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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.

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.

Rating : - RACIST CLOSED-MINDED BOOK
I read through most of this book. None of it is factual, all of is complaints from parents. There were a few things I agreed with in the book against the public school system. But, somethings I felt were taken to an EXTREME. For example, many parents complained that their children are not being taught the same way they are being taught--well DUH they are complete different generations there would be a problem if they were taught the same way. It seems like these parents just want to stick to the old school way of teaching and are not open to creativity. I mean I do agree with the fact that the public school system is far from perfect; but the things the book picks are to an extreme. Many of it seems to come from completely sheltered and closed-minded parents that do not want to open and fear opening the minds of their children. I DO NOT recommend this book to anyone.