Selling lesson plans

[theteach <theteach@theteachonline.net>]

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Alex

Here's an AP story about a site that's supposed to be like an eBay for 
teachers selling lesson plans to other teachers: 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13598779/

This paragraph has to be this gem of ethical double-standards:

"While students have been criticized for plagiarizing other people’s work 
through the Internet, Edelman [proprietor of teacherspayteachers.com] says that 
scenario doesn’t apply here. Teachers are willingly selling their work, and 
those who buy it still have to apply it in their own way in the classroom."

Um, yeah. Willingly selling your work makes it OK! And thus, the irrefutable 
student excuse for 2006-2007: "I bought my paper for your class off of the 
Internet, but *I'm applying it in my own way*."

--Karl

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