So You Don't Think It's Orwell's 1984, huh?

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...I don't know if kids are asked to spy on their parents, but I'm sure if they wanted to use
something for blackmail to get their way, they'd do it..

...Long story short, spying? Not necessarily, but they absolutely welcome their students to
turn their parents in for anything...

It could be construed as spying for blackmail purposes, but I'd tend to believe that here
in the UK, it's mainly for job justification and societal control.

Put it another way, children are perceived as the vulnerable member of a household and
in a caring society, a Government department that has regional arms of that department
is set up to make sure the children of that country are kept safe.

Your task is to monitor the welfare of the children in your region and of course, that means
you have to know if such welfare is being upheld to a level condoned by the society that
you're serving... and getting paid from.

Criminals of all walks of life have children and so do families that are perceived as 'normal'
One is only deemed a criminal when held accountable by the authorities that 'rule' over the
society these family units and the peers they reside with.

Now how can you tell the difference when it comes to the concerns of the child in these
units...? It's easy to say that the criminals would wear burglar masks and carry bags with
'swag' scrawled on them, but life isn't really like that.

Successful and well-respected people commit crimes too and many times, these crimes take
place within the homes where monitoring cannot occur.

Most children enjoy being part of a group and with family-ties being accepted as the norm
from growing up within that family, a child in an education system needs other links to make
themselves feel secure within his-or-her group outside the family.

So to receive that feeling of praise from what is deemed as a superior -an adult teacher, a
youngster may answer a simple question that's put to them in a manner that a more cynical
or reality-hardened adult may perceive as something more sinister.

Now, if your job is to locate and hold accountable those who commit crimes within a domicile
and your only reasonable access is to use someone unaware of the reality of the crime being
performed by the adults that children trust, i.e parents and relations, can you take that chance
that what the kid is saying is wrong?

Will you still receive a salary for your neglect because you accepted the unusual -yet naive account
from what he tend to believe is an innocent child?
Is the child telling the truth or a harmless virtuous version of a truth that is in an adult world, deemed
a crime?

Remember, if you're right and the crime is stopped, you can feel 'good' because you've rescued an
innocent child from a place where they could be -or are being, effected by that crime.
Also, you receive praise from your superiors and as a child can attest, that makes you feel good.

But if you do nothing and it's later revealed that your manning of the walls was insufficient due to
your reasoning that a child was merely telling a straight-forward account of 'sugar' and other things,
then you've not only failed to make that child's life less vulnerable to the evils of the world, you're
answerable to your superiors and they -to theirs.

Either way, it's a terrible indictment on parenthood in general considering that an action viewed
by outsiders in a possibly skewed manner, can tear a family apart because of the reliance of a poorly
-equipped witness and an eager employee of a organisation that knows it has to show something
for it's existence.

Don't get me wrong, some parents are total ass-holes and the children of these idiots can be placed
in a lifestyle that brings the love and security they need. But I believe investigation to make children's
lives better should be just that, investigation. Not intrusion for pay.