USA Today: Advertisers catch the school bus

[deadparrot]

School districts desperate to plug budget holes are turning their buses into billboards for soft drinks, credit unions and car dealerships.

Advertisements have popped up on buses in Arizona and Massachusetts. New ones are set to appear in Michigan and Colorado.

Dozens more districts from Florida to Pennsylvania may join them.

"This will spread across the nation, because there's so much money that will come into schools as a result of doing this," says Daniel Shearer, director of transportation at the Scottsdale Unified School District.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051227/pl_usatoday/advertiserscatchtheschoolbus

[histohoney]

1. Didn't we read about

new patrol cars for police doing this (With bail-bonds and lawyer ads) just last year.
Did any town really do that?

[Rex]

2. Public schools will be privatized one way or the other.

Repukes will destroy public education, it won't 'die on the vine' so now corporate vultures get to pick it apart.

[baldguy]

3. Mothball just **ONE** of the 17 carrier battle groups we pay for.

And use the $5 billion+ to fund every public school system at the highest level.


edit: I'm sorry - $5 billion is the annual operating cost of JUST THE CARRIER! Not the 15-20 other ship that support it.

[MrPrax]

5. What a commie...!!

and let the terrorists win?

No way...:sarcasm:

Reminds me of a joke:

[baldguy]

6. Right - McGuyver works for al Queda

He'll take out the USS Ronald Reagan with the gum he found on the bottom of his shoe, a paper clip & some lint he has in his pocket.

[EST]

4. What utter bullshit.

Fascists strike again.

[Straight Shooter]

7. Advertising sugar, debt, and gas consumption.

Pathetic.