I'm American, but went to university in the UK, and one of my friends I made there asked me, after watching the movie Easy A, if American high schools were actually like this. For her, this was so strange, wearing your own clothes and also the distinctly diverse cliques of groups and clubs. For me, despite a film cliche, my school was very much like that. There really were the misunderstood band kids, the preppy crowd, the burnout hacky sackers, the brainy introverts who ate in a classroom, the jocks & cheerleaders, the Christian youth group, etc. My British friend thought this was hilarious and also so exciting. She wished her school had been that freely expressive, and I told her I would've much preferred her school experience. lololol
im going to college right now and its far more relaxed than secondary school, i am able to wear my own clothes and stuff like that, although im sure every American has been able to do that since grade school
This probably depends on whether you're attending a public or private school too. I mostly attended private schools because my school district was shit and it was a lot more like how the British one was described. Never saw the principal except at assemblies or when you fucked up, girls had to wear skirts of a certain length and have their shoulders covered and boys had to have specific styles and colors of belts and ties, essays had to be in a particular type of format..... The only American part of them was the graduation.
indian schools and british schools yea pretty similar with the restrictions, however, It's a completely different scenario if u were to compare govt schools vs private schools in india though. Indian private school definitely have way more restrictions than the govt ones
I like how there was some real discussion about education, and the differences in detail. I'm sure that there are different areas in the U.S. and U.K. (rural) where school is pretty different than what these two women experienced, but this gave us a good idea, and the videos that they reacted to were really very funny. 😁
Nah most of the UK is exactly how she described it. I'm from a small village and I know I had the same experience as people in cities. She basically summed up education for every single person in the UK cos it's always basically the same experience. Uniforms are slightly different but there aren't really any "public" schools that don't require uniform.
Goodness. My schooling in Florida was vastly different than both. Where were the mention of riot gates, the metal detectors and locker checks with dogs sniffing for drugs??
You talking about the elastic ties once you were an academy reminds me of my secondary school. I’m British and when my school changed to an academy we had clip on ties so that everyone had a tie that was the same length
The American schools I’ve been to were sometimes quite harsh. I didn’t wear a uniform and my high school did celebrate graduation but the teachers and the learning was strict most of the time and it just made me feel less comfortable in some classes, my grades weren’t as good as they could’ve been. The only time dresscode was annoying was usually in middle school.
I wore a school uniform from year 1 until year 8, & then I went to a Rudolf Steiner school, a private, but non uniform wearing school, & it took a pretty long time to get used to not wearing a uniform anymore. I loved it so much once I got used to it though! Mainly, because I got bullied in Years 7 & 8 for not wearing 'fashionable' black trousers as part of the uniform.
Back when I was in 6th form (a little over 20 years ago now - I’m old), we would have sixth form ‘balls’ in the last week of every term, that basically meant someone found a failing pub that was willing to turn a blind eye and sell alcohol to us, and we would all go and get completely trashed on aftershock or worse. It was always on a Thursday, so we would turn up to school the next day either still drunk or massively hungover. The whole sixth form block would stink of stale alcohol. The teachers ignored it and pretended it didn’t happen. When you finish school in UK, you all finish at different times because you all have different exams and one person may finish 2 weeks before someone else, so it’s a sort of weird ending. Then everyone is working summer jobs and getting ready for Uni. The only time everyone comes together after that is results day in mid august. Even then, not everyone turns up. You might go out clubbing later to celebrate though
Also, when you finish school, you still have like maybe 2 months before your exam results so you often don't know what you're next step is. Like you celebrate that your exams are over but not that you 'made it' because you might have failed and be looking at doing resits (if you really want the exams)
I am from India, it very similar to UK school system. That is serious and formal Teachers and principal. Its more of a sargent and rookie army joinee relationship. I used to think American school system was always better since it always promoted positivity. But as I grew older I think in a way I gained lot of discipline and more matured and take life seriously (in a positive way as in ambitions ). Growing up in USA I don't think I would have achieved those due to me having too much freedom and thus skipping schools and not giving fks what my teacher said. But I would also like the teachers to encourage creativity like US schools. And yes a little less strict and punishment 😭
I remember finishing high school in the UK we got told during after lunch/afternoon assembly on a Wednesday where they had pictures of all the students in year 11 from when they started high school to present day from our school id that we didn't have to come in unless it was for an exams, we then spent the rest of the afternoon getting out shirts signed, though we did still have to come in uniform for our exams I do remember on last day of exams there were a lot of ripped ties and school diaries on the ground
In English class in the US we were taught to write in MLA format and creativity wasn't a thing at all. It probably depends on the school and the teacher you get.
thanks to Cady, I'm now willing to learn more about UK culture! I love her bright smile, voice, accent, personality, and everything. I also really love Hallie too❤️ always happy to see nice people be a good friends each other
I feel like with American schools it all depends on what region you live in. Mainly because in certain parts of the southern region, different states have different teaching methods and codes of conduct. Whereas in the northern region some states follow the uk ways of learning and code of conduct. Dress code was very strict in my school. It cost $20 for a uniform shirt and you had to find pants that were the correct color with no added designs. I was sent home because my shirt didnt have the school emblem on it. It was the school colors but just that one thing had me sent home.
In the UK you have to buy the whole set and extra, definitely over £100 for it and even the PE kit was around 60 because it's all specific to the school. Though there are options for second handed uniforms for poorer students. I'm talking about public schools by the way.
As an American we couldn’t express are emotions at all, I’m just going to say the rules we have: No bracelet No necklace No earrings You have to wear a belt or you’ll be suspended Only uniform and nothing else No ponytails ect Pants below your knees Shorts below your fingers tips If you use a phone you’ll go to kid jail or get sended away to a school where you can’t see your parents? They choose your shoes You can’t show your arms You can’t show ankles If you talk you’ll go to detention If you smile you’ll be yelled at No hugging, walking close to someone If your late by 30 seconds you’ll have detention Etc And the uniform cost abt 20-40 dollars
My American schooling experience was definitely more similar to the British schools than the way American schools are claimed to be in this video. The only things from this video that were accurate to my experience were the (very minimal) dress code and graduation being a super big deal. Even then, most of the students don’t make too big of a deal about graduation, it’s really just the culture around it so teachers and parents make it a way bigger deal than it is.
same. I kinda wish they actually compared topics sometimes instead of analyzing comedy tiktok’s… my highly ranked public high school in the Northeast was cool and relaxed and people got along but it was still very strict academically and had a very high passing rate with most kids going on to college.
I’m a brit. When I finished secondary school we had a graduation party at a country house. You had to buy a ticket to go to the party & we all had to dress up. We also had an book we could purchase that the class reps had created with our pictures in and we had all had to submit a couple of paragraphs of out time at the school or thanking friends or about ourselves or whatever to go with our picture. So graduation parties do happen in uk. University graduation parties can be big in uk too.
Yeah my secondary school did that too, but they called the party "prom" (which happens after you finish sixth form/year 13) where girls wear dresses I guess. I wasn't interested so didn't go and the books that were created (for year 7 to 11 not sixth form) by the school reps were so unfair, like it had mostly photos of similar friendship groups!😑 Worst idea to leave student reps do the book!😐
@@galaxynova3215 the books we had weren’t like that. They were made for year 11 students and they were not friendships groups at all they were everyone in the form groups. Like Harry Potter has 4 houses my school had form groups. I was form F. So in the section of the group for F there was a picture of our tutor & then everyone in for F. It was the same for every form. Not everyone wanted their picture I’m the book so if anyone refused to have their picture then they just got a male/female silhouette I’m the book but no one in the school was missed out and there was no bias/discrimination. If people wanted just their friendship groups they could make their own books. I got some coloured paper and created a book and got all my friends to write personal messages in it as well as getting the end of year leaving book. So not all class/form reps are biased they can do a good impartial job. I also remember that my school you could buy a CD 💿 with pictures on. For a week or two you could go take pictures of yourself and you with friends and then they were all compiled together and put onto the disk. That way people who wanted pictures with their friendship groups had pictures on the disk. I didn’t have many friends but I still got the disk as I was still in it and I have pictures of my friends to look back on even if I don’t see those people any more.
