Parents are afraid of not sending their child to cram schools because, they are afraid that they might get second rate jobs in the future (second rate means a job that doesn’t give a sufficient amount of money. Parents have their children in cram schools at early age because of paranoia.
A teacher said that the cram schools are clever and very good in appealing kids. Also, three year olds need to learn how to swing in seesaws. These children are like half babies, half adult. They know many complex things we don’t know. They can also do more complex activities that kids that are older than them can’t do neither.
Japanese students are getting into cram schools every year earlier and earlier of age. Children are now starting to apply for cram schools at even 2 years old! Ate even an age of three children and families begin cram school and exams to determinate if they can retire from a very good job sixty years later. Getting into a good preschool or kindergarten counts a lot towards what will happen to you in the future for example: getting into a university that you want to get into. To get into a good university, you have to get into a good high school. To get into a good high school, you must study at a good elementary school for example: Yochisha.
In order to be a real Japanese child, you need to learn how to; put colored chips in sequences, take achievement tests, walk on balance, etc. They need to learn all that before they are four years old! Also the salary they have in their jobs in the future when their in their thirty’s or forty’s to if they went to a cram school or not. If they did they get paid more in their salary.
Even a mother has been bringing her one year old daughter everyday to cram school. She said, “I want to do the best I can as a parent to give my child opportunities. In one cram school the first ninety minutes of class is used to, improve your IQ. If you’re inside of a cram school, everyday you need to take an entrance exam (up to fifteen minutes). An entrance exam is an exam you have to take every day you show up in school in the beginning of class before class begins.
The headmaster of Yochisha School said that the preparation of day exams every day makes everyone turn into rivals so then they can make fun of their failure. They also mentioned that cram Schools best and brightest students often end up as working and, being a part of the government or, being people who are important in corporations that end up speaking three languages.
Another reason they want good educations and children in cram schools in Japan is because, they want to be creative and “intelligent” as the kids are in America. Negative things that come to that is that, children schedules are always packed when they are in cram schools. That is negative because it makes children more tired (as some replied) as in the exact time that they are in school.
They said students that are more mechanical thinkers often become trained seals or soldiers in the army. Even if you want to be a seal in Japan you need to go to a cram school that teaches those mechanics and other stuff related to that. Each year the students are becoming more physical and surprisingly smart in many astonishing ways.
A mother applied her three year old daughter to gym class and already there she learned how to, jump rope, bounce a ball one-hundred times, run backwards and run in circles and also jump on a mat. Also, a professor at Tokyo university said that, there is no positive effect from cram schools and the exams that they give and that, it would be better for both Japanese child and, society if they didn’t have them in those schools.
Other experts say that cram school is good and it helps your child but, they say that cram schools would end up taking your child’s ability to think independently away. Most cram schools pay the parents nine thousand dollars a year because of the two and a half hours of instruction every week. Parents also call this, “examination hell” because of the so many exams that they give.
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