Re:It's sad how the focus is STILL "where ELSE can we advert...
by JCThoughtscream on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @06:06PM
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Ooh... advertising in educational settings is a razor-sharp double-edged sword. On one hand, schools are eternally hungry for more funding - but establishing a sufficiently impenetrable barrier between academia and advertising is a difficult task in the best of situations.
On the gripping hand, my own school's seen its budget axed by double digits multiple times in the last few years, classes shut down by the dozens, and literally thousands of students rejected based on scarcity of space alone. And to top it all off, I'm writing this from the sunny and desperately BROKE state of California.
I'd much rather see us wrestle with the ethical concerns of advertising than wrestle with the ethical concerns of closing down schools amidst high demand for education.
On the gripping hand, my own school's seen its budget axed by double digits multiple times in the last few years, classes shut down by the dozens, and literally thousands of students rejected based on scarcity of space alone. And to top it all off, I'm writing this from the sunny and desperately BROKE state of California.
I'd much rather see us wrestle with the ethical concerns of advertising than wrestle with the ethical concerns of closing down schools amidst high demand for education.