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		<title>Ten Good Reasons To Keep Your Child In Public School</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Here are ten reasons why parents should keep their kids in public schools:</p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>1</strong> – 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.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>2</strong> – 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.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>3</strong> – 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?</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>4</strong> – 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.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>5</strong> – 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.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>6</strong> – 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?</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>7</strong> – 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.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>8</strong> – 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.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>9</strong> &#8212; 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 <em>War and Peace</em>? He might actually come to love learning.</span></p>
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<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><strong>10</strong> – 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.</span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Parents, there are many other reasons NOT to keep your child in public school, but I hope you get the point by now.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>&#8220;Free education for all children in government schools.&#8221;</em></strong><br />
<em><strong> </strong><span style="color: #000000;">-</span></em><em><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto"><span style="color: #000000;">Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto</span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">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 &#8220;prisons?&#8221; Well, let&#8217;s compare prisons and public schools.</p>
<p>What are prisons? They are places were people are locked up against their will for crimes they have committed.</p>
<p>What is life like for a prisoner? The warden and prison guards, in effect, take away the prisoner&#8217;s life and freedom. They force a prisoner to live in a small cell he doesn&#8217;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.</p>
<p><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;">Comparing Prisons to Public Schools</span></p>
<p>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&#8217;s order to send her child to the local public school.</p>
<p>Local governments then force parents to pay school taxes for these education prisons. If they don&#8217;t pay these taxes, their local government will foreclose on their home and throw them out on the street.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Parents, if you don&#8217;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&#8217;t wait to get out of there. You can&#8217;t wait to get back to your life and doing the things you love to do.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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 &#8220;their own good.&#8221;</p>
<p>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&#8217;s &#8220;own good,&#8221; 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?</p>
<p>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&#8217;t let school authorities put your child in a public-school prison for ten years. You have a choice, and your child&#8217;s life is at stake.</p>
<p>You can find out about all your education options in Joel Turtel&#8217;s book, &#8220;Public Schools, Public Menace.&#8221; Please take advantage of the Resources in this book, for your children&#8217;s sake.</p>
<p>Joel Turtel</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government schools are designed to assuage the educrats’ terror at being judged by parents, and being forced to compete in a free-market education system. Government (public) schools’ ultimate purpose is to be a full-employment program for educrats—to give them guaranteed jobs without accountability to parents. It is to placate these fearful educrats that our government schools dumb-down our children and turn them into illiterates with bleak futures.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">To teach children how to play the piano, you have to teach them the basics of music — keys, notes, chords, melody, and harmony. With these tools learned, your kids can experience the joy and sense of accomplishment from playing their favorite songs on the piano.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To most of us, driving a car seems effortlessness. Our eyes, hands, and feet work together seamlessly, automatically, without conscious thought. But we first had to learn the basics of driving when we were young. Remember back to your father’s driving lessons? He taught you how to turn the steering wheel, where the gas and brake pedal was, how to stay in your lane, turn signals and stop signs, use of mirrors, keeping to speed limits, looking ahead. All these basics took time and practice to learn. Now, those of us who have been driving for many years, take these basics for granted. We drive “automatically” and with skill.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The same process applies to another skill—reading. Read a book or a newspaper and it seems effortless. Yet such skill comes from constant use, from constant practice of basic skills learned at an early age.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What are these skills? To read, you have to recognize words on a printed page, yet there are millions of them. Enter the wonder of the alphabet and phonics. It is by recognizing letters and their sounds that a child puts letter-sounds together to form words. Since all words are built from only twenty-six letters, the huge task becomes greatly simplified. The child need not memorize the word, only sound it out, read it, and find its meaning in a dictionary.