7 High School Differences! (USA vs GERMANY)
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- We noticed a lot of differences between High School in the USA and Germany! It was interesting to hear about some of the similarities and differences between our high school experiences. Let us know what your high school was like!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - High School Differences (USA vs Germany)
00:50 - High School Difference #1
04:57 - High School Difference #2
06:54 - High School Difference #3
10:04 - High School Difference #4
12:19 - High School Difference #5
16:16 - High School Difference #6
19:05 - High School Difference #7
21:39 - What is/was your high school like?
We could honestly talk about this topic for hours! We had to cut a lot in this videos and we didn't even cover topics like dress code, teachers, lunches, scholarships, social dynamics and so much more! Let us know what your high school experience was/is like! 😉💜
I'm from SC too Deana 🥰
Yes, the German school-system is complicated. We also have public and private Realschulen and Gymnasien (I was on a very old private Gymnasium that is financed by the church, specialising in old languages like Latin and Old-Greek), special-Gymnasien (for example business/economy) or for sports (if you want to become a professional soccer-player, swimmer or runner).
Since 2010 Hamburg has an own way for the schools here: Hauptschule, Realschule and Gesamtschule are summarized in one: "Stadtteilschule". The different German states struggle, how long the school-time has to be. Some want Abitur after 12 years already, others after 13 years...
Me is, so Speechless right about now & then so, along from there...///
Do a part 2👍👍
Ok,I think you guys add a lot of value, but you also make it complicated at times.
Basic Education is Bugs Bunny & Cie, Die Maus
Then it becomes a bit more complicated
Certainly History is important and that means Frederik the Great
There is no way you can ignore Bismark
Wilhelm II doesn't make my list
Liebknecht
Eberhard
Then we get the dark ages
After that, Adenauer deserves credit
Ehrhard
Strauss and Wehner can't be ignored
More recently, I think only Schmidt really makes my list.
Then of course we can't ignore German entertainers
May that be the likes of
Hans Alberts
Karl Valentin
Heinz Ruehmann
Heinz Ehrhard
Herr von Buelow (Loriot)
Then we have literature and tons of it.
Goethe
Thomas Mann
the list is long
There are also Movies
The whole Karl May thing
Though not German, but who wants to miss the Spaghetti Western
The US flops like Bandit with Robert Reynolds which only were great, because they were dubbed
Nobel Prize Winners
Otto Hahn
Forgotten Geniuses
Conrad Zuse
My ex studied Medieval History in Toronto and had a crunch on Hildergard von Bingen
Understanding Germany, means understanding the past. Our past has been diverse and rich, sometimes poor, but interesting in many ways.
If Deana's German ever becomes good enough to understand Loriot, I raise my had and bow with respect.
School in Baden-Württemberg/Germany here, mostly the same experiences as Phil, however we did have a big lunch break where we were allowed to leave the school ground (there was a school cantine, but we mostly left to get Döner or something else). For sports and extracurricular activities: We did have some (sports and other) clubs at school, organized by teachers. But they were rather unprofessional, not that big and many students ignored them. But is doesn't mean we didn't do sports. Sports (or music etc.) clubs in Germany are mostly owned by communities or are private, not by schools, and at least when I was a teenager, most students participated in one or the other. This also means that most people had friends they didn't go to school with.
yep, sounds about the same! A lot of kids played sports (mostly football). However, nothing was related to the school, at all.
I am currently going to high school in Nrw. Same thing here as well. But my school has a big cafeteria where you can get a good lunch but we also can leave the school ground to go get some food. And we do have many AG'S like a soccer team, a handball team and some others that do go to compete with other schools but when you are not on those teams you rarely even notice that they even exist which is kinda sad I think. But I am pretty sure that not many schools in Germany even have that many AG's.
@@may-lin4575 Yes, I'm going to a gymnasium in Baden-Würrtemberg and we have a lot of AG's, too. At some of them you do sports like volleyball or football (soccer), but there are also musically things like different choirs and scientific AG's like archeology (what I do) or chemistry. And I like these AG's, because you can find friends from other classes and learn something about special topics you're interested in
I'm german and currently in high school,and you're right we dont have sports clubs, but we have choirs and technological clubs
but not all schools have those kind of activities
Ich auch
Die sogenannten AG's
Well I have sports clubs oop and I'm in Germany at high school xd
We (gymnasium in Baden-Würrtemberg) have different clubs (AG's), some for sports like volleyball, and some others like you (choir, chemistry, archeology, etc...)
What we did with our time after school? It was filled with tons of homework we had to do until the next day. Especially our math teacher gave us so many things to do! I spent every day 3 more hours after school just for my math's homework. Mostly because I was very bad in it and couldn't solve the tasks on my own easily. I never learned anything from that but it was meant as help (or whatever). To me it was pure hate... . After that there were more things to to for German, English, French, sometimes biology. So after school I spent often around 3-4 more hours with homework and then theres were tests which you had to learn for too.
The best days were when our teachers forgot to give us homework. Or if we could tell other teachers than our math' teacher that we already had so much to do or to learn for a test.
In our school there was usually just one person doing the homework and everyone else was copying from that person before school lol. The Time after school for me was really more like Phill described it. Thinking about girls or playing video games. Or meeting with friends to drink or smoke weed in the later years
Sports are just completely separated with high school in Germany. It's just done in sports clubs and not connected to school at all. We did have something called "Jugend trainiert für Olympia" = "Youth trains for Olympia" where we competed against other schools as a team. Though practice for that was still done in our normal sport clubs and not in school.
The same goes for other extracurriculars, you do them in the afternoon after school, like playing an instrument, art, volunteering etc. It's not that different to the U.S.
I think its only US where sport teams are connected to the schools and teams are there, but non-school related
You forgot Gesamtschule, I went to a Gesamtschule and it is basically a combination of Gymnasium, Realschule and Hauptschule. Also my school had 60 min. lessons with one 20 min. break and one 60 min. break.
I went to Gesamtschule in Berlin. We had 45min classes with 5min or 15min breaks and a 30min lunch break.
Yeah, never forget the 16 school systems in Germany
In Germany the best Student get's a title too "Streber!" 😂
I also went to a Gymnasium in Germany that did not have a lot of sports clubs... If you did sport you went to a local Verein which I think it is nice, because that way you would hang out with kids that went to other schools
Bundesjugendspiele 😂
Es ist das beste was es gibt!!! (es ist abgesehen von den Wandertagen das einzige was es gibt)
🤮
nur die Lappen haben es gehasst haha
Ich hasse es
I hated it with every cell of my body.
