Some schools agree that fast-food restaurants and supermarkets can promote their products in school and that schools benefit from it. v.2

With the tremendous growth of fast-food cafes and malls, there has also been a trend to include the schools in the promotion of their products. Some opine that the schools enjoy the profit from them while others argue that the schools should be kept free from them. I, however, believe that there are probably equal pros and cons. On the one hand, the economic standards of the schools will be uplifted by their collaboration with restaurants and supermarkets. This is because of these companies, in exchange for their promotional activities, offer commissions to the school administration which can be utilised in improving the infrastructures, providing scholarships to the needy ones, subsidising the tuition fees etc. consequently, the students will be in advantage. On the other hand, there might be serious negative consequences. Firstly, the precious time of students which is to be utilised in mastering the academic subjects will be taken up by the corporate advertisements. Secondly, the school administration can rarely ensure that the products of these companies are beneficial for the kids and finally, these kinds of activities might lure the young brains in buying extravagant items and put pressure on the parents to buy them. For example, once in my brother’s school, a company came to promote encyclopedia worth $800 which compelled my parents to spend that high amount although we already had one. In conclusion, allowing commercial promotions in the schools can benefit them financially as well as impose negative impacts on pupils. Thus, the school authority ought to make careful decisions on allowing them.