From USA Today by way of Joanne Jacobs’ blog comes this wonderfully uplifting story about a local school that’s considering… well… just read it for yourself:
Welcome to the Plymouth-Canton Elementary School, presented by Comerica.
That could be the reality in the Plymouth-Canton, Mich., school district, where administrators say their budget is so tight they had to approve the selling of naming rights to their new elementary school, existing schools, athletic field and even events…
I can’t wait to see what malt liquor, cigarette, and “no money down” rent-to-own companies come forward to buy the naming rights for Ypsi public schools.
Or, how about The Mark Maynard Dotcom Institute?
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I like the sound of “DejaVu Prepatory Accademy”
I would love to put on my resume that I graduated from Jack Daniel’s High.
Corporations continue their onslaught, taking us over in every little facet of our lives. Resistance is futile. I wonder if they will have to rewrite the history of Comerica to make it look like a splendid, well-intentioned corporation. What will happen to the kid who innocently comes to school wearing a Wells Fargo t-shirt? “Insubordination! You will celebrate the bank of Comerica, and you will love it, or else.”
School administrators and school boards can be such whores.
As an alum of YHS, I must insist that it be renamed “Flaming Hot Chee-tos presents: The Ypsilanti High School Chesters.”
I wonder if Golden Palace will try for it.
oh, you know that they will.
I also envision prom couples having to pose in front of a huge corporate logo for their pictures.
Welcome to the Trojan Condoms Latex Love Prom 2005.
two of pinckney’s middle schools are called navigator school and explorer school. i wouldn’t be surprised to come across an escalade academy as well.
Jack Daniels High, home of the the SlackJawed Yokels. Now that would be fun:) And what group is going to protest that mascot..
I can’t wait untill they start mandating that principals, as a part of these new arrangements, have to start dressing like Ronald McDonald and other well-loved American corporate icons.