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Ten Good Reasons To Keep Your Child In Public School

ALN Contributor — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:53:58 +0000

Here are ten reasons why parents should keep their kids in public schools:

1 – Public schools can cripple your child’s ability to read. The schools use a special reading-instruction method to do this called whole-language (or balanced literacy). But that’s a good thing. Why do kids need to read anyhow? It only gives them ambitions to go to college. Parents have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for college tuition these days, so if your child can’t read, you end up saving a lot of money.

2 – Public schools can wreck your child’s ability to do math, with “fuzzy” math curriculums. But that’s a good thing. That way, your child will not strive to be a scientist or engineer and make a lot of money. Having a lot of money causes stress, and you don’t want your kids to be stressed in life, do you? Also, if your child grows up to be a supermarket check-out clerk, you don’t have to worry. The machine scans in all the prices and will tell your child how much change to give back to the customer.

3 – Public schools violate your God-given parental rights to choose who teaches your child and what he is taught. But hell, aren’t we swamped today with too many choices anyhow? It’s only reasonable to let education “experts” who have been trained in our finest “teacher” colleges tell us how to educate our children. After all, haven’t these education “experts” done a superb job educating our children up to now?

4 – Public schools give your child a “well-rounded” education. Your child’s day is filled with shocking sex-education classes, multiculturalism classes that spit on American values, save-the-earth environmental propaganda classes, drug-education classes that give your child all the dope about these drugs so he can choose wisely, and violence- prevention classes for those kids who get violent from being bored to death in public-school classrooms.

5 – Public schools give your children great socialization. Where else can your kids smoke a joint in the bathroom, meet roaming drug dealers in the schoolyards, be raped or assaulted by violent bullies on the prowl for victims, and join a racial clique that promotes harmony among the students? That’s a lot better than the “bad” socialization of homeschooling that “isolates” kids from this wonderful interaction with their peers.

6 – Public schools give your kids a great sex education. As parents, we don’t want to talk to our kids about embarrassing sex matters anyhow, so this takes us off the hook. Your child’s sex-education classes will teach her why homosexuality is a “normal” lifestyle and why sexual promiscuity is OK, as long as you remember to “protect” yourself. If your teenage daughter then decides to experiment and gets pregnant, that’s great also, because the welfare office will give your daughter monthly welfare checks, food stamps, rent subsidies, and free health care. What more can you ask for?

7 – Public schools will give your child free drugs. Yes, Ritalin is now the drug of choice for millions of school children. But isn’t that a good thing? Ritalin will help your son stop “fidgeting” and “pay attention” in class, even though he is bored to death. Ritalin also helps the teacher maintain discipline in the classroom. After all, if your son disrupts the class by “acting out,” the other kids can’t learn anything, right? So Ritalin is a wonderful way to mentally strap-down your child to his desk.

8 – Your child can “participate” in your school’s Teen-Screen program. These are “mental-health” screening programs that help determine if your teenager is mentally deranged. A health “expert” in your public school will ask your child questions such as, “have you been unhappy lately,” or “do you get along with your brothers and sisters?” From your bewildered child’s answers to these illuminating questions, the health “expert” will give his opinion as to whether your child might have a mental “disease.” He might then “recommend” that you take your child to a psychiatrist who might start your child on a cocktail of mind-altering drugs. But hell, having your child labeled with a mental “disease” isn’t that bad, is it? Your child will lose the confidence to go to college, and we’re back to advantage number one, where you’ll save a lot of money on college tuition.

9 — Your child can stay in school for twelve years. Well, maybe he won’t know how to read a bus schedule or his own diploma after twelve years, but twelve years go by fast, don’t they? Why teach your child to read at home with phonics so he becomes a great reader in only two years? My God, what will your child then do with all his free time once he can easily read War and Peace? He might actually come to love learning.

10 – Finally, public schools are cheap day-care centers. We all work hard these days because income, real estate, social security, and dozens of other taxes loot half our paychecks, and big-government-created inflation sharply increases the cost of everything we buy. So since we can’t save a penny, we can’t afford private day-care. That’s why we need public schools to house our kids while we make a living to pay the bills.

