I was just in Okinawa, Japan at the beginning of Oct. I was shopping on one of their main drags and I was seeing tons of kids dressed in school uniforms shopping along there as well. I saw them at noon and I saw them at 2 pm even. Do they have extra long lunch breaks and have open campuses or something? What hours and months do they have school? Yes, I can imagine the swine flu thing being the case (their airport security check for flu was much more stringent than I'm used to). But they were all dressed in school uniforms, different ones at that. Do they have kids go to school and then send them home the very same day (probably I guess) if one has swine flu? If they were sent home the day after for a couple of days then I wouldn't imagine they would be wearing uniforms.
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Sometimes, Japanese schools have cancelled classes for flu seasons if more than 5 students are sick in class. If you were seeing JHS students, this was probably the case. High schools are mostly closed campus, but again, if they have a flu with more than 5 kids out of a class, that group of students might not be attending school for a couple of days. Japan has a year round schedule. They go to school usually from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm ES and JHS for classes plus JHS has clubs from 3:30 to 6:00 pm. They go to school from Monday to Friday in public schools. They go to school about 3 Saturdays out of the year, but then they get the next MOnday off to make up for it. They have a winter break from Dec 23 to Jan 9 and a Spring break from March 23 to March 30. Their summer holiday is from about July 20th through the month of August, about 6 weeks, but JHS kids still go to club during this time. Japanese kids do not study as hard at school as American students, but they also go to juku to get into high school, so they study harder on their own. Shane
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