Sometimes after the class, a meeting is held . Parents and the teacher discuss how the children work at school or at home, how they spend after school hours and so on. Parents are not required to attend, but they consider this event very important. Many mothers go there if not busy. Some working mothers take a half day off to take part in.
Some children get too nervous.
Both the teacher and the children try to be better than usual, because parents are there and watching. These meetings are almost compulsory, either mother or father attends and discuss children's works and daily lives. Open Class Day is held only at elementary school, not at junior high or senior high school. Although the reason is not clear, students there are no longer naive enough to be delighted to see their parents in the classroom.