School Cleaning, Daily Duties, and Shared Responsibility
How students clean classrooms, serve classmates, manage shared spaces, and perform rotating duties intended to teach cooperation, responsibility, and care for their environment.
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What kinds of jobs do students do besides cleaning?
In Japanese schools, the small jobs students do are not usually seen as helping teachers with chores. Handing out worksheets, erasing the blackboard, feeding classroom animals, or watering plants are simply part of keeping the class runn... -
Why do some classes keep plants, fish, or small animals?
In Japanese schools, some classes grow plants or keep medaka (small Japanese rice fish), goldfish, and other small animals in the classroom or elsewhere on school grounds. The purpose is not simply to make the classroom more interesting....
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