eBay's ban of teacher's editions puts it on collision course with homeschoolers

[regic]

A new policy by Internet trading behemoth eBay that bans homeschool teachers' texts from its auctions is prompting a tirade of complaints from the company's faithful customers.

"Really the homeschooling community is a huge participant in eBay when you get to thinking about it," said one customer who was identified as ''angels*wings'' on an eBay blog. ...

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[mandy]

Another article on eBay's ban of teacher's edition books:

Lisa Beamer believes parents who home-school their children are being punished because an online auction site doesn't trust other parents to monitor their children's actions.

"I don't think eBay should be the ones monitoring what kids are doing on their site," said Beamer, a Penn Township mother who home-schools both her children. "I just think it's a parental responsibility that might be being overlooked -- that's who should be taking the lead here, preventing kids from getting things they shouldn't get."

Beamer and other home-schooling parents are upset by an eBay policy barring the sale of teacher's edition textbooks -- which include answer keys -- on its popular auction site. The action, taken earlier this year, just came to the attention of many home-schooling parents as they tried to sell textbooks on the site as the school year began...

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