Channel One News and Your Schools
October 11, 2011 – Channel One News is a ‘school-safe’ news channel which informs teens on current world events and pop culture. It’s free to schools, which means it’s funded by a lot (LOT) of advertising. Earlier today I posed as an interested parent wanting to get Channel One in my school district. The reps at Channel One were very helpful, and informed me that they have many new things coming, including an interactive model geared towards grades as young as three, where kids can build their comprehension skills
Thank God for that. We all know that sending our kids to school to build academic skills is just an urban legend, really. Interactive whiteboards with a lot of advertising is what’s necessary to up their IQs. The rep at Chanel One assured me that the interactive “Smart Boards” were a “really expensive” add-on service to the basic newscast, and some schools probably couldn’t afford them. Was my district a part of that demographic? I almost hung up on him.
(For the rest of the article: http://watchdogmom.blogspot.com/2011/10/channel-one-news-and-your-schools.html)
