Joel & Lia Here in the States, when you turn 65, your Insurance rates actually go up, not down, for exactly the false reasoning you've mentioned, that supposedly the elders suck at driving. That can be true, but it can also be very false. I think everyone should have to re-take their drivers exam, regardless of age, every 5 years.
Had a huge gym and the 'Pep Rally's were amazing,TV cameras on Friday's and cheerleaders and really no work on Fridays on ride'n out leaving school early to hangout the pep rallys were so loud and fun. Very fun video guys I really enjoyed this 👏
Kyle Brown: Both the hallway lockers and the gym lockers were large ones, too. That doesn't happen everywhere now, though. Ours were free, we just had to pay a couple of bucks for the lock on the hallway locker. We had to provide our own lock for our gym locker, though. When my daughter was in high school, there weren't enough lockers, so they issued them to the lower classmen/grades and the upper classmen had to lug their books around in their backpack all day.
@@mia-lc2om my favorite is from a renowned British mountaineer after he singlehandedly rescued two climbers on mount McKinley in winter “nice chaps” he said. “Just a wee bit in over their heads”
I know because I remember our food not being so great in the 1970s and 1980s. The worst school foos I ever had was up in Pennsylvania when we lived there for 2 years. Ughh barf. The hamburger didn't even taste like beef or turkey burger but tasted gamey. Yuck! It would make me sick so I would usually eat pizza if I could.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 omg our food was so good in North Carolina at school back in the 70s. Freshly cooked everyday, baked spaghetti, hamburgers, pizza, were the faves. When we got to awxindaey schools and had ice cream as an option. And a la cart foods if you didnt want the plate lunch. Ph and brownies..... soooo good. Even peanut butter sandwiches had honey in them. So sweet with a carton of milk. There were a few years I carried a small amount iui my if nestles quick in a small cube wrap of aluminum foil, so I could have chocolate milk. Yummmm
Folks, they're focusing on the 'extras' at school, and I've heard a fair amount about Brit H.S.s ... apparently at most Brit Public H.S.s, there were *very* few options for school-related extracurricular activities. The Private schools were, I guess, a little better - but not lots better. It seems that 90% of American H.S.s had/have significantly more going on than most Brit schools. Oh, and Joel & Lia ... a pep rally is _way_ more than somebody giving a speech! The marching band (or a select part of it) will perform, usually really 'rousing' music, and the cheerleaders will put on a little show; at my school the brass portion of the band would accompany the students and staff at singing The Star Spangled Banner. And there would be some mini-speeches by various coaches and school-staffers. And those students/athletes (& sometimes staff) who'd recently earned awards would be presented with them; and any team who'd recently won a Championship would parade the trophy around. A good pep-rally really could 'get you pumped'! [And I wasn't even an athlete or anything!]
I have been a Brit in American schools now for about 3 years. It’s been amazing! In our school (high school) nobody really uses their lockers, and the pride and passion at our schools are outstanding!
_ AngelZ yep they’re just not as used now that people use the backpacks for everything nowadays. i’ve only seen about 3 people all this year use their locker.
Glamour Subliminals what part of America are you looking to move to? I lived in England (Hasting, East Sussex) for 20 years moved back home to Southern California with my teenage daughter
There are kids around where I live that start driving between ten and twelve. A lot of these are from families that raise cattle and other animals. The laws around here know them well enough and they're pretty safe so they get a pass.
Harley Retherford yeah that’s what happens around here too. It’s just not legal to drive on the roads until you’re 14. Doesn’t mean people who are like 12 don’t do it anyways tho
But in Miami, NY, Chicago - cities with good (or at least somewhat decent) public transportation and extremely heavy, and sometimes dangerous, traffic) - a lot of kids don't start driving at 16. Many kids in Miami don't start driving until they finish high school and earn enough to pay for a car, gas, and the higher insurance rates that occur in big cities. A lot of times they don't require cars until they go to college or possibly even after.
As I understand it, to an American, being "stroked" is the same as being "petted" to a Brit. At least according to commentors in another video I watched where this came up. In the US, "petting" is innocent, while "heavy petting" is like sexual caressing.
It’s always a little culturally shocking to hear “pound land.” All I can hear in my head is like some creepy guy saying “oh yeah baby, I’m gonna take you to *POUND LAND*” 😂😂
A pep rally isn’t a pep talk, lol. It’s like an actual rally. The cheerleaders will dance and they will play different games with the players (basketball, baseball, etc..). Now the coach will talk at the end but it’s usually to hype the team up. There are a lot of school chants too.
WhiteCamry not in school, no one watches the “games” and if they do it’s by force because their using the pe hall so you can’t do anything but no one actually watches it
Less in college, people in US would say they go/went to state schools too. Not in lower grades because they are not run by the state, rather local school districts vs. entire states.
Mixing up pep talk with pep rally. At my h.s., a pep rally had the whole school assemble in the gym.....on the bleachers. The team was introduced and we would all go nuts with applause and support for both the team and individual players before sending them off to play a championship game.
My friend and I got kicked out of pep rallies our freshman year, from the first pep rally, for the entire year. Because the seniors made a sign that said, "Freshman suck!!" So my friend made a giant sign that said, "Seniors swallow!" For us to hold up. Needless to say it didnt go over well with administration who did NOT think we were funny.... we were just sent home during pep rallies for the rest of the year since it was always the last period of the day.
I was that kid that hid in classrooms with the cool teachers. I hated pep assemblies because it was all about the athletes. There were never any assemblies for any of the other students and it peeved me so much. Attendance was mandatory and they always threatened students with suspension if they were caught hiding in the bathrooms or the library, but it was never enforced unless the kids were caught smoking or leaving school property.
Pep rallies at my school were every Friday in the morning during football season. The pep rallies had themes and games people could participate in and then a “spirit war” towards the end,good times.
I always had the inside of my locker door decorated with pictures, notes/encouraging things, and maybe a mirror. Also, before school started in the morning, it was common to gather with a group of friends at your locker to socialize.
"After" school trips to the mall were always DURING class for me lol. I ditched my yearbook class all the time because it was my last class of the day and my yearbook teacher caught me at McDonald's lol the same day I ditched. He signed my yearbook "lunch anyone??" Lol
I went to high school in the 80's. That's when we had everything. We were able to leave for lunch and go to a fast food restaurant. Sometimes we came back. Lol
Stephanie Abney yes!!!!! All the cars tearing outta the parking lot at lunch, everyone hanging out at Naugles or Carl’s Jr., chatting at our lockers, slipping letters into the hot guy’s locker 😉....and pep rallies. So fun! I don’t even like football but loved the pep rallies, Friday night football games, and hanging out afterwards with everyone. Ahhhhhh those were the days 🙃
Me too, I graduated in 93 but the school I attended we were allowed to leave for lunch, it was an adult education school so we were allowed to come and go as we pleased. Everybody would walk down to this little pond they called the duck pond and smoke.
We had to clear our locker at the end of every school year and were reassigned a new one each year. In my high school lockers were assigned by halls which were connected to one's school standing: freshman, sophomore, junior or senior. Our leaders tend to err on the side of positive rather than negative. We aren't sugar coating things, we understand the gravity of the situation but we've been through enough to know we can get through this too. We think we can, so we do. No time to hangout at the mall after school--too many after-school activities or homework. I wish we'd had uniforms because It would have made life so much easier.
I switched school in my high school years but the 1st one i went too u kept the same locker for 4 years. It was 2 stories too. And the 2nd one u got a diff locker each year because it was in the assigned grade hallway. Exceotions were special education students who kept the same locker all 4 years
When I was in high school we got the same locker all 4 years. But we did have to clean them out at the end of the year. At one point someone kept something that smelled like beef in their locker (they were 8th graders who came to my high school to take high school math courses). When they no longer needed to store their coats, and lunches, and backpacks, in a locker one of them left a brown paper bag of with their lunch in it and forgot it. It made the surrounding lockers stink and eventually a janitor went in and cleaned out the locker.
"Confidence is key" is a true statement. Harvard social scientists affirm that just 120 seconds of powerful posture increases testosterone (dominance hormone) about 20%, while dropping cortisol (stress hormone) ~25%. So just believing in yourself can make you better. Think the Harry Potter scene where Harry pretends to give Ron some of his liquid luck and Ron does better without actually using the potion. It's essentially just the placebo effect at play.
Confidence is a great thing. It definitely helps in so many ways! However, the whole American thing with saying (and acting like) we're the best at everything 1) often just isn't true and 2) really comes off most of the time as arrogant and annoying - and honestly, well, ignorant about other countries. I am American and British, and I love both countries! I also feel that I see both pros and cons in every place I've ever lived, and the American in me does find that American arrogance really embarrassing.
Growing up in southern California, I feel like my high school had pep rallies for everything. Football, basketball, wrestling, water polo, track, tennis, cheer, dance and we even had a surf team and a math team. They honestly got kind of annoying after a while, so people just used them as an excuse to goof off or ditch classes.
Eh, I liked pep rallies. Maybe it's just because I'm a band kid and I like preforming because most kids hated them because they wasted class time and gave them less time to do homework
Town public schools are paid from the taxes paid by town people. So depending on the town where you reside, the school could be really beautiful or just be basic. But the schools in your town are free to attend!
@@mermaid1717 Public schools are financed by real estate taxes collected locally, and subsidies from the state. There are some Federal dollars too sent their way. There is no tuition charged and textbooks are supplied free.
