[missyme]

I would not have a Child in Public School any longer...

What a discrace to the American Family.

[valkyrieanne]

Guys, this isn't a public school thing alone. When we homeschooled, we used Calvert's homeschool materials. A few years ago Calvert changed its middle-school curriculum to include - you guessed it - Across the Centuries. I complained but they still offer it for the seventh grade curriculum (17th item down on the list in the middle of the page.)

My understanding is that Calvert also uses the same texts in its prestigious day school as it does in its homeschool curriculum.

I notice that Calvert now is also branching out into partner schools, where they provide support for other schools using their materials as "enrichment." It may be that Across the Centuries is used in that area as well.

To be fair, my daughter's seventh grade *public school* ancient history textbook doesn't even include any mention of Islam, although it does have good treatments of prehistory, the Fertile Crescent, ancient Greece, Rome, and India.