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Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’

  • August 30, 2025

Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’

by Jonnyboo234

7 comments

  1. Ehhh. People who are struggling at something, express unhappiness with returning to that activity.

    Sounds like regular life. Ask the same from people in unfulfilling jobs about returning to work after a vacation…

  2. Pretty sure that it’s a global phenomenon that the day of the return to school after break has a significantly higher suicide rate than other days. Being confronted with a bad situation will tend to do that. Similarly, holidays that are typically spent with family tend to have higher suicide rates too for people with family issues or just general depression (the “if spending time with people I love still doesn’t make me happy, then why even bother” logic). Japan definitely has a lot of work to do with regard to bullying and mental health in general, but these are also just universal truths because of human nature. However, the takeaway should be that more resources should be focused on support during those difficult periods the same way you stock up before an impending typhoon.

  3. Since corona, there are tons of children who no longer attend school. I think it’s easily over 5%
    On the way to work a while back. I saw a lot of kids walking to school. Yet it was after 9. I asked about this. Apparently they are nurse’s office kids. Who don’t attend class but sit in the nurse’s office for various reasons 

  4. Not just teen students.

    The end of a three day weekend often has me tied up in knots nervous with a side of imposter syndrome and a sense of dread the night before and morning of heading back to the office

  5. It’s internet age now and we should acknowledge that not all people fit a traditional school-classroom-teachers-classmates model. Unless we accept that schools are never meant for education anyone in the first place but for indoctrination, of course

  6. I think it’s a universal feeling. The last time I took a long break from work, I started looking for a new job a couple of days after returning and left about 3 weeks later. Everything you dislike hits you like a brick after time away from it.

  7. Their teachers probably feel the same. Ugh, now I have to teach these tards again.

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