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As in driving a car, reading is difficult at first. But, once learned, the skill becomes automatic, unconscious, effortless, and we read quickly without sounding-out every letter of every word. In the end, with practice, we read effortlessly, and all the knowledge of the world is open to us. Without learning the basic skills, however, reading is not possible.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>Enter educrat “experts” who think otherwise. “Don’t adults read without sounding out every letter of every word,” they ask ? “So why teach children phonics? Why put children through the boredom, drudgery, and hard work of phonics and spelling drills? How can reading be “joyful” if literature becomes drills?,” they say. “Why wound children’s self-esteem and self-expression with tests and standards and high expectations?”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“If we have children memorize whole words instead of drilling on the alphabet and letter sounds, all this pain is gone,” they chime. “Do not teach them to sound out M-O-T-H-E-R. Have them memorize what the whole word looks like—teach them word-pictures, teach them hieroglyphics, so they “recognize” the word in a book. Have the child read “Dick and Jane” learning books that repeat each word a hundred times, so the child comes to “recognize” it. Do this for each word.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“If the child can’t grasp a new word because he cannot sound it out, teach him “pre-reading” strategies,” they expound. “These “strategies” will help him “guess” what the word is. Have him look at the title of the story. Have the child look at pictures, look for “clues,” look for “patterns” in the story that make sense. Or skip the word and come back to it. Or ask a friend who also cannot read it. Or finally, when all else fails, ask the teacher. Anything,” say the learned educrats, “except actually sounding out and reading the word.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This, the educrats say, is the<span> </span>“centered,” “self-esteem-enhancing” way to teach reading. Meaning and context—not basics. Group discussions—not letters, sounds, drills, and independence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is your whole-language method (now called “balanced literacy” or some other deceptive name). This is the hieroglyphics of Egypt transported to your children’s classroom. This is our educrats’ pet “reading” theory, foisted on 45 million public-school children-victims across the country.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The results were inevitable—half the nation’s high-school grads cannot read a bus schedule. Businesses lose $40 billion a year for remedial reading classes for new employees fresh from high school. Thirty percent of Americans functionally illiterate. The child who is taught phonics is able to read thousands of words in a few semesters. The “whole-word” child-victim is able to “recognize” only a few hundred words. Thus we have the crash in reading skills, the dumbing-down of our kids, the millions of frustrated teens who drop out of school, turn to crime, and end up in prison because they can’t get a decent job.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yet, in the face of such failure, such disaster for our children, the educrats turn a blind eye and a deaf ear. In the face of reality — massive denial and rationalization.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Buy why? What do they gain? There is always a reason for irrational behavior, and the educrats have many.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Educrats think phonics believers are extremist Christian Rightists or educational simpletons unable to understand the “complexity” of the educrats’ so-called learning theories. Yet, let reality be the judge. The children who learn phonics read far quicker and better than the “whole-word” readers. And the “complexity” educrats proclaim is a self-serving fantasy of their making, designed to ward off competition. Educrats think they are gurus with special skills no parent can possess. Rather, they are education buffoons who don’t know how to teach phonics to your kids any longer, or don’t want to bother.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Educrats claim that phonics and rules will turn kids off to the joy of reading. Just the opposite is true — when a “whole-language” victim-child tries to read the many words he was not taught to “recognize,” he will give up in frustration. His frustration will end his reading and his ‘joy” in reading. The phonics-trained child can read any word and any book, and the joy of reading follows from his skills</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This learning of basic skills need not be a struggle. What turns kids off? The insufferable boredom, the mediocrity of the educrats’ teaching methods, unchanged for 50 years.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Children learn the alphabet and letter sounds with delight at home. Sesame Street, “Hooked on Phonics,” the Internet, learning channels on cable TV, creative reading books especially made for kids by learning entrepreneurs can make learning letters and sounds a delight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phonics and drills are a drudge in government schools because educrats don’t have the time, skill, desire, or imagination to make them otherwise. Rather than blame themselves or their government-run system for failure, they blame everyone else. They now claim it is the child’s fault (he has attention-deficit disorder!), the parents’ fault (they don’t get “involved!”), or “society’s” fault (racism or “not enough money for the schools!”).