When Japanese teachers are involved, we usually hear a different story, but this specific male biology teacher at the Fukuoka high school engrossed his students in some interesting “science” midterm exam questions, ranging from “what is the name of my cat?” and “what is your name?”, all very personal and nothing but personal.
The teacher in his forties had obviously mentioned the answer during some moment in class and justified his action by testing if his class was actually paying any respect to his lessons by doing more than just to browse through them and at the same time avoid blank papers to be turned in by the students.
“( ) is name of the cat who’s taking care of teacher’s house. Lately he likes ( ).”
Other questions which were fully available on paper were what kind of car the teacher drove, what color it was, and what its number plate was. The only real part of a test such as this were only at the top where it was asked to have the students to write down their name and seat number.
Whilst the principle of the school nonetheless agreed that the method used was a bit silly all together, he also pointed out that some students have a harder time to understand science more than others and that is why they’re given questions which they can answer with confidence.
Every student managed to score quite high score and the class itself together got 20% higher grade than school avarage, quite good for a bunch of school kids who apparently don’t pay enough attention.
Makes one wonder why the teacher didn’t take upon his time to actually educate his students instead of looking down on them and their intelligence, doesn’t it?
One another note, Fukuoka high school is known more to the public than just the high school which grades by the knowledge of teachers pet name, but also as the school which have had two teachers who have been employed for five years with expired licenses.
