Dividing the number of volunteers to junior high school and high school Tokyo Olympics and Para November 13, 18:39
Isn't it compulsory, but is it really a volunteer?
For next year's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, Tokyo is recruiting junior high school students and high school students who want to volunteer, but in reality, a specific number of students is assigned to each school, and some schools are forced to participate in the middle. I found out that Experts criticize, “It is voluntary that volunteers are important.”
During the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, more than 100,000 volunteers will be active as “contest volunteers” and “city volunteers”.
Under these circumstances, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to recruit approximately 6000 students from second-year junior high school to third-year high school in Tokyo as volunteer activities to provide tourist information in the city.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education explains this as voluntary participation, but in fact, in the case of junior high school, five students and one teacher are assigned, and depending on the school, participation is forced halfway. I was able to find out that I was asked for by interviewing the people concerned.
The teacher who responded to the interview said, “At the teacher's meeting in the school, the school principal said,“ Be sure to give the number of students decided. ”The participants said,“ If forced, it would be against the purpose of volunteering. ”, But in the end, the number of people decided was decided. This is not a volunteer but a mobilization.”
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education said, “The number of people gathered is not being clear because it is under scrutiny, but most of the schools, except for some, have applied for participating students. I ’m explaining. ”
Associate professor Norihiro Nihira of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo, who is familiar with the actual situation of volunteers, said, “Volunteers are self-motivated and voluntary, and in the name of volunteer education, they are service activities that are not guaranteed. In the first place, the assignment of five schools or assignments is different, and if you do it in the form of compulsion from the top or if you do it without any ingenuity, it will be a passive experience. It is the original way of education to support the aspect based on the independence of