Having your own giant lockers.

Lockers so big you could make a shrine to your crush in them! Some schools in the UK had lockers but most of the time you were left to cart your textbooks around in a shoddy JD Sports carrier bag.

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Being able to play American football.

It just looks way better than kicking a ball that has lost its leather around a muddy pitch into some netless goals.

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Actually decent-looking school gyms.

American schools appear to have vast sports facilities that could be mistaken for the kind of places professional athletes would train – at least that's what we learned from High School Musical anyway. We made do with a crappy muddy field.

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