Gender-based Attendence

"Japan will collapse if it encourages homosexuals by listing the names
of boys and girls together."

- LDP Tokushima Prefectural Assembly member Motohiro Takeuchi, when
plans were announced to mix the names of boys and girls on school registers.

I always wondered why the names of boys and girls weren't mixed in the
attendance book!

(In my attendance books, girls come first, ordered alphabetically, then
come the boys, also alphabetically)