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As a German, no shot he's waking up at 9am, taking public transportation to school, has the time to eat breakfast at a sit-down, and be anywhere before noon.
He must be having cancelled classes otherwise I wouldnt believe any school starting at 10
At my school up from 11th grade you would have random schedules where classes could be anytime between 8:00 to 17:00. So on Mondays for example I only had classes that started around 10:00 and some days I had lots of free time in between classes.
In one year I had a day where I had time come to the 5th class. It was a Tuesday and it sucked. I'd much rather get off early than stay longer. Was back in the early 2000s
Vllt die ersten Stunden Entfall
9 Uhr aufstehen ich wünschte ich hätte diesen Luxus damals gehabt
Ich musste immer um 6:30 aufstehen da um 8 Uhr die Schule begonnen hat einige Schulen begannen sogar um 7:45
Thats definitely NOT a classic school day in Germany!
Yeah, show a school day from a school in Berlin/Kreuzberg.
This will look more like reality, I guess..?
@@Kivas_Fajo I think that depends on the school and not that much on the region where the school is
@@Kivas_Fajo yes anything really, kreuzberg, wedding, reinickendorf, neukölln.
hahaha ok my quest is still on to find the typical day!
@@p_pingu7809 I know that! I said Kreuzberg, because it is similar to NYC Bronx....
most german school days start around 8am, my friends would all get up between 6 and 7, depending on how close to school they lived
Wo? Bei uns geht die Schule 7:30 los
@@Nora-tw1sy ich hab in drei verschiedenen bundesländern gelebt und die schule hat bei mir und meinen freunden immer zwischen 7:45 und 8 Uhr angefangen, 7:30 ist schon mies da kann doch eh noch keiner denken😅
@@Nora-tw1sydas ist aber sehr früh
"classic school day" wakes up at 9 am and gets breakfast on the way to school lol
Somewhere a French committed Harakiri with a Baguette when he heard Ryan call a Croissant "Crêpe"
Seppuku! Harakiri is only for Samurai!
@@clausanders2886Maybe one just jumped out of window? But wait that's also restricted to only working people who failed at something. A french could say in french "I'am fed up!" and goes into erimitage in the country side with no media.
i guess he just yelled out "Crepe? Croissant! Cretin!!!!!!!!"
@@tubybubi And I just vocaly mixing up cretin and gratin. Well I hate patatoe gratin.
I always find it funny that Americans ask why we can't buy larger containers of milk (we usually have 1 liter containers). So if you buy four individual containers, you'll have about a gallon. Plus, if you open just 1 container and don't use it in time, not all of the milk will go bad.
For commercial kitchens, there are also cartons of a 10 l bag in a box.
This has a lid that is difficult to open, so the bag is cut open.
However, this is usually only used in kitchens that cook food for 400+ people.
it is beacue amerikans only drink the unfresh heated milk which last ages even in an open big container...
'murican milk is so full of chemicals and skimmed - it does not go bad ... it just changes ... really gross!
it is not a fresh product like in Europe where milk goes off after 10 days
In america we have these things called refrigerator. That will keep milk and other products fresh.
@orangeguy3314
Believe it or not - Germans have these too. However, even when refrigerated, milk will go bad after a few days. Unless you drink a truly astounding amount of milk every day, I would hazard a guess that at least half of the gallon ends up in the sink.
I don't think school can possibly have started for him before third period, which is around 10 am. Both days.
Maybe there were cancelled classes in the morning. Or he has an enviable schedule.
This is a rather modern school for German standards. No wonder it is in Bavaria. 😉
BTW, there is no real equivalent to college in Germany. If you get the highest education at the "Gymnasium", you would finish at about 19 years old. From there on, you can go directly to university, if you wish.
You might say it's akin to Berufsschule if you need some specific qualification because you don't have Abitur.
Or Fachschule, Handelsschule/-akademie (=school/academy of trade) or HTL (=technical community college). It's the highest grade before University/Fachhochschule ;) Greetings from Austria
@@rumsfeld99I think for amaericans college is anything you finish with a bachelor? So it's basically the equivalent to our University bachelor degree has nothing to do with high school
College=Uninversität.
actually, there is. it's called "Berufskolleg".
In Germany, we wouldn't use the word "school" to refer to university/college. Although the term "Hochschule" (literally: "high school") is used for all types of university/college, it's never shortened to "Schule"/"school". If somebody says "school"/"Schule", they're always talking about what you would call primary/middle/high school or a non-academic vocational school, but never institutions of higher education.
Similar thing with "Student" (same word in German as in English, but different meaning): A "Student" is always a college/university student, never someone still going to school. A school student would be a "Schüler", a pupil, not a "Student".
Yeah
In Germany we have at least two menus, some schools have up to four menus.
One meat menu and one vegetarian menu, some schools offer as third menu a Salat for people, who are vegan
You mean to say dish. Menu in English means Speisekarte. The German Menü means dish in English.
Ther is also the muslim menu without pork
to be fair 80% of german schools dont offer lunch
Yes, and at our school theres always the 4th option, where you can just take noodles with tomato sauce if you dont like the other options
@@huffelpuffwerewolfgirl5811 Regular School Food is normaly: 1 Normal Dish and 1 Vegetarian Dish. Muslims have to eat the Vegetarian Dish. When there are three Dishes then you got one Normal Dish, one Beef Dish for Muslims and one Vegetarian. As Vegan needs special supplements for growing Children so Vegan ist mostly not provided. I worked at the third biggest School in Lower Saxony and that was the normal serving. 3 Dishes. All the other Canteens around had the same Choices. I am now at an other School with only 2 Dishes but it's the same. Pork Meat is written out and on those days there is an Vegetarian Dish with Eggs. I visited several School Canteens and that was the norm for Muslims, had to go Vegetarian or Hope that the main dish doesn't have Pork. Only a three Dish Canteen will have one non-Pork Dish everyday. Schools have to offer a Meal when they are a "Ganztagsschule" meaning the have a Programm for the Pupils running from 8am to 4pm then they have to have a Lunchbreak and a Cafeteria or Canteen.
That was not a crepe, it was a croissant xD
I litterally tried to speak it out even as not having french classes. Wasn't it a cup of cappucino or at least a Latte (maciatto)? Sorry I am not a coffee drinker at all.
@@Lexikon69 it was definitely a Cappucchino 😆 (the glasses for latte macchiatos are seethrough and taller glasses)....it's liek with German beer: if you go to a restaurant you know from the type of glass or mag what drink is on the table 😀
To put it short: I would say, that, looking at me when I was young, and looking at my children, the median of all german school days starts at 8:00 a.m., ends at 1:00 p.m. and has two "longer" pauses included. Menues are not available that often.
