I live in the Czech republic and it's the same here. Kids clean their school and classroom. There's almost no vandalism because the kids feel ownership of their school. It's _their_ school, not just some state institution.
Should children clean their own schools? Japan thinks so
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#52I used to study in a small school in a village with 30 students. we used to do the all the work there play with teachers and many other fun stuff. sometimes when i think about that time i feel really sad about how my life has changed.
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> And because they're a lower social class they somehow deserve the mess you make. At my high school, we graduated with quite a bit of money left in our "class account." There'd just been a tiny statue to the school chairman, who almost none of us knew, built. We decided we wanted to spend our remaining funds on getting a larger statue built for the groundskeeper, Otis. Teachers and student government were pressured…
> we were in the right It's not clear which side that was?
Statue for the groundskeeper!
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#54Japanese pop-psychology is funny. Japanese martial arts are all about "learning respect" and children cleaning up their messes is about learning to "respect your surroundings". But what's really happening here is people are gaining agency. In the US, most people seem to believe that they have no control over their environment, so it's fine to litter, for instance, because it's "someone else's job" to clean it up. The…
> an effect you see in the US and European countries is a sense that cleaning up your own messes is low-class At least in the US, I don't think that's the case at all. A lot of people from other countries are genuinely shocked, for example, that "rich Americans" pick up their own dog's poop. Or even bus their own tray in a cafeteria. There are a lot of countries where it's normal to have a maid, for example, where ti…
It's the lowest of the classes in the US that is the worst about being trashy and not cleaning up after themselves.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
A little bit more detail is needed to understand the question. I find it hard to believe you are unaware that people burn trash.
I've never seen anyone burn domestic trash. Like in their back garden or something? Is that a thing?
Yes, though it’s generally banned in populated areas. Often where there are no city trash services.
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#56I went to a one-room schoolhouse in the US. Every month or so, we would have a school meeting where kids were elected to do various jobs like sweeping the room, taking out and burning the trash, washing the blackboards, cleaning erasers, pumping and bringing in water, etc.
Burning the trash?
The trash was mainly wastepaper, lunch bags, waxed paper and possibly a few food scraps such as apple cores, orange rinds, etc. from lunches each student brought. There would have been minimal plastic or aluminum packaging at the time. One of the older students would bring the wastebasket to a 50-gallon drum well away from the school building and light the contents with ordinary kitchen matches. It was a rural area, and that was how farm families disposed of combustible waste.
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Can you link the source? I've never heard before that the average rate was much higher then the average rate in the US.
The bullet train is obviously an exception .. or is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt92-ZDm-HM Cleaned end to end in seven minutes at every turn around. https://www.japanlivingguide.com/living-in-japan/culture/jap... How Japanese Clean Train Stations & Public Toilets https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BM2I1OrGAvM
Rate of cleanings per day is not the same as the duration of each cleaning(s)?
How does this reveal information about the average rate per day?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bullet train is obviously an exception .. or is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt92-ZDm-HM Cleaned end to end in seven minutes at every turn around. https://www.japanlivingguide.com/living-in-japan/culture/jap... How Japanese Clean Train Stations & Public Toilets https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BM2I1OrGAvM
Rate of cleanings per day is not the same as the duration of each cleaning(s)? How does this reveal information about the average rate per day?
How often does the bullet train turn about - the article and video both claim this is down at each end of line stop prior to turn about.
What infomation does the longer general video expose about Japans cleaning corp that you can look up to obtain general schedules?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rate of cleanings per day is not the same as the duration of each cleaning(s)? How does this reveal information about the average rate per day?
How often does the bullet train turn about - the article and video both claim this is down at each end of line stop prior to turn about. What infomation does the longer general video expose about Japans cleaning corp that you can look up to obtain general schedules?
I don't know, hence why I am asking you, the person who posted the links to these videos.