Evil Spirit Consultant

Chapter 35 Special School

Nokonoshima is a small island after all. Even if you add the slightly larger Shiga Island next to it, there aren't many residents, so there shouldn't be too many students.

What's more, Shiga Island has been connected to the mainland by subway for a long time, and is also connected to the artificial island and the Uminakamichi area. The residents there probably go directly to the artificial island to go to school, and there is no need to take a boat to this elementary school.

Yang Liu had also done some research before coming here. Although the teacher resources in this primary school are not abundant, it should be able to support a school of one or two hundred people.

According to Naoto Takeshita, it seems that the number of teachers here is quite limited, but considering the size of this island, fifty students in the entire school is probably the limit.

Naoto Takeshita nodded and said, "As far as I know, there are more than 300 students in the school after the start of the semester this year. Compared with these students, the number of teachers is indeed a bit stretched. The principal sought help from the school on the neighboring Genkai Island last year, but the number of teachers they can provide is also limited."

"More than 300?" Yang Liu was a little surprised. "How can a small school have so many students?"

This number is considered quite high even in Fukuoka City. After all, Japan has a serious problem of declining birthrate and aging population.

Primary schools are generally divided by region. Except for areas like the city center, a primary school in a district is considered quite good if it has four or five hundred students.

Even because of the increasingly serious problem of low birth rate and aging population, in the past two years, there have been frequent news reports in Japan about schools on islands with only one student.

"Huh? Don't you know?" Hearing Yang Liu's question, Takeshita Naoto was surprised. "The name of our school is Fukuoka Municipal Noko Elementary and Junior High School... After all, our resources are limited."

"So it's a comprehensive school with junior high school and elementary school departments together. No wonder, but the number is a bit too many." Yang Liu understood.

Naoto Takeshita laughed and said, "In fact, there are not only junior high school and elementary school, but also high school in our school. There are less than 100 students in the elementary school and junior high school out of a total of more than 370 students, and the rest are high school students."

"?" Yang Liu tilted her head to express confusion.

Not to mention how such a small island could have teaching resources sufficient for high school students. Even if there were, there shouldn't be so many students.

"Could it be that something happened in the 2000s that caused the island's birth rate to skyrocket?"

Yang Liu calculated the time in her mind. If all the students in the high school department were children from the island, then it could only be that something happened in the past few years.

"Ah, that's not the case. In fact, a large portion of the students in the high school department are admitted from other places to study in our school."

"??"

Yang Liu tilted his head even more, but out of politeness, he forced himself to hold back from saying "Why?"

As one of the East Asian countries with a strong reputation for academic performance, Japanese students are at a very serious polarization level.

Students who do not plan to go to college basically start to live a life of idleness and wait for death since junior high school, and then are arranged to enter an ordinary local high school. As for whether to go directly to work or go to a vocational school after graduating from high school, it depends on personal choice.

Those who have dreams start working hard since junior high school, and when they move from junior high school to high school, they have to compete with a group of people to get into a prestigious school.

Some people even go to another city to live alone in order to have a better chance of getting into a suitable high school.

And even if you go to a prestigious school, it doesn't mean you can sit back and relax, because according to the policy, Japanese schools, including high schools, basically end at around 3 pm. Ordinary students will go to clubs or go out with friends after school, which seems very relaxing.

But for Japanese students who dream of going to college, finishing school is just the beginning.

After school, they would go to cram schools or private schools for tutoring almost non-stop, and would study until the evening or even the early morning.

When academic competition was the most intense, Japan even extended a term for students' daily routines called "four ons and five offs."

The so-called four hours of sleep and five hours of failure means: assuming that a candidate can be admitted to the university of his or her choice by sleeping four hours a day, he or she will fail if he or she sleeps five hours a day.

Even though the pressure to enter school in Japan is no longer as great due to the declining birthrate, you still have to work hard to get into a prestigious school if you want to get into a good university.

The standard for judging whether a school is good or not is very simple, which is to see whether there are outside students who take the initiative to enroll in the school.

Although it may sound a bit discriminatory to say this, as a public school, Nogu Primary and Secondary School is the lowest level of the three types of schools: public, private and national.

Even if it is qualified to host a high school department, it doesn't make sense that the teaching resources of a public school can attract students from other areas to enroll.

What's more, this school is on an island and shares the same school with a middle school and elementary school.

Taking so many messy factors into consideration, no matter how you look at it, this school has nothing to do with the word "famous school".

As if he saw the confusion on Yang Liu's face through the rearview mirror, Takeshita Naoto smiled with a hint of pride:
"Ah, I have to thank the principal and his two students for what I have today."

"Is there any hidden secret here?" Yang Liu sat forward a little with great interest.

"Since Mr. Yang is Professor Miyamoto's favorite student, he should also know that our principal and Professor Miyamoto were once good friends."

"Yes, I often hear the professor mention it." Yang Liu lied without any psychological burden.

In fact, if this incident hadn't happened, he would have known nothing about the principal.

“Haha, then Professor Miyamoto should have told you that our president was also a professor at the University of Tokyo, and he was from Nokoshima.

Later, in order to build his hometown, the principal resolutely quit his job at the University of Tokyo, returned to Nokonoshima and became the principal of the only school on the island.

"It's really admirable that the principal has such a broad mind." Yang Liu complimented him, "With the principal's ability, this school can indeed be qualified to establish a high school department, but it won't become a famous school, right?"

"We have to thank the principal's two students. They are also students of the University of East China. After graduation, they followed the principal to the school to serve as teachers. In fact, they can be regarded as your seniors, Mr. Liu."

Takeshita Naoto seemed to have remembered something and smiled even more happily: "In addition to what you said, Mr. Liu, we have three teachers who graduated from the University of Tokyo in such a small school. I'm afraid that even schools in the city center don't have such resources as us!"

(End of this chapter)