Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!l32g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: chuckers Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Debito and the JET program Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <9d500e6e-b0b4-4668-a10e-8d00fd4d17b1@o15g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.36.179.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1286923573 11610 127.0.0.1 (12 Oct 2010 22:46:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l32g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.36.179.50; posting-account=iPkvIwoAAAAK9uQVY7lJ0Hck6k8yfmjW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6,gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169490 On Oct 12, 7:49=A0am, JimBreen wrote: > DA wrote an opinion piece in the JT last month > about the JET program:http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100907ad= .html > > I actually agree with quite a bit of what he said - not > so much about the JETs, but the state of English teaching. > > The JT today has a summary of responses:http://tinyurl.com/2axyopb=A0Enjo= y. > I didn't read the original Debito piece just because I figured it would be more of his unresearched ramblings and I am trying to cut down on that. The responses are fairly amusing though many appear to be from some of his usual critics.