Comments | aimlesswander: Teacher sells ads on tests

aimlesswander

Teacher sells ads on tests

Dec 02, 2008 13:05

This article caught my eye: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-12-01-test-ads_N.htm?se=yahooreferRead more... )

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onceupon December 2 2008, 18:46:33 UTC

Ideally, there'd be no need for ad space on exams. But I can't tell you how much of my own money I spent on supplies for my classroom when I was teaching so I understand that "the money has to come from somewhere" attitude going on. It does. And it needs to stop coming from individual teachers.

aimlesswander December 2 2008, 22:17:54 UTC

Do you think ad space is a good solution? The same article talked about an online resource called DonorsChoose.org that matches teachers with school supplies donors. My guess, though, is that one donor website isn't enough.

onceupon December 2 2008, 22:39:39 UTC

I don't think ad space is necessarily a GOOD solution but, in the absence of other solutions, I have to admire the teacher for doing SOMETHING. And, yeah, it's not a bad website but it's a finger in a dam full of leaks, you know? There has to be something else - I just don't know what.

makeminemona December 2 2008, 19:40:40 UTC

I think the whole concept is interesting. I know that a teacher I know gets $200 for the entire year to budget for items for his class. He ends up spending over $40 a month to do minimal projects and have enough supplies for his elementary-school classroom. Maybe he should start selling ad space. No wonder teachers were always pushing fund-raisers on us when we were in elementary school. They need the budget money. I hate Charlie Crist.

eriktrips December 3 2008, 03:43:44 UTC

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 ( ... )