CultureEducationEssayJapanese traditionUncorrected

Classroom Cleaning

  • Today, I’d like to introduce a custom of Japanese schools.

    教室の掃除


    Japanese schools (except university/college) usually don’t hire a cleaning staff, students clean their classrooms and equipment.
    今日は、日本の学校における習慣を紹介します。

    In most cases, all students are separated into several groups, and each group cleans a classroom, a hallway, a toilet, or a schoolyard, respectively, everyday.
    日本の学校(大学を除く)は通常清掃員を雇っておらず、生徒たちが教室や設備の掃除をします。

    If you search for “Japan school cleaning” on Google Images, you will find the scenes (which are so nostalgic for me…).
    大抵の場合、幾つかのグループに分かれて、教室・廊下・トイレ・校庭などを分担してクラス全員で毎日掃除します。

    For these reasons, I think we would become to use public facilities carefully so as not to blemish them.
    「日本 学校 掃除」などで画像検索すると、その様子を見ることができます(懐かしい・・・)。

    By the way, in most Japanese elementary/junior high/high schools, we change into indoor shoes when we enter the school buildings.
    このような理由から、私たちは自然と公共の設備も綺麗に使うようになるのだと思います。

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