Japanese Teachers


During swimming classes, the teacher would write things like "What is your bust size?", "I want to have sex with you", "tell me the name of the boy you like" on a golf ball and throw it in the pool.
After forcing the students to swim down to collect the balls, the teacher then made the girls write down their answers to his perverted questions and read them out aloud.
So what happened to that teacher? Nothing - he gets away scott free just by handing in his resignation. Unfortunately this is not the only case of sexual harassment in schools and can be regularly seen in the news over here.
Are there cases of harassment (sexual or otherwise) by teachers in your region?
I remember a teacher back in primary school who kept using the F word to encourage kids not to use it. She would bring the kid to the front of the class and say "Why the F*** do you keep f**king swearing?" Seemed to work as it normally left kids trembling after the experience.
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Office Monkey
Wait, the dude did that stuff and the students WENT ALONG with it? Here the kids probably would've castrated him. Though we don't have such thing as swimming classes...
student
in hk we don't relli get teachers like those although we do get teachers insulting or treating students which they don't like.
student
never heard any case of seku-hara so far here,
but my teacher in my late school is really a mother(sorry)f***ing bitch, she act like he's the boss, i'm your f***ing boss bitch! i payed you!
i moved to another school after the bitch somehow kicked me out, i choose to leave; not that i have to leave
unemployed
In 1994 at my school a male school teacher was caught harassing a male student who was unconscious and sick at the infirmary. The teacher then was forced to resign.
NEET
Every nation with some sort of an adult teaching kids professions have abuse cases. We hear the same thing in America, though obviously it's not exactly an epidemic.
NEET
@ Niemi
It's easy to talk big, but they are KIDS. Students and kids (even older students) feel intimidated by adults and especially if they are teachers, it's easy to be taken in by what they do, even if it's abusive. I hear it's a psychological conditioning of the kids. But of course, look back at the cases and it's easy to get shocked at it.
http://www.khimhoe.net
remind me bout the Gakuen Heaven manga. ^_^;;
Student & Accountant
http://nivexus.deviantart.com
Student union/council usually keeps teachers in line. And if by chance teachers go too far then they have to deal with courts. Here it's not so much a problem where teachers harass people, it's more that most of them aren't qualified enough in their subject.
Service desk support
http://lookingglass.kokidokom.net
that's a first. In the UK, the students tend to harrass the Teachers!!
Teachers do get protection from unions and the like but if they step even slightly out of line, society sides with the student, even if they are asses!!
Lackey, Sycophant
Let's see... there's a lot of malign professors about in the country. Looking at it on the brighter side, the incidents involve only people on the collegiate level.
Oh... I just want to bad mouth this:
Had a GF raped by a professor in DLSU CSB. Watch out for the bastard over there.
銀河帝国五〇一軍团 TK/TD 8316 M.E.P.D. Police Sergeant
http://gordonator.com/
students nowadays can be very rebellious and hard to handle. that's why we need teachers like 鬼冢英吉(Eikichi Onizuka). ^^
anime/cosplay events organizer
http://www.cosplay.ph
teachers here are fine and there are no abusive or perverted one (but there might be one or two but it's only a very small number)
freelance
One incident invovling a gym teacher quiting after meeting a certain underage students in his office for "extra" credit. Sad part his mother was the princible of the school damn shame.
Student
At least in my school, it's usually the students that cause the problems, not the teachers. I'd hate to be a teacher at my school, as my peers are horrible to deal with. D:
Programmer, Student
as diligent and reliable as possible, and ridiculously underpayed...
btw, I'm not a teacher, lol...
Link Cosplayer, Video Gamer, Amatuer Programmer, and Artist
http://demacrez.blogspot.com
Here in Evansville, you don't get it too much... or even often. But I remember back in Houston we would see it at least once every morning on the morning news. It was ridiculous in Texas. x.x
Student Engineer
http://www.tgwnetohh.blogspot.com/
If this happened to my daughter I would hunt the guy down and beat him.
You really don't have that over here in the USA, but it does happen that teachers do stuff like this. Instead of resignation your license is revoked.
Pedophiles deserve one place: jail. They shouldn't even exist! If I was the parent, this guy would not want to mess with me.
Teachers here are (mostly, and in my experience) reliable and honest. They tend to keep real life out of the classroom to set an example, so most of us do as well.
Plast Processing Engineer
http://jespersunivers.com/otaku/
Damn! A teacher doing that here would be public cricified, hanged, burned at the stake, shot, killed, revived, had to say sorry, pay a fine and retake his education... Then maybe killed again...
Technical Writer/Editor, Designer, Collector, Artist, Nice Guy
http://www.xjaymanx.com/toyboxx
While the reality can be pretty serious, anime and manga still manages to depict these events in a humorous light...
