Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Sexual Harassment Dice?

Recently, Japan has been a bit silent on the odd news section and the media has been dominated by politics, bear invasions and Chinese Japan bashing, but now some quite entertaining news have emerged.

Apparently an elementary school teacher in Saitama went creative when it came to keeping control of the kids in his class and put to use a device smartly called "The Sexual Harassment Dice" which came into use when kids were misbehaving. (see here in Japanese). To be completely fair, the whole deal seems quite harmless as the actions written on the sides of the dice hardly by any definition could be considered sexual (among the "worst" was "hug" and "kiss on the cheek"). But the media has picked up on this and one news show showed a giant sized replicate of the dice used to illustrate more in detail. The purpose seemed to be to, in a good nature, discourage misbehavior by having it thrown when someone had done something to disrupt the lessons and have minor innocent, but embarrasing for kids, actions on it.

What I find most entertaining/puzzling though is how any teacher of young children can think it's a good idea to call this little device "The Sexual Harassment Dice", if it had been called, say "Misbehavior Dice" or something like that, my guess is that no one would be picking up on it and he could have happily used it to the days of retirement...

5 comments:

franchiseplaya said...

>if it had been called, say "Misbehavior Dice" or something like that, my guess is that no one would be picking up on it and he could have happily used it to the days of retirement.

Well I don't know about that. There was a mention of a naguri-bo and sniffing the shoes of elementary school kids on today's Sukkiri!!. The guy is despicable even for Japanese teacher standards I'd say.

Martin said...

I would blame the sexy japanese school girl outfits.

By the way, who was kissing and hugging and sniffing who?

Teacher - sexy school girl?
Sexy school girl - sexy school girl?

Maby they will make a movie about this...

Blue Shoe said...

There are tons of them out there already, Martin, though they're hardly respectable films.

Mr. Salaryman said...

Franchise - Well, I dunno about you, but "Sexual Harrassment Dice" conjures up some more freaky stuff than shoe sniffing and hugs, like; "Put hand in teacher's pocket" etc....

Martin - Well, I think we will have to wait for the movie or wait and see if Blue can hook us up

Anonymous said...

Using dice is a cute idea. He must be a cool teacher.

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