FG Schools Fight For Status

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: International, ethnic schools unite for children's education rights
They have been given the same status of driving schools, are denied tax breaks and receive only a fraction of the subsidies that Japanese schools gain to prepare children for the future. Now, for the first time, international schools and ethnic schools around the nation are uniting in their demands for children's "rights to an education in their own language and culture." On Nov. 3, a preparation committee was set up in Nagoya that will work toward establishing a network to put foreign and ethnic schools on a par with Japanese schools...The estimated 80 Brazilian schools around the nation fare even worse. Brazilian schools aren't classified as miscellaneous schools; the government considers them private juku cram schools...more...