@@balakuntalamsridhar5789 hmmmmmm... so real estate went up in our area last year yet this year us teachers only recieved 1 case of copy paper to last the full school year. Just one example how bad the state cutback last year.
Public schools in US are also governed locally by either an elected school board (school directors), or one appointed by local elected officials. Sports, band and drama activities are additionally funded by the community at large through ticket sales, bake sales, and students selling their time. Drama activity consisted of 4 plays per year, plus a musical. Drama coach was a former Broadway correographer. Students did scenery, costumes, lighting sound and all music.
I love how at 4:45 Lia straightens Joel’s back (corrects his posture) and they’re such good friends he lets her manhandle him however she needs to! True trust between FRIENDS! 🤗🤗
I had a business going from inside my locker in high school. Right before home room and at breaks, I sold candy, donuts, pencils, and what not. It financed by spring break vacations. High school was great :)
I haven’t watched You two for months. And I’ve been sitting here smiling and smiling the entire time; while listening to you talk. So you are the BEST! 😂
in america: private school costs money, public schools r free (edit: “usually” taxes pay for schools in america, but im pretty sure they do that in the uk. when i say “free” i mean you don’t have to pay an extra 20,000 plus pay taxes)
My favorite parts of attending high school was homecoming games and dances, Jr/Sr Prom and graduation. I attended a very small HS not to much happening.
As a high school teacher, I was always surprised that so many of my students would carry their heavy backpacks around all day instead of using their locker. My daughter who is graduating this year, said she did the same because the school, being so big, there's not enough time between classes to go to your locker. We got word that they will soon be allowing students to go into the school to clean out their lockers. My daughter told me she never used it, and doesn't even know where it is!
I work in a high school. We no longer use the lockers. The students have no books to carry. They barely even use notebooks or take notes. I think that's insane. Teachers literally print the notes for students now.
@@Judy_R yeah we don't do that. Some classrooms do have textbooks they keep in there, but everything is on the smartboard, Mac Books, & Chrome Books. Every classroom has a full cart of either Mac Books or Chrome Books in our school.
@@mermaid1717 Yeah, I have a locker, yet I've never had to use it. It has to do partly with the fact that our classes are so paperless that we dont need to carry all this stuff around. It's not efficient to go to your locker every period either.
@@zanderhamilton7908 WOW, times really have changed A LOT! I can't even imagine what that's like. I went to high school in the dark ages - the 1970's. Way before the Internet existed, Social Media or cell phones or iPads. But even so, I'm still glad I grew up when I did. Such simpler times.
I never used my locker because it was in an inconvenient place. My classes would be in every hallway except the one with my locker. 😂 Now I have a backpack with wheels so my back no longer hurts.
I can relate to being jealous of lockers in American schools😂 I think High School Musical was probably the reason... It looked like so much fun to decorate and to not have to carry 10kg of books on your back every day.
In most schools you can carry your backpack to each class but in my school we aren’t allowed to have carry bags to each class in fear that there may be a weapon. You must leave backpacks and large purses in your locker but it’s not the same for ever school.
What you call state school, we call public school and it is “free” because it is paid for with taxes. We don’t have “primary school” and “secondary school”. We have elementary school, middle school, and high school.
In central Ohio we have, Elementary k-4, intermediate 5-6, middle 7-8 and high 9-12. This wasn't instated until I was in high school, thank god. Too many different schools. And we had to pay $15 school fee each year.
@@pirellisuperhard I went to Jr. High in 1969 in Rhode Island, can't get more east coast than that. I was grades 7, 8, 9. Now it's a middle school with 6, 7, 8. I think they use 2 metrics to decide what grades, student populations and testing scores. It always comes down t o test scores. A 3rd metric might be teacher accreditation, when I taught in NJ, my accreditation allowed me to teach single subject (sciece) to grades 6-12. If you are only accredited for grammar school you could only teach up to 8th grade
Pep Rallies are typically on Friday's, and you'll get out of class for 30 mins, and the cheerleaders will do their routine to get you in the spirit to come to the game that night!
It's very "Trump" to think he's the best and has the best of everything. He is an embarrassment to the US. He hasn't a shred of humility and has even less common sense. Please don't think we all are as obsessed with ourselves and our country as he represents. 🙈
They brought a drug dog to school I knew three people in that hallway that had weed in there locker and the dog smelt nothing the next year they retired the dog because the cops were finding drugs easier than the dogs
We have trampoline parks everywhere in the US these days that people of ALL ages can go & jump. You just pay by the hour. My nephew has autism & his Medicaid pays a monthly fee to our local trampoline park for him to go anytime he wants & as often as he wants. Make sure you do trampolining next time you're able to get to the USA!!! Would make a GREAT video! They even have late night lights down for just adult jumpers too.
A L I work in a High school and we had a shelter in place and the students had to put there bookbags outside the rooms because we had drug dogs come in for a surprise search.
Alexis and all, Where I am from, New York, I don't know if random drug tests occur, or if sniffer dogs actually sniff any more, as we never kept our drugs in our lockers. I'm just saying, meaning, you would be a fool if you did, no matter the conditions. We had lockers in the woods, under stumps or in the hollows of trees and such, about the wilds. The dogs of course, are lovely. I once had a dog, in college, for a good 18 years (the dog, not college) but you couldn't leave weed around her face, as she would just eat it. I once lost a little bit of hash and she showed me where it was, and deep away it was. I gave her a little taste for her efforts. She was a fine sniffer, but not at all trained to be. She just had it in her. We were two peas in a pod. She liked a good larger now and then, just like me. It was hard to keep her off my feed. Don't blink, being the point. I used to rolls joints, very nicely, at about 3 or 4 at a time, when I could be bothered to, We'd smoke one or two, with one or a few left over. Why there was always one joint missing in the morning, came down to the dog. My friends or wife could have had all they wanted, but they would let me know of it. My dog (Poe) tho, didn't speak english, so I seldom knew it was her, but of course, I always knew it was her. She'd always leave me one tho. Some things are better off unspoken, to be truly understood.
Okay, I was a cheerleader and our pep rallys were during school Everyone would gather in the gym up in the bleachers. We would run out on the court and start the cheers. The kids and faculty scream along and cheer. The band starts to play the school song, we do the cheer that goes with it, and the crowd is up singing along stomping their feet and clapping. The football players are introduced and run out as their names are called. The coach then comes out to tell everyone how we are going to win this year! Everyone is cheering, shouting and laughing. The last words before we leave are: WE'LL SEE YOU OUT THERE!!! Then it's over. (At least at my high school, that's how it was)
Have you watched John Hughes films? They are iconic American 80’s high school! 💕 The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off...
Yes, schools are free. These are called public schools. Every child in the country can attend (regardless of citizenship or immigration status). They are funded by city/state/and federal funds (generated by Americans’ taxes). There are private schools which do charge tuition and have admissions criteria. They are funded by that tuition and donations, maybe alumni endowments.
We do have trampoline parks here. I'm sceptical of them because people are always getting injured as there's nothing regulating these places. I'm a gymnastics coach so I see it from a different perspective I suppose.
In the States we call it Shelter in Place. In the States lockdowns are procedures schools take whenever there's a shooter on campus. We have practice drills where we duck and cover under our desks, lights are turned off, and we remain silent.
I agree with Joel, even here in the U.S., there are old unsafe drivers. Whenever I pass someone doing 30 mph on the highway, it’s always an old man with a hat!
Yeah fr. I’m a junior and I don’t even know where mine is or what the code is. Like we have like 5 min to get to the next class so why even bother doin all that.
We have very large (indoor) trampoline parks in the U.S.A. They are so much fun for all ages, starting from toddler age, all the way up to adults. In addition, there are game machines, flying trapeze, rings, ladders, slides, large balls, etc., over foam pools to drop into. Many families hold their children's birthday parties at trampoline parks, who provide private party rooms for birthday cakes, balloons, decorations, several tables for lunch/pizza and gifts, music, etc. Again, it's so much fun! You two should visit a trampoline park the next time you're stateside. You will leave completely exhausted, not only from the different apparatus, but your stomach muscles will hurt for days, from laughing so hard.
I really don’t understand why Brits are so hard on themselves. You shouldn’t be ...Brits should be proud of their history and their country and yourselves. America is proud of the UK we are proud to be your friends
George Vangordon jr Proud to be their children!(jk). It is kind of like an older generation telling a new one why they’re lucky and what new things they have.
Hollywood's glamorous portrayal of U.S. high schools is so far from reality. High school was the worst 4 years of my life. It was a miserable experience.
Hanging out at the mall was more of a generational thing in the U.S. We did that as teenagers in the 80's and 90's, but most kids nowadays don't. Part of it is because a lot of malls have gone out of business; part of it is because kids are staying home with their electronics and social media.
By the time I was in high school in the late 90's, hanging out at the mall already wasn't that much of a thing anymore. A few kids still did, but most did not. My friends and I found it to be really pointless, extremely boring, and rarely ever went to the mall at all. We were into finding an actual activity to do like go to the movies, the park, a public event/festival if any were going on, hike, swim, go to coffee, occasionally take a day trip to do some activity in neighboring areas etc. Or we would just go to one of our houses to hang out and chill, talk, listen to music, burn cd's to swap, play a little Tony Hawk on PlayStation, watch a movie on dvd (or vhs), once in a while do a backyard firepit for a hot dog/smores roast... those kinds of things.
