[Amelia]

What if the student writes an opinion in a paper, and later in life, when his opinions and views may have changed, this former opinion is held against him when he goes to apply for a job? Have your views and opinions changed since you were in high school? I know mine sure have. That comes with maturity as well as with experience.

For some reason, the first thing that popped into my mind was Hillary Rodham's paper from Wellesley that many people here thought ought to be made public.

[StayAt HomeMother]

I resent our fourteen year olds having to consider how their ideas might look when they are forty years older and running for office. And I resent this commercial site getting and archiving my child's intellectual property for free.

Isn't that what this whole thread is about? The right to control access to your own writings? If reporters do not want to give us access to their thoughts and opinions, they don't have to print or post them. But the public school system MANDATES my child's term papers be submitted to this company.