District to qualifying juniors or seniors recognizing students who have attained proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation. "The Seal also recognizes, supports, and endorses students' first/home languages.Current approved languages for spring 2024 include: Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, ASL, Bengali, Cabo Verdean, Chaldean, Chin (Hakha), Chinese (Mandarin), Chuukese, Czech, French, German, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Ilocano, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latin, Marathi, Marshallese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, Somali (Maxaa and Maay Maay), Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog (Filipino), Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba, Yup’ik, and Zomi."
Keep in mind, high -schools differ from state, and even from city to city within states. There is no such thing as a typical high school across the US.
My high school’s popular sports were football, basketball, wrestling, tennis, water polo, then swimming and baseball. And, yes, if you were doing college prep, you had to have a foreign language (my school offered Spanish, French and German).
I went to a very similar high school in suburban Chicago. This kid is smart. He’s taking several AP (advanced placement - can get college credit) classes. Cafeteria food can be grim. I took 4 yrs of Spanish, but rarely used it so now I can find the toilet and the library and maybe a bit more.
I never really thought about the importance of sports in School when I was younger (who does) but now I’m sure it fosters Teamwork, cooperation and collaboration among students and it’s something good to carry them thru life
Yeah, I never played sports but they are important. As well as music/arts.
One of my granddaughters was in 2nd grade here in WV. She said the food is horrid so she eats breakfast at home, and takes her lunch from home. My other granddaughter was in kindergarten this past year, in a wealthier county in WV, and her school breakfasts abd and lunches are incredible, so she eats school breakfast and lunch. My youngest granddaughter's school has grandparents' breakfast each year around September. My husband and I, along with her other grand mother and the food really is so good.
I never ate lunch during school from middle all the way till graduation lol
The lunch quality depends on the local and state funding differentiated for each county. For example, in this county there are several towns, and in this particular town which is a university town, the local standards demand high quality from the school system, people bring from home whatever they want to eat, but if folks eat 'school lunch' it will offer a variety. Whereas, in a town 35 miles away in a different county, the tax-payers don't really support the 'quality' of the school as a priority (because there are a lot of other social issues to provide a standard in the town).
The local university is a state school, one of the best in the nation in several areas such as agriculture (World Food prize), engineering --astronauts obtain their undergrad degrees here, Nobel prize winners in chemistry as instructor, and has a very high percentage of 'foreign' students, so there is a lot of intellectual challenge for anyone living in this area and participating in what is offered. Our high school students regularly win state sport titles in basketball, football, tennis, swimming and in national contests in mathematic, music, geography, etc, even the national spelling bee! The other county high schools are also distinctive in other areas --just because 1. there is so much diversity (and, acceptance of diversity), 2. funding for the towns, 3. high level of performance standards, 4. chance for pushback when local leadership fail in their duty (a lot of voters).
50 years ago lunch in school was hand made by cooks and it was good.
Football is popular in high school partly because the teams can be so big. It involves a lot of kids and therefore their parents, etc.
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior are the common terms for both high school and college/university.
My daughter went to that high school. Oak Park River Forest, suburb of Chicago. Beautiful area lived there for many years.
My dad was the Michigan state champion ping pong player. We always had a ping pong table when I was growing up.
My hubby's dad's dad had a wooden leg and taught his sons how to play tennis. Hubby grew up watching his parents play. A few years ago, hubby's 70 year old dad played against and kept up with a college level player. One day, when he was young, his family went to visit his uncles family. He was hanging with his cousins for a bit. Then he went to see if they were leaving or what they were all doing. He walked into the end of a ping pong match between his dad and uncle. He said watching them was like watching Forest Gump. Then. His dad says, "Right hand?" Uncle says, "Right hand." And it was even crazier.
In many school districts across the country, high school curriculums require a second language. The most common are Spanish and French. However, my daughter chose Arabic and her good friend took Mandarin. The options tend to increase with the size of the school district.
When i was in middle school (a very large rural Texas school district), we had an Olympic sized indoor swimming pool. We had to take swimming lessons during gym all 3 years. I only took 2 years because I was sick one year, but then, i had to do the other 2 years to meet requirements. So, we also had a swim team.
My high school also had Agricultural, auto mechanics, woodworking, cosmetology, theater, sever types of art classes. I also took 3 years of aviation/aerospace for some of my science.
