  How public schools can cripple children's ability to read, leaving children unprepared and
vulnerable to face the world as adults.
  That parents are deceived into thinking their kids are getting a decent education, when in fact the
schools are dumbing-down the curriculum to protect the jobs of school bureaucrats and
employees.
  Ways that many schools indoctrinate children with anti-parent, anti-Judeo-Christian, and anti-
American values.
  How public schools have become legalized drug dealers and smut peddlers
  The sad truth that public schools hurt children's self-esteem, love of learning, and chance to get
into college.
  ... and many more disturbing revelations supported by iron-clad facts and studies.

  Methods for parents to provide their children with a quality, low-cost private-school education
for less than $850 a year tuition.
  Over twenty ways that busy, working parents can homeschool their kids, and have their kids love
them for taking them out of public school.
  Information for Churches and Ministries to expand their outreach by creating their own Christian
Internet private school.
  Many resources for parents, including lists of Internet websites for homeschool curriculum,
parent groups, general information, college entrance help sites, and more.

This book is a wake-up call for parents, and should be read by anyone concerned about their children's education. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, nationally-syndicated radio talk-show host, featured Public Schools, Public Menace on her show. She said, "This book is a must read for every parent."

Joel Turtel, author of Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our
Children, holds a degree in Psychology. For the last ten years he has done extensive research as an education
policy analyst, studying the alarming state of today's public schools and its effect on children and parents.

Mr. Turtel has written two books, published over fifty articles, and has been interviewed in both print and
broadcast media on the subject. His latest book, Public Schools, Public Menace has garnered national media
attention — recently, for example, Dr. Laura Schlessinger featured the book on her nationally syndicated radio
show.

Joel Turtel is available to discuss his book Public Schools, Public Menace in the media, at conferences, or with
individual groups. Be warned though, you may be shocked by the revelations he has uncovered in America's
public school system.

         A few words from the author...

"I wrote this book because I happen to love kids. I love their bright, creative, spontaneous minds and energy. As I was researching this project, I was alarmed by how badly public schools can hurt our children. I saw that the schools could cripple children's' spirit, their love of learning, and their ability to read. I learned that kids were being taught harmful values that their parents disagreed with. Those things terrified me.

"There is nothing more precious than our children. My book is an advocate for them — I defend their interests. I accomplish this by showing my readers how potentially dangerous public schools can be, and presenting real-life, affordable alternatives that they can take advantage of immediately.

"Public Schools, Public Menace can be purchased from bookstores across the country, but is also available in quantity discounts to churches, ministries, and other organizations. Inquiries can be directed to Liberty Books at the address below."

Contact Information:
Joel Turtel
c/o Liberty Books
700 Victory Blvd., #14F
Staten Island, NY 10301
Tel: 718-447-7348, Fax: 347-252-0289, Email: jturtel@yahoo.com,  Website: www.americanlibertynews.com

Q: You say that public school can be dangerous to children — but what if my child is getting good grades? Shouldn't I be happy with the education they're receiving?
A: Many parents whose children are making good grades don't see a problem with their local public school. But what if your child's public school has been deceiving you? What if the school "dumbs-down" the exams, and manipulates test and report card grades to make you believe your children are doing well in school? Despite your children's good grades and glowing report cards, there is a very real possibility that the public school is crippling your children's ability to read, smothering their desire to learn, warping their values, and wasting twelve years of their lives!
   ** Update: New York Post, Jan 20, 2012, “Community Crisis” — Reporter Yoav Gonen writes in his article that “Nearly eight of 10 city public high school graduates who enrolled as freshmen in CUNY community colleges in the fall required remedial work in math, reading, writing — or all three. . . Higher graduation rates mean little when students aren’t ready for college work.”
     This, after spending about $12,000 per student in New York City public schools — talk about a criminal waste of money thrown down an education sewer.

Q: Why would public schools possibly do that?
A: As it turns out, public schools aren't all that different from public corporations — in both cases, the employees are judged by guidelines that control their tenure and salaries. Corporate employees are judged by factors such as product sales; public school employees are judged by students' test scores. No matter how well-meaning or sincere a teacher is, her job and economic survival depends on her students' test scores, not on the quality of your child's education or how well the school prepares your child to face the world upon graduation.