I'm from germany and i noticed some differences to phils school experiance, for example, at my school there were actually many extracurricular activities like track, socker, handball, climbing,swimming... or learning languages, playing in the school orchestra, school choir, poetry slam, theatre, programming and lots and lots more. Maybe thats because my school was about twice as big as phil's. But we also had lots of lockers and a cantine which was shared with the neighbouring school. And in the "Oberstufe" I actually had 10 periods a day, twice a week
By the way, I love your channel, you two are so much fun :)
Deana is sooo beautiful and I really love her hair ,it's georgeous😍
You both are an explosion of good mood!
I really love these series! It’s so interesting to hear the real "differences" between the German system and the US-system! I really want to go back to school to experience the American way of school!🤣😭 You have a great channel! Liebe Grüße ☺️
I already hated the German school from the first to the last day. I'm sure I would have hated the American high school even more as an introvert.
Privatschule klärt Bruder 😂
You just hate school plain and simple. Try when you have to work in a place that you hate because you didn't care for schooling.
@@tweetyuno why not, all jobs are in Asia anyway.
Bruh im so happy in Germany school
@@ggjoseph1922 vhalla heute war Schlägereien bruder
So I went to school in Berlin and elementary school was until 6 grade and then Highschool from 7-13. Yes we still have 13 years in some schools and there are a few more!
In Hessen we have either grades 5 thru 12 or 5 thru 13 at the "Gymnasium" (the higher level middle school/high school).
Well, in traditional Gymnasium there used to be Latin names for grades:
Sexta: 5th grade, Quinta: 6th grade, Quarta: 7th grade, Untertertia: 8th grade, Obertertia: 9th grade, Untersekunda: 10th grade, Obersekunda: 11th grade, Unterprima: 12th grade, Oberprima: 13th grade
And failing with a 5 is like "he/she made big efforts" in a testimonial, while 6 means: "he/she gave a shit and didn't even try". And they change the system of grades to 0-15 points because you then collect points for your Abitur. But it is easily recalculated to the original 6 grades: 15-13 = 1 (+/-), 12-10 = 2 (+/-), 9-7 = 3 (+/-), 6-4 = 4 (+/-), 3-1 = 5 (+/-), 0 = 6, where + is -0.3 and - is +0.3. So, 12 points would be a 2+ (1.7). And to pass, you have to have a plain 4 (5 points).
YES !
Wow i NEVER heard of this latin names for the Grades
Great video! I would also love to see a similar video where you talked about university application porccesses and differences in unis.
In my German High school everyone had to pick two extra curriculum classes but they where during school time and they where arts, crafts, IT, science, French, home economics, but I don't remember there being any sports.
When we visited Germany we loved going to the coffee shops and finding rather large groups of students chatting and having coffee or tea together! I wished our kids were able or willing to do this.
Solidarity, they stick together.
Hi Phil and Deanna! I really enjoyed this video! I went to a very large high school in Baltimore, Maryland of the USA, in the city and my high school experience was very much like the high schools in American movies.
I was a part of the popular crowd but I was not a "mean girl." I, also was a part of the pom pom squad, girls cross country (long distance running team), and the yearbook club. I had regular and honor classes. Also, I sang on the choir in my sophomore year of school. I graduated with average grades, because, sadly, my main concern in school was to have fun and hang out with the popular kids in school (which is something I wish I could go back and change). All in all, I really enjoyed my high school years!
I went to the Ravenwood Highschool in Nashville and to a Gymnasium in Germany, so I can agree to all of this!!
I think you didnt talked about the "Mottowoche" and the "Abistreich". I think the Abistreich was one of my best experiences in my life so far. Is this common in the US?
We rent a big tractor + trailor and drove to our little city with loud music and pyrotechnics. After a hour we arrived at our school and received our "Abizulassung" and we celebrated it in every break on the schoolyard with loud music and much more pyrotechnics.😍
Its the last day of school btw.
We had an "AbiBall", where the school threw a GIANT bon fire/field party. They brought stacks of speakers and crates of beer and the party went all night. As a 16 year old American, I was in awe. I couldn't believe then, and still cant believe that was a school sanctioned event...it was awesome.
In our school we put on some sort of show where all the teachers have to participate in, with all kind of funny games.
@@swanpride we do the same thing last year the second director got handcuffed with pink fluffy handcuffs in a "cage" made out of these construction side thingys xD and it always ends in a huge water fight xD
Nah, prison was the theme of the graduates in the year before ours...so we send them to the island and forced them to dance limbo. We managed to fill the Aula with sand for the event.
swanpride we aren’t allowed to make the school dirty so we’re always on the courtyard and prison wasn’t even their theme they just managed to lock him up there for no valuable reason, but we do have the “tradition” of throwing all the papers you won’t need anymore down from the “Lehrerterasse” down onto the students
I do like the German system with three different kind of schools. It makes learning more efficient, as most students are on the same or similar level of skills.
Also if somebody's skills improve at some point in their school career, it is possible to switch to Gymnasium. Actually many of my school friends who were recommended to visit Realschule, improved so much that they could visit a Gynmasium at a later point and do their Abitur.
Regarding the grades in German schools, it must be said that a six may actually only be given in cases of refusal to work. Those who answer all the questions incorrectly are actually entitled to a five. Many teachers do not adhere to this, but there are some cases where students have successfully appealed against a six.
That's not true for Rheinland-Pfalz. You typically need 20%-25% in order to at least get a 5
Everyone please remember EVERY of our 16 states run their own school system means that every rule in your state can be totally different in a another state like the handling of the note 6
As an example: my state of Berlin still refuses to finally abolish the insane idea of "schreiben nach gehör" and even Brandenburg have finally (as one of last german states) decided last year to abolish this "innovation" of the education system. ..
... unfortunately only after a few years of screwing entirely 1 graders to 3 graders ....
@@braeutigamp
Same in NRW
@@PPfilmemacher My little brother also had this “Schreiben nach Gehör" in Baden-Württemberg. I almost got a stroke after hearing that.
So cool.
Love it. Finally someone -> (Diana&Phil) who points it out.
Glad to realize the differences and similarities....
Thank you very much.
Oh, what about spirit week? Most schools around where I'm from in central PA do a spirit week where each day that week is dedicated to a different theme that you dress up for. Like, pajama day, 80's day, hippie day, school colors day, crazy hat/hair day, and a bunch of other things.
