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I'm in a marketing and management class in my school. It's a relatively small group (about 12 people) and we all have a group project to do called "Selling Martin Luther". Basically, we have to create a powerpoint that shows aspects of the school and why an 7th or 8th grade student would want to go there for their next year of school. That's cool, I have no problem with that at all.
However, after we finish this powerpoint, we have to go to a bunch of different schools, and actually present this. That is where my problem with it starts....I don't think its right. It is not the student's job to try to convince new students to go to the school - it's the administration's. And I feel that my class and I are being taken advantage of, as well as the course and what is being taught in it. The course is centered around business and product marketing, and I also think that trying to advertise a school is kind of pushing too far away from the topic of the course. I know that last year's marketing class went next door to the Bowling Congress and presented ideas on how to advertise bowling. That I would not have a problem doing, because it is a legitimate business, and the school does not gain anything from us doing that.
I think that you should have to work for what you get, and the administration at the school should have to work for new students - not send out current students to do their job.
Besides, it just a waste of time...of ours and of the 7th and 8th grade students. They won't pay attention to what we have to say...I was in 8th grade once and I know that I never really paid attention to stuff like that.
Do you guys think I'm right here, or am I just being too stubborn or whatever?
However, after we finish this powerpoint, we have to go to a bunch of different schools, and actually present this. That is where my problem with it starts....I don't think its right. It is not the student's job to try to convince new students to go to the school - it's the administration's. And I feel that my class and I are being taken advantage of, as well as the course and what is being taught in it. The course is centered around business and product marketing, and I also think that trying to advertise a school is kind of pushing too far away from the topic of the course. I know that last year's marketing class went next door to the Bowling Congress and presented ideas on how to advertise bowling. That I would not have a problem doing, because it is a legitimate business, and the school does not gain anything from us doing that.
I think that you should have to work for what you get, and the administration at the school should have to work for new students - not send out current students to do their job.
Besides, it just a waste of time...of ours and of the 7th and 8th grade students. They won't pay attention to what we have to say...I was in 8th grade once and I know that I never really paid attention to stuff like that.
Do you guys think I'm right here, or am I just being too stubborn or whatever?