45 Things That Non-Americans Find Confusing About American Schools

Pep rallies are a fun time for students to get together and celebrate their fellow teammates’ success or show their support, especially when competing against another class in sports. We’ve already established Americans put a lot of focus on sports, and high schools put a lot of focus on their sports teams. Pep rallies are a part of that!

We can certainly imagine how strange this looks to non-Americans as they tend to participate in random behavior from time to time. Watching a group of students chanting, scream, and dance with their school mascot can seem very bizarre to non-Americans. Doing the famous wave-dance is one of the most commonly performed demonstrations from students in the crowd at public schools nationwide.