‘Taco Bell High’ or ‘Wal-mart Public School’ Coming to Canada?

June 24th, 2007

Eh?

Via: AFP / RawStory:

Canadian students could soon be graduating from “Taco Bell High” or “Wal-Mart Public School” if trustees here go ahead with a scheme to sell school naming rights to corporations to raise extra funds.

The proposal has pitted members of the cash-strapped Ottawa-Carleton District School Board with public education advocacy groups who fear it would jeopardize universal education.

“No one wants to go to Taco Bell High,” Ellen Dickson, chair of the Ottawa Carleton Assembly of School Councils, told the daily Ottawa Citizen.

But proponents say it would help eliminate growing budget deficits at many of Canada’s school boards, hit by rising enrolment and cuts in provincial funding.

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5 Responses to “‘Taco Bell High’ or ‘Wal-mart Public School’ Coming to Canada?”

  1. Philip says:
    June 24, 2007 at 4:12 am

    Ironically, on the weekend prior to the tragedies of September 11th of 2001, within a family forum, I argued this very point; that the unlikely confluence of governmental debt and corporate empowerment would ultimately change our political landscape. Whether it’s tomorrow in the form of a school name-change or it’s 20 years later in the cession of a state into the hands of a WAL*MART(I understand the prominent placement of the RED STAR in their logo) or a Con-Agra and the like. Let’s not forget who negotiated the release of the U.S. Airmen from the Chinese after they escorted them down for airspace violations, and it wasn’t the State Department. 0n the other hand, wouldn’t outright name changing be nothing more nor less than a formality? PS. Love the witty banter between the teardrops

  2. DrFix says:
    June 24, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    Now what we really need is something along the lines of…

    Omni Consumer Products for OCP High.

    The OCP Fightin’ “Cyborgs”…!!! woo woo

  3. fallout11 says:
    June 25, 2007 at 11:39 am

    Private/Corporate takeover of formerly public/governmental functions and properties as they fell into serviceable debt was well predicted 20 years ago. Pick up any old work of fiction from the ‘cyberpunk’ genre.
    We have become the world lampooned in Robocop.

  4. Former says:
    June 27, 2007 at 8:57 am

    IDK… I think the idea sort of reflects the assembly-line, rubber-stamp mentality of the public school system.

  5. NQA says:
    June 27, 2007 at 3:55 pm

    Yeah nice, how long before we see a Remington high school or whatever?

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