Basic knowledge and literacy is going the way of the dodo. I have met adults that have never heard of ww2, time zones, jfk, the civil war, bosnia, etc. general knowledge is gone. America is over.
I’m in secondary school in the UK (same ages as in high school I think) and I’ve just had such a different experience, maybe it’s just my school lol
Now straight up, I'm not American. But there's always been this romantic fantasy of being in a american high school (even though my ugly ass won't be able to get no girls lol) So, is it like the movies? (Ones like kissing booth and sych)
* movie starts *
* columbia pictures intro plays *
* initial credits start rolling in *
* baba o' riley starts playing *
* bomb explodes *
* main character goes flying in slow-mo *
* pauses with character mid-air *
* narrator starts to speak *
- " hi, my name is [BLANK], and you're probably wondering how i got here, it all started [BLANK] hours ago "
* cuts to generic scene of main character waking up in his teenager bedroom with an alarm *
* alarm starts playing generic 2000' rock band music *
" oh no! i'm gonna be late for school! "
* main character puts his clothes in a hurry *
* rushes downstairs and sits on a perfectly made breakfast table *
* main character's mom and dad are introduced *
- " oh hi sweetie, did you sleep well? "
-" not now mom, i'm late "
-" dont forget to [BLANK] when you get home "
-" alright dad "
* takes a toast, grabs his backpak and rushes outside *
* gets in bus and the camera starts to zoom out *
* initial credits stop to roll in *
* cuts to scene where main character sits beside his comic relief fat friend *
* they have a conversation that ends with a joke showing how quirky the fat friend is *
* cuts to scene where all the buses get to school *
* main character gets out of the bus with his fat friend *
* introduces the generic bully and the generic blonde bimbo and love interest of the main character *
* gets inside a generic school hallway *
* main character starts to talk to the camera while on his way to his locker *
* gets to locker *
* wipes off graffiti on the locker door *
* takes books *
* continues talking to the camera *
* bell rings *
* goes inside class *
* teacher is introduced *
-" alright class [BLANK] "
(from now on the movie finally gets kind of different from the rest of the others)
Hello Americans, I’m a little bit confused, as an outsider, as to whether the whole community gets into the high school football stuff or if it’s just the students of the school. So are American high school football games a community thing or just confined to the high school students themselves?
How is it different from the movies? Like "Mean girls","wild child" and "Before i fall"? I keep having the impression that people get laid all the time during high school, crazy parties and getting drunk and having fun all the time lol, compared to Asians. I know that's a pretty ignorant perception but it's really a grindfest living in Singapore.
I teach at a charter school and was given the green light to teach a Native American Lit class as an elective last semester. The course was a big his with the students, but I'd like to improve.
I'd like to add one or two more novels to the reading list. I'm considering There There, Turtle Island, and House Made of Dawn.
What other Native lit works have you included in your courses that are suitable for high school students?
American Kickboxing was a Kickboxing style developed in the 70s originally as a full contact Karate competition combining Point Fighting and Boxing rules. Today WAKO also has a semi contact point fighting ruleset. Would you be ok with this becoming a scholastic sport?
It is extremely difficult to fail out of high school these days. If you don't wind up in juvenile detention and maintain at least 50% attendance, you will almost certainly squeak through with a diploma. School administrators' single greatest pressure point from outside stakeholders is their graduation rate, and they really have no incentive to make schools more academically rigorous. This results in a lot of pressure on teachers to create "credit recovery" chances for students who have failed courses recently in which they "show evidence of proficiency" by doing a half assed job of some of the major projects or essays they blew off the first time around. Students see this happening and they understand that school is a complete joke. It's performative teaching and learning to dress up a minimum security prison. Schools need to grow a fucking spine and go back to real teaching and learning. Kids need to memorize phonics and math facts. Kids need to actually read literature--not just listen to half the audiobook and barf up a putrid essay of boring ideas cobbled together from the internet. Kids need to acquire a truly working, functional knowledge of world history. The reason our country is plummeting into a bleak chaos of Idiocracy is because we're not actually holding kids accountable for learning shit.
I am curious as to what are the different positions or the overall hierarchy of your HS/college. (like from President to freshman-senior class representatives.) It would also be nice to know what each of them are supposedly tasked to do, how much power they actually have, what various activities they help organize throughout the school year, how and when elections are held, etc.) I'd love to hear stories of experiences, or if you have one where you knew someone taking advantage of their little power? I'm all ears, lol. I'm writing something that involves a little something about this, so that's why I'm here - also I'm generally curious.
BBC Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59253091
At present, I only hold a high school diploma. I do not have any plans for attending tertiary education.
It's difficult for me to say, but I feel that societal pressure heavily pushes people towards higher education. If you don't have at least a bachelor's degree, then many opportunities in the job market will be restricted.
Why is that? I can read, write, and speak English at a high B2 level at most, and colleges don't even teach people any sort of practical knowledge in their field.
From what I was told, most knowledge are acquired on the job, so any hard working individual can succeed without a fancy degree.
That being said, I do acknowledged that certain fields like in STEM are much more difficult to teach someone on the job because of the required prerequisite knowledge from schooling.
However, most fields in the industry can be taught fairly well to someone with just a high school diploma.
