Mark Schoonover wrote:
> My kids attend Grossmont & Santee School Districts. Just about all
> their
> teachers don't want any references to wikipedia, even for our high
> schooler.
> I've never asked the teachers directly, and maybe I should. My guess
> is
> plagiarism, and the fact it's free. If a school district went all open
> source text books, that's a huge publishing industry loosing a bunch
> of
> money.
This is a universal thing. Using Wikipedia as a source in a
bibliography is verboten. Using any encyclopedia as a source is
considered bad form for all but the lower grades. The reason is that
Encyclopedias are not primary sources.
That doesn't explain the ban though.
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