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- From: dali@stein.u.washington.edu (David A. Lee)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Japanese student seeks school apology for harrassment
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.054215.21359@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 05:42:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec22.054215.21359
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Lines: 69
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- Just more fear in Japan about the outside world.
-
- "Uh oh, he's been TAINTED by the evil BARBARIANS!!!"
-
- "Maybe we'd better SHOOT HIM to take him OUT OF HIS MISERY"
-
- "If he is not JUST LIKE US he must be MISERABLE, right?"
-
- Sarcasm intended, I am tired of the attitudes Japanese have about
- the outside world. It's worse than the segregation between
- blacks and whites that existed in the United States through the
- 1950s.
-
- From the newsgroup, clari.news.children:
-
- Article 690 in clari.news.children (moderated):
- From: clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI)
- Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.children
- Subject: Japanese student seeks school apology for harassment
- Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, children,
- special interest
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:58:06 PST
- Location: japan
- Lines: 30
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- TOKYO (UPI) -- A junior high school student alleging harassment and
- abuse by schoolmates because of his English language ability has asked
- the Tokyo Bar Association for restitution and a formal apology from the
- school.
- The 15-year-old student, who spends every summer vacation in the
- United States where is mother was born, acquired English skills far
- ahead of his regular classes but claimed he was harassed by his teacher
- for his language ability, according to a statement submitted to the
- association's Children's Human Rights Relief Center.
- Tsutomu Shimizu, the lawyer representing the unidentified student,
- said the case is the first of its kind. The association decided to take
- it up since the decision could have a major influence on similar cases,
- he said.
- ``The problem is the Japanese school system does not respect the
- student's individual character,'' Shimizu said.
- In the first trimester of his first year at No. 7 Junior High School
- in Tokyo, the student received the highest score of five on his report
- card and passed level three on the national English proficiency test,
- demonstrating his mastery of high school-level English, according to the
- association's statement. However he soon was at odds with his English
- teacher due to his advanced skills. He claimed the teacher would not
- accept answers differing from a given pattern even if they were correct.
- After receiving a score of three on his report card, the student's
- parents protested. They were told their son could not continue at the
- school if they complained, the statement said.
- The student said classmates made such remarks as, ``His mother is
- American, so he may have AIDS.''
- The student did not attend school for one trimester during his third
- year because of the frequent harassment, the statement said. He changed
- schools after officials asked him to do so on numerous occasions.
- ---
-
- Can we accept these kind of attitudes? I sure can't:
-
- The student said classmates made such remarks as, ``His mother is
- American, so he may have AIDS.'
-
- Sick.
-
- --
- "There are hundreds of tiny balls in every machine, and hundreds of machines
- in every pachinko parlour, and a pachinko parlour on every block in every
- town in Japan; so there are billions of little balls falling forever, like a
- chromium-plated hailstorm that never melts." - from "Clive James in Japan"
-