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By DAVID SMITH
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
(Editor’s Note: Daind Smith is principal at RCES and accompanied the i-H members during part of their trip to Japan.)
While I was in Japan I tried to learn about the Japanese school system since my profession is a school adminstrator and educator. My host father was vice-principal at a middle school. I visited kindergarden, elementary, middle and high schools.
Sijjce school was still in session, it was interesting to visit the elementary school and compare and contrast with what we doiiere.
Students are taught a national curriculm and assessed by national standards, i.e. every student takes the same exam at the end of the term before moving on to the next grade.
I visited classes in grades 1, 2, 1, 4 and 6 music, art and home economics (grade 6). Students also tend gardens. They have chickens and rabbits to care for. There is a fish pond and large swimming pool. All students are taught to swim in all grades. Pool and playground are used summers and evenings by the community. Playground is dirt, no grass-raked often for leveling.
Students wear uniforms to school and bring athletic wear and swimsuits to change into for
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