In the highly competitive era of today, marketers such as restaurants and supermarkets have started to give money to schools in order to get their products promoted. I believe this phenomenon is disadvantageous for school children.
To begin with, adverts of fast foods and their availability in schools would cause negative effects on students’ health such as obesity. Fatty foods contain a high amount of oil. By consuming these types of meals, students will be in peril of gaining weight. When these foods are advertised in schools, more and more pupils will be inclined to eat them. As a result, their health conditions will be risked.
Secondly, such commercials would provoke consumerism among school children. In other words, by promoting products which get sold in markets, students will be tempted to buy things that they actually do not need. This can also lead to school children pressuring their families to buy those products, which can be detrimental for families’ budgets.
To sum up, it is definitely a negative development to use schools to advertise their products as this may lead to unhealthy eating habits and materialistic attitude in children.
