On September 11, the Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education announced it had issued disciplinary reprimands to two male teachers at a prefectural high school for giving students unauthorized rides in their private cars while supervising a club activity trip. On May 4, over the roughly 16km route from their lodging to the practice-match venue, the 33-year-old teacher reportedly made four and a half round trips carrying a total of 19 students in his car, while the 25-year-old teacher carried 3 students. In 2022, following a spate of indecency incidents involving teachers, Hiroshima’s board of education had banned staff from giving students rides in private vehicles without a supervisor’s permission. On 5ch, opinions split between those sympathizing with the teachers’ predicament and those questioning why they didn’t use proper channels like a chartered bus or simply get permission.
The Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education announced on the 11th that it had issued disciplinary reprimands to two male teachers at a prefectural high school.
According to the board, a 33-year-old male teacher at the school made four and a half round trips on May 4 between the lodging and the practice-match venue while escorting students to a practice match held within the prefecture, giving a total of 19 students rides in his private car.
A 25-year-old male teacher likewise gave 3 students rides between the same lodging and the practice-match venue.
Source: newsdig.tbs.co.jp / Original article here
Time to raise the club fees.
Gas money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
It's right there in Re: #1 — treat every teacher like a potential sex offender.
Skimp on it and you get a 'Yamagata' situation (a reference to the Yamagata case where a coach forcing an extreme run in the heat led to a student's death).
Some school made headlines for something similar around the spring holidays — wait, was that Yamagata, or did something else happen there too? (name is garbled in the original post)
Bet there were nights some benched player just couldn't choke down the frustration anymore.
Either get proper permission from a supervisor, or pool money and rent a bus. That's the point.
Did they seriously leave someone stranded on the last leg?
Split it into 3 runs and it comes out to four and a half round trips.
The last leg doesn't need to go back to the inn, so it's not a full round trip.
That's really not something worth agonizing over.
Sounds like some parent ratted them out because their kid didn't get to play.
> ■ Spate of indecency incidents leads to ban on unauthorized private-car rides
> In 2022, after a series of indecency incidents involving teachers, the prefectural board banned staff from giving students rides in private vehicles without their supervisor's permission.
So rental cars or taxis are fine, then?
They're fine, but doesn't the school just not cover the cost? Collecting money from parents for every single away trip is a huge hassle too.
Turns out they didn't do anything wrong at all.
does make me think this guy isn't great at planning,
but the punishment still feels harsh.
Are schools really so cash-strapped they can't even charter a bus?
Probably couldn't find anywhere closer with enough rooms for the whole group.
I do feel for the teacher,
but I'd bet the real screwup happened earlier — the schedule, the choice of lodging,
how it was explained to parents, all of it.
Someone actually good at this job wouldn't end up here.
It had probably become routine by that point.
The point is, the moment they picked lodging with no transportation, they should've gotten permission ahead of time.
What 'good intentions,' lol
Club activities are already unpaid weekend labor — no gas money, no extra pay — and now one complaint from a helicopter parent gets them a pay cut?
Way too harsh on the teacher.
Go drive your own kid around yourself.
The point is they should've gotten permission beforehand, right? lol
Background and key points of this story
The disciplinary action wasn’t for giving students a ride — it was for doing so without the supervisor’s permission. In 2022, after a string of indecency incidents involving teachers, Hiroshima’s prefectural board of education banned private-car rides in principle and switched to a permission-based system. On the thread, sympathetic voices (‘we should be grateful they drove the kids’) sat alongside pointed comments that ‘they just should have gotten permission first’ — and as the latter suggests, the rule never fully ruled out giving students a ride. A reprimand is among the lightest categories of disciplinary action, below dismissal, suspension, and pay cuts. The backdrop also includes the reality that schools often don’t cover chartered buses or taxis for club trips, meaning the tension between a teacher’s good intentions and strict rule-following isn’t unique to this case.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Express+) thread “‘There was no other way to get there’ — club advisor teachers made four round trips over roughly 16km to the match venue, giving a total of 22 students rides in their cars. Two teachers disciplined in Hiroshima Prefecture.”
