Violence in Japan’s Elementary Schools

Japanese elementary schools are becoming ever more increasingly violent. It is the serious educational issue in Japan. I guess there are two reasons of violence by children.

First, when they do not like someone, they tend to hit him/her. They feel a difference between them and they do not admit the difference. We have to teach them importance of personality and thinking for how others feel.
Second, their parents do not scold them if their children did bad behavior. Children tend to think “that’s okay because my mother and father do not scold us” when they do bad things. Actually, when I was in junior high school, my cousin fought students from other school. My uncle, his father was angry with him and he stopped to fight others. So it is important to scold the children.

Japanese children have been more violent than before. Violence may be caused and decreased by education. Japan has to change the educational system and teachers’ consciousness. Violence by children is a big problem.