September 28, 2006
The Slide of the School
Yesterday two of my teachers were discussing how they could get moved from this school. In Japan, you have no choice as to which school you work in; the prefecture (in the case of High School) decides it for you. One of them suggested that another teacher was prematurely moved out of a bad school because he got into a fight with an "important person" at the school. Both of them then proceeded to muse about who they could fight for maximum possibility of transfer.
It brings to mind a few things:
- The level of my school really has dropped that dramatically in only a single year.
- The prefectural educational system may be in need of some changes...
- A fight...! You don't see those much in Japan, especially amongst teachers. Just the idea of that certain teacher (a smurfy kind of guy) in a fight is giggle-worthy.