I graduated high school in 1993 and back then in New York State you had to take at least 3 years of a high school foreign language (most of us took 2 years in middle school too) and then pass the Regents Exam in the language you studied. At my suburban NY public (union free) high school the options were Spanish, French, German, Italian and Latin. I took Spanish for 2 years in middle school and 3 more in high school but I also took 2 years of high school Latin.
Definitely cicadas in the background when he was walking to the game.
Also, the reason why the lent room is not really crowded is because they will split up lunch and three different times so the first group will get 11 to 11:45. The second group will get 1145 to 1230 and the third group will get 12:30 to 1:15 so it’s not overwhelming because nobody’s gonna be able to fit as a senior have lunch, you grab your lunch or lunch because there’s courtyard and special seating and different areas of the school that are very nice to relax and eat and not have 1000 people in your ear
Yes he spelt fascinating wrong. Also with regards to lunch you have to remember they are preparing food for potentially 3500 students plus teachers, school staff and themselves. They have to prepare things in bulk. And of course among that many people everybody has different tastes.
tbf school food for a while has been objectively horrible. like, screwing up foods i actually liked level bad
Yeah, misspelled words are common to kids today. And the individual who made this video was called "smart"!!! This
demonstrates how our schools
are not teaching kids very well. I would be considered a genius compared to average high school graduates today!! Yet I was somewhat above average when I graduated high school.
In my high school we had the option to leave campus for lunch if we chose to.
He's in Oak Park Illinois. That's a wealthy suburb of Chicago. That's where Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built his first houses. It's a beautiful place.
Every public school I attended throughout my years from 3rd grade to heigh school. All the lunch was great, we had full course meals. And multiple food lines as well. In my high school, we had the main dinner food line; we had 3 fast food lines that included pizza, burgers, fries, stuffed potatoes, and tuna sandwiches; and we had a salad bar. This high school was located in Starkville, Mississippi. We had about 1,600 students.
6, Andre, several sports are played in High school depending on the season. Baseball, Tennis, Swimming, Basketball, Football, Track and field, no particular order here. Cheerleaders compete, ROTC compete, and here in Texas ROTC kids have a rifle team. Academic UIL, Debate, current events.
6. I felt this was reflective of most of the schools in my area even back when I was there. We are in a larger area though. My graduating class was almost 1000 students. We were required two full years of a second language. I WISH we had something more exciting. When I was in school we had Spanish, French, and German. The other side of the state had Japanese also. I think its an effort to reflect the most helpful ones for business in the area. In my area, Spanish is the primary language other than English.
6. I graduated from high school in 1972. Yes Fred Flintstone was the Principle. I loved the food in the cafeteria. Especially had very good Mac & Cheese. Sloppy Joes and fish sandwiches. In my last year they had an ice cream stand. Loved it. Oh the memories. 6
Our little town has 1200 to 2000 students kindergarten through 12th grade. When I graduated 26 credits were required. Spanish was the only foreign language and only college bound students were required to do so. English, History, Science, PE, Health, electives art, band, choir, etc.
what languages are offered varies considerably school to school, but the biggest influencing factor is the most commonly spoken languages in the area. Where I grew up it was spanish, mandarin, french, and japanese.
It's been a while since I was in HS in Texas but when I graduated the minimum requirement was 2 years of the same foreign language of your choice. You had to take 3 years of the same foreign language to graduate with honors (just one of the honors requirements) but you could take it all 4 years if you wanted to. What's available depends on the school but my school's foreign language options were Spanish (most common choice), Spanish for native speakers (another common choice), French, and German (this option was the least popular and there were talks about removing it altogether).
Freshman- first year student in high school (9th grade) or university.
Sophomore- second year student in HS or university
Junior- 3rd year student in HS or university
Senior- 4th year student in HS or university
The cafeteria food was pretty awful in school. I usually brought my lunch from home or skipped eating altogether. The only edible options often were the unhealthy options like the "pizza" that was served or the days when they had Chick-fil-A sandwiches available (usually soggy if you didn't have "A" lunch/first lunch. If you were assigned B or C... Good luck haha 😅). I did have culinary arts one year for the lunch period and that teacher let us use the classroom kitchens to cook or warm up some food and we could come in before school and store food in the fridge. That was nice. And she didn't make me go to the cafeteria even if I decided to skip lunch which allowed for a short peaceful break ☺️
As for football it's getting more common I think but I'd say it's still fairly rare for girls to play football? I think that's why he was so proud of his sister. I could be wrong though as I don't play much attention to sports these days. Growing up I never heard of a girl playing football. As for professional sports... Women's sports are usually not as popular of a spectator sport like their men's counterparts. I've not heard of a women's football league but that doesn't mean there isn't one. For a lot of women's sports though women have nowhere else to go after university. Sadly too often that's the highest a lot of them tend to go like softball.
