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!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Teacher says Sasebo schoolgirl slayer acted 'naturally' Date: 3 Sep 2004 06:24:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <73fde4f0.0409030524.69e1b4d6@posting.google.com> References: <73fde4f0.0409010546.42496190@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0409021139.3000518f@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.32.36.230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1094217878 18848 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2004 13:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:17848 Scott Reynolds wrote in message news:... > On 9/3/2004 4:39 AM, John W. wrote: > > > A friend of mine teaches at a > > private school in the US and sometimes expresses amazement at the > > things Japanese students who go there think they can get away with. > > Any specific examples? (Just curious.) 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. John W.