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juku(*) = a private school where students and/or pupils study extracurricular lessons after school
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●Why Do We Need "JUKU" NOW?
At the time of depression many companies tend to employ a small number of recruits with a special knowledge, self-relianace, flexibility, and competence in efficient management, to say nothing of good scholarship. In spite of such high qualifications sought by the business world, education, one of whose purposes is to produce expectations of the society, is confronted with such problems as bullying, nonattendance, and low sholarship at school and selfish and inconsiderate behaviors of young people. And still there is another anxiety for parents; in 2002 the plan will be carried out to reduce school hours drastically, which may make the gap between the requirements of society and the reality of education even wider.
These circumstances of education seem to worry more and more parents in Japan, but fortunately, they can rely on "juku", which can meet social needs, collecting the latest information on education and practicing learning methods of originality .
Nevertheless, the parents faces another problem; there are hundreds of thousands of (not to say as many as stars) juku schools to choose. It is not easy for them to single out an appropriate school for their children.
So they need a yardstick. But what yardstick ought it to be?
Needless to say, they should choose juku according to educational philosophy of the parents as well as their children's personality and faculty . But it is also desirable to take a view of "adaptation to the contemporary society". That is an active usage of the internet.
It is necessary to assume at least a positive attitude toward the internet, which was made possible by the appearance of a personal computer, once regarded as a tool for men of a certain specific field or a toy to interfere with the children's home work but now considered as a common instrument essential for everyday life.
Through the medium of the internet, we manage this portal site to provide information on more than 1,000 juku schools, whose teachers are, as we find through our contact, not only friendly and warm-hearted but also attentive to their students' future.
We spare no effort to introduce as many schools as possible and develop this site to be still more useful. So why don't you find your most reliable "pro of education" on "e-juku net", not bewiledered by rumors and worries under this transition stage of Japanese education?
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