Wataru Katsurashima, the head of Japanese marketing for multinational tech company Juniper Networks, tweeted a snapshot of the science exam given to his son.
「地球の自転」をまだ習っていないという理由で、「太陽が動く」と答えろという教育は、僕は間違っていると思う。（小学校三年生の息子のテストより） pic.twitter.com/3Bkknvcn0v
— Wataru Katsurashima (@w_katsura) 18 декабря 2016 г.
Question 3 reads, “Why does the direction of shadows change as time passes?” The student answered, “Because the Earth rotates.” However the school's science teacher corrected him with the alternative explanation,“Because the Sun moves from east to west.”
There is also the teacher’s comment in red below saying “Let’s answer using the things we learned in class.”
Katsurashima seemed to capture the Japanese public's imagination with his tweet, “I think that the education system in which you should answer that the Sun moves because you do not know that the Earth rotates, is very wrong.”
Now technically, the teacher's answer isn't wrong but of course neither is the boys! The story went viral on Japanese social media with many users leaving angry comments such as, “Education is not what you learn from textbooks at school.”
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