School in Japan
I have a bunch of questions about what school is like in Japan.
How does a typical school day in Japan go structure wise? For example, in America it's common for middle and high schools to work on nine period days, where each period is a different class with different people. From watching anime it seems like it isn't like that at all in Japan, but rather each grade/year is divided up into classes (of how many students?) and each class spends the (entire?) day together learning from different teachers. Is that all correct? And also, does each class move from room to room depending on what they're learning or do the teachers move around and the students stay in the same classroom all day? What are the core subjects in Japan? For example, in America I would say they are English, math, science, history, and foreign language. Do students have a choice of which classes they take? For example in America students can often choose from many electives such as art, cooking, shop, band, chorus, orchestra, economics, journalism, computer science, statistics, psychology, etc. Can students choose which second or third language they take? Which languages can students usually choose from? Can students take advanced/honors courses? Do elementary, jr. high, and high school all operate on trimester years? I know high school isn't mandatory, but is it free for everyone? What are the typical costs for private school and university? Are grades important for getting into high school/university or is it just entrance exams that count? The rest of the questions are more trivial: About what percent of japanese schools have swimming pools and require their students to take swimming classes? How many students would a typical elementary, jr. high, and high school have? Are school grounds usually surrounded by walls with a gate at the entrance that closes when classes start? Do most schools have flat roofs that students are allowed to go on? Do all schools require students to do chores before and after school? About what percent of schools require their students to wear uniforms? Does every school have 7 mysteries? How rare is it to see a teacher throw chalk at a student? Do students really have to memorize square root values of non-perfect squares in math class? (The square root of 2 is 1.4142 for example.) At what times does school usually start and end? |
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well, if what you know is from anime, youll find a few of your questions are answered in anime itself ( though im extremely skeptical on how realistically they portray actual school life.) anyways, heres what you can pick up from anime - normally, teachers move into classrooms, rather than students moving to different classes, well for the most part of their schooling atleast. secondly, yes, the majority of schools do have uniforms. its like that in a lot of the world ( all of south asia for example). There is course/stream specialization at high school level. They already have a mandatory second language to learn, english. and i tink its unreasonable to expect them all to learn a third language as well dont you think? :p ( not to say that people dont... ) I draw a lot of parallells from the schooling system that i graduated from. It also makes me wish that I graduated from an IB or American system sometimes. oh well. Ill post some real facts about the schooling system later :D |
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read this =3 it answers most of your questions about subjects, costs, cleaning in classrooms etc. http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/classroom.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Japan other answers: schools have flat roofs yes but access to them normally isn't allowed chores is only after school, though soemtimes you have to set the tables, chairs etc. a school without uniforms is VERY rare school is never free but you have to do highschool according to law (its the same here), it is after upper secondary highschool that you can stop studying to work fulltime or that you, during those last years do entrance exams for university. this is why japanese study so hard because getting in the best university is hard schools there use three periods instead of four (so no trimester), 1st term is from April to mid July (depending on the summer holiday start date), second is late September to December and final term is from January to begin March with spring break followed. graduation is done in March and enrollment in April swimming is very populair in highschools etc. there is always a swimming club (they are n.o. 1 picks for after school club activities) students learn how to swim in kindergarden as for the entrance exams, you take two tests. one is an actual test and int he second is an examination to see if you are capable to enrol, meanign they look at your older grades, if they are low then you won't be allowed to enter no matter how high you scored on yoru entrance exam |
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Japanese English or any another foreign language Mathematics World History Either Japanese History or Geography Either Philosophy or Political Schience & Economics Three from Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology & Astronomy or Fundamental Science Physical Education One from Music, Visual Arts, Crafts or Calligraphy Home Economics Computer However, students rather focus on the subjects they must pass in the entrance examination to university. Quote:
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Japanese Class mentioned above contains the grammar of ancient Chinese as well as classic Japanese. I cannot understand modern Chinese at all, but I can read archaic continental poems. Quote:
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high school: 851,256 university: 1,146,533 (humanity and social science), 1,498,096 (engineering and natural science), 5,103,734 (medical) |
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gymnasium has the english, french, dutch, greek and latin where as the one lower level which we call vwo has english, french and german |
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Every school has different timetable, but as an example (of 2nd year): Normal Course http://www.saitamasakae-h.ed.jp/h/img/index/sougou.gif Special Course http://www.saitamasakae-h.ed.jp/h/img/index/tokusen.gif 国語 Japanese 体育 P.E. 保健 Health Science 現代文 Modern Japanese 古典 Classic Japanese and Chinese 数学 Mathematics 生物 Biology 英語 English Reading ライティング English Composition 世界史 World History 日本史 Japanese History 演習 Practical Lesson 創造 Creative Class |
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According to the EuroBarometer, 34% of French people know English, and 10% do Spanish. I wonder what the rest do, and how the minority languages such as Català and Breton are treated in France. |
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That was sometimes the case within my school. |
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But I think Hungary is not considered to be a 'normal' EU country (due to "certain circumstances"... hell even Romania is richer than us now! ...Don't take it offensively, Patrunjelu.) |
@ solais - don't worry, no offense taken
I know that Romania is known to be a poor country. The bad thing though is that no one is trying to fix that... too bad. Soon every Romanian will leave our country leaving nothing but dust behind. Can't blame them though... I intend to do the same thing :\ |
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