The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The onlysnagwas that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White. ※snag =思わぬ障害 ナメクジ=slug
For the audience of menacing mothers andfeistyfathers, though, the sight of 25 Snow Whites, no dwarfs and no wicked witch was a triumph: a clear victory for Japan's emerging new class of “Monster Parents”.
For they had taken on the system and won. After a relentless campaign of bullying, hectoringand nuisance phone calls, the monster parents hadcowed the teachers into submission, forcing the school to admit to the injustice of selecting just one girl to play the title role.