alexseanchai | (no subject) (Reply)

So apparently Japanese elementary schools (at least in the 80s, because that seems to be the decade all this source's cites are from, but I haven't found a source for the 90s when my characters were in elementary school and probably the system didn't change much in a few years) divide their classes (on average thirty students, at most forty or forty-five) into four-to-six-person groups called han, and rather than calling out a particular student's errors the teacher will call out a particular han's errors and let the erring child's han-mates apply peer pressure till the error goes away. So, how do the teachers identify one han from another, I wonder? Are they given color names, numbers, individual hiragana (like US schools might go Group A, Group B, Group C), what?

...I am probably overthinking my