Children were allowed to be children. But today many schools are plunging our children into serious environmental activism. Can Do to Save the Earth, a best-selling book found in many classrooms. So if saving the Earth is important to you, then grown-ups will have to follow along. We don't want them to be polluters when they grow up.
Environmental activism is the latest in a series of social reforms championed in our schools.
And now our children are supposed to save the Earth. Because of the delivery powers of the attendance officer, educational policy is highly vulnerable to use by special interests to forward their personal or public causes. Sooner or later, many social reformers get around to trying to influence what is taught and how. However valuable these goals may be, they are driving out basic education. It pointed out that test scores had been declining almost steadily since the 1960s.