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swimming and sports.
Some classes have as many as 40 students. Students clean up each day-as we left students were sweeping the driveway.
Mr. Kato, principal of elementary school, was proud of his 1,300 children in grades 1 through 6. He is disturbed by Japanese education and lack of helping children with high ability. They don’t get a chance to excel. Low-ability • students struggle also. He likes the American approach of helping more ability ' levels develop to full potential. This isn’t done in Japan because parents want children to successfully take exams with high scores to go to best high school, them to best colleges, them to good employment. Therefore, the focus is on drill, memorization and facts instead of developing creativity and imagaination like American schools. At an early age Japanese children are taught ot conform.
I was asked to speak to children on closed-circuit TV; the studio was run by 6th grade students.
One of the books that I read in preparation for the trip was Learning To Bow, an insightful look at the Japanese school system and culture, recommended to me by Miss Margaret Dodson, a retired teacher in Flint Hill. I recommend it if you want to know more about Japanese schools.
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