Apart from the comprehensive schools, many high schools have had lunch menus since the introduction of G8 (grades 5-12 = graduation).
In some federal states there is also a "reliable elementary school" with an afternoon program (a) no child/class is sent home because of teacher absence, b) parents have the opportunity to book extra "courses" so that the children are looked after until the afternoon )
*Start of school: some secondary schools actually start the first period between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m., as the students sometimes have to travel further and yes, some high school students(grades 11.-13. ) don't start their lessons until lunchtime, but then sit in class until 5 p.m.
@@manub.3847 I described the MEDIAN case of various (20-25) schools, I'm familiar with, in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Saarland and Rheinland-Pfalz. "To put it short".
You describe rather special cases here, marked with "MANY". Afternoon program also only falls in the category "MANY". This is comparing apples with oranges.
Please show me the statistic, about how many schools in germany start after 8.30 a.m. in general. Does this share reach even 1%?
In our german school it started at 7:15, 45 minutes per subject with 3 minutes inbetween to hurry to the next room. After every set of 4 subjects we got 20 minutes break. School was over at around 2-3pm. We didnt have a cafeteria, you either bring your own food or you go hungry that day. There were no clubs or additional activities you could do aside from taking your daily classes. And we definitely didn't have pads or computers or anything like that + smartphones during class were forbidden. The school shown in the video is extremely different from my experience.
When did you go to school? Probably many things changed during the last years and thats why the school from the video is so different
its not only "when", but also "where".
as a rule of thumb:
Privat schools are better equipped then "normal" schools.
Gymnasium is better equipped then Realschule.
Realschule is better equipped, then Gesamtschule.
Gesamtschule is better equipped then Hauptschule.
Big city schools are better equipped, the small city schools, who are better equipped, then village schools, who are better equipped then schools for several villages.
Westgermany schools are better equipped then east germany schools.
High income areas have better equipped schools then low income areas.
and so on and on and on...
but of course schools today are generally better equipped then thos in my days, but as i hope i have shown, its not the only thing that matters in this regard...
same. 15 years ago, when i went to school we started at 8:15 latest, and hat school until 4-5pm, we had a small kiosk with microwaved food or belegte Brötchen and thats all. No additional clubs. pads, computer, smartphones were forbidden.
Ich würd ja schon fast Militärschule sagen, aber wir hatten (haben die Schüler immernoch) bis 18 Uhr Schule was jetzt auch nicht viel angenehmer war🤷♀️
@@bmkmymaggots the last time I went to gymnasium was 10y ago. School start at 7:30 after 90 min class 20min break so on till 6th class after 6th class 45min lunch break (we had a small bakery yeah an actual bakery and cafeteria in school) then you'd have up to 5 other classes. We had plenty of clubs like IT-Club, Biology-/Chemistry-/Physics-Club, Theatre- or orchestra club, School emergency service and Firefighter club (further first aid till the ambulance arrives, treatment of sports wounds like broken limbs) after learning 1 year with the German red cross and local emergency doctors since the school was in a rural area hosting 1600 students. Also different language- and sports clubs. Ah and I forgot engineering club. To me that was the most normal thing ever, also when I lived in Norway the school had about the same clubs 😅
School menu - in Germany it is traditional to have your main meal at noon. Parents often use staff restaurants, children, if they have an all-day school (not the main type here yet) go to a school cafeteria. Their meals are usually part state sponsored.
Oh man. In Austria (Vienna), we were left to fend for ourselves. 🤣 At lunch break, we went to Spar (or any other supermarket) or to a restaurant nearby.
im german and I never experienced a schoolday like this ever in my life.
i think most european countries sells milk in cartons
Yup. In Asia too.
Yup everything i saw here was full on danish to me.. Nothing new. 😊
It may only America that sell milk in plastic jugs
They have milk in glass bottles or plastic jugs in the UK, but a similar size to the rest of Europe.
@@ivylasangrienta6093 milk in glass bottles do exist in germany as well but carton/tetra pak are much more common.
That schoolday looks like a pretty normal day in upper Gymnasium levels (11-13th grade)
You often have your classes more like courses in a University to get you ready for it.
I've had days where I had classes from 10 am to 5 pm and on other days i had to be at school early in the morning
but only until 12am or smth. (often times "Freistunden" free time lessons, where i could go to the next Cafe or smth)
Sounds southern. Alone the 13th grade :D
Our school day was fixed. Start at 7:30, 4 blocks a 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes of break each, end was 15:00. one day of the week it was only 3 blocks so it ended 13:00.
At least in my last 2 years.
@@avior2951 not only southern, its the same in NRW (maybe not in villages idk)
normally school in germany starts at 8 a.m.. for us it was sometimes 7.15. and most of them don't have a cafeteria.😅
I think more and more schools either already got a cafeteria or are getting one as whole day schools become more common. So it might not be the same as when you or I went to school.^^
no i woke up at 6:30 to go to school because it either started at 8:00 or even at 7:30 xD he must be late lol xD
agreed
Late, or the first two periods/classes didn't take place, for whatever reason. During my final two years I would sometimes have a later start, because we didn't need to take all classes anymore. So depending on your individual timetable you may have started later or gone home early.
@@ulrike9978 true with the rising teacher shortage...
It is always interesting to watch someone from a different culture, because that's what it is, and point at things that are different in their culture.
In these reaction videos, not only you learn about us Europeans but we also learn something new about Americans 😊
Apart from the broccoli hair, a lot things seem to have changed since my school days.
A rich kid in a rich part of bavaria in a well off part of a city showing his private school.
Try a documentation of Berlin/ Neukölln schools.
Exactly. As if there was food or a cafeteria in any normal school in Germany???
@@Kivas_Fajo All school shave one big room, and that is mostly where you can take your meal, if you want to eat something that was cooked at about the time you woke up.
@@steemlenn8797 I was at 6 different schools, while I was a kid. None had any of that.
Granted, this was 35 years ago, but the buildings haven't changed, have they?
This example here is a whole day school or whatever it is called. Usually you leave school to or after lunch time and not by 3 or 4 p.m.
Lunch is therefore not necessary at normal schools, because the kids go home after school for that.
Don't agree. My son's school is older, but in good condition and they also use modern technology in classrooms. They also have a 3 choice menu and others. Berlin is a special thing compared to most other regions in Germany I guess.
