California Elementary Schools To Test Anti-Piracy Curriculum 356
New submitter newbie_fantod writes "Ignoring the fact that the surest way to get a child to do something is to tell them not to, the RIAA and MPAA have developed an anti-piracy curriculum for kindergarten through grade 6. The pilot project is scheduled for testing in California schools later this year."
Mitch Stoltz, an EFF attorney, isn't impressed: “It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on others’ ideas always requires permission,” Stoltz says. “The overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on corporate profits.”
Re:Indoctrination and Propoganda (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What idiot is allowing this (Score:5, Funny)
Most family's are forced to send there child to public schools by there circumstances.
And some people fail to take advantage of even that standard of education, failing at basic grammar.
Re:How do I get in? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:What idiot is allowing this (Score:3, Funny)
In High School, most of the people I saw wearing DARE T-shirts were stoned out of their gourds.
That said, if there was any doubt that schools have vastly strayed from the job of educating, here's proof.
Don't Copy That Floppy (Score:5, Funny)
The Don't Copy That Floppy [youtube.com] campaign has been a marvelous success. Floppy disk piracy is now down 100%. Cali can expect similar success with their initiative.
Re:first questions in the pre-test are... (Score:5, Funny)
Do you own an eye patch? yes or no
Do you own a little raft with an outboard motor and an RPG?
Do you believe the letter "R" is also a word?
If you answered yes to any of the above, we found our violator.
Your test makes no sense. So kids with a lazy eye in tiny boats, carrying a copy of D&D are rapists?
Re:Indoctrination and Propoganda (Score:2, Funny)
Only me and my sect
My sect and I.
That's right, I'm gonna derail a religious debate with Grammar-Nazi-ism! Take that, cur!
Re:School == Copying (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Indoctrination and Propoganda (Score:0, Funny)
O hear the libtards go again with there PC, socialist agenda...WHAT DON"T YOU GET??? This is about the childrin. If we dont' let them spell the way God intended then they will just turn out to be muslem terrorists. Do you weant your kids to die for your spelling rules?
Re:Indoctrination and Propoganda (Score:4, Funny)
So do the Sony Youth get a special knife?
If they turn in their parents.