School Advertising Billboards

Cute kids.  But seriously, do public schools need to pay for advertising?  Why do they need to advertise, to all of us passersby, that they are schools... on local billboards? ( This, as if you did not know you local public school exists and you pay lots of taxes to, too!)  No matter how cute the kids are, why are our tax dollars paying for advertising our public schools to the public? 

Furthermore, what is the point?  What do they hope to accomplish? Why are these funds not going to our kids or schools directly?  If the school is not paying for this kind of expenditure out of our tax dollars, then who is?

Is your school low on funding?  Consider,....someone is paying for big, high visibility, highway oriented, billboards like these. 
Meanwhile, back at the local school, we hear how funding is an issue.  In fact, you might even think that they are way too low on funding to have the resources to actually provide classrooms with items like spiral notebooks, facial tissues, pencils, crayons and gluestick.  This is because at the begining of the year, parent are asked to help pay for and provide them for ALL the children, not just their own.  The school seems not to be able to afford these things... but it can pay for billboards.

If you, like we, pay property taxes vote for levies to give the schools more funds, you and I really have to wonder.... 

Are our levies used to actually pay for billboard advertising like this?


Someone is paying for it. 


Yes... kinda crazy that our tax dollars are hard at work, advertising on high visibility billboards, like this.