It's Japan. if you're caught doing something that isn't related to studying before you graduate university, you will be flogged with a thousand spiked dildos and then expelled from school. They keep you in school to teach you how to get a job and go to work, but if you have a job and work, instead of viewing that as you being a capable student, they instead treat it as you have done something horribly wrong, and thus the beating with the thousand spiked dildos.