Hey everyone, Dana here!
What was my schedule like on an average day of high school in the U.S.? I’ll tell you.
I went to a public high school in South Florida.
Now high school is from ninth to twelfth grade, and there were some little differences in
my schedule from year to year.
So this is going to be about a “normal” day for me in 9th grade.
I took the big yellow school bus to and from school.
The bus picked me up from a bus stop that was about a ten minute walk from my house.
And what time did the bus pick me up?
Right around 6:30 a.m., which meant that I left my house at 6:20ish, meaning that I woke
up around 5:30 in the morning.
I got to the school at 7 and then had about 20 minutes until the first class began, during
which I hung out with friends, walked around, sometimes studied if I had a test or finished
some homework.
At my school we had what was called block scheduling.
We had 7 classes, but we didn’t have all our classes every day.
There was actually only one class that we had every day, and that was the first class.
After that, our class schedule rotated from day to day.
So, for example, maybe on Monday we would have English first, then
Science, Art, and Spanish.
And then Tuesday, again, we would have English first, like everyday,
and then three other classes.
Then on Wednesday we would have the same as Monday.
And then on Thursday the same schedule as Tuesday.
So it went back and forth each day.
That first class that we had every day was I think about 50 minutes, and then the other three
classes were around 2 hours each.
So a typical schedule for me at my school looked like this.
First class of the day, maybe, Geography, 50 minutes.
After that the bell rang and we had 7 minutes to go our lockers, switch out our books and
folders, go to the restroom, and get to the class.
Which was really quite often a pretty hard deadline to make.
I mean, there were usually lines for the bathrooms, and the school was also pretty big.
Some of the classes were even themselves a 4 or 5 minute walk apart from each other,
and that was when you were moving quickly.
So really there was no dilly-dallying when changing classes.
Bell rang, you needed to get out and get to your next class as quickly as possible.
Second class of the day, maybe English.
Class time: about 2 hours.
And then at the end of this class we listened to announcements on the loudspeaker and watched
the news show produced by the students in our school on the classroom TV, which I also
mentioned in this video over here on high schools in the U.S., reality versus what you
see in the movies.
Next we had our third class of the day, maybe gym class, which was also the class during
which we had lunch.
But our school was so big that not everyone could fit in the cafeteria all at once, so
there were actually three lunch shifts.
Lunch A, lunch B and lunch C.
If you had lunch A, you ended up eating super early at like 10:45, before your third class.
And then you went to your third class for the full 2 hours after lunch.
If you had lunch B, you went to your third class for half the time, then took a break
for lunch, and you got to eat at a more “normal” lunchtime, and then after lunch you went back
to your third class for the second half of that class.
And if you had lunch C you went to your third class for the whole 2 hours and then you were
really, really hungry by the time you got to go eat lunch after the end of the third class.
Depending on how much homework and studying I had, I would either spend lunch actually
in the cafeteria hanging out with friends, or sometimes I did need that time to study,
so then I would go to the library during lunch instead.
I always brought lunch to school in high school, but you could also buy a school lunch at the cafeteria.
After the “lunch class” it was then the last class of the day, perhaps some kind of
science class.
Which was again another 2 hour class.
The class finished around 2:50 in the afternoon and then school was done, and I took the big
yellow school bus back home and got home around 3:45.
Then I relaxed a little bit, had a snack, and eventually started on my homework and
studying and getting ready for the next day of school.
But some people actually stayed at school even longer.
A lot of people stayed at school longer for for school activities, clubs, band practice,
sports, and then there was a late bus that you could take home that I think picked students
up around 5 p.m.
So my question for you is: How is this the same or different from the schedule that you had
in high school and what do you think about this schedule?
And what other questions do you have for me about high school in the U.S.?
Please let me know in the comments below.
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