Writing American High Schools

[Nemesism]

Due to an unfortunate event of losing all my written chapters. I decided to concentrate on something else for now.

I would like to consult about the differences between an American or Western High School to an Eastern or Asian High School.

Is there dorm life? or just buses going around? or is the transportation different on personal decision?

How are schedules, from what time to what? Are clubs always after classes? Do classes even extend to saturday?

How is school social life? Does stereotypes live to the status quo? Or are new stereotypes drawing in from the rise of new racial and gender controversy and extremist thinkings?

Are all highschools huge campuses or do they depend?

Any American specific practices due to American culture or ways exclusive to the westerners?

 

[melchi]

Due to an unfortunate event of losing all my written chapters. I decided to concentrate on something else for now.

I would like to consult about the differences between an American or Western High School to an Eastern or Asian High School.

Is there dorm life? or just buses going around? or is the transportation different on personal decision?

How are schedules, from what time to what? Are clubs always after classes? Do classes even extend to saturday?

How is school social life? Does stereotypes live to the status quo? Or are new stereotypes drawing in from the rise of new racial and gender controversy and extremist thinkings?

Are all highschools huge campuses or do they depend?

Any American specific practices due to American culture or ways exclusive to the westerners?

1.) Public high schools don't have dorms unless it is minor incarceration (juvenile hall)
Boarding schools are a thing but they are increasingly rare.

2.) In American high schools some students drive, having a car to go to school and show off to your friends is a big deal to teenagers.

3.) Schedules are different from state to state. I think it was something like 8am to 3:30 pm.

4.) Clubs are kinda blanket term. Like the high school I went to had _band_ practice before class sometimes. So it would be 7am to 8am. Some people could be on the football team, baseball team, swim team etc.

5.) No saturday classes. Teacher would have to be paid overtime for that. I think sometimes there could be detention on saturday but not likely because they'd have to get more staff to come in.

6.) Stereotypes are a thing, people will sort themselves into groups. I don't know how much the gender stuff is a part of that in a typical high school now-a-days though. Like all the asian kids would get at a table and gamble their lunch money. Those and white were the two biggest groups. I imagine in different cities things are not the same though.

7.) The size of the high school depends on the size of the town. A big city could have 1000s, while a small city could have a graduating class of less than 10 with the primary school on the same campus, just a different building.

8.) I'm not sure how to answer this one. I guess if you compared a high school in America to one in japan they are a lot more decorated. You'd see student drawings, and various decorations posted all over. There are no uniforms, the strictest dress codes tend to be stuff like "no hats"

 

[Deleted member 148356]

I would like to consult about the differences between an American or Western High School to an Eastern or Asian High School.

This is a very big topic to discuss on and I applaud your curiosity.

 

[Corty]

Like all the asian kids would get at a table and gamble their lunch money

Proof that Asians are more susceptible for microtransactions in games. No wonder they slurp those f2p shit up every time

 

[Nemesism]

Proof that Asians are more susceptible for microtransactions in games. No wonder they slurp those f2p shit up every time

Well it's much more worse when developments of games and apps in places like China are all full of microtransactions, making it more 'normal' or 'of-a-course' to purchase these things.

1.) Public high schools don't have dorms unless it is minor incarceration (juvenile hall)
Boarding schools are a thing but they are increasingly rare.

2.) In American high schools some students drive, having a car to go to school and show off to your friends is a big deal to teenagers.

3.) Schedules are different from state to state. I think it was something like 8am to 3:30 pm.

4.) Clubs are kinda blanket term. Like the high school I went to had _band_ practice before class sometimes. So it would be 7am to 8am. Some people could be on the football team, baseball team, swim team etc.

5.) No saturday classes. Teacher would have to be paid overtime for that. I think sometimes there could be detention on saturday but not likely because they'd have to get more staff to come in.

6.) Stereotypes are a thing, people will sort themselves into groups. I don't know how much the gender stuff is a part of that in a typical high school now-a-days though. Like all the asian kids would get at a table and gamble their lunch money. Those and white were the two biggest groups. I imagine in different cities things are not the same though.

7.) The size of the high school depends on the size of the town. A big city could have 1000s, while a small city could have a graduating class of less than 10 with the primary school on the same campus, just a different building.

