American Parents React "BALKAN SCHOOLS WERE DIFFERENT"

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@julianmarco4185 9 ай бұрын

DO NOT make the mistake of thinking this is just a Boys thing. The girls while a bit less wild, did their own share of chaos. They were just smart enough to avoid the cameras. Boys take pride in their chaos.

@Memeking_Bob 9 ай бұрын

No one thinks that it's just boys are more chaotic

@julianmarco4185 9 ай бұрын

@Memeking_Bob Boys always Chase clout and respect from other boys. That means needing to slay a dragon(the school), not suck up to your cell guard (teachers).

@zuzu6864 9 ай бұрын

Fr, when it came to arguing or fighting one another girls took the cake. Guys usually just cause chaos

@vicu_negru 8 ай бұрын

mate in all my school years (many) i was in class of majority girls, fucking shit those were some wild Jane of the Jungle women!

@zuzu6864 8 ай бұрын

@@vicu_negru in secondary school (or high school) there were always only girls in my class. Imagine what circus that was for us and the teachers

@user-kg2vp2dq8y 10 ай бұрын

As a balkan i have to say this is the best part of schools

@RaNemes 9 ай бұрын

Fuckin` A!

@Nataliatg89PW 9 ай бұрын

I wish my school was like that, everyone at my school is just a boring snitch💀

@Bruh-jj9xw 9 ай бұрын

Being in a top school in Bulgaria changes nothing from being in a normal one. We do the same things lmao

@The_Ultimate_Unit_. 9 ай бұрын

as a balkanian i agree

@gyorfilia1023 8 ай бұрын

ur not a balkan@@The_Ultimate_Unit_.

@shadowfox8 9 ай бұрын

As a romanian girl I can confirm that these things are 100% real

@Xayidee 9 ай бұрын

Same here. We took off a door once and used it to slide down the stairs, we also jumped out a window once to cut classes, jumped over the fence and gate countless times, had a whole in the fence that connected to the radio station next door and exited through there (until they fixed it), broke a few windows (not intentionally). Never had anyone go through the door, though so that one was new. And this was in CN Fratii Buzesti (which at the time was i think ranked as the 3rd best high school in the country and nicknamed Bastilia). 😅 good times!

@vicu_negru 8 ай бұрын

thank god when i was in school we didn`t have cameras on our phones!

@koki3292 8 ай бұрын

As your male counterpart, this is totally true

@ME_Razvan 7 ай бұрын

So true, they never gave us another door handle after the 6th grade just because we broke the previous 6-8 ones they have replaced 😑

@user-sv9ib9mb7m 7 ай бұрын

@@vicu_negruok boomer...

@julianmarco4185 9 ай бұрын

The Fences aren't made to keep people out. They are made to keep kids in. 😂😂

@vicu_negru 8 ай бұрын

and so what? nobody bothered with them anyway...

@guest1124... 8 ай бұрын

Kids usually just leave the school like not asking or anything in my school

@paulo_m6344 8 ай бұрын

We would find a way to get out 😂😂

@zuzu6864 6 ай бұрын

Ours used to lock doors so you couldn't leave, and could only go outside by asking a teacher or the janitor to open it and even then you had to state a reason. We could go through the windows, though

@constantinethecataphract5949 6 ай бұрын

Lol in our school they even put barbed wire.

@StaK_1980 8 ай бұрын

Growing up in the 90s, smoking in the bathroom - check jumping out windows - check having guys trade with... basically everything - check hiding in the closet - check coming in late one by one or asking to go out to pee. ONE. BY. ONE. - check dilapidated, decrepit interior and exterior - check front row was paying attention while back row was playing blackjack or making goulash - check It was fun while it lasted but I don't want to go back

@StergiosMekras 6 ай бұрын

This checks out. Greece may not always be considered a Balkan country but... well, the similarities are there.

@balintvagner2839 5 ай бұрын

can confirm all of this still existed in 2016 and beyond, hopefully the new generation will keep the traditions

@Thatwhatshesaid. 5 ай бұрын

Making goulash 😂😂😂 we actually tried to cook “chips soup” which was boilig water and lays chips. We ended up having mashpotatoes. It was in 10th grade, biology lesson. 😂😂

@adrianb568 4 ай бұрын

i was about to say this is exagerated, seeing this list....damn i checked everything off aswell ...(getting off my high horse)

@gideononu1876 4 ай бұрын

I'm Nigerian and this is pretty normal in our schools, except the smoking part, although these days it's not as crazy as when I was in high school.

@Xayidee 9 ай бұрын

The fences were to keep us in. No one was coming in, except from parents when the headmaster called them to pay for damages. 😅 Ps. The “Call of Duty” reference was a jab at the mass shootings in the US. He said, even with everything that was wrong in our schools, that was one thing we didn’t have to fear.

@sebagab9795 7 ай бұрын

I'm from Poland not the Balkans but this video reminded me of just how many times I had to fight off this kind of idiots, so I could have some privacy in the library.

