Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: fjlij@hotmail.com (Jason Cormier) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Teacher says Sasebo schoolgirl slayer acted 'naturally' Date: 4 Sep 2004 14:45:30 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5c5b95a0.0409041345.7ec5b170@posting.google.com> References: <73fde4f0.0409010546.42496190@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0409021139.3000518f@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0409030524.69e1b4d6@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.25.206.151 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1094334331 10944 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2004 21:45:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:17885 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.