Hi Deana and Phil! First: I love your videos and I've been following you for quite some time. You're awesome. On the topic: I am Austrian and school here is for the most part the same as in Germany. So you can just copy everything Phil said about the grading system, our "way to school", our lunch break, the (lack of) extracuricular activities etc... But there were a few things I'd like to add
1) Students in Austria don’t change the classroom every hour. We’re usually put together in groups of up to 30 students who have the exact same time table. This group might be called “class 8A” (8th grade, goup A) and gets a classroom. The teachers change every period. Other than Germany we start to count again when we go to the Gymnasium. EG we say 1 - 4 in elementary school and 1- 8 in Gymnasium. It always confuses me when a German says “I am in the 11th grade”. In Austria we’d say “I’m in the 7th grade in Gymnasium”.
2) What’s different in Austria than in the US is that there are NO entrance or exit controls at schools and during the lessons no teacher would be out in the hallway. This means that quite often students would use the breaks between two periods to just leave and skip the following periods, especially if they were “unimportant” classes such as biology or sports.
3) We have a “class book” and there the teacher would note your absence but no one would immediately call your parents if you didn’t show up or “disappeared” between two periods. They did, however, contact your parents if you had a certain amount of “unexcused absences”. I once had 81, amounting in sum to almost 2 ½ school weeks. Oopsie!! Someone lost track of how much she’d skipped school, I suppose 😉.
4) And oh yes - we wear slippers at school. Yes, we do, that’s no joke 😉
Your channel was recommended and I found the subject matter interesting. I'm more your parents age and went to a junior high after graduating from elementary school...which was 1st through 6th grade. Junior High was 7th through 9th grade. High school, at that time was 10th through 12th grade. What Middle School was for you was probably the equivalent of what junior high was for me. I'm coming from the southern part of the United States and if you wanted to learn certain specialized skills (example: carpentry/ masonry or learning to be a beautician or culinary arts) you would leave High School half the day and go by bus (yellow bus that is... LOL ) to go to a technical school to get that instruction and travel back to high school before school ended. To then get on the regular School bus, walk / drive back home at the end of the day. Proms were held at school at first, but as I got older than they moved to the big hotels or other big venues. At that time you were also taught driving instruction in School, from what I have gathered now that is no longer the case anymore. Strangely enough not as many Young people nowadays get their license early anymore, which that was freedom for the kids my age back in the day! Thank you, I liked hearing how things were different in other countries, take care!
My kids go to the same high school I went to that is very small. There's around 80-100 kids per grade and we had all the sports, cheerleading, band and choir, and competed against other nearby schools. I think it's like that in all schools in the U.S.
We also have a technical school that 10-12 graders can go to for half the day if they choose to. All the schools in our county, around 5-6 schools, go to the same one together. They offer nursing assistance, cosmetology, electrical, carpentry, culinary, diesel mechanics, welding, and maybe a few other things to choose from.
Also our school has a semi-formal dance they do for freshman every year. It's just called "the freshman dance". Lol
This was a fun video! Thanks for making it
I went to high school in both Michigan and Germany, and this video is 100% accurate. Both schools were in big cities, and we did not have sports at the Gymnasium that I went to. Another major difference was the foreign language classes required. The Gymnasium that I went to, we took Spanish, French, English, Italian, and Latin as a requirement. In the US, I was one of few that took a foreign language beyond what was required. Great video, keep up the great work and stay safe.
German education is better.
We have some Sports-activities in our Scool
Football-team- Handballteam. And Games against other School. Scool in Germany- Berlin
Went to a high school in Austria. In my Gymnasium we actually had two sports teams, a soccer and a handball team. We also participated against other schools. But I grew up in the city, so that might have been a different experience in general. Also, we had a pretty big prom, themed and everything. I was on the council and we spent almost an entire year organising. The prom is the "closing event" of your school career, so to speak.
PS. Great video as always😊
thats really cool!
Choir, Orchestra, Future Farmers of America (FFA - also with cool Jackets) and Home Economics where you could knit, crochet, cook, sew, etc. The elective classes were lots of fun!
Our school also had choral and orchestral concerts, plays and small theater events as well.
I am from America and my high school is just like the movies when it comes to sports and things of the spirt one thing we have at my school is an Olympic size pool by the gym does any one else have those things and we have a fitness center too. Maybe that is just my school but after school you can just go there and play games in the pool as long as no else was practicing. It’s really fun
During my junior and senior year of high school I got the opportunity to take college courses through a community college that was in my county. I was a CCP (college credit plus) student. There are many students from high school that attend this community college and by the time they graduate most of them receives 2 degrees, a high school degree and a college degree. Its pretty neat!!
In every of the 16 German states the public school system differs hugely because education is sovereign competence of every state.
For example, in Hamburg we only have 2 different schools:
Integrated school and Gymnasium. At Gymnasium you get your high school degree after 12 years of school, at integrated school after 13 years. Integrated school you can also leave after 9 or 10 years to get lower degrees and start work training or actual work.
Wrong
Ich lebe in Hamburg, es gibt stadtteilschulen, Gymnasien, Gesamtschulen und Hauptschulen!!! Und privat Schulen wie eine in die ich gehe
I went to a quite big high school in the Munich area and we had a lot of different clubs: orchestra, big band, theater, basketball, handball, gymnastics, choir, crafting,... mostly sorted by age
The sports teams also competed, but it wasn't such a big thing, for most of the participants it was more like extra training since they were all in other non-school clubs
With all of our clubs in school it really depended on what our teachers were able and willing to offer to the students
I live in Stuttgart and there were no such sports clubs like Phil said. We had a debate club were we could compete against other schools but I think that was the only extracurricular activity that let us compete.
There were two high schools in the town where I grew up. My high school had a huge pool that was from 5 feet deep to 12 feet deep and a planetarium. We also had a gym that was big enough to split into four individual rooms . We were also lucky enough to have the Driver's Education classes and the simulators to practice on in class. Of course the school I went to was built 8 years before I attended whereas the crosstown high school was built in the 50's. I have to say that we had to be at the bus stop for 6:45 a.m. and classes started at 7:30 . To everyone that is in high school now, enjoy your time there because once you get out into the real world reality will be a lot different.
I'm from Austria. I went to a Handelsakademie, it's somehow like the magnet schools you mentioned and 5 years. We were around 1000 people but the school also included the Handelsschule which is only 3 years and can be compared to the Realschule. Clubs were offered at my school. Languages, sports, year book/school paper, etc.
3. year of the 5 is the hardest. One semester I had 11 periods 3 times a week. So school until 6 in the evening. We had oral exams, big exams (1/3 of the grade), smaller tests, presentations, etc. So most people did not join any clubs. 2 was the maximum the school allowed.
We had some sport teams at EGD, I think we had a football (the real) team and a track and field team. And of course the "Jugend traineirt für Olympia" competitions with other schools.
