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I think this is how leftists think that progressives/liberals see the world, if the progressives/liberals were the deer. Or something. See the deer as bourgeoise, while the lions are the 1%?
Now add a dash of school to the crockpot, and you have a cartoon that seems to want a repeat of the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s. Maybe even the Taliban currently in Afghanistan.
But this same argument can be used to regard schools as run by a stalinist or Cultural Revolution government, where the deer are the "glorious worker comrades" and the lions are the bureaucratic/military elite.
Bottom line: who knows? I don't.
Only if you interpret it as blanket anti-intellectualism. Education is a good thing, but one should scrutinize where their information comes from.
And yes, you absolutely could apply the same argument to a school or centralized school system that is funded/administered by any group of elites.
To my mind, the best answer is decentralization. Give individual teachers more freedom within their classrooms, especially in the humanities.