Trivia quiz about schools: a roundup of fun facts you’ll want to brag about

principal

In school lunches, sample tasting for inspection is extremely important for quality control. It is stipulated that a school official must conduct it, and in many cases the principal is the one who does so. They check for foreign objects and verify that the food has been prepared properly.

To prevent hand shadows from forming in sunlight

The reason windows are installed on the left side when facing the blackboard in classrooms is to prevent hands from casting shadows on notebooks in sunlight. Since most Japanese people are right-handed, this layout is designed so that when they take notes with their right hand, sunlight coming in from the window won’t cause their hand to cast a shadow on the notebook.

It clearly shows the growth process.

Isn’t it common for first graders to grow morning glories? Many schools assign observing morning glories as a summer vacation project. One reason morning glories are chosen as teaching material is that their growth stages—germination, flowering, and fruiting—are easy to observe. Since children are the ones growing them, another reason may be that they are relatively hard to kill.

A room that manages facilities such as heating and air conditioning within a school

The machine room at a school is a room used primarily to manage and operate mechanical equipment such as the campus’s heating and cooling (HVAC) systems, water and electricity, and other machinery. Since it’s usually locked and you can’t see inside, many people may have wondered, “What kind of room is it?”

Because the lead breaks easily.

It seems that a major reason is that elementary school children’s writing pressure is unstable, causing the lead to break easily. Incidentally, these days 2B pencils are recommended, and HB pencils are not used very much.

Go-home club

You might hear people say, “Is the go-home club even a real club?” but in recent years many students want to use their time freely, and the go-home club has become popular. Club activities certainly have their merits, but how you spend your after-school time is up to each person. Whether you devote your time to clubs, studying, hobbies, or having fun—it’s your choice.

With earthquake resistance and non-combustibility in mind

Elementary schools used to commonly be wooden buildings, didn’t they? However, more than 100 elementary schools were destroyed by fire in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. In response, it’s said that from then on they began to be built with reinforced concrete, which offers both earthquake resistance and fire resistance.