Tokyo nursery teacher arrested for assault after strongly pulling child’s hair

Labor shortage with low pay create really serious problem now in Japan. Japan now have unqualified people working in the wrong place.

In the 1970's 95% of teachers would have been arrested if stricter laws existed then. or they did but were ignored.

Labor shortage with low pay create really serious problem now in Japan. Japan now have unqualified people working in the wrong place.

Ok drama queen..

I wonder why she was irritated?

"labour shortage " yes, places employ people straight up, no checking, no need for any training or employment history.

"Low pay " as a reason...no...most Japanese at the lower end are on low pay...they dont pull your hair at the Combini, for example.

Insitute training for this job, recognise it as a socially important role, vet applicants and check employment history, have a mentor work with the newcomer for three months, newcomer on a probationary period , and advise all employees that poor behavior means dismissal and serious behavior lapses means police involvement .

Needed to be said...twice

"labour shortage " yes, places employ people straight up, no checking, no need for any training or employment history.

You get what you allow.

Considering the wages they offer, it's also fair to say you get what you pay for.

Seira Sakuma is accused of pulling the boy’s hair so hard that he bent backward. She then violently pulled his hand to force him to stand up. Sakuma is also suspected of kicking the boy

Reason #99423 I will never entrust my own child to any stranger ever, at least not until he's fully able to understand things and speak out about his day.

Even as a parent of the most well-behaved kid there are instances you have no other way but to pull your kid's ear, or grab him by the arm when he refuses to do something that needs to be done now, you do this with your heart aching.

Now imagine a total stranger taking care of a stubborn kid that doesnt mean anything to him.

Now imagine if this stranger has psychological problems or is stressed out and is looking to take it out on someone.

Now imagine the 100 other possibilities. No way!

I try not to be judgemental but I feel sorry for parents leaving their toddlers as young as 3 months old at the hands of total strangers so "both can work".

Mind boggling and just sad.

This person sounds completely unsuited to looking after kids. I doubt you can remedy that by "training".

Note that the skills required to be a good nursery school teacher are in demand is basically all customer-facing jobs. I would not assume there is an infinite pool of suitable people out there who can do this job well, for the wages and status given to this nursery school teachers. Smartphones, instant gratification shopping, etc. ruin attention spans and make us more impatient. This means hoikuens are looking at recruiting from a smaller pool of people (Japan's demographics) who are likely to have less patience than previous generations.

What a loser.

I try not to be judgemental but I feel sorry for parents leaving their toddlers as young as 3 months old at the hands of total strangers so "both can work".

Society should fund parental leave as much as it subsidizes childcare.

Japanese society should move more towards a flexible job market. Women should not have to use childcare from a young age because the seishain job they got aged 22 is likely to be the only decently paid seishain job they can get ever get. This inflexible job market also encourages worker mistreatment and mental health problems. Anyone stressed from working should leave, go on holiday for a while, and then reassess their situation. As things stand, this likely means joining another company on the lowest rung and with breadcrumbs as probationary wages.

Imagining being so screwed up that you would do this kind of thing on camera

sakurasukiToday  07:29 am JST

Labor shortage with low pay create really serious problem now in Japan. Japan now have unqualified people working in the wrong place.

There is very little regulation for child care in Japan.

There is no official training requirement or background or character checks and there is also no reference system in Japan.

These stories of physical and verbal abuse toward students persist.

So I wonder - are all these stories about isolated cases of dinosaur teachers who can't evolve toward modern thinking about treatment of students? Or is there a wider culture in schools that allows it?

A friend recently worked as an ALT in a more rural prefecture, and he said that the teaching staff was quite strict about the rules for themselves, and very much had attitudes of what you can and can't do/say to students in line with Western countries' attitudes. And yet...

She should never be allowed to work with children again. Reminds me, in another era, as a JET, I saw a gym teacher slapping a jr high school girl in the teacher's room. Was told her mother had requested the 'guidance' because the girl bought cakes on the way home from school.

I wonder, are all these stories about dinosaur teachers…

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 26 year old woman

Slapped by teacher for buying cakes on the way home

I’ll file this under JET urban myth

I’ll file this under JET urban myth

File it wherever you like, -- it wasn't an isolated case in that prefecture.

I wonder, are all these stories about dinosaur teachers…

Geeter Mckluskie: Police in Tokyo have arrested a 26 year old woman

A lot of people (myself included, sometimes) think "This is how it was when I was young, so this is how it needs to be for the next generation, too."

So, dinosaur ideas can exist among younger adults, too.

It doesn’t help that most nursery “teachers” aren’t actually teachers and are in actuality Haken workers employed by outsourcing agencies who will hire anybody who will accept 180,000 yen a month no questions asked.

I've worked in a lot of kindergartens and hoikuens in my 30 years in japan.80% of teachers have been wonderful.20% have been stressed out borderline psychopaths who seem to enjoy humiliating children.

Even one present job, one woman is shocking.

I've told her, when I'm in the class teaching, she needs to be elsewhere. She's not allowed in the room. The kids are so scared about getting scolded by her they are afraid to talk.

She's been doing that for over 12 years. Just shocking.

Of course when parents are around and graduation time she's all emotional about how much the children mean to her.

File it wherever you like, -- it wasn't an isolated case in that prefecture.

Unless you have a news source for those other cases...as well as this one. I'll file it under JET urban myths

So, dinosaur ideas can exist among younger adults, too.

I read "dinosaur teachers", not "ideas". Was I wrong?