Missouri shows a videotape advertisingnthe program to new parents in thenhospital before they take their babynhome. In a 1990 St. Louis Dispatchnarticle, Mildred Winter of the Parentsnas Teachers National Center at thenUniversity of Missouri at St. Louis said,n”Some of our parent educators follownexpectant women around the supermarketnso they can ask them whethernthey know about the program.”nThe federal government isn’t thenonly source of funds. Some of thensupporters of the Parents as Teachersnprogram include but are not limited tonThe Ford Foundation, The CarnegienFoundation, The Danforth Foundation,nNew World Foundation, EdnanMcConnell-Clark Foundation, ThenRockefeller Foundadon, and the PetnCorporation. There are also The A.P.nGreen Foundation, The Kansas CitynAssociation of Trusts and Foundations,nMaritz, Inc., The Monsanto Fund,nDon Orscheln, The Powell FamilynFoundation, and The Speas’ Foundation.nIn Missouri we check off a littlenbox when filing income tax directingnmoney to The Children’s Trust Fund,nanother means of funding.nOther federal monies come throughnthe Handicap Law, also known as P.L.n94-142. It may be in the interest of an”certified parent educator” to identifyna normal child with the “newspeak”nlabel “developmentally delayed” to initiatenthe flow of these funds. So shouldnwe be shocked that teachers admit thenfact that certain tests are rigged to shownthat up to 75 percent of the normalnpopulation of children are abnormal?n(Davis Gillam, a teacher who ran then”handicapped” education program innPotosi, Missouri, for many years, leftn•m •»•nthe system last year because her consciencenwould not allow her to continuento brand normal children as “developmentallyndelayed.”) Or that anMissouri Department of Educationnpublication reveals that social workersnmay choose to “rate selected aspects ofnthe child’s social development” withoutnany public accountability for thenresults?nParents as Teachers won’t be fullynimplemented until 1995. Until then,nthe Parents as Teachers program isnusing “nice grandmothers from localnchurches” — as Missouri Secretary ofnState Roy Blunt put it — for homenvisits and screening, while certifiedneducator parents are being trained atnthe Danforth Foundation’s TeachersnPreservice Institute. The Institute isnrecruiting people already working innchild care centers to accredit them asn”certified parent educators,” who willnsoon take over the program. They willnalso assume for many families thenprimary parenting role. As CarolynnWarner, the Arizona Superintendentnof Public Instruction, told the ArizonanHerald in 1975, “Those who educatenare more to be honored than those whonbear the children. The latter gave themnonly life, the former teach them the artnof living.”nLaura Rogers lives in St. Charles,nMissouri, where she foundednthe St. Charles Christian School,nwhich operated for twenty years.nShe was a lobbyist for thenMissouri home school law,nwhich has been used as a modelnnationally, is a Moore Foundationnresearch associate, and isnthe mother of six.n•M ‘-im. >i4ii: ^ ,nvBSKsr^”nThe clearcuts on Forest Service land are evident here at the border ofnYellowstone National Park and the Targhee National Forest in Idaho.n44/CHRONICLESnnnCOMMONWEALnRestoring IslandnParknby John Baden, RamonanMarotz-Baden, and Ron CoopernA Public/Private Trust fornWilderness ManagementnThe great Yellowstone caldera,nhome to Old Faithful and MammothnHot Springs, last exploded somen600,000 years ago. With a power morenthan one thousand times greater thannMt. St. Helen’s, it threw boulders thensize of Greyhound buses neariy tonKansas. Pressure is building up again.nThe Yellowstone caldera is bulging innpreparation for another explosion,nwhich will probably occur sometimenbetween tomorrow and fifty thousandnyears from now.nIn the meantime, we have the task ofnrepairing damage of another sort—thatnbrought about by an agency of thenUnited States government, the ForestnService, in the western boundary areanof Yellowstone Park. Restoration ecologynprovides the tools.nThe Island Park caldera area of FremontnCounty, Idaho, has trophy troutnrivers and spectacular views of thenGrand Tetons. Unfortunately, the naturalnbeauty of this area is being despoilednat taxpayer expense. Americans are subsidizingnthe destruction of an increasinglyncherished environment.nBeginning in 1961, increasing in then70’s, and accelerating to unsustainablenlevels during the 80’s, the Forest Servicen