Japanese Schools Vs American Schools Essay

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Japanese and American education strive to achieve the same goals. They both try to educate children on information that helps us, but how do they compare. Maybe one Education system is better than another, maybe not.

In America Children, attend school for five out of the seven days of the week. Teachers in America are not widely respected by the populous and piers. Students In America move to different classrooms in a day and encourages experimental learning. Parent in America does not always get involved in there children's education and sometimes allow thee, children, to make poor choices. Students in America do not have usually have uniforms but do follow dress codes. The clothes students whee in The U.S.A does not reflect how serious they take the school. Students in America do have a homeroom and only have around thirty students and are not in charge fo the well being of the oom. Students IN America do have extracurricular activities and can quit whenever they want. In the U.S.A thee are only exams for college but in some states, there are for other gades. The exams in the USA do not cause the student much stress.
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Teachers in Japan are highly respected and unlike American teachers come to the children and are called sensei. Most Children in Japan attend private schools and develop bonds with their teachers and visit them. All students in Japan wear uniforms and the cleanliness of that uniform represents how serious the child is about there education. A homeroom in Japan usually consists of around forty to fifty students and spend the whole day in there and develop bonds with there classmates. Students usually join clubs and have to stay in that club all year, in Japan. In the school system in Japan, there are many exams that determine a students life so students prepare their whole life for it and it makes the students extremely

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