8.) I'm not sure how to answer this one. I guess if you compared a high school in America to one in japan they are a lot more decorated. You'd see student drawings, and various decorations posted all over. There are no uniforms, the strictest dress codes tend to be stuff like "no hats"

1.) I see so student residency in-campus is less likely

2.) I will take note of that, I'll also take into consideration how younguns love to hangout, socialize, and show off to one another in places everywhere.

3.) I've suspected it but the average is most likely later than asian schedules and end earlier than most too

4.) So no specific schedules but depends on the teams themselves, do they still have to register these groups or for only official ones like sport teams and those dedicated to science projects of sorts?

5.) Thanks.

6.) Interesting for the asians being different and for some reason a stereotypical framework of our asians. I for one haven't witnessed any gamblings but maybe because I'm in more fortunate places. Thank you for your insight.

7.) Very variable and would be a good thing for me to have classes of 100 or less or maybe even separate into sections.

8.) I was hoping for event-type practices but the dress code will be noted too.

Thank you for answering my question, I'm open for more addition if people are so kindly inclined.

 

[Thraben]

1. In public school, it's mostly being bused around by school buses or parents. In cities or towns with schools close to residential areas there's a fair amount of walking to and from school, but almost no such thing as dorm or campus life or anything of the sort.

2. School starts at 7, 8, or sometimes other times depending on state. Most last 7-8 hours though, by nature of U.S. schools ostensibly existing to create obedient factory workers who obey schedules. This means 7-2 schedules, 8-3 schedules, 7-3 schedules, and so on. In my state and some others to my knowledge, the current paradigm is AB scheduling, meaning one week has an A day, B day, A, B, A for a five day week monday to friday, with the following week being BABAB monday to friday. A days tend to have 4-5 classes plus lunch, a break, an advisory period, with A and B days having different classes in them. The theory is that longer class periods in each subject are possible when you limit the number of classes per day, and that longer class periods are better than including every class period every day. This is mostly true, in my opinion, if you ignore how largely ineffective schooling is for the 50% of kids more heavily on the spectrum than others.

3. Social life is... It's a strange thing. Varies from place to place. In my state, it isn't really practical for many students to stick around school after classes, so afterschool culture is limited to special interest clubs, like DECA(business club, essentially), Games club, Anime club, Book clubs, etc., and those mostly meet for 15min-1hour long sessions after classes end and then require those students to either walk home or receive rides from parents. Mass public transportation isn't really a thing for most of the U.S. and School buses only come once a day. Sports are similar to clubs, except with longer time commitments and even less room for extracurricular socialization since only the sports kids will ever be there. If by stereotypes you mean having cliques and 'tables' at lunch, it's probably worse for most American kids than what you're thinking. The sports kids aren't eating together because they don't like anyone else, they're eating together because that's literally the only group they're able to socialize with on a regular basis.

4. High schools range in size from ones like in my town (my graduating class had 78 students, with the grade below us having 94 the following year), to ones like my mother's(205 grad class), and there are larger schools. In general though, U.S. schools aren't really meant to be inhabited, they're meant to be slogged through. No matter how big a school is, there's probably only ever a sub-one-hundred number of students in it after school hours end, no matter how busy it is during school hours. This, again, contributes to that social stereotype thing. Not really much opportunity to talk to people from outside your class schedule or whatever clubs you're in, so you either know them from outside of school or they'll never be more than a school acquaintance.

5. As for American specific practices... No one who reads my post is going to like this answer, but I'd say school shootings and promiscuity. School shootings have absolutely warped the way American school life functions in ways most countries simply can't understand because they don't have them. It's a multifaceted issue but the general concept is that 'the quiet kid's backpack' is a common joke at the lunch tables because there's genuine fear that it's a real possibility and the youth have genuine knowledge that there's nothing they can do about it. Promiscuity is a difficult topic as well, but I haven't heard nearly as many stories about underage sexual shenanigans from places other than the U.S. The school resource officer(Police guy that works in schools) doesn't give lessons on not sending nudes and not sharing them for no reason, and most people I know (myself included, regretably) were verifiably not virgins by our sophomore(2nd year high school) year. I don't know what other cultures are like, but that's how it is here.

Hope this helps!


Addendum:
For those that will claim my views overly pessimistic or unique or pitiable or enviable or whatever; reminder that my graduating class had 78 people in it. My state has hundreds of schools like it with similar experiences as collective trauma. If you want to claim it's one bad state, I would counter by saying that's an entire goddamn generation.

Public schooling is a wonderful thing that should be protected at all costs. At ALL costs. I just wish it wasn't at the costs being paid in the U.S., though.

