European Reacts to My First Day of American Public School
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The quality of the public school education varies a LOT from school to school. Some are good, some are terrible.
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Dependent on taxes and district size. Small towns ironically have more stable education budgets.
I am a retired teacher in the U.S. This is not an average public school. I guarantee it is in an affluent community. All students are guaranteed a basic education, but they get more in affluent communities. No psych, no architectural design. The basics, and perhaps a bit more. That's it. I still work in my retirement as a substitute teacher for High School.
Soccer has always been popular in the US but it is only popular with children.
Public school can be very good. It's funded by property taxes so the better the area the better the schools. The problem is if you live in a really poor area you probably also have bad schools.
Private schools are all over the place in terms of quality. Frequently better than bad schools, but there are also public schools that are better.
I agree. It's not so much Public vs Private. It's more about the location.
I went to private school for a while and would say that there's a different level of exposure vs public schools. Private schools can "shelter" students from different types of social and cultural experiences that are had at public schools.
@@_Paxton and sometimes it's better that you 😅
@@_Paxton They can also provide lots of other cultural and social experiences that public schools do not.
It's all about the area
Soccer has been the number one sport for children for decades. We have an entire stereotype about soccer moms driving their kids around in a van. It's just never been the way to professional success here. Seems to be getting there finally.
Depends on where you live…
LOVE soccer. Live in U.S., between Portland, OR (Timbers) and Seattle, WA (Sounders). Started as a soccer mom, became a huge soccer fan of futbol.
I played soccer from first grade to twelfth. It's popular but when it comes to college or pro it will literally never be as popular as American football.
Soccer will never even get close to being the number 1 sport in America. My school lunches and drinks were amazing. We had any kind of juice and an ice cream machine, so we would make grape shakes and all kinds of stuff. By having short lunches, we are out of school by 3 and then we could goof off
It depends on how to define “number 1.” More people play soccer in the US than football. Any given weekend, you see soccer fields full of kids playing. It’s just not broadcast on TV and doesn’t have the media backing like the NFL, and that’s by design.
It could become #1 with the sudden increase in gender fluidity.
Oh wow, 45 minutes for lunch? This is generous to me, my school had 25 minute
You got 25 minutes? My students have ten minutes for lunch and ten minutes for recess. We teachers end up with a "lunch" of 20 minutes, which means we're answering e-mail, making copies, and preparing for the next half of the day with a sandwich in one hand.
We had 1/2 hour in Jr. High and High School. 1970s
I went to school in the 70s, we had an hour lunch. I want to say it was still an hour in high school, but I think it may have been 40min.
@@GymbalLock High schoolers have recess?
31 or 33 minutes in the late 90's, 3 rotations (1/3 of the school on each) to not overwhelm the 6-10 fast food restaurants near the school. "A" lunch was too early and my "C" lunch I was usually starving. To think we would walk up to 10 minutes away and 10 minutes back is crazy to me in hindsight.
As a pro sport, soccer/futbol is a minor sport. As a school sport, it is fairly popular.
Soccer appears to be popular among leftist/communist families in America
Also, notice that the goals were close to each other. As in, not in a usable position. Someone just stuffed them out of the way there, so they could play a REAL sport on the field!
Andre, every school has soccer teams but grade school and high school is about as far as it goes.
Oh ok
A guy who went to my HS was signed to play soccer with the Chicago Fire when he was 16. He played on four US World Cup teams and also played in the Premier League. His name is DaMarcus Beasley.
