Home room?

[Feign]

I've been browsing some random anime, and what has come up a lot (though not just with these ones, but school in general), is that "home room" class is used quite often.

I assume it is a mandatory class in the Japanese school system, but is it no longer than a regular class? Though I suppose it is most important, because it is a class that remains the same (student-wise) so that all the dramas and plots could appear logical...

Yeah... XD

 

[Ayano Katagiri]

I've been browsing some random anime, and what has come up a lot (though not just with these ones, but school in general), is that "home room" class is used quite often.

I assume it is a mandatory class in the Japanese school system, but is it no longer than a regular class? Though I suppose it is most important, because it is a class that remains the same (student-wise) so that all the dramas and plots could appear logical...

Yeah... XD

The "Homeroom" is essentially the first period of the day for each classroom where attendance is taken and important notices are relayed out to the students. The drama portrayed in anime is appropriate during homeroom I guess... seeing as it is pretty much a free period for the students to do what they like until the homeroom teacher gets to the classroom.

I don't believe it's longer than regular classes and if I remember correctly, the homerooms I attended were around 20 minutes long. But don't quote me on that. I only remember sitting down after the teacher came in, greeting (rei), attendance being taken and notices being read out. Oh and there was also planning for the school festival being done, but I'm not sure if it extended past that as I usually left after this (as I was on a group exchange trip and didn't attend normal classes).

 

[Wings Don't Cry]

I have it in my school only we call it Tutor, it's 20 minutes and for some reason it's after second period not before the first.

 

[Esper]

The homeroom teacher is also the de facto head of each group of students so if a show wants a teacher for a main or recurring character it makes sense for it to be the homeroom teacher because that's who'll have the most interaction with the students.

All your typical school drama is going to happen at the beginning of the day, too. Being late and getting scolded, introducing transfer students, showing who is the studious yet mysterious kid who is always there before everyone, etc.

 

[kohei]

Misaka pretty much nailed it.
Though I haven't attended education in Japan until university, I have "sneaked" into my cousin highschool class a few years ago.

Anyway for those in the British education system, I'm not sure all schools do it, but we did have a Tutor period (as mentioned by Wings Don't Cry.)

 

[Feign]

We did have a home room class in my junior high, I think it was half an hour a day, I know mondays were used to tell the class what we did on the weekend (we had the same teacher for 3 years), though perhaps other teachers were different. I can't recall what we might have done the other days... Though we are supposed to be in home room class (also called GSG, forget what it stands for) at the beginning of the day to take attendance.

In high school, we didn't really have so much of a home room class, as a 3 time a year meeting place. Which usually had to do with handing out important events or surveys or report cards (I think).

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Back to the anime thing, it makes you wonder how many high school related animes there are. XD Though you know they are appealing to the right audience. I usually try to avoid them... But sometimes (like that show Gossip Girl), you might hate it, but you still want to find out what will happen. Though thankfully I don't watch Gossip Girl. I only saw like two episodes when I was in Australia.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

Our homeroom was like 10-15 minutes. It's where we heard the daily announcements, our attendance was taken, and sometimes we'd get info on things our class was doing. It worked out especially well for me senior year, as my homeroom teacher was also the yearbook staff advisor, and we would always get some yearbook-related work done before and during homeroom.

Though there are exceptions, in a lot of the high school anime I've seen, homeroom is the ONLY class that's shown. After-school clubs and lunchtime are shown as well, but many don't explore the other classes, or if they do, then only briefly.

 

[GFA]

When I was in Japan, I was at a school for about 2 weeks. The Principle explained that the students satayed in 1 class all day (except to go to a science lab), and that the teachers came to them, but I have no idea what home room would be. Probably anouncements and stuff like previous people have said

 

[yaminokaitou]

I had homeroom in my school as well. It was a time where we took attendance, did announcements, took lunch orders, and had devotions. The teacher was our de facto teacher and when we did service day we worked with our homeroom teacher and class. I went to a religious private school though, so that's probably not how it works in most high schools.