Oh and in school including university students are generally encouraged to join sports or some sort of club/ extracurricular activity of some sort. For bonding with classmates/making friends, building new skills, resume building especially for university admissions, and helps to lower the drop out rates are some of the reasons I've heard it being pushed before.
6. I'm always with you Andre. God bless you and your family. Mila in Seattle, USA.♥
And I am with you!
Football is very popular in high school, but they have "seasons" of sports. They start practicing for football in August but are done by November. Then basketball starts, followed by baseball and track and field. Those are for extracurricular activities and may include other things, like golf. Both boys and girls may have football as part of their curriculum, but it would be for a limited amount of time, probably flag football and more to learn the rules of the game. The same for basketball, baseball, and track. Everyone gets a "taste" so they know what is going on when they attend the games.
Freshman-first year in high-school
Sophmore-Second year in high-school
Junior-third year in high-school
Senior- fourth year in high-school
Young people participate in local baseball, basketball, football, Soccer and Hockey. It is great physical exercise and many students do take Physical Education or Gym classes. Local High Schools have their rival Schools too, so competition between schools is legendary.
I knew a kid that had gym for 3 periods his senior year lol I tried to get it twice since I was caught up with credits like him but I got woodshop
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American lunches: I go back a few years. I’m 73, and on Fridays we always had fish for the catholic kids. We’d joke around about how they mowed the lawn on Thursdays and we’d have spinach on Fridays.😂😂😂
School lunch was awesome.
Foreign language offerings in public schools depend on how much funding the school has and what languages might be oGerman. A foreign language class was optional.
I graduated in 1983 and the high school I attended offered, french, Spanish, and german.
*Most* American high school students take 2-4 years of a foreign language. (Whereas, you get more like 12 years of English, counting primary and secondary school together; English is not considered a foreign language, and is the context in which students are taught general principles related to language and literature, such as meter, rhyme, metaphor, etc.) Taking a foreign language is very strongly encouraged for anyone who is considering attending college, and most schools offer 2--3 choices of foreign language. (Some schools may even require it for graduation? Not sure. Very small schools may only offer one foreign language.) Spanish is more common in American schools than all other foreign languages combined; and French is more common than all the rest except Spanish. German used to be very common, but a lot of school districts dropped it during WWI. Latin and (Classical) Greek used to be *somewhat* common, but their popularity faded significantly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Asian languages (particularly Japanese and Mandarin) have been gaining in popularity but still have a ways to go to catch up to French. One of the problems that schools face, when they want to offer foreign languages, is that it's very difficult to find qualified teachers. First-generation immigrants frequently know interesting languages but are almost never qualified to teach (because among other things you need at least a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from an American college, to get a teaching license; personally I think foreign-language teachers should be a special exception to this rule, but they're not). Colleges have a somewhat easier time with this, because college professors don't need a degree in Education unless they're teaching Education classes. If you have a graduate-level (master's or doctoral) degree in pretty much any subject, you can teach college classes in that subject. So colleges tend to offer a lot more languages, than high schools do.
Yes, the word "fascinating" is supposed to have a C in it. That's probably a typographical error, although it's theoretically possible that he just didn't know how to spell it.
Yes, American high school students also complain about the cafeteria food. Quality level varies, but in general it's slightly better in high school than in elementary or middle school (because many school districts prepare the meals at the high school and then transport meals from there to the other schools, to reduce the amount of space and equipment needed in the other schools), but not nearly as good as college cafeteria food (because colleges learned a long time ago that when prospective students visit, good cafeteria food goes a long way toward making an overall positive impression on them).
Football is a disturbingly big deal (socially) in American high schools. Most schools don't have a team specifically for girls, mostly because the average girl is significantly less interested in being a football player, than the average boy. (In the video, there is *one* girl on the football team. In a lot of schools it would be zero.) There probably *are* women's football leagues, but I don't think any of them are very large. Basketball, volleyball, softball, tennis, and even soccer are more popular for women. But the social role that football fills for high school boys, is largely dominated by cheerleading for high school girls.
