Pressured to review outdated prohibitions, an entire prefecture says goodbye to “relics of the past”.
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A coalition of students, teachers, and lawyers submitted the petition to the Japanese Ministry of Education on March 26.
Board of education asks schools to consider whether the policy is an outdated infringement on individual rights.
In a year like no other, school insists on enforcing same old dress code even while temperature in classrooms is anything but normal.
Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education continues mental gymnastics and insists that undercuts cause harmful incidents and accidents.
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Schoolgirl’s teacher says that if she doesn’t like being monitored online, she can drop out of school instead.
The rule is supposed to be for everybody, but it’s really only the girls who have to follow it.
Dress code detail is a waste of time to even discuss, frustrated junior high teacher says.
Even in a country that values following the rules, many say cutting off lines of communication following disaster is going too far.
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