Parents, there are many other reasons NOT to keep your child in public school, but I hope you get the point by now.

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Public-School Prisons — What Crimes Have Our Children Committed?

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:00:59 +0000

“Free education for all children in government schools.”
- Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Why have we put our children into educational prisons called public schools? What crimes have they committed? Why do we condemn almost 45 million innocent children to this punishment? Do I exaggerate by calling these schools “prisons?” Well, let’s compare prisons and public schools.

What are prisons? They are places were people are locked up against their will for crimes they have committed.

What is life like for a prisoner? The warden and prison guards, in effect, take away the prisoner’s life and freedom. They force a prisoner to live in a small cell he doesn’t want to live in, eat food he may hate, work at a job he detests, associate with other prisoners who may be dangerous, and remove him from everyone and everything he loved in the outside world when he was free.

Comparing Prisons to Public Schools

Like prisons, public schools impose their will by force, by compulsion. Local governments force parents to send their children to public schools just as the police drag convicted criminals into prison (even though many parents are not aware of this and voluntarily send their kids to these schools). A parent can be convicted of alleged child abuse and sent to prison if she disobeys the school authority’s order to send her child to the local public school.

Local governments then force parents to pay school taxes for these education prisons. If they don’t pay these taxes, their local government will foreclose on their home and throw them out on the street.

School authorities force children to stay in school until they are 16 years old or graduate high school (these age limits vary by state). In effect, most children get a 10-year education prison sentence if they start school at age six.

School authorities force millions of children to sit in boxes called classrooms with 20 other children-inmates for six to eight hours a day, five days a week, for up to ten years. The children must obey the adult education wardens (teachers and principals), who they may fear or dislike. They must study subjects they may hate or that bore them to death. They must associate only with other children their same age who may be bullies, violent, or emotionally disturbed. They must do homework and study for tests they must pass or be left back in school.

The children are removed from their loving parents and put under the control of teacher-wardens who may not love them, care for them, or simply even have the time to pay attention to them. They are stopped from being a free and free-spirited child. They are told to keep quiet. They are told to obey the rules. They are told to march from classroom cell to classroom cell every 50 minutes to study different subjects that may mean nothing to them.

Parents, if you don’t think this is harsh punishment for your innocent child, ask yourself this. When your spouse pressures you to attend some event you hate, whether a ballet, lecture, or football game, how do you feel? After sitting at that event for only an hour, how do you feel? You are probably angry, irritated, and frustrated. You squirm in your seat or doze off. You can’t wait to get out of there. You can’t wait to get back to your life and doing the things you love to do.

Well, millions of kids, and probably your child, must sit through this agony of boredom or frustration for 6 to 8 hours a day for 10 years in public-school classrooms. Yet, to repeat, what crimes have your children committed to warrant this horrible punishment?

In fact, they have committed no crime whatsoever. They are simply innocent victims of local governments and public-school authorities who think they own your children, who think they have the right to put your children into education prisons for 10 years for “their own good.”

Parents, if a rogue cop came and took your child to prison for no reason whatsoever, except for saying it would be for your child’s “own good,” would you not fight to the death to stop him? So why do you let school authorities take your innocent children and punish them for ten years?

Parents, if you thought you had no choice, you are wrong. Happily, you can homeschool your child or give your child a fun, quality, rewarding, low-cost education with Internet private schools. You have many education options. If your child hates school, listen to him or her. Don’t let school authorities put your child in a public-school prison for ten years. You have a choice, and your child’s life is at stake.

You can find out about all your education options in Joel Turtel’s book, “Public Schools, Public Menace.” Please take advantage of the Resources in this book, for your children’s sake.

Joel Turtel

Read more information about “Public Schools, Public Menace.”

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Local Charter School – Can’t Find One?

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:23:05 +0000

Parents: Are you looking for a

Charter school because:

· You love your children, want to protect them, and want to give your kids the quality, rewarding education they deserve?

· You are afraid for your children—your local public school is a total education disaster?

· Your child is not learning to read or do basic math, and their reading and writing skills are terrible for their age and grade level?

· Your son or daughter can barely read to you from simple books?