The colleges and universities do have college teams, the NCAA champions for 2023 were Clemson United. One of my brothers-in-law was the head coach of the Michigan Bucks, before the team moved to Flint, MI in 2019. “Throughout their existence, the Bucks have been one of the most successful amateur soccer teams in the United States, qualifying for eleven U.S. Open Cups, winning eleven divisional championships, and four national titles-the first team to reach that mark in USL League Two. In 2000, the Bucks became the first USL League Two (then known as the Premier Development League) team to defeat an MLS team in the US Open Cup when they beat the New England Revolution at Foxboro Stadium. They won their first PDL championship in 2006, defeating the Laredo Heat 2-1. They defeated the Kitsap Pumas 1-0 at Ultimate Soccer Arenas to win the 2014 PDL championship. In 2016, they defeated the Calgary Foothills FC.” Ironically, they beat the PDL team from my area, the Kitsap Pumas in 2014.
Schools typically have all kinds of extra-curricular activities
Every college has soccer as well. But yeah it’s never going to be the number 1 sport in America. Football and basketball is just to big.
The fist day of school often is students filling out information so the teacher can get to know each student. What they like to do outside of school... sports, hobbies, travel experiences, something unique about each student. Also, going over classroom rules/routines.
Syllabus day 🤮
I am a school teacher in the Oklahoma panhandle. I may well do a vlog for the first day of school next year, and it would give you a perspective from a rural VERY small school, and also from a teacher perspective
AP means advanced placement.. Those classes are typically much more difficult than regular curriculum and many times offer college credit.
I took several. They aren't more difficult but they do give you way more work. So much more work. It's also not worth it unless you need them in order to get accepted into whatever college you want.
I'd take AP US History and AP Lit again, but everything else was a huge waste of time. (I passed all of them by the way). Every college class was easier just because of the lighter workload.
AP before class name on schedule means "advance placement" and will get college credit for it depending on the score he gets on the end of the year exam.
Soccer doesn’t have a native base of fans in the United States, most Americans still love their American football, basketball and baseball. Soccer is only popular with European and Latin American audiences, but in America, it’s never going to supplant American football, basketball and baseball. Just like tennis, they’re only popular with a niche demographics that tend to be in the upper class, while American football, baseball and basketball have domestic mass appeal that spans all socioeconomic classes.
I think soccer is very popular in the US, but at the professional level soccer will never surpass the NBA or NFL. Plus the MLS is a joke and hardly anyone watches it, if anything Americans who like soccer will watch European or other countries leagues. I do however think soccer will pass the MLB at some point. Although baseball is an American tradition it is slowly becoming less and less popular, I think due to it being so slow and uneventful.
Soccer is a popular sport for kids but as a professional sport it will never supplant the popularity of football, baseball, basketball or even hockey
Some schools have the IB Programme (International Baccalaureate) with extra classes like Psychology, Theory of Knowledge, along with the usual math, science, history, language. You can do the entire program and get a special diploma (I did 30 years ago), or do AP classes which are some of the above, but not all your classes. Those IB & AP classes usually helped you skip a class in college (IB/AP Psychology is usually enough to skip Abnormal Psych 101, so you can focus on another interest, something specific within your major, or even graduate early. Those advanced classes are a huge help in college.
I did IB too! All of the other schools in my city offered AP, which I think is more common, but I loved the IB program for its focus on foreign language and world history. Those were the days!
IB grad too :D About 20 years ago. Those were very helpful in college and I liked the international focus.
"Soccer is going to become the #! sport in America" I'm 58 and heard this in 1st grade as a 6 year old. I can 100% assure you it never will. . Soccer among youths is popular. There are soccer fields all over the US because of it. However as kids get older they all gravitate towards American football, basketball and baseball. There are simply more opportunities in the US with those 3 sports to further your education because amateur sports in the US are tied to schools both high school and university. American football in college is huge. Soccer is very small/
It depends on your school district. My granddaughter’s school district in addition to basics supplied by the state and district, also receives fresh fruit and vegetables from eight local farms. They have a pretty good number of options. The sound you heard at the beginning of the first class was the bell to announce the start of the class. It sounds ore like a buzzer than a bell. Also he’s taking ten AP (Advanced Placement) level classes, so he must be pretty intelligent. I’m guessing the first day was abbreviated and subsequent days will start earlier.