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Educrats also say that drills and basics, tests and standards, are “unfair” to kids, cause them stress, and threaten their self-esteem. Just the opposite is true—real self-esteem comes from achievement, not from a teacher’s hot-air, feel-good compliments. Achievement needs tasks, content, ever-increasing complex skills children learn with guided effort. Joy, not stress, is the result of achievement. And what is more important than for children to learn that rewards come from effort and perseverence? Educrats hate phonics and true reading skills because their teacher colleges don’t train them in the phonics method. Teachers who are not taught the phonics method will naturally feel inadequate to teach phonics to children. It is not the teachers’ fault. Rather, the fault lies with educrats, teacher colleges, and educational theorists who have contempt for phonics.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phonics and drills requires a “teacher-centered” approach in the classroom. This approach requires greater effort and responsibility on teachers and schools to create lesson plans that show real progress in reading skills. The teacher-centered approach requires teachers and educrats to constantly test and evaluate both students and themselves.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The “whole-language” reading method, in contrast, is allegedly “student-centered,” meaning that kids get to sit around in circles and talk about their feelings rather than learn to actually read. With “whole-language” reading, educrats can claim there are no standards, no way to test reading skills and achievement. There are few rigorous tests, low standards, and no failing grades.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Whole-language” reading therefore achieves the educrats’ ultimate goal — if there are no standards or objectivity, no one can blame them, no one can question them, no one can hold them accountable for their failure to teach our children to read. The educrats don’t want to grade their students’ performance because it allegedly hurts the kids “self-esteem.” I believe this attitude is merely a projection of the educrat’s primal fears—they do not want parents judging their performance and holding them accountable for teaching their kids to read. The educrats don’t want <em>their</em> fragile self-esteem threatened by angry parents who expect public schools to do one simple thing—teach their kids to read.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Government schools are designed to assuage the educrats’ terror at being judged by parents, and being forced to compete in a free-market education system. Government (public) schools’ ultimate purpose is to be a full-employment program for educrats—to give them guaranteed jobs without accountability to parents. It is to placate these fearful educrats that our government schools dumb-down our children and turn them into illiterates with bleak futures.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span>So what can you, as a concerned parent, do to protect your child? As long as public schools are run by government and their educrats, they will never change. In my book, “Public Schools, Public Menace,” I tell parents about wonderful new education alternatives to public schools, such as accredited, low-cost internet private schools. Parents, I urge you to look into these alternatives, before your children are irreparably harmed by public-school whole-language, anti-phonics, “reading” instruction.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<div class="Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C3"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does your child say he or she hates school and homework?</span><br />
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Is your child tired or upset when they come home from school?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does your child complain about being bullied and is scared to go to school?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Has your child stopped reading for fun at home?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does your child ever talk about anything exciting he or she did in school that day?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">If not, maybe public-school classes and teachers don&#8217;t stimulate your child.</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Is your public school giving your child a dumbed-down, third-rate education?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does your public school ignore your child, and your complaints as a parent?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does your public school expose your child to shocking sex-education classes?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does your public school cripple your child&#8217;s ability to read, write, or do math, and turn your child off learning?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does your child&#8217;s reading or writing ability seem far below what you would expect for his or her grade level?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">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?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">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?”</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Are you utterly disgusted with public schools and afraid for your child&#8217;s future?</span></td>
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<p><span class="H3-C">Does your child show any of these danger signals? If so, your local public school (even in “good” neighborhoods) may be crippling your child&#8217;s ability to read, hurting their self-esteem, wasting your child&#8217;s precious time or destroying their love of learning</span><span class="Normal-C3">.</span></p>
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<p>That&#8217;s why you should consider a private school for your child.</p>
<p><span class="H1-C">But are you having trouble finding a private school because:</span></div>
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<div class="Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C3"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">You can&#8217;t find a private school that you can afford?</span><br />
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Any private school you can afford has a long waiting list?</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">There are no low-cost private schools without waiting lists within walking or driving distance of your home?</span></td>
