When I visited the site, TeachersPayTeachers.com, this immediately caught my attention: “An open marketplace for educators where teachers buy, sell and share original teaching resources.” Interesting right? Does this sound ethical or better yet, legal to you? Well after looking through the site, I’ve determined that it seems very unethical; maybe not illegal but it sure seems fishy. You may think that it’s simply just a website where teachers can come and either sell their ideas and lesson plans and teaching advice, and where other teachers can buy this information to help them as educator. However, the one thing that is tripping me up about this website is the credibility of teachers. How can you get your lesson plan or information to teach to several students off of “an open marketplace for educators where teachers buy, sell and share original teaching sources”? That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s accurate enough for you to take “teaching resources” off of. How do you know who’s posting these resources? How do you know if it’s factual information? I mean, of course there are some people who use these sites as back-ups; maybe something just to provide them with starting ideas for a lesson, but still, I don’t like the idea of TeachersPayTeachers.com. Now obviously, the teachers who sell things on this website have probably sought to it that there work was copyrighted, but they shouldn’t even have the opportunity to do this in the first place. This website seems to be a silly rip-off; just a way to deceive some teachers into thinking they need lesson plans and exams and worksheets from other teachers in order to be successful educators. This is false!!! I guess the questions that I have at the end of all of this is, Where’s the originality? Where’s the creativity? Where has the true value of a true educator gone to?