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 👏
@@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”
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.
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.
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.
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*” 😂😂
"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 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 :)
"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.
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.
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.
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
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! 🤗🤗
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!
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.
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.
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.
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! 😂
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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 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! :*(
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.
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.
Saying "I'm the best" doesn't necessarily make you feel like you are the actual best, but it does make you feel like you're better than you think you are. It comes from the idea that if you reach for the impossible, you'll get further than you would have had you just reached for the best you think you can do. You can always do better than you think you can.
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. 🙈
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.)
I'm from Texas and we take high school football seriously! Lol! When I was in high school, our "spirit organization" was HUGE! We had 26 cheerleaders, 250 pep squad members, 75-80 high kick dance team squad and over 300 band members! WE WERE LOUD AND PROUD! LOL! of course that was in the 80's and I notice that school spirit just isn't as wide spread as it used to be, which is a shame...
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.
Speaking for someone in high school rn. We aren’t even given lockers. They are considered a waste of time/ they would take away from valuable teaching time so we never use them. Kids abuse locker time as a time to just talk to their friends.
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
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.
My highschool let you pick your locker if you actually went on schedule pick up day to get your schedule and depending on your extracurriculars you had several sections of lockers to choose from, otherwise you were assigned a locker and it was usually a poop one.
Our schools are free. I was a cheerleader and played softball. Pep rallys usually happened the day of the game and involved the students, band and townspeople cheering on the team. Our lockers were larger And I drove to school for my last two years. I loved high school.
I think I would have much rather have gone to a British school that was more academically focused. All the nonsense in US schools about high school sports and the focus on things like prom just really seems trivial.
I look at the accomplishments and innovations that come out of the US. They seem to be doing all right overall. Maybe there's something to having a bit of non-academic activities in schools.
Jack Stafford ....I agree. I started school in Russia and moved at 14 to the US. I’m 18 now. The education system is awful and my school didn’t offer tennis, golf or rowing. Just American football, basketball, swimming and baseball. Nothing you could really do as an adult except swimming and most people knew how to swim. Recreation adults might participate in, was not taught. They were not taught in Russia either but dancing, table manners, etc...that stuff was. I hated the dancing!
Jack Stafford you couldn’t have said that better. All the stupid trivial bs in our American schools is the reason why America is so low on the list of academics versus other countries. Japan kicks everyone’s but, and they are the extreme academic, but they pump out doctors and engineers, like we pump out pizza delivery guys.
Jack it's more about the failure of common core! We are dumbing down the curriculum so the kids dont totally blow the NAEP exams. Bill Gates and these forward thinkers have this led to so far almost a decade of graduates being further and further behind international counterparts.
🤣🤣 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❤️😄
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 went to high school in the mid-‘90s and ours were pretty large. They were stacked 2 high but we cleaned them out at the end of every year since we had designated areas for Freshman through senior years. I also was in Texas so totally let me know if you wanna know more state-specific info. Also, I pretty much think all British schools are either Hogwarts or Bad Education/Inbetweeners. Hahaha
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!
At my high school everyone just carried their backpacks around because no one saw the point in using their lockers, I think a lot of American high schoolers have started doing this because it’s easier than walking all the way to your locker in between classes (I think admin also pushed it because kids can hide drugs in there lol)
The thing about driving is because the US is so big and spread out driving was a rite of passage. It declared our freedom from the small area you could bike to and allowed you to go wherever and whenever you wanted. Not everyone had a car but many of us bought a beat up old one and learned to fix it just so we could have one. I got my first card from my grandfather for $300, it was a 1973 Buick Opal Manta, and I was the bomb because of it. It had seats that would recline all the way back for making out and was an amazing experience. Now kids don't even get licenses because insurance and owning a car are expensive but back in the 80's everyone who could owned a car.
