Why do I complain about my job?

As you may or may not know (and as you may or may not care), I'm an assitant language teacher working for a couple of elementary schools in Tokyo. And I regularly bitch about not getting anything in the way of support. For years ALTs have been griping about not being sufficiently trained and then being abandoned in the classroom by the Japanese teacher. As it turns out, there's a reason for that sort of behavior...

Yeah. Even if the students want to study it, the teachers often have no interest in taking part. And why? They're nervous. Fortunately, I can't think of a single ALT who's ever felt nervous about trying to communicate with a room full of Japanese students.