Discipline
So this is purportedly by an ALT from Kobe:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100831hn.html
A lot of it is true. The sarcastic tone is definitely aimed, though, at a foreign audience who will moan, roll eyes, commiserate, and ultimately do nothing. The flippant tone and seeming disrespect for Japanese custom and culture will allow the most severe critics to disregard the message and instead attack the writer for cultural insensitivity or ethnocentrism. The writer then signs the letter "name withheld," which screams to me that this is an op-ed piece masquerading as an open letter to the Education Minister.
(Also interesting - this person must not be a JET: s/he has been an ALT "for 5 months," i.e., since the beginning of the school year. Teaching JETs arrive in summer and in the middle of an on-going school year. Sadly, no distinction is made, while this could certainly fuel anti-JET sentiment.)
Worst bit: the writer is right about a lot of that. Too bad s/he didn't study rhetoric enough to get past being a sarcastic ass about things.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100831hn.html
A lot of it is true. The sarcastic tone is definitely aimed, though, at a foreign audience who will moan, roll eyes, commiserate, and ultimately do nothing. The flippant tone and seeming disrespect for Japanese custom and culture will allow the most severe critics to disregard the message and instead attack the writer for cultural insensitivity or ethnocentrism. The writer then signs the letter "name withheld," which screams to me that this is an op-ed piece masquerading as an open letter to the Education Minister.
(Also interesting - this person must not be a JET: s/he has been an ALT "for 5 months," i.e., since the beginning of the school year. Teaching JETs arrive in summer and in the middle of an on-going school year. Sadly, no distinction is made, while this could certainly fuel anti-JET sentiment.)
Worst bit: the writer is right about a lot of that. Too bad s/he didn't study rhetoric enough to get past being a sarcastic ass about things.
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I think the person must work with ECC Best Career. They do contract work with Kansai area schools, and tend to send their teachers to more than one school.
But as someone who does volunteer teaching at our Oyodo Elementary Schools, I can tell you their is one of the three schools that makes me long for the days of corporal punishment in my youth, when I was on the receiving end more often than not.
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