Firstly, excuse me for this question. I know that I am asking a question of Brits for an answer guided towards Americans, but I would love some help.
I am an American high school student who is graduating this year. I am currently writing my application to the UCAS system. I am confused.
At the bottom of the Education section, below the ULN, there is this question:
"Please state the highest level of qualification you expect to have before you start your course"
The choices:
No qualifications Below honours degree level Honours degree level or above
Where does an American high school diploma land here? Is it below the honours degree? Is it not a qualification? I am fairly certain that it is not an honours degree level, but I have not found good answers.
If it is not a qualification, should I remove the USA - High School Diploma qualification from my school? By the time I graduate, I shall have taken 5 AP tests as well.
Please send help.
Thanks.
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I've always been intrigued with high school baseball in Japan and the magnitude of Koshien. I've always wondered if there has ever been an American student who's transferred to Japan to take part in its completive baseball culture. Is it even allowed? Any insight would be appreciated.
I know that there are exceptions to this (My GF had elementary school that was K-6 for instance), but the three groups of grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12, at least in the United States, seems to be by far the accepted standard anywhere I've been.
How did this differentiation come to be and for what reasons, and how did it manage to take hold so nearly universally compared to alternative breakdowns that were considered?
The history of the racism Black people had to endure and overcome is taught to every American at an early age. The result is that society is much more empathetic towards their struggles and injustices. Can the same be said for anti Asian racism? If not it should be a priority among the things we advocate for. There’s certainly enough for a full course, from the lynchings, bachelor societies, war propaganda…even the history of war brides should be taught.
As far as I know it isn’t. With nothing else to go by people just believe what they hear from the masses, which usually aren’t good things. They’ll latch onto false stats about our so-called “privilege” and instead of congratulating us when we succeed, find ways to get us out to make way for those that they’re empathetic to. Maybe if society understood our struggles they’d be more empathetic to us.
Maybe this would even help some of our own people empathize with their own. We all know too many Asians put priority over other ethnicities’ struggles before their own Asian people.
Ik this is really cringe lmao but I’m curious
Eg: the jock, emo kid, druggie/stoner, nerds, anime/manga, populars, good ats, drifters, bottom ladder cliques, fine arts kid, hipsters, foreigners
Edit: I believe the question isn’t worded right, what American high school stereotype suits you best? Or fits you the most? Or you find yourself falling into?
Hi! I have noticed several mvs lately that are heavily leaning into the American high school concept, and I was wondering why this was popular in Korea at the moment? Like, was there a drama that aired that made the prom concept popular? Has an old American movie (like Heathers, Clueless, or Mean Girls) trended in Korea that spurred on this concept? Or is it just growing from one group to the next?
The ones I can think of recently are:
I've been learning Spanish by myself for 10 months (Hasn't been perfect but good!), and I was even able to jump up from HS Spanish 2 to Spanish 4, but I still have yet to encounter the use of vos in our classes, and it doesn't seem likely it's going to be brought up later either. I find that quite strange, considering we have to learn conjugations for vosotros, a pronoun only used in Spain, but don't hear anything about vos, a pronoun used in much of Latin America, a region the US is closer to.
That being said, maybe it's a consequence of me living in Washington State, almost as far as you can get from Latin America in the US. I was curious, if you've taken Spanish in high school, were you taught the vos form?
I’m a sophomore, (junior after this coming summer). And I’ve played football the best 6-8 years of my life and just yesterday I was emailed by two colleges about coming to this athletic showcase happening in two months. I know that it’s not an invitation to their schools and even if it was it’s not very prestigious but I’ve never received something like this about anything and I asked others and they didn’t receive the same email. And I just wanna know if you guys think I should just be happy that I managed to get on the catch all mail, or if I should never mind all that and be ready for the showcase?
is it possible for a foreign student to graduate from an american high school? what would be the typical play-by-play? I'm from France and i might be moving to the US (california) with relatives (but who never went to an american high school themselves) so it means i will not be an exchange student. Is it possible to graduate from an american high school, if so? Most european countries do not have the same requirements and most of our school programs vastly differ from the american ones. Would i be allowed to graduate? How would the credit system work for me? We don't have one in France. Would i need to take classes for say freshmen even though i'm heading into junior year? would i need special tutoring outside of school or to go to summer school?
Any help is greatly appreciated, because as you can see i'm a little freaked out lol
Having PE every Tuesday, two periods before lunch - we would switch to different lessons; like alternating between doing badminton for one term, then moving on to gym as such...
We would be mixed with girls in the gym class, moving between different exercises within circuit training (from squats, to pushups and more) repeatedly.
Since the main floor area was made for such bodyweight exercises, right next to it , were the machines - which in this case, was where the one group of girls were hanging out... Unbeknownst to me, and not noticing they were there..
My ass decided to do pushups with loose, large shorts - and as you may already tell where this is going, they saw my underwear and probably more stuff that shouldn't have been. But hey, least they didn't laugh at the sight! ;)
Coming to the realisation that they saw, did one final pushup and walked off - waving my arms around to add the interpretation that I didn't realise them noticing.
I dont oppose nor do I encourage teenage sex . I am just asking how true are the depictions of sexual relationships in American highschools.
