Typhoon editorial follow up

[Logan5@laser98.com]

please see below

[Logan5]

I'll add another layer to the messed up work system here at many schools -

Where I live in Shimane ken, we did get a severe typhoon warning, so on Monday of last week they cancelled school for the next TWO days - something they have never done before while I've been here.
BUT....

even tho the kids would not be coming to school on Tuesday and Wednesday, thus rendering me of almost no use this early in the new term, all the teachers, including me, still had to come to work like normal.

This happened a few times my first year - bad storm or snow coming - they send the kids home, but us teachers have to stay until 5pm or the planets will fall out of alignment and the world will explode.
And the added frustration was I was on a bicycle or scooter my first year here, so no cozy ride home for me - but they still made me stay every time.

So I had to go in last Tues and Wed and study Japanese or surf the net or read - they don't particularly seem to care if I'm working as they know I have NOTHING to do, but i still have to drag my ass to work.

messed up!

-JCH

[JazzieB]

I'm in Gifu-ken and my situation was the same. No students but all teachers must be at school. I have to be in school in all types of weather. Luckily I've bought myself a car even though it's my first year.

J:D

[RDClip]

So the students' lives are precious, but the teachers' are expendable?

[Pierrot le Fou]

Originally, only the Vice-Principal (Kyoto-sensei) was forced to come in to work, to make sure that if any kids came in they would be sent right home. However, due to the fact that Kyoto-senseis are assholes, they decided that it wasn't fair they should man the school alone, and commanded the masses to join them in their misery.

You're getting paid for not teaching. Stop whining.

[kyaa the catlord]

Are the head principals called Edo(or Tokyo)-sensei? :P

[JazzieB]

Principals are called Kocho-sensei

J:D

[Dana]

haha my schools mostly treat me like a kid, so I am not complaining. If it starts raining they send me home if I have no more classes because they all know i only have a scooter. That big-ish typhoon that passed through Japan in the end of August prompted a school cancelation and I got sent home with the kids, even though the teachers stayed.

[Jess]

I never got a typhoon in my 2 years. Lucky dogs, getting typhoons.