In my secondary school, we got yearbooks at the end of Y11, where we all had a choice of whether or not we wanted a “quote” of some sort (mine was, “What is the meaning of life?”). In this yearbook, we were all placed in our houses (we had 5), and most of us had pictures from Year 7 and Year 10 (as a comparison). There was also a prom at a hotel (which I didn’t go to). Apparently, it was one of the crazier things to have happened this year (this was back in July). Anyway…
Public school life in Alaska -no uniforms - school at 8:50am - 3:30 changing to 4:00 because of snow days - we eat in our class because of covid - every Friday is movie night - everyone is nice
When you are a teenager, of course! You don't like to wear a uniform. But, when you grew up, you can understand that's the best. Why? You would ask me. Because the most important thing at school, is that students differ from each other by intellect, not by fashion. And, especially in girls. You can observe the enormous differences that are generated, how they displace one another, how they discriminate against each other. And if you think about it, even if they go to school in street clothes, they still dress in uniform, depending on the group, some will dress as punks, others as hip hoppers, girls of one style or another. There is more bullying in the classroom, at recess, and less attention on what is really important.
Some kids get bullied for not being able to afford popular clothes. School should be about learning and socialising and choosing new outfits out each day not only costs a lot of money but distracts from the former and can make the latter more superficial.
I’m a teenager and I’ve always loved uniform lol. Even as a little kid I liked uniform. I understood that if my school didn’t have uniform then that would cause me so much stress and I would spend ages trying to pick outfits and stuff. In my country it’s common in the last year of high school that you’re allowed to wear mufti. You’re still allowed to wear uniform but no one does because of social pressure. I went to a new high school and I was really worried that my school would also allow mufti for the last year but luckily they decided that you had to wear the uniform throughout all 5 years. I was very happy about that because most schools in my city don’t have uniform in the last year so I thought they would also choose to do that. I really love uniforms. When I was like 12, I got my grandparents in the UK to send me some cheap white school shirts (my actual school had a colourful ugly polo shirt) so I could like just wear them and dress up and pretend I had a cute uniform. Going to a school with like a cute uniform is very important to me. I could never go to a school without a uniform. I actually looked it up and have checked every high school in my country’s school uniform and I know which one is the cutest lol. I’ve actually designed school uniforms myself like 3 times. I just really like uniforms.
In Sweden (where I live) we don't wear uniforms and we also don't have any dress codes. I used to romanticize school uniforms, I thought they looked really cool (probably because of Harry Potter). And while I do see how uniforms can be good, I think It's important for young people to express themselves and experiment with fashion (among other things). I used to dress very alternative and I never experienced or witnessed any bullying, especially not because of fashion. Maybe I would've been bullied if I went to a British or American school though, who knows.
I live in new Zealand and I haven’t graduated yet but I saw the graduation for the year above me at school. It was weird because they had like the whole graduation ceremony with like awards and a certificate and stuff but all the kids were in normal school uniform and it was all the teachers who were wearing the cap and gown lol.
@@rachelcookie321 oh wow I am originally from NZ myself. When I graduated high school in Australia, we didn’t wear cap and gowns but had a graduation ceremony in front of the whole school, then at night a graduation dinner with our parents and peers and after that we got changed and went to a mates house to get drunk 😂 In year 6 (final year of primary) our teachers personally organised us cap and gowns as well we did a year 6 dance. But our exams and things is very similar to the UK, I know this from other videos but also my uncle is a teacher there.
@@Rebekahlavy that sounds cool. When I “graduated” primary school in New Zealand we had a year 8 dinner a few weeks before the end of year and an award ceremony a couple days before the end of year. Then on the last day it was just like a regular end of year last day of school but at then end the whole school made arches with their arms and the year 8s had to walk out under it. It would of been so cool to have caps and gowns. I don’t know if there’s a graduation dinner or anything at my school for high school. I know there is formal in June which has a nice dinner but I don’t know if there is one at the end of year too. I suspect lots of kids do go get drunk though. Idk how similar the exams are in New Zealand to Britain. I mean, they’re similar in the way I think all exams are. You do the exam in like the auditorium with all the tables set up away from each other, and you got a clear pencil case, and you got a clear drink bottle, and you got phones turned off in bags, and you got an exam person sent from the education board to watch over the exams. I feel like that stuff is pretty standard exams. But then like our exams work differently here because you technically don’t need to take exams. Like if you get enough credits during the year, then there’s no reason to take exams. I just take exams for fun lol. Like our whole grades don’t depend on the exams. I know how the exams and stuff work in the UK because I’m from Scotland and my dad is from England and I’ve done a lot of research on the education system there to see if I should move back to the UK to finish school (the answer is no because then I would have to repeat a year because you have to go through like a whole 2 year system).
With like the principal, in New Zealand I’ve had both experiences. My first primary school here was a bit big with 800 kids and the principal was like the British one. He was really strict and you would only ever see him at school assemblies but he didn’t even come half of the time. Half of the time the deputy principal would come saying the principal had a meeting or something so he couldn’t come. He didn’t ever talk to any of the students unless there was something really serious going on. The only time I ever really met him was when I enrolled at the school, he wasn’t even there when I got suspended, that meeting was with the deputy principal. My second primary school had a principal a lot more like the American one. It was a smaller school of like 300 and she knew every student’s name. She would wait out at the morning greeting every student as they came to class and she would say hi to all the kids when she saw them. Even after I started high school, a few years after I finished primary school, she still remembered me. I think it’s actually more of a female principal vs male principal thing. Because in high school when I first started I had a male principal and he was less involved with the students but then we got a new female principal and she was a lot more involved, saying hi to all the students and knowing all their names and stuff. I went to school in Britain when I was little and my principal was female, although it was a little stricter and less involved than female principals in New Zealand, I still felt like she was more involved than male principals in New Zealand and that she would of been more involved than male principals in the UK.
@@Brownieシ yea, British primary schools are a bit smaller. I think my primary school in the UK had about 200-300 kids. I don’t know about other parts of New Zealand but when I moved here there was 2 primary schools in my town, both with 800 students. My town is growing rapidly and the second primary school had only opened like 2 years before I moved here. Now there are 6 primary schools in my town and they all have like 600+ students (except the Christian school, they only got 200).
We once had a maths probability question which said "Neha eats a sweet does not regurgitate it, and eats another sweet" yeah I'd like to hope she didn't regurgitate it but thanks for the extra information i guess. I mean obviously if you don't state that valuable peice of information then my first thought is. Ah yes Neha must of regurgitated it i mean who would give such a thing to a child.
I can easily tell the age group of a British school from its uniform (this is just from my experiences but it's kind of the stereotype) Primary: school-colour jumper/cardigan, school-colour/white polo shirt, black/grey trousers/leggings/skirt and tights Secondary: navy or black blazer, (jumper/cardigan), white shirt, school-colour striped tie, black trousers/skirt and tights Each "section" is separated by commas, interchangeable items are separated by slashes and dependent-on-school items are in brackets.
