Specialisation
A couple days ago I had an interesting conversation with my home room teacher, where we quickly discussed upon the various options Japanese students they have on entering my high school. Compared to Finland choice is very limited, with students divided into four different types of classes. There is the so called "normal" class, the sports course and an academics course for those who want to take university entrance exams a bit more seriously. The last course however, was quite interesting.
This course is essentially an entire class educating students to enter two alternative professions. Either a kindergarden teacher, or a social wellfare worker. I asked what kind of things they did in that class, and found the education to be remarkably practical. Among other things they were taught songs and dances to play with the kindergander kids, as well as the proper way to push a wheelchair.
While for me at least this seemed quite unusual, it makes sense if you think of how large an area Tokyo is. If every high school as a class devoted to a specialisation no matter how absurd it may be, you will probably find whatever it is you want to specialise in. Of course, this is just me guessing, and might not be the case at all...
Sakari
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