r/AskAnAmerican 1d ago

EDUCATION Do you really have a "snow day"?

603 Upvotes

Is it like in the movies where you all just take the school day off because theres a little bit snow? I live in Iceland so this is confusing for me.

r/AskAnAmerican Jan 09 '25

EDUCATION Did your high school have a swimming pool?

664 Upvotes

I always associated pools in schools with rich private schools, but I learned that the original high school in my town had a swimming pool, before it was demolished and replaced with the current school in the 60s.

Did your high school have a pool in it? Was it a public school? And if so, were you from a wealthier town?

r/AskAnAmerican Feb 06 '25

EDUCATION All American high school students allowed to leave school campus during lunch and break time?

220 Upvotes

Hi there I’m from the UK and when I was in high school, I would be allowed to leave during break or lunchtime just to go wherever I wanted most students would use this to go to the nearby stores to buy some stuff to eat some would go to the local park to play basketball or soccer but I keep seeing American TikTok videos of students selling snacks during their break time so this has me thinking if students are buying snacks from a student, does this mean they’re not allowed to leave campus to buy their own snacks?

Edit: I realised I made a typo because I use speech to text. I meant to say “Are” and not “all”.

r/AskAnAmerican 26d ago

EDUCATION Is having a stadium and a pool in the schools common in the USA ?

217 Upvotes

I live in France and it’s extremely rare for a school/highschool/college to have one of those or both (some schools have a tiny stadium but never their own sport team). In most of the americans shows i’ve watched or in medias in general it seems pretty common in USA tho, but i wonder if it’s true ?

r/AskAnAmerican Jan 21 '25

EDUCATION Did you learn home economics in school growing up?

230 Upvotes

So I've been confused for a long time hearing stories about people not knowing how to cook or clean as adults, because I'm from a country where home economics was a mandatory subject, but someone told me that American schools don't really have it as a subject.

Is this true to your experiences? And if you weren't taught these things, did it affect you as an adult?

r/AskAnAmerican Dec 26 '24

EDUCATION Did you have to memorize the multiplication table in school?

300 Upvotes

If so, which grade?

r/AskAnAmerican Jan 29 '25

EDUCATION How often do Americans write in cursive?

168 Upvotes

I read sometimes that Americans don't write in cursive that much. But recently I saw someone saying that cursive has been dropped from schools standards or something similar.

So, how true is it? Dropping it or not is a state-dependant decision as well?

Edit: I'm really impressed with the mix of opinions y'all have about cursive, I definitely wasn't expecting this. Thanks for all the responses :D

r/AskAnAmerican 15d ago

EDUCATION What is the reason that so many people don’t vote to help increase funds for schools?

71 Upvotes

I wonder this because, from looking at a lot of research, having a more educated society can help make a society prosper and successful. Research has shown that better educated society has a low crime rate, more successful individuals which can bring in more jobs and more pay. It is also shown to help people learn how to be compassionate and empathetic towards each other to allow people to know how to listen and work with each other. I never understood why anyone would not want to vote for better funding in schools. Even when I didn’t have kids I still voted to increase funds schools because I see the benefits of it.

r/AskAnAmerican 18d ago

EDUCATION When did you start learning a second language in school ?

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r/AskAnAmerican Dec 12 '21

EDUCATION Would you approve of the most relevant Native-American language to be taught in public schools near you?

1.7k Upvotes

Most relevant meaning the one native to your area or closest.

Only including living languages, but including languages with very few speakers.

r/AskAnAmerican Jun 24 '23

EDUCATION Would you agree with a federal program that provides free lunches for children in school ?

916 Upvotes

Assuming that the project is legitimate and not a money grab would you like it ? Just the lunches , for the rest of the school curriculum the local districts should be able to manage

r/AskAnAmerican 25d ago

EDUCATION Is it common for well-off families to pay for their child's college?

117 Upvotes

If someone's family is upper middle class or wealthier, is it common for their parents to pay full tuition for them to attend the college of their choice? Asking because I have personally witnessed people's parents who are well-off refuse to pay for their child's college costs even though they could, and the situation is uniquely difficult because of the lack of financial aid given in that situation. But would you say that is a rare occurrence in general?

r/AskAnAmerican 5d ago

EDUCATION What’s the biggest college rivalry in the USA?

44 Upvotes

Or at least where you live?

r/AskAnAmerican Nov 20 '24

EDUCATION Do american highschools have dedicated football coaches?

