Name: What School is Like in Amish Communities
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What School is Like in Amish Communities' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What School is Like in Amish Communities' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-17. Transcript available.

Do you, do Amish people have to go to public school or do you go to your own
school?
We go to our own school.
Do you have a schoolhouse?
Yeah, we have a schoolhouse.
I sent pictures of the schoolhouse to that white building.
So the building in the front there, that's where all the horses kept.
Now, since I'm more kids, we had to build another, like, little shelter for the
horses.
So that was down there.
Oh, for the horses?
Yeah, for the horses.
I thought you meant the cheerleaders or something.
No, we don't have cheerleaders because that would be like, they're like, like,
they barely wear clothes and stuff.
It looks like they're in their underwear.
It's too much.
Yeah, I've never, I've never loved a basketball game so much that I got in my
underwear for it.
Yeah, that's right.
That's, that's a bit odd.
And like, even when they go to the beach and stuff, like, they're just in their
underwear.
Some of them get dressed up more for the beach even.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Yeah, like, they get more dressed down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, but so you go to school there, you put your horses in the front building?
Yep.
Okay.
And there's, does everybody have their own horse or sometimes people come in
groups?
Yeah.
Like fam, one family usually has one horse and then like the, we have building,
uh, like a building.
And then like one through eighth grade is like, we all sit in there and then,
so that's all in one room.
And then there's usually one teacher.
So one year we actually had like 25 kids and like one building.
That was like the most we ever had.
And then, and it varied from year to year.
So like we started out with like 10 and then as it went up, 14, 16, 20, and
then 25.
And then it kind of slowed down, like came down from there.
But yeah, like first, that's where I went to school first through eighth grade
and everyone's sitting in the same room.
And then we have classes too.
Is it pretty cool?
Uh, it can be if you make it, but it was, I didn't really like school when I
went to school.
So what, and what, when does the school day start?
So that's usually, if I remember right, it was like, it was eight 30, I think
eight 30 school starts.
And then we sing like three, four hymns and then that usually lasts 15, 20
minutes.
And then we start reading, reading classes.
And then it depends on the teacher.
Some like to go from eighth grade down and others like to go from first grade
up.
So, and then after that, it's, it's, uh, it's recess, like 15 minutes.
And then usually arithmetic classes.
And then until we would do arithmetic until lunch, which is like around 1130.
And school goes out like only, only for a little bit, for like an hour.
Do you go home for lunch or no?
Uh, no, no.
We, we pack our lunch, we eat at school, we sit at our desk and eat.
And then usually that takes like around 20 minutes, 15, 20 minutes.
And then we go out and play different games and we play like, uh, what was it?
Oh yeah, we played, we played a game that we call rapid.
It's where like the, like the animal rapid.
Rabbit?
Yeah, like rapid.
And then, so what you do is there's a person in the middle as a ball.
Like Easter, like that little, like a Easter.
Yeah, like a, like a bunny.
Like, so yeah, we call it hawassa.
Hawassa?
Yep, hawassa.
Hawassa.
That's the Amish word for rapids.
Rapids.
So we used to throw the ball up and it was, if someone threw it.
So it's kind of like that.
I got to get better at explaining this, but it's kind of.
You're doing good.
So it's kind of like dodgeball.
You have two base or two base on each side.
And then there's a person in the middle.
He's got like a ball.
Sometimes we use a basketball.
Sometimes we use a tennis ball.
Tennis ball was like my favorite.
Because you could throw it better and it wouldn't hurt as much if it hit you.
Okay.
Because you, so you're, you're supposed to throw it five, up five times.
And if you throw it up five times and no one runs through to the other base,
then you
can go on one base and count to basically do a countdown.
And then if no one goes off of that base and goes through before you're done,
you can
just, even though they're on base and go touch them and, you know, get them out.
Oh, they can actually physically catch them?
Yeah.
We catch them and take them down.
And, but would this, would this be a game boys would play with boys?
Yeah, everyone, everyone would play the teacher would even help too.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So like, it depends on like, it depends how rough, like the, the harder you try
to get
away, I guess you were, you accepted the roughness and you were basically, you
run through and try
not to get caught.
And then you, then someone takes you down on the ground, you crawl, you crawl
for the
base.
It's like, it's almost like Vietnam and stuff.
I've never been there, but.
No, but no, we've seen pictures.
We all understand exactly what it was like.
Yeah.
Um, that's unbelievable, dude.
So that was, so that was a popular game, Rappa?
Rappit.
Rappit.
Like the, like the Easter bunny.
Yeah.
Rappit.
Yeah.
And then what did girls do?
Did they play this game?
Or what did girls who were definitely girls, like some girls played this game,
but what
did like the real girls do?
The, the real girls always, like we always were together.
Like we always, we always helped each other play.
Oh, everybody played the same stuff.
Yeah.
But it like, when it was like a rainy day or something, like sometimes we
played board
games and then not as much, but most times like we all played with each other
because
we didn't know stuff yet.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Because we don't get taught that stuff in school or anything.
Like, what do you mean?
Like the, uh, about girls and we don't really know too much about each other, I
guess.
Oh, so everybody's just kind of like, just all the same.
Yeah.
We're all kids.
Oh, you're all kids.
Yeah.
Can Amish people tickle each other or not?
Is that, is that allowed or not?
Is that, uh, yeah.
Like, like, uh, like when we were little kids, we used to tickle each other.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But like, I don't really tickle anyone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think people should keep doing it, but I'm just making sure it's
allowed when
you're kids.
Yeah.
And do they play hide and go seek?
Like what kind of stuff do people do to pass the time?
Like either ride horses, the ponies, like a pony, like pony cars.
And then also hide and like hide and seek.
That's pretty fun.
And then, oh yeah, we play board games or just play with cars, play with blocks.
I, I used to play like underneath the porch or in the garden.
I used to, we used to have a lot of, a lot of like cars and stuff.
And I used to like pretend that was like a whole world there.
In the, in the garden.
So mom didn't really like when I played in the garden, when it was like all the,
all
the corn was up, the potatoes.
Like I actually liked playing when it was corn, corn was up.
And then, uh, the potatoes.
Cause it was like, it was way more possibilities for imagination.
You could have a place here.
Oh yeah.
A place there.
Yeah.
Just more creativity going on.
Yeah.
And, but if the, it was, the garden didn't work out or either that or just play
under the
porch, like the porch was like, Oh yeah.
Like three feet high.
So the older I got, the more, the more I hit my head on up on the, up on the
porch.
That's when it's time to get out.
Yeah.
That's when I decided, you know, if I do play in, like when I do play with cars
and stuff
and out in the dirt, like the, the garden's the place to be.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.