No I grew up in the early 2000s and 2010s and we definitely went to the mall. I think it's mostly where you grow up. In most parts of America there's nothing to do besides go to the mall, the movies, or some local fast food restaurant so those were usually our hang out spots.
I am a foreign language teacher at the high school level. I think I would be much happier teaching at a British school. Students are typically horrible and working conditions are not the best. I get verbally attacked on a daily basis by "students", have been routinely physically threatened, and twice attacked. What we have is an entire generation of people that cannot think for themselves and have been given participation trophies for everything. In fact, at my school the teachers have been instructed not to fail a student unless they do not come to school in the first place. Movies and TV lie! :*(
As a 70 year old, I must say you two have a really warped view of what it is like to be 70. I ride a bike about 5,000 miles a year, I do all of my own gardening, and I have no problem at all driving. 70 is the new 55.
At my high school, our pep rallies occurred in the gymnasium on Fridays (not every Friday) just before break (recess). We had over 1,300 students. The Sophomores and Juniors sat on the bleachers on one side of the gym, the Seniors were in the center, and the Freshmen sat on the other side of the gym, just behind the Seniors.. Basically, the performances and entertainments happened in between the Sophomores/Juniors and the Seniors. We had rallies before main events, for example, the Homecoming Float Parade where each clubs (and athletes) made floats and paraded. The band was always playing, cheerleaders and dance teams performed, and few students from each class, as well as the athletes, participated in what ever games the student government had set up. The student government were in charge of rallies, school events, choosing themes and locations for the school dances and amongst other things. Dance themes were always announced at the rallies. Before every rally ended, each class had to chant and whichever class chanted the loudest got to leave first (the seniors always got to leave first lol). We also had outdoor rallies where we had food, entertainments like obstacle courses. we didn’t hate our rallies because rallies meant classes were shorter haha. As for the locker situation, my high school had medium sized lockers (both hallway and gym lockers) but I think my middle school had bigger lockers. We definitely used our lockers everyday. In the morning before the first class, during break, lunch and after school. My high school was walking distance, so not everyone drove to school. For those who did drive, they got their own parking spots which they got to decorate and paint on. Overall, I would say high school was a good experience.
I graduated from a California school in 1985 and we didn't have lockers at all because someone set off bombs in some lockers and they took them away. Everything else you talked about was pretty accurate from my experience. Pep rallies, in particular, were popular because it was during class time and was much more fun than being in class.
Mall trips were the best! When I was in middle school the mall was right across the street. So everyday after school everyone would walk over to the mall to hang out. And at my high school the lockers weren’t that big and every year we’d get new ones. My freshman year I had a locker on the bottom so I had to kneel to get to my locker and then the next years I had middle lockers.
What's so funny is that I am listening to your video while I go through a box of items I brought back with me from my trip to India. I was holding a luggage tag receipt in my hand when you both said, "Namaste! Namaste!" I laughed out loud at the irony of the moment.
1) At my high school not everyone had a locker. At the beginning of each year, if you wanted a locker, you had to go to the office and get one assigned to you, and then at the end of the year you had to clear out your locker. Most people wouldn't hang out at their lockers between classes cause we didn't have time to (we only had 5 minutes to get to our next class and sometimes it was on the opposite end of campus), but people would meet each other at their locker before or after school. I would use my locker to store my swim bag or soccer bag so that I didn't have to carry it around all day; sometimes I would store an extra set of clothes if I needed to change but didn't have time to go home. I wouldn't bring textbooks to and from school (I walked to school and textbooks were heavy), unless my teacher told us we needed them, so I wouldn't store any textbooks in my locker. 2) Football games are usually a big deal in high school, especially if your team was very good (mine was haha). Every friday night in the fall there is a game, and most of the school goes to support the team. I went to every single home game in high school and it was a blast! My college didn't have a football team so sometimes I miss getting to go to games. 3) The state of your gym really depended on how old your school was, how much money they have for the athletic department, where your school was located (cities with higher or lower incomes), and if the board thinks it's worth the time and money to re-do the gym. 4) Public elementary, middle (or junior high), and high schools don't cost any money for kids to attend. This means it usually takes a long time for any major repairs/construction to happen for a school, unless they recieve a generous donation. When I was in high school, the music and theatre buildings hadn't been touched since they were built in the 50's, and it took until the spring semester of my senior year for a new performing arts building to be completed. They didn't even start construction until my junior year. The original building were awful too. There were many seats in the theatre that were broken, and the sink in the band room bathroom broke and fell off the wall and sliced a girl's hands almost cutting off some fingers (she was ok). This all sounds terrible, but it isn't all the school's fault. Public education in america isn't given enough funding. 5) Pep rallies were mostly done to get the whole school pumped for a game so that students would go and support the team. Athletes tend to perform better when there is a crowd cheering them on, so the team would want people there. We wouldn't have pep rallies for every single football game, but we would have them for big or important games. The Homecoming game always had a pep rally and then a show at halftime to announce the homecoming court and the homecoming king and queen. And then any big rival game would have a pep rally as well. When my football team would make it to CIF (California Interscholastic Federation), which is like a regional championship tournament, then there would be a pep rally for the game. And then anytime we would win CIF and advance to the state championship we would celebrate. My high school would win CIF a lot, but would only make it a few games into state. 6) Yeah as a country we like to think we're number 1 in everything. It's partly pride, and partly ignorance haha. We are great at some things, but we need to work on other things, and it's ok to be patriotic and think that we're not the best at everything. 7) I can't speak for every school, but usually people wouldn't go to the mall after school. That was usually an activity saved for weekends when there were no other plans. People would either go directly to a sports practice after school, a rehearsal, a job, or they would hang out on campus for a while with their friends. If students were older and had a car, then maybe they'd take their friends home or to someplace to eat, but usually it was just a mad dash to get out of the parking lot as quickly as possible cause there were so many people leaving at once. It might've been this way for me cause there wasn't a mall close enough to my high school to make sense to hang out at. I also always had some sort of practice after school, so I don't really know what people did when they didn't have to go to practice; I only had enough time to change and then get to the field or the pool before practice started. 8) Schools used to have driving lessons a part of the school day, but in California, as far as I know, schools no longer offer drivers ed. Kids learning to drive after they got their permits had to find a driving instructor through a separate driving school. 9) I think letterman jackets (varsity jackets) are a great momento from high school, but they're very expensive for something you don't really wear after you graduate, unless you go back for the homecoming game. I didn't get a letterman jacket because it was so expensive, but now I don't have anywhere to put all my letters, patches, and stars that I got in high school haha
I loved my locker too! When they remodeled the high school, they tore them out!! My son had to carry his backpack around ALL day😨 ..... it made me really mad 😡
@@Judy_R ooohh... that was sweet!! I don't have grandchildren, but I'd like to think I'd be that kind of grandma 🤗💕..... my grand kids would know all about Joel and Lia for sure
@@MaryMary-pr4iu I love how you said that - that if you had grandkids they would for sure know all about J&L. So many of us just adore those two so much!! 👍😊❤ Jean
Where my daughter's went to middle school, about 4 years ago, they could only go to their lockers when they got to school, mid-day, and at the end of day. To top it off, they weren't allowed to bring backpacks to class, so so they basically had to lug 4 classes of supplies around half the day, then switch them out for the next 4. It only lasted for one year, but it was a miserable year for them
In my high school, the seniors would get access to the parking spaces closer to the school, others had to park farther away from the school. Those were definitely good times!
I went to a pretty wealthy and high ranking high school, our lockers were large enough that an average high schooler could comfortably stand in it, shelf included 😂 so much garbage at the end of senior year
I loved my letter (varsity) jacket because it was big and warm and was something of a status symbol, but the biggest problem with it was that, depending on when you get your first letter (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior year of high school), you essentially pay $300 for a jacket that you wear for a few years and then it hangs in your closet for the rest of your life.
🤣🤣 OMG! I couldn’t stop laughing😂😂 i’m a Brit and I agree with everything you said. BTW you are the best RUclipsrs ever, in the world.🙂 I love the tangents, I am the same❤️😄
Driving to school was the greatest thing because you were no longer dependent on the school bus. Legal driving age is 16 with driver's ed being taught at the age of 15. But most of the parking lots around the school were for students. The teachers had s separate designated area to park. Most students turned 16 during their 11th or Junior Year. Some as early as their 9th or Freshman Year. We had one kid who turned 16 his Freshman year. People were jealous of him.
I believe the president said that America has the best testing in the world, because of the multiple studies and research that has been done. Some countries like China is believed to have stopped their testing. This also connects with the death count in America, if America does the most testing, then by default they would have more cases of covid 19. We also need to take in consideration of America’s size In population. Also the president is trying to give the American people hope, that we can live again, instead of being trapped in our house. He wants to give Americans the freedom that Americans have worked so hard to have. I love your channel, but just wanted an American opinion put in the mix. Hope you do well, and take my opinion into consideration.
Omg my school in America has two gyms, lockers, gym lockers, a weightlifting gym, pool, a cheerleading gym, and football, soccer and tennis courts! I just realized how much influence there is on sports in America
Yes, I remember after-school trips to the shopping mall. (Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.). So, the kids are still doing that?! The more things change, the more they stay the same!
