What Has Changed In High School Since I Graduated In 2007?

[Bionicle5]

Any new things in place since than? Like back in 07 being seen with a cell phone in class would get you in trouble.

[jourdain2]

Er..... You may be on the wrong site. This is UK. 'High School' is USA, right?
Me - I left our equivalent of High School in 1967 so cell phones weren't invented. We had argued in favour of not having to wear berets as part of our school uniform. Does that help? Oh - no computers or anything like that. So, I suppose quite a lot has changed. I taught from 1972 and things changed a lot in that time - phones in class were definitely forbidden and confiscated.

[Buenchico]

As Jourdain2 has indicated, the terms in your post simply aren't used here in the UK.

Young people here never 'graduate', other than at the end of their university studies. Your grades 9 to 12 in high schools are our Years 10 to 13 in secondary schools (although many secondary schools don't have Years 12 and 13 anyway, with students of that age going on to a variety of different types of colleges or into work-based learning). Your cell phones are our mobile phones.

So there was a great deal that was already different between your school and those in the UK even before the passage of time since 2007!

[pixie374]

We have High Schools in the UK. They are ages 11-18, the girls' equivalent of grammar schools.
But, we didn't have phoned by the time I left.

[maggiebee]

Left school in 1964. No mobiles, computers etc. The dark ages lol

[barry1010]

Scotland's secondary schools are often called high schools. My sister went to an all girls grammar school in England, not a high school.

When I went to school bad behaviour meant we got caned. An exasperated teacher would often throw blackboard rubbers at daydreaming pupils, or rap them on the knuckles with a ruler. All that has since stopped.
It was a lot easier to play truant as most parents didn't have phones and couldn't be contacted to see where little Barry was, but we were caught by the 'wag man' if we were unlucky