Japanese logic
mr.sumo.snr
Now - just exactly how are the teaching staff expected to "..take care of
the safety of their children who are on summer vacation."
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jonathan
Michael Cash
<mr_...@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>Mainichi reports it as it is once again! http://tinyurl.com/i093
>
>Now - just exactly how are the teaching staff expected to "..take care of
>the safety of their children who are on summer vacation."
If I didn't already know Jr. isn't old enough to be in school yet,
your incredulity on this would be a dead giveaway.
The schools/government think that parents play a secondary role in
child-rearing. Unfortunately, all too many parents seem to buy into
this as well. The result is....well....is what you see all around you.
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Michael Cash
"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."
Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College
mr.sumo snr.
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> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:01:20 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr"
> <mr_...@hotmail.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
> >Mainichi reports it as it is once again! http://tinyurl.com/i093
> >
> >Now - just exactly how are the teaching staff expected to "..take care of
> >the safety of their children who are on summer vacation."
>
> If I didn't already know Jr. isn't old enough to be in school yet,
> your incredulity on this would be a dead giveaway.
>
> The schools/government think that parents play a secondary role in
> child-rearing. Unfortunately, all too many parents seem to buy into
> this as well. The result is....well....is what you see all around you.
>
I'm well aware that society (read PTAs) blame teachers for the miscreant
behavior of their charges. And despite the fact that most of my students
will be going to school every day during the vacation period I really think
that such a warning would serve better purpose if directed to the parents
and perhaps the grandparents - since it's a fair bet that obaasan will be
undertaking the lion's share of the vacation-time supervision.
BTW Mike when it comes to parent-teacher meetings do you a) take it in the
guts like a man b) threaten to mount the head teacher's severed head on the
front of your truck or c) does your wife lie to you about when the meetings
are?
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jonathan
John W.
>
> I'm well aware that society (read PTAs) blame teachers for the miscreant
> behavior of their charges.
The reality is that child rearing is first the responsibility of
parents, but is also to some extent the responsibility of society in
general. I find it very disturbing that teenagers feel little respect
(and certainly not much fear) for their elders, which is partially the
result of this interesting 'trend' where adults think that kids know
more than they do, or are in some way different than they were at the
same age.
John W.