@MichaelMcmanhory-ms9mr 7 ай бұрын

The is the perfect example of how shoot shootings are one of the two or three things Europeans seem to associate with the US despite them being so infrequent and not a part of our lives that most Americans don't even think about it at all😂

@sebagab9795 7 ай бұрын

@@MichaelMcmanhory-ms9mr Because in the last 10 years there were around 300 school shootings across 10 countries. 288 of them were in U.S.A. So yes for us it's frequent and often enough.

@andico6614 6 ай бұрын

@@sebagab9795 You had a library!!!! In Romania I didnt even have that. The library was more like a mystical fairytale land that only the librarian dared to roam.( it was at thr very top of the building)

@sebagab9795 6 ай бұрын

@@andico6614 See that's the beauty of it I was the only kid in school who spent every recces there, yet had to be strong enough to even get there. I usually could get away with just punching but sometimes I even had to bite my way through.

@LadyMoonboy 10 ай бұрын

11:37 Everything he is saying and presenting as video evidence is 100% true and something you would see in a Balkan school. He just presents it in a funny way that makes it look like it's a parody. It most definitely is NOT a parody.

@radepiljov7969 10 ай бұрын

Not true.

@Florinrundly 9 ай бұрын

@@radepiljov7969very true, I can say from experience

@matejbosela9093 8 ай бұрын

@@radepiljov7969very true and for all Slavic countries I would say, being Slovak myself.

@catvbandit450 8 ай бұрын

Stop yaping nonsence it 100% true i am going to school right now so i know.

@xSkysilver 7 ай бұрын

Truth brother

@zsanettgalantay1772 9 ай бұрын

Im Hungarian so not from the Balkans but went to school in the 90s and this video brings back memories. The school benches, the cold classrooms, the assemblies, all that.

@Lil-mochi_from_hun13 9 ай бұрын

Same I'm also Hungarian but I'm still going to school

@Duk1nfamous 8 ай бұрын

Not your, my Hungarians. Serbian Hungarians 😎

@Zm0r 7 ай бұрын

IM HUNGARIAN SO NOT FROM THE BALKANS. The copium! :P

@peterk3945 6 ай бұрын

I went to school I Hungary but my school was clean, tidy and never seen disorder to this degree. Teachers were strict but respectful as most of the pupils.

@tovarishcheleonora8542 6 ай бұрын

It's still applies for the past 2 years too. 😆

@radu4281 10 ай бұрын

I'm from Romania and I can confirm that most things are true, nowadays I don't know anymore, but when I was going to school it happens 15:45 AND THAT ,,BINE ESTI CUVÂNTAT DOAMNE" HITS ME EVERYTIME

@iulianviorelmosteanu2800 10 ай бұрын

Lmao

@cristitanase6130 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, proper burial and all that! :D

@StaK_1980 8 ай бұрын

That was some proper gregorian chant. Can you tell me what the original Latin title is?

@radu4281 8 ай бұрын

@@StaK_1980 it's a Romanian Orthodox chant called ,, Bine ești cuvântat doamne "

@cristitanase6130 8 ай бұрын

@@StaK_1980 Here you go. In Romanian because Orthodox Churches don't use Latin, each Church have their own language to do chants and sermons and everything in the local native language. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psB6dLSGu8uXnKs.html

@BuXnAMaN 10 ай бұрын

He is on point, the schools were really like this in the 90s and early 2000s. Idk about today, but schools still seem like a crazy experience, but in a different way i guess.

@Goldwind336 9 ай бұрын

Well it's a bit tamer

@zuzu6864 9 ай бұрын

I would say it's a bit tamer because I do also think the punishments are more severe/teachers get involved more than before

@cristitanase6130 9 ай бұрын

Now is boring, and they all just watch smartphones all day.

@how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44 8 ай бұрын

we in 2020 made in school a shit bomb by using pee and cat shit. and other think like mustar oringe shell and what ever we find in the infimus hungarian toalets. i remember that smell it was so horrible! that the princible in the other side sensed it XDDDD but we kept doing it. this was in elementary school in 8 grade :D now we do fire experiments in middle scool with my new class mates.

@jonnypopcorn702 7 ай бұрын

Im from hungary and the only thing that changed is that the benches and chairs everything else is the same(Im from the worst county in hungary idk about the other counties)

@KHIMERA609 9 ай бұрын

The Balkans are just one big-ass hood. It's not a parody, more like an exageration. What he's saying doesn't apply to all schools to the same extent.

@a_seaeaglle 10 ай бұрын

Ohhh, you looked traumatized after watching the video. But realy as a bulgarian i can say this is true.

@vicu_negru 8 ай бұрын

same in Romania my brother for another mother! same here...

@C.H.K.N_tenders 4 ай бұрын

@@vicu_negrusame here

@moviebg4662 3 ай бұрын

ofc its not like that this is the worst in 1 video its not that chaotic but still true

@inicolov 2 ай бұрын

Yet we came out ok... right!... right?

