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[Diceman]

This is something I've been wondering for some time. I know that plenty of dispatchers have contracts with private SHS, but no one I've talked to or research seems to do public schools. Even the dispatchers themselves have no idea who holds what. I just find it odd how there's endless elem and JHS positions, but never an SHS. Do they have different regulations or contracts in Tokyo? Is it all just direct hire?

[Bread]

I've been curious about this, too. But for that matter, who has all of the Tokyo ES and JHS positions? Interac? I know Heart has none or very few and RCS has some, but there must be a massive number of schools within Tokyo. I don't know anything about Interac at all, so I'm guessing that it's them?

[seklarwia]

Interac has quite a few Tokyo placements, but I don't know how many exactly or what proportion are ES, JHS and HS though.

I know there are a number of smaller dispatch companies serving Tokyo. I have a friend who has been in Tokyo for a few years and worked for as many dispatchers. They worked for W5. I think they worked for Interac before I came to Japan. Can't remember the other, but they weren't great from what I was told.

[fluffyhamster]

Aren't public SHSs funded at the prefectural (i.e. national) level? If so, that might explain why there are so few dispatchers infiltrating them - it is probably a lot harder to get the funding approved, have "somebody" sign off on it (what with dispatching being a legal grey area - technically illegal etc) than it is at the more local level (city BOEs) for JHSs and ESs. That is, the city-level BOE grey suits are probably subject to less scrutiny and thus more able (pretty much free?) to do as they please.

[seklarwia]

[fluffyhamster]

Well, maybe they simply aren't being filled - I mean, post-JHS education isn't compulsory, so there may be a limit to what parents can expect or demand (unless they're sending their kids to private schools).

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