I did a exchange with my British school to a school in Pennsylvania, you guys get so much libertys like your lessons are so much more uni style education plus you get to chose what you eat in the cafeteria, my god i probably gained 5 pounds while i was out there
i’m in a british school and we can chose between hot & cold sandwiches, pasta, sushi, paninis, pizza, main meals, slushies, waffles, brownies, quesadillas, cookies, flapjacks etc
I'm American, but my public school experience in Mississippi was more similar to the British school experience--minus the quality and with a dash of prison system culture (including barred windows, iron gates in the hallways, ugly uniforms, visible "dog tag" IDs, etc.). Half of my teachers were underqualified coaches who would resort to bullying the students for kicks instead of teaching because they didn't know how to do the latter.
I went to school in Scotland from the late seventies to the early nineties. At primary school (age 4+) we wore white shirts/blouses, school tie and black, dark blue or grey skirts/trousers. Most wee ones did not wear school blazers - I suppose it would be too expensive, as we'd keep outgrowing them! They were an option, though. Our school wasn't really strict but you could still get hit on the hand with a ruler by the teacher. They had stopped 'belting' with a leather strap by the time I got there. I think most of us liked primary school though. Secondary (aged 11/12+) - it was a maroon blazer, school tie, white shirt/blouse and again dark blue, grey or black trousers/skirt. They did enforce the skirt length too, I remember people getting sent home to change! Our Rector (the headteacher, even though we were a state school we kept the old traditions from having been the grammar school for the town) used to walk about the corridors in his academic gowns, making sure we were behaving. He was a nice man though - IF you were behaving yourself. We had homework from Primary One, the first year at primary school, onwards. Teachers didn't really get involved with your personal problems or give advice, their hands were tied in that way. Sometimes they organised extra-curricular activities like a school dance. We didn't have school counsellors or nurses either. They always seem to have that in American films.That seems like a good idea. Re essays and exams - yes you had to know the subject, but a lot of the time they were asking you to prove or disprove a point (subject dependent obviousl), or to make an argument for something, so you had to have done further reading and formed your own opinions based on that. Another big difference is that our secondary school had prefects, who were senior students who acted as a kind of police, to take some supervisory responsibility from the teachers. Basically they made sure there was no bullying, smoking etc going on on their watch. I'm told they could be bribed though.😆
OMG, the American girl, her eyes color are so deep, that iris color is so light, almost like white (with a bluish hue). So pretty! 😍 Saludos desde México! 😊
The thing about graduation in America is they finally got their Diploma. While in the UK, finishing secondary school meaning you'll just get your GCSE. There's nothing to celebrate.
As an Indian I relate to British schools more... Its true we don't see our Principals ever...Only if you get punished or in a yearly gathering or an Assembly meeting. To be Strict or not to be, it is completely depending on what kind of a person the Principal is...... But I personally love Discipline....and there needs that slight strictness....otherwise there will be Hooligans everywhere In the british way students brains are developed more, beacuse of teh kind of school exercises American way is WAYYYYYYY more Open and Welcoming... But students may misuse that priviledge... Americans literally don't realise how privileged they are.. Ask yourselves Why People want to immigrate/relocate to USA............? _(but you guys are kind of dumb)_
The last time I saw my heat teacher was during my leavers ceremony when I left for sixth form, I only saw here like 12 times in my whole 5 years at that school
@@arjunbprasad5265 Trust me if there is something Americans will always know, its the fact that we dealt with yall very good and got our freedom. with the help of France of course, even a 3 year old would know that.
4:27 at our school, pulling on the tie to close the knot was called "peanutting". To combat it you put a 2p coin inside the knot so it didn't fully close and you'd be able to get your fingers in to undo it.
My headmaster in the 60s was also a colonel in the army cadet force and if you saw him you would be expecting either the cane the slipper(beaten with a gym shoe) or rapped over the knuckles with a ruler. This reduced in the 70s and we also lost some of our drunk and predatory teachers but. Violence continued to be normal. Until I left in 1971.
I learned in Ukrainian school. And it's pretty different to both of described ones in this video. If we talk about graduating, (that's the most interesting part) it's like not very big deal and not like just saying "Bye!" But it is like sadness that "we already go from this school to another pathes of life" and nostalgie about time, spent there. But, now I live in Denmark and here graduating from schools and especially from gymnasiums is like in US. They rent a small truck but without a roof in conrainer. And they get in this "container", but standing all the road (they also can unwear themselves almost completely), get the music very loudly. The truck is going around the city (Copenhagen) and they are singing, dancing, fooling around and in all, having fun in it. They can also stop in some point of city and take into fountains and also splash and play there. People around always take videos of this actions (that's completely understandable because in Copenhagen there are always so many tourists and they probably haven't seen such celebrating). Maybe in other countries moving in such an opened container isn't allowed, but here students can celebrate like that.
In the UK, nobody graduates from secondary school. The term "graduation"" only applies to university, where you get a degree (for example a BA or BSc) and then there is a graduation ceremony and a diploma. When you finish school, rather than getting a diploma as in America, you earn a qualification by passing certain national public exams that are externally set and graded (BTW, Brits actually say marked, rather than graded). Technically compulsory education in England ends at age 16, which would be the end of Year 11 ( equivalent to 10th Grade in the US in terms of age bracket). In England, the exams you take at Year 11 are called GCSEs and the most academically oriented students may take 10 or more GCSEs. Typically it would be English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, different natural sciences like Physics, Chemistry and Biology, History, maybe Geography, a modern or classical/ancient language, and something else you might take as an elective like Computer Science, Business Studies/Economics, an Arts subject, or a technical subject like Electronics Although you take those exams at age 16, their level would be equivalent to that of "normal" Senior Year High School classes in the US (i.e., not counting AP classes, which would be more advanced), In the past, many working class kids would simply leave school at age 16, but, nowadays, if you are between 16 and 18, you are required by law to pursue some course of education in England, although not necessarily in a school properly. That can be an on-the-job apprenticeship, or you may alternatively go to a technical college that prepares you for vocational exams like BTechs. If, however, you want to go to universty to get a bachelor's degree, or if you want to get into a military academy to be trained as an officer in the armed forces, then you have to do Years 12 and 13. Year 13 would be ages 17/18 (like 12th Grade in the US) and, at the end of it, you normally take exams called A-levels. Unlike GCSEs, you normally take only 3 A-levels, which is the usual requirement to get into most universities.The more academically inclined students, however, may take 4 or, more rarely, 5. A-levels. Although 3 A-levels only may not seem challenging enough to people from other countries, A-level subjects are studied at a depth lthat would compare to a full first year of university studies in the US or Canada, so they are actually very challenging. The current British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, wants to change how secondary school is organized (spelled "organised" in the UK) so that everybody in England will have to study at least 5 subjects up to age 18 including an English and a Maths (American "Math") subject, but I think two out of those five subjects could be offered at a more basic level in his proposal whereas the other 3 would be studied at the same level as current A-levels . There is going to be a general election in the UK in 2024 though and the main opposition Labour Party is likely to form the next government, so I am not sure if Mr Sunak's reforms will be actually implemented. I don't think Labour is in favor (spelled "favour" in the UK) of replacing A-levels with those new qualifications, but I am not sure. Note that Scotland has a separate education system from England, which is run by the Scottish government and has a different structure. I didn't comment on it because I am not familiar with the Scottish school system. I believe Wales is the same as England in terms of the school system and I don't know about Northern Ireland either.
Cady here 🇬🇧 this was really funny watching the videos and comparing school life! When I watch it back it sounds crazy to hear some of the things about our school, it was a crazy time in my life! Do you guys miss school?
