Thread: British schools v american schools

um maybe because your education is better. prom, homecoming...all that bullshit is overrated.

Who knows....do we have more freedom than you people?
homecoming is pretty cool....actually its pretty funny. At our school they tried banning dirty dancing, cus they found condoms on the floor and other stuff.

you people have bank holiday or such sort we dont + the holidays where kids get off vary for schools here.

you people have 2 weeks of springbreak...we dont!
but then we also get off for snow days, inservice days, and all sorts of other things haha sorry couldnt help but rub that in

Oh and the uniforms mostly private schools here have uniforms...atleast where i live they do.

Some dances here are held to raise money.

you guys dont have a prom what do you peeps have instead...or is that leavers dance thing instead of it?

pop idol/american idol is the lamest thing ever!

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I thought the whole purpose of school was to LEARN.[/b]

its about fun too

but school is school just a few differences between GB and US schools but you brits have other things we dont...

We have proms at my british school, so I don&#39;t know where the "no prom" conception comes from.

Infact, you have two proms. One at age 16, to indicate the end of compulsory education. Then, one at 18 at the end of your schooling, before going to university.

Well it depends on what american schools ur talkin about. My school dosent worry about that kind of stuff. ITs mostly the education of it all. And my schools a College prep school.

So i think its mostly American public High Schools that dont teach anything and have all that stuff.

my school worries about it i guess....its mostly the parents that do that i think.
I dont think my school is a college prep thing but they have lots of those too....maybe it is one....i dont know all i know is its a science&tech/magnet/CAP etc. school

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So i think its mostly American public High Schools that dont teach anything and have all that stuff[/b]

whatcha saying.

our school&#39;s here arent better we have snowdays

Well maybe not all public schools but the Philadelphia public school system sucks. Thats y I go to a charter school
www.hthphila.org

And yea magnet schools are good toput on a college application. My brother goes to a magnet school based on Art.

I understand where you would say thats screwed up and thats how it is in philly. Ilike my high school- it&#39;s the biggest school in this state. And they are more concernd wheather or not the lacross team makes finals more so then the kids passing. So all the money goes to these dances and shit.

Its diffrent with Charter schools in my city. We only get a certain amoutn of money at the begining of the year and we have to budget it out or beg rich epople for money. ANd like I said this is for schools within my state. Lots of there schools are unsafe and lack education.

dont have metal detectors here. I think its cus its a violation of our self expression something something. acutally dont know why probally cus we dont need any.

jay all schools have budgets....a limited budget its not just charter schools whatever those are