long time no post .....again

I think about writing but never seem to have time. The past few months have been spent trying to build up my English school. I've got a few new sudents, and am trying some new ideas in teaching. Hard work but fun. I love it when the kids get something and you see the "light bulb" go on! That makes all the hard work worth while!
On a more personal note I am so happy to be finished with the kids old school. The last elementary school thought that 'discipline' was a four letter word. Kids in my daughters 1st grade class could get away with back talking to the teacher, even beating the teachers face bought a hug from the assistant teacher not a reprimand!! The class looked liked a zoo a feeding time. From what I saw, on more than one occasion, in a 45minute lesson, maybe 10 minutes of actual teaching, explaining could take place, the rest of the time was used to get kids to sit down, stop talking, stop hitting each other. Class breakdown is an understatement! Of course my daughter is the daughter of the Crown Prince, so her plight and that of thousands of kids in Japanese schools is ignored. Poor Princess Aiko had a hard time in her school and refused to go. It is sad that any kid hates school and is afraid of their peers. But honestly does she even need an education? No matter whether she graduates from school or not the Princess is set for life. Not so the thousands of kids who are really suffering here. There is no home schooling allowed and very few alternative schools. These kids just fall through the cracks of this rigid society.