Q: Don't you think that there are many people who would dispute your accusations?
A: Certainly — especially those whose livelihood is based in the public school system. Any person can do research into the matter, however, to verify that what I'm saying is true — and this is not something new. For example, back in 2002, New York State's Education Department issued its second annual Report that included public school students' math and reading scores. The Report found that 65 percent of elementary school students, 90 percent of middle-school students, and 84 percent of high school students failed to meet minimum New York State math and reading standards. At every grade level, over one-half of the students were below
the minimum standards — and that was a report released by the public education system itself! No matter where you look, you'll find similar dismal results in our public schools, and it is only getting worse. Our children's education system is in crisis mode, and parents are being deceived as to how bad it really is.

Q: So you're saying that all educators are inept, ineffective, or corrupt?
A: Not at all. Most public-school teachers, principals, and administrators are intelligent, hardworking, and dedicated people. They have simply been thrust into an environment — the public school system — that does not reward the best teachers or get rid of the worst teachers. Instead, the tenure system that guarantees teachers' job security, promotes mediocrity in our schools. Also, the No Child Left Behind Act now puts increased pressure on teachers to show student test scores that meet new Federal guidelines . . . even if teachers have to fudge test scores to meet these guidelines.

Q: You paint a bleak picture of our children's education; why aren't more parents worried?
A: Most parents simply aren't aware of how bad the situation is, or public schools have deceived them about the true state of their children's education. The good news is that kids can now get a quality education and success in school in low-cost private schools on the Internet — parents now have real school choice. Children don't have to suffer through 12 years of a mind-numbing, third-rate public-school education anymore. Parents can give their kids a quality education right now with many education options. In my book, "Public Schools, Public Menace," I devote three chapters to showing parents all the wonderful new education options they now have
for their children.

Q: But aren't private schools too expensive for most parents to consider?
A: One thing that I emphasize in the book is that parents can now give their kids a quality private school education for less than $950 a year tuition. I provide a list of such schools, and it doesn't matter where a family lives because these quality private schools are on the Internet. Look at it like this — the $850 a year tuition is only about $80 a month to give children a great education and rescue them from the dangers of public school.

  •  "Nearly half of high-school students and one in five middle-school students said they have had sexual intercourse" — from a study of more than 5,000 students in Tampa, Florida, reported by the Tampa Tribune. To make matters worse, "Nearly one-third of high-school students said they were propositioned to buy, have bought or sold drugs while at school."
     If your daughter gets pregnant or your son gets a sexually-transmitted disease in middle-school or high-school, it can ruin their lives... not to mention their lives being threatened by taking drugs

 •   In Jasper County, Georgia, cameras were placed in school restrooms to catch vandals, while invading the privacy of honest students and subjecting them to humiliation and violation, as reported by the WMAZ-NBC television..
     Do you want your children going to education prisons where they are treated like criminals? Is this what you pay school taxes for?

  •  In Philadelphia, a kindergarten teacher found eight bags of heroin in a 5-year-old student's pocket, as reported by the Associated Press.
     This happened in kindergarten — just imagine what goes on in your local middle school or high
School.

  •   "Sex on school property is more frequent than adults might imagine," the Washington Post reports. "Students have intercourse on the stairwells, in locked classrooms, in the locker rooms," said a recent graduate. "It was embarrassing for me to walk in on it." The fact that teenagers have sex is well established: Roughly half of all 15- to 19-year-olds have had vaginal intercourse, and more than half have had oral sex, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..
   Do you really think that your local public school doesn't expose your child to this?

 •   A charter school student was shot in the chest aboard a school bus in Miramar, Florida by a teenageclassmate armed with a gun, as reported by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
     If you homeschool your child with Internet private schools, you don't have to worry about guns.

 •   The National Desk of the U.S. Newswire reported that the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are recommending curricula with extremely graphic content such as the use of grocery items like grape jelly being used as sexual lubricants (in a program called "Becoming a Responsible Teen"), condom relay races, condom practice and fantasizing during classroom time, a homework assignment to go shopping for condoms, and 'how-to' instructions for oral sex. "Focus on Kids," a curriculum for 9 to 15-year-olds, assigns teens to create a list of ways to be close to a person without having intercourse, including, "body massage, bathing together, masturbation, sensuous feeding, fantasizing, watching erotic movies, reading erotic books and magazines."
     Is this the kind of sex-education and values you want your child to learn?

    The quotes above were gleaned from only a casual examination of the national news. While these incidents may be shocking, stories like these appear in the news every day. Watch the news from around the country, and you'll see that the physical and moral dangers to your children in public schools have now reached epidemic proportions. Fortunately, parents now have alternatives to the real-life horror scenarios outlined above. In his book, Public Schools, Public Menace, author Joel Turtel gives parents a lifeline to rescue their children from these schools. He tells parents about new, quality, low-cost education alternatives they can use right now to give their children the safe and rewarding education they deserve.