I really think Americans are somewhat optimistic about the current crisis because it really is being handled well in the United States. Even though we have a ton of cases, we also have a ton of people. Our mortality rate, the percentage of people who get the disease that die, is 5%. In the UK, it's 16%. Yes, our health care is expensive, but I really do believe it is the best in the world when it comes to quality. I live in Texas. Our death rate among people with COVID-19 is 2.5%.
You have to remember, they're not immersed in the daily circus that is the Trump administration. They're not even particularly politically curious. They're just a pair of Brits who only know what they see on TV.
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos, and that I like that y'all are "scatty" lol. To me, it makes the video feel more like a natural conversation, not only between you two, but to the viewers as well. Keep up the good work!
Just like Joel, my birthday is at the beginning of the school year, (the first week of November), so I was 16 years old & driving for the majority of my sophomore (10th grade) year so I was expected to drive my friends out to lunch since I was older than most of them. This also made me 18 years old for the majority of my senior (12th grade) year so officially I was "an adult" & able to write my own excuse notes to get out of class or be absent/miss a day of school....BEST EVER!! We still had only 10 absent/sick days to stay under, so I couldn't get too crazy & let the power go to my head.😂
@Lucy! WOW, crazy!! Thankfully, I only wrote a few notes, not to bring too much attention I guess. After forging my parents excuse notes for so long, it still was just soooo weird not having to after I turned 18. For me, writing my own excuses too often was almost like too much freedom to want to take advantage of or something... WEIRD I KNOW!🤔🙃😁 I can imagine the things our parents actually knew, that we thought they were oblivious to. LOL😂
I commute from Orange County into Los Angeles, along with millions of other people; most of the time I find that "I'm a flawed but competent and relatively responsible driver, and so are most of the others around me." is not only helpful, but also pretty accurate.
I live and went to school here in SoCal (greater Los Angeles). Our high school didn't have lockers anymore, c/o 2003, back in the 80s there was an issue with explosives so they took em all out for general use. But we did use smaller lockers in the locker rooms for dressing out for P.E. I never went to a pep rally, Ugh, introvert here) And those varsity jackets cost $200-300 and you have to earn those patches. My friends left after lunch seniors year, drove off, because they had enough credits to graduate. I failed a couple classes sophmore year so I have to retake US history and PE and stayed the full day. Near the end when "senioritus" kicked in I wouldn't go to school until lunch time and have my mom take me through the drive through at like del taco or something before going to school and I'd show up thinking I was so cool with my fountain drink in hand, along with my bag of tacos and some shades on LOL.
I played football in high school and was the captain of the team my senior year. One of the players had been ill and was not expected to be able to play that night. I gave a rousing speech during the pep rally declaring that we would win this game for Bill. I was very emotional and really inspired the student body. He ended up being able to play, so my speech was in vain. But he took ill during the game and I severely injured my knee. We ended up going to the hospital in an ambulance together. He went in head first and I went in feet first. One of the opposing team's cheerleaders also got injured and went to the same hospital, (but unfortunately, not in our ambulance.)
Do UK high schools have any team sports where they compete against other schools? Soccer / football etc? Championships? Do people go to the games? A pep rally is for the students to get excited about the game against another school.
In my secondary school there was a rugby team that I think may have played against other schools, I wasn't in it long so I can't remember, it's not really a big deal in the UK, it's mostly just the parents that show up to watch. At least it was like that where I grew up
In America it’s mostly private and “public” school. Public school is free. Some people go to charter schools too, which I believe is also free. Private school can be ridiculously expensive though. And pep rallies were THE BEST... we always had the step team and cheerleaders come out and perform, and the matching band drum line would drum around the school in the morning. School spirit due to sports rivalries were definitely a HUGE thing. We’d dedicate an hour or two some fridays to pep rallies. Also the driving thing is interesting. You guys start a little later than we do. In Virginia, kids can get their learner’s permit at 15 and 6 months and license nine months later at 16 and 3 months. Also we offer driver’s ed. at school for free
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Hilarious. Needed this today.
public school is free private school cost money here to
Joel & Lia r u a couple?
Joel & Lia
Here in the States, when you turn 65, your Insurance rates actually go up, not down, for exactly the false reasoning you've mentioned, that supposedly the elders suck at driving. That can be true, but it can also be very false.
I think everyone should have to re-take their drivers exam, regardless of age, every 5 years.
Had a huge gym and the 'Pep Rally's were amazing,TV cameras on Friday's and cheerleaders and really no work on Fridays on ride'n out leaving school early to hangout the pep rallys were so loud and fun. Very fun video guys I really enjoyed this 👏
lol "I'd just keep my gym kit in there".... time to make you *more* jealous. We had hallway lockers *and* gym lockers.
Kyle Brown and we got new lockers each year lol
at my middle school we had gym lockers but weren't allowed to put our backpack in there like WHAT
Wtf! How can ur school afford it?
And wut would u even put in ur locker other than a gym kit?
Kyle Brown: Both the hallway lockers and the gym lockers were large ones, too. That doesn't happen everywhere now, though. Ours were free, we just had to pay a couple of bucks for the lock on the hallway locker. We had to provide our own lock for our gym locker, though. When my daughter was in high school, there weren't enough lockers, so they issued them to the lower classmen/grades and the upper classmen had to lug their books around in their backpack all day.
I love how they don’t know what a pep rally is
Alex Geoffroy lol
Absolutey cracked me up!😂😂😂😂. I was thinking, that’s not at all what happens 😃😃😂😂
It's amazing they don't have a clue, especially in a big city, large public high school.
I know
Isn’t it something to do with getting excited about a game? I’m pretty sure my American mate told me about it
American pep talk: "You're the best. You're amazing. Be the best you can be. You Rock!!"
British pep talk: "Your tea is getting cold."
“you okay mate? your tea’s gettin a bit chilly”
@@mia-lc2om my favorite is from a renowned British mountaineer after he singlehandedly rescued two climbers on mount McKinley in winter “nice chaps” he said. “Just a wee bit in over their heads”
Lol. It's funny because its true 😂🙊
Shall I be mother?
Brits are jealous of American High Schools
Me: This does not compute.
I know because I remember our food not being so great in the 1970s and 1980s. The worst school foos I ever had was up in Pennsylvania when we lived there for 2 years. Ughh barf. The hamburger didn't even taste like beef or turkey burger but tasted gamey. Yuck! It would make me sick so I would usually eat pizza if I could.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 in nevada,its also mostly gross! What I dont like is the packaging is excessive because it mostly microwaved
Highschool was fun ass hell. Sneaking off campus, river parties, going to football games, playing sports, all that crap I miss.
@@montrelouisebohon-harris7023 omg our food was so good in North Carolina at school back in the 70s. Freshly cooked everyday, baked spaghetti, hamburgers, pizza, were the faves. When we got to awxindaey schools and had ice cream as an option. And a la cart foods if you didnt want the plate lunch. Ph and brownies..... soooo good. Even peanut butter sandwiches had honey in them. So sweet with a carton of milk. There were a few years I carried a small amount iui my if nestles quick in a small cube wrap of aluminum foil, so I could have chocolate milk. Yummmm
Folks, they're focusing on the 'extras' at school, and I've heard a fair amount about Brit H.S.s ... apparently at most Brit Public H.S.s, there were *very* few options for school-related extracurricular activities. The Private schools were, I guess, a little better - but not lots better. It seems that 90% of American H.S.s had/have significantly more going on than most Brit schools.
Oh, and Joel & Lia ... a pep rally is _way_ more than somebody giving a speech! The marching band (or a select part of it) will perform, usually really 'rousing' music, and the cheerleaders will put on a little show; at my school the brass portion of the band would accompany the students and staff at singing The Star Spangled Banner. And there would be some mini-speeches by various coaches and school-staffers. And those students/athletes (& sometimes staff) who'd recently earned awards would be presented with them; and any team who'd recently won a Championship would parade the trophy around. A good pep-rally really could 'get you pumped'! [And I wasn't even an athlete or anything!]
I have been a Brit in American schools now for about 3 years. It’s been amazing! In our school (high school) nobody really uses their lockers, and the pride and passion at our schools are outstanding!
I graduated in 2019 an the only thing we used our lockers for was for our books an things like that.
_ AngelZ yep they’re just not as used now that people use the backpacks for everything nowadays. i’ve only seen about 3 people all this year use their locker.
my family is considering moving from england to america do you have any advice n stuff
Glamour Subliminals what part of America are you looking to move to? I lived in England (Hasting, East Sussex) for 20 years moved back home to Southern California with my teenage daughter
Trisha Wilson-Fenn im moving to florida
In America, we mostly start driving at 15 years old and can receive their driver's license at the age of 16. 🤷🏽♀️
In some more rural states like mine you can get your license at 14 1/2
There are kids around where I live that start driving between ten and twelve. A lot of these are from families that raise cattle and other animals. The laws around here know them well enough and they're pretty safe so they get a pass.
Harley Retherford yeah that’s what happens around here too. It’s just not legal to drive on the roads until you’re 14. Doesn’t mean people who are like 12 don’t do it anyways tho
But in Miami, NY, Chicago - cities with good (or at least somewhat decent) public transportation and extremely heavy, and sometimes dangerous, traffic) - a lot of kids don't start driving at 16. Many kids in Miami don't start driving until they finish high school and earn enough to pay for a car, gas, and the higher insurance rates that occur in big cities. A lot of times they don't require cars until they go to college or possibly even after.
I think the actual age is 14 years and 9 months, before they can get a permit.