@lailun 18 күн бұрын

I'd say it condensed like a year of school

@vex6243 8 ай бұрын

Romanian here , these are 80% true because there was a lot more things than in this video. There wasn't just one or two bullies, everyone was a bully . Balkan schools make strong people 😂😂

@vicu_negru 8 ай бұрын

what people don`t understand is that nobody was hurt! it was all in good fun and games! we had lots of fun!

@DanGabriel09 8 ай бұрын

Well, we did get hurt sometimes.. quite often actually 😅 one of my classmates lost half of his teeth while playing "lapte gros" after hitting a radiator. And let's not even talk about what happened when we discovered WWE in the fifth grade

@loveanime74 7 ай бұрын

@@DanGabriel09 oh man, not lapte gros. I think one of the guys in my class had to get stitches after splitting his head open on a desk while playing 😂😂

@sodapop83 6 ай бұрын

we had the usual slamming/running through glass doors and cuts everywhere, breaking wrists, ankles during PE etc.

@DanGabriel09 6 ай бұрын

@@loveanime74 lapte gros almost never ended well 😅

@costinhalaicu2746 10 ай бұрын

Being someone who went through school in the Balkans in the '90s (the worst period possible for our region), I have to say this video is hilarious. Well, first of all, he showed you all the worst stuff he could find from all over the region, doesn't mean it happened like that on a regular basis. But yes, some things were a bit like in the video, such as skipping school and finding... shall we call them "creative" ways to escape, like jumping through the window from the first floor (yea, we did that too). You have to understand, the level of poverty in the Balkans in the 90s and 00s was off the charts. Teachers were payed misery salaries, and when someone has a worry about how they'll pay for food and heating next month, they tend to worry less about school property. Undermaintenance was commonplace, because neither the central nor local governments had any money for any kind of comprehensive public works. There is no such thing as the PTA or parents organizations, like you have in the States. The "no girls" thing is not that we had boys-only schools, we had no such thing. But girls, being the more sensible creatures they are, did not participate in the madness we idiots created, and would just watch from the side. So when you'd film the most ridiculous stunt possible, the girls were likely behind the camera guy, out of harm's way. 🤣 The "counterstrike on the hallway on a monthly basis" was a jab at you guys, with your school shootings and all that, since we never had that particular issue. Still, have to emphasize it, school was far more normal than what was shown in the video. Those would have been the worst outliers he could find.

@cristitanase6130 9 ай бұрын

Indeed girls being far more fragile for the mayhem were usually just chatting while the boys were spending their energy on crazy things. But it was all cool, and super fun! And the best part, we did manage to educate ourselves, unlike many today that can't even read a book page without opening their smartphone.

@TheDemouchetsREACT 8 ай бұрын

Well you definitely cleared it up😂. Thank you.

@DavorinSamardzic 6 ай бұрын

OMG those are schools from 90's war sancions and when it was pointles to go to school.We all learn the streets games, not school games....what you looking is frustration of young in time of war with no school future to expect,what is left for us was street and criminal activities if you want to survive when from war everybody from 10years and u p have gun%knife or a bomb scorpion a kalas....false all clip

@TainGoldenoff 6 ай бұрын

well for scientific purposes got to share my first hand experience on the subject. Onse girls from class threw ... something like: on set of in clotes lesbian movie cossplay. xD got to mention the man who got on the operator job with improvised camera, and the mic guy

@zuzu6864 24 күн бұрын

From my experience, the girls would most often be the one filming. Guys would cause chaos, but girls were more often getting into fights with one another, physical and verbal.

@bianca-alexandra5098 8 ай бұрын

Something is wrong with us, the balkans (or we have another sense of humor).😂 I was watching the same video as you guys, but you were shocked and I was laughing.😅

@123wertos 7 ай бұрын

I am czech not balkan but was still laughing and this is also true in Czechia

@Niki91-HR 7 ай бұрын

We have another sense of humour and I love it. But you know it isnt bad to be different from the rest at least of Europe xD

@kiul44 5 ай бұрын

nah, we did some of this shit in the ''90 in Poland.

@bianca-alexandra5098 5 ай бұрын

@@Niki91-HR TRUE 🥰

@Vollification 20 күн бұрын

Scandinavian with balkan friends. I laughed too :)

@mr.g6875 8 ай бұрын

As a romanian that finished highschool this year i can guarantee all that is 80% true.

@vicu_negru 8 ай бұрын

as a Romanian that finished an above average highschool in Bucharest 20 years ago i can say it is 110% true! we did more fucked up shit back then!

@Marko_52 7 ай бұрын

@@vicu_negru damn, we zoomers from 2000s didnt menage to preserve our traditions and culture that our Balkan ancestors from late 1900s were working so hard to create... 😔 We should be ashamed of our selfs, and work a lot with our kids, to not let them be washed up and unfulfilled like us... With this i promiss you Vicu_Negru that i will do everything in my power, to guide new generations to the right path! Il do everything i can to make them successful as you guys, or even more!