The last two years of High School I never even used my locker because it was so far away from my classes that I would never have time to go to it to get my books I needed for class and get to the class on time. You got in trouble if you didn't have a note for being late. So I did have a large locker, but I never decorated it because I never used it. My school didn't have football for a long time and finally they got it many years after I graduated. I call your poof a hassock or sometimes they are called an ottoman. You only pay for school here if you go to private, so same as the UK. Where I live you can get your license when you are 16 so I got mine just a few weeks after I turned 16 and drove to school my last two years. It was nice but I suddenly got more popular from people who wanted rides to school... 🙄
I never really thought about some of those things being kinda unique to the US. That explains why some exchange students seemed intrigued with some of it. I went to rural school (my niece attends there now). My entire class had 56 students and the entire school pre-kindergarten to 12th grade only had around 300...which is pretty much what it is now still. Grades pre-kindergarten to 6th grade are in one building at one campus north east of the city I live in with 5th and 6th graders getting lockers and changing classes, 7th through 12th is in another building at a campus south east of the city I live in. The school was founded by farmers in the 1920s and the city I live in grew into other school districts. There are three districts most kids here attend: the city’s schools, the school I went to, and another rural district that’s north west of the city. We have a private high school (religious) and a few private elementary schools (religious) as well within the city. Public school is free to attend, but extracurriculars cost money. Those nice gyms are because the schools charge money to attend the games and have concession stands. That’s also why they have nice game fields, etc. Some schools will do this for the arts as well. At my school the drama class put on two plays a year and admission was charged and there was a concession stand. The band played concerts which had an admission fee to as well. The school occasionally did art shows, science fairs, and talent shows which also had admission fees. There’s the all-school carnival which all students and parents, past and present, can attend. You buy tickets and play games, there’s food. There’s a raffle so you buy raffle tickets (kids sell them in the two weeks prior to the carnival as well). All the money belongs to that class. Like I was Class of 1998 so the money we raised went to school end-of-year trips in elementary and junior high and of course to the Senior trip in high school. They have a competition between the classes. The pre-k and kindergarten kids are ushers and flower persons. Every grade nominates a boy and girl from to represent them. Grades 1-3 compete for mini-prince and mini-princess, Grades 4-6 compete for mini-king and mini-queen, Grades 7-9 compete for prince and princess, and Grades 10-12 compete for king and queen. The grade each category that sells the most raffle tickets wins the crowns and are crowned in a little ceremony at the end of the carnival. I was the prince nominee in 7th grade, but the 8th grade class beat us by ten tickets!! Local businesses donate prizes for the raffle so it’s usually neat prizes like big television sets, $100 in gas, $500 in groceries, and other prizes that adults usually want to win (kids usually only buy the tickets, which are $1, to get their class to win). The prize drawing is before the crowning. There’s usually an auction afterwards of other prizes donated by local businesses (gift baskets, clothing, etc) that also raises money for the school. The carnival is in October. Homecoming is in September and there’s a dance that costs money to get into. There are other school dances: Halloween, Christmas, etc that also charge admission. The two weeks before Thanksgiving break, kids sell holiday candy items either for the class or extracurriculars (my niece had both band and FCCLA this year). Those items are delivered about a week after Thanksgiving break. There’s another fundraiser in the spring two weeks before Spring Break. Some extracurriculars will have some fundraisers before Fall Break in October, before Winter Break in December, etc. At the school I went to we also had Winter Formal and Valentines Ball which were fundraising fancy-dress events for different student clubs. Then in April is Prom which is only for the Juniors and Seniors (11th and 12th graders) and that costs money. There’s also an after prom party at the school which is a casino night event. You buy school dollars and play games with it (poker, blackjack, roulette, etc). It’s money raised for the student clubs. The school just got a bond voted on by voters who approved it. There going to remodel the elementary school and build safe rooms (in case of tornadoes). The school paid off its previous bond which went for improvements at the high school including for a new, bigger gym. So now the high school has three gyms: the original gym built in 1923 which now gets used by the science and art departments for showcasing projects, the gym built in 1987 which is now the practice gym, and the gym built in 2018 which is where basketball games are played at.
