Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Nov 6, 9:52 am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>> chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 5, 4:16 pm, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jStBHnhQGbM
>>> And how is that much different than any other University in Japan?
>> Or office, before the bosses show up?
> 
> I'm not sure about the bosses - my staff are remarkably active before
> I rock up each day. The complaint the student was making was that most
> of his?/her? classmates were asleep during the actual classes - and
> these are supposedly interactive language classes, not lectures. I can
> understand sleeping through the odd lecture, especially if you can
> watch video footage of the same lecture on demand.
> 
> This wasn't at a university, but a language prep school. Almost all of
> these students work all night (illegally), and then sleep in the
> classes during the day. As long as they are physically present in the
> classroom, Immigration doesn't seem to care (whether they care about
> the same people working more than the allowable hours per week is a
> different issue). Neither it would appear does the school.
> 
> I also wonder what would happen to the student who uploaded the video
> if/when the school identifies the clip. Video clips like this also
> open up all sorts of interesting libel and privacy issues. I was also
> particularly pissed off when I was told yesterday that Yamasa should
> ban the use of cameras & keitai in class, because students sleeping
> during class at the Tokyo school pictured in the video could damage
> "Japan's image". What has Tokyo got to do with Yamasa?, and in any
> case, Japan's image my arse.

My wife, who teaches English to elementary school aged children, took 
one look and said "the national test must still be several months off."

Other than that, the additional links on the right side were terrible. 
However, by clicking on the ever-execrable Gregg Irwin, I got to the 
ever-lovely Natsukawa Rimi, including one short film I've never seen 
before in which she is accompanied by Jake Shimabukuro ... and that made 
the trip worth it.

What were we talking about?

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CL