When I grew up in Germany we had school starting at 8am and ending at 1pm or 2:30pm at the latest. There was no need to get food in school. Afterwards we had time to be kids like normal people.
In my time, this existed until the 6th grade (school years 1989-1999), then it was abolished that we were allowed to go out to eat in elementary school. Because the lunch break was abused by many students and there were too many who simply ended their school day with the lunch break despite still having a 7th period.
I thought it was stupid that it was abolished...
For me, school meals are a basic provision. If the children are supposed to go to school, then they should also be able to get food there. In itself, this should even be free of charge for the student.
He is surely a german being fluent in british english and not the other way around. In german schools you are usually taught american, british and australian english along with all kinds of world wide accents to understand and speak every english. Some listening tests are even a heavy indian accent spreaking to a native scot.
I think he is a Brit, though. In my 30 years I've never heard a German native speaker talk like that, regardless of their (high) language proficiency. His name (Henry Holmes) is also not typically German (if it's his real name).
Theatre classes are generally not part of school unless it is part of music class. It is probably an elective or school club.
At my school you have to choose between music, art and (Dsp= Darstellendes Spiele) which is basically theatre class
@@plompi9205 interesting. I had both music AND art. Never heard of "DSP" before.
In grade 11 we could choose between music, art and literature class for the whole 'Oberstufe'. The literature students had one play in grade 12 and rehearsed for that for a few months, they also crafted the props they needed. The rest of the three years was reading and analyzing classic literature though.
In our school we have regular drama classes from year 10. It is optional.
Why do you always say Hullo at the beginning?
This is probably some form of Gymnasium (High School that goes beyond 10th grade) with a more loose time table. Most schools have a pretty rigid schedule from around 7:45 am to 13:00 pm or 15:30 pm in the afternoon. Also, many other schools don't get the funds for a decent menu if the school even has a canteen at all. It's definitly one of the more modern schools and the town seems to invest some good money into it.
German escalators look the same, except they don't move until someone steps onto them. When I lived in Germany, I took the subway to school. It started at 8 and finished between 11.30ish and 1pm, depending on the weekday.
You can buy cutlery in all kinds of colours and designs, I guess it's the same all over the world. I've seen gold spoons and thought of buying them.🙃
The milk cartoon looked very normal.
Eating lunch at school doesn't seem like a normal thing to me, but rather something you do at all-day schools. Regular schools, at least where I live, end around 1pm, so students will eat lunch at home.
It's Viennesse style Schnitzel with potato salad.😉
Our school was surrounded by trees and bushes.
9am seems very late to me, unless the first few periods are canceled for this day. I think it's normal to get up at 6:00-6:30am, also depending how long it takes you to get to school.
It was probably a Gymnasium (so yeah, basically high school), but not necessarily what a regular school day looks like for most people in Germany, also when it comes to the technological aspect - the Ipads even made me wonder if this may have been a private school.
I believe he filmed his clock upside down so it was actually 6 a.m. at least that makes more sense.
I think that guy might be an exchange student? Then he is probably attending classes at a "Gymnasium".
The book was per hitchhiker through the galaxy from Douglas Adams, a real piece of art and British humor. Wish we would have used that for classes back then. The book got made into a movie too but personally I can't recommend that one
He's taking the subway, which partly is underground and partly is above ground, also called U-Bahn.
That's a very standard looking Subway, actually so much standard that Busses and Trains aren't much different looking.
Also I've known a kid that went to Gymnasium 3 years ago and they had days where they got up at 6am, and days where they got up at 9am, because sometimes the first few lessons aren't filled with anything and they can come to school later, but in turn they also can have days where you stay at school until 6pm.
*old person voice: Back in my day, every schoolday started at 8am and ended at 4pm and empty lessons were spend in the school doing homework in the halls
No, the first one was a bus (you can tell by the wheelhouse below the visible seats, trains don't have that).
The second was either an "S-Bahn" or an "U-Bahn", both of which are kind of like a metro, but the "S-Bahn" is generally bigger (both in width and length).
Also the design on the seats of the first one look very much "bus". I don't know how to describe it, I saw them and had no doubt in my mind it was a bus rather than a train or tram.
@@Finsternis.. 7:22 is the subway in Munich.
@@UlliStein I suppose you just tagged me because you clicked reply on my response rather than OP? Because I said first one, refering to the one @ 2:19
LOL, throughout highschool I had to get up at six to have breakfast, take the bus and then the train, and another walk up a steep hill to my school by 8 am; which, btw, did NOT have a cafeteria at all. All we had was a crappy coffee or tea dispenser that also had bad cocoa and an oxtail broth! Sometimes, when you got your cocoa, parsley from the kid getting soup before you, would float in it…. My lunch was usually a packed sandwich from home, an apple or sth. like that…
Aah the good old days, I remember 😊😂
@@bofh85 LOL, don’t now how old you are. This was in the eighties, not fifties, though…
@@Attirbful why, I just said I experienced the exact same thing. Mine was in in the 90s
@@bofh85 All right! The “good old days” comment led me to believe you were insinuating mine was a story of “when I was a kid, we had to walk 10 miles to school through 10 inches of snow - without shoes…”-kind of thing. I consider myself older than most commenters on CZcams videos, so… everything is good!
@@Attirbful hehe no I know today everybody assumes that a reply to a comment can only be an insult xD yet I meant it like I said 😊
I can tell you that most schools definitely do not look like that. 😂
I wish though
I'm jealous, in my German school in the past never was that modern and well equipped and for lunch I had to go the mensa next to my comprehensive school which was only allowed for university students, but I found a way to be reliable and buyed my food there sometimes, if I had afternoon class and not enough time to drive home and back. 😅
bought, not buyed :)
@@celinesiebert4858
Thank you, I forgot that. Englischunterricht ist schon sehr lange her. 😅
Okay now I want you to look at schools in Austria next! Not just regarding lunch but the school system in general.
Because here it is regulated by law to have menus at school (if the school offers lunch) and the weekly nutritional value is predefined. Lunch is connected to the after school activity/care called Hort and there are different ways schools can implement it, if they choose to do it at all. It’s especially common in rural areas that elementary schools don’t offer Hort care, kids will go home after about 12:00 or 1pm. Hort care can be managed by the government or by a private institution, families can apply for financial assistance if they don’t earn a lot of money. It’s not rare that parents or grandparents help each other out if there’s no Hort care available. Some also go to a so called „Tagesmutter“ (=day mom), they have to meet certain requirements and had to take a few classes. Tagesmütter often take care of babies and toddlers as an alternative to a kindergarten. The older kids get lunch and make homework until a parent gets home. Depending on how big a Hort is, kids can play there, have excursions, make their homework and learn for tests. Many choose to be a Tagesmutter because their own kids are still small and they can earn a bit extra money.
