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azarashi sushi · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 562 Location: Shinjuku

And another thing... The school principal says he hopes you "have a good time" working at this school. That is another thing I've never heard in my six years in Japan... A school principal hoping the teachers have a good time. Which high school is it? Kabukicho High School?

Chris21 · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Japan

A.S.,

Excellent post! Definitely a troll. One more thing about Betty Lou's post... I've been in plenty of Principal offices, and in every case I've been asked to sit and been served coffee. I can't recall one instance of standing over the desk.

G Cthulhu · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject:

southofreality · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 579 Location: Tokyo

Betty Lou Jones · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 14

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cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

Betty Lou, are you a native English speaker? Also, reduce the number of exclamation marks, it sounds as though you are shouting.

While I don't doubt that some school principals look at porn on their computers (on my last day in my first school the principal asked me which girls I preferred, English, Italian or Japanese, and also how many girlfriends I had - all of which he had a JTE translate for him (another old guy with a bit of a rep for being a perv)) but at the very least he should have switched it off. I'm not saying its all right, but porn and sex play a huge part in this country and often its not seen as being that taboo. I've seen a couple of salarymen looking at porn on their mobiles while on the train, and I've also sneaked a look into the computer room to see some of the kids looking up animae porn.

You could kick up a fuss about it, but quite possibly you'll be ignored as the foreigner who 'doesn't understand' Japanese culture, or something like that. Quitting will make a statement, but it probably won't do you much good.

Big John Stud · Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 513

I have to agree with cornishmuppet. This is a different culture. One should not judge what people do here in Japan by their home country�s standards. One only has to ride the train one time to know looking at porn is an accepted activity in this culture.
The U.S. is way too up tight about sex. I vaguely remember reading in the newspaper about an incident that happened last year somewhere in the U.S. I believe a substitute teacher was surfing the net in search of a site to teach the class and came across a porn site by accident. She immediately changed the site, but was dismissed and later arrested. Her teacher�s license suspended. I don�t know if she was sentenced or not.
Another example of Americans being too uptight about sex is how congress and the senate spent millions investigating who Clinton had sex with to gather enough evidence to impeach him. Yet, Bush lied to start a costly war, and no impeachment trail and nowhere near the amount of money investigating him. Okay granted the democrats just recently took control of congress and the senate.

G Cthulhu · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:12 am Post subject:

Chris21 · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Japan

Big John Stud · Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 513

Chris21 wrote:

After looking at backposts, it's pretty clear that the OP is Tigerwood.

Wow! Chris21 makes a lot of sense. I should of noticed how similar this thread is toward his other threads about Nova and making so much money in Thailand.

Chris21 · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Japan

Notice the fawning praise Betty Lou Jones heaps on Tigerwood in those other threads... I thought that was pretty funny.

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

I can't say whether or not this is a troll post, but I CAN say the following, (for those who haven't been on the forum all that long):

1) This topic, almost verbatim has come up in the past. A new teacher walks into a kocho sensei's office and the finds the principal either watching or reading porn, or ma$turbating. The new teacher is shocked, wants to resign and posts up her experience on Dave's, asking for advice on what to do next.

2) Each time this topic has come up, the thread has been removed. Why?

3) Because each time this topic has come up, it was posted by known trolls. I know they were trolls because of the IP signature... (Remember, I was a moderator on Dave's at one time. Mods have the capability to do IP address matching, so yeah, we know who you all are... And if you open more accounts on Dave's, the system automatically cross-matches them -- so TRUST ME -- we know who you all are and where you're logging in from...)

Big John Stud · Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 513

Yesterday, I had done a search because I vaguely remember a thread similar to this one. Maybe about two years ago, I could of sworn I had read a thread almost exactly the same as this one. I read just about all my past post but couldn�t find one about a similar situation. I was beginning to think, I was loosing my mind. Anyway thank you Jim for confirming my suspicion.

king kakipi · Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 353 Location: Australia

March into his office! Grab him by his USB!! Tell him this is "NOT ON"!!! Destroy his computer!!!! Tell the whole school!!!!! Tell the town hall!!!!!!! SSSSSCCCCCCRRRRRREEEEEEAAAAAAMMMMMMM it from the roof tops, girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.......or maybe just let it go................ Sad