<< Now we're cooking with gas, on your trash | Main | The TRAX Once Traveled >> May 14, 2006 >> Effrontery Tonight, two girls I just started tutoring told me they had spent the day down at the primary school, practicing their basketball shots. This is all well and good until you factor in their additional statements of: a) We hate basketball. That's right. Affluent Korean children who are not athletically-inclined go to a special gym school. On a Sunday afternoon. So they can do well on their physical education exam. So they can get into a good high school. So they can eventually get into a good university. Something is wrong here. There are no child-like avenues of joy that don't eventually merge into the mega-superhighway which unerringly streaks towards the blinding lights of Seoul National U. Posted by Chris at 07:08 AM >> Commentations (0)
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