With the state of our education system, maybe we should be a bit more tolerant of those who want more for their children.
Thinking back about my time in school and I hate to say that most of my teachers sucked. There were a few very good teachers, but most of them were horrible. We do not home school for religious reasons, We chose to home school because the school system where we live sucks. When my oldest son was in kindergarten, his teacher was a bitch on wheels. When we complained about the way he was treated, we found out her husband was on the school board and our complaints fell on deaf ears. Following your rules, we would have been forced to keep our child in an environment we felt was detrimental to his well being as our only other option, homeschooling, would be illegal since neither my wife nor I are teachers. That's quite tolerant of you Eric. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I don't think that homeschooling should be legal, unless you are a teacher. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] > 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:315966 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
