Using transsexuals to teach the past tense in Japanese JHS.

I kid you not, a Japanese teacher prepped and used a lesson, including photos, teaching the past tense of 'is' using Japanese TV personality, and winner of the "Miss International Queen 2009" transsexual beauty pageant in Thailand - Ms. Ai Haruna.

Target sentences:

"This is Ms. Haruna Ai. She is a girl. She was a boy."

Straight genius. Sometimes I love Japan so much I want to cry.

Today's other discovery, finding a student wearing multiple WWJD bracelets, totally unawares of the meaning, paled in comparison.