Proof of Effort, Mini Pouch

 My artifact is mini pouch with a picture of Gian, is one of the Doraemon characters. It is rounded rectangle and is about size of iPhone8. It is small enough to fit in your hand. It is mainly made of cloth. However, it is slick to the touch so it is coated with something. Its color is ivory, orange and purple, main color is ivory. It has a golden fastener. The front of the pouch is drawn Gian's face as a simpleified and the back is drawn Gian's forelock, one of the his charm points as a simpleified. 

 I belonged to volleyball club when I was a senior in high school. I retired from club activity about the month of June. We hosted the wrap-up party. Then, we were talking about buying something matching so we bought it with members of same activity club as me. We hesitate whether to go with something volleyball related or value of cute. However, since it's "retired",  we have decided not to do anything volleyball relared. There were the pouches in AEON Mall Niigata Minami. I have fond memories of the club because I spent a total of six years with the members of that club, both junior high school and high school. First, we thought about what to buy. We wanderd around AEON Mall looking for things to buy. Suddenly, I caught sight of the cute pouches.

One of the people said,

"I like the idea of buying these together."

There are pouches of various Doraemon characters in the store. We chose the pouch which character was cuter.

We said,

"This character is so cute!"

"This color is good!"

"I want to buy this character!"

I chose Gian because I like orange and I found it particularly attractive. I like it very much. This experience taught me that I work hard something, even the smallest things can turn into memories. 

In Japan, this heavy workload of teachers in club activities is a problem.

Currently, there are few teachers who can coach. Therefore, many members of club activities are taught by outside coach. However, teachers need to lead students during tournament. Tournament often take place on holidays, requiring teachers to work on holidays.

In fact, on average per month, the athletic club advisors work about 90 hours of overtime for junior high school teachers and 68 hours for high school teachers. According to Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, the standard for occuoational accidents, called "karoushirain" is 80 hours of overtime work per month. Junior high school teachers exceed that standard, and high school teachers are close to it.

It is important to make sure allowances are made, rather than enforcing "worthwhile".

Thank you for reading.

論文 部活動顧問教師の労働問題――勤務時間・手当支給・災害補償の検討｜日本労働研究雑誌2017年11月号(No.688) (jil.go.jp)