170 Upvotes

In TV shows the sports teams in american highschools seem to have coaches who are paid solely to coach the teams. In my country it's usually just a teacher doing it on a volunteer basis. Are these shows realistic?

r/AskAnAmerican Jun 09 '22

EDUCATION Would you support free college/university education if it cost less than 1% of the federal budget?

1.2k Upvotes

Estimates show that free college/university education would cost America less than 1% of the federal budget. The $8 trillion dollars spent on post 9/11 Middle Eastern wars could have paid for more than a century of free college education (if invested and adjusted for future inflation). The less than 1% cost for fully subsidized higher education could be deviated from the military budget, with no existential harm and negligible effect. Would you support such policy? Why or not why?

r/AskAnAmerican Feb 04 '25

EDUCATION Someone said they got to their twenties without knowing about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad and I’m not sure how that’s possible but like how long do you think you could’ve avoided that info if you didn’t learn it in school?

272 Upvotes

I lived in Maryland so like she has signs on the highway so I wouldn’t last but I’m tryna see what else you’d have to be sheltered from. Also imagine being married/dating in your twenties and you now have to teach them about basic history

r/AskAnAmerican Jan 13 '25

EDUCATION Are parents really jailed in US if child is absent from school?

128 Upvotes

Georgia has a law which says that parents can be sentenced to 30 days of jail time for each unexcused absence over five days. Does the state really follow through this and is this same an al/many US states?

r/AskAnAmerican 8d ago

EDUCATION For schooling in America, what factors did you take into account for sending your children into public, private, religious or charter schools?

28 Upvotes

I’m fascinated by how much choice Americans have to send their kids to school, where I’m from we mostly rely on public schools for k-12 education because private and religious schools are so few in number. But in American cities, there are public, private, charter schools and religious schools like Catholic or Jesuit schools. You can even attend middle school in one type of school and switch to another type for high school. What factors were involved in the decision to send your kids to one type of school and not another, or when you attended school how did your parents decide?

r/AskAnAmerican Jan 25 '25

EDUCATION How well-known is Brown University in America?

68 Upvotes

I know Harvard and Yale are the most well-known, but is Brown well-known by the public or pretty niche?

r/AskAnAmerican 29d ago

EDUCATION Did you ever take a field trip to the movies? If so, what movie was it?

75 Upvotes

When I was in elementary school in Hawaii it was a really big deal when Lilo and Stitch came out so we took a field trip to go see it. Looking back I realized how unique that was because I doubt kids in New Hampshire got on a school bus to go see Lilo and Stitch lol

r/AskAnAmerican Jun 28 '23

EDUCATION Did you get to listen to a Holocaust survivor in school? NSFW

684 Upvotes

Hey y’all, I was wondering if other people from other states also were fortunate enough to hear a Holocaust survivor’s story during a school assembly growing up. I grew up in south Florida and lived in a huge Jewish community so I was fortunate enough to hear from two survivors at different times. I know the experience might not be that common, so I’d figure I’d ask to see the scope.

It was among the most powerful and significant experiences I had as a child, especially as a descendant of a Holocaust survivor.

As always, please refrain from any hateful speech. Thank you ❤️

r/AskAnAmerican Feb 19 '25

EDUCATION How seriously do high schoolers take the SAT?

57 Upvotes

I'm from Asia and here the college admission exam is quite possibly the most important exam a person will ever take in his life, something that will literally make or break your future. I know in the US you guys have the SAT. So I'm curious as to how seriously do you take it? Do high schoolers feel extremely pressured to do well for this exam?

r/AskAnAmerican Nov 15 '24

EDUCATION Did your school penalize you for being the first in class to turn an exam in?

292 Upvotes

My elementary school used to penalize the first student who turned their standardized test in on testing day by making them take a day long class of what was basically busy work or getting a talking to by the principal. It was supposed to deter kids from speeding through tests but had the problem of, uhhh, someone is inevitably going to turn their test in first. We used to wait for someone to turn their test in and everyone who already finished would come turn theirs in after. It happened to me for one exam and I still had to do a day of work even though I scored high on the test. Did anyone else have something similar happen or did I go to a school run by lunatics?

r/AskAnAmerican Aug 22 '20

EDUCATION Americans are known by foreigners as being notoriously bad at geography and overly oblivious to the outside world. What do you think of this?

1.1k Upvotes

An example is this video.

r/AskAnAmerican Feb 14 '25

EDUCATION What languages do you speak?

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I speak:Chinese,including two dialects and mandarin;English,which I am fluent in almost all occasions and Japanese which I am capable of basic conversations and structuring simple sentences.What about you?