You should take a look at the Common Core 7th grade social studies curriculum. Three weeks, so far, spent on The Catholic Church. You’d be amazed what is being taught. As a Catholic, and you can kiss my ass questioning that, I’m appalled by what is being taught in public school 7th grade history class about the Catholic Church. Yet, I don’t see too many Catholics protesting that, lol. Or any historians protesting the misinformation.
KMA. I don’t need to “learn the truth about public education” as I wrote a paper on it in grad school in the 80s. Where were all the “conservatives” then protesting what was happening, had been happening, to the public education system (and Catholic and private) back then? Were they all just fine with the liberal, marxist takeover that started back in the 50’s? Appears so.
Check out the Catholic School Curriculum for NJ and it aligns with the public school curriculum. Guess you think Catholic Schools are antithetical to education too.
It’s so much nicer and more convenient to blast it on a message board than actually doing something about it.
A grad school paper? Impressive.
So... Catholic schools are bad because they follow the govt school.curriculum? Well, yeah. So that means Catholic schools are often as bad. That's hardly an endorsement of govt schooling.
Bishop Sheen said, back in the '50s, that it would be better for a.Catholic child to fight for his faith in a government school, than to lose it in a Catholic school. But this discussion was about homeschooling, wasn't it?
As someone who wrote a paper in grad school, there is little that anyone can tell you about the sordid history of compulsory schooling in America. But others might have something to learn.