The pep talk is just something that motivate you. And btw that’s why American always want to win because we tend to believe we are the best and it rather 1st or nothing 2nd is failing.
Pep rallys in highschool usually consisted of being in the gym, the school band played some songs, the team captain or coach gave a pep talk, maybe the cheerleaders doing a routine, a skit of the school team beating the other team. If it's homecoming time everyone was wearing a mum.
In my school, we have these things called class competitions. We have them the day before a break. Each class, so Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, compete head to head to see who wins. There is games and some are holiday related. The class cheers for their classmates. It’s really fun and it’s the last two periods of the day. We also have pep rally’s and parades in my town. The whole high school walks around the town to the other schools and performs and throws candy. It’s really fun.
In my day, lockers ran from just above the floor to about 5'6" up. The locks were combination locks. Either built into the door or separate padlocks. No keyed locks. We would store our books and other supplies in them. To try to lug every book you had to every class all day would break people's back. And big backpacks weren't a thing then either. Then being the mid to late 80s.
Sorry, yes, it has been confirmed that in America we have the best (fill in the blank). But you can be the second best. We'll allow it. I'm sure there are things we are jealous of the UK for. I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'm sure one exists. lol. Maybe the really old buildings... I think you have us beat on them. Some of the architecture in the UK puts ours to shame.
I’m American and I was jealous of the big lockers on tv! In my middle school we had lockers in 6th grade and we did decorate and hang out at them, but they were tiny and barely fit my lunch box. How you decorated your locker was a big deal and some of the popular and spoiled girls got chandeliers, motion censored lights,rugs,room sprays, and even curtains all for their one tin locker. I just had wallpaper, a shelf, mirror, white board and magnets. In 7th grade, we didn’t get lockers cuz they had to add on a new 7th grade building cuz they were moving the 5th graders into the middle school, but we did get brand new gym lockers that were really handy. I moved to a new school in 8th grade and our lockers were outside which was literally the worst in the winter. You would occasionally go talk to your friend at their locker, but locker punching was very common, so most people stayed at their lockers longer to protect them. Now in high school, lockers are optional, but no one gets them cuz you get assigned a random locker and it might be on the 4th floor and all your classes might be between the ground and 2nd floor, so it’s not really a good use of $5 (locker rental fee) or 5 minutes (how much time we have to get to get to class)
Gyms had bleachers, auditoriums had theater seats. Public schools in the U.S. are paid for by taxes, usually property taxes. Private schools are paid out of pocket by the parents of the attending student.
I went to an American private school that was so small we didn’t have a gym, we didn’t have sports, we didn’t have lockers, and we didn’t have school dances. So you get an idea, I graduated with two other people, that’s it.
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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 👏
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?
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.
Competition between other schools is really big in the US
A huge part of the pep rally.
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.
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!
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
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
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 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
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
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.....
"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.
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
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....
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!
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
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! 🤗🤗
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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! 😂
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.
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.
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.)
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
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!
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
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!
that thumbnail though 😂
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 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! :*(
Pep rallies are to get the spectators excited about the game.
Also a reason to get out of some class early.
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
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.
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
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.
Love following you guys, n the uplift your personalities give was especially appreciated today.
Saying "I'm the best" doesn't necessarily make you feel like you are the actual best, but it does make you feel like you're better than you think you are. It comes from the idea that if you reach for the impossible, you'll get further than you would have had you just reached for the best you think you can do. You can always do better than you think you can.
Don’t be jealous! It looks fun in movie and tv shows but high school in reality sucks.
Actually things are not as bad as the media says.
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.
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!
We dont call it state school but public school and yes it’s free.
4:04 Wait you guys don't call them an ottoman?
I always called it a foot rest.
An ottoman is something completely different
You two are hilarious! Your videos always brighten up my day. Thank you 😄
Loved the genitals protection tangent, J&L are here to educate the world!
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.)