@martinrusev3502 8 ай бұрын

Bulgarian here. Playing cards is considered a form of gambling and it's prohibited inside the school. Well, take a wild guess who played belote and poker during recess? We also smoked inside the bathroom, had chair fights, drank alcohol during class (don't even get me started here) and many other things. Sometimes, I miss high school. Edit: I forgot about one thing - the amounts of times teachers or the cleaning staff caught students having sex in the locker rooms/bathrooms.

@balintseban5184 10 ай бұрын

12:47 - Intro of the animated TV series "Hungarian Folk Tales"

@Florinrundly 9 ай бұрын

Childhood favorite

@cristitanase6130 9 ай бұрын

Full frontal nudity for kids baby!! Yeah, Hungarian cartoons, they were... special :D

@markogagic4091 8 ай бұрын

Well its hard for people that are not from the Balkans to understand all that. As bad as it seems it was a way to kill all that boredom and release all that energy. Kids over there are super energetic and we cant stay still for hours listening to lessons in schools. So we had these 5 minute breaks after every class that lasted 45 minutes and a big break that was 20 min long. So when teachers leave for a break too we would do ceazy stuff like in the video so we aint bored and yeah kill that energy so we can survive sitting for next 45 minutes after the break. But in high schools it was mostly just running away from the class with your friends from the class or just entire class

@masaradovic1670 3 ай бұрын

Daa i svi smo jako bliski mislim da je to velika razlika kod nas i da zato stranci najpre ne mogu da razumeju, ali ono kad uvece blejis u skoli bukvalno kao da si kuci sa mojima

@bogoljubdjordjevic7528 2 ай бұрын

And we are still smarter than them and have better education system 😂😂

@machiavelliq8758 6 ай бұрын

As someone who grew up in the Balkans, the spiked fences are to keep you in not to keep people out.We had 12 foot walls with barbed wire on it.The school nickname was Bastille after the french prison

@Nimue77Ninibe 8 ай бұрын

Omg what kind of memories bring back to me this video as a romanian girl. And yes everything is true. The girls if they know is too dangerous or too stupidity they go outside. But the funeral hit me everytime 😂😂😂

@petros5155 8 ай бұрын

This is an actual description of every techinical highschool in greece

@StergiosMekras 6 ай бұрын

Yup. the rest of us were a bit milder but ...I've seen things.

@szabolcsszeverenyi7003 7 ай бұрын

as a hungarian student this is a really good introduction of the balkan schools. The part i miss is the changing room, the place where are no cameras, no teachers,(no rules) and lots of boys being absolute animals and evry week or so there were a beatdown, its like a small mma ring withouth protection or judge, sometimes it was ended with a bench thrown. as a student i still see these things, and yeah the school is not the place for learning, everything i ever learned is from my home from books or websites, not from teachers

@tovarishcheleonora8542 6 ай бұрын

Schools here is more like a survival training camp for lots of years.

@user-uj7ut5np9p 10 ай бұрын

As a guy that goes to school in serbia (balkan) i can comfirm that this shiat is real

@biztaylor 6 ай бұрын

*The whole Balkan is a ''Hood''* 😂😂😂

@Vollification 20 күн бұрын

Balkan is the hood of Europe.

@biztaylor 20 күн бұрын

@@Vollification Haha the worst thing is that it is true xd I am from Balkan haha

@Vollification 20 күн бұрын

@@biztaylor I'm Swedish and I have friends from Croatia and Macedonia. Been to the area several times, I love the balkans XD

@rockyboi9360 8 ай бұрын

As a Croat from a Highschool, I can assure you it's just as bad as you are told. We had chickens in one of our classrooms one day. Live chickens. Just chilling.

@TheDemouchetsREACT 8 ай бұрын

Why? & Where did they come from?😂

@rockyboi9360 8 ай бұрын

@@TheDemouchetsREACT God knows, we just had chickens in one of our classrooms. They were just chilling.

@Niki91-HR 7 ай бұрын

As a fellow Croat I can picture it for some reason. Btw may I ask in what city/village you went to school?

@Cypres1998 7 ай бұрын

Schools in Romania were like this 😂 I was Ivan for years, broke a lot of Windows while playing soccer, pranked every new Teacher with real snakes. It was a shit show. The bathrooms were holding on barely.

@Cypres1998 7 ай бұрын

My mom bribed the School so many times 😂

@kubi1155 8 ай бұрын

As a bulgarian I can confirm its true tho it varies and its not as bad nowadays but it was pretty much like that when I was in school from 2001 to 2012. A nother factor is if the school is in a big city or not. But some of the best memories were created in this enviroment.

@espadaboi6384 9 ай бұрын

All that he said is true Mostly in the 90's and early 2000's that was common in smaller cities or villages but in the more "modern" cities it was a bit more calm, now in 2023 the schools are more tame though stuff like this still happens

@Jamhael1 6 ай бұрын

Well, as we say here in Brazil: "You can leave the 5th grade, but the 5th grade never leaves you"

@8tavian999 6 ай бұрын

Those guys with the funeral cosplay got me dead laughing! ....brings a tear to my eye.

