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Cultivating Values through Cleanliness: Japan’s Unique School Tradition
In the majority of Japanese schools, janitors or custodians are not hired for cleaning tasks. The Japanese education system upholds the belief that students should be responsible for maintaining their schools’ cleanliness. This practice instills values of respect, responsibility, and equality among students. By participating in communal cleaning activities called “osoji,” students learn to take care of their shared environment, develop teamwork skills, and appreciate the efforts of those who maintain cleanliness in other contexts.
From Punishment to Pioneering: Thurgood Marshall’s Constitutional Journey
Once, a school principal disciplined a mischievous student by making them sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. That student, Thurgood Marshall, memorized the entire document in the process. Later in life, Marshall achieved the historic milestone of becoming the first African American Supreme Court Justice. As a civil rights advocate, he played an instrumental role in dismantling racial segregation and transforming the American legal landscape. Notably, Marshall argued and won the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional.
Handwriting in schools
The introduction of the Common Core State Standards in 2010 led to many schools removing handwriting instruction, including cursive writing, from their curriculum as it was no longer a requirement for students to be proficient in it.
Bart Simpson T-shirts were banned
During the early 1990s, Bart Simpson T-shirts were banned at many schools throughout the United States.
In 2019 most Americans surveyed…
In 2019 most Americans surveyed thought that Arabic numerals should not be taught in schools.
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On September 12, 1958 Gov. Faubus…
On September 12, 1958 Gov. Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas high schools for a year rather than allowing desegregation to continue. Teachers and administrators were required to fulfill their contractual obligations and appear for work in empty schools.
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People Shared the Biggest Scandals That Took Place at Their Schools
Here are the two big scandals that I remember happening when I was in high school…
One, a kid got stabbed in the hallway during a fight my Freshman year.
And two, a girl got pregnant Senior year and mysteriously never came back to school one day…that’s all I can really think of right now. I’m sure there was a lot more going on, but that’s what I was aware of at the time.
But we’re about to hear a bunch of crazy stories from high school on Twitter, thanks to this person who threw the big question out there.
What was the ~big scandal~ at your school
— Emma Black (@fluffernutter99) October 25, 2020
Let’s get scandalous, shall we?
1. A secret affair.
Well, I guess it worked out?
My music teacher had a secret affair with my classmate. He left his wife for her. They then got married. We were 5th formers.
— Chrissie 3.5% Grech ? (v) ?? ? (@ChrissieGrech) October 25, 2020
2. That is insane.
More details, please!
One of the girls axed her great Aunt to death. ?
— Pooball (@pooball) October 27, 2020
3. Bet he didn’t see that coming.
Rubber stamped!
Small beer by comparison with some, and not my school but a previous school of my best friend (no longer here to tell the story), where the the boys gained access to the rubber stamp of the Headmaster’s signature and used it to resign him from his post.
— Col. Mortimer ? (@amysteron) October 25, 2020
4. You definitely couldn’t do this anymore.
You’d be in deep sh*t if you tried a stunt like this.
Sports teacher burst into classroom & “shot” maths teacher, shouting “you slept with my wife”
Kids (age 11) go apeshit. Both teachers then went to front of class & bowed. Sports teacher held up the starting gun, laughing.
Annual initiation for 1st yrs apparently. This was ‘82.— Sarah Robinson (@sarahjrobbo) October 25, 2020
5. True ’80s style.
Kinda weird…
French teacher who had had a girl in every fifth year for years finally excelled himself by turning up, drunk, at a pupils’ house party and getting off with his latest flame in view of everyone. This was too public for even the school to ignore, so in true 80s style
— Sunny Radiator (@RadiatorSunny) October 25, 2020
6. The Branch Davidians.
That’s pretty nuts.
History teacher vanished one day. Turned out he joined the Waco cult.
— ?? James Bowen ?? (@bowen_james) October 25, 2020
7. That is terrible.
A true crime story.
Oh and a long time substitute teacher ominously said he wouldn’t see us again. He was correct. Turns out he drove to another state and murdered his ex wife, then committed suicide.
— Twiggyanajones (@Twiggyanajones) October 25, 2020
8. The hitman and the nun.
This person needs to write a book.
Grade school: father of a kid in my brother’s class was a hitman; nun was removed for having an affair with a student’s mother. High school: geometry teacher was arrested in a big male prostitution bust at a turnpike rest stop.
— Annie Logue (@annielogue) October 25, 2020
9. Don’t talk about it.
But everyone knew…
Kid who stabbed his aunt to death one weekend. He never came back and it was never talked about.
— Hilary Gallo ? (@hilarygallo) October 25, 2020
10. An odd turn of events.
Shouldn’t have taken that coat.
A teacher confiscated my friend’s coat and then the teacher got fired and it turned out he’d faked his qualifications and my friend never got his coat back.
— 1-900-9099-CRY (@shrugggggggggg) October 25, 2020
11. That sure is awkward.
Kids, meet your new stepmother.
The headmaster running off with the headgirl. Who was in the same year as his sons. And then became their stepmother…
— RachelReadIt?☕?? (@RACHELb75) October 25, 2020
How about you?
What was the biggest scandal that took place at your school?
Give us all the dirt in the comments! Thanks in advance!
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Graduated Alone
Eva Mae Bradbury was the only member of her graduating class at the public school in Ada, Kansas. The school nevertheless put on a full commencement program for her, attended by 150 people, which was about the entire population of Ada.
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Some schools in China now have uniforms…
Some schools in China now have uniforms with tracking devices in them. This is done to monitor attendance. If students try to leave during school hours, an alarm will go off.
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