Student Failed for Distinguishing Piracy and Stealing

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Subject: pho: Piracy v. Stealing : Teacher fails student
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:48:57 -0500
From: "Guillaume Champeau - Ratiatum" <[email protected]>
To: "Pho List" <[email protected]>

Piracy vs. Stealing: Teacher Fails "A" Student for Topic Choice 

posted by Mark Frauenfelder  Saturday, December 11, 2004
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/11/piracy_vs_stealing_t.html

Sixteen year-old Steve Geluso was failed by his English teacher
for choosing to distinguish piracy from stealing in an essay. 

"Geluso, an 'A' student, recently completed an in-class exit exam
for his Language Arts class. The goal of the exit exam was to
write a comparative essay on a topic of the student's choice.
Being a student who enjoys a challenge, he wrote an essay
contrasting piracy with stealing. 

"His teacher failed him, saying there was no difference between
the two and that he was "splitting hairs". Other teachers who
read his essay said that he did well from an organizational and
technical standpoint, but because his teacher felt that there was
no difference between piracy and stealing, she gave him an 'F'
because she disapproved of the content of his essay. 

"Check out his several comments regarding this event on his
low-fi weblog at http://steve.mathcaddy.com Steve's scanned-in
paper is available Here <http://steve.mathcaddy.com/exitexam/>
(Note the "Continue to Page 2" link at the bottom of the page.)" 


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