I am feeling a little sick because of the cold I caught in Tokyo. Thus I don't fit for a big city or civilization.
The editorial of Shinano Mainichi Shinnbun, a newspaper read the most in this prefecture, was about education the day before yesterday. The point of the editor was that freedom is necessary for education and schools. To start it, the editor wrote about our son's social studies class at a junior high as an example in which students learn a lot with his original deta and text. We got several mails and phonecalls to praise him from our friends. Why freedom in education? Japan has a censorship for school textbooks, and only after passing it, publishing companies can sell their textbooks to schools. When they find any sentences they don't like, or against their idea, they demand to rewrite it. You can guess what happens. We are now worrying all the school textbooks will be like government-designated.
Abe's government is trying to place school education under its far more stricter control than ever. They changed a law about education and is forcing their sence of values to teachers and schools. Their sense of value; anti democracy, denying human rights, restoration to military and imperial government, justification what Japan did to the other Asian countries during the war, it seems. What an anachronism! But we can't laugh at. They have power now,and they are hoping to change the nationhrough education. And I feel dreadful that there are many followers and supporters of Abe and his politics.
I can give you an example of their craziness. Some of them are checking the teachers' mouths during the school ceremonies if they are really singing the national anthem. You might ask what does it mean. Our national anthem is praising and wishing the emperor's age to be blessed and last forever. After the war we didn't accept the song as a national anthem but they tried to force schools to sing it and at last they made a law for it. Even though there are teachers who refuse to be forced to sing it in accordance with their beliefs. And then the checking of the mouths. When they find a teacher who doesn't sing, they can punish him or her.
I wonder if the civilization of our country is true thing.
The editorial of Shinano Mainichi Shinnbun, a newspaper read the most in this prefecture, was about education the day before yesterday. The point of the editor was that freedom is necessary for education and schools. To start it, the editor wrote about our son's social studies class at a junior high as an example in which students learn a lot with his original deta and text. We got several mails and phonecalls to praise him from our friends. Why freedom in education? Japan has a censorship for school textbooks, and only after passing it, publishing companies can sell their textbooks to schools. When they find any sentences they don't like, or against their idea, they demand to rewrite it. You can guess what happens. We are now worrying all the school textbooks will be like government-designated.
Abe's government is trying to place school education under its far more stricter control than ever. They changed a law about education and is forcing their sence of values to teachers and schools. Their sense of value; anti democracy, denying human rights, restoration to military and imperial government, justification what Japan did to the other Asian countries during the war, it seems. What an anachronism! But we can't laugh at. They have power now,and they are hoping to change the nationhrough education. And I feel dreadful that there are many followers and supporters of Abe and his politics.
I can give you an example of their craziness. Some of them are checking the teachers' mouths during the school ceremonies if they are really singing the national anthem. You might ask what does it mean. Our national anthem is praising and wishing the emperor's age to be blessed and last forever. After the war we didn't accept the song as a national anthem but they tried to force schools to sing it and at last they made a law for it. Even though there are teachers who refuse to be forced to sing it in accordance with their beliefs. And then the checking of the mouths. When they find a teacher who doesn't sing, they can punish him or her.
I wonder if the civilization of our country is true thing.
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