· Your kids are afraid of math, and have to use a calculator to do the simplest addition or multiplication?

· As your child advances to the next grade, they are getting more and more frustrated and unhappy with school?

· If things keep going this way, you think your child will drop out of school, never qualify for college, or be stuck in low-paying jobs when they quit school (and maybe for the rest of their lives)?

· Your local public school is arrogant—when you complain that your child is not learning to read or is failing in school, do they just ignore you and tell you they are the education “experts?”

· Your children keep telling you they now hate school, and are losing their love of learning?

· Your kids no longer read for fun and dread going to school?

· Your child is bullied in school, or God forbid, has actually been physically assaulted or even raped by another child in school? (Did you know that there is a physical assault in public schools across the country every three seconds?)

· Your local public school shows shocking sexual material to your innocent

But Charter schools can be better than a public school, only IF you can find one,and only IF there’s no long waiting list. So what if:

• There are no local charter schools where you live.

• There’s a charter school, but it’s too far away.

• The local charter school has a huge waiting list it could be years before your child’s name comes up on the list.

• You can’t wait years. Your child’s mind and spirit is withering away in public school.

• You don’t want to wait years for a charter school to come to your neighborhood, or for your name to come up on the school’s long waiting list. You have to do something now.

• Many local governments and education authorities fight tooth and nail to shut down charter schools, restrict the number of schools, or regulate them to death. That’s because charter schools compete with local public schools, take tax money away from these schools, and school officials hate that.

So chances are, it could take years, if ever, for a charter school to come to your neighborhood. So what can you do? If you can’t find a local charter school for any of these reasons, I think I can help.

My Book, “Public Schools, Public Menace” can:

• Help you to be closer to your children

• Show you a way to rescue your child from public schools, right now.

• Show you how to give your kids a wonderful, quality education without charter schools

• Tell you about K-12 private schools that cost less than $975 a year tuition (which is about $80 a month!).

• Tell you how you can enroll your child in these schools, no matter where you live

• Reveal how these low-cost private schools supervise your child’s education, so you can still work and give your child a great education at home.

• Tell you how these private schools take most of the homeschooling responsibility off busy parents’ shoulders.

• Show you 22 ways you can homeschool your child, even if you work.

• Tell you how average parents like yourself successfully homeschool their kids, even when both parents work. Many of these parents only have a high-school education.

Here’s only a few of the many education Resources you’ll find in “Public Schools, Public Menace”:

Lists of dozens of low-cost, online, K-12 private schools, many of which cost less than $975 a year tuition.
Lists of low-cost online tutors for any subject your child is having trouble with
Lists of dozens of resource-rich general-interest homeschooling and education websites. These websites give you a wealth of education resources to help you educate your child at home, find tutors, find online K-12 private schools, offer education magazines and newsletters, let you get in touch with other parents, and much more.
22 unique ways that parents can homeschool their kids, even if both parents work ways to make homeschooling a lot faster and easier than you thought possible.
Lists of many internet parent groups you can network with.
Dozens of websites that offer education books, computer software, complete curriculum material these websites give you a supermarket of education resources to help your child learn to read better, and learn math, science, and most other subjects.
Lists of great Internet libraries that your kids can use to explore the world and any subjects that fascinate them.
Many websites that give you detailed information on how to prepare your child for college entrance exams, advice on getting your child into a great college, college loan programs, and much more.
Many excellent websites that give you information on your state’s homeschooling regulations, and how to deal with local officials if you decide to homeschool or enroll your child in a low-cost online private school.
Describes all the excuses your local public school will give you to explain why your child is getting an inferior education, and why you should never fall for these excuses.
How public schools can damage your child for life, ways that you might not be aware of, and what you can do about it.

For your children’s sake, I urge you to consider the wonderful new education alternatives I talk about in my book, ”Public Schools, Public Menace.”

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Homeschooling Takes Children Out of Public School — A Unique Benefit

ALN Contributor — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:15:15 +0000

Home-schooling removes children from public school. That alone makes home-schooling worthwhile. Unlike public-school children, home-schooled kids are not prisoners of a system that can wreck their self-esteem, ability to read, and love of learning.

