Posted on 06/18/2008 3:46:56 AM PDT by chessplayer
Book Description What's really going at your local public school? In From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools, Steven Baldwin and Karen Holgate let parents, concerned teachers and students speak for themselves about the dismal state of government education in America today. The conclusion? Today's schools are laboratories for disaster, where failed methodologies and policies continually find new life thanks to bureaucracies more interested in maintaining power than in educating.
Lavishly armed with your tax dollars, government at every level encourages mass social experimentation on our kids - success optional. In From Crayons to Condoms you'll discover...
* The lesbian gym teacher who hands out a paper called "101 Ways To Do It Without Going All The Way" in every class. * The "Inventive Spelling" curriculum which demands of parents that they "avoid giving in to our natural desire to correct the mistakes" because it's "harmful to the children" * The "innovative name-calling" program for kindergarteners and first graders that teaches new words and concepts like "dyke" and "faggot." * The required courses in "death education" that actually encourage teen depression and suicide. * The math classes in which students write down how they "feel" about math problems...as opposed to learning fractions, algebra and multiplication tables.
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Of the 4 remaining school age children in our extended family 2 are in private Christian school and 2 are homeschooled.
It is unlikely that any future children withn the group will ever be in the Government schools.
All are highly intelligent, mature and motivated.
In before the “not at MY local public school!”
http://home.comcast.net/~llefler/clavell.htm
The teacher waited for them to finish their candy. This was what she had been trained for, and she knew that she would teach her children well and that they would grow up to be good citizens. She looked out of the window, at the sun over the land. It was a good land, and vast. A land to breathe in. But she was warmed not by the sun but by the thought that throughout the school and throughout the land all children, all men and all women were being taught with the same faith, with variations of the same procedures. Each according to his age group. Each according to his need.
Taught her about vowels by playing hangman...she soon learned to go for the vowels...
She's a good speller now AND a good mathematician....since we worked on memorizing multiplication tables and doing a little simple geometry.
She raised her hand (age 11) and ripped the formula with no doubt when the teacher said: Has anyone heard of the Pythagorem Theory?
Ping to metmom!
An `03 study;
“U.S. falls in education rank compared to other countries”
“The United States is falling when it comes to international education rankings, as recent studies show that other nations in the developed world have more effective education systems.”
“In a 2003 study conducted by UNICEF that took the averages from five different international education studies, the researchers ranked the United States No. 18 out of 24 nations in terms of the relative effectiveness of its educational system.”
“The TIMSS results reveal a lot about the weaknesses of the U.S. education system, said David Marsh, a professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education.”
“In fourth grade, American kids do above average internationally. By eighth grade, they slip a bit, and by 12th-grade, they’ve slipped a lot,” Marsh said. “We’re the only country that slides down that much from fourth to 12th grade.”
“Although studies have attempted to illuminate the reasons for this downward slide, no conclusive explanations have been drawn.”
http://kapio.kcc.hawaii.edu/upload/fullnews.php?id=52
I find that when it comes to education, you get what you pay for. Free government schools are priced just right.
And don’t whine to me about how you are paying for public schools through your property taxes. You are paying your property tax to keep the Sherriff from knocking on your door and tossing all of your stuff out in the street. What your jurisdiction chooses to do with the money after that has nothing to do with you.
Public schools are a criminal enterprise on a massive scale.
Today’s teachers only teach the standardized tests - not the general material the students should be learning, but the exact questions on these tests.
Classics are out! The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is in!
One of the most vile and degrading pieces of garbage ever shoved on our children.
She's becoming socially wise...She plays sports, is in advanced classes "with the boys".
I'm a woman in a male dominated business. Socializing gave me an edge to become "All You Can Be". (No, I'm not in the military.)
Are Catholic schools immune from this garbage? I’m not Catholic, but I would definitely like to know. Some of the private, non-parochial schools apparently are as full of garbage like this—including Leftist indoctrination—as the public schools.
Above the doorway to the room that the group was about to enter was a sign saying "World War II".
The teacher said: "And now, class, we're going to learn about World War Eleven."
This is a true story. It happened here in the United States.
The friend, a school teacher herself, didn't know whether to approach and correct the teacher or not. She decided to say nothing--probably because she didn't think the teacher would be accepting of a correction--maybe because she was afraid of a confrontation--maybe because she thought that a correction of one fact would do nothing to correct all the other misinformation the teacher had undoubtably fed to the students...
I don't know why she didn't correct the teacher--only that she had a hard time deciding whether to or not and finally decided just to keep silent.
They're going to be out there dealing with some of the most driven and competitive people in the world, and they must know how to live among them and prevail.
HOWEVER--when it came time for me to enroll my children in grammar school--I took one look at the public schools and put them all in expensive private schools.
I would do the same thing again.
I corrected my Granddaughters thoughts on the Rev War...She never realized that the French Naval Force AND ROCHAMBEAU’s Brilliant mind and experience were the keys to the war’s end.
I'm into my grandchildren now...and their parents make the choices. BUT, I watch and do interfere at times...I'm just discreet.
Homeschool is the best for kids!!
LOL...nothing that more money cant solve or so we’re told. Come to think of it they’re not even using that line anymore. Now its just ‘Give us your money!!’. OK, enough jocularity...this situation isn’t going to be corrected until we decide our interest in education is greater than the govts. Its an ‘us’ problem not ‘them’.
Having a child in a Catholic elementary school, I can say that we don't see a lot of the sexual perversions, nor the "New Age" spelling and math.
Unfortunately, we do hear a little of the "Save the Earth" stuff, which the Catholic Church has bought into.
I’m a woman in a male dominated business - software engineering is 90% male these days - and I find being homeschooled gave me great preparation for it. I never picked up the “girls don’t like math/science/geeky stuff” garbage, I learned to socialize with people, not just kids my age, and as individuals rather than part of cliques.
Kids do belong with kids, but not with twenty other kids that are their exact same age and have nothing else in common, in one room for eight hours a day sitting at a desk. Kids belong in the woods with their siblings, on the playgrounds with the neighbors, at church with toddlers and teens, and interacting with adults too.
Homeschoolers do a far better job, on average, of socializing than do government schools. Unfortunately we let the teachers define what “socialize” means and they make it a lie.
I’ve got four children approaching school age. I’m thinking about the Catholic schools, though I’m Episcopalian. The best non-parochial private school has nosedived into Leftist nuttiness, and I’m doubtful about the sexual garbage and other depravity and Western decadence to which the children there might be exposed. In fact the Catholic Church itself seems to emerging as a beacon of sanity in a psychotic world.
My almost 5 year old daughter asked me the other day if boys can marry boys and girls marry girls. It turns out a parent who went along on a (pre-K) class trip to the zoo told the kids about gay marriage. The woman who did this is a friend of an important business connection of mine.
Suggestions? We are still stunned that this has been injected into our childrens’ lives at this stage.
World War XI: This Time, It’s Personal!
My daughter is an Episcopalian in a Catholic School. There are a few things she does not participate in, but the teachers and other students have been very open and understanding about it.
I just googled that and found a synopsis. You weren't kidding!
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