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Originally posted by maleficent
Does Japan have the discipline problems in the classroom that we do in the US? [/B]
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In a word, yep.
I have been in Japan for 5 years now and teachers are like slaves there and parents all think their sons or daughters are angels.
Teachers all work about 14 to 16 hour days, weekends are taken up with club activities and they get about 5 days off in the summer while kids get 4 weeks. Parents always blame the teachers and teachers can't do anything when students act up. After trying to handle wild kids for a few years, I can understand why the teacher snapped.
My co-workers do nothing, so it is up to me to drag the kid to the vice-principal. A month ago, a crazy boy who has been trouble for years, opened the gas switches in the science room and lit a match.......BOOM!! 8 kids went to the hospital with burns. The school kept it out of the paper and police, and the boy was back at school the next day. The parents of the boy had to apologize for their son to the other parents and that was it...over.
I am not supporting what he did but I understand it. The future generation in Japan is going to the toilet. Anyhow, that's my story.
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