10 Differences Between Schools In The US & Sweden | AMERICAN COUPLE REACTION

10 Differences Between Schools In The US & Sweden | AMERICAN COUPLE REACTION

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[GdzieJestNemo]

most countries in Europe don't have school buses. Kids simply walk to school, use public transport or are dropped by parents on their way to work

[smalm]

Kids start walking/biking to school quite early here. Before then, a parent will walk/drive them there. My kids are 9 and 10 years old and they walk to school every morning and sometimes I pick them up after work, sometimes they walk home.

[msmichellewinchester]

School buses aren't really a thing in most of Europe from what I know (maybe somewhere they have them, but it's most definitely not a normal thing here). Most places are pedestrian friendly and have reliable and accesible public transport. It's safe too.

[-logna-]

Kids here that lives far enough from school (It was over 5km away where I grew up) gets a card that lets them go for free on public transportation. The busses are scheduled to be able to get the kids to school till they begin their days. And to add, public transport here is really safe.

If you live closer, you usually walk or take the bike to school

[aymanm.]

the swedish school system is very similar to the belgian school system. they're identical, i didn't know that. what surprises me is that american students don't go ice skating or hiking with the school

[karlchilweger]

The schedule that was shown was his own and only shows the classes he teaches. Students schedule look completely different.

[Domnoidragon]

There are a few things he talked about in the video that does not apply to all schools in Sweden. At the school where I teach (grade 0-5) the students and teachers stay in the same classroom for all classes except PE and crafts (I think you in the us call it shop-class). We have some breaks at the same time every day. For example we start at 08.20 every morning and the first break is at 09.50. Also most days all students end their lessons at the same time (except mondays and thursdays) so the school busses picks up the few kids that need a ride at the same time every day.

The schedule he showed you was his own teacher schedule and not a student one. Also there are som differences in schedule depending on what grade you are in. In the lower grades (0-6) in the county where I work you have the same teacher basically all the time. Except for subjects like PE and shopclass. I don't think he mentioned it but students here doesn't get grades, like real grades, until 6th grade. In the lower classes 0-5 they get a "report". The report only says if they have passed, passed beyond expectations or if they have failed. Grade with F-A is only given from sixth grade and to our last year of "high school".

The thing about lunches being free depends on county to county. At one school where I worked the teachers bought cupoons that lasted for a school year and you used those if you wanted to eat in the cafeteria. In the school where I work now the teachers responsible for the class gets to eat for free (the personal assistants students have as well) while teachers that are not responsible (think homeroom teachers) for a class has to pay.

[Luredreier]

11:39
I live in Norway, not Sweden, but it's common here for older kindergarten kids to walk to kindergarten.
Parents or older siblings will often invest time into keeping an eye on them on the way there.

[AlexanderDeusvult]

We have a high tax in Sweden but it goes to parents leave so they can stay with their children and get paid when their children are sick, then free hospital care, and if a mother gave birth to a baby both mother and father can take parents leave and still get paid from their jobs, then free education in various professions, then if you get sick you get compensation 80 procent out of your salary, then every summer you have 4 weeks full paid vacation 😁🍻 which I long for, but I will take 3 weeks holiday I save one week holiday when it's Christmas Eve, have Nice day 🙂, 🇸🇪

[magnusemilsson]

We do not have school buses in that meaning in Sweden, the school children use the ordinary public transportation, but those are normally adjusted to fit school hours. Schools for lower ages are usually very nearby and in walking distance from were the child lives.

Regarding to swim; The children must be able to swim 200 meters of which 50 meters in supine position, else they will fail in school.

A correction: Lunch is not free for teachers, unless they eat with the schoolchildren.

[lazyeyejohn]

In Sweden as in ireland there is less school transport most students use public transport which is free. If the school is near we walk or use a bicycle to get to school.

[twinmama]

In Germany, kids in elementary school usually walk to school (at first with their parents, later with classmates - e.g. I "collected" three classmates on my way to elementary school) or they ride scooters or bikes or use public transport. We have school buses, but they are part of the regular p.t. They sometimes use different routes than normal lanes, skip stops, or have additional stops, but anybody with a valid ticket can use them.
Students can purchase monthly tickets with a subsidized price (1/3 to 1/2 of a regular monthly ticket) and can use it 24/7 365 days of the year for the whole regional net (at least in our net with more than 12000 km² or more than 4600 square miles). If students visit a district school (mandatory school i.e. all elementary schools and Hauptschulen) and the school is farther away than 4km or 2.5 miles the ticket is free.