Not only from the teacher point-of-view (Azumanga Daioh, even Negima), but also when the 3rd-grade female student hilariously instigates the harassment (i.e. the controversial Kodomo no Jikan).... I suppose it's a matter of separating fiction from reality no matter how blurry a person may see it... ^_^;
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
When people express thier fantasies like that, especially professors that turn out to be some sort of pedophiles... There is true danger to correct!
I agree with Jesper, but putting those back to their respective places and preventively ban them from being teachers should do the trick.
I wonder if that teacher overcame the pre-admission psychology tests or if there were none.
In the last case there should be in an automatic fashion to avoid that kind of terrible issues.
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
*their
*they should be done
That guy was a sicko. And students didn't do anything for him to be kicked out from school as soon as problems appeared?
Sad, truly sad, indeed.
Gunpla Enthusiast
seriously? i thought this kind of stuff only happened in anime or manga. i can't imagine this kind of stuff happening over here without the PTA or politicians causing an uproar. the individual in question would probably be tried in court and sentenced to jail time and after he/she gets released, be ostracized from society and labeled as a child molester. but the teachers in my area are generally caring, educated, respectable human beings, although some of them can be a bit bitchy at times. still, i wonder why those kids never went to the authorities.
Anime Store Owner, artist, Web master
http://www.chucksanimeshrine.com
sad thing is that happens more than you think here in Selden... the way the Suffolk County police and law here apparently works, the guy would get a slap on the wrist and he'll be back teaching in two years. Castration by katana should be more fit.
Web Design & Development
http://www.nerdculture.org
There isn't really much in the way of perversion here. But most of the teachers are just plain stupid. It's probably not a good thing when you regularly correct your teachers on their own primary subject. >.>
student
http://animesugoi.animeblogger.net/
There hasn't been anything on the news about teacher perversion lately, just your regular pedophile on the national news. Teachers have been mentioned on the local news but only for drug trafficking.
College Student
Well I sure can participate in the poll for this post. Since, there is no 3rd option that details that the teachers are lazy, stupid and/or useless.
Yes the teachers in my city are too lazy to be perverted!
Now thats something you don't usually hear in Asia!
student
my teachers arent perverted...they just give homework like they are the only ones giving it so I end up with 5 hours of homework per night.
add that up and just for 5 days i have 25 hours of homework!
i mean seriously...is it me or is it weird for people to get homework from art?!?
Student
Normally theyre relaiable...but it all depens on the type of person they are
Aero-mechanical engineering student
that teacher is a bit weird.what was he trying to do? find out everything about his pupils so he could write more in their report cards?
BTW Danny, your posts seem to be getting weirder and weirder. Keep it up :P
NEET (no, student, AND employed min. wage)
http://otterhangar.blogspot.com/
why does that action remind me of that male teacher in Azumanga Daioh?
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
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What, they fired Kimura-sensei? :P
Jokes aside, resignation is interpreted as a far worse punishment over there.
Meaning the guy will never be a teacher again with that reputation.. believe me, stuff doesn't quite work like here in western countries.
We had a teacher being fired some months ago because she had a relationship with a student... he was 16 when it happened, I think.
Never heard about male teacher cases though. Things like that happens the mostly between priests over here. Ironic.
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Barsona - hivemind! I didn't read your post before posting mine.
Student
Teacher here are fairly reliable and responsable people. Teachers from our science department are the best (hilarious and entertaining)! XD
Analyst
Well, couldn't the minister or congressmen pass a rule to forbid those kind of things going forward?
If this happens in US, that teacher will be dunzo.
Student
that's just terrible. poor little girls. man i wonder what people think sometimes, or do they even think at all.. -_-"
4th Year Business Economics Student
And he gets away with it just by handing in his resignation? Theoratically that means that he can move to another city, change his identity and become a teacher on another school and do the same thing all over again. I don't even want to think of it that he's going to do that again. People like him should be procecuted to at least a forced therapy.
Manufacturing
http://sotbest.blogspot.com/
The school tat i studied, all the teacher are really strict! And no play play over here! But that is becoz mine is a private school not government school!
Sophist
http://www.techswe.com
Wow, in America they would get let go and sued all in one day.
Student~
lol does such teacher exit? lol... i thought they only exist in anime/ fictional stuff lol... no comment
CSU student/accountant
http://rantingsofadiehardharuhiist.blogspot.com/
I don't know if its like this all over the US, but where I live, just the rumor that a teacher has done something wrong to a student causes an uproar and usually involves an investigation and many times ends with that teacher getting fired depending on how bad it was. But I haven't heard of teachers harassing students all that often.
