worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:

> 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.