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Child Abuse in the Classroom

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Child Abuse in the Classroom is about parents who have battled against ideological-driven groups who want to indoctrinate children using modern trend and pop culture as the standards of right and wrong. This is a collection of essays and opinion pieces of testimony that was used to pass legislation to guard both children and parents from having the government use nosy surveys and other suggestive materials on children. A must read for anyone who needs quotes for research papers or testimony in trying to stop Planned Parenthood or Sex educational advocates for the sexualization of children.

It was very hard to believe that the kinds of things written about were actually going on in the public schools until my children started telling me that many of these things were going on in their school. Mrs. Schlafly correctly characterized these things as child abuse, & she couldn't have chosen a better title for this book. I pulled my kids out of school & finished their schooling at home as a result of what I read in this book & what went on in their school. Although the book came out in June of 1984, the public school system has changed very little in the interim because the system has found a way to circumvent the Hatch Amendment. My granddaughter is a 3rd grader and her mother & I aren't at all happy with many of the things being done in her school in the guise of education. She will most likely be schooled at home before all is said & done. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about their children's education.

This book is a compilation of hearings from parents in the 1980s regarding their childrens' deliberate abuse in the classroom in curriculum fashioned to persuade and psychologically probe young and impressionable minds without parents' knowledge or consent. There is a subtle and pervasive social and psychological movement trying to take over our children via the academic world. Very revealing as you are reading the actual hearings from real families. We would fool ourselves to think things have gotten better. As a once public school teacher, I can attest - they have gotten much worse. My child is homeschooled for this reason.

The trend over the past several decades has been to teach children in a non-secular manner, protecting the "separation of church and state" in the eyes of the government. However this has degraded into teaching somebody's ideas of morals, and religion. See what happened when the government tried to enforce laws AGAINST such teachings. I just wished it was more readable. The bulk of the book is word for word transcripts of the testimonies of parents and teachers at federal hearings. Quite often, these are repetitive and difficult to follow. Overall, this is quite good.

Phyllis Schlafly is a name that some people revere and trust while other people revile and despise. She has been a prime spokeswoman for many years for traditional family values and a supporter of homeschooling. I haven't always agreed with every position that she's taken, but generally she speaks the truth, however inconvenient it may be to the leftwing elitists of our society. As a result of problems that developed in public schools during the 1960s and 70s in which curriculum was fashioned to persuade and psychologically probe young and impressionable minds without parents' knowledge or consent, an amendment to federal education law, known as the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), Section 439 of the GEPA, more commonly called the Hatch Amendment, was proposed by Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah in 1978 and passed Congress. This book consists of excerpts from the official transcript of proceedings before the U. S. Department of Education from March 13 through 27, 1984, in Seattle, WA; Pittsburgh, PA; Kansas City, MO; Phoenix, AZ; Concord, NH; Orlando, FL; and Washington, DC, in the matter of proposed regulations to implement the PPRA.
Child Abuse in the Classroom, with endorsements by former Sen. Samuel I. Hayakawa and then President Ronald Reagan, had a big impact on the growing homeschool movement in the 1980s, as indicated by several reviews on Amazon.com. One said, "As a once public school teacher, I can attest - they have gotten much worse. My child is homeschooled for this reason." Another wrote, "I pulled my kids out of public school after I read this book, and finished their schooling at home!" While Phyllis "blew the lid off" so to speak of this kind of thing, and it seemed to get better for a while, things have only become worse since then because schools have found ways around the law. In fact, we now have federal judges declaring that once a child crosses the schoolhouse door, parents have no control whatever over him or what he is taught--in direct violation of the Hatch Amendment, which I believe is still supposed to be in effect. Some have complained that the book is not very readable because the bulk of it is word for word transcripts of the testimonies of parents and teachers at federal hearings which are often repetitive and difficult to follow. However, I suppose that if Mrs. Schlafly hadn't quoted these word for word, she would probably have been accused of making it all up. This book provides all the confirmation needed to show the depths of depravity to which our schools have sunk.