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Do you support an Idaho high school teacher’s idea of selling advertising for a local pizzeria on her tests and class handouts to raise money to buy classroom supplies?
| Response | Percent | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | 53% | 460 | |
| No | 38% | 332 | |
| Not sure | 7% | 61 | |
| Total | 853 | ||
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JohnBrown (anonymous) says…
The teacher is showing initiative to solve a problem in her classroom. Too often, higher-ups don't show such initiative because it's not their problem. The teacher has accomplished two things: first, she raises money for her classroom, and second, she embarrasses her superiors for not solving the problem for that teacher and her colleagues.
promitida (anonymous) says…
Why not? High schools advertise all over everything else (gymnasiums, cafeteria's, t-shirts). This situation however shows obvious benefit. I'm all for it!
HermioneElliott (anonymous) says…
Schools seem to be last on the list of priorities. Teachers should not have to spend their own money on supplies or raise money for them.
Maybe we should make the child of a welfare mom pee in a cup before they receive a textbook.
BABBOY (anonymous) says…
Reluctantly, I put yes.
I do not see where educators have any other choice then to find creative ways to fund education. In this warped society, education is less important to most people then the perceived need to save taxes or build bombs or argue about abortion.
If it were up to me, I would legalize drugs, tax the flip out of it, and put it all into education.
We would then be able to build more schools, run them year long, all day, and hire teachers with Masters degrees willing to work a full day (and recieve proper compensation for the same). The reason being with the money from the above drug taxes we would be able to fund pretty much anything.
But, in the a world where a fool like Sarah Palin is taken seriously, we are stuck with advertising pizza on school books in a class room operating on a track system (alternating times when kids are in school to avoid building another school)..
alm77 (anonymous) says…
JohnBrown: She's also teaching the kids to take initiative and solve problems.
Easy_Does_It (anonymous) says…
Babboy - good idea on legalizing drugs. Soon the kids parents would loose all interest in sending the kids to school thus decreasing the demand on resources. Your idea tackles the issue on two fronts, additional tax dollars while reducing the need.
cj_ (anonymous) says…
It should be considered that we are talking about kids here. There just seems to be some ethical problems with advertising to children on a sheet that they have no choice to look at.
OwlHead (anonymous) says…
Let's advertise energy drinks,caffeine products, tobacco, and alcohol!!
I agree with cj_.
I support telling our government that we will not stand around and let them ruin our educational system while they dump money elsewhere. Write letters, vote, and we will not have to move towards privatization and incorporation of "public" schools.
hawklet21 (anonymous) says…
As if there isn't enough distraction, let's put a picture of a gooey, delicious slice of pizza on a test. That would have infuriated me in high school. And what about the obesity epidemic, huh??
Jaylee (anonymous) says…
you guys, these are assignments and tests!!! documents requiring focus, not distraction!
yes voters, come to your senses, please!
jkilgore (anonymous) says…
I have no problem with this commercialization of school. At least kids get a glimpse of how the world really works. As for me, I buy books for kids and loan them out even though the district I work for would buy them. I get them used and save 70% or so. I also keep the books. I have six literature and non-fiction series books, so if a district ever needs a teacher with his own materials, it's on!
RedwoodCoast (anonymous) says…
Sign of the times.
distant_voice (anonymous) says…
If it's good to have a small ad for pizza on a high school test, then it must be that much better to have an ad which pays the classrooom a lot more...Hustler Magazine, for example?
mom_of_three (anonymous) says…
its not even her original idea. I read a story of another teacher doing it last year or the year before for the same reason
mom_of_three (anonymous) says…
his original idea, but then the article mentioned who did it first. don't you wish they had a link on the poll to the story?
The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says…
"There just seems to be some ethical problems with advertising to children on a sheet that they have no choice to look at." CJ
I take it your kids do not watch cartoons on TV.
viewfromahill (anonymous) says…
"Do you support an Idaho high school teacher's idea of selling advertising for a local pizzeria on her tests and class handouts to raise money to buy classroom supplies"
word count = 29
I support brevity, when polling.
edgeofbaldwin (anonymous) says…
you are worried about distraction due to an ad on a test? How about you quit letting your children bring their cell phones to school or quit letting them bring their ipods to school. That's the distraction that is killing education. As a teacher I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I see kids texting in class and take their phone only to discover they were texting with their mother/father at home. A pizza ad isn't going to destroy education- poor parenting is.
Agnostick (anonymous) says…
cj_ (Anonymous) says…
"It should be considered that we are talking about kids here. There just seems to be some ethical problems with advertising to children on a sheet that they have no choice to look at."
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Neither do they have a choice in the voting booth to vote against crackpot state legislators that cut funding to their schools...
Agnostick
agnostick@excite.com
trinity (anonymous) says…
lol, ok sure; talk to the kidlets incessantly about eating healthy, etc; and plaster pictures of pizza (which ALWAYS look better than the real thing!) on sheets that they have to see. brilliant.
this has got to be the stupidest idea i've ever heard of.