My High School experience was great! I had music as a subject and also Hotel Management and Catering. Every year we had a Revue (a musical) and every year I participated. In my Matric (grade 12) year we had a mini Opera and I participated. It was so much fun! I also sang in the School Choir, it was a Classical Choir. We got training in this Choir that it is possible for me today to sing in a Classical Choir like a performance of Handel's Messiah. I absolutely loved Choir! We had beautiful uniforms for Choir. Also I won a literature competition 1st place and 3rd place for English Poetry. I didn't do Sport. And I have wonderful memories of my Matric Farewell. It's more formal than Prom. No king or queen. But black tie. I had this beautiful wine-red satin ballgown and my escort for the evening (like a date, just a friend) had a satin wine-red bowie and vest on with his white shirt and black tuxedo. It was really nice. I think we really go out of our way here in South Africa to make High School glamorous for the students.
I loved hearing the amazement on phils voice about the yellow buses lol Something we find totally "normal" in the u.s. I never rode on the school buses except for field trips... my parents always dropped me off. I'm from California and went to highschool in the L.A area and the experience was pretty much the same as Deanas. School started at 8am-3pm, and I also had cross country team practice right after so went home until 6. You guys always give me a good laugh, Love it! :D
The German school system is based on supporting children and young people with different levels of maturity and/or learning abilities by providing them with learning content at a different, adapted learning pace, subject matter and quantity to a certain point. Children and young people from a „Realschule“ or „Hauptschule“ can move up to the next "school level" after the 9th or 10th year and attend school for a further few years until they are able to obtain a „Fachhochschulreife“ or start directly in the world of work after completing their first secondary („weiterführende“) school.
Children who receive a direct recommendation for a „Gymnasium“ can complete the general Abitur after 12 or 13 years of school.
I went to Realschule for 5th and 6th grade. My school was a grade/elementary school combined with a Haupt and Realschule. My school would have 1 school dance every year on the last day before Fasching break. For clubs, my school had a choir club and a drama club. I don't know if there were any sports clubs.
For high school, I went to a public charter school. My school was an early college school, so we could take actual college classes, not just AP. And the general education classes were based on skill, so you could be a freshman taking classes will a senior. We were allowed off campus for lunch and if we had classes at the college campus. My school had a small basketball club, but that was the only club available when I went to school there.
during my senior year I went to vocational school, so every day i would drive 30 mins away and I studying medical professions with a focus on nursing. it was a lot of fun
I got a 6 in a test once. It was a blank paper, only with the date and my name in it. And a long, intense talk with the teacher, a short talk with the prinzipal, a talk with the "Vertrauenslehrer" and at last with all of them and my parents. This was really annyoing, but some problems got solved.
It very much depends on the school and sports are overwhelmingly organized in clubs in Germany, but in some schools there is considerably more sports than Phil's experience shows. There are of course a few (boarding) schools for high level sports but even some normal schools used to have teams that entered competition. There used to be "Jugend trainiert für Olympia", a competition in many levels starting with the schools of a town or district and going up all the way to the federal level. Some schools had a tradition of competing there but usually the school teams were based on a core of players or athletes from certain club teams.
One also should keep in mind that until quite recently, the Gymnasium was considerably more elite with less than 30% going to that type of school around 1990, so in some respects they were more like prep schools with a strong academic focus than like US high schools that had been comprehensive (more like German Gesamtschulen) for many decades.
I went to a comprehensive school (Gesamtschule), which wasn't mentioned here...
As far as I remember, there was an activity group (AG) in the afternoon, once a week. Some people chose Art class, some chose Music class, some chose Sports class. But there were no teams or clubs...There is a thing called Abi-Ball (a party-like event after final grade) which is sort of like a Prom, I guess. But since most of the students finish school after 10th grade, they don't experience that xD
New York City: the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island
Upstate New York (which is bigger than many countries in Europe): Yonkers, White Plains, Greenburgh, Scarsdale, Hartsdale, Mount Vernon, Mount Pleasant, Ossining, Peekskill, Elmsford, etc., etc.
I’m an American from California… everything that she’s describing is spot on….
We actually had open campus and we had the choice to eat out or eat school cafeteria food…
We had sports as well, I took archery, and I took art classes, photography, but of course our school offered cooking class too, foreign language classes.. super cool… etc… I was fortunate to attend 3 proms… super cool.. but that was back in the 80’s… crazy.
at our gymnasium in germany we have sports teams put they don't practice together and just sometimes go to competitions.
Also something that's different is that we have school from 7:40 until 17:25/16:35. and then three days a week until 1pm.
And we have a cantine but can leave to go eat somewhere else
To add to that I'm from Heidelberg and I vividly remember *Stadtschule Meisterschaften, where the various schools in the city competed in sports from track and field, swimming, gymnastics, basketball etc
I‘m at the realschule and mine starts 7:50AM and ends 1PM. Lessons are also 45 min each and its 2 periods successively. First break is 15 min and the 2nd 25 min long. Only mondays i have a 7th Lesson so school is till 2:15PM. About clubs, as far i as know we have a social activity club and mediator club. Before, we also had choir and drama but idk, got cancelled.. At the end of 10th grade we actually also have a graduation Party. After my graduation i wanna go to the Fachoberschule to do 2 more years and then i also can study at uni 🤟🏼 Another nice video!
In Alberta (Canada) first period is 9am-10:30am, second 10:30-12, half an hour lunch then third 12:30-2pm, and last forth 2pm-3:30pm. grades are 10-12. My public high school had 2500 students. We were fortunate because the school was and still is brand new (built in 2011) and came with a parking garage for teachers and seniors (who signed up quick enough). But most people preferred the parking lot because it was much more fun to hang out in your car, and the teachers patrolled the parking garage for people vaping in their car. Most schools in my city have culinary class, so the students in the class are required to do lunch shifts preparing food for students to purchase. Then we had a school store where you could buy phys. ed uniforms and school branded merchandise and the business students would manage and operate the store during lunch and before/ after school. In our part of the country american football is very popular, so we have our own football team. Cheer leading however is less popular and ours were pretty bad. I didn't find that we had many cliques however. the jocks we more of an identifiable group however.
With regard to the sports on offer at German schools, I can say that this does not exist because of the German "Vereinsmeierei". Politicians fear that sports clubs would die if schools were to offer intensive sports. Sports clubs are lobbying intensively on the issue of education policy to maintain the status quo.
I don't know about the lobbying, but there are also many pros to doing sports in clubs (Vereinen) and not in school. You have the chance to meet kids from other schools which is great for outsiders. Also in the U.S. when you fail too many tests or of you're caught drinking alcohol or get detention or anything you're suspended from doing sports as well.
