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Re: teaching homeschoolers

From: L. P. Skeen (lpskeen@living-tree.net)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 21:08:37 PDT

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    I'm sure we all realize that. If you read my statement again, you will see that I said, "MY impression....." and "...they USUALLY...", which indicates that is was MY opinion, and that I was not making a statement about every homeschooling situation. For the homeschooling people I have met in this area, "religious reasons" seems to be the #1 reason for homeschooling. If that is the case, and the parents are trying to keep their children away from anything outside their personal belief system, using the state curriculum to teach them could get complicated for the reasons I stated before.
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      From: L. E. Horvath
      To: ArtsEdNet Talk
      Cc: ArtsEdNet Talk
      Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:47 PM
      Subject: teaching homeschoolers

      <<MY impression of the intent of homeschooling parents is that usually they
      don't want their kids exposed to non-christian things if they can help it.
      This could be a problem if one used a state curriculum in teaching
      homeschoolers, since the students might then be exposed to such things as
      <gasp!> Native American spirituality, Greek and Roman art, as well as
      Egyptian art, much of which revolves around the religious belief systems of
      those cultures. <egad!> >>

      I hope we all realize that this is not the case with all homeschoolers. Many parents who make this choice (like my own, for instance), have reasons that are unrelated to religion.
      -Lydia in Toledo 

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