Diary - The new term of school started recently

[Maybo]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

The new term of school started recently. Some of my teacher friends have been posting photos of their school life on social media. One of them is a secondary school teacher, and I saw some photos of his students. At first, I found his students very young. I wonder if he'd switched to a primary school, but then I read the captions clearly and found out that they did were secondary students. They just looked very young!

 

[Tarheel]

This is an entry from my diary. Please check it and correct any mistakes.

The new term of school started recently. Some of my teacher friends have been posting photos of their school life on social media. One of them is a secondary school teacher, and I saw some photos of his students. At first, I found his students very young. I wonder if he'd switched to a primary school, but then I read the captions clearly and found out that they did ARE secondary students. They just LOOK very young!

We are talking about about what's going on right now. In other words, it is clear that those students are in secondary school now.

By "read the captions clearly" do you skimmed over them at first, and later you went back and read them?

 

[tedmc]

One of them is a secondary school teacher, and I saw some photos of his students.

The two parts of the sentence don't seem to be related.

 

[Tarheel]

One of them is a secondary school teacher, and I saw some photos of his students.

The two parts of the sentence don't seem to be related.

The aren't. Perhaps:

One of them is a secondary school teacher, and he had posted some photos of his students online.

 

[emsr2d2]

The new school term of school started recently. Some of my teacher friends, who are teachers, have been posting photos of their school life on social media. One of them is a secondary school teacher no comma here and I saw some photos of his students. At first, I found his students but the students in some of his photos looked very young. I wondered if he'd switched to teaching at a primary school, but then I read the captions clearly and found out that they did actually were secondary school students. They just looked very young!

See above.

Saying "Some of my teacher friends" makes it sound as if you're a teacher too.

 

[Maybo]

By "read the captions clearly" do you skimmed over them at first, and later you went back and read them?

Yes.

 

[Tarheel]

Yes.

In my humble opinion that's what you should say. Say you didn't read the captions at first, but you looked it it a second time, and you did read them. (It's the speaker/writer who is clear or unclear, not the listener/reader.)

 

[Tarheel]

Apparently, "Some of my teacher friends" is somewhat open to interpretation.

 

[Tarheel]

One last thing. It's identical in American English and British English. It's "the new school term".