@alakntvr7179 10 ай бұрын

Hehe, the channel you reacted it's Balkan banter dedicated... he speaks mainly on the crazy things that happens and makes them look like it's an everyday thing, but it's not, not all schools around here are like that, like in any other countries, some are good and some are bad.(but indeed the balkans do live up to their reputation, as always, in every single thing)

@Greytato 7 ай бұрын

As a greek, a note to the : 'teachers dont give a smit', and to the 'where is the community?', there hardly ever was one honestly. In middle school and High school (mostly high school) students, the older ones most of the times organised a school conquest where students themselves occupied the school for a few days not letting the teachers in and protesting about the issues the school had (getting the heat system fixed, having a regular janitor to clean up the school, fixing the toilets etc) and smtimes even political ones that had to do with how the educational system treats us. Those conquest are pretty common to happen every once a month at least, but bc the teachers didnt give a smit, and they hardly supported our demands for even the basic things the school needed, and just swipped it under the rug with the 'oh those young kids and their rage' or with the whining about missing school hours to teach and that we would stay behind. Funny thing about that, it has become obligatory for students to attend private schools and take extra lessons, bc the school itself is often unable to teach correctly, and make the students give a smit back. What is worse abt the school occupations is that many students saw it as an advantage of ditching school, and some even would sneak in the night and casualy vandalise stuff, so the ones that organised the conquest were scared more because the teachers would have another reason not to support us. So basically yeah, they really do not give a smit...even if they are told to do so.

@stanislavkaraslavov3090 6 ай бұрын

As a Bulgarian I can confirm that this is average Balkan life.

@olta1554 10 ай бұрын

Nowdays schools are more nicer by looks but still kids be chaotic and to be honest parents dont know a thing what their children is doing,cuz if they knew it would be a problem cuz balkan parents dont play but is still fun tho being in a balkan school.

@akiraheartfilia 10 ай бұрын

Oh, you have no idea guys... As a turkish, believe me, everything in that video is true

@user-qn7qz3dp9m 7 ай бұрын

As a greek i can confirm that its a normal day in the balkans when students are hanging large olive trees in the class ceiling , breaking doors, peeing in bottles and mixing it with dirt and flass them into the walls in the hallway pretending that they are fire savers and basically destroying the classroom before the teacher arrives after 40 minutes lmao and after the arrival, this video is 100% true👍 welcome to da balkans💀

@StergiosMekras 6 ай бұрын

...in some schools more than others

@k.hoxhaj7013 27 күн бұрын

the video was so on point, from the environment, the bathrooms you had to squat on, the half&half walls, the broken cheap wood desks and the fences kids used to climb, the teachers beating us up was so real as well man the nostalgia is crazy rn. Its not propaganda at all

@_____134 9 ай бұрын

If you ever visit Serbia, please make an announcement- your Serb viewers would love to be your tour guides and hosts!

@TheDemouchetsREACT 8 ай бұрын

Will do!

@ghost_of_Obruchishte 6 ай бұрын

I'm from Bulgaria. 95% of this is true. In my school we also made flamethrowers, someone tried to make a bomb in chemistry class, the boys regularly roleplayed as swat attempting to get into the girls' bathroom, breaking stuff, throwing desks at each other, bribing the teachers, classes going to war, locking people and the bathroom and whatever else. There's so much.

@slaven18 5 ай бұрын

Video is kind of over the top, but it captures the essence of Balkan school experience. Croat here, went to school from 95-07. So right after the war. Funding for school was shitty, pays were shitty, lot's of parents lost their jobs. Toilet paper and soap in wc was luxury in school. Smoking in 7-8th grade was normal, jumping out of window was also something that i witnesed on few ocassions along with police coming to school. And that was just in primary school. High school was where the chaos reached full potential and i went to fairly good gymnasium (think of high school that prepares you for university). In trade schools and vocational schools, it was one step better than juvenile jail by amount of crazy shit they did. Teachers aren't paid enough to give a damn, and so long as nobody ends up in hospital with serious injuries, principals didn't eather. There aren't really boys or girls schools except two catholic highschools in my town. It's just that some schools are full of boys ( mechanical and electronics techinicians, hvac technicians) and some are mostly girls (beautician, hairdresser). Today schools are slightly better due to better economic situation.

@maybeantoniovivaldi2522 7 ай бұрын

never in my wildest dreams could I imagine an American couple voluntarily watching a serb who moved back to serbia talk about the Balkans

@zellioncustomer7803 9 ай бұрын

As a balkan man I fully confirm all of this

@biancagrover-zl9ns 7 ай бұрын

Ahh yes… good times! Most fun times of my life😂❤️🇷🇴

@TheCritter024 6 ай бұрын

Great times indeed. My parents told me few days ago " good thing you didn`t had cameras on our phones and social media back then".

@flexparachute 6 ай бұрын

They are so shocked LOL. It's all true. It builds character.

@hercdrc Ай бұрын

As a Greek who finished school back in 2002, this video is bringing up a lot of memories. And yes, we are considered a bit of an outsider in the Balkans but we are still part.

@PrimordialNyx 14 күн бұрын

As a Greek that went to EPAL (finished in 2019) , things are still wild. And it's awesome.