School starts somewhere from 7:45 to 8:20 am, in rural areas it’s often linked to public transportation. School on Saturday is getting more rare (only possible with school autonomous rules), most schools understand that the disadvantages prevail. Kids will have regular classes in the afternoon in middle school, usually on 2 days. Many schools offer „unverbindliche Übungen“ which are voluntary activities similar to your clubs. They are managed by teachers (NOT by a Hort) and mentioned on your yearly report.
I‘ve lived in rural areas of Austria and now we live in Vienna, so I‘m not just used to one place but obviously there are exceptions I’m not familiar with.
My kids already went to kindergarten & elementary school here in Vienna and are now in middle school. We chose a private school but they only go there because I worked at the school before my paraplegia and just love my ex team.
They’re specialized in inclusion but also created an autonomous school curriculum. They have 2 teachers in every class plus a special needs teacher if necessary and honestly that should be the norm everywhere! The kids profit from it sooo much. The Hort is in the school building and they have a specific learn time where teachers from the school are helping the kids with homework. They also offer extra help before tests.
Their school day starts at 8:10am, they have no break between the first two hours (whatever time they need to prepare for the next hour is included anyway), then they have a 20 minute break. Repeat it again and then they have lunch time or go home.
Austria’s school system finally started a small technology initiative where every middle school student receives a laptop (with additional pay from the parents but it’s not that expensive). They also added an hour per week to teach kids about the internet, computer stuff etc. Before that it was each schools own responsibility to include it in their curriculum, if they did at all. It’s still far from perfect and I really hope they will adapt the school system FINALLY in a really meaningful way. Kids learn so much useless stuff they forget as soon as they leave school… but that’s a different story and applies to all countries.
"(TV) screens in trains and buses" -> usually show advertising, the stations or even emergency information. Some also display fun information about the region.
That "crêpe" was a croissant :)
Ah, danke. Wußte nicht was er mit dem Wort meinte. ^^
That probably was a school in Bavaria. The school was too modern for a "normal" school in Germany. And the food was too good.
While i doubt the 9am getting such a low sun at the time is not impossible. Remember germany is actually pretty far up north if you check it on a globe or acurate map you will see germany is mostly on the same latitude as canada
But not as freezy because of borowing some heat from the caribbean. The cold can stay in those fancy criss cross colored flags states and around an overambitous war monger.
Not having maths in your native language sounds difficult? You want me to blow your mind? I was born and raised in Luxembourg. Because Luxembourgish is a relatively new language, when I was in school, there were no books in Luxembourgish. For the first years, we used German books for maths (and biology and everything else except for other languages) but then, after a few years, they changed to French books! I was born here but being Portuguese, I had to learn these languages (including Luxembourgish because when we spoke, we spoke in Luxembourgish), translate to Portuguese in my head just to understand the question and then, I had to apply maths and again write the answer in German and later on in French. If you ask anyone who went to school here, it's a normal thing for us because that was all we knew.
Calling it a new language sounds strange to me but i know what you mean. Its a german dialect/language (you can call it either, theres no definition) that got its own orthography and the countrys policy is making it used everywhere, hence the book thing.
it is very hard to keep this sort of topic compact, but this is not the case for every school, for example the one in my town is quite old and slightly outdated and is only being digitalised since about 2020, the available IT Equipment is not the latest but alright for school work
My sons Kindergarden has his own cook. Everyday they get fresh cooked meals. Thats kind of common in my region. In schools if its a big school the have their own kitchens but also schools get the food delivered. But i guess the healthyness of the food is common in Germany.
As we all experience „Lehrermangel“ (we don’t have enough teachers) it could be that some of his classes were cancelled. 😅 Otherwise, when I was in grades 11-13 we were allowed to choose subjects and got individual timetables, so a schooldays from noon until 4pm would be possible, yes. Maybe the guy simply set his alarm clock on a false time, could be some kind of teenager humor. 😅
My german school (Gymnasium) started at 10:00 am, but only on saturdays. From monday till friday much ealier - sometimes even at 7:05 am ... :( And I prefered walking to school, which took me around 40 to 50 minutes (one way), depending on the crossing lights. But we had pretty nice food at school, though! :) Oh, sometimes I miss my school days - and the food, too! The school is now very modern, with tablets for every student and free wifi - and they have the touchpad-wall-boards (or whatever they are called now) in almost every class room now.
It was a quite big school with around 1,700 students. Our huge sport-and-swim area was great as it was/is part of the "sports performance center". Extremly modern as some german olyimpics athlets trained there ... and so on! :)
This is the most unrealistically modern and fancy german school I've ever seen.
Also: the food always sounds great, it's just the same overcooked mush (plus shoe sole meat for the meat option) every day though.
When did you last set foot in a school? Yes, this building is new, that's a minority, but even the old buildings are done up by now. There's still some things to be done, but overall, it's alright.
And the food has to be up to the standards of nutrition science, like the In Form programm.
@@agnes1250 About 6 months ago for an internship. Sure, I just know the school I went to myself, the one I did my internship at and the ones the younger kids in my family go to from what they tell me. I don't know other schools from the inside, though every year there are reports of how bad the situation in schools ist. All of the ones I personally know seem to be pretty much the same my school was 15 years ago.
Some bought a few tablets, none of them use them in class. All still use OHPs and the same old blackboards because they don't have any or not enough smartboards and projectors. After the false ceiling came down during my last school year they still have not replaced it. The halls in my cousins school got new paint just 10 years ago though, which is at least something.
Food can be nutritious and still look and taste terrible at the same time. The DGE Qualitätsstandard also just ensures the absolute minimum of nutrition. People would still call that unhealthy if kids would eat that way at home while for the schools it's using words like "sollte" and "ist zu bevorzugen" and thus still allowing deviation from those already very low standards. It's also not even mandatory in most states!
That's not like the schools i went to. We did not had a cafeteria, we still had an overhead projector and in elementary, we had bulliing, that got worse per school grade... XD But yeah, i slept the early school hours too.
And i often woke up at 6 am, school at 8. But we had many plants and trees too. :) But also, i am 36 and it's been a while.
My school (in Germany) had also very healthy food, with lots of vegetables. But the vegetables were moldy, the food was burned or overly salted. Sometimes, it wasn't edible, because it was so ugly. Most people hated this food.
