WOW

So i thought that yesterday's fire couldn't be topped, but today, 5 minutes ago, one 8th grader kicked the ever loving shit out of another 8th grader. One of the teachers came charging into the staff room and shouted "8th grade fight!", and the rest of us went charging to the 2nd year hallway where 1 boy was crying and another was smirking to himself. They questioned him and led him away, but by the look on his face, I think he knows that nothing is going to happen to him. Unless he is 14. If he is 14, then he might get sent to reform school, which sounds like its run like boot camp. I sure hope he gets sent there. I also wish that I had been the first to catch the kids fighting, cause I would have pulled the bigger one off and would have been tempted to kick the shit out of him. These kids need some discipline!

In regards to the fire issue, apparently some girls came and told the teachers last night who had done it, but they were so scared of the boy coming and beating them up that now the teachers are distributing an anonymous survey to the kids and then after they collect it, they'll go and arrest the boy. What a great school. Now, I don't want to make it sound like it's a terrible place, since many schools in America are just as bad if not worse, and probably 95% of the kids here are good/nice kids, even the noisy ones that talk or sleep in class. But there is just this other 5% who don't give a crap about what's going to happen to them. They don't care about entrance exams to high school. Probably a majority of them will drop out of school after middle school is up, since secondary education is not compulsory here in Japan. The other few kids that encompass that 5% might take the entrance exam for the crappiest high school in the area, but I have a feeling that most of them are going to end up collecting my garbage or working at my nearby convinience store in a few years.