Japanese Children Forced To Eat Radioactive Food At Schools

There have been a lot of talk about this before, maybe not so much in the mainstream news or media. However I would like to share with you my take on this.

EX-SKF did a post today #Radiation in Japan: Something's Rotten in Yokohama City and the text was found in a message board message board maintained by Yokohama City Assemblyman Masataka Ota.

There have been reports that schools are forcing the children to eat this contaminated food. What really angers me is that the City Hall cafeteria at Yokohama City that should serve this same contaminated food to the employees that they are forcing the school children to eat ARE NOT. They get their beef imported from Australia.

And then we read about this "school allows children to carry water bottles if they want, but they have to leave their bottles in the school principal's office, and when they want to drink water they must come to the principal's office to drink."

Weak minded children that have taken in the schooling also make fun of those children that don't want to eat the contaminated foods. So it can't be easy for a child when both teachers and their fellow students starts to singel them out. Who are they going to listen to? Their parents who say they should not eat the food or the teachers, government...

What do I mean with "taken in the schooling" you might ask.. Well we go to school to get educated right? Wrong. We are forced to go and get schooled by law. Let me explain, have you ever encountered a question on a test that you know that if you answered the truth would make you fail that question. I'm sure you would answer different on tests today if you look back at you're schooldays.

The importance of the question does not really matter. What matters is that if you answer wrong you fail. If you disagree you fail. If you refuse to answer you fail. The test, books and teachers are the authority. And with the tests you are schooled to not question authority and obey what you are taught. If the education was so important we would have teachers teaching but instead they are schooling.

So children that start to question and God forbid it they refuse to do as they are told will get a very harsh treatment. Not only from the teatchers but also from their fellow students.

"In 1896 the famous John Dewey, then at the University of Chicago, said that independent, self-reliant people were a counter-productive anachronism in the collective society of the future. In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations"not by their own individual accomplishments. In such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they dont know by themselves, without consulting experts."

This is what we see today in society, however the dangerous once are the people in charge. It wasn't my intention to get into the schooling system here. But I think it's an important topic to bring up. Below is the text from EX-SKF blog about how they do things in Yokohama.

Contaminated beef: 
While the City fed kindergarteners and school children with domestic beef contaminated with radioactive cesium despite protests from the concerned parents, the cafeteria at Yokohama City Hall for the city employees and guests were serving beef imported from Australia.

6 elementary schools served radioactive beef 5 times, and 22 schools served it 4 times.

Radioactive summer school: 
The City is determined to keep sending school children to the summer school in an elevated radiation area in Gunma Prefecture. The officials insist it is safe, because they are told it's safe. Never mind that nearby locations have levels like 0.50 microsievert/hour (official), and a citizen measured as high as 1.26 microsievert/hour in the very area that the children may go to.


Bringing water bottles to schools: 
At least one (but there seem to be many) school allows children to carry water bottles if they want, but they have to leave their bottles in the school principal's office, and when they want to drink water they must come to the principal's office to drink.

This is bullying and harassment of children by the school principal. Quite an education.


Altering the official document: 
The City's Board of Education has relented somehow to parents and the legislators like Mr. Ota and issued a notice to the parents whose children go to the public elementary schools in Yokohama City, telling them to consult their schools individually if they want to send their children to school with homemade lunch and water bottle. The hitch is that this notice were issued through schools. Some schools decided to white out the part about homemade lunch and water bottle, and added the contact information for the Board of Education if the parents have any questions.


Testing food items in school lunches: 
Oh yes finally the City is doing, but one item per day. Apparently, the City informs the lunch preparation centers which food item is to be tested on a particular day.

One positive thing: 
Some parents are actually yanking their children from schools, and have started home schooling.