Als Sechstklässler lernten die Schüler wochentags durchschnittlich 3,6 Stunden und an Wochenenden und Feiertagen 5,7 Stunden. Die durchschnittliche Häufigkeit des Besuchs der Nachhilfeschule betrug 4,5 Tage pro Woche, wobei 12 % die Schule täglich besuchten. Die Gesamtkosten, die in die Aufnahmeprüfungen für die Mittelstufe investiert wurden, beliefen sich auf 2,39 Millionen Yen (ca. 15.100 US-Dollar), wobei 27 % mehr als 3 Millionen Yen (ca. 19.000 US-Dollar) ausgaben.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260122/p2a/00m/0na/025000c
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Wasn’t there a news about Japanese students test scores going down? Are they going down even after all these hours?
Japan is a country where they think more hours put in means better results. It’s all or nothing for many students here. I try to tell my students to make little efforts a day. You don’t need to study 100 new vocab words in one sitting for example. Try learning 5 or 10 a day. 1 is more than 0. At least with 1 that shows growth. But 0 nothing is growing.
Imagine if the school system was adequate in teaching students what they need to know in advance, instead of having this insane disconnect. Why the need for entrance exams? What are they gatekeeping? Oh lil Taro got railroaded through school with shit grades and no one gave a damn, now he has to relearn everything for the holy entrance exam because suddenly we care about what he learned. Guess it’s not so nice to suddenly having to take responsibility for being a bad student when all these years you got waived through. Oops! But it’s not the students fault, it’s the adults who created a system that makes no sense and forces unrealistic expectations on students after leaving them in the dust for too long. Just abolish school and have only entrance exams the students need to cram for in their own time. Results may be roughly the same.