I got swat knotted a lot and omg the exam memories you talked about 😂 My English teacher did the film and pausing thing 😂 mind, I got an A in literature 🙌
No ties at my school when I was there but I remember getting pice of paper saying how to modernise school uniform they just introduced it just before current school year. What they have now is actually shirt white see though ones, jumper with a v neck shape & Tie & black trousers or skirt. When I was there it black trousers,black shoes,normal jumper, & polo shirt.
When I first started secondary school they still had white polo shirts with a black sweatshirt that had the logo on as the uniform but by the time I started year 9 the uniform changed as the school became and academy. The new uniform still had the same black trousers and skirts but switched to white shirt shirts with a grey knitted wool jumper with clip on ties. We never had ties that actually needed to be tied so never experienced swat knotting but instead our ties were very easily pulled off of people that didn't expect it and people would then run off with each others ties lol. By year 10 we got a new head teacher and they got a lot stricter with uniform rules, they even started mandating skirt length very strictly and there were some instances where they would check with a ruler if they thought girls skirts were too short and make them be worn knee length. Apparently after we left in 2016 it somehow got worse lol
My British school is like so strict on uniform 😅 I have sports in the afternoon, I’d have to wear formal uniform in the morning and then change to sports uniform in the afternoon 😂 I hate doing this
very true about graduation, as a brit i just finish high school and got 6th form whereas the US high school is such a big deal as not all people go on to university.
In a city of Chicago Illinois public schools private schools and charter schools has to wear uniform. Any school outside Chicago area like the suburbs they are able to wear regular clothes (Depend on the town) except for private school.
I'm from the UK and in my school, they don't care about the tie length, but we do pull ties to strangle people, but we call it 'skinny tied', and we still have the invidulators during exams. now it's only 4 years mandatory in school.
This is Andrew's son speaking, YES, I am a brit but the school I go to is nice and friendly. Probably because it is a public school, not a private school. For an example of how nice it is, the teachers are only strict when it is nessaccary and when I was in year 4, I saw a tiny bit of the year 6 graduation party on the playground. Also, the headteacher is nice (by the way for you americans reading this, where I live in England IS spelt with no space in between head and teacher. A good piece of information for you to know).
In UK schools they often play fast and loose with what you final day actually is, by like, saying you have to attend all the classes you haven't had exams for yet, so your classes kind of peter out, and your friend might finish a fortnight before you. And that is a deliberate move, because there used to be a culture of like, getting drunk on the last day, or causing havoc by like, bringing things in to throw around like eggs, or everyone running out the school at lunchtime and not coming back etc. It was just easier for them to not have a definite end date for everyone at the same time.
Wow very true (American here) wonder how the Aussie, Kiwi, South African, Asian countries, and the Red Heads (wink! much love), and Indian schools differ? I'm familiar with Germany and Swedish general area (your own your own) ... Makes me think of indigenous people as well. I am surprised I liked this video as much as I did. Thank you very much!
Here in Canada we get a bit of both sides, but it is interesting to see how strict the British schools can be, which would mostly apply to private schools here, which would be much more strict, and even in public schools the dress code in most schools is much more relaxed than American schools.
My principal is chill and he hangs out with me and my orchestra class. We don't really have a dress code, but our only rule is no crop tops or spaghetti straps. Our tanktops have to be a tumb wide. (This is not in the school website dress code rules, but those rules were made a few years ago and they didn't change the dress code on the website, so we just memorized the new dresscode.) [I apologize for any incorrect spelling or punctuations.]
Australian schools are different as we wear uniforms, and our uniform is just a school top designed by them and either a skirt, shorts or leggings and there is no rules for them or our shoes as it's only that we have to wear our school top along with our own school jumper or jacket, not one from home our school one and also they aren't really strict and we also call I principal and we don't have hallways as our school is classrooms all kinda separated and outdoor but as u get older and go into high school and university including all the other stuff, they are the ones which have hallways and are in a whole building.
i’m still in primary school (i’m young,i know) and i’m british and we have a small school of about 150-300 kids but our head teacher and deputy head is very much like the american ones because when we come in they greet us every morning
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I'm American, but went to university in the UK, and one of my friends I made there asked me, after watching the movie Easy A, if American high schools were actually like this. For her, this was so strange, wearing your own clothes and also the distinctly diverse cliques of groups and clubs. For me, despite a film cliche, my school was very much like that. There really were the misunderstood band kids, the preppy crowd, the burnout hacky sackers, the brainy introverts who ate in a classroom, the jocks & cheerleaders, the Christian youth group, etc. My British friend thought this was hilarious and also so exciting. She wished her school had been that freely expressive, and I told her I would've much preferred her school experience. lololol
Are u talking about our uni or our college bc I think our college is uni in America
im going to college right now and its far more relaxed than secondary school, i am able to wear my own clothes and stuff like that, although im sure every American has been able to do that since grade school
i wanna go to america so bad i hate british schools lol
@@ladyannetheefinesmaiden once you finish GCSE then if you want to go to college or university it's a lot more relaxed
This probably depends on whether you're attending a public or private school too. I mostly attended private schools because my school district was shit and it was a lot more like how the British one was described. Never saw the principal except at assemblies or when you fucked up, girls had to wear skirts of a certain length and have their shoulders covered and boys had to have specific styles and colors of belts and ties, essays had to be in a particular type of format..... The only American part of them was the graduation.
at least you didn't have a uniform
@@gallaghergirl3660 yeah
My British school didn’t have a principal…
@@tunisino35 because they are called headteachers?
@@Allyfyn yes and there were 3
indian schools and british schools yea pretty similar with the restrictions, however, It's a completely different scenario if u were to compare govt schools vs private schools in india though. Indian private school definitely have way more restrictions than the govt ones
You can take phones in school in the US and the UK, while in India you can't.
Yeah I wonder why they are pretty similar, -definitely Britain wasn't responsible-
@@ranjanbiswas3233 HAHAHAHAHAHA LMAOOO 😭😭🤌🏼
@@cosettelitvik Some British schools don't allow to take phones to school.
@@MS0018-r3d I know right. I'm british 😒😒😒
Hello , Cady 🇬🇧 and Hallie 🇺🇸 , this channel always makes great duos putting together someone from US And UK , Hallie was good choice 👍
How bout cady
I like how there was some real discussion about education, and the differences in detail. I'm sure that there are different areas in the U.S. and U.K. (rural) where school is pretty different than what these two women experienced, but this gave us a good idea, and the videos that they reacted to were really very funny. 😁
not all places ln the UK are rural
@@704commentkan ?.
@@704commentkan nobody said it was
Nah most of the UK is exactly how she described it. I'm from a small village and I know I had the same experience as people in cities. She basically summed up education for every single person in the UK cos it's always basically the same experience. Uniforms are slightly different but there aren't really any "public" schools that don't require uniform.
The biggest difference between UK and US schools is that, Brit school kids can pretty much expect to go home alive at the end of every school day.
😂
people are crazy in london, a bunch of knife crime
You've obviously never played rock chicken.
Apart from knoives.
Goodness. My schooling in Florida was vastly different than both. Where were the mention of riot gates, the metal detectors and locker checks with dogs sniffing for drugs??
We're not that young lol
yessss
What the...!?
Same in Texas
Oh and sometimes you get strip serach in the juvenile. They send you there if they think u have something on u or in u
Thanks for doing this!
You talking about the elastic ties once you were an academy reminds me of my secondary school. I’m British and when my school changed to an academy we had clip on ties so that everyone had a tie that was the same length
The American schools I’ve been to were sometimes quite harsh. I didn’t wear a uniform and my high school did celebrate graduation but the teachers and the learning was strict most of the time and it just made me feel less comfortable in some classes, my grades weren’t as good as they could’ve been. The only time dresscode was annoying was usually in middle school.
