John W. wrote:

> Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote in message news:<ch8sjm$c9f$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp>...
>
>>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.

Except for the parents calling, the same thing, with the same, dare I
say, class of students, happens at University here.

Dan