Sandra Dodd

http://www.thefathersbooks.com/Grades%20K-6.htm

Once in a while I have a big shiver at ever having been pressed to
support all homeschoolers, as we're all doing the same thing and need
to remember we're all in this together.

Well, I was working on my webpages, making sure pages are linked to
at least three or five other places, and got to poking around a site
I've had linked for a couple of years.

On the curriculum pages, every grade first through fifth has one book
listed for literature/English. Same book every year. It's an anti-
Halloween novel. I'm definitely ordering one. It's on sale now.
So The first five years are Bible study and anti-Halloween, and
after that the girls start studying quiltmaking.

They have a page on chores. Here's how they recommend you reward
kids for chores:

1. For a young student in grades K-6, award your successful worker
with stickers or points that can be tallied. When a goal set by you
is reached, give your hard worker a small treat (fruit, snack, piece
of gum, etc.) Award this treat once a week for this age group.

2. For an older student in grades 7-12, most families pay their
workers a certain monetary amount for each chore completed. You will
have to decide what that amount may be, based on your family budget.
Then pay your diligent worker once a month.



Sometimes maybe it helps to see what I'm not doing as an unschooler,
and to remind myself why I really don't want to relax my stance on
fundamentalist school at home.

Oh, and not to defend witchcraft or anything, but one of the two
articles on the site confuses witchcraft and crime with evolution, it
seems:



-=-DISCERNING EVOLUTION IN CURRICULA

=Have you ever enjoyed the pictures in a book so much that you missed
the fact that the book was for evolution? Have you ever enjoyed the
story in a book so much that you missed the fact that it used a dark
side of life like crime to entertain you? Have you ever liked the
cover of a book so much that you bought it and gave it to your child,
not ever knowing that the content contained witchcraft ideas with the
intent of subtly indoctrinating your child into these practices?

-=-These examples sound a bit extreme and you may say, no never me.
But in fact, concepts that are pro-evolution, divorce, witchcraft,
crime, etc., are often woven into a book in ways that you may not be
detecting. These concepts may be placed in books on purpose to subtly
indoctrinate, or they may be there because the culture that is
preparing the books has been compromised by sin without even knowing
they have been...-=- (and it continues) http://
www.thefathersbooks.com/Articles.htm

and goes on to say some exceedingly strange things. It says
evolution sets animals above men, as the original parents of men, and
that books or TV shows that have talking animals support evolution.
I guess that would include Mickey Mouse and all those puppets on
Sesame Street. "These books, curricula, and shows purposely or
subtly use animals to indoctrinate the public into accepting,
supporting, and living under and within the concept of evolution."

What they're doing is NOT what I'm doing. I would way rather my kids
go to public school than I would like to defend that kind of
homeschooling. I'm betting they would rather their kids go to public
school than to treat them the ways that our family treats ours.

Saturday night Holly left the house at 11:00 and came home at 4:30
a.m. Kirby knew she had left, but she didn't leave me a note, and
apologized profusely the next day, because she realized after she was
gone that if I woke up after Kirby went to sleep I wouldn't know
where she was. She was with Marty (her brother), Sadie and Brett
(two now-grown unschoolers of our long acquaintance. They played
miniature golf and then went to Sadie's house and played and talked.

We're not living a small, fearful lives.



Sandra