fjlij@hotmail.com (Jason Cormier) wrote in message news:<5c5b95a0.0409041345.7ec5b170@posting.google.com>...
> 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.

Sometimes I feel genuinely sorry for Japanese school teachers.

John W.