Comments on: Music mind-worm: getting at kids

By: Jon Newton

Jon Newton — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:51:07 +0000

@ DA:

Sure they get to keep the T-shirts, and the pens, and the notepads, and all the other associated junque. And administrators have by default given Micro$oft the OK to use the school for further MS ‘education’ programmes, paid for by state and federal taxes. It’s Win-Win all the way for Micro$oft.

And let’s not forget the video itself or, of course, the musical mind-worm …

Cheers!

By: Dreddsnik

Dreddsnik — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:07:26 +0000

” That video made me cringe on more than one level. Who produced that, Uwe Boll? I would have guessed Ed Wood if he wasn’t deceased. ”

you owe me a new keyboard pal
( watched ‘In the Name Of The King’ just yesterday )

By: Benetone

Benetone — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:53:21 +0000

I see those kinds of things, and I always have a strange
feeling that I’m stuck inside of some John Waters’ film.

By: bill

bill — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:55:20 +0000

The prevailing question here is did they learn enough about IP to demand a royalty? (sarcasm intended) I used to live in Bentonville, AR – home of the Wal-Mart corporation. One year the school board decided it was necessary to have all the children wear identity badges as a means to ward off gang activity in the schools. Bentonville is hardly a center for urban street activity. The badges looked suspiciously like Wal-Mart employee badges. I informed the school board that if the teachers in the school could not identify their own students, they were not doing their job. My children would not be wearing badges of any sort. If they were not provided an education as a result, it would end up in court. The school board backed off and made it voluntary. Within a month, nobody was volunteerng. This video is a disgusting example of corporate greed and misuse of public educational facilities. It is indeed a part of the Horsham, PA public school system and not a private enterprise. Jonathan Kircher, principal of Keith Valley Middle School states “It is our school’s ultimate goal to make learning meaningful to students every day and for students to be able to learn in a safe, respectful, and caring environment.”
Kerchner’s email is provided here for anyone who wishes to offer comments on what meaningful learning is.
http://www.hatboro-horsham.org/kvms/site/default.asp

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:53:07 +0000

@Crosbie:

“They couldn’t possibly be swayed by a couple of free sweatshirts and branded rucksacks… could they?”

Who says they’re getting anything?!
(Even the shirts.)

These corporates, riding the wave of propaganda they created themselves, come into it saying their messages add to the scope of the education system. If they’re bribing anyone, it would those in charge of letting them in.

I’m sure everyone else is “immaterial”.

By: Crosbie Fitch

Crosbie Fitch — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:46:17 +0000

I daresay an artist has pangs of conscience when they allow their art to be corrupted by commerce, especially as so many artists treat each of their published works as a child they’ve set loose to fend for itself in the big wide world, that they pray eludes the clutches of advertisers and other cultural abusers.

But, then artworks aren’t actually children.

How much worse it must be when instead of your art it is your actual child that you are allowing to be polluted?

The school and parents must be getting a shed load of money to fund an indoor swimming pool or something. They couldn’t possibly be swayed by a couple of free sweatshirts and branded rucksacks… could they?

By: Monkey D. Luffy

Monkey D. Luffy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:26:01 +0000

That video made me cringe on more than one level. Who produced that, Uwe Boll? I would have guessed Ed Wood if he wasn’t deceased.