Lia: I just want to be stroked.
Me: .........
Also me: another thing that means probably different things between y'all and the US. 😅
It took me a second also! LMAO! 😲😳🤯😁😂🤣🤣
We might say we like to be "stoked" :)
@@Trifler500 so your stroked is stoked? We use stoked here but not in the way we use stroked. It's so amusing finding our differences.
Theresa Saintsational no, our stroked generally refers to a specific sexual act, hence our moment of 😳.
As I understand it, to an American, being "stroked" is the same as being "petted" to a Brit. At least according to commentors in another video I watched where this came up. In the US, "petting" is innocent, while "heavy petting" is like sexual caressing.
Competition between other schools is really big in the US
A huge part of the pep rally.
British pep talk: Oh, get on with it.
American pep talks are alright as long as that jackass donald trumpypoo isn't yapping away with his lies. SUCH A NEUROTIC CREEP!
It’s always a little culturally shocking to hear “pound land.” All I can hear in my head is like some creepy guy saying “oh yeah baby, I’m gonna take you to *POUND LAND*” 😂😂
Why did you say that
Now this is my favorite comment lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
im never gonna see pound land the same again
You have just ruined the Joys of poundland for me
@@fbiagent5616 its gotta be a dollar store huh
A pep rally isn’t a pep talk, lol. It’s like an actual rally. The cheerleaders will dance and they will play different games with the players (basketball, baseball, etc..). Now the coach will talk at the end but it’s usually to hype the team up. There are a lot of school chants too.
They were do much fun.
Sounds like a cult
@@emilyruxton4955 The cult of Let's Be Excited About Our Team & Tonight's Game (attendance optional)? Wtf?
@@emilyruxton4955 British sports don't have their supporters?
WhiteCamry not in school, no one watches the “games” and if they do it’s by force because their using the pe hall so you can’t do anything but no one actually watches it
What you call "state school" we call "public school." And yes, it's is free in the sense that it's paid through taxes.
Yes and at my public school the boosters paid for everything the “important” sports needed, I.e, football, baseball and men’s basketball
Julie Carlstrom agreed. That's why we're #1 in basketball but basically nothing else.
Less in college, people in US would say they go/went to state schools too. Not in lower grades because they are not run by the state, rather local school districts vs. entire states.
@@mic1240 yes, up until college the schools are run by districts, but are funded by the state.
@@elipeart they are funded, in most places, primarily by local taxes and local control.
Mixing up pep talk with pep rally. At my h.s., a pep rally had the whole school assemble in the gym.....on the bleachers. The team was introduced and we would all go nuts with applause and support for both the team and individual players before sending them off to play a championship game.
At my HS, we had these every week, not just for championships.
My friend and I got kicked out of pep rallies our freshman year, from the first pep rally, for the entire year. Because the seniors made a sign that said, "Freshman suck!!" So my friend made a giant sign that said, "Seniors swallow!" For us to hold up. Needless to say it didnt go over well with administration who did NOT think we were funny.... we were just sent home during pep rallies for the rest of the year since it was always the last period of the day.
I was that kid that hid in classrooms with the cool teachers. I hated pep assemblies because it was all about the athletes. There were never any assemblies for any of the other students and it peeved me so much. Attendance was mandatory and they always threatened students with suspension if they were caught hiding in the bathrooms or the library, but it was never enforced unless the kids were caught smoking or leaving school property.
Back in 80s we had pep rally every Friday during football season. I usually went to cafeteria to hang with friends instead.
Pep rallies at my school were every Friday in the morning during football season. The pep rallies had themes and games people could participate in and then a “spirit war” towards the end,good times.
I always had the inside of my locker door decorated with pictures, notes/encouraging things, and maybe a mirror. Also, before school started in the morning, it was common to gather with a group of friends at your locker to socialize.
You understand that now you HAVE to film the 2 of you on a trampoline! Who's with me on this???
"After" school trips to the mall were always DURING class for me lol. I ditched my yearbook class all the time because it was my last class of the day and my yearbook teacher caught me at McDonald's lol the same day I ditched. He signed my yearbook "lunch anyone??" Lol
Jermaine Sam same
My parents would kill me 🤯
I went to high school in the 80's. That's when we had everything. We were able to leave for lunch and go to a fast food restaurant. Sometimes we came back. Lol
Stephanie Abney yes!!!!! All the cars tearing outta the parking lot at lunch, everyone hanging out at Naugles or Carl’s Jr., chatting at our lockers, slipping letters into the hot guy’s locker 😉....and pep rallies. So fun! I don’t even like football but loved the pep rallies, Friday night football games, and hanging out afterwards with everyone. Ahhhhhh those were the days 🙃
Melanie OMG! Naugles....I completely forgot about them!
Ah yes, DQ was right down the street!
Me too, I graduated in 93 but the school I attended we were allowed to leave for lunch, it was an adult education school so we were allowed to come and go as we pleased. Everybody would walk down to this little pond they called the duck pond and smoke.
Yeah sometimes xD
We had to clear our locker at the end of every school year and were reassigned a new one each year. In my high school lockers were assigned by halls which were connected to one's school standing: freshman, sophomore, junior or senior.
Our leaders tend to err on the side of positive rather than negative. We aren't sugar coating things, we understand the gravity of the situation but we've been through enough to know we can get through this too. We think we can, so we do.
No time to hangout at the mall after school--too many after-school activities or homework.
I wish we'd had uniforms because It would have made life so much easier.
I switched school in my high school years but the 1st one i went too u kept the same locker for 4 years. It was 2 stories too. And the 2nd one u got a diff locker each year because it was in the assigned grade hallway. Exceotions were special education students who kept the same locker all 4 years
In my school, you were assigned different halls based on your grade.
When I was in high school we got the same locker all 4 years. But we did have to clean them out at the end of the year. At one point someone kept something that smelled like beef in their locker (they were 8th graders who came to my high school to take high school math courses). When they no longer needed to store their coats, and lunches, and backpacks, in a locker one of them left a brown paper bag of with their lunch in it and forgot it.
It made the surrounding lockers stink and eventually a janitor went in and cleaned out the locker.
This. Though I went to a Catholic school, so we wore uniforms. It did make it easier....
I almost fell off my chair laughing/crying when Lia suggested testing hard athletic cups by throwing a ball at them! Ouch! Haha!
Ditto, that was hilarious!!😂
Kimberly K Right? Suddenly, my life flashed before my eyes and I think I had an out of body experience, haha!
What do you call a collection of athletic supporters? A Pep Rally.
My son’s coach, in coach pitch, used to have the boys get in a circle and knock on the cups to prove they were wearing them. It was hilarious!🤣🤣
"Cup check!" Tends to be a peer activity/chance to hurt your mate
"Confidence is key" is a true statement. Harvard social scientists affirm that just 120 seconds of powerful posture increases testosterone (dominance hormone) about 20%, while dropping cortisol (stress hormone) ~25%. So just believing in yourself can make you better. Think the Harry Potter scene where Harry pretends to give Ron some of his liquid luck and Ron does better without actually using the potion. It's essentially just the placebo effect at play.
Plot twist: the potion was real tho......
Confidence is a great thing. It definitely helps in so many ways! However, the whole American thing with saying (and acting like) we're the best at everything 1) often just isn't true and 2) really comes off most of the time as arrogant and annoying - and honestly, well, ignorant about other countries. I am American and British, and I love both countries! I also feel that I see both pros and cons in every place I've ever lived, and the American in me does find that American arrogance really embarrassing.
Growing up in southern California, I feel like my high school had pep rallies for everything. Football, basketball, wrestling, water polo, track, tennis, cheer, dance and we even had a surf team and a math team. They honestly got kind of annoying after a while, so people just used them as an excuse to goof off or ditch classes.
Eh, I liked pep rallies. Maybe it's just because I'm a band kid and I like preforming because most kids hated them because they wasted class time and gave them less time to do homework
My Highschool rarely has pep rally’s for sports just things like dances seasons and breast cancer
Not sure which i like more surf or math pep rally..... ; ))
I was in charge of organizing Pep Rallies. It was a great experience
Apparently, the high school experience is different depending on where you grow up in America
Well ..... DUHHHHH!!!! Beverly Hills High school is a wee bit different than high school in Harlem.
Is really is I can confirm
Town public schools are paid from the taxes paid by town people. So depending on the town where you reside, the school could be really beautiful or just be basic. But the schools in your town are free to attend!
In the US?? They're paid for by the state not town. The population & grades depend on the amount of money they recieve.
@@mermaid1717 Public schools are financed by real estate taxes collected locally, and subsidies from the state. There are some Federal dollars too sent their way. There is no tuition charged and textbooks are supplied free.
@@balakuntalamsridhar5789 hmmmmmm... so real estate went up in our area last year yet this year us teachers only recieved 1 case of copy paper to last the full school year. Just one example how bad the state cutback last year.
Public schools in US are also governed locally by either an elected school board (school directors), or one appointed by local elected officials. Sports, band and drama activities are additionally funded by the community at large through ticket sales, bake sales, and students selling their time. Drama activity consisted of 4 plays per year, plus a musical. Drama coach was a former Broadway correographer. Students did scenery, costumes, lighting sound and all music.
