The Federal Trade Commission says the movie and video game industries have been deliberately marketing to youth products rated for adults only. Of course not. Or consider the generous and benign ways local merchants support our schools. It is the overreaching, primarily by national advertisers, that most concerns educators and their numerous professional associations. Professor Alex Molnar, of the University of Wisconsin's Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education, says advertising and education have opposite goals.
Education encourages students rational judgment.
To choose Coke over Pepsi when neither makes sense. Sponsorship of programs, events and contests. If we care about such commercial intrusions we might begin with a thorough inventory of our school district's present web of corporate and advertising relationships. Once informed, we can consider the options. We can affirmatively go for even more corporate revenue.