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To: metmom
In Kentucky, Lexington home-schooler Mia Perry remembers feeling disheartened while flipping through a home-school curriculum catalog and finding so many religious-themed textbooks.

"We're not religious home-schoolers, and there's somewhat of a feeling of being outnumbered," said Perry, who has home-schooled three of her four children after removing her oldest child from a public school because of a health condition.

Perry said she cobbled together her own curriculum after some mainstream publishers told her they would not sell directly to home-schooling parents.

Wendy Womack, another Lexington home-school mother, said the only scientifically credible curriculum she's found is from the Maryland-based Calvert School, which has been selling study-at-home materials for more than 100 years.

It's not Christian publishers fault that there's no curriculum out there. The parents need to complain to the secular publishers who refuse to sell to homeschoolers.

THAT'S who their beef should be with.

54 posted on 03/06/2010 5:08:26 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

“Perry said she cobbled together her own curriculum after some mainstream publishers told her they would not sell directly to home-schooling parents.”

I picked this up too.

The secular establishment wants nothing to do with her, so she goes and gets angry with the people that ARE willing to sell her the materials because she wants them to be identical to the materials of the people whose bent is to want nothing to do with her!

Lady, you’re running up against the statist, megalolithic education establishment. We’ve been throwing our little rocks at that wall forever, and we can tell you they don’t want anything to do with people like you.

Besides, how does she know she likes their stuff anyway? She’s probably never read it; she certainly didn’t read the text from the homeschooling company before she bought it.


57 posted on 03/06/2010 5:26:32 PM PST by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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To: metmom

Real Science for Kids (http://arn.org/realscience/realscience.html) and Pandia Real Science(http://www.pandiapress.com/real_science.htm) are good science curricula without reference to evolution or any other faith.


68 posted on 03/06/2010 6:28:20 PM PST by ari-freedom (Rush:Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you!)
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To: metmom

Real Science for Kids (http://arn.org/realscience/realscience.html) and Pandia Real Science(http://www.pandiapress.com/real_science.htm) are good science curricula without reference to evolution or any other faith.


69 posted on 03/06/2010 6:28:23 PM PST by ari-freedom (Rush:Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you!)
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