Soccer been in school for be for WWII . It's a game children play I play it in school and Boy Scouts.
Before RUclips I had no idea that school busses were unique to the US. I can see public transit being used in the more metropolitan areas of other countries, but it’s not all city is it?
Much of the US is rural, which explains the lack of public transportation here. For instance I live 15 miles from the nearest small town. It just makes sense for school buses to go around to pick up the kids for school.
It also explains why we drive everywhere.
Exactly! I loved 15 miles from the nearest small town where I went to grade school. After dropping the grade school kids there, the bus would take the older kids another 10 miles to the next town, where the high school was. Even the larger town was only about 600 people, so there obviously was no public transportation. Some of the kids on my bus route got on the bus about 10 miles before I did. Some kids had to drive, or have a parent drive then as much as 20 miles just to get to the bus route! Kids coming from other directions had to ride the bus as much as 45 miles to school.
Those bus rides were really uncomfortable when we were riding in sub zero temperature during the winter. This was in extremely rural eastern Montana, where temperatures usually hit -40° at night for a few weeks every winter, and daytime temperatures were often -10 to -20°. Many winters the snowpack was so bad that the school busses couldn't get through the furthest rural roads, so kids had to stay in town. Younger kids would be stashed with relatives or family friends who lived in town, while older kids often lived in the dingy ancient local motel or 100+ year old hotel, especially the boys. I didn't have to stay in town until the winter of my senior year. My parents weren't about to let me live in a motel, so I lived with my fiance's family for 3 or 4 months. They absolutely refused to accept payment for my room and board, and my parents refused to accept any kind of charity. So my mom and I figured out a plan. Every month she would write a $150 check (this was 50 years ago) and I would take it to the local grocery store and buy a huge amount of groceries for their family. They liked my cooking, so I often cooked dinner for them, before starting my homework. I'd been cooking alone at home since I was 9, so that wasn't unusual for me. While I was in town, I know my parents both missed coming in at night to find a full (meat, vegetables, some kind of potatoes/pasta/rice, bread, beverages, dessert) dinner made and ready to put on the table.
It's unique to some in the USAMERICA too...i went to school in the 70s, never road a yellow bus to school in my life. We either walked or took public transportation.
I have gone on school trips on a yellow bus, but never road one to school.
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rode* one to school
@@sirmoonslosthismind I know...i am ttyypingg on a phone with ruined screen.. I just have to click on whatever pops up first sometimes. It works when it wants to.
When I went to high school many years ago I had 25 minutes for lunch. I still eat too fast because of it. Get out of class, run to locker, run to cafeteria, get lunch, eat it in about 8 minutes, run back to locker, maybe go to bathroom, run back to next class.
Although its a public school, you can tell from his bike ride that he lives in a wealthy neighborhood. This almost always equates to higher quality education, teachers, facilities, etc. Also, he mentioned most/all his classes were "AP" = advanced placement, which is a higher level of education even within the same school. I.E. A "regular" chemistry class and an AP chemistry class. All his AP classes at a school in a wealthy neighborhood is very much equal or better than a private school.
We all grow up playing soccer. We graduate to contact sports when we get a bit older. 25 million youths play
Yep. I played all my youth through high school in different leagues.
It’s not going to become the #1 sport. But it will continue to become more popular
We have good school lunches at our school. I'm from Tennessee, so we had home cooked southern dishes. My Mother worked at our school & would bring home leftovers, especially biscuits & homemade rolls. Loved them so much....
We have soccer fields, people play football on them.
Growing up in the 80s , organized soccer became popular for little kids around that time due to low physical contact and low cost of entry. I always imagined the sport would eventually become massive due to that popularity, and it still is at the lower ages, but it never progressed to older people unfortunately. Older aged kids almost always stop playing it. This remains the same 40 years later.
