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forkies · Mar 2, 2007, 12:24 AM

Teacher in hot water for rating students who came to school late

holy shizat, i knew in japan being 10 min early is like being 20 min late, but the "five levels" this teacher made are hilarious.

Dakar² · Mar 2, 2007, 01:19 AM

I didn't realize the japanese believe in hell.

Tiresias · Mar 2, 2007, 01:26 AM

It's a hyperbole. I don't see what the big deal is.

Dakar² · Mar 2, 2007, 01:29 AM

I'm no prude, but I doubt I'd appreciate a teacher telling labeling my kid in such a manner, particularly for something as mundane as being late.

hickey · Mar 2, 2007, 01:33 AM

people being consistetly late is annoying as ****. I'm a student and it bothers the crap outta me. kids got no respect.

Tiresias · Mar 2, 2007, 01:37 AM

But who could possibly take it seriously?! It's obviously just a flippant way of ribbing the least punctual students.

I'd rather be promised hell by a teacher than flogged senseless by one.

Dakar² · Mar 2, 2007, 02:21 AM

Originally Posted by Tiresias

But who could possibly take it seriously?! It's obviously just a flippant way of ribbing the least punctual students.

This is true. I dunno, I guess I'd have to be there. If the kids take no offense then its fine.

butterfly0fdoom · Mar 2, 2007, 02:39 AM

The students were probably getting a good laugh out of that.

torsoboy · Mar 2, 2007, 05:33 AM

looks like the teacher didn't get in trouble, so no big deal. he did nothing wrong... move along.

kikkoman · Mar 2, 2007, 12:50 PM

I had a physics teacher in college who would lock the door after he started lecture. The late students would crash into the doors expecting them to open. I think he got a chuckle out of it.

Dakar² · Mar 2, 2007, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by kikkoman

I had a physics teacher in college who would lock the door after he started lecture. The late students would crash into the doors expecting them to open. I think he got a chuckle out of it.

You'd figure after witnessing it once you'd never see it occur again.

Gossamer · Mar 2, 2007, 12:57 PM

My fluid flow teacher won't accept homework from anyone 5 minutes after class has started, and there is homework due every day.

JoshuaZ · Mar 2, 2007, 09:20 PM

Thats not so bad. Lets see... what can I remember from college.

A kid was once crushed to death by the school gate because he tried to get past it while it was closing and he was late. Every year a couple of kids die because of teacher abuse. I see teachers openly smack kids in class, and say things to them which would get any teacher in the US fired.

The again, teachers at many schools (this is a problem about the system, not just the teachers, as the teachers are more or less forced to enforce these rules or lose their jobs) spend all their time enforcing really randomly dumb rules. Like no makeup, kids eating food on the way to or from school, not sitting properly, wearing jewelry, ect ect ect. All this while bullying is entirely ignored by the system, taking a stance of moving the bullied student to another school while not addressing the bully himself. Theres a school in town that has nothing but students who had to move to another school to escape bullying.

Japan Today - Kuchikomi - The growing idiocy of teachers

A year and a half in this system changed your views on the old argument that "Japanese students score better than US students" argument (no one seems to note that Japanese kids attend "cram school" at night, every night, thus they do an additional 3 or 4 hours of school a day.). I would never ever want to send my children (if I had any) to a Japanese school, and I feel really bad for students coming back from being abroad, they always look depressed in class (let alone the group social issues they have, as everyone else has a negative attitude about them being abroad.). Anyhow, heres the wikipedia article about secondary Japanese education.

Secondary education in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia