Re: wonder how kids are disciplined in schools there?
jus_defy said:
I also like the idea of uniforms for all. May not eliminate "cliques" but at least there'd be no judging amongst themselves due to clothing brands.
One, there would be judging on looks. If you saw a really ugly girl in nice designer clothes would you give her your number? I wouldn't, and I bet you five bucks that wasen't even thought of as a reason when they enforced the whole uniform idea.
(since that took it toally off the subject of discipline, i'll put it back)
School regulations in Japan are not standardized. Each elementary and secondary school establishes its own. Junior-high schools tend to have the most.
1. Boys' hair should not touch the eyebrows, the ears, or the top of the collar.
2. No one should have a permanent wave, or dye his or her hair. Girls should not wear ribbons or accessories in their hair. Hair dryers should not be used.
3. School uniform skirts should be __ centimeters above the ground, no more and no less. (This differs by school and region.)
4. Keep your uniform clean and pressed at all times. Girls' middy blouses should have two buttons on the back collar. Boys' pants cuffs should be of the prescribed width. No moer than twelve eyelets should be on shoes. The number of buttons on a shirt and tucks in a skirt are also prescribed.
5. Wear your school badge at all times. It should be positioned exactly.
6. Going to school in the morning, wear your book bag strap on the right shoulder, in the afternoon on the way home, wear it on the left shoulder. Your book case thickness filled and unfilled is also prescribed.
7. Girls should wear only regulation white underpants of 100% cotton.
8. When you raise your hand to be called on, your arm should extend forward and up at the angle prescribed in the hand book. (shown photo.)
9. Your own route to school is marked in your student rule handbook; observe carefully which side of each street you are to use on the way to and from school.
10. After school you are to go directly home, unless your parent has written a note permitting you to go to another location. Permission will not be granted by the school unless this location is a suitable one. You must not go to coffee shops. You must be home by __ __ o'clock.
11. It is not permitted to drive or ride a motorcycle, or to have a license to drive one.
12. Before and after school, no matter where you are, you represent our school so you should behave in ways we can all be proud of.
[ actualy excerpts from a handbook for students at a Tokyo middle school. figures are shown in Figures A. 1 through A.3 these include dress regulations on how to position badges and tie fasteners on the girls' middy blouse, how to wear the handbag (over right shoulder on the way to school, over left on the way home) and also regulations on the path to take as you near school. ]
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One Yokohama highschool senior has learned what she dosen't want, from her working mother's example:
"I think housekeeping such a pain. I never want to be a housewife busy only with housekeeping and bringing up babies . . . as mother works outside, I believe housework is not the only thing women should do . . . but i don't think i can manage both a job and a family, so i will work and not have a family. I don't want to be like my mother, being alone is best because I can be free. "
Attitude toward fathers in Japan seems to have changed much more than attitudes to mothers. Since children rarely see their fathers at work, and see them only on "off time," exhausted and relaxing, they know very little of what they do. Indeed, a Japanese teen sometimes knows only the name of his father's company, not what he does there. Thus there is some distance, and a sense of unreality with ergar to fathers, while mother's work at home is at least visible , whether or not she also works outside the home. The father-child relationship in Japan used to be "terrible, like earthquake and thunder," but the discipline and role-model functions have atrophied along with his persence and energy at home. Mothers, over all, even working mothers, have more influence.
In an international comparison of attitudes about the ideal mother and father, most Japanese respondents (between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four feel that a good father is more like a friends (56.4 percent) than distant and strict (31.3 percent). Seventy percent of american youth want a friend-father, and only 15 perfect want a disciplinarian. However, only 58.4 percent of japanese respondents say that a good father considers his family about his job, compared to 81.4 percent of american youth, and only the chinese fall below the japanese in this regard (29.9 percent) In this study, sweden tops the list in preferences for friend-father and fathers who put family before work. There is more agreement about the ideal mother, In the same study, responses show that she is one who puts her family about her work (86.1 percent in Japan, 85.3 percent in the united states, and who is a friend (78.5 percent in japan, 76.2 percent in the united states.)
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It seems as if Japanese youth is disciplined more outside of the house than in it with all the pressures they face in their daily life I think they are more disciplined in a mental sense rather than a physical one, example, they might be forced to study for their highschool exams (one of the scariest things youth face in Japan) and in this time in which they study they'll be forced to not only by their parents but also their school and the thought of a even having a future. I hope this material gives you a little insight on the strictness of japanese school systems and japanese parents in the area of discipline, above has been several quotes from different books.
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