Erina
Earlier this week, a school girl was found almost dead on the side of the road. She had been strangled and died soon after. The poor kid was only 16.
Here's what her school had to say about it:
"This is very sad, but try not to be disturbed," the school's principal, Yutaka Inaba, told about 340 pupils at the school who gathered and held a moment's silence on Monday.
Nice.
What a pathetic response to such a terrible tragedy. In Japan, it is considered the job of the school and teachers to help raise the school kids to be fine, upstanding individuals. The relationship between Japanese students and teachers is quite different to that in Ireland. If a student gets in trouble outside of school hours, it is the school and homeroom teacher that are notified immediately, not the parents. They must drop everything and rush to deal with the matter. All this leads to an almost familial connection between school and student. I find it shocking that when one of their classmates was murdered in the locality, this was all the principal managed to come up with. Not a word about the nice girl she had been or the bright future that lay ahead, which was so brutally taken from her.
What the vice-principal had to say was even more shocking.
The school's vice principal said Hirata's family had moved recently and she probably had few friends.
Oh well in that case, lets just forget about the whole thing. What 16 year old school girl?
Here's what her school had to say about it:
"This is very sad, but try not to be disturbed," the school's principal, Yutaka Inaba, told about 340 pupils at the school who gathered and held a moment's silence on Monday.
Nice.
What a pathetic response to such a terrible tragedy. In Japan, it is considered the job of the school and teachers to help raise the school kids to be fine, upstanding individuals. The relationship between Japanese students and teachers is quite different to that in Ireland. If a student gets in trouble outside of school hours, it is the school and homeroom teacher that are notified immediately, not the parents. They must drop everything and rush to deal with the matter. All this leads to an almost familial connection between school and student. I find it shocking that when one of their classmates was murdered in the locality, this was all the principal managed to come up with. Not a word about the nice girl she had been or the bright future that lay ahead, which was so brutally taken from her.
What the vice-principal had to say was even more shocking.
The school's vice principal said Hirata's family had moved recently and she probably had few friends.
Oh well in that case, lets just forget about the whole thing. What 16 year old school girl?