This is the most awesome thing ever.

[snarp]

I’m going to be teaching a little girl who looks exactly like a ko-omote Noh mask. She came in for a demo lesson today. I completely suspected her Mom of like, making modifications to her eyebrows for a second, but no, she totally does naturally look like that.

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[elongated-tito.livejournal.com]

Why is it that your students' parents seem to be around a lot of the time? Are they considered too young to be at school alone?

[snarp]

This isn't actual-school-type-school, it's after-school classes. So some of the parents sit outside the classroom and brag about their offspring's genius. Some of them laugh and clap when the kids misbehave, thus encouraging such behavior and rendering it impossible for me to Maintain Classroom Discipline. (The girl who scratched me's mom is a repeat offender here.)

On the opposite end of the spectrum are the ones who drop the kids off and are late picking them up. There's one girl whose parents are always at least ten minutes late, so she hangs around in the classroom after class a lot. (She never has a jacket, either.) Fortunately she's pretty well-behaved, aside from her lamentable habit of drawing pictures of me as a tanuki on the whiteboard.