August 11, 2023 : Japanese National Holiday Called Mountain Day
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
Today is a national holiday, a Japanese national holiday called Mountain Day.
I set my alarm for 11:40 and 12:30, but ended up sleeping until about 2:00. I got up and played Dissidia FF.
Then I wanted to go to a ramen shop, but it was crowded, so I went to Holly's Cafe instead and had a parfait and a cup of cocoa.
While I was there, I read an article about a guy who sued a medical school because it wasn't fair that he was disadvantaged in the entrance exam because he was a ronin.
And he won, and the university was ordered to pay compensation. This is very surprising news, because it has the potential to change the way they think about how selection should be done in schools.
When I was 20 years old, I had an 80% or more chance of passing the exams in all private medical schools in Japan except Keio University School of Medicine on the national mock exam,
and I applied to many schools, but I failed most of them in the interviews except Japan Medical Univ. and Kansai Medical Univ.
I think the interviews held after the exams at private medical schools are for that purpose, they just look to see if an applicant is a serious and hardworking student or not,
as for me, my high school grades were at the bottom, so I didn't pass the interviews. I always thought that it was up to the discretion of the schools, but the applicant who sued the school won.
If this is the case, it seems strange to me that 18-year-old students and working teachers much older than them who apply to medical school should be treated equally.
I wonder if it is good or bad that everything is determined by paper test scores.
I don't know which is better, but at least I don't think that 18-year-old students who spent their junior and senior high school years doing their best to get into schools,
and me, who spent the high school years in a very sloppy way and adjusted the way of life to get high scores only when entrance exams came around, should be treated equally.
And I think we shouldn't say it's discrimination because it's our fault for becoming a ronin, just work hard and get it back, no need to sue them.
I left the cafe, bought some food at the supermarket, and came back home.
Then I played Dissidia FF again while doing computer programming.