Regarding the suicide of a first-year junior high school girl in Sapporo three years ago, the city's Board of Education released a new report on the 14th that corrected the blacked out parts of the investigation report. He revealed that he had been complaining of being treated like a nuisance since he was in elementary school. The city board of education decided that the principal and homeroom teacher at the time had failed to take appropriate action, and gave them pay cuts and other punishments.

Three years ago, a first-year female student at a municipal junior high school in Sapporo committed suicide. In December of last year, the Sapporo City Board of Education released an investigation report stating that her death was caused by bullying. .



However, the specific content of the bullying was blacked out, and family members and others complained that it was not possible to accurately grasp the actual situation, so the city's Board of Education proceeded with a review and revised the new version on the 14th. The investigation report has been published.

According to the report, a total of eight specific behaviors that female students were subjected to from the fifth grade of elementary school to the first year of junior high school were identified as bullying.



Among these,


▽A survey conducted when they were in elementary school revealed that they were worried about their friendships and complained that they were treated poorly.



In addition,


at junior high school, students in the same grade hid their personal smartphones and keys, pulled their hair, and


even sent messages on social media such as ``die.''



It was also revealed that the female student had left messages naming multiple students in her suicide note.



The City Board of Education has punished eight elementary and junior high school principals, homeroom teachers, and others at elementary and junior high schools, including disciplinary action against the principal at the time when the female student was in the sixth grade of elementary school, on the grounds that the school staff had not taken appropriate action. People were punished.



Hideki Hida, Superintendent of the Sapporo City Board of Education, said, ``We are very sorry that we were unable to respond in a way that was considerate of the wishes of the bereaved family from the beginning.We will do our best to prevent this from happening again.'' Ta.

Parents of female student: “Disclose the report and use it to prevent recurrence”

Following the publication of the revised new investigation report, the parents of the deceased female student issued a statement.



``Although some of our opinions were incorporated into the content of this publication, some of the school's basic policies and organizational structure were masked against our wishes.The report should be disclosed as much as possible and we will not reissue it.'' I hope this will help prevent this."



He added, ``The bullying my daughter suffered was truly terrible. Her SOS signs were ignored by the school, and she was pushed into a corner.The words written in her suicide note were hard to imagine from her normally cheerful daughter. "It felt like a daughter's cry of despair. We must make sure that something like this never happens again."