Questions regarding elementary school in Japan

[FG Lurker]

Free? Free??? Nothing is free. More income tax increases coming up...

[Greji]

FG will meet some Japanese chick and the relationship is something new to both of them. They fuck like animals and everythning seems cool so they decide to take it a step further without really fully understanding each other and once the reality of living and being married to a non Japanese and being exposed to the troubles of this marriage. Add that to possible communication/cultural problems and I think some woman will bail. My apologies for the run on sentences.

I rather like the animal part, lot of merit in that!

I think sometimes we become products of our own society be it in Japan or elsewhere. Marriage provides alot of problems of all sorts and when you add in language (more than culture) it will provide many an interesting problem. The J-people delight in the tv documentaries about the "senso hanayome" who goes to the US with her (usually) military husband and gets stranded as he becomes a drunk, or runs off with another woman (a round eye at that).

These shows usually set the stage for what a J-bride is going to hear and be subjected to by her peers and relatives. The old folks are normally overjoyed and delighted to pass on the tales of woe to show that if their girls don't marry a local yocal, that is what is sure to happen to them!

After 35 years of being married to the same local rice cooker and five kids who went to private schools, I still have an aunt of my wife who calls her once or twice a year to find out if I have left her stranded in the states yet (we live in Tokyo) and seems amazed that we are still happily chugging on. She will invariably leave the message before hanging up, to call her as soon as the "trouble" begins. It did take my wife several years to figure out that this was routine J-family meddling and to disregard it.

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[IparryU]

This simple chart gives a rough idea about how much education expenses per child needs from kindergarten to college in Japan, and the diffrence between Public school vs Private school. Hope this helps some parents as there were some brief discussion about similar topic some time ago.

i tried to get an answer out of the j-inlaws on why private school is better... the only logical answer i got was that the name helped out on uni and jobs...

all the other bs they gave me about better teachers was just lame. a good student can learn from many resources most likely being a book even with a mediocre teacher... it is mostly the strive of the student to get better IMO, but i bet some ppl would disagree with that.

having said that, japanese people are like lemmings... so if you put them all with a group of smart kids and good teachers, they would mindlessly follow.

just to contradict myself on the lemming theory, look at Keio aka the escalator school. some of them are smart while the others are just retards that got a good job cause they went to Keio grammar school > Keio Uni.