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School Board Considers Copyright Ownership of Student and Teacher Works
schwit1 writes "A proposal by the Prince George's County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to the school system, not the individual. It's not unusual for a company to hold the rights to an employee's work, copyright policy experts said. But the Prince George's policy goes a step further by saying that work created for the school by employees during their own time and using their own materials is the school system's property."
That place is a shit hole, and I wouldn't worry about them producing anything fit for public consumption in the near future.
" Schools provide opportunities to develop and hone social skills, to forge friendships and to discover new interests."
Using Chicago's schools as a prime example, I can see that is working quite well.
Basically, schools are perfect indoctrination centers. Little children who create guns from Legos are expelled from school, until they learn that guns are evil. Zero tolerance for anyone who doesn't conform.
The school systems are broken, plain and simple, They are broken due to government interference. Today's schools are no better than the little ten to fifty student schoolhouses that my parents and grandparents attended. People only BELIEVE that they are better, because government TELLS you that they are better.
With all the resources available on the internet today, I daresay a kid can get a much better quality education at home, if only he desires to do so.
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