Commercial-Free Childhood at it again!

[mr3urious]

Or "Responsibility-Free Parenthood" as Drtooth calls them.

http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/actions/schoolbusads.html

Well, it seems this anti-Saturday Morning moral guardian group is now targeting schools who use their buses as billboards for McDonald's and the like.

Sure, this seems righteous, but if you look at it from the school's perspective, they're strapped for cash and have little to go with. If this group really cared about the kids and their edu-ma-cations, they would use the funds they earn from their members for those schools so they wouldn't have to do this crap, just like the kerfuffle with SST having McD's and Pfizer as sponsors.

 

[D'Snowth]

Well, it seems this anti-Saturday Morning moral guardian group is now targeting schools who use their buses as billboards for McDonald's and the like.

Now... I've seen CITY buses being used as billboards and such... but school buses? Guess this is more proof this town's a hundred years behind while everyone's ahead.

 

[mr3urious]

Now... I've seen CITY buses being used as billboards and such... but school buses? Guess this is more proof this town's a hundred years behind while everyone's ahead.

Also, plenty of kids ride city buses, so why aren't they targeting them, too?

 

[D'Snowth]

I don't know of many kids who ride cities buses, unless they're like little babies being cared around by grownups and whatnot.

The only time we were on a city bus as kids was one time when our specific bus broke down, and they couldn't get a replacement bus to us quick enough, so they sent in a city bus, which was totally awesome, lol.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I don't know of many kids who ride cities buses, unless they're like little babies being cared around by grownups and whatnot

Well I don't know how it's working out, but there was this development in NYC in 2010:

Kids Ride Free on New York City Transit
http://thecityfix.com/kids-ride-free-on-new-york-city-transit/

 

[Drtooth]

Sure, this seems righteous, but if you look at it from the school's perspective, they're strapped for cash and have little to go with. If this group really cared about the kids and their edu-ma-cations, they would use the funds they earn from their members for those schools so they wouldn't have to do this crap, just like the kerfuffle with SST having McD's and Pfizer as sponsors.

That's the only thing I have really against this. Again, bringing up a good point with Sesame Street (though Pfizer, to my recollection didn't get SS in trouble)... the outrage shouldn't be that they have McD's billboards, the outrage should be that they have to. But hey, they apparently have high priced lawyers and expensive research they need to push their agenda... I'm sure no one wants to pay their taxes over there so the schools don't have to do this... they're clearly very well to do, and spend a fortune at Whole Foods. probably send their kids to school in wealthy neighborhoods.

These yuppies make me sick. Their constant nanny state agenda is flawed. Sure, Childhood obesity is the now cause (even though it's very complex and they don't want to muddy themselves with actual work), and the media blows it seriously out of proportion, and gets people riled up the SAME way they do when a small percentage of children are huffing household cleaners to get high. They think everyone does it.

Their lawsuit against Nick and Kelloggs WAS frivolous. The idiot parents that follow them don't want to say no to their spoiled little Eric Cartman brats, and we have to throw Saturday Mornings under a bus so little Billy Boogereater doesn't get a coronary in his 50's, because there has never been a reported case of an older kid actually bettering themselves and cutting foods out of their diets voluntarily.

But hey, we all lost. Now the world is safe for kids to get fat holing in their rooms with their X-Box with a case of doritos and red bulls without the interruption of childhood.

 

[mr3urious]

"These laws help parents to be good parents", my rear. By "good", they mean "lazy" or "irresponsible".

I don't know of many kids who ride cities buses, unless they're like little babies being cared around by grownups and whatnot.

I rode the city bus a couple of times with our class. It was pretty cool because back then, city buses were new to me.

But hey, we all lost. Now the world is safe for kids to get fat holing in their rooms with their X-Box with a case of doritos and red bulls without the interruption of childhood.

Yeah, I'd much rather have kids spend Sat. Mornings watching wholesome cartoons, eating some sugary cereals, and playing outside later on rather than cussing their heads off online in a Halo tournament all day. I know that's how I spent my mornings (though with plenty of Doritos, too).

 

[Drtooth]

These parental groups don't know how hard it is to be a kid these days. it's infinitely harder than in our time. They pound kids with homework instead of teaching to prepare them for stress inducing standardized tests... they get hours of homework and no outside play time after and in cases during school. We have a society that's vastly becoming too lazy to do anything, and THAT'S where everyone's getting larger... Kids need stress releases, and cartoons and a reasonable amount of videogames are that release. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't watch all those cartoons when I was younger... they were the only thing keeping me from sinking into a horrendous depression.

Taking away candy and cartoons and forcing them to grow up faster isn't going to make them any healthier. Kids NEED childhood fun, the occasional kid's meal prize and crazy cereals to have something to look forward to. I know every single red blooded one of us did. it's all about moderation, and if parents and parental groups are too lazy and or self righteous to do that, let their kids balloon up to 300 pounds on high end foods and NO exercise. Sugary cereals AND playtime balance each other out. The occasional Twinkie is combated with outside playtime. Why is no one saying this? Why must we throw a sheet over something and pretend it doesn't exist, which is a terrible solution to anything? Temptation NEEDS to co-exist with will power. if you don't like cartoon junk food, DON'T BUY IT and don't ruin it for the rest of us who either don't care or work hard to earn it.

And the worst part is it's not just candy... it's also toys. They're against commercials for ANYTHING kids want. That's bankrupting children's TV! That's why Saturdays are full of infomercials and weekdays are full of BAD talk shows. Kids are smart enough to know they have choices, and if they make a bad one, they learn from it. Meanwhile, no one's looking at the scam commercials and infomercials that sucker adults into thinking they never have to work again. Adults are JUST as impressionable as kids... are they just that naive to know that?

Seriously... thanks for nothing, you well to do elitists.