Learning how to navigate public high school in Japan

This morning my eldest daughter got her long-awaited results for the public high school entrance examinations she took last week. I am delighted to announce she passed and got into her first choice of school. I won't be sharing the school for security reasons, but I will say it is in Kawagoe, so it feels like a double win! 

My eldest child, my son, didn't apply to a public high school at all. There was a particular private school he wanted to go to, so he could spend a year studying abroad, so he only applied there. Thus, although, she is my second eldest child, this is my first experience with public high school in Japan. We have a lot to learn! And I thought I would share some of our experiences on City-cost.

However, I wasn't in Japan for the application process, which happened last term, so I had to leave that to my husband and my daughter. I have another two children yet to go through the process, so I will probably save posts about the application process until then. But in the coming weeks, I will share a few things about our recent experiences with navigating public high school in Japan.