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Japan: Private vs. Public Nursery Schools
The nursery my son goes is a kuritsu (public as opposed to private), and we cannot thank enough to the teachers there to support our child-rearing. The other day I was asked to answer some questionnaire from a local representative (ku-gikai-giin), then realized that the Tokyo government has this policy to scrap all the public nurseries and have them all run by private entities in the near future. Read more...