Critic of sorts
I think something like that happened here a few months ago, I wasn't there when it was going on but a few of my friends told me about it...Can't remember much of it though...I think I started to laugh halfway through it, probably about how it was done...Sorry for not having any details about it...
I think he went a bit far and should of gone to jail or been charged with something.
when i was in japan my fourth grade teacher was female and she was the best teacher i ever had, she was very nice and helpful, she even helped me with things outside of school. my fifth grade teacher was male and he was also very nice and helpful, but i remember him always teasing the girls, but he never did anything that the girls didn't also enjoy (not like that, pervs)
i do remember an old professor back in the university, who liked getting pecks on his cheeks from his students. we found it really weird til someone complained. i never heard of him after.
student during the day, otaku at night
Stuff like this was funny in Azumanga, but it realy sucks in real life.
Teacher, Artist, Writer
http://eatdrinkmanotaku.blogspot.com/
In Australia you would never work in the industry again so long as you live. Over here it is so intense that if you were to help a girl who had fallen over, and lifted her by her thighs (fetal scoop in arm) she could technically sue you for sexual harassment.
You need to literally say something like "now Jenny I need to help you to the infirmary, and I will need to touch you in order to carry you, it is not sexual, do you understand."
Its pretty screwed up, the media has alot of teachers really scared.
I have even had a college who was afraid to intervene between two girls fighting for fear of accused of groping them.
Grocery Store Clerk
No different than here. There are some teachers that can not get there heads out of there pants.
frustrated hikikomori + dual core persona guidance counsellor
http://karusnote.blogspot.com
Teachers here are not that bad. They can hold their pants and stop some desire stampede! lolz. But it's a human behavior, no one can stop it unless he/she goes to church/temple! Lolz. XDD
大学の学生 1st year
http://otakunaka.blogspot.com/
We had this one teacher that kept popping into other teachers classrooms so to how we were doing till finally he said someone in our year was useless in front of assembly and BANG the guy got up and punched the teacher...teachers that think they are above students just cause they are older and or smarter should stop teaching. all teachers should be like kawato from rookies.
Graphic Designer
It won't be just a slap on the wrist. In HK, no one would get off that easy.
The media would make sure that he/she gets chewed up before they let the story go.
Student
haha that teacher you used to have sounds so funny
Professional Panhandler
http://theinfernoproject.com
I think it happens everywhere in the world, it's just the amount of exposure they get through the media. If it happens here in Toronto, it'll probably be on the news for a week or two then things settle down. There's a lot of exposure to American news here as well. And I think that teacher will be chewed to pieces on Nancy Grace (on CNN) if a teacher sexually harasses their students. And it gets to the point of annoyance with Nancy Grace.
Gundam Pilot (in training)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Thebarrett
nope teachers are not like that in my area lucky for them. people like that wouldn't live long here. if they didn't get killed they would get beat down to the point they wished they were dead.
Hikikomori
http://toxxyn.blogspot.com/
Back in high school, one of the teachers was accussed of sexual harassment. He was revoked of his teaching license. Everyone believed he was innocent and it was proven that he was innocent; but the mother of the "victim" wouldn't stopped b*tching so his teaching license was revoked.
student....
http://vagabound1010.blogspot.com/
haha well in sg~although u may get punished severly by teachers who hold auhtority uncalled for~sexual harrasment is almost nill heard of in schools partially due to the laws here that protect the female sex,well~the other reason might be tat even though teachers hold an iron fist's worth of authority here~enough to slap u in the face n kick u in the arse~male students r jus lookin 4 the right oportunity to jus act up wit an excuse lik*i was jus tryin to protect her!she was being sexually harrased!!*lol
student....
http://vagabound1010.blogspot.com/
haha well in sg~although u may get punished severly by teachers who hold auhtority uncalled for~sexual harrasment is almost nill heard of in schools partially due to the laws here that protect the female sex,well~the other reason might be tat even though teachers hold an iron fist's worth of authority here~enough to slap u in the face n kick u in the arse~male students r jus lookin 4 the right oportunity to jus act up wit an excuse lik*i was jus tryin to protect her!she was being sexually harrased!!*lol
Missionary
http://suigeneris-me.blogspot.com/
in california, if the teacher sexually harasses a student they are hated by the community but the legal system takes FOREVER to hand out a sentence! Their teaching careers are ruined though, so it works out nicely! ^_^y
Designer
http://www.edenfantasys.com/
I've never heard about sexual harassments in schools in my country, but the teachers are also mainly aged and old-fashioned... Don't know whether it's good or bad, but it works.
Well some pretty crazy stuff happen here. American youth is usually less obedient so if something like this happened the students would have drowned the teacher
IT, system administrator
Milose do you know where to bye Gundam or Mecha of any kind in serbia?