Yes, I’m absolutely certain that there are aspects of the Japanese system that just wouldn’t fly here.
However, this part would be a good way to return American public schools to a shadow of what they used to be, as well as establish some behavioral expectations for students:
“The schools and the parents expect kids to behave and show great respect for their teachers. If a kid gets in trouble in school, he’s going to be in trouble when he gets home.”
Unfortunately, it looks like the concepts of American exceptionalism, strong work ethics, healthy respect for authority, respecting the founding fathers and principles of the country, and doing the right thing, have all given way to a multicultural mish-mash where every other culture on the planet is respected and embraced except for our American culture. The left successfully took over academia and we’re seeing the results all around us, not the least of which in the self-hating white people who whine and apologize about being born white.
Even if we couldn’t incorporate every aspect of the successful Japanese system, we could use at least that one part to make a difference.
Peach
To give you an idea of the respect shown teachers in Japan, a teacher is addressed by ‘sensei’ rather than the ordinary ‘san’. Teachers can never refer to themselves as ‘sensei’. Teachers who make a big impact on a student’s life might well expect little gifts of respect for the rest of their lives.
To give you an idea of discipline expected, my wife and I toured a middle school in rural Japan. All of the teachers and staff were in the language lab evaluating the language teacher’s techniques. The rest of the classes went on as normal with no adult supervision. This was a 3-story school. We’d open a door and kids would look up from their work—but they’d all been working. Doors weren’t cracked open so they could see us coming, and since we were inside we were wearing slippers rather than shoes.
Teachers and administrators work for the national government and are usually rotated out schools every five years. The local community pays for the building and equipment.
The kids do get to relax and be a bit wild at lunch time. But after lunch they spend a half hour or so cleaning the school, sweeping and moping the floors, etc. It’s one reason why the schools are tidy. But then Japan tends to be a pretty tidy place for the most part.