The Education Battle

Are the Social Engineers right in saying the parents must step aside and allow them to handle education decisions?

Not too long ago a cartoon appeared in the local paper that demonstrated the tug of war between social engineers and parents. It seemed to suggest that this was one of the government’s greatest snow jobs. It was a two-part cartoon. The first part was a sketch showing a large ship being loaded with children. The ship was piloted by social engineers and carried the name 'Government Education.' The small boat alongside was named Family and it was from the small boat that children were seen climbing a ladder to get onto the large boat while the parents stood by watching.

The Social Engineers were telling the parents that they, a poor uneducated people, simply were not equipped to raise their own children properly and they should therefore step aside and allow the government to do the job. The date at that time indicated it was sometime in the 50’s.

The next sketch, dated ‘today", showed the huge ship sinking and the Social Engineers, with all the children ,stranded on a tiny island. The comment, in the balloon overhead, "Where are your parents?"

A failed experiment initiated by our government who then accused the parents of not looking after their children.

It seems the cartoon appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, but the signature was difficult to decipher, so credit can only be attributed to the paper, not the author.

It seems that the government is always willing to step and meddle but when things go wrong it looks around and accuses the parents of not doing the job.

Social Engineering has been the downfall of many a government project and it has cost the tax paper billions. And yet what do we hear, even today, that more money is needed to do the job of educating our children, even though money has not solved the problem so far.

Witness the big snafu called the WASL test that all chilren from a certain grade up must pass before they can graduate. It has even been suggested that the test be given to teachers to see how many of them could take it and pass.