It’s clearly because (1) you take so much food home with you that you don’t have to cook anything but curry (hey, you confessed it to me ) so you have to pay for that too, and (2) you have to pay for all those other kids who eat for free because their parents are horrible parents.

Hehe.

I’m guessing that it was probably due to Britain’s imperialism in Asia, particularly it’s actions in China, and a Japanese fear that they could be next.

But really, why isn’t the media asking more important questions, such as: Why do teachers have to pay for school lunches? The kids pay about 1500 yen a month, and I have to pay 6000 yen for the same meals. What a rip off, man.

Nonpayment for elementary/junior high school lunches in 2005 totalled more than 1.8 billion yen, or 0.53 percent of the amount that should have been collected, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey. Uh oh, better force those poor people to pay up!

Well, it’s not quite that simple. Sure there are people that can’t afford to pay full price for lunch everyday, but I’m highley sure they’re not everyone. On that たけし教育白書 they interviewed some Mom’s as to why they didn’t pay the lunch fee, and their answers were like: (1) even if we don’t pay, the school still feeds our children, so why should we pay (2) we didn’t force our kids to go to school, the government made a law that says they have to, so the government should pay for the food itself etc. There was one women who did say that the lunches were too expensive (at about 1500 yen a month). When asked how much her childs cell phone bill was, she said it was over 10,000 yen.

I think the problem is todays adults were raised with no responsibility. Their parents generation was dirt poor, and had a bad life. When the Japanese ecconomey grew, their parents wanted to be sure the children had no troubles in life, a better life then they could have. However that ended up in irresponsibility. Now those people are raising children, and the problem is getting worse exponentially every time.

Geesh, that got long.