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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iwatt" data-source="post: 2179942" data-attributes="member: 11085">First of all.....I'm not American. Never went to an American High school. There are 5 billiion people in the world out there, of which you guys are only 250 million. Those numbers not withstanding, Hollywood does have a huge cultural impact in the world.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But I'll take your question on face value: I went to school in Chile (Long/thin country in the West Coast of South America, reknown for its wines and Copper mines). The Chilean system has the whole 12 year span in the same school. That means the 1st graders are in the same location as the Seniors. Another important difference is that students remain in the same classroom the whole day and it is teachers who shift from classroom to classroom. This is true during the whole school experience. When I was in school, my schedules were: In at 8:30 AM, had a 45 minute lunch break and then on to classes up to 4:30 PM. Then, if you had after school activities (theater/sports/etcc) you stay longer.About Chile: this country is predominantly Catholic with strong family values. You don't leave home when you're 18. You don't send your grand parents to retirement homes. You have large family groups. I'm guessing this is different from the American norm, from what I can infer from my exposure to American culture (albeit this is based mainly on TV and Movies so it might be skewed  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  ). I don't think any system is better than another, I just want to clarify some cultural mores which might explain differences in "high school experiences".</blockquote>

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