At my school back in the seventies, we had a choice between French and Spanish. Neither was required. I’m pretty sure it’s changed by now, but I finished all of my Physical Education classes in Junior High. I was one of the most non-sports students ever! I figured I did enough physical activity through farm work and housework!
Sports are highly recommended in America because it teaches Leadership and Cooperation, which are highly thought of, for future prospects even when they don't continue the sport in the future.
Yes, fascinating has a “c” in it and he misspelled “definitely.” Perhaps he needs a little more English class than Spanish. 😂
Usually you have to pick a second language. In Middle School,and again in High School. Most commonly offered languages are Spanish, French and German but schools do vary. If it’s Magnet High school for Language or International Studies they’ll for sure offer more options.
japanese has also been getting popular lately
Even though it’s been a while,when I was in high school I took French and Latin. Two years each. There is a couple of female football leagues, but I’ve never seen them or heard anything about them. We put our kids in baseball and basketball and football and soccer at a young age. If they enjoy it they can continue to play in middle school and high school and maybe college.
When I was in school, at times - since I walked to school (my house was the next over), I used to either eat at school (mostly with sandwiches and fruit) or went home to eat or to my friend's house (his house was adjacent to the school) for lunch
Seeing the names of two communities on the high school, and the size of the school and the number of students, I think that two communities combined their high schools into one building.
We were required to take PE (physical education) every year. It was broken into six week segments, so in one year you’d have swimming, gymnastics, basketball, general PE which would be like aerobic and fitness exercises like push ups, abdominal crunches, pull ups, running, etc. and a choice of another sport like tennis, archery, volleyball, badminton, etc. Team sports like football, basketball, soccer, baseball and track and field also counted towards your PE requirement to graduate. In order to graduate you had to take all these classes and pass;
Four years of English (literature, composition and writing)
One semester of public speaking (speech, debate and/or Forensic)
Four years of mathematics
Four years of science
Three years of history/social sciences
Two years of a single foreign or second language
One semester of computer technology
Electives in the visual and performing arts
Health
Physical Education
Personal Fitness
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Portuguese is available to learn in Rhode Island and Massachusetts high school
Remember Andre', this is just one high school, in one city of one State in America. There are some differences depending on where the school is.
lol if you saw a day in the life vlog of my Alabama public high school back in the day, you'd be in for a shock. schools vary drastically even from town to town. this is a super nice school. also, there is no priority on real nutrition for school lunchs. Ketchup counts as a vegetable.
This school is near where I grew up. I knew quite a few people who went to that school, and some family as well.
I took 2 years of Spanish in highschool. 2 years of a foreign language was mandatory. I don't remember all the choices we had at my school. I believe we had Spanish, French, Latin, and possibly another language or two.
As for sports, they have basketball teams, hockey, a lot of schools have swimming pools so you have swim teams, which I was kind of surprised I didn’t see a pool there unless they didn’t show it but yes is the huge sport and a lot of college recruiters will go to the high schools and pick people for a college education grant which means their college education is paid for and they would play football in that college that they choose when they’re being recruited by college officials! I hope that made sense
Most schools offer at least the "big three" languages: Spanish, French, and German, with Spanish being the most popular. Some schools also offer Portuguese, which isn't a bad option since it is the most common language in South America. Foreign language credits are a common requirement for graduating high school. English is obviously mandatory.
Chicago is a very beautiful city so many cultures in one clean city.
We had awesome school cafeteria food. Chili , Pizza , Chicken and dumplings with mashed potatoes and gravy , corn , Alabama Biscuits , greenbeans , peas and carrots , lasange , Spaghetti , salad bar , and all of it cooked like your grandmother would cook it.
American football from Peewee to the NFL is a big part of American culture. And the big part of high school culture
Sister plays football with the boys. Sports is a huge thing in the US. When I was in High school our High school was almost unbeatable. There was even one dude from my year that went on to play in the NFL Professional. Some games had over 10,000 people in attendance. I read below that this is a high school of 3000, so the fact that his sister made the team means she is good.
Just so ya know this town is pretty upper middle class especially the River Forest part of Oak Park River Forest High School cause Oak Park 30% households making at least 100k -199k and 25% over 200k and 50% of River Forest are above 200k a year. These towns are in the upper percentile of income and the school reflects the taxable income in the area. - This has to be end of the school year or something with how much just watching tv they did.