I wore a school uniform from year 1 until year 8, & then I went to a Rudolf Steiner school, a private, but non uniform wearing school, & it took a pretty long time to get used to not wearing a uniform anymore. I loved it so much once I got used to it though! Mainly, because I got bullied in Years 7 & 8 for not wearing 'fashionable' black trousers as part of the uniform.
An opinion-based adjective without a further adjective/adverb causes ambiguity so their definition of "fashionable" may be different from yours
Back when I was in 6th form (a little over 20 years ago now - I’m old), we would have sixth form ‘balls’ in the last week of every term, that basically meant someone found a failing pub that was willing to turn a blind eye and sell alcohol to us, and we would all go and get completely trashed on aftershock or worse. It was always on a Thursday, so we would turn up to school the next day either still drunk or massively hungover. The whole sixth form block would stink of stale alcohol. The teachers ignored it and pretended it didn’t happen.
When you finish school in UK, you all finish at different times because you all have different exams and one person may finish 2 weeks before someone else, so it’s a sort of weird ending. Then everyone is working summer jobs and getting ready for Uni. The only time everyone comes together after that is results day in mid august. Even then, not everyone turns up. You might go out clubbing later to celebrate though
Also, when you finish school, you still have like maybe 2 months before your exam results so you often don't know what you're next step is. Like you celebrate that your exams are over but not that you 'made it' because you might have failed and be looking at doing resits (if you really want the exams)
I need a whole series about Cady's school experiences.
I am from India, it very similar to UK school system. That is serious and formal Teachers and principal. Its more of a sargent and rookie army joinee relationship. I used to think American school system was always better since it always promoted positivity. But as I grew older I think in a way I gained lot of discipline and more matured and take life seriously (in a positive way as in ambitions ). Growing up in USA I don't think I would have achieved those due to me having too much freedom and thus skipping schools and not giving fks what my teacher said.
But I would also like the teachers to encourage creativity like US schools. And yes a little less strict and punishment 😭
I remember finishing high school in the UK we got told during after lunch/afternoon assembly on a Wednesday where they had pictures of all the students in year 11 from when they started high school to present day from our school id that we didn't have to come in unless it was for an exams, we then spent the rest of the afternoon getting out shirts signed, though we did still have to come in uniform for our exams I do remember on last day of exams there were a lot of ripped ties and school diaries on the ground
ript? lol
@Karen A.T.H. haha, I didn't even notice, though in my defence, I wrote this at 4 in the morning
In English class in the US we were taught to write in MLA format and creativity wasn't a thing at all. It probably depends on the school and the teacher you get.
thanks to Cady, I'm now willing to learn more about UK culture! I love her bright smile, voice, accent, personality, and everything. I also really love Hallie too❤️ always happy to see nice people be a good friends each other
I feel like with American schools it all depends on what region you live in. Mainly because in certain parts of the southern region, different states have different teaching methods and codes of conduct. Whereas in the northern region some states follow the uk ways of learning and code of conduct. Dress code was very strict in my school. It cost $20 for a uniform shirt and you had to find pants that were the correct color with no added designs.
I was sent home because my shirt didnt have the school emblem on it. It was the school colors but just that one thing had me sent home.
Yes me to
In the UK you have to buy the whole set and extra, definitely over £100 for it and even the PE kit was around 60 because it's all specific to the school. Though there are options for second handed uniforms for poorer students. I'm talking about public schools by the way.
As an American we couldn’t express are emotions at all, I’m just going to say the rules we have:
No bracelet
No necklace
No earrings
You have to wear a belt or you’ll be suspended
Only uniform and nothing else
No ponytails ect
Pants below your knees
Shorts below your fingers tips
If you use a phone you’ll go to kid jail or get sended away to a school where you can’t see your parents?
They choose your shoes
You can’t show your arms
You can’t show ankles
If you talk you’ll go to detention
If you smile you’ll be yelled at
No hugging, walking close to someone
If your late by 30 seconds you’ll have detention
Etc
And the uniform cost abt 20-40 dollars
@@-AV33-No ponytails? What about hot weather? Also, did they allow you to cut it short?
My American schooling experience was definitely more similar to the British schools than the way American schools are claimed to be in this video. The only things from this video that were accurate to my experience were the (very minimal) dress code and graduation being a super big deal. Even then, most of the students don’t make too big of a deal about graduation, it’s really just the culture around it so teachers and parents make it a way bigger deal than it is.
same. I kinda wish they actually compared topics sometimes instead of analyzing comedy tiktok’s… my highly ranked public high school in the Northeast was cool and relaxed and people got along but it was still very strict academically and had a very high passing rate with most kids going on to college.
Graduation isn’t a thing here in the UK which makes sense
I’m a brit. When I finished secondary school we had a graduation party at a country house. You had to buy a ticket to go to the party & we all had to dress up. We also had an book we could purchase that the class reps had created with our pictures in and we had all had to submit a couple of paragraphs of out time at the school or thanking friends or about ourselves or whatever to go with our picture. So graduation parties do happen in uk. University graduation parties can be big in uk too.
Yeah my secondary school did that too, but they called the party "prom" (which happens after you finish sixth form/year 13) where girls wear dresses I guess. I wasn't interested so didn't go and the books that were created (for year 7 to 11 not sixth form) by the school reps were so unfair, like it had mostly photos of similar friendship groups!😑 Worst idea to leave student reps do the book!😐
@@galaxynova3215 the books we had weren’t like that. They were made for year 11 students and they were not friendships groups at all they were everyone in the form groups. Like Harry Potter has 4 houses my school had form groups. I was form F. So in the section of the group for F there was a picture of our tutor & then everyone in for F. It was the same for every form. Not everyone wanted their picture I’m the book so if anyone refused to have their picture then they just got a male/female silhouette I’m the book but no one in the school was missed out and there was no bias/discrimination. If people wanted just their friendship groups they could make their own books. I got some coloured paper and created a book and got all my friends to write personal messages in it as well as getting the end of year leaving book. So not all class/form reps are biased they can do a good impartial job. I also remember that my school you could buy a CD 💿 with pictures on. For a week or two you could go take pictures of yourself and you with friends and then they were all compiled together and put onto the disk. That way people who wanted pictures with their friendship groups had pictures on the disk. I didn’t have many friends but I still got the disk as I was still in it and I have pictures of my friends to look back on even if I don’t see those people any more.
In my secondary school, we got yearbooks at the end of Y11, where we all had a choice of whether or not we wanted a “quote” of some sort (mine was, “What is the meaning of life?”). In this yearbook, we were all placed in our houses (we had 5), and most of us had pictures from Year 7 and Year 10 (as a comparison).
There was also a prom at a hotel (which I didn’t go to). Apparently, it was one of the crazier things to have happened this year (this was back in July).
Anyway…
I love the way the us girl was talking about creativity and the uk girl was talking about rules and restrictions
Public school life in Alaska
-no uniforms
- school at 8:50am - 3:30 changing to 4:00 because of snow days
- we eat in our class because of covid
- every Friday is movie night
- everyone is nice
When you are a teenager, of course! You don't like to wear a uniform. But, when you grew up, you can understand that's the best.
Why? You would ask me. Because the most important thing at school, is that students differ from each other by intellect, not by fashion.
And, especially in girls. You can observe the enormous differences that are generated, how they displace one another, how they discriminate against each other.
And if you think about it, even if they go to school in street clothes, they still dress in uniform, depending on the group, some will dress as punks, others as hip hoppers, girls of one style or another.
There is more bullying in the classroom, at recess, and less attention on what is really important.
