We have Walker's crisps and Pepsi Cola using our schools as a forum for free advertising in the classroom, but this is the last genetically modified straw. GM pollen could cross-contaminate wild species and cause an ecological disaster, has BSE and CJD, taught them nothing?

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The issue being here not just the proliferation of GM propaganda but the willingness to allow corporate bully-boys into the classroom. The american school system has example after example of this happening, damaging the curriculum by giving preferential treatment to brand-zealots like Pepsi or McDonalds, preferential treatment not only to the advertising but also the corporate propaganda spewed to keep the kids in check. If they don't, the sponsors pull out. For the most part, barring tory-led CTCs or cheap advertising-filled rough books (in year 11 I had a Channel 5 excersise book, with garing colours and "hip, young" characters pasted across the middle. yuk) we've escaped their influence. They'd be idiots to follow in the americans footsteps.

So it seems, they're idiots.

along similiar lines, this is from Schnews 296:

CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK For refusing to watch TV! Two teenagers from Ohio were locked up in a local
juvenile detention centre for truancy after walking out of their classrooms in protest against the compulsory viewing of Channel One. Channel One is an in-school broadcaster, showing a daily compulsory 12 minute current affairs programme with two minutes of adverts targeted at children. In return the schools get no cash, but can use the equipment in other lessons. Channel One is raking it in charging advertisers twice as much as regular TV stations as they can guarantee viewers with no channel hopping or off button. Channel One spreads the corporate TV bullshit more sneakily by enlisting teachers to develop lessons for such socially useful teaching as designing new Pepsi vending machines and Burger King adverts. Commercial Alert and Obligation, Inc., two national anti-media groups, have taken up the kids' cause, saying "When the government sends children to a juvenile detention centre because they don't want to watch advertising, that is both Orwellian and more than a little sick. The public schools ought to be a sanctuary from the noxious aspects of commercial culture."