I think it`s a great idea

[kimba1]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-12-01-test-ads_N.htm?se=yahoorefer

if people don`t like kids being exposed to ads in the classroom ,then all they have to do is pay for it out of thier own pocket .
were talking about less than $400 here

[Xavier_Onassis]

Tacky, but not as much a pain as selling those damned candy bars.

One year I replaced a teacher on leave at Thomas Stone HS in Waldorf MD, and inherited the job of sponsor of the HS newspaper. There was no budget for the paper, and the arrangement was to sell candy bars. One of the kids on the newspaper staff, who never wrote a word, and had joined the staff mostly to annoy the girls ate an entire box of them in Study Hall, and threw them up in an unforgettable incident which became, I am sure, legendary, among at least 80 witnesses. The chocolate barf of 30 bars was undeniable proof of young Greg's malfeasance.

I told his mother she would have to pay at east what the damned candy had cost the newspaper. I think this was about $25 or $30, as the retail price of the bars was a dollar. She refused, and I told her that she could take it up with the administration, as I was not going to give him a grade for Spanish until she paid. She threatened to sue. I left, and sent a grade of D which was what the kid had earned, to the office, mentioning that I did not want this released until Mommy had paid for the candy.

I am still not sure what happened. I left Maryland and HS teaching after that.

Luckily, the other kids sold a huge amount of chocolate bars and I was not left holding the bag on that either.

[kimba1]

candy bars
uhgg!!
for quite a few years I`ve been burned out on sweet being sold by kids.(even girls scouts)
I wish something can be sold.
companies give away tons of promo stuff like thumbdrives,radios and such
why can`t kids do this also
how about custom t-shirts?
you can`t tell me kids don`t know how to use a printer.
in-house school business run by the students

[Xavier_Onassis]

Promo stuff like pens and pin drives stamped with the name of the school and team are very costly in the numbers that would be sold: If a gizmo costs $5.00 retail, the promo item will wholesale for $7.50 and retail for $15. T-shirts are a possibility, but then if a kid gets burned while ironing the logo on, that could cause lawsuits and would require insurance against them.

The teachers who end up sponsoring clubs are drafted to do these things and are not given money or release time to do the extra work in. High school teachers are greatly overworked just with their teaching duties.

A full load for a college professor in an average state university is six or seven three hour courses per year. This means 112 to 131 to hours in the classroom per semester, 225 to 262.5 hours per year. A HS teacher typically  has 6 classes every day, times 180 days in the year, or 1080 hours in the year. The college professor rarely has any discipline problems and has much more time to deal with course preparation, scholarship and the like. I taught 8 to 15 courses per year, depending on overloads and summer courses, which I stopped teaching after the administration failed to raise the pitiful salary paid to teach them for eight years running.

There really is no time for HS teachers to spend supervising the manufacture of T shirts and such. Mostly, the principal must authorize all fund-raisers and principals like to play it very, very safe. Principals spend a lot of time at conferences where they are lobbied by candy and calendar sellers and tell one another horrible tales of fundraisers gone horribly wrong.

[kimba1]

oh
I thought there were cheaper,since I`ve collected a very sizable amount of corporate stuff from my jobs and various conventions i go to.
thought bulk prices would make it worth it.