The uniform isn't even that bad
Some kids get bullied for not being able to afford popular clothes. School should be about learning and socialising and choosing new outfits out each day not only costs a lot of money but distracts from the former and can make the latter more superficial.
I’m a teenager and I’ve always loved uniform lol. Even as a little kid I liked uniform. I understood that if my school didn’t have uniform then that would cause me so much stress and I would spend ages trying to pick outfits and stuff. In my country it’s common in the last year of high school that you’re allowed to wear mufti. You’re still allowed to wear uniform but no one does because of social pressure. I went to a new high school and I was really worried that my school would also allow mufti for the last year but luckily they decided that you had to wear the uniform throughout all 5 years. I was very happy about that because most schools in my city don’t have uniform in the last year so I thought they would also choose to do that. I really love uniforms. When I was like 12, I got my grandparents in the UK to send me some cheap white school shirts (my actual school had a colourful ugly polo shirt) so I could like just wear them and dress up and pretend I had a cute uniform. Going to a school with like a cute uniform is very important to me. I could never go to a school without a uniform. I actually looked it up and have checked every high school in my country’s school uniform and I know which one is the cutest lol. I’ve actually designed school uniforms myself like 3 times. I just really like uniforms.
In Sweden (where I live) we don't wear uniforms and we also don't have any dress codes. I used to romanticize school uniforms, I thought they looked really cool (probably because of Harry Potter). And while I do see how uniforms can be good, I think It's important for young people to express themselves and experiment with fashion (among other things). I used to dress very alternative and I never experienced or witnessed any bullying, especially not because of fashion. Maybe I would've been bullied if I went to a British or American school though, who knows.
Australia is very similar to the uk with the exams and how we learn but graduation is middle ground big deal. Depends on what your school does really
I live in new Zealand and I haven’t graduated yet but I saw the graduation for the year above me at school. It was weird because they had like the whole graduation ceremony with like awards and a certificate and stuff but all the kids were in normal school uniform and it was all the teachers who were wearing the cap and gown lol.
@@rachelcookie321 oh wow
I am originally from NZ myself. When I graduated high school in Australia, we didn’t wear cap and gowns but had a graduation ceremony in front of the whole school, then at night a graduation dinner with our parents and peers and after that we got changed and went to a mates house to get drunk 😂
In year 6 (final year of primary) our teachers personally organised us cap and gowns as well we did a year 6 dance.
But our exams and things is very similar to the UK, I know this from other videos but also my uncle is a teacher there.
@@Rebekahlavy that sounds cool. When I “graduated” primary school in New Zealand we had a year 8 dinner a few weeks before the end of year and an award ceremony a couple days before the end of year. Then on the last day it was just like a regular end of year last day of school but at then end the whole school made arches with their arms and the year 8s had to walk out under it. It would of been so cool to have caps and gowns.
I don’t know if there’s a graduation dinner or anything at my school for high school. I know there is formal in June which has a nice dinner but I don’t know if there is one at the end of year too. I suspect lots of kids do go get drunk though.
Idk how similar the exams are in New Zealand to Britain. I mean, they’re similar in the way I think all exams are. You do the exam in like the auditorium with all the tables set up away from each other, and you got a clear pencil case, and you got a clear drink bottle, and you got phones turned off in bags, and you got an exam person sent from the education board to watch over the exams. I feel like that stuff is pretty standard exams. But then like our exams work differently here because you technically don’t need to take exams. Like if you get enough credits during the year, then there’s no reason to take exams. I just take exams for fun lol. Like our whole grades don’t depend on the exams.
I know how the exams and stuff work in the UK because I’m from Scotland and my dad is from England and I’ve done a lot of research on the education system there to see if I should move back to the UK to finish school (the answer is no because then I would have to repeat a year because you have to go through like a whole 2 year system).
With like the principal, in New Zealand I’ve had both experiences.
My first primary school here was a bit big with 800 kids and the principal was like the British one. He was really strict and you would only ever see him at school assemblies but he didn’t even come half of the time. Half of the time the deputy principal would come saying the principal had a meeting or something so he couldn’t come. He didn’t ever talk to any of the students unless there was something really serious going on. The only time I ever really met him was when I enrolled at the school, he wasn’t even there when I got suspended, that meeting was with the deputy principal.
My second primary school had a principal a lot more like the American one. It was a smaller school of like 300 and she knew every student’s name. She would wait out at the morning greeting every student as they came to class and she would say hi to all the kids when she saw them. Even after I started high school, a few years after I finished primary school, she still remembered me.
I think it’s actually more of a female principal vs male principal thing. Because in high school when I first started I had a male principal and he was less involved with the students but then we got a new female principal and she was a lot more involved, saying hi to all the students and knowing all their names and stuff. I went to school in Britain when I was little and my principal was female, although it was a little stricter and less involved than female principals in New Zealand, I still felt like she was more involved than male principals in New Zealand and that she would of been more involved than male principals in the UK.
800?! I only had around 120..
@@Brownieシ what country?
@@rachelcookie321 Britain
@@Brownieシ yea, British primary schools are a bit smaller. I think my primary school in the UK had about 200-300 kids. I don’t know about other parts of New Zealand but when I moved here there was 2 primary schools in my town, both with 800 students. My town is growing rapidly and the second primary school had only opened like 2 years before I moved here. Now there are 6 primary schools in my town and they all have like 600+ students (except the Christian school, they only got 200).
great as always😍
We once had a maths probability question which said "Neha eats a sweet does not regurgitate it, and eats another sweet" yeah I'd like to hope she didn't regurgitate it but thanks for the extra information i guess. I mean obviously if you don't state that valuable peice of information then my first thought is. Ah yes Neha must of regurgitated it i mean who would give such a thing to a child.
omg the girls in my british school still roll up the skirtssss
same they don’t care if we do
I can easily tell the age group of a British school from its uniform (this is just from my experiences but it's kind of the stereotype)
Primary: school-colour jumper/cardigan, school-colour/white polo shirt, black/grey trousers/leggings/skirt and tights
Secondary: navy or black blazer, (jumper/cardigan), white shirt, school-colour striped tie, black trousers/skirt and tights
Each "section" is separated by commas, interchangeable items are separated by slashes and dependent-on-school items are in brackets.
As a British girl, I've never, EVER seen my head teacher, and I've been at my secondary school for 3 yrs lmao
So so same . we say headmaster.
I did a exchange with my British school to a school in Pennsylvania, you guys get so much libertys like your lessons are so much more uni style education plus you get to chose what you eat in the cafeteria, my god i probably gained 5 pounds while i was out there
i’m in a british school and we can chose between hot & cold sandwiches, pasta, sushi, paninis, pizza, main meals, slushies, waffles, brownies, quesadillas, cookies, flapjacks etc
Lucky i am at a boarding school so we get what we are given lol
I'm American, but my public school experience in Mississippi was more similar to the British school experience--minus the quality and with a dash of prison system culture (including barred windows, iron gates in the hallways, ugly uniforms, visible "dog tag" IDs, etc.). Half of my teachers were underqualified coaches who would resort to bullying the students for kicks instead of teaching because they didn't know how to do the latter.
