What do you guys think of school districts selling advertising on school buses? Several school districts in Colorado are doing it. I think one charges $600 a month. There had been a proposal in that district to charge the kids a fee to ride the bus, but that was quickly shot down.
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I hope they world at least limit what's being advertised.
Personally, I really dislike the idea. They won't let the kids wear shirts with logos on them, but they'll advertise to every kid who walks by the bus? I'm opposed for the same reason (well...one of them) that we don't have cable...
As long as it is nothing harmful or obscene I'm OK with it. Many schools already take money from soft drink and snack food manufacturers to exclusively carry their products. Private industry could be a great boon to schools that are suffering financially.
I do not feel vendor advertising of any sort should be taking place within schools, and school boards and administrators that are just looking for more money by allowing it should get run out of town on a rail after being tarred and feathered. Okay, so maybe that's extreme, but it shows they have lost sight of what they are there for.
Schools are (or should be) about educating, not marketing to a naive demographic.
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