Watch the entire video. Interesting excerpts, interesting teaching, funded by your tax dollars.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
"God used the 'Trail of Tears' to bring many Indians to Christ"
In August of 2010, a woman I met while on vacation asked me if I knew about the A Beka books. I didn't, and hadn't given them another thought until today, when I saw the multiple references on Twitter to the Sociological Images website and their excerpts from the A Beka books. Here's a screen shot from the video:
Watch the entire video. Interesting excerpts, interesting teaching, funded by your tax dollars.
Watch the entire video. Interesting excerpts, interesting teaching, funded by your tax dollars.
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God used the Trail of Tears? Like, the Trail of Tears just kind of happened, so God took advantage of it? Or it was God's idea to begin with?? What self-serving claptrap.
I don't think that tax money goes to A Beka. Home schoolers may get a tax deduction, but I don't think it goes directly to curriculum costs? A Beka is published by a Christian company and is in use for many home-school families, but also in private Christian schools. http://www.abeka.com/OurFoundation.aspx It is clearly slanted by conservative Christianity and is full of stereotypes. I'm not a fan.
I got curious when I saw this. A Beka is big with home schoolers and according to this source http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/5/25/84149/9275/
in 2011, 9000 schools were using the textbooks. There was a lawsuit in S. Calif. to get the books out of schools.
A Beka also runs charter schools.
The above mentioned site offers quite a critique on the text.
I was appalled that A Beka uses images of children of color (heck, of any children!) on a site to promote their products.
This is more than a little disturbing. If that quote isn't meant in an ironic way, then it's disgraceful.
Not that you should be surprised. ABeka is either Bob Jones or Pensacola's curriculum. I was homeschooled exclusively on these two: K-10th so I speak from exp. Attack BJ for their sexist racist homophobic curriculum. And also not sure why you're shocked that this comes from inherently hateful institutions.
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