<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I am appalled by the Prince George's County Board of Education proposal I read about this morning in the Washington Post to copyright all student and teacher work in the district:</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/prince-georges-considers-copyright-policy-that-takes-ownership-of-students-work/2013/02/02/dc592dea-6b08-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html?hpid=z1" style="background-color: transparent; font-size:
16px;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/prince-georges-considers-copyright-policy-that-takes-ownership-of-students-work/2013/02/02/dc592dea-6b08-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html?hpid=z1</a><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have concerns about this proposed policy, I would encourage you to write to your school board representative to express your opinion: <a href="http://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/peggy.higgins@pgcps.org">peggy.higgins@pgcps.org</a></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_19_1359651563593_64"><br></div><div
style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="yui_3_7_2_19_1359651563593_64">The other school board members can be found here: <a href="http://www1.pgcps.org/board/">http://www1.pgcps.org/board/</a>.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_19_1359651563593_64"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_19_1359651563593_64">Regards,</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="yui_3_7_2_19_1359651563593_64">Kate Sharpe</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;
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