Japan home to 541,000 young recluses

Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by teekert on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:35AM (#12450992)

It also doesn't help that I see that from ages of 10 and up or so, kids come home from school to do homework every day, instead of going out with friends into the summer sun for a nice carefree afternoon of playing soccer (or whatever). Homework is a killingly stupid idea in my mind. I was smart enough to hardly ever having to do it after school when I was young but I highly doubt that I could manage without doing it in the current system (I did school in the Netherlands by the way.)

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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by sdrothrock on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:38AM (#12451007)

Participation in club activities (sports or otherwise) is basically mandatory in junior and senior high school.

Elementary kids often do go straight home and then play with friends or waste time, but once you're in junior high, you're basically considered a young adult and expected to have responsibilities.

Many clubs will take up MORE time than homework, with the sports clubs often having an hour or two of practice before school with the same again after school, plus most of Saturday and sometimes half of Sunday.

Generally when students get together, the last thing they want to do is play sports since they're doing that pretty much every day of the week!

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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by teekert on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:43AM (#12451032)

Anything mandatory outside of the pretty long school hours we already have seems like a bad idea to me. Making sport mandatory, ugh, what a perfect way to get kids to dislike it as early on in life as possible.

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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by sdrothrock on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:44AM (#12451043)

School hours aren't that long here; they're shorter than mine were in the US!

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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by paulryanrogers on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:46PM (#12455267)

> Participation in club activities (sports or otherwise) is basically mandatory in junior and senior high school.

Not in my experience. For some parents and communities maybe, but certainly not all.

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Re:Japan home to 541,000 young recluses by timwaagh on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:20AM (#12451962)

yeah homework pressure in the dutch secondary education system is high at the higher levels. on top of that kids learn very few useful skills. it needs to change and every politician tries but then everything gets watered down because of politics. sweet irony.

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