Time for me to vent

[Guest]

I dont know the amount of space all these tapes take up?  Ive stored to much stuff for other people.

I would also question who owns there rights?  I doubt you can just go reproduce them without the school. I’d try and get them to sign a waiver saying they release the rights to you.  

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@AGRforever said:
I dont know the amount of space all these tapes take up?  Ive stored to much stuff for other people.

I would also question who owns there rights?  I doubt you can just go reproduce them without the school. I’d try and get them to sign a waiver saying they release the rights to you.  

the letter the school sent him telling him to get them or they were going to get tossed should be all he would ever need if ownership was challenged.  as long as he doesnt try and sell the material for personal profit I doubt that ownership would ever be brought into question.  technically the school board should have declared them surplus and put them on auction as they are public property,  but I doubt very much if anybody would have bid on old VHS tapes.

[Guest]

Thankfully, this has become a moot issue.  I reached out to someone on the Board of Ed (who is the chairman of the athletics committee for the Board)- and he agreed that it would be idiotic of the school to get rid of these films.  He specifically called out the new HC (who said to "toss them")... and the administration (who I contacted in the first place about these things).  So, if nothing else, I feel a little (lot?) bit vindicated.  

Once again, I am grateful for the responses and the shows of support / encouragement.  If nothing else, it's times like this that help to remind me that this IS a community that I want to be a part of (even if we don't always agree on everything).  

[Guest]

Good job.
Nothing like hearing your boss telling you your idea is idiotic to change your mind...lol.

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@suncoastvike said:
Good job.
Nothing like hearing your boss telling you your idea is idiotic to change your mind...lol.

He was more diplomatic than that... but I can read between the lines.

And, for the record... the administration (and the new HC) ARE idiots.  The teachers that I know (about a dozen) all despise the superintendent.  They have found out- as I have- that he is not honest and cannot be trusted.  He once fired a teacher (by cutting his class load)... and then, when that teacher found a new job, he told the school community that it was the teacher's decision to leave (and that "we are really going to miss him")... and now they had to find his replacement.   The HC was once fired from being the head baseball coach (at this same school) and- as a 9th grade basketball coach- he got tossed from a game for throwing a chair onto the playing floor.  But he is on staff as a teacher... and I am not.  I could give other examples, but that wasn't the point of all this.  Suffice it to say: this particular Board member ran for office this past November because he was already aware of the leadership problems at our school.