I went to school in Scotland from the late seventies to the early nineties. At primary school (age 4+) we wore white shirts/blouses, school tie and black, dark blue or grey skirts/trousers. Most wee ones did not wear school blazers - I suppose it would be too expensive, as we'd keep outgrowing them! They were an option, though. Our school wasn't really strict but you could still get hit on the hand with a ruler by the teacher. They had stopped 'belting' with a leather strap by the time I got there. I think most of us liked primary school though. Secondary (aged 11/12+) - it was a maroon blazer, school tie, white shirt/blouse and again dark blue, grey or black trousers/skirt. They did enforce the skirt length too, I remember people getting sent home to change! Our Rector (the headteacher, even though we were a state school we kept the old traditions from having been the grammar school for the town) used to walk about the corridors in his academic gowns, making sure we were behaving. He was a nice man though - IF you were behaving yourself. We had homework from Primary One, the first year at primary school, onwards. Teachers didn't really get involved with your personal problems or give advice, their hands were tied in that way. Sometimes they organised extra-curricular activities like a school dance. We didn't have school counsellors or nurses either. They always seem to have that in American films.That seems like a good idea. Re essays and exams - yes you had to know the subject, but a lot of the time they were asking you to prove or disprove a point (subject dependent obviousl), or to make an argument for something, so you had to have done further reading and formed your own opinions based on that. Another big difference is that our secondary school had prefects, who were senior students who acted as a kind of police, to take some supervisory responsibility from the teachers. Basically they made sure there was no bullying, smoking etc going on on their watch. I'm told they could be bribed though.😆
OMG, the American girl, her eyes color are so deep, that iris color is so light, almost like white (with a bluish hue). So pretty! 😍 Saludos desde México! 😊
I visited Mexico last month-such a beautiful place with wonderful people! 💕 Thanks!!
6:03 I live in England and this is just 💀
"maths" being captioned as "math" pained my soul in unimaginable ways
The thing about graduation in America is they finally got their Diploma. While in the UK, finishing secondary school meaning you'll just get your GCSE. There's nothing to celebrate.
Uh, did you forget a levels exist after GCSE that take place the 2 years after GCSE
My first science lesson in year 7 (England): teacher walks in “I’m not here to be your friend so shut up and listen” 🤣
🤣🤣 a good old swot knot!
3:56 Sixthform
writing on everyones shirts at the end of year 6 or 11 and the one person who writes KICK ME on your back...😂
My high school principal brought in celebrities to put on mini concerts …she was super nice that way
As an Indian I relate to British schools more...
Its true we don't see our Principals ever...Only if you get punished or in a yearly gathering or an Assembly meeting.
To be Strict or not to be, it is completely depending on what kind of a person the Principal is......
But I personally love Discipline....and there needs that slight strictness....otherwise there will be Hooligans everywhere
In the british way students brains are developed more, beacuse of teh kind of school exercises
American way is WAYYYYYYY more Open and Welcoming...
But students may misuse that priviledge...
Americans literally don't realise how privileged they are..
Ask yourselves Why People want to immigrate/relocate to USA............?
_(but you guys are kind of dumb)_
i havent seen my principle at all in all the years i've been in school. I can completely relate
The last time I saw my heat teacher was during my leavers ceremony when I left for sixth form, I only saw here like 12 times in my whole 5 years at that school
People who don't want to millions of fellow Indians without toilet access want to move to USA
India was a British territory once, so it's quite normal to have the same system..
I am from the US, back in the 1970's, We had a list of books to read ,one a month and We had to do monthly book report .
Me as an indian -: why i feel like i went to a british school
me realizing -: ohh yeah india was under british
I like how not just the flags have similar colours 🇬🇧🇺🇸 , but their hair are similar as well 👩🏻🦰👩🏻🦰
🤣go and look at the history you will understand why everyone looks same.(rip for native Americans)
@H why shouldn't I ?
@@arjunbprasad5265 they're saying the genocide of the Native Americans isn't a laughing matter
@@arjunbprasad5265 Trust me if there is something Americans will always know, its the fact that we dealt with yall very good and got our freedom. with the help of France of course, even a 3 year old would know that.
@@bodyofhope no it is not but what is happening now has lots of humor.
I’m my primary school the teacher was amazing. She was a really nice lady and everybody loved her.
4:27 at our school, pulling on the tie to close the knot was called "peanutting". To combat it you put a 2p coin inside the knot so it didn't fully close and you'd be able to get your fingers in to undo it.
I don't feel like this is the most accurate and generalized American schooling experience honestly.
My headmaster in the 60s was also a colonel in the army cadet force and if you saw him you would be expecting either the cane the slipper(beaten with a gym shoe) or rapped over the knuckles with a ruler. This reduced in the 70s and we also lost some of our drunk and predatory teachers but. Violence continued to be normal. Until I left in 1971.
1:23 so true
1:18 Immediately thought abt Harry Potter lol
I learned in Ukrainian school. And it's pretty different to both of described ones in this video. If we talk about graduating, (that's the most interesting part) it's like not very big deal and not like just saying "Bye!" But it is like sadness that "we already go from this school to another pathes of life" and nostalgie about time, spent there. But, now I live in Denmark and here graduating from schools and especially from gymnasiums is like in US. They rent a small truck but without a roof in conrainer. And they get in this "container", but standing all the road (they also can unwear themselves almost completely), get the music very loudly. The truck is going around the city (Copenhagen) and they are singing, dancing, fooling around and in all, having fun in it. They can also stop in some point of city and take into fountains and also splash and play there. People around always take videos of this actions (that's completely understandable because in Copenhagen there are always so many tourists and they probably haven't seen such celebrating). Maybe in other countries moving in such an opened container isn't allowed, but here students can celebrate like that.
omg i am in love with cady's slung
For my graduation we have to throw ties in the air🙄
Uk is much harder American is like kids work so easy.
OMG Essex Schools Bro 💀💀
If you heard of Thurstable then you know what I mean
Thank you girls! 👏👏! I was waiting for that video to continue learning different pronunciations, but also to see Cady's beautiful smile jj 👀🌹
both of these ladies are beautiful
Hallie here! Hi everyone!👋 Thanks for welcoming me to the channel! 🤗🥰
P.S. I'm sorry for all the 'like's hahaha.
Hi! 😊 I enjoyed every minute of the video, so funny and interesting at the same time. Hope you and Cady will make more similar ones. Greetings! :)
@@grazynawilczynosek959 Thanks!! 🥰
Hello , Hallie , i'm happy to see you and Cady in these videos 🇺🇸🤍
@@henri191 Thanks Henri! 😆
Welcome Hallie 🇺🇸 I am so excited for you to be featured as an American representative on World Friends.
Roll Tide!!! 😊
Hallie: Yea out principal got us ice cream! :) Cady: We had Spikes so we can’t climb out of school
I watched this whilst putting on my school uniform 😂
In the UK, nobody graduates from secondary school. The term "graduation"" only applies to university, where you get a degree (for example a BA or BSc) and then there is a graduation ceremony and a diploma.
When you finish school, rather than getting a diploma as in America, you earn a qualification by passing certain national public exams that are externally set and graded (BTW, Brits actually say marked, rather than graded).
Technically compulsory education in England ends at age 16, which would be the end of Year 11 ( equivalent to 10th Grade in the US in terms of age bracket). In England, the exams you take at Year 11 are called GCSEs and the most academically oriented students may take 10 or more GCSEs. Typically it would be English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, different natural sciences like Physics, Chemistry and Biology, History, maybe Geography, a modern or classical/ancient language, and something else you might take as an elective like Computer Science, Business Studies/Economics, an Arts subject, or a technical subject like Electronics Although you take those exams at age 16, their level would be equivalent to that of "normal" Senior Year High School classes in the US (i.e., not counting AP classes, which would be more advanced),
In the past, many working class kids would simply leave school at age 16, but, nowadays, if you are between 16 and 18, you are required by law to pursue some course of education in England, although not necessarily in a school properly. That can be an on-the-job apprenticeship, or you may alternatively go to a technical college that prepares you for vocational exams like BTechs. If, however, you want to go to universty to get a bachelor's degree, or if you want to get into a military academy to be trained as an officer in the armed forces, then you have to do Years 12 and 13. Year 13 would be ages 17/18 (like 12th Grade in the US) and, at the end of it, you normally take exams called A-levels. Unlike GCSEs, you normally take only 3 A-levels, which is the usual requirement to get into most universities.The more academically inclined students, however, may take 4 or, more rarely, 5. A-levels. Although 3 A-levels only may not seem challenging enough to people from other countries, A-level subjects are studied at a depth lthat would compare to a full first year of university studies in the US or Canada, so they are actually very challenging.
