From WorldNetDaily:
Inaccurate textbooks, parents' rights being violated, sex education that goes too far. Found in schools in a Third World nation or a repressive Islamic society? Nope. Right here in the good ol' United States of America.
That's what Steve Baldwin and Karen Holgate, the authors of "From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth about America's Public Schools," have documented.
They've assembled a long list of horror stories about the nation's public schools, from the teachers, students and parents who have witnessed them. The book is being released tomorrow, and will be the subject of discussion on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes."
American schools are "not just rife with bizarre, inaccurate textbooks and failed teaching practices – they encourage classroom activities that produce dangerous, even deadly results," they say.
Baldwin, a former California state legislator and the current director of the Council for National Policy, and Holgate, an advocate for national educational reform, believe that public schools "can be saved" if "parents are ready to fight for their children every step of the way."
In a previous post on cooperative learning Tent Dlugosh responded with a comment. Excerpt:
When I assign group work I also allow the students to grade each other on their participation. I give them a rubric that clearly spells out what each student must do to achieve that level and each student gets to grade all the other members of their group. I never assign group work and give all the members of the group the exact same score unless they all perform at the exact same level.
Trent’s practice does not seem to be universally used:
Inside the book's 263 pages are stories citing the deterioration of academic standards, including stories of students who receive grades as a group or based on expressed feelings and emotions rather than right or wrong answers to math problems and spelling quizzes.
And here is more insight into the "feelings" curriculum:
Other stories in the book include accounts of parents whose children were victims of death education. One account involves an 8-year-old who committed suicide after he watched a disturbing video in his second-grade class at school – a video that allegedly promotes psychologically healthy thoughts about death and dying.
Still other stories involve the public school system's sometimes blatant push toward a homosexual agenda, and an Islamic education that moves "beyond 'teaching' about a religion" and teaches the religion in a pro-Islamic way, according to the editors and the teachers and parents who wrote testimonials.
As for parents, the message they're given by public schools is: "Give us your children."
And the "fellings" curriculm was a major port of the preschool content standards developed by the South Dakota Department of Education designed to implement..."Give us your children". For two years concerned South Dakota citizens fought the advance of this agenda in the South Dakota legislature. Secretary Rick Melmer lead the effort, but know he heads off to become Dean of the University of South Dakota Education department. It will be interesting to see what impact that will have on the South Dakota government controlled preschool movement.
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