Bullshit. It's perhaps a quarter of homeschoolers who are religious, Larry. They are merely the most vocal.
Scott, try Ambleside and if that doesn't look like your cup of tea try the google term "umbrella school." Or, there is Calvert, but they are pricy. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 <boyz...@gmail.com> 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:315924 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
