NAGOYA (Kyodo) The Nagoya Municipal Government has decided to open a public school in fiscal 2010 for students who return from abroad before entering 10th grade, officials said Monday.
It will be Japan's first public school for returnees to offer elementary and middle school curricula, according to the education ministry. It will also accept regular students, the officials said.
The idea for the school arose from the need to handle increasing numbers of children whose parents were sent abroad by Toyota Motor Corp. and other local companies that have been expanding overseas operations.
As of January, there were 725 returnees enrolled at public elementary and middle schools in Nagoya, and the number is rising, they said.
The school will introduce proficiency-based teaching in Japanese and mathematics while allowing returnees to study Japanese history and geography together with regular students. It will also provide English conversation lessons with native speakers after school.
"One of our goals is to help children acquire an international way of thinking," said Fumio Kato, a senior official of the Nagoya board of education. "We are considering introducing English classes at an early stage and would like to make a unique school."
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