October 7th, 2011
Your (Corporate) Name Goes Here: School Board Sell Outs are on the Rise
By Elizabeth Ben-Ishai, Commercial Alert
Citizen Vox Blog
Our schools are for sale and the paltry profits they generate can’t even begin to compensate for the resulting damages.
Picture these scenarios:
- A Pennsylvania high school student stares intently at her classroom’s new interactive whiteboard, trying to absorb her math teacher’s lesson. But soon she’s distracted by the logo of the fast food restaurant that paid to have the whiteboard installed – she’s thinking about artery-clogging cheeseburgers and onion rings instead of algebra.
- Rushing to his locker between classes, a student in Minnesota is confronted with a wall of advertising. Instead of a place to store his books and notes, the student’s locker and those around it have become prime marketing vehicles.
-Waiting for a school bus to pick up his young daughter, a New Jersey father is greeted by a large advertisement for a national pizza chain on the side of the bus.
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