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I saw a TV show that depicted Japanese school kids at lunchtime. They were in one of the lower grades of elementary school. The teacher left the room for the entire period and let them prepare lunch and clean up, which they did with no problem. As the announcer said, "if these were American kids, by now pandemonium would have broken out."

Wideminded - thanks for the single non-negative comment on something I only wanted to bring to light as a possibley cool way to run a nursery school. And I totally agree about what that lunchroom would have looked like in an American school - chaos.

Cheers

I am fascinated by the Japanese and have the intention of doing some reading in that area before too long.

I heard some media tidbit somewhere recently claiming that you can drop a wallet full of money on a Tokyo street and expect to go to the lost-and-found a couple of days later and claim your wallet ~and~ your money.

OTOH, there is the Rape of Nanking and other unbelieveable WWII atrocities to consider.

But then, back on the first hand, there is such an exquisit elegance and style to the culture.

But then, back on that other hand, there is the -- supposedly from real life -- story in Memoir of a Geisha about the "customer" who wanted only virgins and preserved a bit of cloth with their blood in vials in a cabinet he had just for this purpose.

The mind reels....