Government Guidelines
... Government has set some guidelines: for example, all students should gain the same levels of education, work hard on required subjects, and teachers need to complete the curriculum set by the government by the certain period. Recently, the Japanese government and schools begin to reconsider the guidelines and try to be flexible education, but it seems not enough. Government-set guidelines are still inadequate in these days. The Japanese government has believed that students should have gained the same levels of education at the same pace. ... The Japanese government also has believed that students should have worked hard on required subjects because they have to prepare for extremely tough entrance examinations. ... Finally, the Japanese government required teachers to complete the certain curriculum by a certain period. ... Teachers may afraid that if they try to deepen a certain subject, they would not complete their curriculum provided by the government. ... However, teachers jobs are actually not to complete the government-set curriculum guidelines, but to make students understood clearly. Therefore, the government let teachers choose the way they would go on their classes. ... The government-set guidelines might likely have kept the Japanese educational level constant.