Channel One wastes precious school time. Channel One consumes the equivalent of one instructional week of school time each school year, including one full day watching ads. Channel One helps advertisers bypass parents to promote products which parents may not approve of, such as exorbitantly expensive athletic sneakers and violent movies. Channel One wastes tax dollars spent on schools. Channel One may harm children's health.
Obesity is a major public health problem.
Given skyrocketing levels of childhood obesity and diabetes, it is insanity for schools to encourage children to develop poor eating habits. Channel One violates the principle of local control of education. Parents should be able to choose who may affect their children's lives, not Channel One. 7. Channel One undermines parents' efforts to teach positive values to their children. Channel One teaches a curriculum of materialism, that buying is good, and will solve your problems, and that consumption and self-gratification are the goals and ends of life.