Antitrust For Kids: The Best Unfair Valentine Competition Ever

For adults, it's the worst idea imaginable for a holiday, but for second graders, Valentine's Day is great—decorating mailboxes, making paper cards and distributing treats to all your friends.

This year the second graders had an idea for making Valentine's Day even better: a contest to see who can make the best Valentine's cards! The kids would vote for one winner after sorting through all the cards to judge whose was most creative and best executed. The winner would have the prestige of winning.

As with all competitions, big or small, things should be fair. One thing that is not fair: copying another friend's idea.

But that is what happened (as these Antitrust for Kids stories tend to go).