Ads Swapped for Computers in NY Schools
from the selling-your-education dept
Some New York City public schools will be receiving cheap computers in exchange for putting ads on their web pages. I'm glad that schools are getting cheap computers, but some folks might be concerned about introducing an element of commerce into education.
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Mike.....give it a break
Ok, about this 'ads in the .edu world...go for it.
We wear Nike(c), olympia(c) socks, IS(c) jeans, Ambercrombi(c) Shirts, Oakley(c) shades, and a WWF(c)base ball cap...drinking our Pepsi(c), eating PapaJohn's(c) pizza, sitting on a Brookstone(c) chair. We don't see enough ADs. I got a headache ....this big(tm).
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the effects on children
sorry. i should save rants for zebulun.org
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