A normal day at an American High
School



Well my topic is : A normal day at an American High School

The first I want to tell you is about Standard and
differents:

One often heard prejudice is, that the American High Schools have a very
low standard. In germany the prejudice is popular too. We can say that´s
right, because in America you can find many High Schools with a low standard,
but also you can find schools with a very high standard, higher than the most
Schools in germany. In comparison to the differents of schools in germany, the
differents from school to school in America are much greater. One of the main
reasons is, that the School leaders in America don´t often have conferences
to coordinate the school system in the federal states, therefore the directors
can mostly make what they want. An other reason is, that the schools in America
use multiple choice tests (that are tests with already given alternate answers
in which you have to mark the right ones) these tests were standardlly used in
America and they are much easier than normal tests in germany. In the school,
teachers speak most of the time and you just have to listen. The spoken part of
the lessons don´t have any influence to your notes.


School bus:

In America all schools have school busses, they take every pupil in a
normal distance to school. The Americans need school busses, because in all
small cities are only a few bus lines and railways. Therefore in America every
family have two or more cars and they allways use them. Especially the 16 or 17
years old pupils want to buy their own cars, nobody likes to drive with the
school bus.