Buying and selling lesson plans online immoral or just a good business?

When I first read the title of this article I immediately thought teachers are being more lazy and only want to do have the work. As i read the article i realized that some of these students were using the profits from selling lessons online for themselves.Margret Wisnant made $750 a month for her lessons on the “Outsiders”. These profits helped payed for her kitchen renovations. This to me is immoral, selling lessons for profit is not what teaching is all about. I feel like teaching is not about earning money, but its to educate and help others. Also on the opposite side, teachers share lessons with other teachers, which to me is selling lessons with out the money involve. So is selling lessons online a new thing or did some become smart and got money involved? Ms. Perecca sold a 56 page lesson plan on Macbeth, including quizzes and tests earned $540 and spent $140 of it on books and cookies for her students. Selling lesson plans might be a great to earn profit for classroom needs or for students but using profits on yourself is wrong. I feel like buying lesson plans online is taking away from making each teacher an individual. Each teacher has their own way of teaching and through lessons a bit of their personality come out of it, forging another teachers lesson takes away from that teacher originality. Also, teachers are always drilling students that forging and copying others work is bad, but these teachers are do the exact opposite of what they are saying. Like Rafe said, students watch a teachers every move even when they think students are not watching. This can be very confusing some students. There are thousands of websites online with ideas and suggestions of  how to teach different subjects, this should be enough for teachers. Sharing may almost be the same as buying lessons, but it takes the business out of it. Also by sharing ideas teachers can put their own spin to the lesson instead of taking the entire thing for themselves.

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