I presume you’re also going to argue that the schools should provide laptops for all of the students? While I’m not against that in principle, it does seem hard to sell it as a money-saving measure.
Dunno why it took so long to occur to me, but the teacher could find ways to reduce his paper consumption. Instead of printing a copy of the test for each student to write on, he could print up enough to go around for each period…what 30-35 students per class? Something like that, I’d guess…and then require the kids to copy the problems and answer same on notebook paper to hand in. When time is up, he collects the tests to use again next period.
Not ideal, but better than selling advertising…
This is what several of my high school teachers did. Nobody seemed to mind.
Although you always have to plan for the one genius who doesn’t listen to/read the instructions and starts filling out the test. In ink. (Heck, even in pencil the test is basically ruined)
Like hell it won’t. If I was that school I’d throw a huge fit and paint the suers to be the cold hearted monsters they are. Then mention how the lack of funds pushed things so far.
News media would eat that up. Lots of RO for their readers. They might win the lawsuit but the PR damage would be huge, and the school might finally get the point across it needs funding.
If things got really bad why not take the objectionable ads? Have a discussion with the students on whatever particular objectionable thing the ad is for. Why society considers it objectionable, and maybe it’s history.
Then forward a copy of the ad to newspapers explaining how do to capital city’s greed the school was forced to these levels to pay for basic classroom supplies.
Well short of. How would you raise money for this school? Sometimes you have to risks in a disparate situation.
Still say that won’t matter. It’s not going to affect the outcome of the lawsuit. You’re assuming a corporate litigant. That’s one possibility. Another is a parent that objects to a particular ad. Or a parent who objects to not being allowed to run a particular ad.
Also doesn’t particularly matter who “wins” the lawsuit. Litigation is expensive win, lose or draw. By selling ads, you’re making a little money, but risk losing a lot of money. That’s not a good option. See above for other ways this teacher could deal with the situation…like reducing his printing costs.
I guess then it depends how keen the students are on education. Since it’s a calculus class I’m going to go with keen. I’d have the students each individually call up the parent and ask him\her why they were against the student’s education and wanted to take away their future.
Really guilt trip the bastard.
How big is this class? 30 is big class where I come from. Maybe it’s bigger but it appears to me things are apparently dire enough that printing out 25 or 30 tests is a huge burden.
This school is about done as in stick a fork in it. Maybe if it fails it’ll force the district to clean it up.
These teachers need to be striking.
I remember a teacher’s strike when I was in the 1st grade. Delayed classes starting by 3 weeks, but when we came back new modern text books started to arrive that year. The old ones where from the late 70s (this was early 90s)
The teacher’s strike forced parents to get involved and make the district fix it’s problems. You see school doubles as daycare.
That would be problematic, in that you, as a party defendant, would be encouraging contact with the plaintiff other than via counsel. Could add to plaintiff’s claims, could get you cited for contempt.
The linked article says he has 167 students. I’m guessing they divide up into 5 classes or so. Printing 30-35 tests rather than 167 is a large reduction in printing costs.
What’s this cutting the football team to save money?
Isn’t high school football in the States self supporting ?
More than self-supporting, usually. Our football team subsidizes most of the rest of the Athletic Department.
Maybe but if you’re at rock bottom like this school seems to be; what do you have to lose?
Depends on the printer technology too. Lasers are practically nothing compared to ink jets. Also how many pages per test. An 8 page test * 167 is a hell of lot more printing then a 1 page test.
I’m wondering if he uses part of the ad revenue for school supplies other then printing, or if uses the ad revenue from some tests to subsidize other ad free tests. Depending on his fees he should be able to pull a profit on the ad tests. especially considering school tests don’t need whizbang printing. The lowest quality setting on the laser will do just fine.
Laser? We weren’t even allowed to photocopy tests. Only the office staff could use the xerox machine. Teachers had to mimeograph copies. Of course, that’s been nineteen years…
But nineteen years ago I was spending about $200 of my own money for classroom supplies every year.