@sodapop83 8 ай бұрын

90s/early 00s definitely was like this and even more crazy things in hungary.

@bjr8509 3 ай бұрын

As for the girls... Our favorite game to play was throwing knives between each others bare feet. Or play the pinfinger game in complete darkness. We had disco parties in the bathrooms or just screamed like animals in the classroom. But there was never a big opposition between boys and girls, we did everything together.

@RuiCBGLima 7 ай бұрын

As a portuguese, an honorary balkan country, I can say a lot of this is also accurate, slightly more mild, but nonetheless true. Just appretiate the inventiveness of things, the wildness. Who comes up with simulating a bus in class, or bringing dead animals into the classroom, puting a pin in the teacher chair, or exploading lighters? But now seriously, I condemn the way the education system works here. I was in a public school from my 5th to 9th grade, from around 2004 to 2009. I can also imagine the frustration of teachers.

@blacksword427 Күн бұрын

as a romanian boy i can confirm, i once threw an apple up to the ceiling of the class whilst near a window, and the blinds fell down, class was like 10m tall, and the blinds had big ass stick that they were anchored to. Shit came down, almost fell on my head. Had to come to school with my dad to repair it lol.

@somasomogyi6048 4 ай бұрын

12:52 the anthem is the Hungarian folk tales opening music btw

@MDamyanov19 4 ай бұрын

As a Bulgarian I confirm schools were like that, it was a lot of fun

@cezarstehan5952 10 ай бұрын

Don't you want to make a trip to the balkans to convince yourself

@TheDemouchetsREACT 10 ай бұрын

Nope.

@silvio1894 10 ай бұрын

@@TheDemouchetsREACT It is not so bad, we have beautiful mountains, beaches and trust me, it is good. Not whole Balkan is that wild. There are some stories and war stories from other kids and adults, but it is not so bad.

@BuXnAMaN 10 ай бұрын

@@TheDemouchetsREACT Its safer there than in most US cities and states. Its really not bad at all, especially for a tourist. Cheap good food and they got 90% of the stuff you got in the US.

@Hocuspocusjebigamodus 9 ай бұрын

Croatia is one of the safest countries so the Balkan is a really nice place. Please react to other videos about the Balkan so that they disprove your prejudices

@TheGreekHistorianofc 5 ай бұрын

One of my friends from my class threw his book out the window, fun fact our class was on the second floor

@mihaeladumitrescu984 5 ай бұрын

Now I remember some schools had their windows barred or fenced so students wouldn’t jump.

@tmdosu 10 ай бұрын

I mean, if you want to go to the nearby store to get something to eat or drink, you'll have to jump out of the window and the fence at some point, when the gate guard is butthurt and won't let you leave. 🤷‍♂ But for real, the stuff in this video is about the mid to low level schools. The ones in bigger cities/better neighbourhoods, still had the chaos, but turned down quite a bit, and the school wasn't in pieces and mostly clean.

@NikoCigoj 8 ай бұрын

Gate guard? Your school had money for that? Our school couldnt afford shit

@tmdosu 8 ай бұрын

@@NikoCigoj it was the typical cheap ex-statemafia owned security group. It's full of them everywhere, I doubt it was that much. We were also in the capital, so that helped with some funds 😂

@skandrope5712 7 ай бұрын

Bruh, when I was in high school in 10th grade (4 years ago), a classmate of mine brought small firecrackers and he started blowing them up in class and threw one out the window that blew up mid air. The principal noticed and she brought our homeroom teacher and started searching us all for firecrackers. That classmate of mine is now a uni student

@vjscott4240 10 ай бұрын

Definitely need your slipper! But your reactions made me laugh so much ‘teachers in the teacher lounge ‘you going out there?’ Lol

@TheDemouchetsREACT 8 ай бұрын

😂😂

@kkaksjsjs13 7 ай бұрын

as a balkan sixth grader,the 2m tall spike fences are to keep us in the school and not run away😭

@laszlo_kovacs 6 ай бұрын

01:50 was no anthem but but the title theme of "Hungarian folk tales" animated series running between 1980 and 2012. It was a banger, broadcasted throughout the V4 and Balkan countries.

@bogdanbonta1460 8 ай бұрын

As a balkan . It's accurate BUT we still learn and become somebody in life and have fun doing it. The Demouchets this is not America with communities and such we are in the Balkans , we have neighborhood schools funded by the state not some fancy schools private funded. I'm proud to be a born in the balkans (Romania).

@Monke45_Gd Ай бұрын

that angelig voice at that guys death was... BEATIFULL

@Cristian-em5wc 9 күн бұрын

As a Romanian I can confirm these stuff happen. Can be worse though, some schools in the middle of nowhere have no sanitation or current water. The toilet it’s literally a latrine or sh**house outside the building (like you’ve maybe seen in old western movies), and imagine going for a number 2 in the winter: squatting and doing your business while your “jewels” dangle in the frozen wind. What a joy 😂 By the way, the scene with the funeral cracked me up 😂😂😂

@antibolsevism9814 3 ай бұрын

Proud Balkan and proud Orthodox .

