TOKYO, Nov 01 (Information On Japan) –
The variety of elementary and junior highschool college students in Japan who’re labeled as “chronically absent” has reached a file excessive of about 350,000, in accordance with the Ministry of Training’s newest survey.
Annually, the Ministry of Training surveys elementary, junior excessive, excessive colleges, and particular schooling colleges nationwide on points similar to persistent absenteeism and bullying. The outcomes for the final fiscal yr had been launched on October 31.
The survey revealed that the variety of elementary and junior excessive college students in a state of persistent 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 Training attributes this enhance partly to a rising understanding amongst mother and father, a lot of whom now not really feel compelled to power their kids to attend faculty.
As well as, 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 labeled as “critical circumstances” that might result in persistent absenteeism or suicide, the very best quantity recorded. In about 40% of those circumstances, colleges had not acknowledged the incidents as bullying till they had been formally recognized as critical circumstances.
Supply: ANN