The current British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, wants to change how secondary school is organized (spelled "organised" in the UK) so that everybody in England will have to study at least 5 subjects up to age 18 including an English and a Maths (American "Math") subject, but I think two out of those five subjects could be offered at a more basic level in his proposal whereas the other 3 would be studied at the same level as current A-levels . There is going to be a general election in the UK in 2024 though and the main opposition Labour Party is likely to form the next government, so I am not sure if Mr Sunak's reforms will be actually implemented. I don't think Labour is in favor (spelled "favour" in the UK) of replacing A-levels with those new qualifications, but I am not sure.
Note that Scotland has a separate education system from England, which is run by the Scottish government and has a different structure. I didn't comment on it because I am not familiar with the Scottish school system. I believe Wales is the same as England in terms of the school system and I don't know about Northern Ireland either.
Your description about strangling someone with their own tie was the reason all the schools in our area dropped the tie from the uniform.
4:35 Peanutting is what I know that as (the pulling the thin part of the tie to make a tighter knot)
Cady here 🇬🇧 this was really funny watching the videos and comparing school life! When I watch it back it sounds crazy to hear some of the things about our school, it was a crazy time in my life! Do you guys miss school?
I got swat knotted a lot and omg the exam memories you talked about 😂
My English teacher did the film and pausing thing 😂 mind, I got an A in literature 🙌
Only gave swat knots to my friends though! ***
No ties at my school when I was there but I remember getting pice of paper saying how to modernise school uniform they just introduced it just before current school year. What they have now is actually shirt white see though ones, jumper with a v neck shape & Tie & black trousers or skirt. When I was there it black trousers,black shoes,normal jumper, & polo shirt.
When I first started secondary school they still had white polo shirts with a black sweatshirt that had the logo on as the uniform but by the time I started year 9 the uniform changed as the school became and academy. The new uniform still had the same black trousers and skirts but switched to white shirt shirts with a grey knitted wool jumper with clip on ties. We never had ties that actually needed to be tied so never experienced swat knotting but instead our ties were very easily pulled off of people that didn't expect it and people would then run off with each others ties lol. By year 10 we got a new head teacher and they got a lot stricter with uniform rules, they even started mandating skirt length very strictly and there were some instances where they would check with a ruler if they thought girls skirts were too short and make them be worn knee length. Apparently after we left in 2016 it somehow got worse lol
Where did you go to school?! Aelreds/Newton High?
In the uk the only schools you can wear your own uniform in is either SEN schools or Pupil Referral Units.
The socks and sliders exactly how us English people like it. 😂😂
My British school is like so strict on uniform 😅 I have sports in the afternoon, I’d have to wear formal uniform in the morning and then change to sports uniform in the afternoon 😂 I hate doing this
Where I go to school it is a clip on tie so we don’t drag each other on the ground until we got wot we want
2:31 I've been hit so many times by like pens and stuff at my skl 😭
very true about graduation, as a brit i just finish high school and got 6th form whereas the US high school is such a big deal as not all people go on to university.
If one of you can count the amount of time they said "like" 😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣
In a city of Chicago Illinois public schools private schools and charter schools has to wear uniform. Any school outside Chicago area like the suburbs they are able to wear regular clothes (Depend on the town) except for private school.
Such a great video
Very cool and interesting 👍🏻
I'm from the UK and in my school, they don't care about the tie length, but we do pull ties to strangle people, but we call it 'skinny tied', and we still have the invidulators during exams. now it's only 4 years mandatory in school.
As a recently graduated secondary schooler I can confirm it was like this lol
This is Andrew's son speaking, YES, I am a brit but the school I go to is nice and friendly. Probably because it is a public school, not a private school. For an example of how nice it is, the teachers are only strict when it is nessaccary and when I was in year 4, I saw a tiny bit of the year 6 graduation party on the playground. Also, the headteacher is nice (by the way for you americans reading this, where I live in England IS spelt with no space in between head and teacher. A good piece of information for you to know).
So true
Fantastic
In my high school our principal is great and loves to play pranks on classes every so often
My secondary school didn't have a uniform and our headteacher was a legend!
In UK schools they often play fast and loose with what you final day actually is, by like, saying you have to attend all the classes you haven't had exams for yet, so your classes kind of peter out, and your friend might finish a fortnight before you. And that is a deliberate move, because there used to be a culture of like, getting drunk on the last day, or causing havoc by like, bringing things in to throw around like eggs, or everyone running out the school at lunchtime and not coming back etc. It was just easier for them to not have a definite end date for everyone at the same time.
Wow very true (American here) wonder how the Aussie, Kiwi, South African, Asian countries, and the Red Heads (wink! much love), and Indian schools differ? I'm familiar with Germany and Swedish general area (your own your own) ... Makes me think of indigenous people as well. I am surprised I liked this video as much as I did. Thank you very much!
Australia, New Zealand has strict on in uniform. But Australia teachers are really Nice.
I know like five British schools that were there own clothes were I live😭I didn’t go to any of the
yep in my shcool we now have clip on ones bc people strangled eachover with them but now people wack eachover with the tie
We used to call the "swot knot" a peanut
Here in Canada we get a bit of both sides, but it is interesting to see how strict the British schools can be, which would mostly apply to private schools here, which would be much more strict, and even in public schools the dress code in most schools is much more relaxed than American schools.
Same with Austraila. we get a mixture of both
In my primary school we used to try and climb outside LMAO
**First vid for British schools** HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
When you talked about the ties and swot knotting, yeah we had that but we switched to clip-on ties.
Indonesian school and British school are pretty similar with the restrictions. But for the english exam, yeah like an America, more multiple choice.
My principal is chill and he hangs out with me and my orchestra class. We don't really have a dress code, but our only rule is no crop tops or spaghetti straps. Our tanktops have to be a tumb wide. (This is not in the school website dress code rules, but those rules were made a few years ago and they didn't change the dress code on the website, so we just memorized the new dresscode.) [I apologize for any incorrect spelling or punctuations.]
6:58 the same gurl lol i can relate to british schools all though i m not british
I’m my high school the teacher backed people croissant and brought sweets for all the year 11s in his class he is also amazing!
BTW I am British
in british high schools some girls wear their ties short, but when you are in 6th form or in a college you get to wear your own clothes
Australian schools are different as we wear uniforms, and our uniform is just a school top designed by them and either a skirt, shorts or leggings and there is no rules for them or our shoes as it's only that we have to wear our school top along with our own school jumper or jacket, not one from home our school one and also they aren't really strict and we also call I principal and we don't have hallways as our school is classrooms all kinda separated and outdoor but as u get older and go into high school and university including all the other stuff, they are the ones which have hallways and are in a whole building.
Those fences are so annoying,and most times that one person would be able to climb over but get stopped midway because a on-duty staff saw them
The British girl is speaking in Liverpool accent.. Innit?
Innit makes the sentence sound sooo soooo exotic🤣
How does it sound exotic?
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i’m still in primary school (i’m young,i know) and i’m british and we have a small school of about 150-300 kids but our head teacher and deputy head is very much like the american ones because when we come in they greet us every morning