Board of Education

Six and a half years have passed since this school enrollment consultation result. At that time I wasn’t aware of my child’s rights and were not informed enough to deal appropriately with the Board of Education. Today I wrote a “request for disclosure of retained personal information” in order to find out what happened behind the scenes. The disclosure request mechanism is defined in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information. ...

2025-03-13 16:12:44 +0900 JST

Yesterday I asked the Elementary School principal for a copy of the paper from the Board of Education. He said he cannot provide me a copy without confirming with the Board of Education first. Today we talked again. In the meanwhile he confirmed with the Board of Education. He cannot provide me a copy due to protection of “personal information”. Well, this is my son’s “personal information”! The content of the pricipal’s memo: ...

2024-12-13 20:30:40 +0900 JST

A few days ago my child’s elementary school principal informed me about some information from the municipality’s Board of Education that he wants to share. Today we had a meeting that was attended by the principal, the vice principal and us, the parents. The principal read out a letter from the Board of Education’s school enrollment support commitee. I do not recall the detailed content, but the letter ended with: ...

2024-12-11 18:42:47 +0900 JST

It is 2024-11-21: More than 17 years have passed since Japan signed the CRPD Nearly 11 years have passed since Japan ratified the CRPD Yet, a Board of Education issues the below school enrollment result for an impaired child. Segregated education is a human rights violation! Fortunately, at that time, their parents were aware of their rights.

2024-11-21 12:34:56 +0900 JST

It is 2018-09-05: Nearly 11 years have passed since Japan signed the CRPD More than 4.5 years have passed since Japan ratified the CRPD Yet, a Board of Education issues the below school enrollment result for an impaired child. Segregated education is a human rights violation! Unfortunately, at that time, the parents were not aware of their rights.

2018-09-05 12:34:56 +0900 JST