At 10:08 PM 6/24/98 -0700, Patrick Vera wrote:

Does anyone know which (if any) of the Ranma cast would have been at
school at the same time as Kasumi? Are there any experts on teh Japanese
school system who could hazard a guess at which classes Kasumi might
have taken?

Nope, no one introduced in the manga, to my knowledge
is Kasumi's contemporary as far as school goes.
Also, I as far as I know, the subjects each class
takes in Japanese schools are chosen by the schools.
So expect the usual, biology, algebra, calculus,
Japanese hisory, Japanese language (especially written
Japanese as there are over 2000 characters to learn
and memorize) plus others.

 And English.  Read Mink's reminiscences of high school in Japan in the
late 80s.  They are at

     http://ftp.tcp.com/pub/maiko/  in gzipped files.  
 
                                            dml