97/02/10
Japanese Junior High School Curriculum
n.b. "○"means the subject, "◎"means the homeroom-guidance in every class
Every day, after school we have the cleaning time, students clean alloted spaces.
From Monday to Friday we have school lunch, it's served by students and eat the same menu dishes altogether on their desks.....in 50 min' including setting the table and dishes.....
(Only on Saturday they bring their home made lunch boxes instead of school lunch).
School begins at 8:30, if a student is late for school the poor sacrifice will be scolded by a muscular P.E. teacher...................
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1st period 8:50-9:40 |
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2nd period 9:50-10:40 |
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3rd period 10:50-11:40 |
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4th period 11:50-12:40 |
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lunch time 12:40-13:30 |
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5th period 13:45-14:35 |
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6th period 14:45-15:35 |
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And this is the most terrible thing: Every morning and evening, students and teachers have the extra club activities, such as, soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball,and so forth. Every morning it starts about 7 a.m. and ends about 4(winter time) or 6:30(summer time)p.m. In summer the longest students' school-stay amounts to about 12 hours in total.......into the bargain, most of students go to the clamming school to pass the high school entrance exam. Can you imagine how long students work at school ?
Of course it's not only for students , but teachers conditions are worse, too. Especially male young or middle aged teacher are much worse.......Because naturally students get frustration out of many busy school works and others(after school works, say, clamming school, community sports.....), and then they sometimes get upset and behave in a bad manner, finally bullying will occur in the classroom, in such case a young male teacher will be available to scold students with a fierce look on his face.
You understand ? Japanese schools have many problems in its education system. All problems result from the education system, I guess.
| Mother tongue | Social Studies | Math | Science | Music | Fine Art | P.E. | Technique and domestic science education | English | Optional courses | Moral education | Homeroom-guidance | Total | |
| 1st grade | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30 |
| 2nd grade | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 30 |
| 3rd grade | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 30 |
n.b.
Generally about English lesson number of the week, "3" is the most popular, we give "optional course" to the 2nd and 3rd students when a school adopt English optional course all grades have just 3 lessons in the week.
In Japan "mother tongue" includes the old Chinese letters , and social studies on junior high level includes "history and geography".
"homeroom guidance" means teacher's introduction and guidance of school daily life, and how to decide the future course and select a high school.
We have 3 vacations :
Acording to the weather condition or transportation the actual situation is a little bit different, especially,snowy area , i.e. Tohoku area or Hokkaido area, islands area....etc
Spring vacation(3/25-4/7, 2weeks),
Summer vacation(7/21-8/31,40days),
Winter vacation(12/25-1/7, 2weeks)
In Japan we have 3 terms through the year:
1st term begins early in April ( generally, 4/8-7/20) 2nd term begins early in September ( generally, 9/1-12/24) 3rd term begins early in January ( generally, 1/8-3/24)
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