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?"

Comments

Re:WRONG

[Anonymous Coward]

theft is a crime, and illegal

A surprising number of crimes are illegal.
;-)

Re:File a complaints.

[feepness]

Write down the event now, while it's still fresh.

And make sure to not let anyone steal it!

Re:Easy solutions

[mcbridematt]

So, whats the name of this institution so we can fire up the traditional internet educational vigilante mob?

Why bother?

[quenda]

In economics, the exam questions are the same every year. They just change the answers.

Re:Why bother?

[marxz]

In economics, the exam questions are the same every year. They just change the answers.

classic ... and even if not true should be... Q1: "is sub prime lending viable as a business model?" 2007 A: yes 2008 A:um maybe, maybe not. 2009 A: no

Re:File a police report _now_.

[sqldr]

I pick YOU UP. I unzip YOUR PANTS. I roughly jam my cock up your ass. As the students are watching I sodomize you for several minutes until I give my "O" face to the class.

Oh stop it.. you're turning me on

Re:Notes?

[kperson]

Besides that, does that article give you a clue why Europeans are either laughing their heads off or throwing up when Americans claim they live in the "freeest of all countries"?

That's why I hate Europe. Heads popping off all the time, and vomit everywhere.

Re:Notes?

[lazlo]

You know, it would be kind of amusing to offer a trade. When the teacher asks for the notes, say "I will trade you my notes for a signed statement affirming your assertion that nothing you have taught any of your students will ever be of use to any of them for the rest of their lives and that your entire professional career has been a meaningless sham. If you want to add an addendum about how you are a charlatan and scam artist, you are free to do so."