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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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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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 Gut wrenching August 26, 2008
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
3 out of 3 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
1 out of 2 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
5 out of 6 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.
A glimps of the coming DARK AGES June 25, 2008
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
Read this book. Read it carefully. Forget about "saving our schools" and other nonsense. Instead, try to mentally leap about 15 to 20 years into the future and, as you're reading, try to imagine what American society is going to be like thanks to countless numbers of "educated" children becoming adults and SUPPOSEDLY assuming the responsibilities of running a First World country.
Just think about being in your "Golden Years" and having to rely on throngs of illiterate, incompetent, whimsical, irrational, lazy, stupid, perpetually-childish rabble to keep society running AND maintain our present lifestyle. Think about trying to get service if your furnace breaks down, and think about systems of communications and how they will deteriorate. Think about manufacturing and decision-making and design. Think about transportation - air, sea, train, even automobile travel and what a debacle that will become! Think of the level of medical care, law enforcement, and food supply there will be when all these "educated" darlings are adults and YOU are a senior citizen! THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS, because the worst is coming just as sure as you're reading this review!
Does the term "A nightmare world of insanity" fit the picture?? Does "Dog Eat Dog - Survival of the Fittest" sound applicable? Oh, and don't forget America's drop in power on the World stage too! Who ( or WHAT ) is going to form the officer class of our armed forces? Dolts who can't read or spell, and who have no work ethic whatsoever? And what will other nations - enemy nations - do when they see that America has been reduced from a super power to a miserable, ridiculous, idiotic monument to Pathos? Think of what will transpire then!
These "educators" who are responsible for this catastrophy are living in their own deluded dream world. They somehow believe that all this is going to cause some wonderful Socialist paradise to come into being, a Socialist paradise where everyone is EQUAL and "THE SAME", and where we all live happily ever after Tra-La-La, La-La!
But the reality is, these glib "educators" have only succeeded in creating a whole mass of Frankenstein's Monsters who will grow to adulthood and then turn on their creators and destroy them just as sure as they will destroy everyone else AND destroy the country itself.
So again, READ this book.....but read it with your mind 20 years IN THE FUTURE, not here-and-now with worries over "fixing" the school system. The fact is, what these two authors detail for their readers merely consists of the TIP of the ice-berg. What they've realized and written about is nothing compared to the seething, rotting mess that has grown from it - a mess that spells the destruction of our standard of living, our society itself, our culture ( so-called ), and perhaps ( almost certainly ) even our very lives.
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