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Post by longaotian on Sept 3, 2019 17:20:48 GMT 10
I just got done watching an American high school vlog thing on Youtube and now im interested on how peoples High School experiences were between countries. -I noticed alot of Americans in the comments were complaining they were always tired as their classes started around 7:00/7:30. I thought that was pretty strange because at my school classes only started at 9:00am and then ran until 3:00pm (6 classes each day). We had a 20 minute break around 11:00 and a 40 minute break around 1:00. -From what ive seen, most American schools are just one big building that you dont exit from the whole day (im guessing because the cold weather is dangerous?  ), where I am pretty much at all schools, the classrooms are seperate small buildings across the grounds so you pretty much have to be outside. -We don't have those yellow buses which are just for school kids where I am. You just ride on regular buses with the public to go to school. -My school had uniform. Some people don't like this but personally I didn't mind. -In the first year of High School, it was compulsory to learn Maori, Mandarin & French languages. -Twice every week we would have an assembly which is basically when the whole school gets together, sing national anthem, school song and the principal would talk sh*t for the next 20 minutes  . How was your high school different?
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Sept 3, 2019 20:08:27 GMT 10
-I noticed alot of Americans in the comments were complaining they were always tired as their classes started around 7:00/7:30. I thought that was pretty strange because at my school classes only started at 9:00am and then ran until 3:00pm (6 classes each day). We had a 20 minute break around 11:00 and a 40 minute break around 1:00. The schools I attended usually started between 8.30am and 8.55am. In primary years we had two breaks (20min break at 10.30am and 40min break from 12.20pm). Secondary three breaks (20min break from 10.40am, 40min break from 12.30pm and a 15min break from 1.45pm IIRC). -We don't have those yellow buses which are just for school kids where I am. You just ride on regular buses with the public to go to school. There were dedicated and general public school buses here. -My school had uniform. Some people don't like this but personally I didn't mind. We had uniforms we were required to wear. -In the first year of High School, it was compulsory to learn Maori, Mandarin & French languages. No languages were compulsory to learn at my schools. -Twice every week we would have an assembly which is basically when the whole school gets together, sing national anthem, school song and the principal would talk sh*t for the next 20 minutes . Same rundown basically. But we usually had an assembly once a week.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 3, 2019 21:13:56 GMT 10
* We started class at 8.30am and would finish for the day at 2.40pm. On Tuesdays, we used to finish at 2pm, because the teachers and office staff members had weekly meetings for the hour between 2pm-3pm. * Our uniforms were dark green with black & white stripes. When I was in Year 7, we had to wear a light green uniform which was made out of a horrible material; it used to be hell having to wear them in summer. * In Year 7, it was compulsory to study either French or German as a language subject. I had to do German. * Our school only had dedicated school buses. I had to catch them each weekday until I got my red P's in May 2016. The 'cool kids' always sat at the back seat (which means that I never sat there).  * The bus would usually pick me up at 7.45am and it would drop me back home just after 3pm. * We used to have 10-minute "roll-calls" just before the start of 1st break. When I was in Year 7, they were at 8.30am every morning, then it got changed to 10.30am the following year. The only day which we never had roll-call was on Tuesdays, because we had a whole school assembly between Period 2 and 1st break.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 3, 2019 21:20:42 GMT 10
The schools I attended usually started between 8.30am and 8.55am. You would have had to study Years 11 and 12 at a secondary college, wouldn't you? Maybe the Tasmanian education system has changed since you graduated, but I remember my Uncle telling me just last year that his fiance's daughter (who was only in the year group below me) had to go to a secondary college as high school finishes at Year 10 in Tasmania.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2019 22:57:02 GMT 10
Here's my High School experience:
* We have roll-call at 8:25am then we would start class at 8:35am and finish at 2:45pm while on Tuesday's we finish at 1:40pm because staff had meetings. We have 30 minute lunch break from 10:40am until 11:10am and another 30 minute recess break from 1:15pm until 1:45pm.
* Our uniforms were white with the blue outline of the schools logo while our sport/PE uniform is Blue and Yellow.
* In Year 7, we only study Spanish as a Language subject.
* Thurday's we have the whole School assembly from 8:30am til 8:50am.
* Every first Wednesday of the month we have formal assemblies.
* Thursday is sport day and if it rained we would be put into a classroom to watch a film or do homework until we're dismissed at 2:45pm.
* In Year 11, we had to attend compulsory crossroads camp.
