Showing a Brit a Real American High School Curriculum

Today Corry and I look at a couple real American high school curriculums and look into what classes you need to graduate! Meanwhile Corry finds out something he didn't know about Scotland...

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[Nina-nstl]

I'm German and in 11th grade I did an exchange year in the US. Since I had to return to my regular curriculum after, I wanted to take French. When I told them I've already had 6 years of French at that time, they didn't even know what to do with me.

[zarameg]

A- Where are you from?
B- Oh I’m from Scotland
A- Oh I love the Scottish accent!
B- Oh no I’m from Scotland, South Dakota

[kat_wayward]

as a german, seeing the way school works in the US is so confusing with all the credits and stuff like we don't have that at ALL

[leolunchbox]

I go to an American school, and I gotta say... dude you went to a wild school. Your graduation requirements are so so different! And your class offerings are much better funded than the highschool(s) I've attended!
We didn't get any culinary or family development or any language but Spanish (No French, German, etc, but one of the schools I went to did have Mandarin, but you could only take it if you had it through elementary and middle school)!
And music classes are NEVER individual instruments. I've never seen Piano I or Piano II on a course listing.
And we're required to take as history: Global studies (modern geopolitical issues and geography), World history, and US history (1 year of each), + econ and US government. It's so weird that you didn't take full world history?

[jessicadufort]

“I generally feel like Americans would benefit from something not American...” he sheepishly remarks. I concur!

[TheCrizon]

The problem with saying "US education" is that nearly every state has different educational standards.

Edit: I'm saying this not as a defense of the us system. It's one of the major reasons that's it's so bad in particular areas.

[abbywhyman]

Evan: "Naval Science"
My brain: the science of belly buttons

[smode]

Wow, you went to a way better American H.S. than most of us get here. Room to take 17 electives? Hell, that 17 elective choices even exist in one school is wow! Our school district doesn't even have homec anymore.

[ashley_laura]

It’s Design and Technology where I’m from in the UK or Design Tech, covered everything from graphics and word work to electrical systems.

[akirataifu]

Man, this guy's school was so well funded. My highschool didn't have half the extra curriculars and upper science courses he listed.

[SoraLivesHerLife]

Americans: "Getting a driver's licence is expensive"
Germany: *laughs in the background*

[hypatia]

I did English As A Second Language in primary school and then always came first in "normal" English because I was actually taught how English worked.

[sarahgreen]

Best highschool class I took was Forensic science. We solved fake crimes and calculated when people died using body temperature, rigor mortis, and maggots.

[michaelconroy]

Corry: “When are we gonna learn Algebra?”
Teacher: “We’re passed that... this is complex Calculus...”

[kabobawsome]

Interesting thing, you can literally tell where you are in the US by the language requirements. As you get close to the southern border, classes start to ramp up foreign language course requirements, and put more and more funding towards Spanish programs.

[goldie]

Fun fact: In Austria you put a lot (a lot!) of emphasis in the two world wars (at least in my school)
In my 7 years of lessons, we worked through the whole topic twice with almost 3/4 of a year just for WWII
We really don't want to repeat what had happened when someone doesn't get accepted into our university of fine arts (it's still nearly impossible to get in though, but that's due to the almost one-on-one lessons about learning the specific techniques required for some of the courses)

[LizDinVT]

"I love my country, but we need to start seeing other people" - bumper sticker in US

[codyscious]

I have to say, only 1 year of "world language" sounds so strange to a European... when I graduated high school in France, I had studied English for over 9 years, and German for 7. Of course it makes sense for it to be different in the US, as you guys speak the universal language, but it sounds shocking! I think it's super cool that you can choose electives though!!

[kalieriley]

That fact your school had money for all of those electives is amazing. I’m from Oklahoma and our public schools cut all funding for the arts electives but didn’t for the sports programs.

[bookclub]

This all sounds so very complicated. In the UK, you start the year, you're given a timetable of all your classes and you follow that timetable for the whole year. At a certain age, when certain subjects become optional, they'll ask you in advance which of the humanities subject you want to choose (usually people either pick history or geography) and which language you want to choose (usually a choice between German, French and Spanish) and that's it.