The comment on the food plan was "Nothing too special."
It's just a regular meal layout for the week
Some of this sounds super fancy, but I'm sure in execution some meals aren't that great.
*But(t)* it's actual food and not a box of highly processed Lunchables with sugar and salt off the charts.
Don't get me wrong, they're a treat and I'm sure I'd enjoy them, but they are no healthy meal by any means.
I remember my lunch in school has been alright usually.
It's real food freshly prepared in a central food kitchen which also served canteens and kept warm a couple of hours due to transport and stuff.
As I said, it has been alright most of the time, sometimes it was good even, but it's no fancy restaurant gourmet stuff.
Often left to be desired, but real food after all.
So yay German school food I guess. 😊
The kid's native language is German, but he chose to develop an English accent. To native English speakers, this might seem unusual, but when learning English as a second language, it's entirely feasible to adopt an English rather than American accent. Most likely, many people don't give much thought to this and naturally pick up the accent they hear most frequently.
Normaly school starts around 8 am and the sixth period ends around 1:30 pm. Eighth period ends around 3:30 pm. In a lot of schools you can have 10 periods if you're in grade eleven or higher. Most schools have breaks after every two periods. first break like 20 minutes, second one 15 minutes and third break 45 minutes. But almost every school has 5 minutes breaks after every period when there are no long breaks.
But every school can decide how they want their hourschedule. Mine was a little different. we had our first break after the third period and then after the 6th and the next one after the 8th period.
The food is pretty much the same as any other school.
There is also something different every week.
Normally you can choose between vegetarian/vegan or meat dishes.
Pork has now become rare.
Most of the time there is beef or chicken, because of the rising muslim population.
School normally starts at 8am.
This was a croissant not a crepe.
What the heck are you talking about??? Food at schools? Cafeteria?
In normal schools there is neither.
This must be some special school?!
@@Kivas_Fajo Where were you please? This is also available at Hauptschulen.
@@Kivas_FajoYes I see "Schüler" wandering to a "Döner Grill" or picking up some pizza and the throwing the boxes on the sideway or at least stuffin them into a waste bin. Where the later is overwhelmed from that stuffing. Can't tell whats about the state of individual stomaches.
The higher up in years you get, the more choice you'll have for school subjects. Overlapping choices mean you have to separate classes by time slot, so if the subjects you picked aren't in the morning, there will be no school in the morning. We also don't have the exact same classes every day.
Keep in mind that education in Germany is a state ruled thing, so as you can see in the comments, some Germans are just as surprised as you.
But for people like me, years 11-13 were a bit like a lite version of uni schedules later.
Milk is usually sold in Germany in 1l Tetra pack´s. The benefit of the 1l packs is among other things, that the milk lasts longer. If you need more than one liter, you just open a further Tetra pack wich also have a screw cap.
Our school food at the Gymnasium was so bad we ordered Kebap every single day 😂 But on the menu it sounded just as good. The company is called Appetito, maybe someone from germany knows that crap 😂
school starts nearly always at 8 am, but sometimes you have 2 lessons later, that happens mostly in higher class, if a teacher is sick and other things
we often don't have erasers on our pencils and instead we have bigger erasers in our pencil case, they also work a looot better
There are only three dishes from my school days that I can remember.
1. "Königsberger Klopse" (special meatballs) with potatoes and vegetables
2. pizza
3. stuffed peppers (minced meat filling)
These were delicious! Everything else was bland in taste and not of high quality.
I remember every dish ever served from my whole schooltime, which was around 40 years ago: None
@@addjem
You are a lucky person.
90% of the pupils who ate at school were the children of single parents.
Just like me.
It's sad and it's (morally speaking) wrong.
The whole system is inhumane.
I gotta say. If nothing else was accurate, his pencil case very much is. I still have that exact one. Two more people in my class had it. It's still available in stores, as far as I know. (It's not any kind of trend and there are a lot of other options, don't ask me why this one is so wide spread. It's just a good pencil case, I guess.)
I'd guess he was on a bus in the beginning by the shape and pattern of the seats. Train seats are thicker, especially when they're grouped as four seats facing each other like that. These flimsy plastic things look like bus seats to me.
Nothing like drama class when I was at school, but then that was in another century 🤣
The food plan was probably the schedule or menu for the week, and a column was for each day of the week. 😄 And regarding High school or college: these dont exist here. To put it simple: we only have the "Oberstufe" (usually 11th to 13th Grade) that gives the "Abitur" (Exam) as a Qualification for University. Not all Schools look so fancy of course, there are also older buildings and furniture.
My school also had a lunch menu like that, that's relatively normal, for gymnasiums at least.
Most schools start between 7:30 and 8:30. But in the upper years there is a chance that on some days the you dont have a virst or even second lesson if you're lucky and can sleep in
It says Viennese style Schnitzel, not Viennese style potato salad. ^^
Though it's usually not Viennese style schnitzel because "original" Viennese Schnitzel is veal meat though it's usually pork or chicken meat ^^"
@@Moonchild0 Under Austrian law, you have to specify the type of meat used instead of the traditional veal.
In Germany, an administrative court ruled that the term "Wiener Schnitzel" (Viennese style schnitzel) refers to all types of breaded schnitzel, regardless of the type of meat.
Yes, der Schnitzel is serious business in our countries. 🤣
@@SatieSatie You don't have to specify it. It sometimes called "Viennese Schnitzel" even though it's not veal. It can be missleading. And yes, Austrians usually call to veal Schnitzel "Viennese Schnitzel" otherwise it's just "Schnitzel".
I though I should say something about this because for Austrian we take the "Viennese Schnitzel" very serious 🤣
@@Moonchild0 Really? I'm Viennese and I don't think you're allowed to call a non-veal cutlet "Wiener Schnitzel". 🤔
Either way, this made me hungry for some good crispy Schnitzel... 🥲
@@SatieSatie As it should be!
Food at school is mostly good, it's supposed to offer one good meal a day for everyone. People with low income only pay 1€ per meal.
That is a normal high school (Gymnasium), they are very well equipped. Multimedia boards and ipads are used regularly.
My daughter goes to school by train and subway, that's not unusual. We have a shortage of teachers, so lessons sometimes start late or they have only two classes. Otherwise it's about 30 to 34 hours a week in year 12 and 13, school starts at 8:00 and can go until 17:05.
