Reed, in her Parent's Guide, doesn't give up on public schools. Instead, she acknowledges the reality that most parents are going to send their kids to the state system. So she seeks to give some sound preventative advice. Since she believes that public schools are the "indoctrination centers for collectivism," she spends several chapters railing against the doctrines of Dewey and the NEA. She addressed the issues of secular humanism, life adjustment education, social engineering, values clarification, and psychotherapy in the classroom. Sex education, bi-lingual education, lack of discipline, phonics, standardized tests, and lack of parental involvement all get her scathing rhetoric.
The book might be of value to parents who never knew what was happening to their child at some schools, but it is of little value to those who want to change the system. Her suggestions are few and far between. Her extremism and fighting rhetoric only creates hostility and battle, rather than reform and change. Parents might become motivated to get involved in their child's education, but her book really doesn't give them good guidance other than forcing local schools to live up to federal safeguards.
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