FEAR OR APATHY?

I was just talking to my daughter about the stress the thinking and concerned sector of society suffered from this week. She mentioned the comeback of an ousted exec director who is now bullying the one who replaced him.They (in her office) were also affected not just by delayed salary issues but by the piling up of young victims of EJK and of course the issues involving the president and his son which still many turds refuse to connect to the WOD.

I remarked that in my workplace, a school, these concerns (political and criminal) do not seem to disturb my colleagues and students. If ever they do, my workplace people are good at not showing it. Truth to tell, if not for the fact that I really enjoy my work and my clients (my students), I am deeply saddened by the apathy that prevails esp among my colleagues.

We have just been thru a career fest which ate up at least three days of our school week. This weekend is report card completion for the class advisers. I am not an adviser and I am done with the grades a week ago. Still small talk seldom centers or even mentions the killings which involved young people, same age as our students. No one bothers to mention them. I do, in class, but my students seem to dismiss this as my usual anti-Duterte rant. Or at least that's how they make me feel whenever I mention issues re the president.

This made me recall my high school days (1975-79) in a private Catholic school in our city. It wasn't easy to talk about the state of our country then because of Martial Law. My history teacher in whose class one would expect political and social issues to be discussed , opted to teach on safe mode, so to speak-memorize the who, what, when in history. I think it was only on our senior year that our teacher finally let his guard down and in an after class huddle around his table he admitted his anti-Marcos sentiments. That was some breath of fresh air and hope for me, for us. I think that made me more prepared for my entry to the state university where teachers gave us more dissenting opinions/stance than we could handle. Of course we handled them well , we who were in the thick of anti-Marcos protest either as students or as student council officers.

I now worry about the young in our care in the school where I teach. The teachers just don't deliver more than the content of the subjects that they teach. Young and old alike, teachers now seem detached or opt to detach the classroom from the world and reality outside. This is what happens when many among teachers actually thought Duterte was on the right when he promised to annihilate everything and everyone connected to illegal drugs. He was just into instilling fear so he could govern unopposed. We should now realize that he wasn't actually sincere in solving the drug problem.

More than this though, what worries me is the fact that many teachers and their students think it is okay to kill a person if he is perceived to be a "problem" to the community. Schools weren't built to inculcate this belief. Why aren't they alarmed? Why aren't they grieving? Why aren't they saddened by the loss of young lives? What happened to these schools then?
 

It's moral panic . See wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic Thank you , Mr. Irineo Salazar for this.