"Science" textbook for Christian schools can't even explain electricity

SecretAgentMa'am · 09-23-2011, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by betenoire

Okay, cool. I must have misunderstood you then. I thought everybody HAD to go. I'm glad to hear that they don't.

If you register for "release time" then you *have* to go to seminary during that period, but release time is not required, it's an elective.

DapperButch · 09-23-2011, 04:07 PM

dreadgeek,

I kind of jumped the gun, as there has been one or two places where you did make it clear that it was only some private, Christian schools. I apologize. I like the word some for obvious reasons: no group likes sweeping generalizations. That is why we say "some transmen", "some lesbians", "some caucasians", etc. The number of Protestant denominations is quite large and there are some radically different views within them. Subsequently, the Christian schools can be very different from each other, including the curriculum. I am certain that a book written by anyone from Bob Jones University would never make it into my nephews' school(s).

Certainly a parent can look at the curriculum, the average SAT/ATC scores of graduates, the percentage of graduates going to 4 year colleges and which colleges, etc. Parents can alos look at the accreditations various schools have. My older nephew's school has a waiting list a mile long. Since it is an "open" Christian school, there is no expectation that everyone who attends the school hold the same beliefs (or be a "Christian"). My sister does like that her son is exposed to different types of people and different types of thinkers.

One of the concerns that my sister/brother in-law had was that if their kids went to Chrisitian schools that they would get "shell shocked" when they went to college since they would have lived in a cocoon their entire lives up until that point. They had actually planned to send their kids to either a public or private non religious high school (if they were in Christian schools for grades k-8), so that this wouldn't happen to them, as friends had told my sister/her husband that this is what happened to them after being encased in a womb prior to college.

In terms of your concern for the kids not learning what they need to be learning like in the schools in the OP, I hear you. It is a crime really. They are doing a great disservice to the kids if they want to continue their education. They will have to go so far backwards in order to learn what they should have learned to begin with, it will be ridiculous. And how will they ever do well on their SATs?

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DapperButch Roadster Guy How Do You Identify?: FTM, Stone Butch Preferred Pronoun?: He Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Northeast Posts: 7,745 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 26,545 Thanked 26,814 Times in 5,772 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	dreadgeek, I kind of jumped the gun, as there has been one or two places where you did make it clear that it was only some private, Christian schools. I apologize. I like the word some for obvious reasons: no group likes sweeping generalizations. That is why we say "some transmen", "some lesbians", "some caucasians", etc. The number of Protestant denominations is quite large and there are some radically different views within them. Subsequently, the Christian schools can be very different from each other, including the curriculum. I am certain that a book written by anyone from Bob Jones University would never make it into my nephews' school(s). Certainly a parent can look at the curriculum, the average SAT/ATC scores of graduates, the percentage of graduates going to 4 year colleges and which colleges, etc. Parents can alos look at the accreditations various schools have. My older nephew's school has a waiting list a mile long. Since it is an "open" Christian school, there is no expectation that everyone who attends the school hold the same beliefs (or be a "Christian"). My sister does like that her son is exposed to different types of people and different types of thinkers. One of the concerns that my sister/brother in-law had was that if their kids went to Chrisitian schools that they would get "shell shocked" when they went to college since they would have lived in a cocoon their entire lives up until that point. They had actually planned to send their kids to either a public or private non religious high school (if they were in Christian schools for grades k-8), so that this wouldn't happen to them, as friends had told my sister/her husband that this is what happened to them after being encased in a womb prior to college. In terms of your concern for the kids not learning what they need to be learning like in the schools in the OP, I hear you. It is a crime really. They are doing a great disservice to the kids if they want to continue their education. They will have to go so far backwards in order to learn what they should have learned to begin with, it will be ridiculous. And how will they ever do well on their SATs? __________________ -Dapper Are you educated or indoctrinated?

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