Bus routes are usually much earlier than school start time, so it gives you the option to take it or (if you miss the bus) find an alternative way to get to school without being late to school. Also, it gives parents enough time to drop the kid off if the bus stop is not super close by or not in a safe area without the parent being too late for work by cutting into their commute time. School start times often overlap with most parents' working day start time, so school bus ridership was always pretty high when I was in school.
My high school start time was 7 AM but my bus pickup time was 5:30 AM before the sun came up. Every school district is different, though, and your bus pickup time is influenced by your home's proximity to the school. I lived in a school choice district, meaning I got to choose which school I went to as opposed to the designated school closest to my house, so I always picked schools far away from me and my bus route reflected that since the school has to design a bus route to accommodate for students that lived on the other side of the city.
Football and basketball and baseball has always been the top main sports in America
American football,basketball,baseball, hockey,soccer doesn't stand a chance ever
Fun fact: outside of cities, many Americans grow up playing soccer. Dude goes to a wealthy public school!
I guess it depends on where you are from because that school would be lower or maybe up to a middle class public school around here. Looked pretty basic.
@@MyWasteOfTime I live in rural America - that HS is swanky!
Glad to see him riding his bike. American kids don't ride bikes near as much as we did in the 70's. You use to see packs of kids on backs in the old days.
Schools in the US are very diverse. Some extremely good some extremely bad. Some are HUGE there are some rural public school with only 200 enrollment prek-12.
That lunch room isn’t typically apparently their lunchroom is under construction.
High school kids didn't drink coffee when I was in high school. Coffee was for adults.
Sodas were the big deal when I was in high school!!! You were super fortunate if you had money to buy a soda from the soda machine in the gym.
Indeed
No smoking too.
Exactly
@@OkiePeg411 Nowadays they don't have those in many schools, so the teens get their caffeine in other ways like coffee.
It depends on where the school is and how much the district values things. We live outside Houston. My daughter went to Clear Brook in the Clear Creek School district. CCISD is the area where people who work at NASA live so the schools are really good. She was in AP classes for some things and was in the Color Guard (which is the flag part of the band). Two of my grandkids went to another CCISD school, Clear Springs. It's a newer school and huge. I think they had almost 3k in my grandson's class and about that in his sister's. They were both in band. One other granddaughter was at Clear Springs and was in choir. All of those kids are in college now, three different schools. My daughter is now going for her PhD in Biology, she's a research biologist. So the schools are really good.
My high School in Amarillo, Palo Duro, is a much smaller school. My graduating class had 275 people. I was in band and our football team was in the state finals so I got to go to some good games. I was an AP student (before they were called AP, they were Honors classes). AP and Honors are harder than the other classes. Conversely, my husband, from a small town in S.E. Oklahoma, has about a thousand student and they had about 80 graduate, and 12 of those were together for all 13 years (kindergarten through 12th grade) years. He walked home for lunch every day, living 2 blocks from the school. And he was in band from 4th grade to his third year of college at University of Oklahoma. In his school, all the kids from 4th to 12th were in the same band, so the big kids helped the smaller ones. Of course, I graduated in 1975 and my husband in 1974 so it was a long time ago (50th class reunions this year and next).
My graduating class was 32 students! The student count was do low that 8th grade has been added to the high school, and all 5 grades came to little more than 100 students. Of the 32 in my class, about 20 had been together for all 12 years.
I dare say that the Clear Lake area has the type of property taxes to ensure an above average education.
I'm 59. Since I was eight years old, they've been saying European football (soccer) was going to take over the U.S.
America has had soccer since the 1850's. LOL That's about a 174 years.
Never heard of it
@@phronze1 Not surprised.
every school is different - for my school, you are assigned a lunch period that is the same length of any class period - 50 minutes -and they have multiple periods for lunch so that not everyone is eating at the same time.
Soccer goals grow like weeds around my city lol! Soccer has been for a while the number one youth sport in terms of participation.