Home-schooled kids don’t have to read dumb-downed text-books, study subjects they hate, or endure meaningless classes six to eight hours a day. Home-schooled kids won’t be subject to drugs, bullies, violence, or peer pressure, as they are in public schools. Home-schooled children who are “different” in any way won’t have to endure cruel jokes and taunts from other children in their classes.

Slow-learning or “special-needs” children won’t be humiliated by their peers if they are put in regular classes, or further humiliated if the teacher puts them in so-called special-education classes. Faster-learning home-schooled kids won’t have to sit through mind-numbing classes that are geared to the slowest-learning students in a class. They won’t have to “learn” in cooperative groups where other kids in the group do nothing and are not cooperative. Home-schooled children do not have to waste their time memorizing meaningless facts about subjects that bore them, just so they can pass the next dumbed-down test to obey and please school authorities.

Home-schooled kids don’t have to endure twelve years of a third-rate, public-school education that leaves many students barely able to read their own diplomas. The notion that tests tell teachers and parents what children have learned turns out to false. John Holt, teacher and author of “How Children Fail,” pointed out that most children soon forget what they memorized for a test as soon as the test is over, so the entire test-taking process is usually worthless. Facts or ideas that are not useful or relevant to children pass through them like a sieve and are soon forgotten. Home-schooled kids don’t have to study an arbitrary, meaningless curriculum of subjects imposed on them by foolish public-school authorities.

They don’t have to be treated like little mindless, spiritless ro-bots that have to learn the same subjects at the same time and in the same sequence as their classmates. Home-schooled children don’t have to sit quietly in a class of twenty-five other students and pretend they like being in this mini-prison called public school, just to avoid being punished by a teacher for “acting-out” or fidgeting in their seats. Any adult’s mind would wander if they were forced to sit through a boring lecture for just one hour. Yet public schools expect children to sit still for boring lectures on subjects that are meaningless to them, for six to eight hours a day.

Home-schooled children do not have to be fearful of displeasing a teacher because they get the wrong answers on meaningless tests. They therefore do not have to be fearful of learning and have their natural joy in learning crippled as a result of this fear. Infants and very young children embrace life and learning with a passion, which is why they learn so fast. Yet, as John Holt found out, by the time these same children have progressed to the fifth grade in school, most are listless, bored, apathetic, and often fearful in class.

Home-schooled children won’t be terrorized by test grades and comparisons to their classmates, and associate learning with this terror. They won’t associate learning with always having to get the right answer that schools authorities insist on. They won’t be made to feel that learning means passing an arbitrary test, and that failing a test is a shame or disgrace.

Home-schooling also gives parents control over the values their kids learn. It prevents school authorities from indoctrinating their children with warped values, pagan religions, or politically-correct ideas. Unlike public-school students, home-schooled children are not forced to sit through explicit or shocking sex-education classes. School authorities can’t pressure home-schooling parents or children to take mind-altering drugs like Ritalin.

So keeping a child out of public school is an enormous benefit in itself. Other positive benefits of home-schooling are:

Home-schooling lets parents give children a custom-made curriculum that makes learning a joy. Parents can expose their children to many different subjects and ultimately focus on subjects that their children enjoy and benefit from. Children can also learn about subjects that are not taught in any school, and have time for non-academic subjects like art and music. Parents can choose from a wide range of teaching materials that not only engage and delight their kids, but bring real results.

Home-schooled children can learn at their own pace. Slower-learning kids will benefit by their parent’s love and attention. Bright children will progress as fast as they want to. Children will learn to read or learn any other subject when they are ready, not according to a prescribed time-table. Unlike public schools, home-schooling parents treat each child as a unique individual with his or her own special in-terests, talents, strengths and weaknesses. Parents can also tailor-make the instruction to each child’s personality and learning style.

Home-schooling parents can give their kids a one-to-one teacher-student ratio. This insures that children get individualized attention from a loving, attentive parent-teacher.

Home-schooled kids get instant feedback. Children don’t have to compete with twenty other chil-dren in a class for their teacher’s attention. A parent-teacher can instantly answer her child’s questions, or research the answer together with her child.

