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A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes?
zwei2stein writes "I found this question with far-reaching implications in the off-topic section of a forum I frequent: 'My economics teacher is forcing us to give up all of our work for the semester. Every page of notes and paper must be turned over to her to be destroyed to prevent future students from copying it. My binder was in my backpack, and she went into my backpack to take it. Is that legal?' Besides the issue with private property invasion, which was the trigger of that post, there is much more important question: Can a teacher ask a student not to retain knowledge? How does IP law relate to teaching and sharing knowledge? Whose property are those notes?"
d) take a gun to school and shoot the teacher.
I keed. I keed.
How we know is more important than what we know.
This isn't the RIAA, it's just teachers being nazis for their own reasons.
She has no right to go into your bag especially when it has nothing to do with illegal activities.
No matter what she thinks those notes are yours. She destroyed your property so now it's time to destroy her.
If you read your handbook you should see that the students have more rights than they think. The school will never tell you this. They only point out the things you shouldn't do in the handbook and not the good bits.
I don't normally post about grammar, but since we are speaking of education...
>And if you borrow these notes to someone else to learn from them?
You can't "borrow" notes to someone. You can, however, *lend* them to someone and someone can borrow them from you.
> give you a clue why Europeans are either laughing their heads
And yes, I was taught English in an American school system.