We also use Soccer fields for Lacrosse commonly
In my experience, the biggest difference between public and private schools in the US (aside from the additional cost) is not the quality of education. Private education provides the air of prestige, privilege, perceived quality, and networking advantages that public schools don't.
The score of the lunch situation really depends. In my high school they had a set menu and then they had ala carte. Most kids ate hamburgers, pizza, grilled ham and cheese, and french fries everyday.
When I was a kid, school lunch wasn't that bad because they had to compete with Jack in the Box, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Carl's Jr., all of which were a five minute walk from school. We also had a fantastic salad bar with meat and cheese as well as fresh croutons made daily by the lunch ladies. (So darned good!) Then the new principle closed the campus for "safety" and shut down the salad bar because it was "too expensive".
He also shut down the school newspaper and drove out all of the old guard of teachers. Decades later and I'm still a little sore about it.
That is definitely an affluent school. The grounds, kids, and classes (Architectural Design?) clearly show that. And an hour for lunch is crazy. My wife is a highschool teacher and their lunch hour is broken into thirds (A, B, and C) so they have 40 minutes of class and 20 minutes of lunch. It was the same back in the 80's when I was in school. And I played soccer as a kid in the 70's and 80's, but it has never gained a pro popularity and our best athletes tend to play other sports here. I am going to a pro game next month though and am very excited.
The public school he attends is Chapel Hill High in Chapel Hill, NC. The students, faculty and the school is always ranked the highest among others in the state in almost every metric. Many of these kid’s parents are professors and university faculty at nearby UNC Chapel Hill and Duke Universities so education is top of mind for them.
Thanks for that information. When he was riding the bike I thought it might be NC.
Soccer is big in the United States, but in years past it has been more of a kids sport. I grew up playing soccer but then grew out of it, then went to play fútbol americano.
School is under construction so classes are being reused for several classes and see he’s eating lunch in a classroom
I've lived as an average American for 77 years & still hope someday to live in Average America. Like on RUclips. 😅😅😅
That was the “bell” the noise to say it’s time to change class
I can tell you at my former high School, the nets I always see out on the field are the La Crosse ones.
I am a parent of current high school (and middle school) kids. Schools vary vastly as others have noted. I went to a public high school which required an entrance exam, each graduating class was about 45 students, and the school was not part of the city school district, it was funded by the state. My high school was chronically underfunded but people went there for the educational opportunities. It was built in 1921. It is still in use today. The biggest modernization project was putting in an elevator, required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
My kids' school is a single high school for three different small towns, and has about 800 students. The building is 6 years old, so everything is very modern, comfortable, with lots of natural light. It offers a wide range of classes for all levels. The school lunch is decent at the high school, with different entrees and a salad bar. It is also free to all students. My freshman is a selective eater and ends up bringing preferred food most days, but does get salad on some days.
Both my and my children's HSs had/have soccer teams, and I agree, it's unlikely soccer will supplant the big four professional sports here, but we also have so many people that those who love soccer can go on to play in college or pros if they want.
Nurses working 12 hour shifts get THIRTY minutes for lunch, with 2 breaks, 10 or 15 minutes each.
US labor laws suck (mostly).
I became disabled & retired a bit early. That was 7 years ago.
...actually, of that's how long you worked and how few breaks you received, it did NOT comply with US Labor Laws.
At ten hours, lunch + 3 breaks
At twelve hours, lunch + 4 breaks
There are exceptions for "primarily sedentary" positions, but the onus is on the employer to prove that the position qualifies- and my gut tells me a nurse would not qualify.
History (American and World), Geography, Social Studies were some of my favorites as they often relied heavily on audio/visual content, even back in the 1970s when I was in school.
Soccer is big where i live in the US. There are soccer fields everywhere and even the college has a soccer team and not a football team.
AP means advanced placement. The gist is "take the class, test at the end, and get college credit in high school if successful".
First day of school is all about finding your class, meeting the teachers and getting the expectations set usually.
