‘Monster parents’ plague Japan’s schools FEATURE 03/25/2010

‘Monster parents’ plague Japan’s schools

FEATURE 03/25/2010 TOKYO — Breakfast for parents at day-care centers, laundry and nail-clipping done at school, a pick-up service by teachers — these are some of the requests from Japan’s so-called “monster parents.” The increasingly outrageous demands have driven teachers’ stress levels to record heights and led the Tokyo city government to publish a handbook on tips to cope with them. More than 60,000 teachers and other workers at Tokyo’s public schools will get a copy by the end of March in a 10-million-yen ($110,000) project.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100325com3.html

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