MFN, It's entirely possible that they have snuck a line about that in there somewhere (it's massively long), but since we can't be employed without signing it, I don't see how that leaves any of us an option.

I am seriously thinking about not using this laptop any longer and never backing up to the server. This is my life's work. Most of what I have in my files was created over the course of 14 years in this career and has grown and evolved as a piece of my practice. I refuse to just hand it over to a school who wouldn't know what to do with it in the first place. I will gladly share with anyone who wants to use it, but I still own it.

Kristin, check your contract for the phrase "work product".

The hoodsurfing video makes me laugh. Man's crazy.

F - Eliot - It's has a very distinctive f

msbelle! I'm shocked and clutching my pearls at you! (go girl!)

Teaching is collaborative, and it is not meant to be a competition.

My job isn't a competition either. It's just that while I'm working for this employer, my work product is theirs, period. But that's in what I signed when I worked here, and that's how I know. Which is why I'm shocked and pissed when prospective employers demand examples of previous work. Blanked out stuff, sure. But actual work product? That's skeevy!

I think it's significantly different than IT or written work, honestly. If I'd written articles or developed a program here for the school, I'd expect it to be their property. But my own lessons? My own assignments? Thigns I've developed for more than ten years? No fucking way.

Weeeeeell, it depends. Essentially, you have to determine if the material is what is known as "work for hire". I would think that, traditionally, materials created by teachers belong to them, not the school.

The hoodsurfing video makes me laugh. Man's crazy.

It's actually impressive, having seen the pertinent Mythbusters episode.

It's actually impressive, having seen the pertinent Mythbusters episode.

I haven't seen that Mythbusters episode. Do tell.

I didn't listen to the audio of the CK hoodsurfing video, but him hoodsurfing? He's the doof that removed 17 stitches himself a week or so after getting them put in his face. I'm not slightly surprised. Unless he was spouting racist or sexist stuff while he was doing it, it doesn't significantly change my opinion of his persona.

Oh, it's the center quickedit, isn't it? I kept wondering why people were putting Parker to the right in their posts.

Me too! How did this never come up before?