I'm a total communist about education: I think schools should not only be publicly funded, and well, but I think that the excess revenue from more wealthy school districts should be redistributed to less wealthy school districts until all schools within a given region (probably a state but possibly even larger regions) are able to spend approximately the same amount per student. I think it is unconscionable that we do not fund rich and poor school districts equitably and that the resultant imbalances in educational opportunities are only going to be visited back on us in the form of social decay. I mean, they already are: inner city neighborhoods with low property values provide exponentially worse conditions for each generation of students who go through the public educational system.
corporate sponsorship is not the answer, but I can see why an individual teacher would resort to a scheme like this: as a society we are not living up to our responsibilities to educate young people. as long as the ads were locally sponsored, the alliances of education itself would probably not have to shift very much, but once larger corporations start funding education, you're going to see education that serves the interests of large corporations and not much else. there is a reason why mainstream media has become increasingly worthless as the money behind it is consolidated into fewer hands with more and more power--I don't think this is what we want to have happen to education.
corporate sponsorship is not the answer, but I can see why an individual teacher would resort to a scheme like this: as a society we are not living up to our responsibilities to educate young people. as long as the ads were locally sponsored, the alliances of education itself would probably not have to shift very much, but once larger corporations start funding education, you're going to see education that serves the interests of large corporations and not much else. there is a reason why mainstream media has become increasingly worthless as the money behind it is consolidated into fewer hands with more and more power--I don't think this is what we want to have happen to education.
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