On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:34:57 +0900, "mr.sumo.snr."
<llanelli14@SPAMSUCKBANANAS.yahoo.com> brought down from the Mount
tablets inscribed:

>"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>news:1101304577.760152.326620@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually I would want to nix that commute, but so many parents are
>>> unwilling/unable to do so;
>>
>> That's because it's much better for a child to go to a prestigious
>> school (or something along those lines) than to actually have to spend
>> TIME with them.
>>
>> I think a lot of Japan's current social woes stem from this practice
>> because for much of their youth a lot of kids are completely without
>> direct, visible parental love. I'd much rather my child go to a
>> slightly inferior school and spend time with his family while growing
>> up.
>>
>
>Well that's the real tragedy isn't it.  Japanese kids SHOULDN'T have to go 
>to inferior schools.  They should be able to have their cake and eat it.  If 
>there's enough money available to build unnecessary highways, then there's 
>enough to build new, more compact schools with smaller catchment areas so 
>poor little Takeshi-kun doesn't have to walk 5km to get home.

There are places in Tokyo where it is only a long fly ball from one
elementary school to the next one.




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