Board of education issues apology to children for emotional damage over their teacher having a part-time job.
It’s hard not to have a sinking feeling when you hear about a middle school teacher being reprimanded for inappropriate behavior.
Or perhaps it’s a case of physical abuse, with a teacher taking out their frustrations on their pupils by smacking them around following perceived disrespect.
Finding out that the incident that landed the teacher in trouble took place in a convenience store is slightly reassuring, but really only a little.
However, none of those scenarios are what transpired earlier this month when a middle school teacher in Okayama Prefecture was spotted in a convenience store doing something inexcusable in the eyes of school administrators: working.
To clarify, the man wasn’t ditching the classes he was supposed to be teaching in order to go work at the store.
No, the problem was that the man was doing any sort of work at all besides his regular teaching job at the school. »