Should students be punished for false accusations?
In the modern school building there a lot of things that are different from the classroom my parents had as teachers twenty years ago. Now it seems like the students, not the teachers are in charge of the building. Administrators are too afraid of lawsuits or bad PR to support their staff. This week when a senior staff member said something snarky to me, I was obviously put off by it. My next class students asked if I was upset and why. I said I had a disagreement with “another staff member” and left it at that. Two of our worst students then spread a rumor that I wanted to hit said teacher, who is female (I am male). When I came to the office and found out the investigation into this was caused by student hearsay, I was quite taken aback by it. As a girls volleyball coach for ten years I would never condone violence against women. The thing that worries me isn’t the investigation itself, but the aftermath when it’s found I didn’t say that. It seems there is no punishment for the kid making the false accusation and I feel this is wrong.if a student slanders a teacher in a way that could cost them their job, why doesn’t the student lose their right to attend that school if it is disproved (I.e. expulsion). Just curious what other educators think on this issue.
Is this a loophole in my in-school detention?
You admitted to sharing confidential information that you were not supposed to have, knowing that doing so was likely to lead in others engaging in prohibited activity; you may even have assisted them directly in doing so. That seems to me to be a fair cop to conduct detrimental to the orderly administration of the institution, and thus within the reasonable authority of the school to discipline you. You clearly knew that you were not to have that password, and that, having come into knowledge of it, it was improper for you to give it to others (either directly or, as you allege, by putting it on their phones with or without their knowledge), so you can't argue that you lacked fair notice that the conduct you engaged in and which you assisted others in engaging in was prohibited. That's about the only out you'd have here, and you've foreclosed it pretty much by your own admission.The ambiguity between "Internet password" and "WiFi password" is not sufficient as to render the charge invalid, and indeed it is likely that most reasonable people would recognize that they mean, in this context, the same thing. Attempting to argue your way out of a just punishment on an technicality that no reasonable person would accept is a good way to make your situation worse. You've certainly established that you're a person not worthy of trust, and that reputation will likely follow you for a long time. Good luck on your college admissions.
Is it illegal to paint something that I see online painted by someone else?
It's only illegal if you would present your painting as being original, without mentioning the painting you copied. You can very well present it as a copy. It all becomes more complicated if you intend to sell your painting. In that case, the best thing to do is contact the painter of the original painting (or its heir) and tell what you're intending. Either he (or she) is honoured, and you come to some kind of arrangement, or he doesn't want you to exhibit and/or sell the painting and than you expose yourself to legal pursuit.A painter has the same exclusive rights under U.S. Copyright law as writers or musicians. Read more : http://www.ehow.com/list_6598138_copyright-laws-paintings.html But copyrights may be different from one country to another. It also depends on cultural background and context. For instance, in 18th century Japan it was considered an honour for an artist to be copied.Copying of artworks is often a very difficult question. It's not allways obvious an artist is copying. With the overwhelming amount of images circulating in the press and on the internet it's not easy to say on the first hand which image is an original, and which one is a copy. In many cases artists take an image or part of an image and rework it, turning it into something different, considering it as their own creation. You see that for instance with artists like Andy Warhol with his soup cans and photos of Marilyn Monroe. Andy Warhol faced a series of lawsuits from photographers whose work he appropriated. However, Warhol's works are generally held to be non-infringing, despite being clearly appropriated, because "the public is unlikely to see the painting as sponsored by the soup company or representing a competing product. Paintings and soup cans are not in themselves competing products", according to expert trademark lawyer Jerome Gilson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis... Same is true for Jeff Koons Jeff Koons Accused of Plagiarism in Paris, Again
There is no historical evidence that corporal punishment harmed society. Why is corporal punishment discouraged?
In our culture, the real change in attitude occurred after WWII and, to some degree in response to it. GIs brought many things home from the war. One of those was harsh discipline. In response to their experiences (Great Depression; World War) and all that that entailed, they were also committed to giving their children a better life than they had. Put those things together and you have an environment of extremes which then led those children to grow up way more sensitive than their parents and to be guided by that increased sensitivity when they parented their children. You end up with a cultural paradigm shift away from corporal punishment.I must disagree with your premise that no historical evidence exists. For at least a couple thousand years, young boys in many cultures were trained with corporal punishments resulting in them being well disciplined, tough minded, aggressive and frequently violent. The connection is largely anecdotal, but compellingly consistent.I, for one, can see the usefulness of corporal punishment, at times. It should be used sparingly and with the understanding that it may be effective, but also may teach things (behavior / relationships) that you don’t want to teach. I used to teach parenting skills and consistently told parents that it was okay to swat your child (think of a toddler putting themselves in danger), but only once per incident. Anything more was to satisfy the parent, not train the child. Welts, bruises, scrapes, etc. are not an indication of good parenting, in my view.