If the generation of revenue is a major objective, then the
content being learned or produced is being driven by this goal,
not meaningful education for children.

The Chinese apparently have hundreds of schools in which small
children make fireworks and other goods to generate revenue. You
can see where this came from. Partnerships with schools by
businesses?

Besides, there is enough unvalidated material on the web. It's a
commercial cesspool (not my quote, a web expert's).

On 3/10/10, Low to no profit wrote:
> On 3/10/10, Phil Tanny wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Quick intro: I have a BA in Special Education, but left the
>> field years ago to go in to business for myself.
>>
>> I'm writing to request your feedback on an idea for
>> generating new revenue for schools, by helping schools go
>> in to business for themselves. This is rough, a first
>> draft, can you help me perfect or discard this proposal?
>>
>> In these times of budget crisis...
>>
>> Imagine a high school that reinvents itself, as a
>> publishing company. The end product of many school projects
>> would be to create content for the school website.
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> - If a class studies the civil war, the end product of
>> those studies should be civil war articles for the school
>> website.
>>
>> - When students learn French, they then teach it to others
>> on the school website.
>>
>> - When the basketball team plays a game, the game is filmed
>> for the school website.
>>
>> - A forum that creates lots of content for search engines,
>> and connects the high school to the community.
>>
>> And so on...
>>
>> The high school has 1,000 students. These are the
>> reporters. The school has 75 teachers, the editors.
>>
>> Imagine an online publishing venture that has 1,000
>> reporters, and 75 editors, and years to build it's website.
>> Consider the kind of income an online enterprise of that
>> scale could generate.
>>
>> A business oriented high school website could....
>>
>> - Provide a remedy for budget cuts. And relief for
>> taxpayers.
>>
>> - Connect students to the community, and the community to
>> the school.
>>
>> - Give the students real world work to do, making education
>> more meaningful to them.
>>
>> - Teach the students skills they can make a living with
>> upon graduation.
>>
>> Most high schools have a website, but few probably take it
>> seriously, and view it as an income generating business.
>>
>> What say you?
>>
>> Could the right schools make this work in some form or
>> another?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> I do not see the potential for profit. Who would pay to access
> the news stories when the local paper probably already has a
> free online story about each game? Who would pay to have a
> student teach them a foreign language? The transaction amounts
> would have to be little and would not add up to much. The only
> way I could see any profit potential would be through ad
> placement. In addition, this type of project would require a
> colossal investment of time and effort. I don't see it as a
> feasible project. Sorry.

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