TOKYO, Nov 01 (News On Japan) –
The variety of elementary and junior highschool college students in Japan who’re categorized as “chronically absent” has reached a file excessive of about 350,000, in keeping with the Ministry of Education’s newest survey.
Each yr, the Ministry of Education surveys elementary, junior excessive, excessive colleges, and particular schooling colleges nationwide on points resembling power absenteeism and bullying. The outcomes for the final fiscal yr have been launched on October 31.
The survey revealed that the variety of elementary and junior excessive college students in a state of power absenteeism elevated by about 47,000 from the earlier yr, totaling 346,482 college students. This marks the eleventh consecutive yr of enhance and a file excessive.
At the highschool degree, the quantity additionally rose by about 8,000, reaching a file 68,770 college students.
The Ministry of Education attributes this enhance partly to a rising understanding amongst mother and father, lots of whom not really feel compelled to power their kids to attend college.
In addition, the variety of bullying circumstances acknowledged in elementary, junior excessive, and excessive colleges reached a file 732,568 circumstances.
There have been additionally 1,306 extreme bullying incidents categorized as “serious cases” that might result in power absenteeism or suicide, the best quantity recorded. In about 40% of those circumstances, colleges had not acknowledged the incidents as bullying till they have been formally recognized as critical circumstances.
Source: ANN