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: 6 Sep 2004 05:48:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <73fde4f0.0409060448.11d160d1@posting.google.com> References: <73fde4f0.0409010546.42496190@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0409021139.3000518f@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0409030524.69e1b4d6@posting.google.com> <5c5b95a0.0409041345.7ec5b170@posting.google.com> <73fde4f0.0409050806.33f3068f@posting.google.com> <2q0sbmFns2kdU27@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.151.187.128 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1094474892 17260 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2004 12:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:17929 Kevin Gowen 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.