@kriszgamer0013 7 ай бұрын

In my former school, there was a time when a student sprayed a section of the first floor full of pepper spray. We were not allowed to go there for a couple hours. Half the day actually. In the same school, some kids spilled some hand sanitizer on the tables and lit it, basically making a campfire which luckily did not burn anything. A girl hit another girl with a chair in the face because she sat on "her place" on our first day there... Oh yeah, the police was basically a returning guest on that place.

@KnezAlex 9 ай бұрын

Jokes aside, things used to be like this a long long time ago, now it's modern af. I used to go to these types of schools 20 years ago, and now when i see my sisters school (9 years old) im in awe.

@estrophy 8 ай бұрын

I'm from hungary, born in '91 schools were exact the same, almost every city :D You can't even imagine how we stayed alive I see on your faces xD

@datsupraaa4901 10 ай бұрын

Yes, the schools are terrible in eastern europe but I finally graduated and i don't need to go back there 😂 11:44 its true unfortunetly

@piment0_420 7 ай бұрын

As a Croat, I can confirm its something like that

@carmexfudbal2988 8 ай бұрын

As a Serbian i can confirm that this is true 😂

@vicu_negru 8 ай бұрын

mate, it is the same in Romania, only when i started traveling the Balkans i discovered that we are so fucking much the same!!! but to be honest? i would never trade this fucked up part of the world with any other, and i have traveled to 40+ countries!!! yes we have our problems, but to be honest we are doing ok despite our governments! PS: in Romania we have a saying: the only friends we have are the Black Sea and Serbia, they are the only ones who haven`t invaded us! can`t wait to come again for the Next festival, I was there last year as part of our honeymoon and going back next year!!!

@bartolkovac1681 3 ай бұрын

My friend once made a hole in a concrete wall over the period of 2 years. One other guy brought a saw to school on the last day and sawed a monitor the teacher was working on

@martontaics955 2 ай бұрын

Hajrá Magyarország! Hajrá Magyarok! And FYI Hungary is a Central European country but i appreciate the recognition

@Hungarian_Sauridae 2 ай бұрын

I’m Hungarian and i can completely assume that this is accurate like 100% accurate

@vic1ous511 7 ай бұрын

I've never seen the funeral bit but from the video alone could see they've coordinated it to perfection 😂

@user-ui2nd6qn4j 25 күн бұрын

As a romanian i can say that some things are happening in my school too, but this is our daily motivation. It is the best part.

@rami3407 3 ай бұрын

Sliding down the stair with a broken desk or a wooden chair seat is a common practice here

@Gabriel-xn3lb 10 ай бұрын

Nah Balkan highschoolers are a different breed

@fiki6668 2 ай бұрын

This was best memory from school, and that video imitating a bus crash was in my school (with steering wheel - 13:00 min), I was standing at the board behind the camera at that moment and it was hilarious. However, we have literally done everything from this list, except call of duty in the hallways, that has never happened, at least in my country.

@user-ly1vn8pw3o 3 ай бұрын

As a Hungaryan i can confirm that this is 100% true

@andreivlad3518 10 ай бұрын

East europe-we take-it!❤😂

@chireageorge1770 9 ай бұрын

in balkans CREATIVITY is encourage

@hajimewatakawa 5 ай бұрын

As a part of the Balkan community I have to say this is 99% fax 😂fr

@paulo_m6344 8 ай бұрын

That part where they came into the class one by one was funny as shit 😂😂

@adlmnop1147 8 ай бұрын

Well , Back in the 80's , we used to line up in front of the School , 20 minutes of exercise , then doing the Pioneers chant . This was every day Monday to Saturday. Rain snow hot, cold. Walking in the two lines in school, No one dared to steep out of line ,,, Discipline, and order . We couldn't get away with the shenanigans in this video. It's hard to believe that Schools deteriorated that much after the collapse of Communism...

@VoiceOfVoorhees 3 ай бұрын

bruh, this takes me back :'D i mean, school was definitely not the best part of my life but it sure as hell was fun :'D

@birjarualin890 4 ай бұрын

In my high school, not even the fence was enough to keep us in. My colleagues came up with a way to cut a hole in the fence to skip school. To this day, that hole in the fence is still being used by the students, I think. I don't believe that any teacher found out about it. I remember, behind the high school building, we had a big metal barrel which was used as trash bin for cigarettes by us, the students. I don't know where it came from or how it got there, but it was there hanging around with us until one day when, for some reason, it caught fire. Also, we didn't use windows to leave the classrooms, but also to get inside. It was far more convenient to use the window rather than getting inside the building and walking down the hallway towards the classroom. From begging on the hallways as a joke (even a teacher saw us and started laughing) to playing poker between classes, my high school experience had them all. I miss it so much. I wish I could relive it.

@boredutopia 6 ай бұрын

Balcan is not just geographically balcan, Croatia is partly balcan, but mentality and culture omg, balcan in its core....