The title of your video should be corrected to "typical day at *a* school in Germany", because the school that I attended (Which sadly closed just a couple of years later) was not even close to this. We had buns, prezels and a small kiosk with a few different sweets and small drinks. And all that was only there, because the parents of each class payed a small fee for it to exist. Some parents volunteered to work there in their free time for us to have something to eat. No mensa and no menus. Also, I had to take the bus at 6:31 am to be at school at 7:30 am. School ended for us at 1:45 pm. Not to mention that the school in the video is way too modernized. Ours wasn't even close to this. We had overhead projectors, regular oldschool blackboards, a laminated floor and class projects on the walls from people that left the school 40 years earlier (Like my mom lol). Gotta be honest though, I loved every second of it. Sad that they teared it all down a few years ago. All those memories are just gone 😥
I was up 5:30, take shower, prepare tea and coffee for everyone, putting plates and stuff for about 6-10 relatives, eat quickly bread and prepare another for school break, take bike to the bus station, (seldom bus+train), takes an hour to the Gymnasium. School ALWAYS started at 08:00 s.t. (no minute late alowed). If a teacher was ill there was a substitute. School ends 13:00, so 6x45m
No computers, no cells, no school meals, no homework help.
1-hour bus-trip home, eat something, doing homework another 3-5 hours (it was a lot more training by homework in those days) After that farm work started and "women's work" after that (sometimes work on the field in the afternoon and school home work in the evening.)
With school lessons and school homework in school in the afternoon my back would not have been hurting since I was 22.
I honestly get jealous when I see so relaxed days nowadays.
It seems a lot of free time for friends, theater, meetings, outdoor walks is only interrupted by a bit teacher lessons now and then.
Anyway that guy loves CUTTING videos (floors) and friends but not the real evident truth.
No way Ryan can get a minimum knowledge about a classical german school day by this puzzle.
Speaking of schedules varying from day to day -- in 12th grade (which admittedly was 50 years ago, back in 1974), I had one term where Mondays went from 8am until 5.45pm, with only one 20-minute break around 10am for a late breakfast/midmorning snack, with 4 wildly different classes, another 20 minutes from 1.10-1.30pm for lunch, then a double period of PE and a 2.15h block period of Home Economics/cooking class (interspersed with 5-minute breaks between every single period; double periods were continuous). No cafeteria; we could buy snacks (read: sweets and pudding) and drinks (cold sodas, milk or chocolate milk) from a kiosk run by the caretaker during the mid-morning break, so most students brought sandwiches from home. Cooking class alternated each week with HomeEc, and we wouldn't get food when we weren't cooking. I also had to leave home at 6.50am to catch my 7am tram, then switch to a bus AND walk 10 minutes to school; going home was the same in reverse. So I actually had a 12-hour day, including travel time back and forth.
This was kind of balanced on Fridays when I had to travel 70 minutes both to and from school, just to attend ONE 45-minute biology class at 8am.
I had a 36-period week (which included two electives; the must-attend time was 30 periods/week, which at the time included a 4-period schoolday on Saturdays. Fun, right? 🙂
I have been out of school for about 7 years now and I know that schools are modernizing, but that was not a typical schooldays at all.
For one most schools start at 8am. Only from class 10 on when you can choose your classes outside the core classes you might have a later start on one or two days. But mostly you are not so lucky. I had taken the minimum required amount of classes in my las year at the Gymnasium and I still had a packed schedule with at least lessons from 8am to 3pm four days a week and only Fridays were shorter till 1pm.
I went to a full-day school. That requires schools to offer lunch, but as a school in a richer small town community we had a lokal bakery that rented the schools basement and opened shop there. Only offering two options for lunch is rather unusual today. Most school lunches have three menus. One with meat, one vegetarian and one vegan. That was already the case with my lunches (before I got parent permission to go into town in class 7) and that was around 2012 (being vegan was not really a big acknowledged think then).
Also the offer of extracurricular activity's like theater club or curses fully depend on the school and the teachers willing to organize and supervise them. As we were a full-day school we had one lesson per week were we had to choose a club to participate in, meant to give us a reprieve in the packed day. But in reality the school used that to get students that struggle in a subject to attend makeup classes.
I have a spelling problem that I have under control now due to much working on it and was forced to go to German language makeup classes during that time. The teacher supervising that class always felt bad for me, as I did not need that. It was a class to help the students who did not grow up speaking German in their home. And it did nothing but bore me to death. It certainly did not help me with my issue.
As for the level of technology used in schools I can only say that my small town community has brought in tablets and projectors with appleTV into the classrooms from class 5 for some years now. They started that when I graduated and have finished integrating it fully now. Still I would not bet against the old 'Overheadprojectors' to be stood in some basement room just in case. But not all schools are as well of and modernized as my former school is.
In general many schools lack funding to overhaul their facility's and you can count yourself lucky to go to a school that has modern equipment past a projector able to connect to your private computer by a cable. At least when your local community is less well of.
Another example: since grade 7 my school day started at 7.10 a.m., so I had to get up at 5 to catch my bus at 6 for the one hour ride to school. The normal days ended at 1.45 pm, the longer at 3.35 pm. We had 20 minute breaks at 9.40 am and 11.50 am. First after 3 lessons, 45 minutes each but after the first we had blocks of 2 (90 minutes) e.g. 1x maths, 2 x history, break, 2x English, break, 2x geography and 2 x art on a long day. Lunch was optional and you paid like 12€ per week. 2 options each day.
I went to a Gymnasium in a small town, the school was an old historic building with a modern second building attached. The school was equipped quite well. We used smart boards in some rooms since grade 8/9 and had a quite big partner programm with schools in India, Russia and France.
It may be surprising for people who have English as their native language, but since English is the world language, we also learn it in school
Looks like a Gymnasium in a fairly affluent area, most likely western Germany. I'm in the northeast - schools around here are considerably less modern, not just the buildings, but everything. Menu looks a lot better than it does around here, too.
I assume he's in Oberstufe, sometimes there's empty hours in the morning depending on which courses you attend. The school is pretty modern and he seems to live close to public transport. but this is in no way a normal school day for the average german
Edit: And I just checked the original video: his clock is an hour off (he woke up at 8 AM) - guess he's still on summer time
i visited 5 different schools in germany (1x basic school, 2 middleschool and 2 highschools) and had NOWHERE a "lunch menue".. not even an offered lunch at all :(
all i ever knew was a kind of "cafeteria" where you NEVER FOUND WARM FOOD, only something to BUY (on your own, from your own brought money - pocket money mostly) and feel so sad i never had that! :(
and cant even confirm a "lunch" is "normal" at a german school!
