An English school in Yamanashi Prefecture put up a poster to recruit 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...so the kids could learn discrimination and stereotyping, too.
The recruiting poster was up for six months (what took so long to get it down?) 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 offered these words of wisdumb in explantion, We are "aware that it was an old discriminatory idea, but couldn't resist customers' needs."
Japan has a saying to the affect "customers are god." And, they will do their utmost to meet the customer's needs. In this case some may think they did too much.
What do you think?
If it were my school. I would have continued to recruit teachers until I got the one's I wanted.
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