12/26 (Thu) 22:35 Patrick Harlan (54), aka Pakkun from the comedy duo “Pakkun Makkun,” appeared live on Abema’s “Abema Prime” (Monday to Friday 9:00 p.m.) on the 26th and commented on the record high number of students not attending elementary and junior high school. The program covered the “Survey on Problem Behavior and School Absence” published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The number of students absent from school in elementary and junior high schools nationwide in 2011 – those who were absent for 30 days or more – increased by 47,434 (15.7%) from the previous year to 346,482, the highest number ever recorded. Regarding this matter, Pakkun simply said, “I’m quite concerned.” On this day, YouTuber Yutabon appeared as a guest and said, “If everyone could become a ‘genius YouTuber’ like Yutabon, the future of Japan would be bright. But, probability wise, I think it’s good that there’s one in 100 people who have it,” he says. “I tell my children, ‘If it’s too hard for you, you don’t have to go,’ but while there are few things you can’t do once you graduate from high school, there are heaps of things you can’t do unless you graduate. “I think you should continue going to school to keep your options open,” he said.
>>16 Pakkun doesn’t want to go back to America with Trump as president. The day after the election, he said, “Trump was going to win anyway. I was acting tough and saying ‘yes, yes, yes,’ but he really won and I can’t recover.”
Japan will become a place where foreigners who have never learned the most basic rules of society and cannot even read or write Japanese can work and live easily, so there’s no need for them to go to school.
In Japan, the number of suicides among minors due to poverty is on the rise, and of course no one, not even the bureaucrats or politicians, takes responsibility.
Mom: “In The Pillow Book, there’s a line about the mountainside gradually turning white.” Dad: “What does gradually turn white?” M: “It means it’s gradually turning white.” Dad: “Michael Jackson?” M: “No way!” A joke that made me laugh on a TV show I once watched, Pakkun Makkun I still remember this joke every time I watch The Pillow Book.
There was an article about what happens when these kids who don’t go to school are pampered and not allowed to go. They run away from their parents and produce a lot of spoiled kids who never had a steady job even though they’re almost 40. They’re no good as people because they just run away from everything that happens. After all, it’s better for them to go to school even if they get a little scolded, because it will be better for their life later on.
>>48 It’s not good to generalize it as school refusal The reasons vary widely If there is a specific bully and they can’t get rid of him The only thing the parents can do is to transfer their child to another school, but if they’re just letting their child refuse to go to school, then the parents are negligent If the child is sick, the only thing they can do is take them to the hospital or drive them to school, but if they don’t do that and let the child refuse to go to school, then the parents are negligent In other words, I think it’s the parents who are negligent, rather than the child not refusing to go to school.
>>48 I dropped out of high school because I didn’t go to school, but I passed the university entrance exam, graduated from university, and am now working as a salaryman. I have a wife and kids. You don’t have to go, but it’s definitely better to get a college degree.
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