John W. wrote:

> fjlij@hotmail.com (Jason Cormier) wrote in message news:<5c5b95a0.0409041345.7ec5b170@posting.google.com>...
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>>worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:
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>>>The things he mentions most involve plagiarism on school papers. These
>>>days there aren't many Japanese; none, maybe. But the problem extends
>>>to Korean students as well (not sure if there's a true parallel or
>>>just coincidence). The students get told very clearly the punishment
>>>for plagiarism. They get told that he (the teacher) will check very
>>>thoroughly, including using the Internet. They get told even of some
>>>of the mistakes that trigger his suspicion. Yet they inevitably turn
>>>in a paper with God awful grammer and sentence structure spotted with
>>>expert prose (that a quick Internet search reveals to be plagiarized).
>>>He fails the student on that paper, and the students just don't seem
>>>to understand, their parents call, etc., seemingly blaming the teacher
>>>for the kid's laziness.
>>
>>Add big crocodile tears when confronted about the plagerism and I
>>might as well have written this.
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> 
> Sometimes I feel genuinely sorry for Japanese school teachers.

Me too. But then, I remember the セーラー服.

- Kevin