![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Public or private? Competitive or nurturing? Standardised or individualised. While set in Japan, their struggles in the school's hyper competitive environment mirror those faced by parents here in the US and raise the same questions about the best way to educate a child - especially one that doesn't quite fit the mold. Together they would climb the rungs into the country's successful elite. Taro would wear the historic dark blue uniform and learn alongside other little Einsteins while she basked in the glory of his high achievements with the other perfect moms. ![]() An intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's struggle to fit in at a prestigious private elementary school in Japan When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan's top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. ![]()
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