The quality of the school varies depending on the area, staff, and funding. For instance; my high school was well known for a stellar music and arts program, but not for much else. It wasn't bad, simply average.
Nobody I knew was this active before going to high school. :) We were super tired most of the time. Also he was super chill and relaxed for a first day of school.
The fact that he's taking all AP classes means this is not a typical school. AP stands for Advanced Placement, and is the same idea as Honors classes.
AP isn’t typical? Not saying I got in the door, but it was definitely available.
AP classes are available, of course, but students taking all AP classes is certainly not "typical". Also, students taking all AP often go to schools that only have AP classes, hence my original post.
I took all AP classes it’s Pretty normal in Cali. It wasn’t an AP school.
Well, if taking AP classes was "normal" they wouldn't be AP classes. :)
I don’t get your point. AP is available in most schools.
I always had the yellow school bus all while growing up. When I got to high school, you could still use the bus but I was fortunate to be able to drive to work and park at the school. I always assumed the yellow buses are what all Americans had Kindergarten through 12th grade. I know when I went to college in a college town, they used yellow school buses for elementary age kids but then used city buses for everyone else. This was unique because the college and city worked together to have a good city bus system for mass transit since it benefitted both the city and college students.
Not everyone has the same lunch period. No one wants to be in school more than 7 hours. If you gave us a 2.hour lunch and an open door no one would be there in the afternoon
14:01 - Yeah, well in High School. Their school is also under construction, so their cafeteria is not open 😂 Our lunch up here in NY is 30 mins, and many kids would rather not have it.
School lunches depend on the school many of the schools I attended were nice with lots of options.
Public school quality depends on the neighborhood. U are automatically placed in your home school (closest to home) but u can register to other public schools in your area. My mother always researched the public schools in the area and put us in the one that fit us best. Some public schools have uniforms, but most don’t
Andre, I live in the US and I absolute love your reaction videos. May God bless you and your sweet family.
School Lunches usually depend on how much funding they get. Where I went to school, we had Sub's, Pizza, Hamberger's, Salads, Pasta and some sort of Treat. It all depends on if you are in Grade, Middle, or High School. I find the food in the High Schools were much better than the others. Corse that might be because in High School Are cooks received more recognition from the students.
Andre, someone made an incorrect statement, there is soccer at the college level. One of my brothers-in-law was the coach of the Michigan Bucks, a PDL (Premier Development League) team that actually beat an MLS team in the 2000 Open Cup matches. Many players go onto MLS teams, Steve Clark, one of the players he coached went on to be the goalkeeper for the Portland Timbers MLS team.
Many students play soccer to stay in shape for their main sport during the offseason
This student is really smart, too. AP classes and he had a lot of those are Advanced Placement, and if they pass the national test in that subject at the end of the year they earn college/university credits. School lunches when I was in school in California too many years ago to mention was great. Fresh fruit, icy cold milk, cafeteria ladies made the food then, and it was all good. Now the Agriculture dept supplies all of this prepared junk. Generally not good. This area appears to be quite affluent and the high school looks like a good one. Very similar in look and available options to many high schools in the U.S.
AP classes he mentioned are ‘Advanced Placement’, so basically more directed towards college/university level.
Private school is better for students who need more attention or assistance, mainly because the ratio of teachers to students is higher. (Class size is like 15-20 students per teacher, where public schools might have 25-30 students per teacher). So if you have questions or need additional help, it’s more available. There is also I think more attention given to each student, so if the teachers or counselors or principal sees that there is a drop in grades, they would probably be more quick in bringing the student and/or parents in to discuss why that happened and work to get the student back on track. Private schools may also have a slight advantage in college admission, but a lot of it is up to the individual student too.
Public school is generally good, but it can depend a lot on the school district-the local school board makes the rules for the schools in that district or area, so if the school board is bad (for example, spending more money on administration than student resources), the education provided in those schools may suffer.
