Supporting Design Theft Probably Isn't the Best Value to be Instilling in Our Kids

In case you missed it on the way home yesterday, there was a fantastically frustrating story on NPR‘s “All Things Considered.” Or maybe you heard it but were left thinking “Wait…what?!” The tale in question focuses on the Florida’s Lake Mary High School, who had received a cease-and-desist letter from Chrysler telling them to quit using the Dodge Ram logo as their own (the school’s team is also the Rams, see?). Now we’re plenty sympathetic to schools, and plenty unsympathetic to slow moving, nearly destitute car companies, but what really got our blood boiling was hearing the school’s principal not once fess up to outright copyright theft, his read-between-the-lines comments about how his school was in the right and this big mean company was doing this bad thing to the children, and then reading this