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FUCK Japanese school baseball clubs! This is gonna be a long rant so grab a coffee and strap on it.
First of all it's fucking 25-30 hours a week ON TOP OF CLASSES. Students play in the rain or train in the 6ft snow in Hokkaido and are expected to go home at 8pm, wash their...
First of all it's fucking 25-30 hours a week ON TOP OF CLASSES. Students play in the rain or train in the 6ft snow in Hokkaido and are expected to go home at 8pm, wash their...
... uniforms, write a fucking diary about what they did, stretch for 45 minutes and by that time it's around 10pm so most of them go to sleep. But what I saw today RILED ME UP BIG TIME! Students were doing sprints in the gym along with all the other clubs such as...
... badminton, basketball and table tennis. They had to improve on their times from before and had 5 chances to do so. All but one boy managed to do it and every time he failed, he beat himself up, shouted "何やってんのお前！！" to himself and was on the verge of tears. He was...
... distraught and I know the guy. I taught him last year. Funny, always raising his hand in class and always tried his best. Like today. The baseball coach came up and started fucking going MENTAL at him. A teacher to a kid. The boy was respectful at all times even though...
...he was crying his eyes out. Not just in front of his mates but the other 100 students in the hall at the time. The teacher didn't stop there. He went on and on and on and on calling him fat from his "time-off" and asking why was he so slow. The boy just stood there crying...
... bowing and apologising. I have never ever wanted to intervene so hard in my life but I didn't because I reckon I would have lost my job for even suggestion the teacher calm down a bit. Then I found out that the sprint tests were pointless anyway. There was no...
... test, no goal to reach for. It was just that he didn't reach his previous best for a high school team club WITH NO GAMES THIS YEAR ANYWAY!!! I was appalled by the way this teacher spoke to a student like that. I get that baseball is a strict and 真面目 sport in Japan...
... but you ever talk to my [eventual] kid like that and there will be problems mate. I've seen this happen to a lesser extent at two other schools as well. These students work their fucking arse off and sometimes during class just sleep because they can't fucking do these...
... 70 hour weeks. And what's the point? OK maybe one or two will go to University to play. One guy last year became a pro for the first time in this school's 60 year history. But is it worth it to get that upset to poor 16 years olds who are a second slower than before?
Rant over. I for the most part support club activities in Japan. It keeps students active and when you ask them they genuinely enjoy it. Fuck weekend shit though and every day during the holidays. Cheers for reading. Give it a share if you want and let me know your own thoughts.