P.S. no, this was not how I got ready for my first day (or any day) of school. My mom would be yelling at me to get out of bed for the third time, and I then ran around like a crazy person to try to get there before classes started 😂
Of the American school videos I’ve seen on here, this is the most typical school and school day I’ve seen.
Football/soccer is a thing for families. Team building experiences and learning how to work with others is a huge thing. Not to mention that we also tend to have little parties for the team and small rewards for the players.
My son played soccer for a few years in elementary school, but not for as many years as he played basketball and baseball.
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School lunches depends on who is in charge. Everybody ate school lunch when I went to junior high school and high school. Kids brought their own lunches in the earlier grades.
Actually, the school buses aren't just regular buses that only carry students. They're specially designed and are much safer in an accident than a regular city bus.
I RARELY ate lunch at school; with an open campus and someone having a Vespa-type scooter( me) . Or having a car, we had excellent cafes--or McDonald's to go eat.
One hour, is plenty to get this done. AND feel like an 'ADULT' at 16! 😊
Also, I think he said he’s taking 10 AP classes, that’s actually pretty impressive. I’m sure he’ll graduate with Honors. AP classes are like college/university courses that can be taken in high school and you get credit for it in college/university. This is a big deal because it can save you a lot of money and time. Taking 10 courses would nock off a year of college/university.
Also, AP stands for Advanced Placement - College-level classes. I took a few AP classes in my senior hear of high school. This guy is taking 10 AP classes. That should be equivalent to more than a full year of college done before he gets to college (or university). If the standards today are as high as they were in my day, that's extremely impressive.
In a lot of high schools you can eat pretty much anywhere on campus.
It's funny because soccer is huge for kids here. Most kids do some kind of sport when they are young. We have little leagues that start at around 6. For both boys and girls, you will either play baseball, soccer, or football. It's not until high school that it is less popular probablybecausea lot of kids stop playing sports. We also have soccer fields at most public parks. All schools (that I've seen, I'm 39, btw) will have a baseball, football, and a soccer field.
Soccer is an urban sport in high school. The most popular sports are football, basketball, and baseball.
School lunch system is by state standards here in Minnesota. Our school lunches are OK. I enjoyed high school because we had the availability of junk food or healthy food. I did eat a lot at the salad bar.
Soccer is a kids sport hence why you need a "Soccer Mom"
The reason soccer never gets popular in the US is because of how TV ads work here. American football, baseball, and basketball all have moments in the rules where the action pauses for a couple of minutes then resumes. This means live TV shows can insert commercials without missing the game. But soccer goes a long time without stopping the clock. TV networks don't want to carry the game if they can't put commercials in every 10 minutes or so. So soccer never becomes a televised sport here. It becomes a thing only played in schools when you don't have commercialization involved.
AP are "advanced placement" - they are for the "smarter" kids that are usually on honors programs. in some cases, you can also earn college credit for the course so that you get a jumpstart on your college studies...
Imagine just trying to exist at school and there’s kids walking around vlogging all over the place
Lol when in school our lunch was literally only 30 minutes which included the amount of time it takes to get to where you're going to eat.
The only way soccer would ever become the number one sport in America would be the day that it was the only sport in America. Nobody in America plays soccer when they leave high school. The only reason.
It's played at high school is because, in the curriculum it is offered. No one chooses it, but the school itself. It's like a parent making a child eat some food that they don't like. And when they become a vage, they can stop eating it because they're not forced to.
In our county, lunch is 30 minutes. Sometimes 25 minutes.
Not every high-school you are allowed to just walk in many have ID's and you must put in a machine than walk through metal detectors and have ur bookbag checked b4 you are allowed to go to class, I live in NY so it depends where u live at
being rural country you have to ring a doorbell
Lunch was 30 minutes at my high school. Also the hallways weren't nearly as crowded as at my high school. You said there were a lot of kids, but not to me.
