08-03-2014, 06:07 PM
(08-03-2014, 05:07 PM)Grungie Wrote:True, although I always had a problem with that in the US too.(08-03-2014, 04:52 PM)crazysam23 Wrote: That's my point.well to be fair, they do that in the US with teaching foreign languages as well, you learn grammar rules, but never really learn how to speak it.
Quote:Well, ok. Still, it seems that Japanese kids seem to get more A's & B's than American kids do, on the whole.Quote:I'm sure. It's hard to get kids to give a shit about that. Even so, I understand that it's a "point of honor" for the parents. Is it true that a kid who gets C's is considered a failure or something (barring extenuating circumstances)?
Not really, your parents will just bitch at you, but that's nothing different from here hrug: