More high school students spending time at nurses' offices

Sunday 27th July, 02:19 AM JST

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LIBERTAS at 07:51 AM JST - 27th July

"School nurses’ offices have been playing a more and more important role in supporting children with psychological problems." Well, when you spend hours per day in an institution designed to only teach you "How to be Japanese" (a fact admitted by a former Education Minister!) by following orders, doing drills and learning how to conform, the nurse's office might be a better place to be. Kids are not stupid, this is a very effective survival strategy.
imagawa at 08:55 AM JST - 27th July

The answer to this lies with teacher training.There is almost no point trying to change the way current teachers "teach", but new teachers could be shown how to care for, protect & respect the children in their classes. Imparting facts is not teaching.
proxy at 09:04 AM JST - 27th July

A friends son didn't "fit in" to the square holes provided by the education system and spend the better part of two years in the nurse's office. He's now a second year university student and doing well, in fact I think he's doing better than most his age as he knows his own mind.
thepro at 09:32 AM JST - 27th July

There were a hell of a lot of strange students at the schools I worked at.
borscht at 12:43 PM JST - 27th July

One elementary school had a student come to school and head straight for the nurse's office; didn't even bother going to class. The solution came from the most intelligent person at the school: the janitor. He gave the kid a job helping clean the school and school grounds. The kid loved it and is now in this third year of getting valuable work experience vs what he would be doing if he went to class: staring at the floor or out the window.
presto345 at 12:54 PM JST - 27th July

This country became a great country because of people who didn't even graduate from elementary school. They certainly did not spend years in the nurses' office serving as a baby sitting facility and subsequently did well in university (what university?). Knowing one's own mind seems like a loose term. I think students who spend most of their time in the nurses' office do not belong in that school at all. Even in the small town where I spent some time of my youth there was a special school for children with adjustment problems. Every large community should have one of those. The 'hokenshi tsu' in the schools here should not be a refuge for kids who don't fit the 'square holes'.
helloklitty at 02:21 PM JST - 27th July

Apart from the mental, physical problems should also be addressed. From the June 2 New York Times, I read how extra-clean classrooms reported nine percent fewer gastrointestinal illness-related absences. I know Japanese kids are very diligent about cleaning, but are they disinfecting their desktops? Probably not. That would cost money.
presto345 at 05:26 PM JST - 27th July

but are they disinfecting their desktops?

This gave me a good laugh :->
DenshaDeGO at 08:48 PM JST - 27th July

This isn't news; it's been happening for years. The nurse can very often be more useful than the school counselor ... who comes to school one day a week.