Trust- the bad news

You can trust business management structures to continually, relentlessly pursue revenue.  Agreed? It’s so simple.  Like a virus. It’s the single-cell organisms that are the most destructive because of such simplicity.  Or dinosaur movies demonstrating raw predatory behaviors.

I think schools have been more and more commercialized.  Maybe it has always been like that, but I didn’t notice.  If that is true and schools advertise to compete in the ‘business’ of education… well, think of commercials- do you trust any ad?  Most ads, in fact boast the opposite of their product.  

Cigarettes are marketed as relaxing, when they are a stimulant.  Alcohol is usually seen as a stimulant when it is a depressant.  Diets that promote thinness are designed to make us fat.  Products promising longevity are easily broken through planned obsolescence.

“No child left behind”, my be-hind!  ‘Race to the top’- of what? Just catch phrases that sound good but are tools of manipulation politically and economically.  School safety?  How much do you trust that?  Have shootings gone up or down? 

Schools advertise ‘learning’.  How much do you trust in the actual learning taking place?  Is curriculum aimed to really help kids? or use kids for financial and political  schemes? 

Do you trust yourself to know the difference? Trust change can occur just through observation.