No, it was a croissant.
It’s an English lesson.
Holmes is a British name. Many Brits grow up in European and Asian countries.
1. in germany you go to "ground school" (grundschule) grade 1-4 and after that you can choose (or not, it´s based on wheater or not you´re good at school) between gymasium (you get "abitur" and can go to university directly after, but you have to stay for 9 more years so 13 years in total), "realschule" (you can go to a university directly after, but you would have to retake "abitur" on a special school; to end realschule you have to stay 10 years in school in total) and middle school ("mittelschule" is basically a pretty low school leaving certificate; stay 9 years in total)
2. unless you are in 12th or 13th grade in gymnasium or in university school usually starts at 7:45 am and ends (mostly) on 12:45, you have two 15 minute breaks in between the lessons and if you have lessons on afternoon, you can eat lunch you brought or buy in cafeteria or supermarket.
3. our school system is very bad and old, so we clearly need a reformation and transformation. it´s called "drei gliedriges system" because you choose between 3 possible schools and the system is like 200 or more years old.
I really enjoy watching your videos and if you want to i can teach you some german words!
des heißt nicht ground school sondern elementary school und in sowas arbeite ich etwas mehr als 35 Jahren..... und wenn du mich fragst und da geb ich dir schon ganz recht, dann gehört des Ganze mal rauf und runter reformiert und neu und ganz anders gestaltet. Aber des werd ich fei nimmer erleben. Ich geh nämlich in drei Jahren in die Rente.
Grundschule=primary school
@@mariannetr8045 beides ist richtig..... so steht es jedenfalls in meinem Dictionary..... ich glaube der Unterschied ist nur UK oder US -Term.
3:43 this is why i miss school, the food was very good actually, and i ate waaaay more healty then i do now as a grown up man :D
I went to this exact school, graduated a couple years ago and it definitely wasn’t up to standard a couple years ago and talked about badly by students of other schools in the area 😀 the view of the school he shows is actually the „Neubau“, the OG school building is way uglier and older. It wasn’t a horrible experience there but definitely not as great as it might seem from this video
There are bilingual classes at a lot of highschools. At least 3 subjects are taught in english, if teachers who can do that are availible, it's more. And we have IB schools (private) or IB classes at public high schools, where pople can take the International Baccalaureate, a graduation that is internationally recognized. That is taught completely in english.
not sure which state he is in and how school changed since i still went. but when I was a kid in school (90s and early 2000s) school still started at 8am and to get there in time I had to wake up by 6am. It was torture. we also didn't have school lunches. it was just school straight from 8 to 1 (sometimes 2) with two recesses (one smaller one bigger) in between.
possible though that some schools changed the starting timings now, which is why they also offer lunch, but their school day will end later in the day I guess. definitely an improvement if you ask me. but i feel this might be some kind of private school with a special pedagogic approach to be forward thinking like this. and yes, their meal plan is way fancy. not every german school meal plan looks like this for sure. Also their equipment is way too modern, you're right. definitely some sort of private or maybe church owned school.
I think it's private.
havent heard of a less Typical day at school in germany :D. I have been at 2 different schools after elementary school.
I never had a start at 9. It usually startet at 8, except if classes were cancelled (which happened a lot. I had 3 spanish classes and 2 exams in 2 years :D) which mostly were shortterm notice, so I often only found out about it, once i already was at school. Also the lunch menu was depending on the school, either 3 out of 5 days vegetarian, or some international stuff nobody ever heard about, and always sounded made up by someone who never tried food. Because it was unenjoyable for most, about half the pupils went to get Döner kebap sometime during the day. As you sad, that menu was special, although it could be terrible, as cafeterias tend to be afraid of seasoning or taste. Also from what was shown in the video, they had huge classrooms with few people instead of the exact opposite. About the technology used in the video, my schools had maybe like on beamer for the entire school, but mostly just overheadprojektors. Also from 6th grade onwards I school was over somewhere starting from 1pm-4pm. Also homework, although I never did them. Not really a difference, but regarding your comment at the end about his language, he could just be german, and good at english, which is not uncommon, and also at one of my schools we had the option to do some subjects in english, to get better at english but that wasn´t mandatory.
to add this, these differences could be due to different states. I expact that guy to be from bavaria, since they actually put some money into schools, compared to most other states.
I'd like to mention that in germany we are commonly trained to pick up an english accent, but you can pass with an american accent. Furthermore many Germans, especially Gymnasium students are pretty good english speakers ...
I believe if you earn 12.5 or higher out of your 15 points in your Abitur exam that is considered atleast a C1 level of english. However correct me if I am wrong guys.
school days, also in "college" here usually start at around 8, 7:45 or 8:15 for some. I had to get up at 5:30 when going to "college" cause i had a long train ride to school
I guess many commentators have not seen a school in a long time - so much has changed since „our“ days. I have a first-grader now and was blown away when I set foot into the primary school last year. No blackboard, only a multimedia screen, IPads for the kids, thus no projectors needed, a modern Mensa. I guess, especially Gymnasiums we’re the first to profit from money from the government for digitization and so on, so I don’t find this video unrealistic.
All you guys had menus? We had some sort of bakery where you could buy a leberkassemmel and that's pretty much it. In all schools i went to (well except elementary. there they didn't have anything i think and you just brought your stuff or so)
I went to two different high schools and both were very pretty and modern. Glad they weren't similar to those I've seen in America haha
3:25 Our schools are required to always offer healthy food. Furthermore, vegetarian or vegan and there must always be one meal per day without pork, because of the Muslim students and teachers. As far as I know, there should be 2 different meals on the menu every day. However, the food is only free for students whose parents don't earn enough money or are on welfare. For everyone else, the meal costs between €3.14 and €4.25 per meal.
I finish school 5 years ago and teacher still took our phones but I went on a visit Back and from 8 Grad onwards they can use iPads and Laptops now
you dont have to keep the "cartons (tetra pack))" in the fridge. they are durable for months until opened. then we keep them in the fridge for a couple of days
I was in theatre class in Indiana twenty years ago. That was so much better than what we have in Germany today. I have seen some great productions in Germany as well but it is generally underfunded and not as organized as in the US. In the US we had individual stalls to practise things like singing or instruments. That's unheard of here (I've seen it once). Also the stage was well-equipped and there was an art class that prepared the background pieces, a shop class that helped set it all up etc. So all kinds of classes worked together to put up a great show. While in Germany if at all there's a drama class or a club solely responsible for the play and if they need additional material, music or lights, they'll have to work it out themselves. But than again my high school in the US was at least three times as big as my German school. It differs in the different states. There's only a few states that offer drama classes. It's more prevalent in the US where parents encourage their kids to take up an art to help with college.
