Comments on: 12-Year-Old Girl in Suicide: “I Hadn’t Finished My Homework”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:30:30 +0000

This is why we can't have nice things...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:15:47 +0000

I'm not so sure this was even an attempted suicide. 7 meters isn't exactly "suicide height". That's more like "break your leg so you don't have to go to school height".

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:44:52 +0000

You got rewards for good grades? Lucky. I got punished (sometimes mental abuse, sometimes physical - but never anything that would leave too many marks because they didn't want the government to get involved) if I didn't get great grades. If I got so good grades I got one or two questions wrong on a test (the kind of test that would have 20+ points), that meant I got punished too, just not physically. After all, if I got so close to getting all the points, that meant I just needed to have studied harder and that I had been a lazy ungrateful child.
Rewards for good grades... AND an allowance. Did you even have to contribute with a significant amount of household chores, and take care of younger siblings? You had it so good.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:31:55 +0000

Suicide is cowardly most of the time. Doesn't mean it can't make sense though. If someone's in a lot of (emotional or physical) pain and see no end to it, sometimes it's better (for the individual) to end it. Most of the time it is the worse option they could have taken when considering their friends and family as well in the equation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:24:59 +0000

Yeah. I've sort of been in her shoes, only I was lucky and my busy workaholic perfectionist parents didn't have the patience to notice that there was homework to inspect and punish me for not doing perfectly the first time I did it, if they didn't see me doing any. Which lead to me ceasing to do almost all homework after a few years of school. Fucked me over royally, especially since some of the trauma of having someone be in the same room as me was still present when I was in university, leading to me having to drop out. Cutting my parents out of my life has done wonders for me, a pity this girl will never have the chance to cut whatever was hurting her out of her life. I tried killing myself at the same age as her, I was trying to do it in a way that wouldn't bother other people since I was already "such a horrible bother". Failed in spite of all my planning (unexpected turn of events) and a proper lack of suicide note (seemed to me when I was at that age like it mainly is a thing for attention whores who weren't really committed to trying, or just wanted to emotionally blackmail from the grave), went into even more depression though first I made sure to cover up any tracks of having tried in the first place, otherwise I would just have gotten even more punished. Then I spent a year being stuck in deep apathy. Hm, rambling. Oh well, as long as it might help others see how these things can happen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:36:05 +0000

could be but not at that age.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:25:55 +0000

it doesnt happen in sweden though. here it is mainly political indoctrination and sex education in schools.

stuff people need to learn are not as important it seem and they always change in the school system or experiment with it -which has led to the school getting worse and worse...

But i guess they want braindead slaves.

btw
some schools even banned homeworks -to make it "equal"(Rich and poor) for everyone because some parents doesnt have time to help their children with it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:19:20 +0000

Agreed, Anonymous 21:38. My parents realized real quickly that homework was busywork and told the teachers "No homework. If he gets stuck on something at home, we have no way to help him unless we are lucky enough to remember stuff from classes we took 20 years ago!"

Homework is just another codename for busywork that teachers lump on children in order to keep them from playing as children do at home.

When I had kids, I told the teachers flat out when they complained about my children not doing homework "Hey, that shit is busywork! You try to penalize them for not doing it, expect a lawsuit against the school!"

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:21:32 +0000

This shows how some countries are putting too much pressure on children to 'excel' in school. My parents were much more reasonable, saying that as long as I got C's they would be happy.

There were some classes where I wanted to excel because I liked the class like gym, science, etc. but for most classes I just tried to keep a C average.

Median is enough for 99.9% of things in the world, unless median means a much increased risk of someone dying.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:10:05 +0000

hahahaa you got that right ;p

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:54:00 +0000

I miss the time when teachers were like Confucius...now teachers just confuse us.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:35:07 +0000

The future of Japan isn't looking too bright.
Between the declining birthrates and youth suicide, and the fact that survivors have to deal with bullying and molestation rates higher than the police will admit (although not as high as we exaggerate), what is the next generation going to be like in a few years?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 08:34:22 +0000

The pressure studying environment in Japan sure is high

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:38:59 +0000

Well she doesn't have to finish her home work now! Those secret classes the girls get in all countries that about age, what 1st grade level?, that tells them they are super secret aliens that are shape shifters and they are not to shape shift with male-things-beings of this planet because they are only here to observe them, take notes and destroy as many of their lives as they can class instruction is probably responsible.

By: Λ-chan

Λ-chan — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:57:18 +0000

To quote uncle Buck though I'm changing the age in the quote. But six or twelve it's the same BS for kids in Japan. "I don't think I want to know a 12 year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously."

By: Λ-chan

Λ-chan — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:52:21 +0000

The only pressure I had when I was 12 was I would get a reward if I got good grades.
If I got a bad grade no reward and they might withhold my allowance except for lunch money.
No money for toys,candy etc.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:51:12 +0000

By God, there are people who still fall for that?
The police are hiding again the motive!
Surely there must be a case of bullying or sexually molested.
Just kill yourself for so little, a homework?
Meanwhile the government cares about tattooed people and exaggerated fashion!
And bullying is treated as a national sport ..

By: Λ-chan

Λ-chan — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:43:33 +0000

Not many good things one can say about the Japanese school system except you should consider yourself fortunate it's not in your country.
But really there is something very wrong here.
Japan has not produced many Burt Rutan, Bill Gates,Thomas Edison, or Elon Musk types but considering it's economy it should have.
Why doesn't Japan have stories of garage startups like Apple making it big and beating the establishment or of startups who pushed the envelope and bucked the trends like Spacex?
I think it's because if you don't fit in they make you conform the only outlet for such people in Japan seems to be the video game and Anime industries.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:18:38 +0000

america is a country based on bullying. you got most of your resources from bullying other countries so how could you american foreigners understand a person who has been bullied when your culture is steeped in bullying???

By: shiroki

shiroki — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:17:05 +0000

Fugly teacher: "Guess where this penis will go if any of you did not finish your homework over this summer break"

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:44:32 +0000

:high expectationsasian father: Well, im disappointed. /Rageout

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:27:32 +0000

Or for those people who don't actually need it, homework is just forced labor, which if you refuse to do can result in failure of the entire class. You learned the material, but because you didn't do the extra work the children who actually need it did, you fail. Thankfully my teachers figured that fact out and passed me along my classed with a D- because they saw my tests coming back with A grades despite never turning in a homework assignment. The bottom line is, it's an antiquated system that desperately needs revision, and should not be allowed to count for enough to auto-fail a student that doesn't do it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:49:45 +0000

In North America, grade school is really easy, and then university is like a sledgehammer to the face. In Japan, grade school is the difficulty level of NA University (for each grade's age) and University is a breeze. University is Japan is pretty much for you to get in so you can learn a little, then use the university's name to get a job.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 01:31:43 +0000

I can understand how they can be strict but don't leave them hanging like they are supposed to do it all by themselves. Proven in my college that study groups work.