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there is nothing like telling your kids at an early age that nothing is sacred. We won't even let our kids go to school without brand pressure. Ads like this tell kids that they should do things, and they are fun and exciting. Most of these ads are either going to make kids unhappy who can not participate, or cause vandalism to rise. These wild lockers are going to be a target of spray-paint and lost hours fixing them. That's a mighty fine paint job, imagine what some kids with pens, markers, paint and time will do to them Its a no win scenario, It takes a janitor and 1 story about keeping a bathroom toilet wall clean of graffiti to tell you how much money this will sink after the initial check runs out.

Because eventually there will be only one corporation in all the earth acting as government and there will no longer be any need to advertize.

Have signed Victoria Secret yet.

Au contraire mon frere, advertising IS sacred. It can and does interrupt our lives at any time and any place. Talk about your golden calves and graven images.

Get a glimpse of the Tea Party's America everyone. Won't be long before my kid is attending Best Buy Junior High, Walmart Elementary or Taco Bell Spanish Immersion Magnet School... oh wait... they're going to kick out all the non-English speakers, so scratch that last one.

value this society seeks, so why not be honest about it? Advertise to the kids and get them focused on money and goods before they can develop family values or caring for others, and they can all grow up to be angry that they don't have as much money as the next person, and be right wing loonies screaming for less taxes on the wealthy they plan to be and wanting to be able to make more money - without getting any more marketable skills to get it. We worship money, so let's not be hypocrites and say we should keep advertising away from our children. They need to learn early to be happy indentured money cows for the rest of their lives. Vote accordingly.

I can't understand why this concept has to be explained over and over again to commenters here, or even why it should have to be explained at all. The reason COUNLD'T be that many posters don't know what they're talking about, could it?

Again, private parochial schools that I know about in the far western suburbs already take, for example, conjoined twins, ADHD, reading disabilities, newly adopted children who do not speak english, etc. I am sure other private schools do as well. The private schools are staffed by teachers who earn 2/3rds what public sector teachers make, but the qualitity is higher, and the teachers took the jobs in most cases because they care about the education of young people.

Who wrote: "We're so focused on preparing for standardized tests, how would you fit this whole new curriculum into the day?"

I assume you mean the MCA test. Would you please give one question from the MCA test that a student should not already know as a byproduct of his or her education? Just one. The MCA sampler tests can be found at the Minnesota Department of Education.

Citywoman1, MCA test samplers are available at the Minnesota Department of Education's website.

Would you cite just one question on these tests that a student should not already know as a byproduct of his or her public education?

Because if you can't, another of your arguments just evaporated into the fog from which it came.