Your tangents were hilarious. 😂
I'm from Texas and we take high school football seriously! Lol! When I was in high school, our "spirit organization" was HUGE! We had 26 cheerleaders, 250 pep squad members, 75-80 high kick dance team squad and over 300 band members! WE WERE LOUD AND PROUD! LOL! of course that was in the 80's and I notice that school spirit just isn't as wide spread as it used to be, which is a shame...
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!
Speaking for someone in high school rn. We aren’t even given lockers. They are considered a waste of time/ they would take away from valuable teaching time so we never use them. Kids abuse locker time as a time to just talk to their friends.
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
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.
I have seen many elderly, drive the wrong way on a one way street.
My highschool let you pick your locker if you actually went on schedule pick up day to get your schedule and depending on your extracurriculars you had several sections of lockers to choose from, otherwise you were assigned a locker and it was usually a poop one.
I think we call what you're sitting on an ottoman
Just started subscribing. Everything you've discussed was a nightmare for most Americans in high school. Most high schools are a mess and rundown.
Our schools are free. I was a cheerleader and played softball. Pep rallys usually happened the day of the game and involved the students, band and townspeople cheering on the team. Our lockers were larger And I drove to school for my last two years. I loved high school.
I think I would have much rather have gone to a British school that was more academically focused. All the nonsense in US schools about high school sports and the focus on things like prom just really seems trivial.
I look at the accomplishments and innovations that come out of the US. They seem to be doing all right overall. Maybe there's something to having a bit of non-academic activities in schools.
Jack Stafford ....I agree. I started school in Russia and moved at 14 to the US. I’m 18 now. The education system is awful and my school didn’t offer tennis, golf or rowing. Just American football, basketball, swimming and baseball. Nothing you could really do as an adult except swimming and most people knew how to swim. Recreation adults might participate in, was not taught. They were not taught in Russia either but dancing, table manners, etc...that stuff was. I hated the dancing!
Jack Stafford you couldn’t have said that better. All the stupid trivial bs in our American schools is the reason why America is so low on the list of academics versus other countries. Japan kicks everyone’s but, and they are the extreme academic, but they pump out doctors and engineers, like we pump out pizza delivery guys.
Jack it's more about the failure of common core! We are dumbing down the curriculum so the kids dont totally blow the NAEP exams. Bill Gates and these forward thinkers have this led to so far almost a decade of graduates being further and further behind international counterparts.
@@erichramone7812 They also have a high rate of suicide linked to cultural pressure.
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.
🤣🤣 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❤️😄
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.
British People getting jealous of having giant lockers.
Me who goes to a California outdoor high school: Same 😭
I went to high school in the mid-‘90s and ours were pretty large. They were stacked 2 high but we cleaned them out at the end of every year since we had designated areas for Freshman through senior years. I also was in Texas so totally let me know if you wanna know more state-specific info. Also, I pretty much think all British schools are either Hogwarts or Bad Education/Inbetweeners. Hahaha
Had to giggle when you talked about balls, cups and jockstraps.
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.
you might not be the BEST youtubers but are definitely the most fun and entertaining!
At my high school everyone just carried their backpacks around because no one saw the point in using their lockers, I think a lot of American high schoolers have started doing this because it’s easier than walking all the way to your locker in between classes (I think admin also pushed it because kids can hide drugs in there lol)
Back in MY day, the only person who carried a backpack was my hip English teacher. I'd never even seen one before. 😅😅
The thing about driving is because the US is so big and spread out driving was a rite of passage. It declared our freedom from the small area you could bike to and allowed you to go wherever and whenever you wanted. Not everyone had a car but many of us bought a beat up old one and learned to fix it just so we could have one. I got my first card from my grandfather for $300, it was a 1973 Buick Opal Manta, and I was the bomb because of it. It had seats that would recline all the way back for making out and was an amazing experience. Now kids don't even get licenses because insurance and owning a car are expensive but back in the 80's everyone who could owned a car.
in high school we don’t use our lockers ever, we have them, but never ever use them, i don’t even know where mine is
I could NOT stop laughing! You ARE the BEST!
