We are about to send our half Japanese son to public school. He is 9 years old and basically knows no Japanese due to having been born and raised in my home country. All he knows is how to say he's hungry or thirsty or needs the toilet, and while it is improving, it'll take time before he's conversational.
We can't send him to international school since it's way too expensive and my wife doesn't want to anyway since part of the reason for coming back to Japan for her was wanting him to learn Japanese since we failed to raise him bilingually.
I anticipate it's going to be super hard on him and am worried about bullying also. We're temporarily staying at my wife's jikka while we job/apartment hunt, so for the time being he'll have to go to her old primary school in Zushi, near Yokohama. Once we get established we're aiming to try get him into a school with more foreign / returnee students as they'll likely be better equipped to support him.
Wondering if anyone has similar experiences they could share. I'm worried I'm really throwing him to the wolves here.
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