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<p>Great News</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>&#8220;This book is a must-read for every parent&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p><span class="H1-C">&#8212; DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER</span></div>
<p>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&#8217;t have to stop you any longer.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>The Resources section in &#8220;Public Schools, Public Menace&#8221; has a special list of these K-12 private schools. &#8220;Public Schools, Public Menace&#8221; will tell you about new, low-cost education alternatives for your kids, such as:</p>
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<div class="Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C3"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">K-12 Internet private schools &#8212;- a new education resource for busy, working parents who are disgusted with public schools.</span><br />
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">A complete list of K-12 Internet private schools to choose from. This list includes private elementary, middle, and high schools. There&#8217;s even a special section for Christian K-12 online education.</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">22 ways that busy, working parents can homeschool their kids. A list of low-cost tutoring services &#8212; one company charges only $99.95 per month for UNLIMITED tutoring on all subjects for your child.</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">A wealth of practical advice, strategies and resources for parents who decide to take their kids out of public school.</span></td>
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<td width="510" align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">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.</span></td>
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<p>The Good News</p>
<p>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, &#8220;Public Schools, Public Menace&#8221; shows you how.</p>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Google and Yahoo Our Kids&#8217; Education</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government-controlled public schools will never give your kids the kind of joyous education they deserve, the kind your children can get in a homeschooling environment. At home, your kids can learn from Google, Yahoo, learning software, or hundreds of other low-cost education resources available to you right now.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Google and Yahoo. With Google and Yahoo I can search the Internet on any subject that interests me, at any time day or night, in the comfort of my home. I was thinking how much fun it is to learn new things with Google or Yahoo, compared to the boredom or learning torture that public schools put millions of kids through every day.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s consider the differences in how a typical child (we&#8217;ll call her Jenny) learns when she uses Google or Yahoo, compared to how she learns in her public- school classroom.</p>
<p>First, with Google or Yahoo, Jenny can explore any subject that fascinates her. She literally has the whole world at her fingertips. She can learn about tulips, cooking, dinosaurs, fashion, arithmetic, model airplanes, how to play the piano, or story books by thousands of authors.</p>
<p>When she is older, she can search dozens of Internet libraries, including the Library of Congress, for information on any subject under the sun.</p>
<p>In contrast, in her public-school classroom, Jenny must study only the subjects the teacher or school principal says she must study, even though these subjects might bore her to death.</p>
<p>Second, with Google or Yahoo at home, Jenny can spend as many hours as she wants studying any subject that fascinates her. If she likes flowers, she can spend all day learning about different flowers, how they grow, the best season to plant them, how sunlight helps them, or how much water each flower needs.</p>
<p>In contrast, in public school, Jenny usually spends about 50 minutes on each subject the school forces her to study. She has to go to a different class on a different subject every 50 minutes, even if she was interested in the subject she was studying in her previous class. This can strangle her interest in any one subject. For Jenny, public school turns learning into broken, disconnected bits of knowledge on subjects that often bore her.</p>
<p>Third, with Google and Yahoo, Jenny learns at her own pace. If she doesn&#8217;t understand something she reads about, she can ask her Mom or search Google and Yahoo to find the answer. She can spend as much time as she wants with a problem that intrigues her. Because she can learn at her own pace, she feels safe and comfortable learning with Google and Yahoo.</p>
<p>In her public-school class, however, Jenny has to learn all the material the teacher gives her in the specific time the teacher allows. Then (in later grades) the teachers will test her. If Jenny didn&#8217;t like to study the subjects the teacher told her to learn and did bad on her test, she can feel hurt and humiliated. She then associates learning with pain and humiliation. This in turn can extinguish Jenny&#8217;s joy in learning.</p>
<p>With Google and Yahoo, Jenny finds learning a constant joy. With public schools, more often than not, learning becomes a boring drudge or worse.</p>
<p>Government-controlled public schools will never give your kids the kind of joyous education they deserve, the kind your children can get in a homeschooling environment. At home, your kids can learn from Google, Yahoo, learning software, or hundreds of other low-cost education resources available to you right now.</p>
<p>So how can we Google and Yahoo our children&#8217;s education? Parents, you might seriously consider taking your children out of public school, permanently. Let your kids once again discover the joy of learning with education alternatives like Google and Yahoo, homeschooling, or low-cost, quality, Internet private schools.</p>
<p>I talk about all these great education alternatives for your children in my book, &#8220;Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children.&#8221;</p>