I went to school in the Los Angeles School District. The lunches from elementary through high school were awful. I mostly brought my lunch. I only got the cafeteria food when it was pizza day, even then it was a square piece of pizza that tasted like cardboard with cheese and sauce, but it was a nice break from sandwiches! 😆
Andre, there are at least half a dozen people who used to play pro soccer and then played in the NFL.
I don’t have to imagine about going to a private school- I’ve only ever been to Catholic schools (until uni) 😂
Yes, most schools have soccer, but where a school could get 2, 3, or 4 thousand people at a high school football game, they might get 10-15 parents at a soccer game.
I played soccer in school and I’m 60 . It was and is popular . There’s also a soccer hall of fame in St. Louis mo and oneonta New York that I know of and there are a total of 29 professional teams 3 in Canada and 26 in the USA just look up MSL. There will be 30 teams by 2025 so it is growing since the 1990s .
I am going to tell you otherwise. There's no chance that soccer will ever be even close in popularity to that of American Football, Baseball, or Basketball.
Way back in the late 1970s our schools here really began pushing the sport of soccer. They were saying back then that soccer would be on par with American football, baseball and basketball. That was 54 years ago. Nothing changed except for we now have many soccer fields or pitches, that only get used once in a while. Mostly by immigrants. IT is mildly popular amongst Americans. But mostly only played in schools.
We’ve always played soccer in school, but it disappears after that. My uncle was from San Salvador, and he and his friends used to play pretty seriously. 😅
The schools in my area starts at 8 am, and they definitely don't have an hour for lunch.
The first day of Public School is just an 8 hour dance class.
I'm kidding. But, i did have to learn how to Line-Dance in Highschool Gym Class. So...
I had it in my first year of middle school during gym class. I always thought that was an odd place to be teaching it. However, it is exercise while still being fun.
@mimikannisto4418 Yeah, it came in handy when I was at a Country Bar in North Carolina one time, too, lol 😆
And I'm guessing it's probably based on state. Like I'm in Pennsylvania, which is close enough to "The South" that we had to engage in that sort of culture. I wanna say Delaware Schools might? But i doubt New York or New Jersery prioritize it.
I learned to square dance in gym class. Also, one semester of bowling. Those of us with a license drove 4 or 5 kids to the bowling alley !
In my gym class, we had to learn how to square dance. I had to take in a suit tie for me and my female square dance partner to use when we switched from guy to girl and vice versa.
@karlamackey4675 oh riiiiight, Square Dancing, yeah we did that too. I forgot all about that wild game.
There are some very very good public schools they’re normally just outside of the major cities !
This school is in a very rich neighborhood. Higher priced homes mean higher /newer schools. It's much better than big city schools. Also, growing up 40s, 50s, and 60s, we had to wear our best clothes to school. No jeans, no tee shirts, and no tennis shools. Pretty much like going to church. No eating, drinking in class. Absolutely no chewing gum! Neat haircut, no wild makeup, etc. 30 minutes for lunch. Open campus meant you could leave to go to McDonalds (burgers, 10 cents, cheese burgers, 15 cents and fries, 10 cents). No drugs, vapes, alcohol used by 99 % of students, no crime. 1960 to 1963 high school Anaheim, California. 1st car....1947 Mecury Station Wagon, "woodie surfer wagon) gas wasbetween 18 and 25 cents, Black and White TV.
In my experience, soccer is very popular at community and education levels in the US, especially for women's sports. I personally enjoyed participating in soccer growing up. I don't understand why it isn't popular at professional levels here. I'd guess that most Americans know soccer rules and have played it.. Also, I am 50.
My suburban school was mostly non-white, not wealthy. I don't remember soccer. We had a football stadium and swimming pool, theater, band, choir, basketball, baseball, journalism. I don't remember going off campus for lunch. We had honors classes, but you had to go to junior college for advanced placement. I'm sure rural and urban schools are very different.
My schools have always had soccer nets HAHA. Still not popular though.