Schools' 'walled gardens' are artificial, underpowered, and thus unappealing
Maybe it’s different in your school district, but around here we work very hard to make sure students don’t publish anything during school and overreact when we discover they’ve done it elsewhere.
Of course, many in our system will tell you that we do provide the tools for students to learn these skills. They come in the form of various “walled gardens”, resources which kids understand are artificial and far underpowered compared those they have available in their real world.
Tim Stahmer via http://www.assortedstuff.com/?p=4189
