Jim Metrock

Web Site: https://obligation.org


We’re coming back to write the last chapter on Channel One News.

April 16, 2024


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Pat Ellis: Pornography in Alabama schools and youth organizations? You be the judge

February 9, 2023
Pat Ellis: Pornography in Alabama schools and youth organizations? You be the judge

9/28/2022 Texas and Alabama parents share the same problem. The difference: Texas parents know it, and Alabama parents don’t!  What am I talking about? “How-to” sex-ed manuals in public schools and youth organizations. Sex-ed manuals to train children in a variety of sex acts, heterosexual and homosexual. The Comprehensive Sex Education program “Making Proud...
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An awful website gets buried.

October 29, 2022
An awful website gets buried.


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Tom Hanson

August 31, 2022
Tom Hanson

Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown here mugging for the camera. At the time, he was trying to look “younger” for his captive audience of middle school students. Many Channel One “reporters” thought that acting immature – making silly faces – would fool students into thinking...
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Where did Channel One News people go?

January 28, 2022
Where did Channel One News people go?

It’s been a tough road for many who hoped to leap from Channel One to legitimate journalism.
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Three villains

July 20, 2021
Three villains

Channel One News has been gone since 2018. However, there is concern that some new youth marketing company will try to bring back the company or parts of it. That is why Obligation will release a video series documenting the abundant problems with Channel One. Before the videos start in August, let’s reintroduce a...
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Channel One News converted learning time into marketing time. New video series will explain how it ended.

December 30, 2020

Channel One News was a classroom marketing company. It grew at a phenomenal rate in the mid-90s until it ran into its toughest opposition: Obligation, Inc. My name is Jim Metrock. I’m president of Obligation. I am one of the reasons Channel One News exited classrooms. I am one of the reasons millions of...
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Who are these people??

February 2, 2020
Who are these people??

From Jim Metrock: Few schools are aware of a marketing company called OurCampus. So far in 2020, apparently 8 schools in the Greater Las Vegas area are using its services. This is not a new company.  It is a transformation of an older one that apparently ceased operation in 2018 under a cloud of...
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The 8 schools that have signed up for OurCampus.

January 26, 2020
The 8 schools that have signed up for OurCampus.

Three charter school systems around Las Vegas, NV have decided to gamble on the controversial OurCampus marketing firm. The people behind the failed Skoollive company are behind this new venture. As of January 26, 2020 Pinecrest Horizon Pinecrest Inspirada Pinecrest St. Rose Pinecrest Sloan Canyon Mater Bonanza Mater Mountain Vista Somerset Sky Pointe Somerset...
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OurCampus’s outrageous Terms and Conditions.

January 23, 2020
OurCampus’s outrageous Terms and Conditions.

From Jim Metrock: I actually read this long document.  Principals won’t read this. They won’t think it’s worth their time. They care about their students but not enough to even skim this massive collection of words. School board members won’t read it either. Teachers? No, they are too busy. Parents? No, they don’t even...
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