Survey by the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education: “68% of junior high school teachers are on the brink of karoshi”

 

On November 9, 2017, the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education released a result of its survey, which says, “68% of junior high school teachers work more than 60 hours a week”. The board proposes the “Plan to promote a workstyle reform at school (provisional)” based on the result, but it totally ignores the fact that the long working hours of teachers are definitely caused by the board itself and Japan’s Education Ministry. It never admits its own fault. It is not teachers but the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education that needs to change the mind. Such long working hours were probably nonexistent before 2000 when teachers in the field decided at their meetings what to do. Their workload has dramatically increased since the board and the ministry changed the meetings to a place of orders and coercion and forced teachers to present relevant documents. The additional workload includes annual 35-hour training on the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, compulsory Saturday classes, forcible “training sessions”, various research reports, self-declaration for performance evaluation, and obligatory presentation of other documents, such as class plans. (NEZU Kimiko)

* Photo: Leaflets being delivered to Tokyo Metropolitan Government staff

都教委調査「中学校教員の68％が過労死ライン！」〜自らの反省はなく

11月9日、都教委は中学校教員の68,2％が過労死ライン（週60時間）を超えるとの結果を発表した。これを踏まえて都教委は「学校における働き方改革推進プラン（仮称）」を提案しているが、教員の長時間労働の一番の原因が都教委・文科省にあることの認識がまったくない。一言の反省の弁もない。教員の意識改革ではなく、都教委の意識改革が必要だ。子どもたちのことを知る教職員がどのような教育をするかを職員会議で論議し決定して仕事をしてきた時代（2000年以前）には過労死ラインの長時間労働は多分ほとんどなかった。都教委（文科省）が職員会議を指示・伝達の場に変え、教育内容を指示・強制し、また書類の提出を強制したことで教員の仕事が凄まじく増えたのだ。年間35時間ものオリンピック・パラリンピック教育、土曜授業の強制や押し付け「研修」、各種の調査報告、業績評価のための自己申告書、授業プラン等々の作成・提出を課すなどである。（根津公子） 

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