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Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online
theodp writes "Thousands of teachers are using websites like Teachers Pay Teachers and We Are Teachers to cash in on a commodity they used to give away, selling lesson plans online for exercises as simple as M&M sorting and as sophisticated as Shakespeare. While some of this extra money is going to buy books and classroom supplies, the new teacher-entrepreneurs are also spending it on dinners out, mortgage payments, credit card bills, vacation travel and even home renovation, raising questions over who owns material developed for public school classrooms."
I don't see what clothing has to do with it.
Obviously? In practice unless there is an incentive for sharing there is a good chance they won't be "kept free and open", rather they will remain completely undistributed and locked up.
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Let me rephrase the argument for you:
OMG teachers are getting paid!!! How could this happen?! SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!
That should be "their child is the next" rap/hip hop/C&W star, movie actor, football or basketball hero, winning NASCAR driver...all the rest of them will be soldiers or homerland security professionals or government commissar.
At least your school had principles. Mine only had principals. :)
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Exactly. This is why the Slashdot socialist brigade would rather take your lesson plans at gunpoint and distribute them to the other teachers who were too lazy to come up with their own. Punish work and innovation, reward laziness and status-quo preservers. Now that's the way to improve our educational system!