Parents — For your children’s sake, you might want to consider taking your children out of public school before it’s too late. You only get one chance to give your kids the great education they need and deserve.

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Wow! — 54 Unique Benefits of Homeschooling

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:14:59 +0000

Parents, is homeschooling the right choice for you and your children? Maybe you think you don’t have the time to homeschool because you work. Perhaps you don’t have confidence in your ability to teach your kids because you never took “teaching” courses.

But consider the alternative. Public schools can destroy your children’s self-esteem, destroy their ability to read, strangle their love of learning, put them in physical and moral danger, and wreck their future.

In contrast, here’s 54 unique benefits homeschooling can give you and your kids, as written and explained by Laura B., a smart, wonderful wife, mother of three, homeschooler, and business owner who works from home and still focuses on her family!:

1. Be with Your Family
2. Set Your Own Schedule
3. Vacation When You Want
4. Choose curriculum that best suits the needs of your child
5. Be totally aware of the state and progress of your child’s education
6. Keep your child away from un-necessary peer pressure
7. Keep your child away from the bad influence of other children
8. Love, nurture, and teach your child the character and morals you value most
9. Make learning fun
10. Make learning as “experiential” as you want
11. Don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to get your child dressed and fed and off to school where they’re so tired they don’t learn well anyway.
12. Break up the day however you want to fit your child’s learning attention span
13. Teach your child without any “assumed limitations.” Teach multiple languages, develop one skill or subject–the sky’s the limit
14. What you teach an older child naturally filters down to the younger child(ren) making learning must easier and faster for siblings
15. Teach at the pace and developmental stage appropriate for your child
16. Avoid educational “labeling”
17. Keep your child as far away from drugs as possible
18. Never have to worry about bomb scares or mass shootings
19. Allow your child to do think, discuss, and explore in ways not possible in a classroom setting
20. Constant positive reinforcement and gentle correction. No abusive words or actions that scar your child’s psyche
21. Don’t use the school system as a babysitter. You only need a few hours a day for learning–the rest of the day is filled with unnecessary “busy work”
22. Develop life skills such as cooking, cleaning, and organizing that are easily learned with the additional time spent at home
23. Spend as much time outdoors as you want to enjoy nature and the world around us
24. Teach the value of responsibility by providing daily jobs
25. To make money management as natural as breathing by allowing even small children to do tasks, earn money, save it, and spend it in an appropriate manner.
26. Never have your child beat up by a bully. Teach self-defense skills that will enable him to deal with any situation but not until he is mature enough to handle the emotional aspects of confrontation
27. No pressure or set “expectations” from teachers on a younger sibling that follows an older sibling in the same school
28. Be around when your child needs to talk
29. Take a break when your child needs a break
30. Bond as a family through family group activities
31. Pass on your religious beliefs and morals to your children and stay away from the “indoctrination” of other school systems
32. Teach sex education when and how you want
33. Develop your child’s imagination and teach diverse problem-solving skills instead of one institutionalized method of thinking
34. Unlimited possibilities for extra curricular activities that interest your child having to live up to the expectations or skills of others.
35. Develop the individualism of your child
36. Avoid traditional school “group activities” that may leave one student doing all the work or ruining it for everyone else.
37. Never have your child feel the failure, embarrassment, or teasing from “failing” a grade
38. To keep your children out of the care, custody, and control of people you don’t know and who naturally teach their philosophy of life to your kids, whether they realize it or not
39. No opportunity for your child to “sluff off”, “snow-blow”, or “just get by” with academics
40. To have your child learn initiative naturally, as there’s no peer pressure or fear of embarrassing himself
41. Allow your child to have input and say in subject matter and style
42. Allow your child to focus on growth and development–not following the latest fad or being in a certain group
43. So your child will only be surrounded by people who love him, encourage him, and want the best for him.
44. Make sure your child doesn’t end up graduating without knowing how to read or knowing other basic skills due to educational failings of your local schools.
45. Keep your child out of private schools that have peer pressure, teacher criticism, drugs, sex, and alcohol that your child never needs to be around
46. Avoid grading scales and testing that gives no positive benefit to your child
47. Not to give the state or federal government control of your child that they assume is theirs
48. To easily pass on your unique heritage or language to your child
49. So your child is not limited by “age” or “grade” to advance or explore academics in which they are interested or gifted
50. To teach your children to enjoy life
51. To allow your children to go to work with Mom or Dad when you all want–not just on the one “go to work with a parent holiday”
52. As many field trips as you want, to places that interest your child
53. To just take a day off when everyone feels like it
54. Flexibility to switch or experiment with different curriculum

Parents, if you are disgusted with public schools and want your children to have the great education they deserve, why not consider homeschooling? Millions of parents now homeschool their kids, and many of these parents are only high-school graduates.

