Posted on 06/11/2017 5:39:00 PM PDT by sushiman
9 minute video and well worth a view . Discipline , responsibilty , politeness , etc. on full display .
I cheer unabashedly for Team Japan when they play in the Little League World Series. Their players are disciplined, well-coached, never panic or lose their composure - and are the happiest, most enthusiastic players at the event every year.
By the same token, their parents are supportive and attend every game but avoid the look-at-me-ism of some nations, especially the American mothers who think their kids are already Hall of Famers.
Does Michelle Obama approve of that stuff they’re eating? It looks a bit too appetizing without stale crackers.
In a decade or so there will be no school lunches in Japan, or at least very few. They aren’t having any children.
There were an estimated 16.17 million children aged 15 and under, down 160,000 from a year earlier. ... May 5, 2015.
That is around 12% of the population
Bkmk
Got to visit my grandkid’s elementary school in Yokohama about 10 years ago. It was just like the video. Kids bring lunch to class, eat with their teacher in the room. Only difference was the kids got to be loud and silly during lunch time, it was a kind of release from the normal decorum required in school. And after lunch, the kids cleaned the school, including mopping the floor with a wet rag as the little ones scoot along the floor. As a teacher, I was very impressed. Thanks for posting what for me was a pleasant memory.
Fukashima is the end for Japan.
Yeah, I put three kids through public school lunches in Japan. School here is quite different than in the States.
>>Fukashima is the end for Japan.
What in the world are you talking about, and what does this have to do with school lunches in Japan? You know nothing about nuclear physics.
Are they aborting their babies like nations in the west? European countries wouldn’t need immigrants to replace their dwindling populations if they didn’t abort their children.
Liberals see this and want the same thing.
That’s VERRRRRY simplistic.
Parents —even many whose love has totally died— often remain married and involved in their kids’ lives.
Even in schools with formal rules forbidding corporal punishment usually WILL do what it takes to bring into line the rare kids who refuse to conform; no, “You touched my kid and now I AM SUING YOU..!” promises.
“Japanese schools feature ZERO performance tracking”
An UTTERLY ridiculous lie and EXTREMELY popular among US educational system leftists.
The degree of tracking in Japanese schools is not only extant but it is **EXQUISITE**.
It is rare that the Japanese boy swearing to himself to someday get into ToDai (Japan’s Harvard, but more so) must be distracted all day by the boy rifling through comic books and “beat-boxing”.
In fact I’d say the soul-crushing, exhaustive filtering system is one of it’s most potent features of success:
Bum kids are promptly routed into classes full of fellow Bum Kids and quiet, cerebral students quickly find themselves surrounded by their like-minded.
If you keep causing trouble the Kendo sensei or the Baseball coach WILL BEAT YOU UP, I don’t care how much the guide book admonishes that that’s forbidden and antiquated.
When kids get the idea that Sensei’s HANDS ARE TIED, it’s ALL OVER.
It’s very rare that that happens in Japan.
Japan’s system is very well-adapted to a culture with a huge middle-class.
Very impressive. The number of opportunities for the children to express gratitude was beautiful. The participation of all the students in growing some of their food, serving the food, cleaning up afterwards was a joy to see. The positive attitudes were such a contrast to US school children.
An American I know taught English at a Japanese high school in Japan for a year. He said that the students were very polite to the Japanese teachers, but were very rude to him, constantly rude.
For example, he told me that some students would turn on their radios in class. Then when he told them to put the radios away, they took their sweet old time.
My friend was black. Maybe that had something to do with it.
Recently I spent 10 days in Japan. I attest that they are neat freaks, germaphobes, and recycle almost everything. They are also free of most crime. They follow orders and have a weird sex life. All and all they understand that they are on an island and that they all have virtually the same DNA. So germs would run rampant. The people are very nice too. I like Japan. But I would say that as a child I would not have fit in. Free spirits are not common there. They like rules. The government has them too. And few people ever break them.
I absolutely adore Japan.
Another very popular US lefty educrat delusion about Japan:
“Japan’s super high-tech and their schools are crammed full of computers...”
Nope!
A lot of schools will have language labs but a COMPUTER lab in a Japanese public school...?
Nah, that’s super rare. Teachers have them available but the lavish, expensive facilities I see being made available to in South Central to kids whose futures will center on hanging out at Gas ‘n Sip at 2 am are NOWHERE to be found in Japan.
The Japanese last-year HS student who learns C++ coding at school is NON-EXISTANT.
“Japanese school buildings are super fancy”
Their interiors are clean, yes. From a distance..? Many of them absolutely resemble prisons or very average East German appartment buildings.
Computers and fancy digs are NOT driving Japanese student success, not by 100 miles.
Girls can’t have nail polish or perms (so strict that often kids with naturaly wavvy hair find it easier to perm it STRAIGHT) skirts have to be a certain length, boys can’t have weird pants and a million other things.
Uniforms are the norm.
In fact I’d say in many respects being a successful student at a Japanese school is like being in the US military or belonging to a serious martial-arts dojo:
“I LOVE RULES, ESPECIALLY THE STUPID ONES..!!!”
> In a decade or so there will be no school lunches in Japan, or at least very few. They aren’t having any children. <
Yep. They are all too busy trying to climb the career ladder. No time for kids. I read an article recently were some wag calculated when the last ethnic Japanese would pass away. Then no more Japanese. I wish I could remember the year, but I don’t.
Is that a big enough piece of cake or what?
Not aborting.
Young Japanese men simply don’t want to emulate their fathers that basically worked themselves into an early grave to support a family, so they are not getting married or having kids.
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