The last two years of High School I never even used my locker because it was so far away from my classes that I would never have time to go to it to get my books I needed for class and get to the class on time. You got in trouble if you didn't have a note for being late. So I did have a large locker, but I never decorated it because I never used it. My school didn't have football for a long time and finally they got it many years after I graduated. I call your poof a hassock or sometimes they are called an ottoman. You only pay for school here if you go to private, so same as the UK. Where I live you can get your license when you are 16 so I got mine just a few weeks after I turned 16 and drove to school my last two years. It was nice but I suddenly got more popular from people who wanted rides to school... 🙄
I never really thought about some of those things being kinda unique to the US. That explains why some exchange students seemed intrigued with some of it. I went to rural school (my niece attends there now). My entire class had 56 students and the entire school pre-kindergarten to 12th grade only had around 300...which is pretty much what it is now still. Grades pre-kindergarten to 6th grade are in one building at one campus north east of the city I live in with 5th and 6th graders getting lockers and changing classes, 7th through 12th is in another building at a campus south east of the city I live in. The school was founded by farmers in the 1920s and the city I live in grew into other school districts. There are three districts most kids here attend: the city’s schools, the school I went to, and another rural district that’s north west of the city. We have a private high school (religious) and a few private elementary schools (religious) as well within the city. Public school is free to attend, but extracurriculars cost money. Those nice gyms are because the schools charge money to attend the games and have concession stands. That’s also why they have nice game fields, etc. Some schools will do this for the arts as well. At my school the drama class put on two plays a year and admission was charged and there was a concession stand. The band played concerts which had an admission fee to as well. The school occasionally did art shows, science fairs, and talent shows which also had admission fees. There’s the all-school carnival which all students and parents, past and present, can attend. You buy tickets and play games, there’s food. There’s a raffle so you buy raffle tickets (kids sell them in the two weeks prior to the carnival as well). All the money belongs to that class. Like I was Class of 1998 so the money we raised went to school end-of-year trips in elementary and junior high and of course to the Senior trip in high school. They have a competition between the classes. The pre-k and kindergarten kids are ushers and flower persons. Every grade nominates a boy and girl from to represent them. Grades 1-3 compete for mini-prince and mini-princess, Grades 4-6 compete for mini-king and mini-queen, Grades 7-9 compete for prince and princess, and Grades 10-12 compete for king and queen. The grade each category that sells the most raffle tickets wins the crowns and are crowned in a little ceremony at the end of the carnival. I was the prince nominee in 7th grade, but the 8th grade class beat us by ten tickets!! Local businesses donate prizes for the raffle so it’s usually neat prizes like big television sets, $100 in gas, $500 in groceries, and other prizes that adults usually want to win (kids usually only buy the tickets, which are $1, to get their class to win). The prize drawing is before the crowning. There’s usually an auction afterwards of other prizes donated by local businesses (gift baskets, clothing, etc) that also raises money for the school. The carnival is in October. Homecoming is in September and there’s a dance that costs money to get into. There are other school dances: Halloween, Christmas, etc that also charge admission. The two weeks before Thanksgiving break, kids sell holiday candy items either for the class or extracurriculars (my niece had both band and FCCLA this year). Those items are delivered about a week after Thanksgiving break. There’s another fundraiser in the spring two weeks before Spring Break. Some extracurriculars will have some fundraisers before Fall Break in October, before Winter Break in December, etc. At the school I went to we also had Winter Formal and Valentines Ball which were fundraising fancy-dress events for different student clubs. Then in April is Prom which is only for the Juniors and Seniors (11th and 12th graders) and that costs money. There’s also an after prom party at the school which is a casino night event. You buy school dollars and play games with it (poker, blackjack, roulette, etc). It’s money raised for the student clubs. The school just got a bond voted on by voters who approved it. There going to remodel the elementary school and build safe rooms (in case of tornadoes). The school paid off its previous bond which went for improvements at the high school including for a new, bigger gym. So now the high school has three gyms: the original gym built in 1923 which now gets used by the science and art departments for showcasing projects, the gym built in 1987 which is now the practice gym, and the gym built in 2018 which is where basketball games are played at.