My high school only taught about 12 languages, but Portuguese was one! I studied French and yes, you must have a language to graduate. Love your videos so very much! ❤ and school lunch is terrible and very unhealthy (trying to be better), we always either went home or went to a restaurant we had an hour for lunch and we lived in the city.
I went to a Catholic school. But that was almost 40 years ago ago and a 2nd language was required back then. I took Spanish for 3 years but hardly remember any of it. My Senior year Spanish 3 teacher was fun. By Spanish 3 you were expected to know the language, so it was taught completely in Spanish. I was really good with the tests because I had time to think, and i could understand enough of it to get by, but I was never very good at speaking it. We had weekly quizzes and if you aced a quiz you could stop by her class after the last bell and she'd teach you a Spanish cuss word. That was always fun and I learned quite a few of them. It was also funny that most of the time the literal translations of the Spanish words were nowhere close to the English cuss words. The Nuns would definitely not have approved. They also offered French but I liked the way Spanish sounded more than French. Saldy though it's been 40 years and I've never really had reasons to speak the language so I've probably forgotten more of it than I learned. I think public schools offer many other languages as well but my school was too small so we just had the two choices. We had less than 200 kids in the entire school and there were only 32 kids in my class. They didn't offer football but we did have soccer, baseball, softball, and cheerleading. i was a nerd so I didn't play any sports. I was on the Graduation Committee and we had to plan the graduation and coordinate everything with the priest because in Catholic schools your graduation is part of mass. That was fun, but it was a lot of work because there were only four of us and we had to design the booklets for the graduation, choose the pictures, make sure we had everyone's names right, choose the different scripture readings (other than the gospel), pick all of the hymns for the mass and the secular music for the ceremony, etc. and of course all of it had to be approved by one of the Nuns who was the proctor for the class. But we got to visit a printing company and see the whole process of how they created pamphlets, booklets, books, etc. (before computers). It was very interesting actually. I distinctly remember that we visited the printing company on a Friday during Lent because the Nun decided to treat us all to breakfast at McDonalds before we got to the printing company. She bought 5 Sausage and Egg McMuffins and we were all half-way through eating when it dawned on someone that was Friday during Lent and we weren't supposed to be eating meat, yet we were all eating sausage. We asked the Nun what we should do. She thought about it for a minutes and then told us it was a sin to waste food so to finish our breakfasts. We teased her about contributing to the spiritual delinquency of minors that all the way back to school.
They offer the kids lots of choices. What they choose to eat is a different issue. Usually, part of the problem is the amount of time they have to eat it.
i'm sure there is a school somewhere that teaches Portuguese, but probably only in areas where there is a heavy Portuguese speaking community, like around Lemoore California... my high school in upstate NY had German, French (we were close to Quebec), Spanish, and Latin. I've seen some that offer Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese - it really depends on the community, but Spanish is pretty much everywhere, i think...
Most high schools have cafeteria food and some kinds of restaurant or fast food too
When my siblings were in high school they took Spanish. I took Latin. In college I took 2 yrs.of French.
At my school you had the option of Spanish and French.
Good Job! You caught his misspelling.
Portuguese is not spoken by a lot of Americans. Years ago the ppl who came to Hawaii or to Massachusetts from Europe. It's not popular.
The American high school experience varies greatly from one district to another. Especially in the areas of extracurricular activities. I personally never participated in these programs when I was in school because my family was not wealthy. I had an after-school job during my high school years. I worked Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, plus all day on Saturday….
Wednesday evenings and Sundays were my only time off.
Please be cognizant that the school in your video is not typical for most American teenagers.
In school what you are offered in terms of classes, sports and extracurricular activities is heavily dependent on the size of the school and the resources available. All students normally get at least one non-English language. My school was small so the offerings were French and Spanish, so I took French and picked up German and Spanish in college. Larger schools will have a greater selection including Portuguese. It is a bit sad that more schools do not offer Portuguese given that the likelihood you will run into a native speaker (from Brazil) is only behind Spanish (Central and South America) and French (Louisiana, Quebec and the Islands). Still schools are just as likely to offer Japanese or Chinese or Russian. Some even offer native languages such as Cherokee and Iroquois.
