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To: webstersII
Suppose it's religion-based and the school board says they can't use that one. Should that be accceptable?

A fair question. The review should be deferential. Is the subject addressed? If the answer of yes, the inquiry regarding sufficiency of the curriculum is over.

For instance, when I was homeschooled, my parents used the A Beka curriculum. Now, personally speaking, I think those curricula are little better than propaganda. I would not select them for my children. Even so, NY did not complain that those textbooks were used - nor should they. Parents have wide discretion, and should not be interfered with just because they made educational choices with which one disagrees. That said, parents should not have the option to say math or science or reading should not be addressed at all.

Think carefully before you answer, because parochial and private religious schools don't have to submit to that kind of oversight.

Actually, most of them have the same level of regulation. They must cover certain subjects. They have broad latitude to select religion-based texts, but they must use ***a*** text.

How odious would a deferential review like this be?

68 posted on 03/11/2007 4:01:12 PM PDT by jude24
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To: jude24

"The review should be deferential. If the answer of yes, the inquiry regarding sufficiency of the curriculum is over."

Are you that naive?

You really think that is as far as it would go? It might be deferential to begin with, but as time progressed it would be more and more controlled and prescribed.

Are you bitter for being homeschooled? You don't seem happy about your experience.


70 posted on 03/11/2007 4:10:01 PM PDT by webstersII
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