To Trust or Not to Trust

Trust is something that has gotten my attention recently. I went out to a school to do some consulting in rural Michigan (they didn't think of themselves as rural but I will challenge that and have pix to back it up). We were working on enhancing the organizational culture at the school. What I found at this small beautiful school were problems that were nearly carbon copy examples of the challenges at the urban schools I normally frequent; there is a serious lack of organizational trust between faculty and administration. I think it is a question that begs attention and I hope to continue to use this space as a thinking board regarding what is happening with trust and how trust seems to deteriorate. Why, in schools, where trust is tantamount to success...is it that trust is so noticeably absent?