In terms of sports, that is a significant part of school, even if you do not play. Some schools even require that you play something. (American) Football is very common and very popular, but there is no women only league for this at any level. If a woman wishes to play, they must play on the men's team. Even small schools will offer football, soccer, baseball/softball, basketball and volleyball. Again, larger schools will have more sports.
Baseball is considered "The All American Sport" I away's preferred Football. But, all sports are important in America. Hockey and Basketball are also huge!
Fascinating is spelled wrong. We used to walk to school which could be miles away so school lunches were starchy and over cooked...we brought our own. This school is very upper class. So many schools are struggling to stay open since their area has few children...this is a suburban school for certain and in a high tax base area. Intramural sports are voluntary and expensive...they are not part of curriculum. The school marching band is in same category...voluntary. Physical Ed and Music are classes associated and part of curriculum offered BUT intramural sports...Football, baseball, swimming, tennis, golf, track, basketball, etc., are after school offerings that are highly dependent on sponsorship and facilities. In hard times they go away.
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Hey Andre! You may already know but I figured I’d give you approximate ages. Freshman is usually 14-15 years old. Sophomore is 15-16. Junior is 16-17. Senior is 17-18. It depends on your birthday when you start school. I graduated at 17 because I was born in July.
Oak Park is an upscale older suburb of Chicago. Just across the border in Chicago, the schools will not be this nice.
I agree, this young man did a great job. He is very well spoken and has a very pleasing personality. Thanks for the great reaction. 👏👏🥰
Stark reality compared to a high school in a county like Nye County in Nevada. The funding falls below standard and typically bad teachers end up there with bad students, usually the only reason it doesn’t fall apart is because of great teachers keeping the school up like a man holding up the world. Glad I moved before I had to attend as that would’ve been the only affordable option otherwise. Went to a charter school and learned education standards on top of interesting stuff.
There is professional leagues for Women's Football called the WFA, but it isnt really nationally televised or nearly as popular. That being said GO STORM, Reno, NV has the national champions of D2 WFA.
That school is massive...i have never seen and indoor track ..in ontario track is always outside ...and only 2 floors....
André, love your videos. you always compare your life and things in america. is it possible to get a tour of some of the things in your lifestyle. i'd love to see and learn more about portugal.
"Having my cereal with coconut milk and its alright" lol ok
"If you ignore everything about it"
As someone putting almond milk in her cereal right now, I really felt it.
That's a very fancy high school. Mine was less than 1/3rd of that size and our district didn't have that kinda of money nor that fancy of amenities. Our school lunches were even worse than the ones in the video. I used to take my own lunch as a result.
I went to a huge secondary school (7th-12th grade) with 4500 students and we didn’t have multiple gyms, etc.
Just so you are aware, this is a high school in an expensive upper middle class neighborhood, and cannot really define most American high schools. And for your question if you'd be able to pick Portuguese as a language in school, it's very unlikely, most high schools have 3 languages you can pick from, Spanish, French, German, and sometimes, but more rare nowadays, Latin.
Most high schools today also offer Mandarin
I liked school lunches alright. Depended on what was being served. When I wasn't feeling the main lunch, there was a salad/baked potato/nacho bar (alternating days). Otherwise an apple and muffin from the vending machines.
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Football is big, but so is soccer, basketball, lacrosse, baseball, wrestling, it just depends on the season.
My 16 year old has 70 students in his high school. 😂 They have one long hallway and it is attached to the K thru 8th grade on the other side.
My school was all one level except the language building... and it was not this rich looking. This looks like an expensive school. I don't remember ever playing ping pong, either. I don't think our school could afford the tables.
Oh, we had Portuguese. It was Brazilian Portuguese. I learned Japanese on my own in high school because it was not given as a course. Spanish and English were all spoken by everyone already, so most kids took the other languages given (Portuguese, French (Canadian), Russian, and Arabic). I did my mandatory 2 years Spanish and 4 years English. 😂
Different for me in 90's High School I had 7 periods. US History AP, Chemistry AP, Language Arts American Experience (English), Intermediate Spanish and Computer Programming (IT) than Algebra 2 with Trigonometry AP than Advanced PE (Varsity Football and Baseball) 1st and 2nd semester.
High school football has dropped off since the problem with brain damage has been exposed how ever Lacross and soccer has progressed both by boy's and girl's to be very popular. Track, golf, baseball, basketball, wrestling, rowing, band (Music both marching and concert) and drama are offered at our schools here in the north east as well as clubs . 🇺🇸