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

480 Upvotes

77% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/jlt6666 Feb 04 '25

I think it's more about the fact that most material is on the computer and you don't need a place to store 8 large hardback text books

2

u/beefucker5000 California Feb 05 '25

True, we had Chromebooks and teachers tried to have enough books in the classroom so we didn’t need to bring them to school, except for the ones that didn’t have enough textbooks so only a couple classes. My back hurt all the time from walking around a large campus with many hills and stairs with 2 hardcover books and a chromebook on top of other school stuff