ExxonMobil Ads for Corporate Education Reform
ExxonMobil is one of the chief sources of ad revenue that feeds the obscenely-inflated cash prizes of the PGA. The Masters--brought to you by ExxonMobil, Jim Nance croons, from all the Augusta National Golf Club, the entirely pristine, manicured, and all-male bastion just miles from a ghosty and deserted streets downtown Augusta that even the panhandlers have deserted.
During the past week, I've seen 2 ads during PGA events from ExxonMobil's new campaign to keep corporate education reform alive: one pimping for the Rotten Core Standards and the other lying about how badly American students are in math and science . Can you imagine how bad the PR situation must be for the other members of the Billionaire Boys Club, when they have to recruit Exxon as their front man? Now if I wanted to sell an idea that required the buy-in of American parents or the citizenry in general, would I choose one of the top 5 most hated companies on Planet Earth to run my ads? Think about it.
Think, too, of what ExxonMobil could do for science education if they were not interested in putting their oil profits first, while diverting attention from the role they have played and continue to play in global warming? Or what if they put their interests in helping schools, rather than serving as a chief funder and strategizer with the "corporate bill mill," ALEC:
ExxonMobil Corporation, Private Enterprise Board member,[1] "Chairman" level sponsor of 2011 ALEC Annual Conference[12] ($50,000 in 2010)[13] and member of Louisiana Host Committee[8][9]
Parents might wonder, in fact, how many of those 41 billion dollars they made in profit last year that ExxonMobil gave to put a new roof on a school in Nashville, or buy new science lab equipment in Camden, or pay for some minority kids to go to college to become teachers in California? The answer: none of the above.
more . . . http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/05/exxonmobil-ads-for-corporate-education.html
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