Intemperate Rant about Next Week

Next week, I start teaching at a magnet school run by Fukushima University, which is supposedly the best elementary school in the city.  I just finished watching the "official" guidelines DVD for teachers, and I can say that after watching it I had an express desire to punch every single person in the DVD square in the face.  I could not begin to describe the humiliatingly idiotic and pointless things which the model teachers in the DVD have to go through and do (but I will), except to say that the people in charge of things in Japan must be retarded tyrants and their underlings complete coward scum.

As I mentioned in a previous post, most teachers either leave Japan bitter over just how stupid the curriculum is or become lazy, freeloading public servants leaching off the tax-pool.  We'll see which one I become next week I guess, but there is absolutely no way I'm dancing, acting like a clown, smiling excessively, using unconventional gestures proscribed by the morons in charge, having the students repeat lines of their own language, or attempting to teach greetings in Kiswahili.  

Japan has the worst English test scores in Asia after North Korea, and this should absolutely outrage people, especially since Japan is a wealthy, highly-educated country, which mandates English instruction for six years or more.  So, umm... get outraged.  Unless there is a radical change of curriculum immediately (Anything would be better than the current system, including giving children and schools more free time by ending English education!), I urge the current DoE bigwigs to publicly apologize, retire, and do Japan and the world a favor by jumping in front of the Shinkansen.

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[IchiBan troll]

Japan is just one big video game so that's why there doesn't have to be any logic involved in any decision making. So this post is the equivalent of screaming at the TV screen when playing BioHazard.