EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	On their visits to students’ homes, it is important for home-room teachers to exchange frank opinions with the parents. It is also important not only to ask them about their children’s roles at home and in the community, to solicit parents’ requests, and to convey teachers’ thoughts and views clearly, but also to actually observe the atmosphere in students’ homes and communities, and to learn their characteristics. In situations where students’ families give a special and excessive reception, teachers must refuse it politely. April 2005 (1) depart from school (2)(3) house of a student (4) go to next student’s house