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" Is that a bad thing, however? I think a lot of US schools could benefit if the students had to help clean them. For one thing, people are a lot less eager to trash a place if they know the next afternoon they'll just have to clean it again.Our own district has no school busses. At least in Japan, I understand, the kids can take mass transit to school.

I don't think it is a bad thing that they have to clean the entire school inside and outside , but every day ? The school also volunteers their services to pick up trash around town on weekends , clean roadside curb mirrors , etc ...With club activities on weekends too they hardly ever see their families ! The school becomes the parent . When they grow up the government takes over !

In my town , JHS kids who live more than 4 miles from the school MUST stay in a dormitory from M-F . When they go to HS , most will leave town to go to school in Kumamoto City or elsewhere because that is where the better schools are . So , you've basically got kids leaving home at 12 years old !!! Is this good ? Would Americans go for this ?

I have always figured that the US could use Japanese-style discipline at school. Having to clean to the school each day will certainly teach them to respect it, and I can think of worse places than school for the center of a kid's social life... like malls.

But I certainly wouldn't go for enforced boarding schools at the age of 12!