Tuesday, 25 July 2006

Gee... I wonder what the solution is?

I have this thing in all my classes where I get all my kids to cross their legs and sit up straight (as I'm sure most people reading this did when they were at school). Funny/strange/fucking stupid thing is that so many girls from the age of 1 - 17 in Japan where skirts the size of a tissue so they force themeselves to be exposed in every seating position except for when they site with their legs directly under their theighs or at very strange 140 degree angles to their sides with their arses on the floor (looks like their legs have been broken honestly).

This causes a crisis for the first few weeks of a new class when I regularly remind the students to cross their legs and the girls shit themeselves because of what they chose to (not) wear to class that day. Needless to say all my girls are now wearing jeans or dresses, but I was reminded of this stupidity today when I overheard a mother talking to a sales staff about one of her daughters and another teacher who had asked to her cross her legs. The mother appartently thought it was really big trouble and didn't know what to do.

I don't know... like maybe, buying your daughter clothes that don't make her look like a teenage prostitute?

*Sigh* Don't get me started on 5 year old girls who dream of being a housewife. That's real ambitious girls!