Conor here: The following is part of the Independent Media Institute’s four-part series, “ Does Your Community Care About Children? ” In America the answer would seem to be a resounding “no.” And while this piece focuses on children in poverty, kids on the other end of the country’s great wealth divide are also being chewed up, albeit in different ways. I recall in Malcolm Harris’ “Palo Alto” how the kids in elite training grounds were facing burnout and various crises of their own. In Harris’ telling that was largely the result of the Palo Alto system, which started with horses, discarding those from bad stock and making the thoroughbreds run before they could walk in order to weed out any weaklings. The system was then applied to children: …the Palo Alto system suggested both positive and negative eugenic practices.…