Saeid's journey

Ethics and Legality

Teachers Pay Teachers

Teacherspayteacher.com in my belief is a very good idea. It is a a website where one can buy other people’s original thoughts and educational works and share it with their students and allow them to learn with the help and ideas of other people. I know that it can seem like a wrong way, and unfair way, because people who are too lazy to come up with their own tools are using the easy way of purchasing educational tools.  I believe that it is ethical for this website to be sharing/selling these lesson plans to other teachers and educational administrators, because the ones selling and profiting are selling their own educational tools which were their own original ideas, but the whole issue of copyright comes into play, which is where did they come up with the ideas, has their work been legally copyrighted, and is their educational lessons effective and worthwhile for students and will it really help them.

I do agree, in some sense that what this website hosts and allows is ethical and legal, but my issue is with the lessons being sold and the people that are profiting from it.  Are the teachers selling their “original ideas” in the right? I do not know, because did they use tools from the place that they work for? have they paid their fair share to that institution? Is their lesson good for other students, who may have not learned what his/her students have learned and been exposed to the same opportunities their students have been?

This is an iffy subject but one that needs to be addressed because some may be cheated by this, and one who is sure that their work is their full original idea, should get it copyrighted and have it sold at a much higher price.