Jennifer Neff writes at Gather.com (10/26) about the "controversial" practice of "adding advertisements to school slips and even lockers" in Minnesota in order to bolster lagging school budgets, painting this as a sign of "desperation among school officials. It'd seem that fundraisers that normally work well would suffer more so due to the state of the economy leaving the schools with budgets that cannot be met." She notes that "schools in several states already" have taken similar measures, but asks, "Is this normal or even in good taste? The answer here is likely a resounding no, but what's a school to do? There's money needed and no place for them to get it from. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and selling school property to ads seems about as desperate as things can get."
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