I am doing a study of PBS children's shows.

I have been coming home evrey night and watching a really terrible PBS cartoon called, Dragon Tales. It is a typical example of PBS children's fare. The shows are the opposite of educational and are meant to make misfit children feel good about themselves. Since Public Television is supposed to be for the public, it should actually be concentrating on educating the average child. This is not the case at all. Today's episode of Dragon Tales was calculated to make oversized children/dragons feel great to be huge/fat/hulkingly tall. The show's premise is always to take some weird physical aspect or over sensitive feeling on the part of a character and make it seem as if it is not only normal, but even special and to be treasured. In other words instead of assimilating kids into society so that they can actually be happy citizens, PBS is telling them a total lie, that fitting in is not desirable and that there is something wrong with everyone else who feels that way. I will keep watching and report on the content of the various children's programming. I can tell you that there was more valuable information in the Batman and X-men and Tick cartoons than there is on the educational station.