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About what percent of japanese schools have swimming pools and require their students to take swimming classes?
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According to
the statistics, more than 90% of the public schools hold swimming pools. In particular elementary nearly all elementary schools own ones.
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How many students would a typical elementary, jr. high, and high school have?
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It depends on the area where the school is located. In urban districts, it is often one grade has about 200 students. An elementary school has 6 grades, jr-high does 3, and also a high school does 3 grades. So you can calculate the volume of the school. On the contrary, rural areas are suffering from rapid aging and fewer children.
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Are school grounds usually surrounded by walls with a gate at the entrance that closes when classes start?
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Yes.
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Do most schools have flat roofs that students are allowed to go on?
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There are flat roofs but usually students are prohibit to go there. Such prohibition is nothing to mischievous children like I was, though.
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Do all schools require students to do chores before and after school?
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No. However, a number of schools pursue to win the inter-school chorus concours (
like this). Such ones impose everyday training on students.
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Does every school have 7 mysteries?
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Of course no
. However, as time passes, some students try to forge ones until the number reaches seven.
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How rare is it to see a teacher throw chalk at a student?
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Very rare nowadays.
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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.)
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No. But it is easy to memorise such numbers as
3.1415926535897932
2.71828182945904
1.41421356
1.7320508
2.2360679
2.44949
2.64575
2.8284
I did in my jr high days. In Japanese, there is a way to memorise numbers as short poems.