The Curro Wave

Why is it, that man is so bent on repeating the mistakes of their predecessors? Are we so obsessed with our history that we would go so far as to repeat it in our actions simply to be closer to it? These are serious questions we must ask as we consider how we move forward in this world that seems to be crumbling as we try to move forward while constantly looking back.

In a recent article I read about the interesting politics of the merger, or rather the attempted merger of Curro holdings and Advtech. Two companies interested in the education sector and building facilities that would better provide the kind of standard education we want our youth to have as opposed to what our government is currently failing to give. Politics aside, the gist of things seem to be that Advtech seem unwilling to jump into bed with the infamous Curro group and it’s hard to blame them when you consider the damage their image suffered with that unfortunate segregation scandal a few months ago.

I find it interesting that a group such as this, an investment firm, who strive to increase their influence as they step into education, might not have alternate motives. Sure maybe their intentions were good, but I can’t blame Advtech for their reservations. The slip up that Curro tries so hard to brush aside as a simple mishap through misunderstanding just doesn’t cut it enough if you take a moment and think about things. Their defence that the children were in fact being segregated by language and not race doesn’t change the fact that they were ‘segregated’ period.

Have these people learned nothing from the past and the damaging consequences of any form of separation? I don’t know what’s worse though, that they might truly believe in this minor separation or that they intend to implement it in the many schools they speak about wanting to open up in their dreams of expansion.

I suppose it’s a good thing to see that some companies like Advtech see the wrong and danger in tying themselves onto a sinking ship like this, but they aren’t the ones we should worry about. The ones we should be concerned about are the companies and groups with money and influence who are willing to push this backwards dream forward. Because then not only does it stop being a sinking ship, it soon becomes a history lesson we are doomed to live through as it rides an unfortunate wave forward and what’s worse, it starts out in the education side of things.