Figure 1.--Here are students at a state primary school on their way home after school and are admiring a lady's dog. Most Japnese children live within walking distance from thir vprimat schools. This is a school that does not require a uniform, but we suspect the boys have to wear short pants and white socks. Whenever all the children wear a similar garment, usually a school rule is required even at a non-uniform school. Notice the ever present book back packs--Randoresru. The portrait would have been taken in the 1980s.

Most Japanese children go to the country's excellent state schools. Japan has one of the premier educational systems in the world. Nor is religion a major concern among Japanese parents. As a result, few Japanese parents see the need to enroll their children in private schools. Japan does not have the deep-seated social problems and resulting serious discipline standards in its schools that face American and some European parents--causing them to flee the state system. There are no progressive DEI activists demanding that standards be lowered because the schools are failing this ensuring that children do not meet basic standards. And then progressive politician wonder why the children from these schools after graduation do not fare well in the job market. Japanese schools have high standards and produce excellent results, well above those achieve in American public schools. The Japanese schools are especially notable for obtaining good results with students from low-income families. The major criticism of Japanese schools is that thee is too much rote leaning and the schools do not promote innovative thought. Here parents may be at least as important if not more so than the schools. And Japanese parents of all social strata support the schools and most children have learned discipline standards at home. before they begin school life. Japanese schools have been criticized, however, for the great pressure put upon students and the failure to engender creative thought. Most state primary schools are coed. Secondary schools are mostly single gender schools , but an increasing number are coed. State primary schools vary in their approach to school wear. Most state primary schools do not require uniforms, but quite a number do, about a third. There are a variety of uniform styles. Unlike the primary schools almost all secondary schools do require uniforms, primarily Prussian cadet jackets for the boys and sailor dresses for the girls.

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