According to the results released on April 6, more than half this group cited chaotic classrooms as their reason. This has made me neurotic. I can barely get a word in. I just watch the class fall apart. The teacher's sense of guilt and failure gave him an ulcer and then drove him to a psychiatrist's couch.
Parents point to unimaginative teachers still stuck on rote-learning methods.
Educators criticize parents for not raising their children with the right values. And everyone blames social change - anything from a loss of national identity to the rise of the nuclear family. Another problem teachers face is the unending diet of multi-channel television and computer games, which produces easily distracted youngsters. Worse, youngsters growing up in a virtual world become virtual recluses. Inoue argues that this hinders human interaction and healthy personalities.