My second years are on their school trip and third years are going to see the Lion King musical today and you know

For all the crap Japan gets about their curriculum I do think this is something they do right

Stuff like sports festival and the cultural festival too

It's really nice that even my poor ass board of education with my not so highly academic students still get opportunities that are a break from just the regular school grind

The first years get to do a camping trip in the summer too

And every year my students get to do two weeks of skiing in February

Like it's one of the longer school years in the world but they spend a lot of time on not strictly lessons and that's something I feel like no one talks about with Japan. Whether praising or criticism

But it's absolutely something I think should be taken away

Like taken in a good way. Borrowed bleh

Because on to of being good experiences for kids

It's also really good for fostering their relationships with each other when done right

they get a lot of good exposure...

that sounds like a lot of nice activities I'd have loved to do as a kid

but even just organizing a ski trip was a mountain of organizing