Looks like an interesting book: "Walking Targets" by Beverly K. Eakman

I had the chance to interview Beverly Eakman almost two years ago. Beverly Eakman writes frequently about how public schools try to manipulate and brainwash children.

Walking Targets: How Our Psychologized Classrooms Are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks is her latest book. One of the main areas this book explores is how public schools "are driving a wedge between parents and their children."

From the press release:

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"Walking Targets" points to an agenda that begins with government-controlled childrearing and force-feeds young people a pseudo-education under the cover of "mental health," "safety," "jobs," and something called "lifelong learning." She shows how, under the cover of educational and mental-health testing, computer technologies popularly believed to be restricted to use in defense of our country, have been redirected for use in tracking the opinions of schoolchildren from the earliest years. She shows how psychographic techniques, once confined to market research, have been retooled for data-mining purposes.
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You can read one of Beverly's columns FIXING OUR SCHOOLS: A NO-BRAINER which is adapted from the book. In response to the attempt to normalize all children Beverly explains why The world needs people with a screw loose.


Allen Quist reviews Walking Targets:

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It used to be, until some 50 years ago, that the purpose of American education was the teaching of knowledge and academic skills. Not anymore. Today the purpose of education in the States is the "transformation" (not education) of the child.

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Other chapters in the book describe: the excessive drugging of our school children; brainwashing our children in the name of "mental health," with the stage set by very early universal "psychological screening"; defining traditional values as being "mental disorders"; advocacy of moral relativism under the guise of "moral neutrality"; and undermining the American Creed (as in the statement by Minnesota State Senator Steve Kelley, then-Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, who said that it was an "historical error" to include the Declaration of Independence as one of our founding documents).
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The book looks interesting. It probably has over a dozen reasons to homeschool. I have added "Walking Targets" to a list of books to buy in my next order from Amazon.


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