<p>Joel Turtel</p>
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		<title>Pagan Religions Taught In Public Schools</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January, 2003, a group of parents sued a Sacramento Unified School District because certain teachers at their local elementary school were aggressively, and secretly, teaching anthroposophy, a religion that combines traditional Western religion with astrology and New Age religion. Pacific Justice Institute lawyers representing the parents indicated that many other public schools in California are now adding New Age and Eastern religions, including Islam, to their curricula.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In classrooms throughout the country, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often cast aside or ridiculed. Multiculturalism studies, environmental propaganda, and Save-the-Earth classes now indoctrinate children with New-Age religious beliefs, often without parents&#8217; knowledge. Public schools sometimes try to sneak offensive pagan or new-age religions into their curriculum without parents&#8217; knowledge under the guise of multiculturalism studies.</p>
<p>In January, 2003, a group of parents sued a Sacramento Unified School District because certain teachers at their local elementary school were aggressively, and secretly, teaching anthroposophy, a religion that combines traditional Western religion with astrology and New Age religion. Pacific Justice Institute lawyers representing the parents indicated that many other public schools in California are now adding New Age and Eastern religions, including Islam, to their curricula.</p>
<p><span class="Normal-C4">Below is only a small sample of the flood of &#8220;spiritual&#8221; sessions taking place in classrooms throughout the country (examples are from Berit Kjos&#8217;s book, </span><span class="Emphasis-C">Brave New Schools</span><span class="Normal-C4">):</span></p>
<p><span class="Strong-C"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Altered states of consciousness</span>:</span><span class="Normal-C4"> Teaching students to alter their consciousness through centering exercises, guided imagery, and visualizations has become standard practice in self-esteem, multicultural, and arts programs. They often encourage contact with spirit guides.</span></p>
<p><span class="Strong-C"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dreams and visions</span>:</span><span class="Normal-C4"> After studying a pagan myth, students are often asked to imagine or visualize a dream or vision, then describe it in a journal or lesson assignment.</span></p>
<p><span class="Strong-C"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Astrology</span>:</span><span class="Normal-C4"> Countless teachers across the country require students to document their daily horoscopes. Others help students discover their powers and personalities through Aztec calendars and Chinese.</span></p>
<p><span class="Strong-C"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Other forms of divination</span>:</span><span class="Normal-C4"> Through palmistry, I Ching, tarot cards and horoscopes, students learn to experience other cultures and tap into secret sources of wisdom. Students in Texas were told to create a vision in their minds and &#8220;describe in your best soothsayer tones the details of your vision.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="Strong-C"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Spiritism</span>:</span><span class="Normal-C4"> While pagan myths and crafts show students how to contact ancestral, nature, and other spirits, classroom rituals actually </span><span class="Emphasis-C">invoke their presence</span><span class="Normal-C4">. California third-graders had to alter their consciousness through guided imagery, invoke or &#8220;see&#8221; their personal animal spirits, write about their experience . . . and create their own magical medicine shields to represent their spirit helper.</span></p>
<p><span class="Strong-C"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Magic, spells, and sorcery</span>:</span><span class="Normal-C4"> Many parents consider magic and spell-casting too bizarre and alien to pose a threat, yet gullible students from coast to coast are learning the ancient formulas and occult techniques.</span></p>
<p>Parents, is this what you want your children taught in public schools, the same public schools that are now forbidden from teaching kids the Ten Commandments?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we might expect, teacher quality is far more important than class size in determining how children do in school. William Sanders at the University of Tennessee studied this issue. He found that teacher quality is almost twenty times more important than class size in determining students' academic achievement in class. As a result, reducing class sizes can lead to the contrary effect of hurting students' education, rather than helping.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>School authorities often complain that classes are too large. They claim that teachers can&#8217;t be expected to give their students the individual attention they need if there are too many students in the class. On the surface, this excuse seems to have some merit. Common sense tells us that in smaller classes, teachers can give more time and attention to each student.</p>
<p>However, many studies show that smaller class size does not guarantee that children get a better education. The pupil-to-teacher ratio in public schools in the mid-1960s was about 24 to 1. This ratio dropped to about 17 to 1 by the early 1990s, which means the average class size fell by 28 percent. Yet, during the same time period, SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) test scores fell from 954 to 896, a decline of 58 points or 6 percent. In other words, student academic achievement (as measured by SAT scores) dropped at the same time that class sizes got smaller.</p>
<p>Eric Hanushek, a University of Rochester economist, examined 277 published studies on the effects of teacher-pupil ratios and class-size averages on student achievement. He found that only 15 percent of these studies showed a positive improvement in achievement with smaller class size, 72 percent found no statistically significant effect, and 13 percent found a negative effect on achievement.</p>
