Japanese cram schools

Parents are afraid of not sending their child to cram schools because, they are afraid that they might get second rate jobs in the future (second rate means a job that doesn’t give a sufficient amount of money. Parents have their children in cram schools at early age because of paranoia.

            A teacher said that the cram schools are clever and very good in appealing kids. Also, three year olds need to learn how to swing in seesaws. These children are like half babies, half adult. They know many complex things we don’t know. They can also do more complex activities that kids that are older than them can’t do neither.

Japanese students are getting into cram schools every year earlier and earlier of age.  Children are now starting to apply for cram schools at even 2 years old! Ate even an age of three children and families begin cram school and exams to determinate if they can retire from a very good job sixty years later. Getting into a good preschool or kindergarten counts a lot towards what will happen to you in the future for example: getting into a university that you want to get into. To get into a good university, you have to get into a good high school. To get into a good high school, you must study at a good elementary school for example: Yochisha.

            In order to be a real Japanese child, you need to learn how to; put colored chips in sequences, take achievement tests, walk on balance, etc. They need to learn all that before they are four years old! Also the salary they have in their jobs in the future when their in their thirty’s or forty’s to if they went to a cram school or not. If they did they get paid more in their salary.

Even a mother has been bringing her one year old daughter everyday to cram school. She said, “I want to do the best I can as a parent to give my child opportunities. In one cram school the first ninety minutes of class is used to, improve your IQ. If you’re inside of a cram school, everyday you need to take an entrance exam (up to fifteen minutes). An entrance exam is an exam you have to take every day you show up in school in the beginning of class before class begins.    

            The headmaster of Yochisha School said that the preparation of day exams every day makes everyone turn into rivals so then they can make fun of their failure. They also mentioned that cram Schools best and brightest students often end up as working and, being a part of the government or, being people who are important in corporations that end up speaking three languages.  

Another reason they want good educations and children in cram schools in Japan is because, they want to be creative and “intelligent” as the kids are in America. Negative things that come to that is that, children schedules are always packed when they are in cram schools. That is negative because it makes children more tired (as some replied) as in the exact time that they are in school.

            They said students that are more mechanical thinkers often become trained seals or soldiers in the army. Even if you want to be a seal in Japan you need to go to a cram school that teaches those mechanics and other stuff related to that. Each year the students are becoming more physical and surprisingly smart in many astonishing ways.

A mother applied her three year old daughter to gym class and already there she learned how to, jump rope, bounce a ball one-hundred times, run backwards and run in circles and also jump on a mat. Also, a professor at Tokyo university said that, there is no positive effect from cram schools and the exams that they give and that, it would be better for both Japanese child and, society if they didn’t have them in those schools.

            Other experts say that cram school is good and it helps your child but, they say that cram schools would end up taking your child’s ability to think independently away. Most cram schools pay the parents nine thousand dollars a year because of the two and a half hours of instruction every week. Parents also call this, “examination hell” because of the so many exams that they give.   

Famine in africa

 Famine means hunger and too much hunger means death. This is related to the sixteen thousand children that die a day because of hunger related reasons. That means that one child dies every five seconds. The UN says that now in these days, twenty-six-thousand children die daily…ten thousand more than the normal average. It was recorded that in 2004 an average of almost one billion people earned less than one dollar a day. That’s under the international poverty line. In the modern world 27 percent of children under five years old are severely underweight. Every year more than twenty million babies are born under a normal reborn baby’s weight.

            In two thousand five, ten point one million children died before they sadly reached their fifth birthday. The saddest part is that this all happens only in Africa. HIV and Aids have spread in an epidemic rate. Because that the most people that get these diseases are farmers, there is less food being grown which means that more people will be starving without these farmers. In two-thousand-three, twelve million children were newly made into orphans in Africa and since that date to two-thousand and ten, that number rose up to eighteen million, six-million more than it was eight years ago.

   

With famine there is also poor health in food. Right now there are eight-hundred and twenty million families that are consuming a really little amount of calories. This is important for health and child growth. Kids mostly die in the hot dry weather because they get dehydrated fast and have nothing to eat which will get them light headed; well it goes through a process until that child dies. Hunger is the most extreme type of poverty.

