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Japan and Korea, famous for their high-achieving students, are also famous for another thing: huge class sizes. Larger than those in the USA.

Sure, classes are different, teachers are different, but the culture to push your kids to succeed is different as well. The parents are to blame for so many of the problems in our schools. I'm guessing parents in Japan and Korea don't go to a kids school and fight the teacher when they have bad grades.



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