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From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools | 
 enlarge | Authors: Steve Baldwin, Karen Holgate
Publisher: WND Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 293
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0979267110
Dewey Decimal Number: 370
EAN: 9780979267116
ASIN: 0979267110
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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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. Today's public schools are not just rife with bizarre, inaccurate textbooks and failed teaching practices - they encourage classroom activities that produce dangerous, even deadly, results. Can our schools be saved? Yes say the authors, but only if parents are informed and ready to fight for their children every step of the way. The stories in From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools are sure to horrify and energize anyone concerned about today's kids - and our nation's future.
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 Why was this book ever published? September 4, 2008
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm in school to become an elementary teacher and I accidently picked up this book at the store. I returned it about 10 seconds after I realized what it really was: a disgusting and closed minded book from disgusting, close minded people. I can happily say I "survived" the public schools. To all the "conservative" parents out there, the public schools are in no way trying to "push the homosexual agenda" like this book claims they are, they're just preparing your children to be better and more understanding human beings (unfortunately it seems you missed out on the "how to be a better human being" classes). On top of that it is absolutely necessary that schools teach sex ed, we've seen from countless cases that abstinence only teaching does not work (ex: Bristol Palin anyone?). Public schools are not trying to dumb down your children, turn them liberal, or even gay they're simply trying to teach them what will prepare them for the rest of their lives. If you want to read trash like this book and cover your children's eyes and "protect" them from the big bad liberals and gays go right ahead, but seeing as how it's 2008 and not 1908 you might want to consider moving ahead with the times, and let the education system do its job.
 Gut wrenching August 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a must read for anyone sending a child to public school. It is mind boggling what is forced down the throats of our children, and what the school system feels is important to teach and what crutial education they leave out. There is a definite "dumbing down" agenda and promotion of perverted sex agenda that doesn't need to be in our schools.
A strong choice for conservative parents. August 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
What is going on in the classrooms of America? "From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools" is an examination of America's public school system and the problems with its education outside of the academic curriculum. Written from a strict Christian perspective, "From Crayons to Condoms" speaks on the subjects of multiculturalism, sexual education, evolution, religious tolerance, and more, and explains why certain topics may be objectionable to parents and students. Arranged in a story by story, case by case basis, "From Crayons to Condoms" is a strong choice for conservative parents.
From Crayons to Condoms July 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools
This was quite an eye opener, especially for a retired (for some time) public school teacher. There are many quotes from parents who were shocked to discover what their children were being taught. It is surprising that school board members have approved some books to be used in their districts. Even the California Department of Education has approved a pro-muslim textbook that has definitions of some terms that are completely false, such as "jihad". No wonder we sometimes hear that education is being "dumbed down".
Great look inside our schools June 30, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools is a great look at the horrors being passed as "educational programs" in the United States today. Read this book if you either have a child in Government Schools (no schools are "Public," as we have no say as to what happens in them) or are considering enrolling your child in one; hopefully this will change your mind.
I've already decided to homeschool my children unless there is a good Chrstian school near where we live (I'm in the Air Force so "where we live" is subject to frequent changes.) I made that decision when I graduated from a Government High School in 2002. Hopefully this book will encourage you to do the same; then seek to increase public demand for voucher programs to free children from corrupt schools.
To address any nay-sayers; I only graduated 6 years ago and can attest to the accounts given in every chapter in this book. I'm sure they have only gotten worse; and saw them in college as well - so don't think that these are unique or radical claims - this is really happening in our schools.
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