POCATELLO, Idaho — In a cash-strapped Idaho high school, an enterprising teacher has struck a sponsorship deal with a local pizza shop: Every test, handout and worksheet he passes out to his students includes “MOLTO’S PIZZA 14″ 1 TOPPING JUST $5” in bright red letters.
The pizzeria agreed to supply paper for Jeb Harrison’s five classes — 10,000 sheets, valued at $315, and imprinted with a pizza ad. That should be enough paper for the rest of this school year and all of the next one.
School officials were not wild about the idea, but Pocatello High principal Don Cotant relented after Harrison explained the ads could help illuminate such topics as the Great Depression.
“I had concerns. I didn’t know what this would open up for us,” Cotant said. “But we’ve let this happen because it makes a point about what economic hard times can force people to do.”