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Post by telemelbs on Sept 3, 2019 23:19:27 GMT 10
Start at 8:50 and end at 3:10 Uniforms were sexy Whole school assemblies were held 2-3 times a term and went for an hour and a half Form assembly was on Wednesday's after recess for 15 minutes French was one of the compulsory languages until end of yr8, but did it until yr11
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Sept 4, 2019 0:22:09 GMT 10
I forgot to mentioned that afternoon classes ended at around 2.30pm with school days officially ending at 2.45pm. This was both for primary and high school. The schools I attended usually started between 8.30am and 8.55am. You would have had to study Years 11 and 12 at a secondary college, wouldn't you? Maybe the Tasmanian education system has changed since you graduated, but I remember my Uncle telling me just last year that his fiance's daughter (who was only in the year group below me) had to go to a secondary college as high school finishes at Year 10 in Tasmania. Yes. High School was Yrs 7-10 only. You had to enrol to continue to Yrs 11-12. Here's my High School experience: * We have roll-call at 8:25am then we would start class at 8:35am and finish at 2:45pm while on Tuesday's we finish at 1:40pm because staff had meetings. We have 30 minute lunch break from 10:40am until 11:10am and another 30 minute recess break from 1:15pm until 1:45pm. Yes. For High School we had homeroom first up every morning at 8.30am before classes began for the day at 8.45am. Start at 8:50 and end at 3:10 Uniforms were sexy Whole school assemblies were held 2-3 times a term and went for an hour and a half Form assembly was on Wednesday's after recess for 15 minutes French was one of the compulsory languages until end of yr8, but did it until yr11 Yeah! Uniforms were sexy, I agree! My school uniforms were blue top and maroon pants for Yrs 1-6 and gold and brown for Yrs 7-10, and grey pants, white shirt and tie and black top for Yrs 11-12 Actually, now that I think about it, French was one such subject that was done in Yr7. Thanks for reminding me!
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Post by al on Sept 4, 2019 2:54:04 GMT 10
-My high school began at 7:30. Middle school was 7:20 and elementary was 8:10. Why the little kids get to sleep in, nobody knows. We had 25 minutes for lunch and got out at 2:30.
-Schools are one building minus a random out building here because it's too cold. My school had a barn and a separate alternative school. (Having to change buildings in college was terrible in winter.)
-K-12 all use yellow school buses though a few neighborhoods use city busses for overflow.
-Our dress code restricted offensive language, short skirts/shorts, spaghetti straps and low cut necks/armpit holes.
-Foreign language was not compulsory but most freshmen take one. Choices are French, Latin and Spanish. All eighth graders take a related arts course that introduces all three so students have an idea of which interests them.
-Assemblies were rare, and usually student council members spoke. The principal would deliver messages over the morning announcements or might send an email/letter. We did have guest speakers from time to time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2019 3:30:10 GMT 10
Hours - 9.00-16.50 with an hour for lunch 12.00-13.00
Uniform - Dull grey
4th Form pupils could choose what subjects to take but English and Math(s) were mandatory.
School discipline was as strict as it had been 40 years previously.
Minimum legal leaving age was 16 but some chose to stay on until 17 or 18. These extra years were known as 6th Form.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Sept 4, 2019 9:49:59 GMT 10
In Year 11, we had to attend compulsory crossroads camp. I had to do crossroads as well. I'm not sure if this is something that you had to do, but we had to go down to Killalea for a day and complete a number of different group activities. There was also another day where we went to the Kembla Grange Racecourse and listened to a few presentations about driver safety. School discipline was as strict as it had been 40 years previously. Did kids used to get hit with a belt/strap if they had misbehaved? That was a form of school punishment that happened here in Australia up until the Mid '90s.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2019 21:32:36 GMT 10
I had to do crossroads as well. I'm not sure if this is something that you had to do, but we had to go down to Killalea for a day and complete a number of different group activities. There was also another day where we went to the Kembla Grange Racecourse and listened to a few presentations about driver safety. Ours was different, we spent three days at Camp Wombaroo our activites involve Coanoeing, Archering and walking along the Flying Fox.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2019 2:00:38 GMT 10
Yes, Shark. Children were caned in England and Wales and strapped in Scotland. This did not cease until 1987.
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Post by thy9899 on Sept 8, 2019 20:50:23 GMT 10
Our high school started in 7.30 am and ended in 1.10 pm for government school
For private school,the high school started in 7.30~8.00am and ended in 2.30~3.00 pm
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), where I am pretty much at all schools, the classrooms are seperate small buildings across the grounds so you pretty much have to be outside.
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