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To: metmom
Those who don't, however, often feel isolated and frustrated from trying to find a textbook that fits their beliefs.

Boo frickin' hoo. If I only allowed my children to read books or watch movies that agreed with our worldview, I'd lose out on the majority of teaching aids!

Why not instruct them to read the book/watch the movie, then take a few minutes to talk abut the offending bit and explain why we disagree? Isn't that what homeschooling's all about, more interaction with your children? Geez...

11 posted on 03/06/2010 4:12:35 PM PST by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

The beauty of homeschooling is that you teach your kids how to think, not just regurgitate statements made in books that may or may not be true.

Instead of having a coronary and running to the AP and getting all kinds of attention for being a crybaby, just discuss the issue and move on. And find some other source for your biology books.

So what if the homeschool market is dominated by Christian worldview curriculum? That’s the great thing about the free market. What are they going to try to do now? Force the Christian books distributors to print non-Christian material?

Why blame them that there’s not much out there in the way of any other choices? It’s not their fault that no one else is providing secular curriculum.


15 posted on 03/06/2010 4:22:23 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

My three children were taught organic evolution as proven truth in government schools. I taught them to question. None of them believes the theory of evolution to be the incontrovertible explanation for the presence of living matter and its incomprehensible diversity of form and function.


16 posted on 03/06/2010 4:23:34 PM PST by Elsiejay (.)
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