Sign the Petition: Tell School Districts to Keep Commercial Advertising Out of Schools

Let’s Get Back to Commercial-Free Schools

Across the country, many school districts face significant budget shortfalls. Seeking alternative sources of revenue, growing numbers of districts are allowing corporations to advertise on school properties. Eager to target a potentially lucrative market, advertisers are marketing their products in school cafeterias, athletic stadiums, on school buses, on lockers, and even in classrooms.

Schools are no place for advertising. Allowing commercialism to infiltrate schools undermines their educational mission. Kids learn market values instead of civic values. And, often, it is junk food makers that are most eager to advertise in schools. In an already hyper-commercialized world, children need schools to be a sanctuary from the onslaught of advertising they face everywhere else.

To make matters worse, in-school advertising schemes rarely raise significant revenue for school districts. When they permit advertising, districts are left in the same financial hole they began in, but now their students’ education has been compromised.

Some things shouldn’t be for sale.

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We, the undersigned, believe that commercial advertising has no place in schools. We call on school district officials to reject all plans to allow commercial advertising on school properties.

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15448 Mon Mar 25 15:05:40 EDT 2013 Anonymous OR I am a teacher and a mother, and I want schools to be a ESCAPE from the corrupt advertising kids see everyday so they can focus on why they are in school. Teachers, use those advertisements that you are More....
15447 Sun Mar 24 12:30:13 EDT 2013 Anonymous SOLANA BEACH, CA
15446 Wed Mar 20 09:47:20 EDT 2013 Carolyn Lilly San Diego, CA
15445 Sat Mar 09 02:20:40 EST 2013 Anonymous OR Who told Reagan that we could advertise to children in the first place and how does this hinder capitalism?
15444 Wed Mar 06 08:32:29 EST 2013 Patrick GROSSIN ot Commercial ads are a tremendous threat for everyone. We must stop them.
15443 Mon Feb 18 00:12:25 EST 2013 Elainne Fulenwider Maize, KS
15442 Fri Feb 08 19:28:37 EST 2013 Elizabeth Thompson Metuchen, NJ
15441 Wed Feb 06 18:49:08 EST 2013 Anonymous Spirit Lake, ID
15440 Sun Jan 20 18:54:58 EST 2013 S Portland, OR
15439 Wed Jan 16 15:55:55 EST 2013 Russell Sladek PA
15438 Sat Dec 29 15:24:07 EST 2012 Mary Holm Burbank, CA
15437 Tue Dec 18 11:36:42 EST 2012 Bruce Kran Reno, NV
15436 Sun Dec 09 15:16:04 EST 2012 Daniel Dorsey MD
15435 Wed Dec 05 19:12:27 EST 2012 Jenna Giandoni Chicago, IL
15434 Wed Dec 05 18:24:11 EST 2012 Barry Moore Montclair, NJ
15433 Sun Dec 02 16:07:43 EST 2012 Melissa Martinez Los Angeles, CA
15432 Sat Nov 24 22:48:03 EST 2012 Jeanne Schlatter Coshocton, OH
15431 Thu Nov 22 22:27:17 EST 2012 Victor Przysiezny Highland Park, IL Kids get way too much of this on their own. Keep the ads out of our schools.
15430 Tue Nov 20 19:21:56 EST 2012 Christina Fermin West Park, FL
15429 Fri Nov 16 01:18:23 EST 2012 Marjorie Young Santa Fe, NM Absolutely right! No commercial ads in schools!
15428 Tue Nov 13 21:27:18 EST 2012 Mary Kathleen Jackson Hammond, IN
15427 Mon Nov 05 11:43:24 EST 2012 Casey Pittman Flower Mound, TX
15426 Sun Nov 04 19:40:21 EST 2012 Ram Thothadri Richardson, TX
15425 Sun Nov 04 00:56:28 EDT 2012 Howard Cohen Palo Alto, CA
15424 Fri Nov 02 19:58:44 EDT 2012 Leo Gonzalez Los Angeles, CA
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