An English school in Yamanashi Prefecture publicly recruited teachers with "blond hair, blue or green eyes" only.
The school doing the recruiting blamed it on a request from its customers, kindergartens wanting "foreigners" with "blond hair" and "blue eyes" so the kids could get accustomed to people who were different from them.
Yup...and the kids could learn discrimination and stereotyping, too.
The recruiting poster was up for six months and then removed because of complaints or because they got enough teachers.
In the end the school apologized for its "lack of consideration."
The school also said it "was aware that it was an old discriminatory idea, but couldn't resist customers' needs."
Japan has a saying to the affect effect "customers are god." They will do their utmost to meet the customer's needs. In this case some think they will do too much.
What do you think?
If it were my school. I would continue to silently recruit teachers until I got the one's ones I wanted.
Unfortunately, the teachers you did have failed to teach you spelling - 'effect' and 'ones' are spelled like THAT.
Posted by: Tanja | March 20, 2007 2:33 AM | Permalink to Comment