JET Program on the Chopping Block (thank Buddha!!)

[TennoChinko]

good to see Debito is still anger fueled

Yes. He still has "daddy issues".

Dr. Herbert Sanders Aldwinckle



http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/plpath/directory/geneva.cfm?netId=hsa1

Growing up on a farm in the English countryside gave me an enduring appreciation of the plants in and outside farmers' fields. After studies at Cambridge and London Universities, which included botany and plant pathology, I did postdoctoral research in California. I came to Cornell as an assistant professor of plant pathology in 1970. Since then my work has focused on the apple tree, its origins and its diseases. I have also tried to pass on some of my enthusiasm to as many students as I can. I have been particularly interested in improving the apple tree`s ability to stand up for itself against the assaults of myriad diseases, with doing harm to the rest of our wonderful environment. This has led me into close association with apple breeders, with whom I have helped develop varieties with better resistance to diseases. It also led me to explore for wild apples in Central Asia, where we know now the domestic apple originated. As a result we have assembled an excellent collection of apples from the wild, which will be a valuable source of genes to use in future. In recent years we have explored the use of biotechnology to strengthen apple varieties. This promises to be of great value as we gain a much better understanding of the genes in apple trees and how they work, through genomics studies. We have also tried to gain a better understanding of the diseases, so that we can counter them with improved methods. We have paid particular attention to the devastating fire blight disease, which was first found in New York and continues to be the most feared disease of apple trees here and elsewhere.

According to his estranged son, Professor Aldwinckle is supposed to an alcoholic bully and tyrant. Dr. Evil. Funny thing is that the rest of debito's former family seem to disagree. His former wife and both of his daughters have seen fit to side with old Herb and Bernadine.

http://www.debito.org/homecoming2007.html

[IparryU]

Yes. He still has "daddy issues".

Dr. Herbert Sanders Aldwinckle



http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/plpath/directory/geneva.cfm?netId=hsa1




According to his estranged son, Professor Aldwinckle is supposed to an alcoholic bully and tyrant. Dr. Evil. Funny thing is that the rest of debito's former family seem to disagree. His former wife and both of his daughters have seen fit to side with old Herb and Bernadine.

http://www.debito.org/homecoming2007.html

It is common knowledge to take "Debito"'s words with a handfull of salt. Honestly not surprised to see him revolting against his family like he does Japan. More like a hobby to him... gets him hard or sumptin.

Hope the best for his kids though, having a dad like him dont help that much.

[BigInJapan]

Yes. He still has "daddy issues".
http://www.debito.org/homecoming2007.html

DEBITO does have some useful information on his site about gaijin rights etc. (although someone should tell him about Web 2.0), but most of the content is just ramblings about personal injustices, and other stuff of no consequence to anyone other than himself, an autobiography per se.

I could only read a paragraph or two from the above link. Way TMI.
I can't really see how anybody could benefit from his "facing my demons" diatribe. And posting scans of personal documents on the web. WTF? His ex-wife must really be glad to be rid of him.

[American Oyaji]

Some people rage against everything. That's all they have.

It's possible for someone to have so much angst built up, they can't let it go.
When complaining about the injustices of the world helps, but they have such a personality that they enjoy talking about the angst, that person is a walking vicious cycle of hate that destroys all relationships around them.

[wuchan]

DEBITO does have some useful information on his site about gaijin rights etc. (although someone should tell him about Web 2.0), but most of the content is just ramblings about personal injustices, and other stuff of no consequence to anyone other than himself, an autobiography per se.

I could only read a paragraph or two from the above link. Way TMI.
I can't really see how anybody could benefit from his "facing my demons" diatribe. And posting scans of personal documents on the web. WTF? His ex-wife must really be glad to be rid of him.

Debido.org does, technically, fall into the realm of web 2.0. It is a blog with active comment ability. The problem is that Davie has to approve all comments and he censors the ones that do not support his ideas or can not be defeated easily.

[BigInJapan]

Excerpts from a variety of recent responses to the Japan Times about the JET program: (article here)

"The JET program is flawed, burdened by too many chefs for its soup. the ALT program is an unmitigated disaster, an industry created for the purpose of avoiding dealing with workers, and avoiding as much responsibility concerning them as possible."

"Arudou claims that all the "exchange" in Japan Exchange and Teaching means to the officials in charge of the program and the native teachers with whom the JET participants work is "seat youths next to each other and watch them stare." This is nothing but cynicism."

"I can assure you that most of the AETs in my area at the time were here to make money, party and get something from Japan. Teaching or giving anything in return was secondary."

"I am not a "human tape recorder" and I do not sit back whilst the Japanese teachers do all the work. Every week I prepare bespoke lessons for all the grades of my junior high school, including alternative plans for different classes within the same grade, and I teach the whole 50 minutes of the lesson."

"Although I respect Mr. Arudou for his political activism, I am a bit disappointed he did not mention that the JET program brings over mainly white people from Anglo-Saxon countries."

"I was not a JET teacher, but worked with a private eikaiwa (conversation school) for a year and have struggled since then to articulate the deep and abiding sense of frustration the experience left me with. "

[Bucky]

[AssKissinger]

That was a case of someone fucking up. JETS get a big refund on their taxes if they work 3 years but they're supposed to take it out along the way. JET is still a good deal no matter how you slice it. It's the easiest job in the history of easy jobs.

[sublight]

Yes. He still has "daddy issues".

Dr. Herbert Sanders Aldwinckle



http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/plpath/directory/geneva.cfm?netId=hsa1


According to his estranged son, Professor Aldwinckle is supposed to an alcoholic bully and tyrant. Dr. Evil. Funny thing is that the rest of debito's former family seem to disagree. His former wife and both of his daughters have seen fit to side with old Herb and Bernadine.

http://www.debito.org/homecoming2007.html

Isn't that Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files?

[Coligny]

Close... but no cigar... (derp, I made a funnay)
(CSM don't smile...)

[Samurai_Jerk]

That was a case of someone fucking up. JETS get a big refund on their taxes if they work 3 years but they're supposed to take it out along the way. JET is still a good deal no matter how you slice it. It's the easiest job in the history of easy jobs.

When I was on JET we didn't have to pay residence taxes the first two years. We did have to pay the third year but our pay was adjusted up somehow to compensate for that. Has that changed?

EDIT: Now I remember it depended on what country you were from. Since the US and Japan have some kind of tax treaty I didn't have to pay. People from countries that didn't have a tax treaty did have to pay but that was supposed to be taken care of as you mentioned. It sounds like the BOE where he was working fucked up and then tried to make him pay for it.

[dimwit]

This story sounds like all the more reason to not be a JET.


The guy prevailed, but it sounds like it was a major pain in the arse.

Okay, this are a few former JETs here. How do the prefectural boards usually deal with residental tax? I would of thought that it was manditory for them to submit tax documents to the national tax agency, from which residental tax is calulated, and in turn are mailed out to the city resident.

[Doctor Stop]

Okay, this are a few former JETs here. How do the prefectural boards usually deal with residental tax?

Everything was done automatically for me and I was never mailed anything tax related.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I finally read the whole article and not just the excerpts that Bucky posted and it looks like everything I said before is still true. I'm glad to see that it wasn't really a JET problem and was just a case of a scumbag employer that happened to be the BOE. The worst part is the supervisor and secretary probably kept their jobs.