My sympathies. I would think that given the landscape, you'd be doing good to find anything that's not religious in the home schooling market.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...is finding quality, secular curriculum. > > My wife and I have been looking into homeschool programs that actually > give the children diplomas and transcripts. Unfortunately, since a > large portion of those who homeschool do so for religious reasons (we > do not, BTW), most of these programs have curricula that are heavily > religious. This has not bee a huge bone of contention with me as most > of the programs allow you to substitute a curriculum for each subject. > > Yesterday that changed. We visited the main office for one of these > programs. Up until yesterday, we were impressed with their reputation, > cost and the fact that they were fairly liberal in what you could > substitute. For grammar school children, the only subjects you could > nit substitute was English and Religion. I was cool with that. > However, we were then told that for high school you cannot substitute > English, Religion and History. I immediately went and started looking > at the High School history books. They had titles like 'Christ the > King, Lord of History' and 'Christ and the Americas'. The first book I > picked up had chapters named 'Abraham' and 'Moses' - and the 'Moses' > chapter was twice as long as each chapter devoted to 'Ancient Greece' > and 'Ancient Rome'. > > The main biology books were different volumes of a series titled > 'Exploring Creation'. > > I was disgusted with all the religious drivel that was included in > these books - and was immediately turned off to this program (We had > looked at it because of the ones with a good reputation that are > accredited, this one was Catholic) > > My wife is a devote Catholic, I am not. We have discussed raising our > children Catholic, but these references in a history book concerned > even her. I have no issues with the children learning about > Catholicism, but to have those beliefs brought into subjects like > history and science is where I draw the line. > > So, now we must continue the search for a good program, like the ones > we have looked at, but that do not cram the religion down the kids > throats in every subject. There has got to be a happy medium > somewhere.... > > </rant> > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > The DOM is retarded. > > http://xkcd.com/386/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315923 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
