Sorry! I know its been a while since I wrote something here. Some of us DO have lives outside of our blog.
Today on the news, Robin Meade had a story about how the state of Florida may pass a law allowing companies to place advertisements on the side of school buses. Tobacco, alcohol beverages, and political ads would not be allowed along with sexual advertisements.
Advertisements have been allowed inside schools for a number of years. A few years ago a school in Iowa began allowing "billboard" advertisements along the walls of the building's hallways. By charging a large amount per advertisement, schools were able to break even or actually make a profit.
Parents complain about how advertisements would distract children who ride the bus. My question to those parents: have you ever BEEN ON a school bus? The ads on a side of a bus are NOT going to distract your children. Kids on that bus are busy trying to light up cigarettes, groping each other, and replacing every-other word in a sentence with the f-word. A few ads are not going to distract your children. A majority come out of the womb with A.D.D. any way.
I don't believe that a school district should even have to sink so low that it must place ads on any school property. Districts have soft drink companies place their logos on scoreboards and vending machines. Where the districts really need to make the cuts would be by having one superintendent in each county. Why should a dinky school pay their superintendent $100,000+ salary anyway? I can sit on my ass all day too!
That's it for me!
Bobby P.
I have said for YEARS that trains should have adverts on their cars..as you wait and wait and wait for that train to pass, you could be entertained, and informed of lots of neat things. Not all of us can read or decipher graffiti!!! And it would be a marked improvement over being bored to death by rusty railroad cars!!!!
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