396 schools in 41 prefectures not providing all required subjects
Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 07:16 EDT
TOKYO — The number of high schools that have not provided students with all compulsory subjects came to 396 in 41 prefectures, affecting more than 70,000 students, according to data compiled from reports filed through Friday by prefectural education boards.
A federation of nationwide parent-teacher associations asked the education ministry to take appropriate measures promptly to deal with the situation, while former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori called for "generous measures" for students who may not be able to graduate next March due to failure to fulfill the required subjects.
From Japan Today
As of today, more than half of the high schools in my prefecture fall into the catergory of schools that haven't followed there own curriculum. Some of it seems to be deliberate cutting of corners but in other cases the required subjects are ludicrous. Must a person need to know how to knit and cook to graduate from high school?
The fact is that this has been going on for at least 30 years, according to my wife who during her H.S. days was assigned textbook that were never used in class.
