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.