I had to say hello because we have the same name
I love how at 4:45 Lia straightens Joel’s back (corrects his posture) and they’re such good friends he lets her manhandle him however she needs to! True trust between FRIENDS! 🤗🤗
I had a business going from inside my locker in high school. Right before home room and at breaks, I sold candy, donuts, pencils, and what not. It financed by spring break vacations. High school was great :)
Good work Eaglebauer.
You should be a business man
i sold pot and shots of booze.....
I haven’t watched You two for months. And I’ve been sitting here smiling and smiling the entire time; while listening to you talk. So you are the BEST! 😂
in america: private school costs money, public schools r free
(edit: “usually” taxes pay for schools in america, but im pretty sure they do that in the uk. when i say “free” i mean you don’t have to pay an extra 20,000 plus pay taxes)
My favorite parts of attending high school was homecoming games and dances, Jr/Sr Prom and graduation. I attended a very small HS not to much happening.
javi ruiz oh my goodness that’s crazy
Public schools in the US are funded through taxes. Only "free" if you don't pay taxes.
Steve Murphy i think that’s what they meant by “free”
by “free” i meant u don’t have to pull an extra 20,000 for private school,
Do y'all not count things like book fees when you say school is free? Because I consider that public school costing money
American high school was absolutely the bomb. Went to HS during the 80's. So much fun at school it was sick. Some of the best days.
Me too! Best times!
As a high school teacher, I was always surprised that so many of my students would carry their heavy backpacks around all day instead of using their locker. My daughter who is graduating this year, said she did the same because the school, being so big, there's not enough time between classes to go to your locker. We got word that they will soon be allowing students to go into the school to clean out their lockers. My daughter told me she never used it, and doesn't even know where it is!
I work in a high school. We no longer use the lockers. The students have no books to carry. They barely even use notebooks or take notes. I think that's insane. Teachers literally print the notes for students now.
@@Judy_R yeah we don't do that. Some classrooms do have textbooks they keep in there, but everything is on the smartboard, Mac Books, & Chrome Books. Every classroom has a full cart of either Mac Books or Chrome Books in our school.
@@mermaid1717 Yeah, I have a locker, yet I've never had to use it. It has to do partly with the fact that our classes are so paperless that we dont need to carry all this stuff around. It's not efficient to go to your locker every period either.
@@zanderhamilton7908 WOW, times really have changed A LOT! I can't even imagine what that's like. I went to high school in the dark ages - the 1970's. Way before the Internet existed, Social Media or cell phones or iPads. But even so, I'm still glad I grew up when I did. Such simpler times.
I never used my locker because it was in an inconvenient place. My classes would be in every hallway except the one with my locker. 😂 Now I have a backpack with wheels so my back no longer hurts.
I can relate to being jealous of lockers in American schools😂 I think High School Musical was probably the reason... It looked like so much fun to decorate and to not have to carry 10kg of books on your back every day.
In most schools you can carry your backpack to each class but in my school we aren’t allowed to have carry bags to each class in fear that there may be a weapon. You must leave backpacks and large purses in your locker but it’s not the same for ever school.
What you call state school, we call public school and it is “free” because it is paid for with taxes.
We don’t have “primary school” and “secondary school”. We have elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Some places call it "Junior High" and, for some reason, the grades in the "Junior High" vary.
In central Ohio we have, Elementary k-4, intermediate 5-6, middle 7-8 and high 9-12. This wasn't instated until I was in high school, thank god. Too many different schools. And we had to pay $15 school fee each year.
@@Judy_R I gather that "junior high" is more a west coast thing. I've never heard anyone refer to it as junior high in the east.
@@pirellisuperhard I attended junior high in SC in 1988 and then in the mid 1990s it was changed to middle school
@@pirellisuperhard I went to Jr. High in 1969 in Rhode Island, can't get more east coast than that. I was grades 7, 8, 9. Now it's a middle school with 6, 7, 8. I think they use 2 metrics to decide what grades, student populations and testing scores. It always comes down t o test scores. A 3rd metric might be teacher accreditation, when I taught in NJ, my accreditation allowed me to teach single subject (sciece) to grades 6-12. If you are only accredited for grammar school you could only teach up to 8th grade
Pep Rallies are typically on Friday's, and you'll get out of class for 30 mins, and the cheerleaders will do their routine to get you in the spirit to come to the game that night!
That's so cringe lmao
@@georgeespley9177 Not so much as you would think. We play a lot of games and compete for a spirit stick.
The feeling is mutual guys a lot of us here in the US when we were in school fantasize about going to a posh English boarding school.🇬🇧🛡🎻✒🤺💂
Only for the Posh chicks.
Right. I wanna go to hog warts! 😆
definitely!
Only for the very rich lol
Really tho lol 😂
It's very "Trump" to think he's the best and has the best of everything. He is an embarrassment to the US. He hasn't a shred of humility and has even less common sense. Please don't think we all are as obsessed with ourselves and our country as he represents. 🙈
Trump 2020
@@raymondmisegades7650 Trump's not a Globalist like the Dems & Rhinos. He wants to keep our constitution & our freedoms.
Your videos really help to keep my mind off all the negativity going around. So thank you both. 😁
2:14 at my school the police come a couple times a year at random with their dogs that sniff out drugs and go around the school busting ppl 😫😫😫
WHAT.
@@amberba2070 LMAO
helens midnight dreary bruh i could bring 8 knives and 3 pounds of weed to school and they wouldnt know 💀
@@amberba2070 Lmaooo sameee
They brought a drug dog to school I knew three people in that hallway that had weed in there locker and the dog smelt nothing the next year they retired the dog because the cops were finding drugs easier than the dogs
We have trampoline parks everywhere in the US these days that people of ALL ages can go & jump. You just pay by the hour. My nephew has autism & his Medicaid pays a monthly fee to our local trampoline park for him to go anytime he wants & as often as he wants. Make sure you do trampolining next time you're able to get to the USA!!! Would make a GREAT video! They even have late night lights down for just adult jumpers too.
There’s the trampoline centre in northwest London. Joel and Lia should go and do a video.
Mer Maid true, my kids in CA; no lockers...so; heavy backpacks.
What you call a “pouf” Americans call an “ottoman” lol
Only the athletes had drug testing in America..The school could never get away with random drug testing peoples kids..yikes the lawsuits..lol
I think she meant random drug search of her locker.
My school does it if its they know its like a group of kids, but they're not sure which one
A L I work in a High school and we had a shelter in place and the students had to put there bookbags outside the rooms because we had drug dogs come in for a surprise search.
Alexis Baumann some schools do random drug tests on the entire student body.
Alexis and all,
Where I am from, New York, I don't know if random drug tests occur, or if sniffer dogs actually sniff any more, as we never kept our drugs in our lockers. I'm just saying, meaning, you would be a fool if you did, no matter the conditions. We had lockers in the woods, under stumps or in the hollows of trees and such, about the wilds.
The dogs of course, are lovely.
I once had a dog, in college, for a good 18 years (the dog, not college) but you couldn't leave weed around her face, as she would just eat it. I once lost a little bit of hash and she showed me where it was, and deep away it was. I gave her a little taste for her efforts. She was a fine sniffer, but not at all trained to be.
She just had it in her. We were two peas in a pod. She liked a good larger now and then, just like me. It was hard to keep her off my feed. Don't blink, being the point.
I used to rolls joints, very nicely, at about 3 or 4 at a time, when I could be bothered to, We'd smoke one or two, with one or a few left over. Why there was always one joint missing in the morning, came down to the dog. My friends or wife could have had all they wanted, but they would let me know of it. My dog (Poe) tho, didn't speak english, so I seldom knew it was her, but of course, I always knew it was her. She'd always leave me one tho. Some things are better off unspoken, to be truly understood.
Okay, I was a cheerleader and our pep rallys were during school Everyone would gather in the gym up in the bleachers. We would run out on the court and start the cheers. The kids and faculty scream along and cheer. The band starts to play the school song, we do the cheer that goes with it, and the crowd is up singing along stomping their feet and clapping. The football players are introduced and run out as their names are called. The coach then comes out to tell everyone how we are going to win this year! Everyone is cheering, shouting and laughing. The last words before we leave are: WE'LL SEE YOU OUT THERE!!! Then it's over. (At least at my high school, that's how it was)
Have you watched John Hughes films? They are iconic American 80’s high school! 💕 The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off...
Don't forget Some Kind of Wonderful and Weird Science
Nica Marie I just watched Some Kind of Wonderful the other day... 💗
Sixteen Candles still cracks me up. The quintessential 80s high school movie.
All of my favorites!! I would even throw in Adventures in Babysitting for the sake of nostalgia. 🥰
The Karate Kid is a great HS movie.
American public schools are paid for by taxes, while parochial and private schools are paid for by parents, and they're expensive.
Yes, schools are free. These are called public schools. Every child in the country can attend (regardless of citizenship or immigration status). They are funded by city/state/and federal funds (generated by Americans’ taxes). There are private schools which do charge tuition and have admissions criteria. They are funded by that tuition and donations, maybe alumni endowments.
In my school (UK) you have to pay for a tiny locker TEN POUNDS! 😵😂
Mine too
What that’s crazy! In America the just come standard each year. Everyone has one lol
When lockdown ends, you guys should go to one of those places with lots of trampolines!!
We do have trampoline parks here. I'm sceptical of them because people are always getting injured as there's nothing regulating these places. I'm a gymnastics coach so I see it from a different perspective I suppose.