In the last three chapters of my book, “Public Schools, Public Menace,” you’ll find many ways to homeschool your kids or use internet private schools, even if you work. Homeschooling can be a lot easier, and take a lot less time than you think. It can also bring you great joy in teaching your children.

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Help Finding A Quality, Low-Cost Private School

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:09:59 +0000

Danger Signals

Do you have children who do poorly in school, or are bored or frustrated with their classes or teachers? In contrast to what most public-school officials will tell you, in most cases the problem lies with the schools, not with your children. It turns out that millions of children, including yours, have good reasons to hate public school, reasons that you as a parent should not ignore.

·	Does your child say he or she hates school and homework?

·	Is your child tired or upset when they come home from school?

·	Does your child complain about being bullied and is scared to go to school?

·	Has your child stopped reading for fun at home?

·	Does your child ever talk about anything exciting he or she did in school that day?

·	If not, maybe public-school classes and teachers don’t stimulate your child.

·	Is your public school giving your child a dumbed-down, third-rate education?

·	Does your public school ignore your child, and your complaints as a parent?

·	Does your public school expose your child to shocking sex-education classes?

·	Does your public school cripple your child’s ability to read, write, or do math, and turn your child off learning?

·	Does your child’s reading or writing ability seem far below what you would expect for his or her grade level?

·	Did the school nurse or guidance counselor suggest that your normal, healthy child has some strange four-lettered “disease” like ADHD, and “suggest” you give your son or daughter Ritalin or other mind-altering drugs?

·	Do school officials want to “screen” all kids in your local public school for mental “diseases” (Teen-Screen programs), then label your child with a phony “disease?”

·	Are you utterly disgusted with public schools and afraid for your child’s future?

Does your child show any of these danger signals? If so, your local public school (even in “good” neighborhoods) may be crippling your child’s ability to read, hurting their self-esteem, wasting your child’s precious time or destroying their love of learning.

That’s why you should consider a private school for your child.

But are you having trouble finding a private school because:

·	You can’t find a private school that you can afford?

·	Any private school you can afford has a long waiting list?

·	There are no low-cost private schools without waiting lists within walking or driving distance of your home?

Great News

Our book will tell you about many excellent private schools that charge less than $975 a year tuition. You can enroll your child in these schools, no matter where you live.

“This book is a must-read for every parent…”

— DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER

In a survey, over 60 percent of parents said they would send their children to a private school if they could afford it. Up to now, money has stopped many parents from giving their children the quality, rewarding education they deserve. Not any more. Expensive private-school tuition doesn’t have to stop you any longer.

New, low-cost Internet private schools let you give your child a quality elementary school, middle school, or high school education right now. You can choose from dozens of accredited K-12 Internet private schools that give your children academic excellence, great teachers, a wide choice of curriculum, old-fashioned American values, and safety in the classroom.

Also, you can enroll your child in any of these schools, no matter where you live, because these schools are on the Internet. Best of all, many of these quality Internet private schools cost less than $975 a year tuition!

The Resources section in “Public Schools, Public Menace” has a special list of these K-12 private schools. “Public Schools, Public Menace” will tell you about new, low-cost education alternatives for your kids, such as:

·	K-12 Internet private schools —- a new education resource for busy, working parents who are disgusted with public schools.

·	A complete list of K-12 Internet private schools to choose from. This list includes private elementary, middle, and high schools. There’s even a special section for Christian K-12 online education.

·	22 ways that busy, working parents can homeschool their kids. A list of low-cost tutoring services — one company charges only $99.95 per month for UNLIMITED tutoring on all subjects for your child.

