'Monster parents' plague Japan's schools...

Breakfast for parents at day-care centres, laundry and nail-clipping done at school, a pick-up service by teachers -- these are some of the requests from Japan's so-called "monster parents".

The increasingly outrageous demands have driven teachers' stress levels to record heights and led the Tokyo city government to publish a handbook on tips to cope with them.

More than 60,000 teachers and other workers at Tokyo's public schools will get a copy by the end of March in a 10-million-yen (110,000-US-dollar) project.

"There are so many," a Tokyo teacher said as she recalled complaints her elementary school has received. More...

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