From Crayons to Condoms

The verdict is in. The new book, From Crayons to Condoms by Steve Baldwin and Karen Holgate is a must-read for parents everywhere. Those who know Steve Baldwin may recall that he has been shaking up the education community ever since he chaired the California Assembly Education Committee and reported the ugly truth about what was going on inside public schools—to the detriment of our children.

The book describes nightmare scenarios that many parents will recognize—from the way that administrators routinely ignore parents to the fact that schools have become lab experiments in social engineering that clearly supersede any desire to provide children with even the most rudimentary education....

Yep, doesn’t matter if the kids learn to read or not. We don’t want to call Christmas by its name, and even Thanksgiving has been marginalized in some schools, due to the historical wrongs allegedly committed against American Indians.

Yet we need the kids to observe homosexal days of silence and learn to use a condom. Amazing isn’t it.

And now Sarah Palin’s daughter has given them more ammunition about sex education. After all, Sarah’s daughter got pregnant. And Sarah believes in abstinence and abstinence education. Tsk, Tsk, Sarah didn’t talk to her daughter about pills and condoms.

Schools that have the detailed sex education programs, including condoms, often say that they want to educate the kids, without forcing values on them. They don’t want to be judgemental and all that.

Yet the same school administrators who institute these programs, often institute policies such as not being allowed to say the word “Christmas”. That is reflective of someone’s values if you are banning certain words. Or the move towards observing the homosexual “Day of Silence” is also expressing someone’s values that this sort of thing is important.

I think that those who talk about forcing values on people or pushing certain beliefs, and say that they are against that, really mean that they are against pushing conservative values in the schools. They don’t have any problem pushing liberal values. What they fail to understand, or don’t have the critical thinking ability to realize, is that they are pushing a liberal value when they urge values-free sex education. They are pushing the opinion that sex outside marriage is ok, with any number or any gender of partners.

I recently visited my old High School for a 20 year reunion. The posters on the hallway walls outside the Nurse's office were incredible. A friend of mine recalled getting sent to the office for talking about the stuff on those posters.

Ah another tick on the why we home school belt.

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