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[quote=NotAnArtist]Included in this year's annual report from the National Education Policy Center / Commercialism in Education Research Unit is a discussion about fun runs: [quote]"Fun run companies market their product as a fundraising tool, but the central aspect of their work is to bring all the players into alignment with the commercial values that validate their existence. That is, all the adults involved participate in manipulating the children to harass family and friends for contributions, to work for trinkets, and most significantly, to learn that manipulation, harassing their family and friends, and working for trinkets are all desirable if they lead to getting the money in the end. Social pressures discourage objections."[/quote] -F. Boninger and A. Molinar at NEPC/CERU[/quote]
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