·	A wealth of practical advice, strategies and resources for parents who decide to take their kids out of public school.

·	How your child can graduate and get their high school diploma two to three years earlier than from a public school.

·	How your child can get a rich, rewarding, and successful elementary school, middle school, or high school education that prepares them for success in college and a joyous, fulfilling life.

The Good News

You do not have to settle for 12 years of a mind-numbing, third-rate public-school education for your child any longer. With low-cost K-12 Internet private schools, you can now give your child a quality elementary school, middle school, or high school education right now. You now have real school choice. Our book, “Public Schools, Public Menace” shows you how.

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Quality Education For Your Children

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:08:43 +0000

The key to achieving quality education is the structure of incentives for private schools in the free market. In our government-controlled public school system, children rarely get a quality education. In fact, they’re often damaged by bullies, poor teaching methods, and non-academic coursework. Public school education is third rate or mediocre at best, thanks to the principle that is always at work when a monopoly is in charge.

Most Public Schools Do Not Offer Quality Education

Because the government runs public schooling, there is simply no incentive to change or excel. First of all, consider the fact that public schools get their students by compulsion. There are compulsory attendance laws, and parents can be arrested if they don’t send their children to public school–even if their children are being bullied and exposed to dangerous influences.

Second, parents have no say in determining what teachers are worth. The incentive for teachers is corrupted because great teachers are not rewarded commensurately and mediocre and poor teachers with tenure simply keep rising on the pay scale without improving. Your taxes still pay these teachers, no matter how poor a job they are doing for your children.

Private education is the exact opposite. Schools and teachers both need to be good in order to stay in the education business. Schools are competing for students, and are constantly working to improve. If you read Public Schools, Public Menace, you will find out more about getting a quality education for your child through internet private schools for less than $950 per year! Whether you home school your child with online assistance or your child benefits from one-on-one instruction from an exceptional teacher, you will find that he or she regains an interest in learning, becomes happier and healthier, and achieves greater success.

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Success In K-12 School For Your Child

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:35:43 +0000

Odds are sharply against the average student achieving success in school in a public school compared with a private school. The most successful form of schooling is one-on-one home schooling. If you don’t have the time to home school your child yourself, internet private schooling with supplemental efforts from parents is the next best option. Public Schools, Public Menace will help you make successful schooling a reality for your child.

What Is Real Success in School?

Success in school is not simply measured in knowing the answers to test questions. Public schools require students to memorize and regurgitate information in a variety of essentially useless subjects. A smart parent asks, “What is the point?” This is especially true when two weeks later, your child doesn’t remember any of her test material because she was bored and realized she was never going to use any of this information.

Real success in school is loving learning and becoming a lifelong independent learner. It’s learning to read proficiently–not settling for the pathetic state of sub-literacy with which public schools leave so many students. Success in school is predicated on a less regimented environment in which a child is nurtured and not sucked down to the level of the lowest common denominator.

Additionally, children will not really learn, love school, or achieve success in school if they are afraid and uncomfortable. With the violence in schools, the drug deals taking place in the bathrooms, the bullies that teachers can’t control, and the aggressive presence of unwanted sexual education, children don’t feel safe. Read Public Schools, Public Menace and find the right internet private school for your child for as little as $850 per year. You’ll learn more about the benefits of home schooling and internet private schools and watch your child live up to his potential and achieve success in school!

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Drugs and Violence In Public Schools

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:52:40 +0000

Public schools not only fail to educate our children, they can also be dangerous places. These schools are a natural breeding ground for drugs and violence. Children are packed into classrooms with twenty or more other immature children or teenagers, all the same age. Here, peer pressure becomes socialization, pushing many children into using drugs and alcohol.

Put twenty teenagers in the same room, or hundreds of teenagers in the same school, and you have a breeding ground for violence. Young boys and girls have raging hormones and budding sexuality, and male teenage testosterone levels are high. Teenagers are in the half-child, half-adult stage of life and often lack judgment and are emotionally immature. Pack these teenagers together into cramped little classrooms, six to eight hours a day, and you have a mixture that can lead to trouble. It’s inevitable that violence will break out-it’s built into the system.

