Chapter 404 – Fourth Year at the Girls’ School

April arrived, and my fourth year at the girls’ school began. In terms of the twenty-first century, or rather, the postwar era, this would be my JK debut.

However, in twenty first century terms, the girls’ school was an integrated middle and high school. It went all the way to the fifth year. If one wanted to continue their education beyond that, they did not proceed to a fifth year, but instead graduated after four years and went on to a Higher Normal School for Women, or at most a girls’ college treated as a vocational school.

For women, the path to higher education was otherwise extremely difficult.

Ootori University had admitted female students since around the middle of the Meiji era. This was partly because Rin-sama was progressive, or rather, because she had strongly emphasized the importance of women’s education in her dreams