Elementary Nightmares

[Taro Toporific]

I know most principal are weird, SA but this really ain't a very educational version of "Hangman"...

Principal hangs self outside own school
ONOMICHI, Hiroshima -- The principal of an elementary school was found dead here after apparently committing suicide because he had trouble running the school his way, police said. The 56-year-old principal, Kazuhiro Keitoku, was found hanging from a rope attached to the guardrail of an emergency exit outside the grounds of Takasu Elementary School in Onomichi shortly after 1 p.m. on Sunday. ...

[Taro Toporific]

Yikes! Is it another principal Hiroshima?!?

School principal's suicide over flag, anthem judged as work-related
Crisscross / Friday, August 18, 2006 at 07:05 EDT
HIROSHIMA ---The 1999 suicide of a high school principal in Hiroshima Prefecture over an ideological dispute linked to the national flag and anthem has been recognized as a work-related death by a public compensation fund, the prefectural education board said Thursday. The Fund for Local Government Employees' Accident Compensation judged that the then head of Sera Prefectural Senior High School was driven to suicide by the pressures of his job...more....

[kurohinge1]

. . . School principal's suicide over flag, anthem judged as work-related
Crisscross / Friday, August 18, 2006 at 07:05 EDT
HIROSHIMA ---The 1999 suicide of a high school principal in Hiroshima Prefecture over an ideological dispute linked to the national flag and anthem has been recognized as a work-related death by a public compensation fund, the prefectural education board said Thursday. The Fund for Local Government Employees' Accident Compensation judged that the then head of Sera Prefectural Senior High School was driven to suicide by the pressures of his job...more....

I wonder if this principle will be limited to principals?

However, after listening to the midi file of their school song (here), I can understand why he killed himself. Once was more than enough - imagine hearing that EVERY DAY . . .

[Big Booger]

Does this sort of shit happen in any other country besides Japan? I mean, growing up in the US, I never heard of any teacher committing suicide over work... not to say that it never happened, but I never heard about it. But here this sort of shit happens on a regular basis.

Why do those in charge commit suicide over business or occupational matters? I don't get it...