[moawahl]

school busses isn't that big of a thing in Sweden, but there are a few. For example, I used to take the school buss before I got my license, the buss would leave for school at 7:12 AM and 9:10 AM, and then it would drive back from school once every hour between 1PM to 4PM. The busses don't necessarily match up with one's schedule, so you'll just have to take the best option, either asking to leave earlier from class, or wait for an hour after school. and in the mornings you'd just have to either get to school super early, or be late

[izuela]

Sweden tends to overhaul their grade system once a decade. Give it a few years and it will be different.
When I received grades (around 1990) it was numbers 5-1 (and a theoretical - if you had been completely absent and never done any test or assignment). It was kind of messed up because the national average grade was suppose to be exactly 3. But 3 was also the passing grade with 2 being a fail and a 1 being just terrible. They had like 5 bracket guidelines where 10% were suppose to get a 5, 25% 4, 30% 3, 25% 2, 10% 1 (roughly, the important thing was the average of 3 ). But that meant that the goal was to fail (grade 1 or 2) about a third of the students. which is probably not a good goal to set for education.

[urbanshepherdgroup]

There are only school buses for areas that don't have any public transportation and are located far away from school. Like 10+ kilometers away.(6.2 US miles)

Many cycle and walk and half of the students usually use public transport by themselfs from the age of 7.

[micib]

Some areas have school buses, but then you have to live a certain distance from the school and not all regions offer it. I always walked or biked when I was in elementary school and the when I went to high school in the city I simply took public transportation (bus and tram) - as did all of my friends ☺️ the schedule he showed is not all that different from my high school schedule, my senior year I started at noon on Mondays, had a three hour gap on Tuesdays, finished at 1pm on Thursdays and was off Fridays 👍 so there’s a lot more variety and freedom here in Sweden. I would say one of the biggest differences though: we don’t need to ask for a hall pass to go to the bathroom!

[Cookie_moonlove]

as I remember it school started 8:15 every day from grade 1-6 and ended pretty much the same time the first 3 years but when the school day ended varied a bit year 4-6 and then 7-9 it was more varied both start and end.
Grade 1-6 we had our own classroom but also just 1 or 2 teachers except for PE of course that was PE teachers and either outside or in the gymnasium and for woodwork and sewing there were of course also special teachers and class rooms. Grade 7-9 we had different rooms for different classes and different teachers for different subjects and also had home economics in classrooms with kitchens.
We either walked to school or was dropped off by our parents the first years but 7-9 grade we took public transportation. Students who lived further away had a school bus or school taxi if it was just 1 or a few students. But schools are usually not far apart/away so you can just walk.

[MrBern]

4:27 It is rare that there is special school rides in Sweden. Most of the times, the kids would take the normal public transport if they live too far from school unless their parents are able to drive them. The schools usually give them a card to stamp on the bus for the region they attend school in. It is usually to a lower price than the ordinary prices and it is the school's responsability to hand them these. And this bus card usually last from 6 in the morning to 7:30 in the evening, and they can also use it outside of school hours, like teacher's days and holidays. Not on Saturday and Sunday though. At least that's how it was while I was attending school, long ago :P

[maccifyme]

I just want to add to all the comments about school buses not really being a thing in Sweden. It's true that the classic yellow school bus is not something you see. However, if you live far out from the city/town, more often than not some sort of school bus exists. It usually only goes once in the morning, so if you start late that day, you'll either have to get to school some other way or just wait in the school for your class to start. In the afternoon it usually is one or two routes, and they try to schedule it so no kid has to wait for too long to get home.
Also, in Sweden all kids under a certain age (I think maybe like 9 or 11?) has to be offered after school care. So for example, in elementary school the youngest kids would only have classes to about 12 or 1. They would then go to the after school programme (which is sometimes in their own classroom), and the older students would join after their day ended. The oldest kids, who would be around 10 years old, might get off at around 3. The school bus would then leave at 3.10 for example, expecting the younger kids to be in the after school programme until then.
At least that's how it worked in the schools I know of that had quite a lot of kids living far from the school!

[Fistfury]

There is no school bus per say, as in America, however the public transportation is very safe, and people do generally step in If theres some asshole harrasing kids etc. Also the buses usually goes every 15 mins or so, or in larger cities even every 5-7 minutes. Regarding grades they are currently using the system A, B, C, D, E & F. The coloring systems is only for teachers to be able to correctly sort out the grades to give.