Michael Cash wrote:

> Do like we impoverished fuckers do; send your kids to Japanese public
> school.

One of the few things my missus and I can agree on without a three day 
fight first is that our kids will not speak katakanago.  Poor is fine, 
it's speaking as though you are that is unacceptable.  Seeing as how my 
wife speaks English better than any of the "teachers" we've encountered 
so far, but lacks a teaching certificate and has no interest in getting 
one, I'm stuck looking for reasonable alternatives to J-schools.  We may 
break down and let our daughter learn to speak Canadian instead of 
proper American, but it still seems like a very slippery slope ... even 
if many Canadians mistake me for another one of them because of my mixed 
up accent.

CL