My top 3 shockers of teaching English in Japan

As most of you know, I'm "teaching" English conversation here at the moment. (I feel more like I'm just "talking" instead of "teaching" though). I teach kids from age 5 and up to adults.

Top 3 shockers for elementary through high school kids:

1. Many of them don't know what their dad's do for a living!

They answer "he's a salaryman" meaning, their father's earn a salary for a living.
Hmm...yes, thank you for letting me know that, but that really doesn't shed any light on what your dad does. Makes me wonder how much kids here communicate with their dad's.

2. Many of the kids don't have dreams about what they want to do.

Maybe they're being modest and all of them want to be doctors or something, but whenever I ask "so what do you eventually want to be?" most of them answer "I don't know." I ask them "well, how about when you were a kid? Did you ever want to be superman or a princess?" I just get blank stares, like I just landed from Mars. Why is that? Is it that strange to ask about dreams?

3. I've yet to meet a single student who claims to like school.

No one likes school over here. No one seems to enjoy it. This, I can understand....schools seem totally uncreative and they never ever ever bend rules.

One more that I remembered.

4. Most kids go to cram school on top of school.

This is the most baffling one of all. Most students go to a private tutoring school after school, so basically students are studying ALL DAY LONG. They hate school, but they go to the tutoring schools. Most of them have no problem keeping up in school, but they go to tutoring schools. I don't understand the irony in this system. Why don't kids just PLAY here in Japan? It's study, study, study, but yet they don't have dreams they're chasing after. It sure is puzzling.