You're also much more limited and can usually only focus on one sport at a time while in Germany you can do as many sports as you like. There is also always that strong competition factor in the U.S. You have to be good enough to be allowed to be part of the team while you can do most sports very casually in Germany (of course also competitive if you want to).
Also, if you go to a "Ganztagsschule" there are basketball clubs, circus etc.
I am not sure if that is a bad thing. After all, school clubs end with graduation, but you can be part of a verein as long as you want, hence a lot of adults are encouraged to continue doing some kind of sport. You are also meeting more people who share the same interest you do. It also allows more of a variety, since a school club can only exist if there are enough members in this one school, but a Verein can throw a wider net, which leaves more room for "smaller" sports.
I went to a grammar school in Saxony and we had a ton of after-school-activities. At least 2/3 of our teachers had a club. We had several choirs, tech, robot, several languages, nature (animals, pets, lake, aquarium, redevelopment of a small river), arts, tutoring, special lessons for gifted students. And we had many sports activities: soccer (several groups), tennis, athletics, volleyball, basketball, fitness, gymnastics, table tennis. We often fought against other schools and some were part of "Jugend trainiert für Olympia".
And of course many had activities out of school. There was music school, fire brigade, church/religion, tutoring, sports clubs ... Most of us had a full day, but it was a good time.
I went to a gymnasium in a big city, we had four 9 hour days a week with the 7th hour being lunchbreak. But our cafeteria was like way to small and couldn´t even seat a school year so we would sneack off of the schoolgrounds to McDonalds or bring our own food. Friday was always only 6 periods. And we did have some clubs, they were called AG short for ArbeitsGruppe (workgroup). We had a musical AG till the teacher went into retirement, we had a chess AG, a canoe one, a basketball AG. But sport is mostly done in clubs that do not have anything to do with the school. I for example used to be a synchronized swimmer training 3-4 times a week in the local swimming club (one of the few in germany that have a sychronized swimming team) and I learned 3 instruments at the local musicschool and played in 2 orchestras. There is more than enough to do after school, not only gaming (though I did do that, too xD) It was really nice to be with other people though, because I didn´t have real friends in school, but I had friends in my other activities. If it had been tied to the school as well I would have had no one.
High school also had gymnastics.
In elementary school we walked to bowling. In middle school PE we walked across the street for gymnastics. We learned tennis, soccer, and volleyball.
I went to high school in Virginia and we had "elective" classes. We had a certain amount of elective classes that were required for graduation (eg. foreign languages, additional academic courses, public speaking, computer programming, ect.)and we had the option to to go to a vocational school for a part of the school day if that elective was offered at the vocational school. You had to choose this upon entering high school so that your schedule could be structured around it. In the 2 years I attended vocational school for 2 of my 4 years in high school and while there, I learned pattern making, textiles and sewing and still use those skills today, over 30 years later.
I go to a public high school in the US (Vermont specifically) and we have tons of sports programs. We have both sports teams and clubs. We also are allowed to leave the school for lunch and anytime we don't have a class. We also have tech centers for each county in my state.
We have lockers all throughout our high school, but other than the PE lockers it's kind of rare and odd to see someone using them.
In middle school they were used very often by some though.
5:30 In Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) we luckily got rid of the 5-12 kind of rush scheme and went back to 5-13 High school system where you can take your time to educate :)
I did year 11 of my high school in Germany (I am from Canada but now live in California). I attended a Gymnasium in tiny little Metzingen which was a maths and sciences focus school - which was not my focus in school back in Canada. In order for me to complete my 11th year and get credit for it back in Canada, my Gymnasium structured my learning by letting me take math, art, English (this actually helped me learn German and fast!), French (not as easy as you think translating from French to English to German and back into French!), and Physical Education. High school in Germany in the Gymnasium format is similar to what it was like in Canada - we had grade 13 (like Abitur) which was a prep grade for university. Although it was only offered in the province I grew up in and it no longer exists. I also attended a Volksschule in Metzingen in the evenings to learn German. I was fluent in less than 3 months. I am not sure the current definition of Volksschule applies today - but maybe you know Phil? It’s like a mandatory people’s school but my host family paid for my lessons and they were classes for foreigners/immigrants.
My high school was in a farming community, we had drive your tractor to school day. Our biggest sport was basketball but we had all the others too. Anyone could purchase a school jacket not just those involved in sports . And we had class rings.
I'm a teacher in Germany, so I have seen several German schools from inside. There are some schools that have more than two clubs as an extra curricular activity, but I guess no German school gets even close to the offer of extra curricular activities of an American school. The reason might be that many sports or music activities are organized by people from outside school. So there are football clubs you can join or you can learn to play an instrument in a "music school" but usually these are privately owned and work completely independent from high schools (unfortunately, this usually means that you have to pay to be part of a club or for your music lessons).
i went to a lot of different high schools in Germany, some of them had after school activities (e.g. music/choir, football/soccer, rugby, and at one point I was in an after school club called "English childrens games and rhymes" which was pretty fun). One of my schools had lockers too, but we rarely used them. The start/end time of the school day varied too, some started at 7:45, others at 8 o'clock and one at 8:20 (because they knew that most people would arrive via train and adjusted school time to the train time)
I went a public high school in NY outside of New York City. We had about 1000 students in the high school-- about 400 in my graduating class. Primary school was K-6 grades, then 7-9 in junior high and high school was 10-12 grade when I was there. Now primary is K to 5, junior high is grades 6 to 8 and high school is 9 to 12. High School started at 8AM until 1:30PM. Only Seniors could drive to school, plus they were allowed to leave school for lunch. We had sports teams but football games were on Saturdays. Our scores or grades in classes were A+ to F without E. We also had Driver's Ed, where students learned to drive a car. My school district had its own pool so we had to take swimming in junior high. We had AP classes for the smart students for college credits. I know someone who took all AP classes except for Math.
By the way, Kindergarten was 9am to noon, 1- 6 grades were 9AM to 3PM and junior high was 8AM to 2PM
Depending on the school in germany I had afternoon classes I could choose at the beginning of the school year.
It could be swimming, other PE things like athletic or handball, photography and playing music in a band.
in my school in Germany only 5-7th grader had to go to school for 8 hours, 8-10th grade only for 5 or 6 hours. Except if you were in a class to get "Mittlerer Abschluss" you had 1 or 2 days a day with 7 or 8 hour IDK. I didn't went to that school from beginning but from 8th grade so I had no idea what the kids do there all day long who are younger but I than saw a poster some kids made about what they do after 2pm in school. Some kids wrote they learned how to play guitar, painted their fingernails, draw pictures, played chess,... something like "staying in school just duing random stuff" because some kids wrote they did a lot different stuff each day. IDK if it was a law of out school to go there since I never been there in the first 3 years so IDK. Everything you could choose on your own was inside the normal classes so for example as I was working in a group of kids that cared for the school's garden like building a "insects hotel", cutting bushes, planting flowers etc. that was allways in my last 2 hours from 11:40 to 13:10 on 1 day a week and in the same time other kids from my class did art or were in the school's band etc.
