News Navigator: What is behind teachers' increased workload in Japan? July 19, 2022 (Mainichi Japan) Japanese version This April 9, 2020, file photo shows the staff room at a municipal elementary school in Chiba Prefecture. (Mainichi/Yuki Miyatake) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the heavy workload imposed on teachers in Japan. Question: Teachers will stop supervising extracurricular club activities on Saturdays and Sundays to cut back their long work hours. What's behind this? Answer: An education ministry survey found that in academic 2016
ブランドコピーN級品 nearly 60% of public junior high schools and over 30% of public elementary schools had teachers working more than 80 hours of overtime per month -- the threshold for determining death by overwork. About 5,000 teachers have also been taking leave due to mental illness every year. Q: Why are teachers so busy? A: The primary reasons are the increase in class time and the hours required for supervising extracurricular activities. Compared to 10 years earlier, teachers' weekly work hours increased by about four hours at elementary schools and around five hours at junior high schools, according to the 2016 survey. Following school curriculum guideline reforms, elementary schools added one or two additional course hours, and teachers have had to take more time to prepare for classes. Time spent supervising club activities on the weekend has also doubled for middle school teachers. They have also devoted time to dealing with bullying and coronavirus-related measures. Q: The teachers must be getting paid a lot
スーパーコピーブランド right? A: That is actually not the case. The law covering teachers' salaries specifies that they do not get overtime pay, except in special cases such as school trips and in the event of disaster, and are instead paid an extra 4% of their standard salary. Class preparation
ブランド財布コピー grading tests, and supervising club activities do not fall under "special cases," and teachers do not get overtime pay regardless of the hours they put in. This has been criticized as exploitation. Q: Teachers are working hard for their students, so that sounds unfair. A: The law on teachers' salaries and other conditions is based on the view that it is difficult to draw a line between their work and private life, as well as to manage their work hours, given the nature of teachers' jobs. A 2019 legal revision set an overtime maximum of 45 hours per month, including preparation for classes and club supervision. However
激安 ブランド there was no review of the fundamental problem that
新作ブランドコピー in principle, teachers are not paid overtime. Observers say that there have also been many cases where managers demand teachers underreport their hours on their timesheets. Teachers' fatigue negatively affects students as well. (Japanese original by Ai Kunimoto, Tokyo City News Department) Font Size SML Print Go to The Mainichi Home Page Related Articles Japan looks to shift operation of public junior high club activities to local communities 70% of Japan's junior high teachers crossing 'death by overwork' danger line: survey News Navigator: Why do Japanese schools have club activities? Navigate through more Japanese news Q&As
