Six out of nine Trustees said yes. YNN has offered schools the use of video equipment worth about one percent of a major high school's annual budget. Here are some of the reasons it's a bad deal. The schools should not be furthering TV's reach into the lives of schoolchildren. The negative effects of TV on children's behaviour, physical activity, attitudes, attention span and literacy are well documented.
Many parents struggle to limit the amount of television their children watch.
Most of these will be for products such as soft drinks. There is already ample commercial pressure on children and parents to buy and consume. They do not need more. This places a big demand on school time. Each broadcast is twelve minutes long, which over a school year exceeds an entire week of class time.