I‘m not as knowledgeable about these things in Germany but there are some comparable schools in Austria. Could it be that they exist but aren’t well known beyond their local area?
The school my kids go to specializes in Music („Pop, Jazz und Weltmusik“), it’s one of the three highschool branches the school offers and for the school size they do amazing stuff, won prizes and even entered the charts. We have multiple school bands, two choirs, there are many concerts in the school and outside, the equipment is great, they soundproofed certain parts of the building, there are 7 rooms just related to music and instruments, kids can learn everything from keyboards, saxophone, guitar and whatnot.
The other branches are „Ökologie und Umwelt“ and „Globale Entwicklung und Gesellschaft“. Students of our school won sports prizes, science prizes and the school itself also won prizes.
I think it has a lot to do with money and the work behind creating different concepts. I worked for the school before I had to retire because of my disabilities and you really need everyone giving 110% every single day. Not everyone wants to invest so much time and effort and the best school principal fails if the team doesn’t pull in the same direction. Not to mention the flaws in the school system as a whole.
@@juliaspoonie3627 of course there are schools that specialize in musical education and are well equipped but my impression was that most US high schools at least the ones in Indiana that I visited had this equipment. Also most US high schools have top sports fields that are well maintained. While in Germany that is reserved to only few German schools. But there are examples on both ends in both countries. Our rival high schools were one in downtown Indianapolis and they had a great music program but their sports area was tiny and dirty and one in carmel that seemed even better equipped.
The screens on the train, usually show you the news or the weather forecast. aswell as upcoming stations.
it was something between 10-12 year ppl seems to be 17-18ish end of highschool.... and yes that is the level of english your work on in class 10-12 in germany....
School in the Ruhr Area is very different, but this video gave me chill vibes
just keep on scrutinizing every single detail - the more the better - that is exactly what I like about your reaction vids
my Schooldays are a thing of the past for quiet some time now, so its normal that there are differences.
Also i have been going to school in east germany (normally not as well off as west germany) and in a very tiny village as that.
So take this with a big grain of salt, but:
Man, i had to get up at 5.30 am as well. School started at 7.30 and i would often get home at 16.00.
We had no cafeteria, but someone sold milk bottles with a ton of sugar and strawberry or vanilla flavor.
the overheadprojector (we called it a polylux) was almost the most high tech equipment in the whole school and when we had "Technik" which was a subject somewhere between electronics, computer and architecture classes, we had 1 old af PC with 166 mhz and maybe 8 mb RAM for 2-3 students...
i just want to say: it may have become better, but this is, imo, still not very representative of most german schools.
(and dont get me started on how broken down and unhealthy some of the buildings are still today)
Speaking of unhealthy. There was the room for watching media aka VHS on a TV ("Tottsie" and "Mahadma Gandhi" watching there I can remember) where it was very "muffig" damb and fungal, from not having experienced so often "lüften" open windows for air exchange (the room). Don't know about the state of that complex, but heard it got remodeled to a "Gesamtschule".
i spent three months in school in a different country and let me tell you maths was the least difficult to do without knowing the language (excluding language classes)... the real struggle for me was the science classes like biology and cultural classes like religion or social studies...
I think he is in a school in Austria. Here in germany the schools will look like this maybe in a Millennium 😂.
I am out of school for 20 years, and the most schools here in germany looks to day as they looked like my childhood
It is also highly possible that he could choose when he wants to start but needs to be in school longer then the other kids. This is because there was a debate on how that early school (8 a.m.) could influence the grades and if the kids have more room for sleeping without stressing, it could lead to a healthier life for the kid and could elevate the grades, too. There are... i don't exactly know if it is only a few schools or the whole country does it, but there are schools who let the kids choose, i think. I don't exactly know if that got spread through germany, though. I had the strict Scedule and left school already before that debate began. If he needs to be at school at 10 a.m. and the school would normally finished by 12 p.m., he would be sitting in school until 2 p.m. to make up the 2 hours.
My school startet at 07.50, 45 minutes per subject. 5 minutes between them. A 15 minute break from 09.25 to 09.40. After six (school hours incl. breaks a big break. Don't know how long. Too long ago to remember well. Usually the schedule in the afternoon was voluntarily and included self chosen subjects like (it was in the 80's) typewriting or stenography, lol. Maybe sports but I wasn't in it, at all. 😅 Nowadays there are school cafeterias, depending on the size and kind of school. Not every school has one. I was used to bring myself my food for the school day. Or getting a snack from a nearby supermarket (though leaving the school yard even in the breaks wasn't allowed (insurance reasons) , but pupils did it anyway).
11:00 welcome to Luxembourg then 😅. We take pretty much all or classes in languages that are not our native ones. But it's a mix, really. It is gaining more flexability these years (where in some schools pupils can choose what official language meaning german or french they choose to be aplhabetised in. Noting that Luxembourg has a high rate off non-natives who don't speak Luxembourgish at home and many of these parents not even knowing it).
I'm half german, half Luxembourgish and back in the time when I started primary school, I was alphabetised in german, math and history was held in german. Then in highschool (grade 7), switch to french math books. I learned latin from french (grade 8). Same switch to french for history class, but only in grade 9. Foreign languages from grade 8 on are taught in the language itself (latin, french, spanish) I was lucky to be good in languages, but yes, learning things transmitted via a foreign language takes the challenge to a new level for many people. That's why is has always been and still is a big debate around that subject. Because exactly a student may struggle in math for example, not necessarily because of math itself but because they may not be really good in french.
It's a tricky problem typical for countries with high immigrant rates, the more so if the country is small. As is the case for Luxembourg. You can rarely go through all of every day life with Luxembourgish alone in Luxembourg itself, depending on your lifestyle of course. Even the news on TV are NEVER hold in our native language alone. There will allways be a french or german speaking (or both, english will get subtitles) guest or interviewee.
Sorry for digressing. It's just that you seemed so bothered by something completely normal here. To me (and most of my fellow countrypeople) it's simply a natural reflex to switch languages.
As I said, I understand that is makes things harder for many, I am aware that I was lucky to be good at languages, and school past I see it as an a great advantage to be fluidly multilingual. Takes down quite some obstactles.
in my days at school classes started at 8am and finished at 1:30pm. No lunch at school till Abitur.
It was not a crepes. It was a Croissant.