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by dhagz 1667 days ago
It's funny, I'm fairly skeptical of homeschooling due to my experience being homeschooled. Not that my mom did a bad job, she did the best she could, but the curriculum we followed was, to put it lightly, incredibly conservative and Catholic. Like, there was an entire chapter of one of my American history books dedicated to the oppression of Catholics in Colonial/early America. To focus so heavily on that instead of the other oppressions of the time is...not great. There were some good things in the curriculum as well - I spent a lot of time reading and memorizing Shakespeare and great poems. But those bright spots don't make up for brushing over evolution and an incredibly skewed perspective of history.