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School Lunch in Japan - It's Not Just About Eating!
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Posted on 06/11/2017 5:39:00 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: EDINVA
I was an ALT like your daughter for 16 years ( not a Jet - hired directly by the town ) and yes it was an amazing / rewarding experience . Where did she teach ? Curious .
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posted on
06/11/2017 7:59:37 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: married21
>>We have a lot of Japanese immigrants or executives on temporary assignment in our area.
You don’t happen to be near the NEC plant in Roseville by any chance...?
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posted on
06/11/2017 8:00:06 PM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: KC_Lion
It’s pretty much like any other school as far as I could tell. Nothing much to see really.
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posted on
06/11/2017 8:01:44 PM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: EDINVA
BTW - I had side businesses inc. working rock band and importing/selling vintage drums , so with a “ double salary “ my wife was able to be a housewife/ fulltime at home mother ( which she preferred to be anyway ) . That had nothing but positive effects on our daughter and helped shape her into the fine young woman / teacher she has become . So proud of her .
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posted on
06/11/2017 8:12:25 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: gaijin
A lot of schools will have language labs but a COMPUTER lab in a Japanese public school...?
On an earlier visit to Japan I got to tour A K-8 or K-9 school in a fairly small town on the island of Shikoku. They had a well-equipped science lab, a home ec room and a language lab. In fact when we were visiting all of the teachers were in the language lab evaluating the language teacher. The kids? They were working away in their rooms with no adult supervision at all. One was an art class where they were doing wood carving.
I taught junior high kids for 30 years. Everyone says they can’t control themselves because of “hormones”. But Japanse kids apparently can in spite of hormones.
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posted on
06/11/2017 8:44:31 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Daffynition
My daughter-in-law is Japanese. Apparently there is huge peer pressure on moms to create the most attractive bentos they can. And the cute backpacks at the beginning of the video cost 100s of dollars and it is “expected” that it will be the same as the other kids’ backpacks.
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posted on
06/11/2017 8:48:57 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: hanamizu
” And the cute backpacks at the beginning of the video cost 100s of dollars and it is expected that it will be the same as the other kids backpacks.”
They are made in Japan and will last the entire 6 years of elementary school and beyond . I went to Catholic School from 1958-1966 . We all had the same schoolbags , uniforms ...What’s the problem ?
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posted on
06/11/2017 8:53:17 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: hanamizu
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posted on
06/11/2017 8:57:20 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
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posted on
06/11/2017 9:04:56 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(I remember when 100% of scientists agreed there were only 2 genders.)
To: sushiman
Whats the problem ?
Absolutely no problem. The backpacks were obviously well-made and well thought out. One reason, in my opinion, that Japanese schools are better at teaching their kids is the culture pretty much requires a great deal of conformity and apparently gets it. My comment was meant to convey the sacrifice that Japanese parents are willing to make for their kids, in contrast to too many American parents who can’t be bothered to even feed their kids.
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posted on
06/11/2017 9:08:19 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: sushiman
You beat me by about 11 years, ;^)
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posted on
06/11/2017 9:19:01 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: gaijin
I’ve always thought that they looked like concrete prisons too .. :p
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posted on
06/11/2017 9:23:29 PM PDT
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Bikkuri
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