Posted on 06/07/2008 6:46:23 AM PDT by pnh102
The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The only snag was that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.
For the audience of menacing mothers and feisty fathers, though, the sight of 25 Snow Whites, no dwarfs and no wicked witch was a triumph: a clear victory for Japan's emerging new class of “Monster Parents”.
For they had taken on the system and won. After a relentless campaign of bullying, hectoring and nuisance phone calls, the monster parents had cowed the teachers into submission, forcing the school to admit to the injustice of selecting just one girl to play the title role.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
We had bunch of busybody girl moms conspire to get a boy kicked out of our elementary—I have both boys and a girl—they silly idiots knew better than to approach me or the other boy moms. Anyways the twits got it done. It was a travesty.
Nah, to busy patting each other on the back for “winning.” I wonder if they dressed up the boys as Snow White as well?
日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
I knew parents like this 20 years ago when my kids played T-ball.
The Japanese are slow to come around.
Doesn't seem like such a bad thing. The world could use fewer drama queens.
The way parenting is done in Japan is freaking nuts.
This is ridiculous and sad. Talk about taking the liberal ethos of unearned self-esteem (”every child is #1”) to a pathetic extreme.
Not only are the parents themselves monsters, but they are also ensuring that their kids will be also.
I don’t know what’s wrong with some people, that in order to correct a perceived problem that might be too far on one of the scale (silent conformity and polite submission even in the face of adversity) with something that is WAY too far on the other end of the scale, such as the egregious behavior you see here.
Blah...my proofreading skills are lacking today.
Knock off a redundant “also” from the second sentence.
And it’s “...might be too far one END of the scale...”
ON one end of the scale.
LOL
OK I give up.
Anyway, this article was a shocker. Glad I don’t have a teaching job in Japan.
Totally off the subject:
Hey, there’s a link on that page for communist jokes.
Most are pretty bad, but here is one:
A man goes to car showroom and orders a Lada. The sales guy tells him there’s a bit of a waiting list but the car will be available for collection on June 24th 2017. The man asks
“Morning or afternoon?”
“Why do you care?” says the salesman
“Because they are coming to connect my new phone line in the morning”
That in 40 years, the government will have 140,000,000 Prime Ministers...and 500,000 of those are also generals?
"Comrade, how goes the potato harvest?"
"If this year's potatoes were stacked in a pile, they would reach to the throne of God!"
"What? Comrade, as a good Communist surely you know that there isn't any God!"
"That is appropriate, since there also aren't any potatoes."
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