Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message news:<2q0sbmFns2kdU27@uni-berlin.de>...
> John W. wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Me too. But then, I remember the セーラー服.
> 
I used to live near a high school. Well, near it if I rode my bike up
a big hill or went for a nice long walk, right around mid/late
afternoon. I hated having to return to the station amid that throng of
teenage girls showing more leg than a prostitute on a slow night.

John W.