 

[BouncyCactus]

Due to an unfortunate event of losing all my written chapters. I decided to concentrate on something else for now.

I would like to consult about the differences between an American or Western High School to an Eastern or Asian High School.

Is there dorm life? or just buses going around? or is the transportation different on personal decision?

How are schedules, from what time to what? Are clubs always after classes? Do classes even extend to saturday?

How is school social life? Does stereotypes live to the status quo? Or are new stereotypes drawing in from the rise of new racial and gender controversy and extremist thinkings?

Are all highschools huge campuses or do they depend?

Any American specific practices due to American culture or ways exclusive to the westerners?

This...I have strangely experienced both, so let's see...

1. As a few have said above, there are boarding schools, but they are expensive, most of them are privately owned, or religion-affiliated. Buses are the main stable, but parent and student rides are also common. Where I live, having a car is the mark of a cool upper-class man. Some people also bike (the pedal kind and motorized kind both), skate, and walk too.

2. Schedule tends to be around 0730-1500, or 0800-1530, with A-B schedules for alternating days. Mon-Fri, four classes a day. There are clubs and social too, most of them are sports, or completion-oriented, but I do also know of film club, tabletop, reading, anime, and other hobbies. Depending on the extra activity, there are meetings that can last for 15 minutes to hours after school and practice on the weekend. Back when I was in the archery team, we practiced for 2-3 hours every other day, and 4-5 hours on the weekend, and hung out at the nearby ice cream parlor for an hour or two.

3. Social life can be somewhat similar to those that are portrayed in movies, but less exaggerated of course. There are cliques, and most of them are grouped by their common association, like the band kids, the alethic jocks, the cool smart Asians, the trouble-makers, the cool nerds, the nerd nerds, etc... All of those existed, but a lot more fluid and less rigid. Nowadays, there isn't much of that clique, but some form of that still exists.

4. The campus and student body all depend on the location of the school, land available, and funding. But it took me 10 to go from one side of the school to the other, and the passing period (5 mins) is sometimes not enough. Some schools have floors, others are sprawling. Most do have a football field, a gym, and at my school, an archery range. I do know of one that has multiple basketball courts.

5. American practice-wise, compared to Eastern cultures, you can see a lot of personal relationships forming between teachers/coaches and the students. I was on First Name terms with a few of my teachs and coaches while I was there, and a lot of the teachers do take on a mentor role. There are less of that Confucious social dances. Racial-wise, it is less of a thing, and there is a lot of diversity within any friend group that can lead to some very memorable times. Also, car culture is big among certain groups, especially view from an Asian, like going off campus to McDonald's for lunch instead of school-provided food, or car mod and racing...

(Also, there are a lot of sexual stuff between students too, and they are juice~~~cy! my school was known for a Bathroom Orgy for a while when I was there.)

 

[Nemesism]

1. In public school, it's mostly being bused around by school buses or parents. In cities or towns with schools close to residential areas there's a fair amount of walking to and from school, but almost no such thing as dorm or campus life or anything of the sort.

2. School starts at 7, 8, or sometimes other times depending on state. Most last 7-8 hours though, by nature of U.S. schools ostensibly existing to create obedient factory workers who obey schedules. This means 7-2 schedules, 8-3 schedules, 7-3 schedules, and so on. In my state and some others to my knowledge, the current paradigm is AB scheduling, meaning one week has an A day, B day, A, B, A for a five day week monday to friday, with the following week being BABAB monday to friday. A days tend to have 4-5 classes plus lunch, a break, an advisory period, with A and B days having different classes in them. The theory is that longer class periods in each subject are possible when you limit the number of classes per day, and that longer class periods are better than including every class period every day. This is mostly true, in my opinion, if you ignore how largely ineffective schooling is for the 50% of kids more heavily on the spectrum than others.

3. Social life is... It's a strange thing. Varies from place to place. In my state, it isn't really practical for many students to stick around school after classes, so afterschool culture is limited to special interest clubs, like DECA(business club, essentially), Games club, Anime club, Book clubs, etc., and those mostly meet for 15min-1hour long sessions after classes end and then require those students to either walk home or receive rides from parents. Mass public transportation isn't really a thing for most of the U.S. and School buses only come once a day. Sports are similar to clubs, except with longer time commitments and even less room for extracurricular socialization since only the sports kids will ever be there. If by stereotypes you mean having cliques and 'tables' at lunch, it's probably worse for most American kids than what you're thinking. The sports kids aren't eating together because they don't like anyone else, they're eating together because that's literally the only group they're able to socialize with on a regular basis.

