12/11/04 INSIDER LETTER | 2004-12-12
*** Bob's Insider's Message ***
(reprinted to the Blog from 12/11/04)
Since we are getting close to Christmas, I want to point out another group that needs the message in Why Johnny Can't Think: Home Schoolers. More and more people are pulling out of the public schools, which is easy to understand. Sending a child to these schools is tantamount to child abuse.
One thing I hear from people is that Why Johnny Can't Think may offend the home school crowd because of my use of three or four bad words in the book. This was an oversight on my part, but it brings up an important point. This is a point that is crucial to understanding why so much of "conservatism" has been a dismal failure.
There is only one type of home schooler I can respect for this outlook: Those who refuse to send their kids to public schools because of their values, and who are consistent enough to understand that colleges and universities are just more of the same.
What I can't stomach are the "respectable conservative" home schoolers, which my staff refers to as "prissies," those who don't want Johnny to read my book because of a few bad words, or to read it themselves because they might be "offended." Yet these same people are willing to send little Johnny off to college to a moral cesspool completely unprepared.
To send a child to college from that environment without brutally honest preparation is about as smart as sending your teenage daughter on a road trip with an NBA basketball team. It is mind-boggling. It is "respectable." It is damned foolish.
I can take criticism of Why Johnny Can't Think because of bad writing, or typographical errors, or quibbles about details in some of my historical examples. What I cannot abide is moral cowardice. I don't think Jesus let people off the hook on technicalities.
Why Johnny Can't Think is not perfect, nor is it for everybody. But it IS, and we need it out there. PLEASE get a copy for someone you care about today!
We are making it easy for you to do. We'll even gift wrap it, and put a little note in there from you, and send it directly to whomever you want us to -- all for the same cost. (note: we can't split discounted multiple book orders to different addresses, due to mailing costs).
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Bob