@@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard oh yes... there are a lot of opportunities in germany! While schools sometimes don't offer any activities at all we got a huge amount of other clubs/organizations that offer activities to kids. I went to a music school to learn instruments, joined several bands, did some sports at another club. But all of those clubs had zero connection to the school and were financed by the community and parents of attending kids.
Overview:
Sport Club: soccer, athletic stuff, tennis, handball, gymnastics, dancing, ... including games against other clubs all over the region/country.
Music Club: studied music teachers with pedagogical backgrounds taught how to pleay instruments (starting kindergarden up to people at the age of you are way to old to learn). Plus there were bands that were set up by the teachers for people of different age.
Music Band Clups: A club that was founded by musicians in the area for people to play music and earn money for the club to buy more scores (music sheets)
Spefic Clubs: There are clubs that offer courses made by people in the community for the community. Like shooting pictures, cooking, typing on a computer, baking. All levels of skills.
It won't be boring after school. There rather is too much to attend and the whole schedule is filled to the brink so people have less time to learn or relax. Never forget that the amount of homework rather advanced in skilllevel required.
At my school (Upstate New York), we have a very large cafeteria, we have a variety of food and drink -- we can even leave the school grounds
I am from Frankfurt and i was at a sports high school that was also a gesamtschule where you get different classes depending on your skill. And we also had sports Clubs in school. But usually kids in Germany attend a sports club that doesnt have to do with school at all
Interesting! Did you compete in school teams against other schools?
I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania... We had K-6 in one school (Elementary), and 7-12 in another (High School). Then again, my graduating class was about 65-70 kids... Like I said... SMALL TOWN. lol
Hi. I really like your channel. It´s so interesting to see the differences between the countries and that the things you see in the us movies are kind of true ^.^.... Although my schooltime endet 20 years ago. I still can say it was basicly the same as Phils. (I was in the Realschule in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) I got to school at 7.45, somtimes still earlyer because we had "Nullte Stunde" , so we had to be there at 7 am. That was hard, I hated this -.- We usually had Blocks of 1,5 hrs., between the blocks there was a 15 minute break, because of the room change. Scientistic subjekts, Musik and Art classes where always in a different room, all other subjekts we had in our Classroom. P.E was really tricky (in my last scool - I had to change schools very often because of moving -.-) The Gym was a 10 minute walk away from the school ground. We had to go through the Park to get there, so we where really stressed about getting there and back to school. Around noon we got a large break of 50 minutes. Pupils over 16 years old were allowed to leave the school grounds, but only with a permission from the parents or a guardian. We didnt had a caffeteria, but there was a small shop running by the "Hauswitschaftskurs" where you could get sandwitches and drinks. Usually you had to get there right after ringing otherwhise it was packed with peoples -.- .... The less houres we had was 6 (3 Blocks) - I can remember we had 4 Blocks nearly every day an one day even 5 - cause you had to choose a "Wahlfach" or a second language. I really would like to had a second language, but the time i got to this school, at 8th class, the second language started at 7th - so I had to choose a "Wahlfach" (Ethik, Hauswirtschaft, Sport, IT or something like this ... and you had change it after half a year)
About the sports you could do at us highschools - I dont think that you can do this in any type of german schools, the reason is there is no friendly competition between the schools in the first. But we do have so called "Vereine" (assisiations or clubs) in the citys where you can do sports if you wanted to. But there are not linked with the schools. You also could attend to Music-school if you wanted to learn to play an instument, ore take courses at the "Volkshochschule". In the area I lived we had a lot of artists and they often did artclasses. So if you wanted to do something after the school, there was always a possibillity to do so - but - like I said - it was usually not linked with the school itself.
Well - if you did enter a Verein or something, you had to pay for it. And you needet to buy the equipment by yourself.
Ok - that was a lot ..... well .... I dont think it is the same today. When I hear junger people talk about school I often realise, that it has become a lot easier. For example the finals. I had to take finals in 8 different subjekts. 5 written and 3 non-written. 3 written subjekts where fixed - math, german and english - for the 4th you had to choose between biology, chemistry or physics and the 5th one was one of your choice (I did astronomy) The non-written subjekts where usually picked by the teachers if you where on the edge between two marks. Otherwhise you could choose yourself. I had to take geography and chemistry because I was between gras 1 and 2 on both and chose art or myself. The non written subjekts where really tricky, You didnt know beforehad which thema you got for the subjekt. 10 minutes befor you had to speak in front of 4 Teachers, you got a piece of paper with your thema and then you had the 10 minutes to make notes about it and talk at least 20 minutes later to the teacher, who after that asked you questions, too. It was really tought and I was so happy when it was finally over -.- ..... I can imagine the finals at "Gymnasium" where still harder ......
That was it. I am really courious about the finals in the us. Is there any possibility, that you can make a video about it in the future?
I hope it was not to much for you to read - when I´m starting to write I can hardly stop -.-
I hope you two stay healthy during this time - and go on whith your channel - You are awesome ^.^
I was at a Comprenhesive school in Germany, two afternoons a week we had "AG" where we could chose a lot of sport like tennis, badminton, football, dancing, basketball and also things like chess, caring for Aquariums and fishes, some scientific things...and a lot more, but I don't remember them. We had abiut 40 0r 50 classes between which we were able to choose
I remember now we had painting clubs, cookin clubs, sewing clubs, circus, a musical club, choir, computer club, school newspaper club, Texas club where they prepared for an exchange with our partner-school in Farmers Branch and clubs where you can learn to play instruments too. We also had lockers and two Cafeterias. One which sold only healthy things like fruits, veggies, curd cheese, sticks with fruits and cheese, healthy sandwiches, whole grain products and healthy beverages. The other one sold normal hot meals. We also had a kiosk that sold sweets and lemonade.. My Highschool was a very big one with about 2000 or 2500 students, classes 5-13. My classes usually went from 8 am til 4pm and every day from 01.30pm to 02.30 pm we had a lunch hour. We also had a library and there was a room where we were able to lent some games or things for outdoor activities like rollerblades, footballs, skipping ropes and so on
Uh, please more of this. This was really fun to watch! For me it was super similar to what Phil described as I also grew up in a small German town (but near Frankfurt). We also had a motto for our 'senior year': ABInson Crueso - 13 Jahre warten auf Freitag. So cringy now :D And our 'prom' was equally unspectacular. I kind of envy the American High School kids for their school spirit and sports and other activities they can do, but I guess it could also add a lot more pressure to a kid in puberty, dealing with all the social pressures and then having to perform well in extra-curricular stuff as well etc. Anyway, cool video! Stay healthy!
