Can anyone help me with my homework?

I'm writng a paper about corporations in schools, focusing on a news program Channel One and a computer program ZapMe!. ZapMe! gave out free computers to schools and in turn sold information about where kids were surfing to to corporations. I need to include some testimonials, did anyone experience either of these programs in high school? If so what did you think of them?

...I was a substitute teacher for a few months between overseas assignments - and those Channel One programs seemed worse than regular network tv re: ad-time vs. content-time...big thumbs down from my perspective, and it didn't seem like the kids were paying much attention either (not that anyone would have to pay attention to hear the blaring ad-bytes...)...

We had Channel One in our classrooms back in the mid-90's. We watched the clips after morning announcements and roll call in HomeRoom. About half of the class (at an all-boys' Catholic school) went back to sleep during the programming. The other half was divided between those who quietly watched (never any comments.. ever), and those hurrying to finish homework or study before 1st Period.

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every morning during homeroom. The kids in my homeroom were 9th graders and never seemed very interested in Channel One. Occasionally a story might catch their interest but in general they were much more interested in each other, which certainly seemed normal to me.

The school had a TV monitor in every classroom as a reward for signing on with Channel One. When I wanted to show a video, though, I had to reserve a VCR from the media center, trundle the big cart with VCR to my classroom before homeroom, etc. It is no more difficult to have a TV and VCR on the cart retrieved from the media center, as I did in my other years of teaching. During exams, the media center would play movies over Channel One and teachers could turn their classroom TV on when everyone had finished their exam. That was hardly necessary, either, but it did enable me to learn that my students loved "To Kill a Mockingbird."

I wouldn't choose Channel One for a school but worse, to me, was the principal's wasting the school's share of state lottery money on a video surveillance system for the halls. I also thought it was wrong to allow kids to buy soft drinks and junk food from vending machines during morning and afternoon breaks as a fund raiser for sports programs. I wasn't sorry when that year was over, though, as always, I liked my students. "It wasn't that I didn't like the school, it was the principal of the thing." ;-)