Parents and campaigners have called on education and health authorities to end the practice of requiring children to strip off for school health checks“My chest was completely exposed and I felt embarrassed,” writes a Japanese girl after undergoing an annual health checkup at her middle school. Another says: “Before the exam our teacher told us we would have to lift up our tops and bra … I didn’t want to do it but I couldn’t say no.”The testimony from two 13-year-olds, seen by the Guardian, is typical of the discomfort – and in some cases trauma – felt by children attending schools in Japan that can require boys and girls as young as five – and as old as 18 – to strip to the waist during health examinations. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/japanese-schools-topless-health-checks-checkups-japan-school-student-medical-exams
Author : Justin McCurry in Osaka
Publish date : 2024-09-05 23:52:40
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