I totally agree! =)
We had "Erzogen zur ABIose" (= Lebensunfähigkeit) ^^
The most recent corona graduation themed hoodie says Mit Abstand Der Besten. Ha ha? My husband, a teacher, has all these hoodies with kids' names all over them, and the theme of the graduating class. He also has a lot of high school musical theme hoodies. He actually wears them to school.
I go to a public school in rural Ohio. Our school starts at 7:45 and ends at 2:35. We have a Connect, which is a time for announcements and meetings, this is followed by eight 40 min periods.
My county has 3 school districts, a rural and two 'city' schools. I go to the main city school. My building has the junior high (7-8) and the highschool (9-12).
Our school is set up that if you're more advanced you can start high school classes in JH, and college classes in HS. Most required classes have a regular and honors version, with the honors version learning the same subject just at a faster pace.( time spent on a subject - Honors 1-2days - Regular 3days-1week) During your Junior and Senior years, you can also go to a Career Center (all three districts go there), but it is known that this school is generally for students who are at risk of dropping out.
We definitely have cliques but it's not like the movies. For the most part the popular kids sit together. But for example, some band kids I know sit with cheerleaders.
I'm a junior and only go to 4 highschool classes a day because I take classes at the local college.
I have talk to friends that go to other schools in the state, they all say our school is way less advanced than other schools.
In Florida, Junior High school was 7-9 grades. Some larger cities use mass transit buses in lieu of yellow school buses to get students to/from school.
I am from Indiana and just found your channel a few days ago. I have been binge watching it. My ancestors immigrated from Bavaria back in 1850. It find it fascinating to learn about Germany from a German perspective. Thank you so much for sharing your travels and lives. Congratulations on your marriage. May you have a long happy life together.
I was on a Gymnasium in the Hochtaunus-Kreis and we had like a Basketball AG (AG=Arbeitsgruppe=work group) but nothing more and the people who really did sports were in a football, handball or whatever they were doing club.
I only know American high school from movies and I'm totally fascinated by this image of the school ♥
Various people, lockers with posters, huge buildings, single school tables (unfortunately I always had a double one) and iconic school yellow buses - I've always wanted to go on a bus like these ♥
Hollywood doesn't get many things right, but one of their rare successes is the school buses (and school in general). Those buses are just a common thing in America.
As a kid I always grumbled, that I had to go to the bus stop to get taken to the school.
i just came here for the first time and i love you guys im enjoying ur shows. Grettings from germany. I was in a Basketball club but theyre not offered by my school
I like the idea of different types of schools based on ability and interest.
I went to two highschools, one a huge public school with over 1000+ students and a sprawling outdoor campus on the west coast and then a small indoor public Midwestern highschool with 300 or even less students. The differences in just these two schools are incredible, in the western school we went to school around, I walked to school, 7:00 and started 7:35-45 am and we're usually restricted to the very small cafeteria, and then we went to our classes with some being all the way across campus from the next, during lunch most of the 1000+ students crammed together and got their lunch from the small cafeteria and made their way back out over campus to hang out and eat under trees or in other classes there were a few places we couldn't go and our security team made sure we stayed close to the cafeteria, we usually got out at 2:30-40 pm. For the Midwestern school I took the bus that got the more rural areas so we went through farm fields and dense little woods before coming to school, there you go straight to the cafeteria and are stuck there until first period began so that was at like 7:30 am again but if you rode the bus you would get there at 6:45ish. All of the classes are indoors, which was a shocker and you can't eat outside, only the cafeteria which did hold the entire school. After that classes were average and close together, and very personal with no security at all, only one police officer. School usually got out at 2:25 and then we made our way home.
Grading system: (Germany)
If you have a 5 or 6 in one subject in grades 5-11 (G9) or 5-10 (G8), you can make up for it with a 2 or 1 in another subject that has the same value.
Example:
German - 5
Math - 2
English - 2
Art - 1
- Passed
German - 6
math - 2
English - 2
Art - 1
- failed (art has a lower value than German)
-> Math, English and German are major subjects
Junior High vs Middle School: typically Middle Schools r grades (years) 6-8, Junior Highs r grades 7-9. It just depends on how the school district ur in n how it's structured. 😊
Not really, the years that are in included and the naming is basically regional. I went to a junior high that was years 6-8 as were all the schools in my area.
It's school districts here in GA. I went to middle school for 6th to 8th grade then high school for 9th to 12th. My cousins a county over were in junior high for 7th to 9th then high school was 10th to 12th.
Ich find das so interessant wie du die deutschen Schulen bei dir kennengelernt hast.
Bei mir gibt es auch Gymnasium, Hauptschule und Realschule wobei du nach der Hauptschule oder Realschule zum OSZ(Oberstufen Zentrum) gehen kann (oder vom Gymnasium wenn du merkst das es zu "schwer" für dich ist). Am OSZ kann man dann auch sein Abitur machen.
Wenn man Fachabi macht, dann bis zur 12.klasse und wenn man das normale Abi macht bis zur 13 Klasse. Im Grund ist also das Gymnasium für diejenigen da, welche ein Jahr früher Abitur machen wollen und mit dem entsprechenden Notendruck klarkommen. Auch haben Gymnasien soweit ich weiß fast immer verschiedene Ausrichtung wie zb. Kunst oder Wissenschaften.....also jeder kann im Grunde Abi machen wenn er möchte, du musst nur wissen ob es sich wirklich für dich lohnt oder nicht(für viele Berufe/Ausbildungen braucht man kein Abitur oder ein Studium also warum etwas machen wenn es die eh nichts bringt).
Man kann sein Abitur auch jederzeit an verschiedenen Stellen nachholen (meine Schwester beispielsweise hat es mit 25 nachgeholt)
Also giebt es anscheinend doch einige Unterschiede ;-)
Hi
Here in Kanada (Canada). The school is like K-6(elementary school), 7-9(junior high school) and 9-12(high school)
I'm from Tx, and my high school was ok. I was in the swim team and I competed almost every Saturday. I took a lot of PAP classes however my favorite class was AP Art. I took AP Art for 2 years. I skipped Art 3 because my art teachers wanted me to do more with my art. I was also in UIL which is where you compete with other schools in your district. I was in World Geo. , Science, and Orchestra UIL. I enjoyed doing all of those things but the one thing I didn't like in high school was my Prom. I'm from a town where there is a lot of Latian American Spanish. which I don't speak at all! my Prom was Alice and Wonderland themed but all the music was in Spanish and my prom was nothing like the ones in the movies.