4. High schools range in size from ones like in my town (my graduating class had 78 students, with the grade below us having 94 the following year), to ones like my mother's(205 grad class), and there are larger schools. In general though, U.S. schools aren't really meant to be inhabited, they're meant to be slogged through. No matter how big a school is, there's probably only ever a sub-one-hundred number of students in it after school hours end, no matter how busy it is during school hours. This, again, contributes to that social stereotype thing. Not really much opportunity to talk to people from outside your class schedule or whatever clubs you're in, so you either know them from outside of school or they'll never be more than a school acquaintance.

5. As for American specific practices... No one who reads my post is going to like this answer, but I'd say school shootings and promiscuity. School shootings have absolutely warped the way American school life functions in ways most countries simply can't understand because they don't have them. It's a multifaceted issue but the general concept is that 'the quiet kid's backpack' is a common joke at the lunch tables because there's genuine fear that it's a real possibility and the youth have genuine knowledge that there's nothing they can do about it. Promiscuity is a difficult topic as well, but I haven't heard nearly as many stories about underage sexual shenanigans from places other than the U.S. The school resource officer(Police guy that works in schools) doesn't give lessons on not sending nudes and not sharing them for no reason, and most people I know (myself included, regretably) were verifiably not virgins by our sophomore(2nd year high school) year. I don't know what other cultures are like, but that's how it is here.

Hope this helps!


Addendum:
For those that will claim my views overly pessimistic or unique or pitiable or enviable or whatever; reminder that my graduating class had 78 people in it. My state has hundreds of schools like it with similar experiences as collective trauma. If you want to claim it's one bad state, I would counter by saying that's an entire goddamn generation.

Public schooling is a wonderful thing that should be protected at all costs. At ALL costs. I just wish it wasn't at the costs being paid in the U.S., though.

1. Thank you, strengthens the information I have

2. This is an interesting thing. When it comes to Asian schools (at least in my country) we deal with a unique schedule every day that perpetuates everyday, which usually 1 hours or 2 hours dedicated for a subjects, sometimes those 2 hours are split in the day for that one subject. I get how we benefit our spectrum from this type of scheduling but longer schedules means more dedication in the herein now, which is a matter of discipline that not only students struggle to cope with but teacher too may struggle to continuously give education throughout the class.

3.You mention an interesting insight, I'm even curious on what part of the clique you're a part of, either literature related or the go home club could allow you to be not only observant but also be in this site specifically since you're an active member. This truly is fueling a separation that lets people get together but struggle to interacts with other groups outside.

4. Thank you, gives me a rate of density for writing in classes and before and after.

5. This is a very pragmatic view, and very objective. It may be bad but it doesn't mean it's false. I try to write realistically, and I love your ideas and honesty. Yes, it is pitiable but call for actions and all that for reform and encouragement is in need but a guy from the other hemisphere ain't got done nothin' with dat. While schools in the western are loose, the easterns on the other hand face problems for the same reason and enact them in a different kind of violence, R and all that.

Thank you very much!

Also, I can't encourage you nor be there for your trauma or the collective trauma of the students and people there but the conscious actions and thought of the individual feed into the person giving light or darkness to someone's expectations, It's good to have a pragmatic thinking but it's also good to have a positive outlook and show it to yourself in your actions. At least when it come to living life, you're entirely more happy regardless of what would inevitably come in your life. (Yeah I read a lot of psychology even though I am for a science profession, maybe it's good cuz I know mad scientist isn't for show, I know at least that I have something wrong with my brain already)

Aist, this ain't much of a place to tell you this but find God and you'd see much better, he will keep your pragmatism and even make you wiser.

oh right, just to confirm is your State Urban or Rural?

This...I have strangely experienced both, so let's see...

1. As a few have said above, there are boarding schools, but they are expensive, most of them are privately owned, or religion-affiliated. Buses are the main stable, but parent and student rides are also common. Where I live, having a car is the mark of a cool upper-class man. Some people also bike (the pedal kind and motorized kind both), skate, and walk too.

2. Schedule tends to be around 0730-1500, or 0800-1530, with A-B schedules for alternating days. Mon-Fri, four classes a day. There are clubs and social too, most of them are sports, or completion-oriented, but I do also know of film club, tabletop, reading, anime, and other hobbies. Depending on the extra activity, there are meetings that can last for 15 minutes to hours after school and practice on the weekend. Back when I was in the archery team, we practiced for 2-3 hours every other day, and 4-5 hours on the weekend, and hung out at the nearby ice cream parlor for an hour or two.

