I don't think that homeschooling should be legal, unless you are a teacher.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:07 PM To: cf-community Subject: The hardest thing about homeschooling..... ...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:315951 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