Yes, politicians do tend to sugarcoat things, and yes, Donald Trump said a lot of blatant lies.
You mean 2 brits. I'm pretty sure the other 60 million British people have varied opinions :)
The pep talk is just something that motivate you. And btw that’s why American always want to win because we tend to believe we are the best and it rather 1st or nothing 2nd is failing.
Pep rallys in highschool usually consisted of being in the gym, the school band played some songs, the team captain or coach gave a pep talk, maybe the cheerleaders doing a routine, a skit of the school team beating the other team. If it's homecoming time everyone was wearing a mum.
Starting about nine minutes--you're confusing Trump with the rest of Americans. He constantly says "the best" with no foundation
We would hang out in our lockers and decorate friends lockers on their birthdays
I don't know why you'd be jealous about this. Our teenagers come out of our high schools stupider than when they went in.
In my school, we have these things called class competitions. We have them the day before a break. Each class, so Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors, compete head to head to see who wins. There is games and some are holiday related. The class cheers for their classmates. It’s really fun and it’s the last two periods of the day. We also have pep rally’s and parades in my town. The whole high school walks around the town to the other schools and performs and throws candy. It’s really fun.
Positive reinforcement does work, even if you know it's not true or genuine, scientific studies have proven it.
In my day, lockers ran from just above the floor to about 5'6" up. The locks were combination locks. Either built into the door or separate padlocks. No keyed locks. We would store our books and other supplies in them. To try to lug every book you had to every class all day would break people's back. And big backpacks weren't a thing then either. Then being the mid to late 80s.
Sorry, yes, it has been confirmed that in America we have the best (fill in the blank). But you can be the second best. We'll allow it. I'm sure there are things we are jealous of the UK for. I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'm sure one exists. lol. Maybe the really old buildings... I think you have us beat on them. Some of the architecture in the UK puts ours to shame.
Lol I’m so glad u posted this...I was getting ready to..I’ll just say DITTO!! SO funny!!
I’m American and I was jealous of the big lockers on tv! In my middle school we had lockers in 6th grade and we did decorate and hang out at them, but they were tiny and barely fit my lunch box. How you decorated your locker was a big deal and some of the popular and spoiled girls got chandeliers, motion censored lights,rugs,room sprays, and even curtains all for their one tin locker. I just had wallpaper, a shelf, mirror, white board and magnets. In 7th grade, we didn’t get lockers cuz they had to add on a new 7th grade building cuz they were moving the 5th graders into the middle school, but we did get brand new gym lockers that were really handy. I moved to a new school in 8th grade and our lockers were outside which was literally the worst in the winter. You would occasionally go talk to your friend at their locker, but locker punching was very common, so most people stayed at their lockers longer to protect them. Now in high school, lockers are optional, but no one gets them cuz you get assigned a random locker and it might be on the 4th floor and all your classes might be between the ground and 2nd floor, so it’s not really a good use of $5 (locker rental fee) or 5 minutes (how much time we have to get to get to class)
trust me, about half of our country can't stand Trump
Yes, the Socalists do. Oh, and the Communists, too
Less than half, thank goodness.
The other half supports him.
TRUMP "202O"
Gyms had bleachers, auditoriums had theater seats. Public schools in the U.S. are paid for by taxes, usually property taxes. Private schools are paid out of pocket by the parents of the attending student.
Did you guys ever watch Animal House? Classic frat movie.
I went to an American private school that was so small we didn’t have a gym, we didn’t have sports, we didn’t have lockers, and we didn’t have school dances. So you get an idea, I graduated with two other people, that’s it.
Can’t wait to hear!! I am sure we felt the same way - being jealous of the British schools!!!
Uhm not sure that's quite true lol. I remember people saying that it seemed boring compared to ours haha. Could be wrong though.
@@AyeeeItsCam totally agree!!
I was never jealous of british schools. I don’t even know what ones looks like
You might be alone on this one. There’s definitely no “WE”.