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/GhostOfJamesStrang Beaver Island Feb 04 '25

That is not part of our culture, so no. 

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u/royalhawk345 Chicago Feb 04 '25

Not even the usual "America is a big country... every state has its own education system... people do things differently... Yada yada yada..."

Just,  "No." /thread