Finally, at some concerned parent's solutions. Last month we discussed the situation of children in various societies, past and present. This time we'll focus on the future. The results have not been pretty. Violence plagues the schools-and kids have been arrested for bringing a cheese knife in their lunch box.
Drugs are a terrible menace, and students are getting busted for handing out aspirin tablets.
And six years olds are getting suspended for pecking a schoolmate on the cheek. Meanwhile, the schools themselves are pushing drugs like Ritalin and Zoloft. Doctors Skinner and Spock have come and gone, along with their ridiculous theories, the former coldly mechanistic and the latter warmly over-indulgent. Parents can buy home-use drug testing kits. All too often, these tests will be the harbingers of Bad News.