Also, even the most conscientious teacher is usually too busy and overworked to give children the individual attention they need. Critics of home-schooling often say that home-schoolers don’t get proper socialization, an argument I will answer in a later chapter. But so-called socialization in public schools is often cruel and violent. Bullying, peer pressure, racial cliques, sexual tensions, and competition for the teacher’s approval all create a stressful, sometimes violent environment.

Compulsory attendance laws also contribute to violence in the schools. In most states, these laws force children to stay in school until they are sixteen years old or graduate high school. Teenagers who hate school, or are aggressive or potentially violent sociopaths, can’t leave. As a result, they often take out their hatred and aggression on other students. Those children want to learn are forced to endure bullying and violence by these troubled teens.

Also, the law is on the side of violent or disruptive students who are classified as “disabled.” In 1975, Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Based on this legislation, in 1988 the Supreme Court ruled that schools could not remove disruptive disabled children from classrooms without a parent’s consent. If parents don’t consent, teachers are out of luck. Those ‘disabled’ children who are socially impaired, can’t get along with other kids, or sometimes turn violent, therefore fall under this category. Of course, this adds yet another layer of potentially violent children who teachers can’t remove from class.

Violence in public schools can literally kill your child. In the 2000-2001 school year, students were victims of about 1.9 million nonfatal violent crimes such as rape, assault, and robbery. This figure equals about 9,000 violent incidents every school day throughout America, or about one every three seconds.

Public schools are also a drug pusher’s heaven. Thousands of teenagers, pushed by intense peer-pressure, smoke, drink beer, and try marijuana or hard drugs. Schools put hundreds of children together in one big building or courtyard. Mix in overworked or indifferent teachers who have little time or desire to supervise extracurricular activities. That’s why drug pushers circle schoolyards like vultures. Where else can they find groups of vulnerable victims all herded together for their convenience? Is it any wonder that drug and alcohol use is a major problem in public schools?

In the 2001-2002 school year, 34.9 percent of tenth-grade students surveyed said they had smoked cigarettes within the past year. Fifty-one and two tenths percent said they had drunk beer, and 33.4 percent said they got bombed on that beer. Also, 29.8 percent of the same tenth-grade students said they had smoked marijuana within the past year, and 78.7 percent of these marijuana users said they got “bombed or very high” on it.

When children are home-schooled, parents can advise and watch over their kids. At home, there is no peer pressure to try drugs, as there is in public schools. Drug pushers don’t hover around private residences. Parents should therefore ask themselves: Do my children belong in violent, drug-infested public schools? Are there other education options for my children? In “Public Schools, Public Menace,” I discuss many quality, low-cost education options parents can use right now if they decide to take their children out of public school.

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Are Public Schools a Menace To Your Children? — 11 Danger Signals

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:47:18 +0000

Here are 11 danger signals from your children that parents should watch out for:

·	Is your child’s writing and spelling atrocious, yet the teacher gives your child high grades or compliments for “creative” spelling?

·	Is your child constantly bored or frustrated with school and homework?

·	Does your child have difficulty doing simple arithmetic problems that he should be able to handle at that grade level?

·	Does your child come home afraid or disturbed by what she learned in school that day?

·	Does your child tell you that his teacher said bad things about you in class because you spanked or yelled at him at home?

·	Did the teacher tell your child not to tell you about something he or she learned in school that day?

·	Is your child embarrassed by what she learned in sex education class and doesn’t want to talk to you about it?

·	Does your child come home with bruises he got from some bully whom the teacher did not control?

·	Ask your child how many hours a day he or she learns reading, math, and other academic subjects, versus other classes about pagan religions, homosexuality, and other social-psychological conditioning classes.

·	Ask your child about the stories she reads in class or the exercises the teachers have her do. Is the school indoctrinating your child with values or ideas that you think are harmful or dangerous?

·	Ask to see your child’s textbooks. Are they dumbed-down and do they teach values you don’t approve of?

If your child exhibits any of these danger signals, it may be time to seriously consider taking your child out of public school and looking for better education alternatives. “Public Schools, Public Menace” has a whole Resource Section devoted to these great education alternatives.

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