3. Social life can be somewhat similar to those that are portrayed in movies, but less exaggerated of course. There are cliques, and most of them are grouped by their common association, like the band kids, the alethic jocks, the cool smart Asians, the trouble-makers, the cool nerds, the nerd nerds, etc... All of those existed, but a lot more fluid and less rigid. Nowadays, there isn't much of that clique, but some form of that still exists.

4. The campus and student body all depend on the location of the school, land available, and funding. But it took me 10 to go from one side of the school to the other, and the passing period (5 mins) is sometimes not enough. Some schools have floors, others are sprawling. Most do have a football field, a gym, and at my school, an archery range. I do know of one that has multiple basketball courts.

5. American practice-wise, compared to Eastern cultures, you can see a lot of personal relationships forming between teachers/coaches and the students. I was on First Name terms with a few of my teachs and coaches while I was there, and a lot of the teachers do take on a mentor role. There are less of that Confucious social dances. Racial-wise, it is less of a thing, and there is a lot of diversity within any friend group that can lead to some very memorable times. Also, car culture is big among certain groups, especially view from an Asian, like going off campus to McDonald's for lunch instead of school-provided food, or car mod and racing...

(Also, there are a lot of sexual stuff between students too, and they are juice~~~cy! my school was known for a Bathroom Orgy for a while when I was there.)

1. Interesting, I see that private institutions and religion-affiliated (I presume Catholic) do have those kinds of things, I think I've seen one or two.

2. Once again, thank you, also does the ice cream parlor hangout happen every time or frequently? I want to know how frequent outings happen.

3. Reasonable when it comes to schools changing over the years.

4. Incredible, I've never seen a campus that would be that huge, at most our was 2-3 minutes from one end to another.

5. Bonds are truly important, I don't see it as much in our school but keeping distances in mind is the true habit of a professional, it must be close but not too close. I'm curious how culturally rich your school is to have those types of thing. Is this the reason why you experienced both? also is it Rural or Urban?

(That's crazy (`o`)/ )

 

[BouncyCactus]

2. Once again, thank you, also does the ice cream parlor hangout happen every time or frequently? I want to know how frequent outings happen.

It depends on how much money we have at the moment, but generally twice a month, usually around the time of a tournament, or after a particular hard day of practice. Bit sometimes weekly too.

5. Bonds are truly important, I don't see it as much in our school but keeping distances in mind is the true habit of a professional, it must be close but not too close. I'm curious how culturally rich your school is to have those types of thing. Is this the reason why you experienced both? also is it Rural or Urban?

I went to a suburban one. We got all kind of kids. I got an American nigerian, immigrated and U.S. born Sudanese and Vietnamese, whites, hispanic of various origin, Indian, and two arabs as close classmates and friend. I am Asian, migrated to the US btw.

4. Incredible, I've never seen a campus that would be that huge, at most our was 2-3 minutes from one end to another.

Mine was sprawling, with congested hall and small staircases. If the school was empty, I reckon I can make that 5 min.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

3.) Schedules are different from state to state. I think it was something like 8am to 3:30 pm.

Where I grew up in Michigan the schedule was: Kindergarten 8 to noon OR noon to four (one teacher, two groups of kids)
First through 6th grade 8 AM to 3:30 PM
7-12 grade 7 AM to 2:30 PM.

4.) Clubs are kinda blanket term. Like the high school I went to had _band_ practice before class sometimes. So it would be 7am to 8am. Some people could be on the football team, baseball team, swim team etc.

Most clubs when I was growing up were either during the lunch period or after the last class of the day.

6.) Stereotypes are a thing, people will sort themselves into groups. I don't know how much the gender stuff is a part of that in a typical high school now-a-days though. Like all the asian kids would get at a table and gamble their lunch money. Those and white were the two biggest groups. I imagine in different cities things are not the same though.

We had "cliques" - most of the guys on one sports team hung out together and ignored everyone else. The girls had divisions that I could never figure out. We also had the "gamer nerds," "Drama geeks" "band geeks" and "burn-outs." The minority kids (we did not have many) usually wound up in one of these groups "for life" while the white kids tended to move between groups or function in two or three (but never more than three) at a time.