Satirical (anonymous) says…
I have an even better idea! I bet she could make even more money if she quized the students on the virtues of the company.
Q: What is the best pizza place in town? (a) Godfather's (b) Domino's (c) Pizza Hut (d) the highest bidder.
Q: How much cheese goes on a delicious and mouth watering large pizza from (insert highest bidder)? (a) 4 ounces (b) 6 ounces (b) 10 ounces (d) none of the above
Ignore the fact she is using her position of authority to influence children in a way inconsistent with the purpose of a formal education. Kids will also get the added benefit of learning the valueable life lesson that all ethics have a price.
Or even better, why don't we just sell schools to private companies. Lawrence High could be run by Wal-Mart and their mascot when be the Wal-Mart smily face, and Free-State could be run by Free-State Brewery and they would be called the brewers. It would save us a ton of money. And no real harm done, right? Brilliant!
Satirical (anonymous) says…
Mmmmmmmmm.... Pizza
grammaddy (anonymous) says…
Remember the old VietNam era poster?
What if schools had all the money they need, and the Air Force had to throw a bake sale to buy a bomber?
I find it very sad that the state of education has come to this, but kudos to the teacher for doing whatever it takes.
HermioneElliott (anonymous) says…
I have nothing against the ads, but I am wondering why they could not get a sponsor from another company. Was the pizza place the only one that offered? Why did the teacher choose them?
As for being distracted, most of us have seen so many ads we just ignore them.
Our schools are underfunded. One of these days we are going to have a classroom with the teacher reading the book out loud to the class because they could only afford one.
Maybe the blackboard could flash Hastings every so often.
sinverguenza (anonymous) says…
If Idaho allows Channel One, I don't see how they could disagree with this.
I support this teacher's initiative. I don't support corporate advertising that has any chance to interfere with educating kids.
Liberty_One (anonymous) says…
Agnostick (Anonymous) says…
"Neither do they have a choice in the voting booth to vote against crackpot state legislators that cut funding to their schools…"
The idea that school funding has been cut is a myth. In 1997 the per-student funding in Idaho was $5102 (or $6567 in 2007 dollars). In 2007 the per-student funding in Idaho was $6648. (from nces.ed.gov). The funding has remained about the same, yet the quality of the product is decreasing. Hooray for government!
teacherforpublicschools (anonymous) says…
"The idea that school funding has been cut is a myth. In 1997 the per-student funding in Idaho was $5102 (or $6567 in 2007 dollars). In 2007 the per-student funding in Idaho was $6648. (from nces.ed.gov). The funding has remained about the same, yet the quality of the product is decreasing. Hooray for government!"
Ohhh, a whole $61 difference! And since then it has been mandated that we assess students up to 4 times a year. 3 or more times, so that we can make sure they are prepared to take the state assessment. Then we must implement programs (unfunded by the federal government who forced it on us) to make sure slow students improve their scores on the assessment. Does this measure how good the education is? Not really, we are just training the kids to take tests. A real life skill (sarcasm intended, and if you don't know what sarcasm is you would probably not do well on the state assessments). These assessments cost lots of money. Yes, they have created jobs for universities, who usually develop the state assessments and private testing firms, such as the Iowa Basics and MAP testing. And they have created jobs at the state's Department of Education, so they can clarify and write standards. Then there are the subs needed, so the teacher's can make sure that the district standards are realigned with the state standards, or in bigger districts the 1 or more curriculum developers to do the job. Then they must buy new text books, so that the books are covering the standards. And that doesn't include the time and money spent making sure the school is accredited by NCA, which gets more complicated every year. It also doesn't include all the paperwork the spec. ed teachers must fill out, which takes up time they could be working with their students. And they aren't allowed to have anyone else fill it out, so they work on paperwork, while paras help the students. All of this costs a whole lot more than $61/student.
Oh, and then they change the state standards and then we start over.
By the way, if your measurement of education is the state assessment, then most schools are improving. They keep throwing up hoops to jump through, then when teachers jump through them, they get upset, because some politicians want to destroy public education.
Your ignorance of what is going on in schools can be cured by working as a sub (and for free, so it won't cost the district money, or by volunteering in the school (you'll see the sweet, but poor students who have dead beat parents, or parents who want to be "buddies") or by attending regular school board meetings.
Also, if you were able to read this long post, thank a teacher. If you weren't, don't preach to educators about education.
Liberty_One (anonymous) says…
teacherforpublicschools (Anonymous) says…
“The idea that school funding has been cut is a myth. In 1997 the per-student funding in Idaho was $5102 (or $6567 in 2007 dollars). In 2007 the per-student funding in Idaho was $6648. (from nces.ed.gov). The funding has remained about the same, yet the quality of the product is decreasing. Hooray for government!”
Ohhh, a whole $61 difference!"
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Ahem, it would actually be an $81 difference. What subject do you teach again?
Liberty_One (anonymous) says…
Regardless, how then do you explain the situation in Kansas, where even in inflation adjusted dollars spending has increased significantly over the last ten years, yet schools are claiming they are underfunded and have to cut programs like sports, music and art?