<p>It seems to go against common sense that student academic achievement could drop with smaller class sizes. One reason this happens in public schools is that when class sizes drop, schools have to create more classes to cover all the students in the school. Schools then have to hire more teachers for the increased number of classes. However, public schools across the country are already having trouble finding qualified teachers to fill their classrooms. As a result, when reduced class sizes increase the need for more teachers, schools then often have to hire less-qualified teachers.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Teacher Quality and Teaching Methods Are Far More Important</span></p>
<p>As we might expect, teacher quality is far more important than class size in determining how children do in school. William Sanders at the University of Tennessee studied this issue. He found that teacher quality is almost twenty times more important than class size in determining students&#8217; academic achievement in class. As a result, reducing class sizes can lead to the contrary effect of hurting students&#8217; education, rather than helping.</p>
<p>Similarly, a study on class size by policy analyst Jennifer Buckingham of the Sydney-based Center for Independent Studies found no reliable evidence that students in smaller classes do better academically or that teachers spend significantly more time with them in these classes. Buckingham concluded that a 20 percent class-size reduction cost the Australian government an extra $1,150 per student, yet added only an additional two minutes of instruction per day for each child.</p>
<p>Reducing class sizes can&#8217;t solve the underlying problems with public schools. No matter how small classes become, nothing will help if the teachers are ill-trained or their teaching methods are useless or destructive. For example, if teachers use whole-language or balanced reading instruction, they can cripple students&#8217; ability to read no matter how small the classes are. Even if classrooms had one teacher for every student, that child&#8217;s ability to read could still be crippled if the teacher used these reading-instruction methods. In fact, smaller class sizes could give the teacher more time to hurt (not intentionally) each student&#8217;s reading ability.</p>
<p><span class="Normal-C3">Here&#8217;s an analogy on this issue of class size vs. teaching methods: Suppose a horseback-riding instructor was teaching one little girl to ride. This instructor&#8217;s teaching method was to tell the bewildered girl to sit backwards on the horse, facing the horse&#8217;s rump, and control the horse by holding its tail. Does it matter that the student-teacher ratio in this horseback-riding class is one-to-one if the instructor is an idiot or uses bad teaching methods?</span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="Normal-C3">Some public schools try to turn children against their parents with scary classroom stories or lessons about child abuse. Public school authorities have increasingly decided that they are children&#8217;s first line of defense against alleged child abuse. This new attitude falls under what is now known as &#8220;protective behavior curriculum.&#8221; The assumptions behind this curriculum are that every child needs to be warned about and prepared for possible dangers of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse because allegedly every child is a potential victim, not only of strangers but of </span><span class="Emphasis-C">his or her own family</span><span class="Normal-C3">.</span></p>
<p>Increasingly, school authorities instruct teachers to ask children questions about their parents&#8217; behavior and actions toward them at home. The questions amount to asking kids to spy on their parents and report incidents that make them feel &#8220;uncomfortable.&#8221; Some school authorities use such tales by children to investigate or file charges of child abuse against parents who often did no more than yell at their children or spank them lightly.</p>
<p><span class="Normal-C3">In effect, to allegedly protect children, some school authorities now consider </span><span class="Emphasis-C">all</span><span class="Normal-C3"> parents as potential abusers, use children to invade parents&#8217; privacy, or make kids afraid of their parents. Often, children are disturbed and emotionally traumatized by the insinuations school authorities put into their heads. The following incident described by Charles J. Sykes, in his book &#8220;</span><span class="Emphasis-C">Dumbing Down Our Kids</span><span class="Normal-C3">,&#8221; illustrates this disturbing anti-parent campaign by many public schools across the country:</span></p>
<p>&#8220;I first became aware of the protective behaviors curriculum when a mother called me to tell me of an experience she had with her daughter. Her child, an elementary schoolgirl, had come home in tears. When she saw that her mother was home and waiting for her, she rushed to her in relief. I wasn&#8217;t sure you&#8217;d be here, she told her mother. Her mother reassured her that she would always be there for her. In school that day, her daughter told her, her class had discussed &#8220;bad&#8221; touching including spanking.</p>
<p>In the course of the discussion, children had been encouraged to share with the teachers and classmates whether they had ever been touched in that way and the girl had said that her mother had spanked her. The children were also told that people who engaged in bad touching would be taken away and put in jail. For the rest of the school day the girl was terrified that her mother who had spanked her would now be taken away and locked up for her bad touching.&#8221;</p>
<p>Parents, it might be wise to periodically ask your children if their teachers ask them personal questions about your family or how you discipline your children. Turning children into spies against their parents or making them afraid of their parents is not what parents pay school taxes for.</p>
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