#Theyre so funny to me (although some ppl get so offended and that confuses me more 😭😭)

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ok genuine question for any americans 😭

how do your school days work?? Like specifically high school, cus I was wondering how your days would go and I genuinely don’t understand 😭 I’ve tried googling it but get so many different answers and Idek how america works anymore

for context I’m British (English), instead of middle-high school n then college we have primary school (4-10/11 depending on birthday) and then secondary school (11-15/16 also depending on birthday) and then either sixth form (which is basically college just with the same hours as secondary) or college (which is the same as sixth form but you only go in when you have classes) which are both 16-18 (or 17 depending on your birthday)

Our school year is start of of September-late July (or at least it is/was for me) and our school days are from around 8-9 to around 3 (this depends on the school, for my secondary school my hours were 8:45 [9:10 from the start of lessons] to 3:15). We have 5 periods/classes (this may also depend but most schools where I live have this) which are usually around an hour, and a break in the morning which (for me) was 15 minutes, n then lunch in the afternoon which (once again, for me) was 35ish minutes

We also don’t call them grades, for us they’re years (eg - year 6, year 7 etc) and I think your numbers are a year behind us (eg - google tells me that 6th grade is our equivalent of year 7 [which is the first yr of secondary at ages 11/12])

also I think for Americans, your college is our university?? For us uni starts at age 18 (thats the minimum but u can join whenever) n its where you get a degree

basically just how tf do ur school work (specifically the structure of your days because I’ve seen people say that have up to 6 or even 8 periods?? And I have genuinely no clue how that would work, unless ur periods were rlly short or your days were rlly long 😭😭)