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Chalmer, Bobby, and Charles. Three students from the beginning of my career who will always be in my heart. 1977. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteaching #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #school #schooling #student #students #elementaryschool #elementaryschools #elementaryeducation #strongpubliceducationstrongcountry #strongcountry #educationimportance #importanceofeducation #strongpublicschools #eduucationalegalitarianism #egalitarianism #equality

Japan's education ministry has released results from this fiscal year's national achievement test, which highlight persistent weaknesses in proportional reasoning and reading comprehension. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/16/japan/japan-school-achievement-test-scores/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #students #schools #education #juniorhighschools #elementaryschools #highschools

Agricultural and fishery experience programs in a northeastern areas of Japan ravaged by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami have been attracting a young audience. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/12/japan/farm-experience-program-children-miyagi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #miyagi #311 #children #agriculture #elementaryschools #volunteers #earthquakes #fishing

Some ¥3 million in donations from across Japan is helping the efforts to preserve the remains of an elementary school where a total of 84 students and staff members died in the March 2011 tsunami. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/28/japan/donations-preservation-tsunami-school/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #earthquakes #311 #schools #elementaryschools #ishinomaki #miyagi

A fire burned part of an elementary school in a densely populated area of Tokyo on Friday, leaving 10 people, mainly children, injured. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/19/japan/tokyo-elementary-school-fire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #elementaryschools #tokyo

Teachers and students at Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, are continuing to work on school safety 25 years after a mass stabbing at the school killed eight children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/08/japan/society/ikeda-elementary-killings-25-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #stabbings #massmurder #osaka #ikeda #elementaryschools #mentalhealth

A Japanese court has sentenced a former elementary school teacher to three years and six months in prison for possessing naked images of girls created by generative artificial intelligence, among other acts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/05/japan/crime-legal/ai-pornography-teacher-sentence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #ai #children #childporn #pornography #japanesecourts #deepfakes #nagoya #socialmedia #schools #elementaryschools

Police officer and cake shop and bakery worker remain top of the list of dream jobs for children in Japan, a recent survey of elementary school first graders found, while their parents hope they become civil servants. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/05/children-dream-jobs-list/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #children #jobs #surveys #elementaryschools

The Nagoya District Court has sentenced a 42-year-old former elementary school teacher who started a group chat encouraging the sharing of indecent images of young girls to two years and six months in prison. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/16/japan/crime-legal/school-teacher-sentence-group-girls-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #socialmedia #elementaryschools #children #pornography #aichi #sexcrimes #childabuse #teachers

A former teacher is serving as a storyteller at the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Fukushima Prefecture, where he recounts stories of children who died in the 2011 disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/08/japan/society/ex-teacher-fukushima-disaster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #311 #fukushima #elementaryschools #fukushimano1 #earthquakes

Japan's government has adopted a bill to designate digital textbooks as official materials on par with printed versions and to make them eligible for free distribution in elementary and junior high schools. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/07/japan/digital-textbook-official/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #digitalization #education #textbooks #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #children

An exhibition of haiku poems and drawings themed on cherry blossoms by Japanese and U.S. elementary school children began at the Japan Information and Culture Center in Washington on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/24/japan/cherry-blossoms-haiku-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #us #sakura #elementaryschools #children

Nearly half of high school students in Japan use generative artificial intelligence online in their daily lives, a new government report shows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/26/japan/students-ai-internet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #children #ai #socialmedia #internet #highschools #juniorhighschools #elementaryschools

The Fukuoka High Court has rejected an appeal for a retrial for the 1992 murder of two 7-year-old girls in the city of Iizuka, for which a death row convict was executed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/17/japan/crime-legal/fukuoka-murder-retrial-rejection/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukuoka #japanesecourts #supremecourt #deathpenalty #elementaryschools #children

Japan’s suicide death toll fell below 20,000 for the first time on record last year, although elementary, junior high and high school student suicides climbed to a new high. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/29/japan/suicide-figures-decline/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #suicide #mhlw #children #mentalhealth #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools

Liking children is the number one requirement for an educator. 1982. #education #publiceducation #teach #teacher #teachers #student #students #1980s #ltes #lacktuscaroraelementaryschool #elementaryschool #elementaryschools #teaching #educator #educators #countrykids

I taught 25 years at the Lack Tuscarora Elementary School outside Honey Grove. The Pennsylvania landscape provided ever changing beauty. 1995. #ltes #lack #lacktuscarora #lacktuscaroraelementary #lacktuscaroraelementaryschool #elementaryschools #elementaryschool #selvan

A total of 281 teachers and staff at kindergartens, public elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan were disciplined for sexual offenses in fiscal 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/crime-legal/sexual-misconduct-educators/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mext #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools #children #sexcrimes #kindergartens #teachers #surveys

The ruling bloc and opposition Komeito agreed to pay a monthly fee of ¥5,200 per student to make public elementary school meals free, starting in fiscal 2026. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/18/japan/ruling-bloc-komeito-school-meal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #ldp #jip #komeito #schools #elementaryschools

More than half of cases of sexual deepfakes targeting those under 18 and reported to Japanese police were created by classmates of the victims, National Police Agency data have shown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/18/japan/crime-legal/half-deepfake-classmates/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #npa #japanesepolice #ai #children #socialmedia #deepfakes #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools

“Politics and daily life in Japan are very separate” — Chinese expats recount their parenting challenges and the conversations on identity they’ve had with their Japan-raised children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/12/15/issues/chinese-children-raised-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #expats #immigration #china #chinajapanrelations #mixedrelationships #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools

Police have arrested an elementary school teacher in Okayama Prefecture, marking the seventh and final arrest in a group of teachers who allegedly shared voyeuristic videos of school girls on social media. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/07/japan/crime-legal/final-suspect-teacher-sexual-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #socialmedia #elementaryschools #children #pornography #okayama #aichi

Teachers in Japan are paying out of their own pocket to prepare teaching materials and other supplies that are supposed to be covered by the schools’ budgets, according to a nationwide survey. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/japan/school-teacher-payment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #schools #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #hiroshima #education #teachers

Police have served third arrest warrants on two elementary school teachers linked to an online chat group sharing secretly taken images and videos of girls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/crime-legal/third-arrest-girls-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #nagoya #children #elementaryschools #childporn #sexcrimes #yokohama

The education has highlighted issues with third-grade junior high school students answering description-type questions in a national achievement test. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/japan/japanese-description-tests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mext #children #education #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools

Since the age of 7, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, ensuring the horrors of nuclear war do not fade with the passage of time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/31/japan/society/hiroshima-schoolboy-guide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hiroshima #schools #elementaryschools #children #atomicbombings #wwii #english #volunteers

The average correct answer rates in the Japanese language and math sections of a national achievement test for students in Japan fell from the previous year, with students particularly struggling with writing tasks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/japan/japan-national-achievement-tests-math-japanese-language/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mext #students #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools

Aichi Prefectural Police have arrested two elementary school teachers for allegedly taking "upskirt" photos of children and sharing them through a private social media group. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/25/japan/crime-legal/teachers-arrest-photos/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #juniorhighschools #elementaryschools #children #aichi #socialmedia

Elementary school children in lower grades in Sendai are being given priority for after-school care programs, leaving many upper-grade children without a place to go. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/16/japan/after-school-care-sendai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #schools #elementaryschools #children #sendai

Cases of children running out into the street accounted for more than 30% of serious traffic accidents that killed or severely injured elementary school children in Japan, a government report said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/10/japan/traffic-white-paper/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #elementaryschools #children #trafficaccidents