I didn't hear anything about the Homecoming Parade! Every year a day or two ahead of the Homecoming Game we had a parade, the different classes would build floats and they also had a Homecoming Bon Fire. After I graduated I joined the local Fire Dept. and we would have our Fire Engines in the parade carrying the Cheerleaders ;-) and we would also send a unit to the Bon Fire, it was way more fun when I was with the Fire Dept. Also the girls would play the Powder Puff game, it was the Juniors against the Senior girls at flag football.
Didn't care to much for High School but my Junior and Senior year I did go to Vocational School. I took Graphic Arts which is running a printing press and create layouts for the printing press, that was fun! They had Culinary, Electronics, Automotive and Electrician classes.
Keep up the good work, have fun watching your video's, take care and be safe.
We're not forced to do any of the sports or Proms etc. I loved our high school solidarity during football games and basketball games. We had a lot of pride in our school. We played other local schools and the competition was amazing. Especially if you had friends from the school you're playing and you give each other a hard time and then laugh. I loved all of this and can't imagine not having the school pride and competition.
I also enjoyed the proms and dances. Everyone got dressed up and most had dates. Then we danced away to the current music.
Then when you went to college the atmosphere was the same. You had tremendous school pride, huge football fields, huge basketball arenas. When you played other colleges you wore your colors and cheered for your team. Every college (University) had a mascot. It's a huge deal in the USA.
My school in The Netherlands didn't have sports teams. They did competitions once per year and we had a 'band' and a school newspaper that's it.
At my school there just clubs (in German AG) so there is the soccor club, debate club (Jugend debattiert), beekeeper club, history club
I went to a high school in a small farm town in southeast Michigan and in the fall, we had a homecoming dance, the winter we had what was called Subdeb (pronounced as sub dub) which was like our winter ball and in the spring, we had prom. I Never went to prom but I was vice president of the German club my freshman and sophomore years. I took German for two years and loved it. Was gonna take it again my junior year but I took vo-tech where they teach you career building in a teacher like setting. I wanted to be a teacher so my vo-tech class was called "Careers in Education".
You guys should look up some of the "Every 15 minutes" program videos for US schools. It basically focuses on educating high schoolers about drunk driving, but when I was in high school I always thought it would be interesting to see how people from other countries would react to it. At my school they went all out. They shut down a street next to the school and recreated a car crash during a lunch assembly. There was an actual helicopter that air lifted the "injured" students away from the "crash".
I went to a very large hs in the South. We had 300 people in our graduating class. Athletes and cheerleaders ruled the school. Once we completed required courses for our grade level, we were allowed to take electives that were offered: a semester devoted to writers like Edgar Allen Poe or Mark Twain; botany; etc. There were two "tracks" we could take but there were no tests to determine who was put onto which track: you could take the "college" track (you had to have at least 2 years of a foreign language) or you could take a "vocational" track and go to some classes in the Vo-Tech building. The year after I graduated, they finally renamed "Home Ec" to "Life Skills" and boys started to sign up for that class. AND I remember girls were given a choice between home ec and biology, but boys had to take biology; girls also weren't offered any wood working classes. That was in Mississippi and I'm sure things have changed--at least I hope they have. We also had a "smoking" zone outside where students were allowed to smoke and/or chew tobacco!
In my school (Gesamtschule) was a lof of clubs like parcour, volleyball, soccer, climbing... but we was a school for full day (Ganztagsschule)
Very interesting video. I'm from Switzerland and our school system is totally different. Our grades are also 1-6 like in Germany but the other way around, so 1 is the worst grade you can get and 6 is the best :-D normaly we have 9 years of school and after that you can go to another school or start an apprenticeship. We also have "Gymnasium" but you have to pass a test for these schools and it's 3 years longer than regular school. So when you go to regular school you finish it at the age of 16 and start a apprenticeship or whatever you're doing after school ;-)
I went to a very small high school in Switzerland and we had araound 130 students 😂 so 800 students (like the "small" school Phil went to) would be a very big school for me ;-)
in the US, there are still some “Technical High School” or “Vocational High School” where half the day is typical high school and the rest of the day is training for a skilled trade (construction, culinary, lab, office, electrician, cosmetology, and more)
when you’re in the skilled trade school high schools often times in the junior or senior year they do “shared time” with an actual business.
So if you’re a senior in plumbing for example, you could work at the plumbing job during the schools hours and get schools credits. if you were in cosmetology you would work at a salon.
lots of people keep those jobs they started at in their senior year shared time.
in our vocational school the culinary class was 2 different ones, one was “bake shop” and the other was “culinary”. both were equal but different but students often said bake shop was the lower version of culinary. either way, both had their own little shop in the school where you could buy the food they made. for lunch you could buy a meal from culinary or pies, donuts and other baked food from the bake shop. the graphics design shop class did projects for the school, they designed the year book the way the “student council club” for that grade had wanted it.
it’s funny, in my husbands class the student council didn’t ever form. that group of students just didn’t give a crap. they didn’t do the “high school senior trip” or the class ring, or any of that stuff. they barely had a prom and they barely did the year book. they just didnt care about any of that. when it was my grade there were kids who really did care and they made sure all that stuff happened. i was not part of the “cool kid” group so i didn’t do any of the senior class trip or any of that. i didn’t get a class ring or any of that, it was a money thing. those of us who didn’t have money just couldn’t do those things. at our school most of us didn’t have that kind of money to throw around. those that did were the “cool kid” clique and they took charge of the “extras” like prom, year book, and class trips. though luckily for my class the normal kids did get into yearbook club and they helped balance it out from just being a bragging thing for the kids who had money. i never realized that until now looking back. but it was definitely money that was the reason those kids were “cool” and they had so much energy to pursue those “extras” whereas the rest of us were struggling to keep lunch on the table, and kept our focus on working and just trying to pass classes.
Wow 5-12th grade for high school in Germany. That's quite a long time! But I guess it's sort of nice to gain a variety of experiences before going to college :) Enjoyed your video!
yeah. However I feel that America is doing a better job preparing students for college life :)
@@DeanaandPhil Haha. I do like the AP and IB credit system. Not only it makes you well-prepared for college, but it also makes your life a way easier in college.
It used to be grades 5 to 13. Some "Gymnasien" still have this, they're known as G9 (9-year Gymnasium, as opposed to a G8 or 8-year Gymnasium).