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Yesterday, however, the chancellor of the Board of Regents took a far different position on another proposal that could bring commercials to the classroom.
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"We do not believe that having vending machines in schools represents a commercial presence in the classroom because the machines aren't in the classroom," said Kari L. Bjorhus, a health and nutrition spokeswoman for Coke.
Why not just use commercial games in the classroom?
One of the eight principles is: "Selling or providing access to a captive audience in the classroom for commercial purposes is exploitation and a violation of the public trust". State boards are free to set their own policies, and some did with the advent of Channel One, a company that provides free televisions and broadcasts programs -- and commercials -- in classrooms.
The first real outcry against what many parents perceived as a commercial incursion into the classroom came 15 years ago when Channel One, the Chris Whittle creation, installed televisions in schools to deliver news in exchange for advertisements.
Obviously, the biggest barrier to bringing commercial software into the classroom is the high financial cost of the programs.
So, teachers have been incorporating commercial games Into their classrooms.
Some of those programs, like the Channel One television network, attracted fierce opposition from educational leaders and parents, who said that such commercial-laden programs wasted classroom time and tax dollars.
