Devan-
The way the Mito school system works (I think it's all of Japan but I'm not sure) is a teacher will stay at a school 3-6 yearsish and then be "reassigned" to another school. It's also not like back home where you say, "I want to teach 1st grade"...here it's, "I want to teach elementary school". Teachers will go from teaching 6th grade one year to teaching 4th grade the next. I'm not sure how the decision for these changes are made so we'll just call it "the powers that be". These transfers of teachers from one school in the district to another is not solely reserved for teachers either. Anybody, from the Principle to the maintenance man, can be moved.
With that, you can guess that I have some big hopes for some of my teachers to be "reassigned". Port told me not to get my hopes up. On April 1st, when we find out who gets changed, I could see myself being very dissapointed. But until then I'll keep working on my mental "hit list".
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*grin* Have fun with that. ;o)
A main difference between German and American schools is that in Germany, teachers don't have a homeroom. The class has a homeroom, and the class stays in that room most of the day (except for science classes, sports, music, and crafts kind of stuff). The teachers are the ones who move from room to room all day, carrying their briefcases and papers. Nice for the kids, probably not so nice for the teachers.
Kids move around more in the higher highschool grades, since subjects become more specialized. But even then, no teacher has his/her own room. Share and share alike, I guess. ;o)
Word verification: chlobans. "Klo" is slang for "toilet" in German. Ban the toilets? Bad idea.
A hit list is fine as long as its mental. If you start putting things on paper, the next thing you'll know you're sitting back with bright red lipstick on your lips and just absorbing the self satisfaction.
But... that is only a guess.
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