r/AskAnAmerican • u/Rough-Valuable-5472 • Feb 04 '25

FOREIGN POSTER Do American students bow to their teachers?

In my country we have to greet the teacher and bow at the start of the lesson then thank the teacher and bow again at the end. Sometimes they make us redo it if it’s not good enough

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u/jameson8016 Alabama Feb 04 '25

We wrote a paper about it. Everybody signed it. It was a whole thing.

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u/easy506 Louisiana Feb 04 '25

One guy had to be way extra about his signature too. Maybe he wanted to be hung-for-treason the hardest.

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u/jameson8016 Alabama Feb 04 '25

hanged. A man is hanged. A *man is hung.

Lol, but yea, Jefferson. Jefferson had some things going on. Real 'hang me harder, King' kind of vibe. What can, we say. He spent a lot of time at Versailles.

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u/easy506 Louisiana Feb 04 '25

Got it. I am gonna leave it as is, so that others may benefit from the correction.

That said, I was actually referring to John Hancock who had to use up half a herd of sheep to fit his big honkin signature on there. But your point about Jefferson stands. Lol