In the States we call it Shelter in Place. In the States lockdowns are procedures schools take whenever there's a shooter on campus. We have practice drills where we duck and cover under our desks, lights are turned off, and we remain silent.
PLEASE don’t judge all Americans by Donald Trump
I agree with Joel, even here in the U.S., there are old unsafe drivers. Whenever I pass someone doing 30 mph on the highway, it’s always an old man with a hat!
Pouf - We call them a footstool, ottoman or hassock. Take care
We call it a pouf if it is furry or fluffy.
Pouffe* from French.
Lol. I like the word pouffe. I always called it an ottoman, also.
I say ottoman or footstool, but I’ve never heard of a hassock. What part of the US are you from? I wonder if that is regional vocabulary.
You two are hilarious! Your videos always brighten up my day. Thank you 😄
Love following you guys, n the uplift your personalities give was especially appreciated today.
H.S. in the eighties, had a classroom locker for books and misc, and a gym room locker for gym clothes and shower supplies (towel, soap, etc.)
Honestly high school lockers in America are usually super skinny😅. They're tall but you cant fit your bag in them😂. This coming from a high schooler
Yeah fr. I’m a junior and I don’t even know where mine is or what the code is. Like we have like 5 min to get to the next class so why even bother doin all that.
I could always fit my bag in my locker with a little maneuvering.
Junior as well😅 And it does take some maneuvering to fit anything in my locker
We have very large (indoor) trampoline parks in the U.S.A. They are so much fun for all ages, starting from toddler age, all the way up to adults. In addition, there are game machines, flying trapeze, rings, ladders, slides, large balls, etc., over foam pools to drop into. Many families hold their children's birthday parties at trampoline parks, who provide private party rooms for birthday cakes, balloons, decorations, several tables for lunch/pizza and gifts, music, etc. Again, it's so much fun! You two should visit a trampoline park the next time you're stateside. You will leave completely exhausted, not only from the different apparatus, but your stomach muscles will hurt for days, from laughing so hard.
I really don’t understand why Brits are so hard on themselves. You shouldn’t be ...Brits should be proud of their history and their country and yourselves. America is proud of the UK we are proud to be your friends
George Vangordon jr Proud to be their children!(jk). It is kind of like an older generation telling a new one why they’re lucky and what new things they have.
Hollywood's glamorous portrayal of U.S. high schools is so far from reality. High school was the worst 4 years of my life. It was a miserable experience.
that thumbnail though 😂
Hanging out at the mall was more of a generational thing in the U.S. We did that as teenagers in the 80's and 90's, but most kids nowadays don't. Part of it is because a lot of malls have gone out of business; part of it is because kids are staying home with their electronics and social media.
By the time I was in high school in the late 90's, hanging out at the mall already wasn't that much of a thing anymore. A few kids still did, but most did not. My friends and I found it to be really pointless, extremely boring, and rarely ever went to the mall at all.
We were into finding an actual activity to do like go to the movies, the park, a public event/festival if any were going on, hike, swim, go to coffee, occasionally take a day trip to do some activity in neighboring areas etc. Or we would just go to one of our houses to hang out and chill, talk, listen to music, burn cd's to swap, play a little Tony Hawk on PlayStation, watch a movie on dvd (or vhs), once in a while do a backyard firepit for a hot dog/smores roast... those kinds of things.
No I grew up in the early 2000s and 2010s and we definitely went to the mall. I think it's mostly where you grow up. In most parts of America there's nothing to do besides go to the mall, the movies, or some local fast food restaurant so those were usually our hang out spots.
I am a foreign language teacher at the high school level. I think I would be much happier teaching at a British school. Students are typically horrible and working conditions are not the best. I get verbally attacked on a daily basis by "students", have been routinely physically threatened, and twice attacked. What we have is an entire generation of people that cannot think for themselves and have been given participation trophies for everything. In fact, at my school the teachers have been instructed not to fail a student unless they do not come to school in the first place. Movies and TV lie! :*(
As a 70 year old, I must say you two have a really warped view of what it is like to be 70. I ride a bike about 5,000 miles a year, I do all of my own gardening, and I have no problem at all driving. 70 is the new 55.
Thanks Tom. I’m 65 and the worst drivers today are the people of all ages on their damned cell phones!
In america, when I played baseball we wore cups too... the teammates often “cup checked” each other by smacking each other down there 😳
All the time😎but when I played in middle school football we didn’t have to wear any they didn’t even issue them to us lol
At my high school, our pep rallies occurred in the gymnasium on Fridays (not every Friday) just before break (recess). We had over 1,300 students. The Sophomores and Juniors sat on the bleachers on one side of the gym, the Seniors were in the center, and the Freshmen sat on the other side of the gym, just behind the Seniors.. Basically, the performances and entertainments happened in between the Sophomores/Juniors and the Seniors. We had rallies before main events, for example, the Homecoming Float Parade where each clubs (and athletes) made floats and paraded. The band was always playing, cheerleaders and dance teams performed, and few students from each class, as well as the athletes, participated in what ever games the student government had set up. The student government were in charge of rallies, school events, choosing themes and locations for the school dances and amongst other things. Dance themes were always announced at the rallies. Before every rally ended, each class had to chant and whichever class chanted the loudest got to leave first (the seniors always got to leave first lol). We also had outdoor rallies where we had food, entertainments like obstacle courses. we didn’t hate our rallies because rallies meant classes were shorter haha.
As for the locker situation, my high school had medium sized lockers (both hallway and gym lockers) but I think my middle school had bigger lockers. We definitely used our lockers everyday. In the morning before the first class, during break, lunch and after school. My high school was walking distance, so not everyone drove to school. For those who did drive, they got their own parking spots which they got to decorate and paint on. Overall, I would say high school was a good experience.
In America, it's teen age drivers that are the worst. That's why insurance is higher for teen age drivers.
at my high school the parents were worse drivers than the students in the parking lot after school everyday
Just started subscribing. Everything you've discussed was a nightmare for most Americans in high school. Most high schools are a mess and rundown.
Your tangents were hilarious. 😂
I graduated from a California school in 1985 and we didn't have lockers at all because someone set off bombs in some lockers and they took them away. Everything else you talked about was pretty accurate from my experience. Pep rallies, in particular, were popular because it was during class time and was much more fun than being in class.
Mall trips were the best! When I was in middle school the mall was right across the street. So everyday after school everyone would walk over to the mall to hang out. And at my high school the lockers weren’t that big and every year we’d get new ones. My freshman year I had a locker on the bottom so I had to kneel to get to my locker and then the next years I had middle lockers.
What's so funny is that I am listening to your video while I go through a box of items I brought back with me from my trip to India. I was holding a luggage tag receipt in my hand when you both said, "Namaste! Namaste!" I laughed out loud at the irony of the moment.
1) At my high school not everyone had a locker. At the beginning of each year, if you wanted a locker, you had to go to the office and get one assigned to you, and then at the end of the year you had to clear out your locker. Most people wouldn't hang out at their lockers between classes cause we didn't have time to (we only had 5 minutes to get to our next class and sometimes it was on the opposite end of campus), but people would meet each other at their locker before or after school. I would use my locker to store my swim bag or soccer bag so that I didn't have to carry it around all day; sometimes I would store an extra set of clothes if I needed to change but didn't have time to go home. I wouldn't bring textbooks to and from school (I walked to school and textbooks were heavy), unless my teacher told us we needed them, so I wouldn't store any textbooks in my locker.
2) Football games are usually a big deal in high school, especially if your team was very good (mine was haha). Every friday night in the fall there is a game, and most of the school goes to support the team. I went to every single home game in high school and it was a blast! My college didn't have a football team so sometimes I miss getting to go to games.
3) The state of your gym really depended on how old your school was, how much money they have for the athletic department, where your school was located (cities with higher or lower incomes), and if the board thinks it's worth the time and money to re-do the gym.
4) Public elementary, middle (or junior high), and high schools don't cost any money for kids to attend. This means it usually takes a long time for any major repairs/construction to happen for a school, unless they recieve a generous donation. When I was in high school, the music and theatre buildings hadn't been touched since they were built in the 50's, and it took until the spring semester of my senior year for a new performing arts building to be completed. They didn't even start construction until my junior year. The original building were awful too. There were many seats in the theatre that were broken, and the sink in the band room bathroom broke and fell off the wall and sliced a girl's hands almost cutting off some fingers (she was ok). This all sounds terrible, but it isn't all the school's fault. Public education in america isn't given enough funding.
5) Pep rallies were mostly done to get the whole school pumped for a game so that students would go and support the team. Athletes tend to perform better when there is a crowd cheering them on, so the team would want people there. We wouldn't have pep rallies for every single football game, but we would have them for big or important games. The Homecoming game always had a pep rally and then a show at halftime to announce the homecoming court and the homecoming king and queen. And then any big rival game would have a pep rally as well. When my football team would make it to CIF (California Interscholastic Federation), which is like a regional championship tournament, then there would be a pep rally for the game. And then anytime we would win CIF and advance to the state championship we would celebrate. My high school would win CIF a lot, but would only make it a few games into state.
6) Yeah as a country we like to think we're number 1 in everything. It's partly pride, and partly ignorance haha. We are great at some things, but we need to work on other things, and it's ok to be patriotic and think that we're not the best at everything.