            Only children under five are an offly large amount of malnourished people. They are one-hundred-sixty million children that are under five years old that are malnourished. In 1997 alone three-hundred-thousand children’s lives were saved just because supplementation programs supplied them with vitamin A. This is an example on how many lives we can save if we all try to send healthy food to Africa. It’s estimated that –eight-hundred-million people will be starving in the world but, one-hundred times worse than the people who already died will.

Africa is not the only place that is in this situation. Albania and Bosnia are also undergoing this situation and even some homeless people that we see in the street are experiencing a lot of hunger right now. Bosnia and Albania are both located in Europe. These happen because of other types of situations. Bosnia is experiencing famine because of a war that cost them a lot of money so after that war they didn’t have enough money to buy or plant food for people to eat.

            Albania is also in Europe. It is going through the situation of famine because there was a collapse in communist economies which caused the famine in Albania. This famine was relieved by surpluses in Europe. Iraq is facing a strong famine do to, the destruction of power supplies during the gulf war. And because they have failed to plant crops where Kurds are took from their villages. This also happens because places want to plant foods in other places so then the other places say there’s no problem in that place. Then the places that were going to plant there stopped planting there. And last, famine happens. 

To get rid of the worlds hunger, it would only require thirteen-billion dollars (American dollars). This is the amount of money the Europeans and the United States of America spend each year on perfume. America and Europe spend more money than that in a year on dog food!! It’s an estimated seventeen-billion dollars a year. If we can do that for dog food, what can we do for ours? With the amount of money we have right now, we can cure world hunger. This is a dream a lot of people want right now. Also since one-sixth of the world’s population is going hungry at this very moment right now.

            If we can get rid of world hunger, what else can we get rid of? Many other things is the answer. Just imagine how many people die because of a problem governments don’t really care about to solve. The Government pretends to care but, they end up helping just a little bit of the situation. The world spends more than that amount of money on their military in two days!! If thirteen-billion people donate one dollar or six and a half million people donate to dollars, we can cure world hunger in no time!! U can feed one child a day just donating one dollar. That will give a child in of to eat for a day. If we’re all humans why can’t we help out other humans? Like said by Robert Anson Heinlein (a popular author); “The greatest productive force is human selfishness”. People care about themselves and often times don’t think of others. That’s why the situation in Africa and in all other places going through famine don’t stop. Organizations are trying and trying the best they can and are doing satisfying work. But that’s not good enough; to many people to feed; to much money to get.

Now more and more people are trying to pitch in and stop world hunger. According to this article “Many needs remain in Somalia famine”, world hunger has eased up a little bit. Thanks to the people who donate and support thus cause there is less famine in these places by Africa. But, these people are still known and pronounced with the word famine. This is one good step toward the cause of famine but, it is still not enough to cure as much people as should be cured from this catastrophe. It is now recorded that every three point six seconds (not five like I previously said) a child dies somewhere in the world by, a hunger related reason.

            As said in wfp.org, “famine is the world’s number 1 health risk”. They also stated that there were more hungry people in the world then the combined number of people from, United States of America, Canada and European Union. In these three countries together there are 841,000,000 people. The people who experience and live in famine are a mind blowing amount of 925,000,000 people!! Imagine that mush people starving right now!! Hunger kills more people than AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis do combined. An astonishing amount of one fourth of the world’s population is underweighted because of hunger related reasons. Malnutrition also fails to give iron to people. If there was no Iron deficiency, our world’s population would have an estimated 20% more people to live in it. Iodine deficiency also fails to be consumed which is the major cause of retardation and brain damage. This is affecting 1.9 billion people in the world right now!!        

                One in seven children will go to bed hungry tonight (that counts as one seventh of the world’s population). Woman makes up a little bit more than half the people in this world. But, they also make up 60% of the people in this world who are hungry. There is no food shortage in the world and, there is enough food for everybody it’s just that, some people can’t afford food or live in a place that’s poor and doesn’t have much food supplies. With hunger, brings a many different diseases two as I said earlier, AIDS and stunting. These are a little to all the others that exist.

            Aids are reasons a lot of places are not have as much food supply. A lot of farmers and hunters die because of aids. Especially farmers because they work in the fields and that’s where all the aid viruses spread. Stunting is when a child is born with mental problems and/or retardation. The malnutrition vitamin deficiencies and hunger are one of the most top ten worlds most risky diseases/situations.