@denifnaf5874 4 ай бұрын

Balkan*

@ecaterinatruscan7268 Ай бұрын

As a Romanian girl... these things are very normal to me😂

@PrimordialNyx 14 күн бұрын

As a Greek guy this video brings back memories from my schooldays lol.

@makavelicityrecords 3 ай бұрын

Ah yes the good old days where we drinked beer and rakija under the desks. Glorious.

@dimournerayne924 8 ай бұрын

this is all real, kids are treated like they are in prison... most of the time they are just extremely bored and doing outrageous things get them excited and so they do it... at the end he said "in conclusion: Mi smo govna" (translation: We are shits)

@outwithjohn7038 Ай бұрын

African American and Croatian here, this video is somewhat true, depending on the country and region in which you live. The elementary school and high school I went to is basically a fortified soviet era nuclear bunkers. Elementry school is a warzone unless you are in a soviet era school, the new modernized ones are carefully supervised. Now high school is at least a little bit better, but again, it depends on when the school was built. Now if US kids were to go to a Balkan school, oh boy they better get ready.

@SirAdrian87 2 ай бұрын

11:50 Romanian here, this video is 90% accurate depiction of what going to to school in the 90s and early 2000s was like.

@Mentelgen-1337 5 ай бұрын

11:40 we 100% for real.

@filipvitomirovic8582 7 ай бұрын

As Montenegro citizen I can confirm that this is true

@tsnightmare7097 7 ай бұрын

I wish i had this kind of chaos when i was in school XD i would enjoy watch the chaos

@camillosteuss 5 ай бұрын

3.17, yeah, that was a reference to us not having school shootings... You are thinking correct and understanding the reference very well... And yeah, the video is pretty much on point... I went to primary school in the early 2000`s... It was a chaos storm during the recess... But keep in mind that when the teachers showed up, everyone went quiet as a grave, stood still or quietly packed their bag up and went to class... Sure, there was some rowdiness like doorslam entry in rows, but that was a rarity... And the schools were mixed genders, no segregation in that way was done since the 1980`s... Teachers were strict, the education was comprehensive and vast, actually learning it all was hard, but most of us learned a whole lot, much more than your american in that same time... When you learn 5% of 100000, you learn more than the person who learns 80% of 100.... Sure, we all hated it, well, almost all, and we were bored as hell, we just wanted to go out and go home, play with friends and be done with that shit, but trust me, most of the kids who behaved like delinquents back then are now more highly and broadly educated and skilled than most american kids from that time period... No shade here, this is not an anti-america comment, i`m just comparing to america as part of my family is from america, so i have a good baseline for comparison, and well, the internet itself is a great baseline as it offers a sample group from all states and parts of america, and being a slav, i know that my experience was pretty much universal between serbia, croatia, bosnia and some others in that period, the specifics of the language(so few differences that you could almost call them dialects in a joking manner) and the letters, but other than that, yeah, it was mostly the same story after the war in the 90`s wherever you looked...

@avggohan5711 7 ай бұрын

I'm from a Balkan countries and is true what in our school in the balkans look liked.

@pavlepavlovic4073 7 ай бұрын

"We in the hood"... The whole Balkans is generally one giant hood, with some good parts here and there. While in America hoods are only here and there, while the rest is generally decent. 😅

@TheDemouchetsREACT 7 ай бұрын

Mhmmm there are many cities that doesn’t have a hood here (coming from people who have lived in the best and worst cities).

@pavlepavlovic4073 7 ай бұрын

@@TheDemouchetsREACT Even that there are cities like that in the US for sure, with no hoods or anything. Balkans is just built differently... It is pretty chaotic in its own way It is hard to explain to an outsider. But, you just learn to live with that chaos, and when you leave it behind, since standards are pretty low, everything looks pretty amazing...

@apaplata1778 9 ай бұрын

balkan pepole are just different

@corneliaungureanu9225 7 ай бұрын

Omg watching this amused me so much😂😂😂 Yes this is true and much more. In Romania i think we still have in some remote villages some shitholes as restrooms, and outside the main building, like small barracks at the back of the garden. Nowadays the situation has changed, education institutions were renovated and upgraded with technology, in some schools they have quite advanced tech. But back in my school time, we had a blackboard and sometimes no chalk, a brick fireplace instead of radiators- and the wood for fire not always delivered before the first snow. There are ao many stories, and so many memories... We used to get together in the toilet and smoke 1 cigarette in 7 to 10 schoolmates, we bought a bottle of coca cola and pour red wine in it and drink, we played deck cards and make championships of that, the boys used to drag the girls outside in the snow and give them a good "snow bath"😅 Little beasts we were... And jumping on the window to skip classes it was to avoid meeting the teachers on the corridor, because we knew to carry shame as well. But if a teacher was really strict or wouldn't pass us, we tended to develop a hatred for that teacher and try to repay that by doing bad deeds to their annoyance. My dad told me what he and his classmates did to a teacher they couldn't stand: they stuffed potatoes on the exhaust pipe of the car of that teacher and they got a bellyache from the laugh they had watching him run the engine. They never got caught 😂😂😂