7) I can't speak for every school, but usually people wouldn't go to the mall after school. That was usually an activity saved for weekends when there were no other plans. People would either go directly to a sports practice after school, a rehearsal, a job, or they would hang out on campus for a while with their friends. If students were older and had a car, then maybe they'd take their friends home or to someplace to eat, but usually it was just a mad dash to get out of the parking lot as quickly as possible cause there were so many people leaving at once. It might've been this way for me cause there wasn't a mall close enough to my high school to make sense to hang out at. I also always had some sort of practice after school, so I don't really know what people did when they didn't have to go to practice; I only had enough time to change and then get to the field or the pool before practice started.
8) Schools used to have driving lessons a part of the school day, but in California, as far as I know, schools no longer offer drivers ed. Kids learning to drive after they got their permits had to find a driving instructor through a separate driving school.
9) I think letterman jackets (varsity jackets) are a great momento from high school, but they're very expensive for something you don't really wear after you graduate, unless you go back for the homecoming game. I didn't get a letterman jacket because it was so expensive, but now I don't have anywhere to put all my letters, patches, and stars that I got in high school haha
you might not be the BEST youtubers but are definitely the most fun and entertaining!
Pep rallies are to get the spectators excited about the game.
Also a reason to get out of some class early.
The pep discussion is key. America is a culture of competition above all else.
I loved my locker too! When they remodeled the high school, they tore them out!! My son had to carry his backpack around ALL day😨 ..... it made me really mad 😡
@@Judy_R it's funny, I can't remember what his text book situation was 🤔..... just the uproar about back strain issues 🤗
@@Judy_R ooohh... that was sweet!! I don't have grandchildren, but I'd like to think I'd be that kind of grandma 🤗💕..... my grand kids would know all about Joel and Lia for sure
@@Judy_R She sounds wonderful, Judy! I'm glad for your kids. Hugs! 😘❤
@@MaryMary-pr4iu I love how you said that - that if you had grandkids they would for sure know all about J&L. So many of us just adore those two so much!! 👍😊❤ Jean
Where my daughter's went to middle school, about 4 years ago, they could only go to their lockers when they got to school, mid-day, and at the end of day. To top it off, they weren't allowed to bring backpacks to class, so so they basically had to lug 4 classes of supplies around half the day, then switch them out for the next 4. It only lasted for one year, but it was a miserable year for them
In my high school, the seniors would get access to the parking spaces closer to the school, others had to park farther away from the school. Those were definitely good times!
I went to a pretty wealthy and high ranking high school, our lockers were large enough that an average high schooler could comfortably stand in it, shelf included 😂 so much garbage at the end of senior year
Same! It was wrecked by the end of the year lol I think we even had a specific clean out your locker day
I loved my letter (varsity) jacket because it was big and warm and was something of a status symbol, but the biggest problem with it was that, depending on when you get your first letter (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior year of high school), you essentially pay $300 for a jacket that you wear for a few years and then it hangs in your closet for the rest of your life.
🤣🤣 OMG! I couldn’t stop laughing😂😂 i’m a Brit and I agree with everything you said. BTW you are the best RUclipsrs ever, in the world.🙂 I love the tangents, I am the same❤️😄
Driving to school was the greatest thing because you were no longer dependent on the school bus. Legal driving age is 16 with driver's ed being taught at the age of 15. But most of the parking lots around the school were for students. The teachers had s separate designated area to park. Most students turned 16 during their 11th or Junior Year. Some as early as their 9th or Freshman Year. We had one kid who turned 16 his Freshman year. People were jealous of him.
I believe the president said that America has the best testing in the world, because of the multiple studies and research that has been done. Some countries like China is believed to have stopped their testing. This also connects with the death count in America, if America does the most testing, then by default they would have more cases of covid 19. We also need to take in consideration of America’s size In population. Also the president is trying to give the American people hope, that we can live again, instead of being trapped in our house. He wants to give Americans the freedom that Americans have worked so hard to have. I love your channel, but just wanted an American opinion put in the mix. Hope you do well, and take my opinion into consideration.
I agree!
You're the best Joel and Lia out there!
Loved the genitals protection tangent, J&L are here to educate the world!
Omg my school in America has two gyms, lockers, gym lockers, a weightlifting gym, pool, a cheerleading gym, and football, soccer and tennis courts! I just realized how much influence there is on sports in America
Don’t be jealous! It looks fun in movie and tv shows but high school in reality sucks.
Hahahaha!! The sports talk....I love it so much. Y'all are just real and we love it. And I've always said it....!
Yes, I remember after-school trips to the shopping mall. (Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.). So, the kids are still doing that?! The more things change, the more they stay the same!
Hello. I live in Burlington,N.C. It's a small world isn't it?
Kids have to be chaperoned by an adult in most malls now.
I really think Americans are somewhat optimistic about the current crisis because it really is being handled well in the United States. Even though we have a ton of cases, we also have a ton of people. Our mortality rate, the percentage of people who get the disease that die, is 5%. In the UK, it's 16%. Yes, our health care is expensive, but I really do believe it is the best in the world when it comes to quality. I live in Texas. Our death rate among people with COVID-19 is 2.5%.
Did they literally say the president is sugar coating the coronavirus?!?😂😂
I mean.. 😂
You have to remember, they're not immersed in the daily circus that is the Trump administration. They're not even particularly politically curious. They're just a pair of Brits who only know what they see on TV.
Cathy Vickers trump is wayy better then everything makes him seem
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos, and that I like that y'all are "scatty" lol. To me, it makes the video feel more like a natural conversation, not only between you two, but to the viewers as well. Keep up the good work!
Is anyone else just taken back by how stunningly beautiful they are every video?
Haha thanks so much
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 XD no problem! Haha Thanks for gracing the fans with your beautiful smiles! 😁
Average. Two eyes a nose and a mouth. They look average nothing stands out. Stunning, ehhhh Nope!
British People getting jealous of having giant lockers.
Me who goes to a California outdoor high school: Same 😭
Just like Joel, my birthday is at the beginning of the school year, (the first week of November), so I was 16 years old & driving for the majority of my sophomore (10th grade) year so I was expected to drive my friends out to lunch since I was older than most of them. This also made me 18 years old for the majority of my senior (12th grade) year so officially I was "an adult" & able to write my own excuse notes to get out of class or be absent/miss a day of school....BEST EVER!! We still had only 10 absent/sick days to stay under, so I couldn't get too crazy & let the power go to my head.😂
@Lucy! WOW, crazy!! Thankfully, I only wrote a few notes, not to bring too much attention I guess. After forging my parents excuse notes for so long, it still was just soooo weird not having to after I turned 18. For me, writing my own excuses too often was almost like too much freedom to want to take advantage of or something... WEIRD I KNOW!🤔🙃😁
I can imagine the things our parents actually knew, that we thought they were oblivious to. LOL😂
I commute from Orange County into Los Angeles, along with millions of other people; most of the time I find that "I'm a flawed but competent and relatively responsible driver, and so are most of the others around me." is not only helpful, but also pretty accurate.
I have seen many elderly, drive the wrong way on a one way street.
a pep rally is sort of like a pre-game party with bands and cheerleaders, and school staff as well as the coach and players.
I live and went to school here in SoCal (greater Los Angeles). Our high school didn't have lockers anymore, c/o 2003, back in the 80s there was an issue with explosives so they took em all out for general use. But we did use smaller lockers in the locker rooms for dressing out for P.E. I never went to a pep rally, Ugh, introvert here) And those varsity jackets cost $200-300 and you have to earn those patches.
My friends left after lunch seniors year, drove off, because they had enough credits to graduate. I failed a couple classes sophmore year so I have to retake US history and PE and stayed the full day. Near the end when "senioritus" kicked in I wouldn't go to school until lunch time and have my mom take me through the drive through at like del taco or something before going to school and I'd show up thinking I was so cool with my fountain drink in hand, along with my bag of tacos and some shades on LOL.
I played football in high school and was the captain of the team my senior year. One of the players had been ill and was not expected to be able to play that night. I gave a rousing speech during the pep rally declaring that we would win this game for Bill. I was very emotional and really inspired the student body. He ended up being able to play, so my speech was in vain. But he took ill during the game and I severely injured my knee. We ended up going to the hospital in an ambulance together. He went in head first and I went in feet first. One of the opposing team's cheerleaders also got injured and went to the same hospital, (but unfortunately, not in our ambulance.)
4:04 Wait you guys don't call them an ottoman?
I always called it a foot rest.
An ottoman is something completely different
Had to giggle when you talked about balls, cups and jockstraps.
Do UK high schools have any team sports where they compete against other schools? Soccer / football etc? Championships? Do people go to the games? A pep rally is for the students to get excited about the game against another school.
In my secondary school there was a rugby team that I think may have played against other schools, I wasn't in it long so I can't remember, it's not really a big deal in the UK, it's mostly just the parents that show up to watch. At least it was like that where I grew up
In America it’s mostly private and “public” school. Public school is free. Some people go to charter schools too, which I believe is also free. Private school can be ridiculously expensive though. And pep rallies were THE BEST... we always had the step team and cheerleaders come out and perform, and the matching band drum line would drum around the school in the morning. School spirit due to sports rivalries were definitely a HUGE thing. We’d dedicate an hour or two some fridays to pep rallies. Also the driving thing is interesting. You guys start a little later than we do. In Virginia, kids can get their learner’s permit at 15 and 6 months and license nine months later at 16 and 3 months. Also we offer driver’s ed. at school for free
We dont call it state school but public school and yes it’s free.