June 07, 2008

Whew

Looks like we won't have to worry about being outperformed on the global stage anymore.

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.

If Japan's schools are going down this road, too, their focus on actual education will be out the window.

Just like the public schools here.

Posted by Vox at June 7, 2008 08:39 AM | politics
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