Advertising on Campus

Advertising on Campus
Just imagine a state-of-the-art school filled with the latest technology, such as laptops for each student, ELMOS in every classroom, and textbooks online to make things easier for the students. Most public schools today cannot live up to the ideal standard for schools, mostly because of funding issues. Those problems could be easily solved by allowing advertising into the school system, which would provide an additional source of revenue and make new equipment available to the students. Although, there may be some negative effects of advertising, such as commercialization, the benefits such as more funding for programs, an increased student morale, and higher student enrollment rates, heavily outweigh the negatives.
Permitting advertisers to market their products in schools would allow for more money to fund such programs as academic, athletics, and arts departments.   The economy is faltering and because of that the education system is being compromised. This means that there is a decrease in government funding of public education; however, this can be remedied by supplementing the budget with additional income created by advertising. Allowing advertising in schools would, for the most part, not negatively impact students, but instead benefit them on many levels. Many programs such as visual and performing arts are being eliminated altogether from school curriculum because of lack of funding, but money from advertisers could help save those necessary programs. Athletics would benefit as well, since the advertisers would supply students with new sports equipment allowing them to improve their skills and practice more efficiently. Some critics may accuse the schools of “selling out” or becoming too commercial; however, the students will not see it that way as their studies because of advertising revenue and the equipment and technology purchased with that money.  
Additionally, another advantage of allowing advertising in schools would...