8.) I'm not sure how to answer this one. I guess if you compared a high school in America to one in japan they are a lot more decorated. You'd see student drawings, and various decorations posted all over. There are no uniforms, the strictest dress codes tend to be stuff like "no hats"

Public schools generally have "No gang colors, no morally objectionable T-Shirts, no sexually provocative clothing, shorts only on specific days," - the "gang colors" thing usually includes hats. Attempts to be more restrictive than that tend to have PARENTS threatening lawsuits over the schools "stifling free speech" on their precious little snowflakes.
Private schools usually do have more elaborate dress codes, even down to school uniforms, but the public schools have not been able to do that since the 60s.

 

[Rezcore]

As someone familiar with American schools (went to) and Korean schools (friend is a teacher at), in my experience you don't stay in the same room in American schools. We tend to have dedicated classrooms with teachers in those rooms. Our teachers usually don't have a shared office space, thus they tend to do meetings in their classroom. Bullying is different here too, my friend tells me that the bullying he's seen in Korea feels like a bastardized mix of 1950s stereotypical "gimme your lunch money", and pre mafia.

 

[Seaspecter]

I was going to do a long write-up about this topic until I realized it's been 22 years since I graduated high school...

Anyway, the best advice I have is to pick a city and state you want to set your story in and simply look up the school system's website. You'll be able to find the schedule, bus routes, dress code, and well just about anything else you'd need.

 

[QuercusMalus]

Due to an unfortunate event of losing all my written chapters. I decided to concentrate on something else for now.

I would like to consult about the differences between an American or Western High School to an Eastern or Asian High School.

Is there dorm life?

Usually not until university. Before that, it is either the juvi or rich boarding schools, so neither super common.
Maybe some of the catholic schools.
But not the public schools.

or just buses going around?

Most schools have buses for the students who live outside a certain distance. Especially in rural areas.

or is the transportation different on personal decision?

If you live closer-walking, biking, carpooling with friends, driving by yourself or dropped off by parents. Traffic is always bad at morning and afternoon around the schools with the buses and parents dropping off/picking up the kids

How are schedules, from what time to what?

Each level has different start and end times.
I just checked the local school district: Elementary 8:35-3:35. Middle 7:25-2:20. Highschool 7:20-2:20.
For Highschools you will have different end times as depending on what classes you take the number of periods you have can change.

Are clubs always after classes?

Depends. Usually, but a few are before school. Also, if it is a sport, it is usually not called a club, its a team. So you would say Baseball team, not baseball club. Even things like chess are called a team. You might get an art club. Mine had the Theatre Guild.

Do classes even extend to saturday?

Nope.

How is school social life?

Really depends on the school.

Does stereotypes live to the status quo?

varies, but mine (2k+) definitely met a few.

Or are new stereotypes drawing in from the rise of new racial and gender controversy and extremist thinkings?

middle schoolers/high schoolers are mini psychopaths with less emphathy. If there is a way to create an out group and an in group they will find it.

Are all highschools huge campuses or do they depend?

depends. Most are pretty large as they have the school, parking, sports fields.

Any American specific practices due to American culture or ways exclusive to the westerners?

You change classroom, the teachers don't(usually). For most schools after elementary, your class schedule is the same every day (usually, some schools do block schedules more like college where the classes are longer but on fewer days).
Your classmates can vary from class to class even for the basics.


Also, size and geographic area vary for each level (if you're in a larger city). My elementary had 200-300 students. My middle school was ~1000. But about half the kids from my elementary went to a different middle school because of where the dividing line was for the district. High school was approx 2500 students feeding from multiple schools, and again, you had some split off to a different highschool because of where they lived.

 

[georgelee5786]

Due to an unfortunate event of losing all my written chapters. I decided to concentrate on something else for now.

I would like to consult about the differences between an American or Western High School to an Eastern or Asian High School.

Is there dorm life? or just buses going around? or is the transportation different on personal decision?

Dorms? For public schools? Doesn't exist, you bus or drive or walk there in the morning

How are schedules, from what time to what? Are clubs always after classes? Do classes even extend to saturday?

Generally like 7 to 3, yes, not often

How is school social life? Does stereotypes live to the status quo? Or are new stereotypes drawing in from the rise of new racial and gender controversy and extremist thinkings?

couldn't say

Are all highschools huge campuses or do they depend?

depends

Any American specific practices due to American culture or ways exclusive to the westerners?

Also could not say, i dont know anything about european or asian schools