A True Story Heard at the Market: Second Grade, Six Days a Week of Cram School

In 2013, at the market entrance, I heard an aunt complain: her grandson, in the second grade of elementary school, had six days a week packed with math, English, taekwondo, soccer, piano, and abacus—and she hadn't seen her grandson in a long time. Hearing this, Mizuc just felt exhausted at heart.