Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting

[basilosaurus]

Penny, they mention a beka which is put out by pensacola christian college. The curriculum is used in many schools. I know a large school in my home town used it. It's also big in the home schooling community.

I would guess that bob jones is used only at their university, but that's pure speculation on my part.

[dev22]

May 19, 2012 14:10:02 GMT -5 pennypenny said:

May 18, 2012 18:16:38 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

I just read this, from an article on religious schools receiving vouchers. I was wondering where I should share it. This seems as good a place as any...

"The racist history of the United States is usually whitewashed or romanticized in Christian school curriculum. Writing for AlterNet Rachel Tabachnik highlighted the following in a Bob Jones text: “To help them endure the difficulties of slavery, God gave Christian slaves the ability to combine the African heritage of song with the dignity of Christian praise. Through the Negro spiritual, the slaves developed the patience to wait on the Lord and discovered that the truest freedom is from the bondage of sin.” Another A Beka textbook says, “A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.” Even the Klan gets whitewashed. A Bob Jones textbook states that “the Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross to target bootleggers, wife beaters and immoral movies.”

Umm...I went to Christian school my entire life and I never heard any crazy shit like this. What Christian schools are using these text books?

Those are hugely popular home-school curriculum among the fundie homeschooling community.

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I used A Beka books as a child and trust me, my black ass would have remembered that. LOLOL I'm not saying it isn't currently in there but I'd be curious as to what year that curriculum is for and when it was put in there.

As for Bob Jones, they do make homeschool curriculums.

[dev22]

May 19, 2012 20:28:39 GMT -5 @habbsies said:

I used A Beka books as a child and trust me, my black ass would have remembered that. LOLOL I'm not saying it isn't currently in there but I'd be curious as to what year that curriculum is for and when it was put in there.

As for Bob Jones, they do make homeschool curriculums.

You know what is funny? I have read on a couple of fundie blogs (shuddup) that they didn't/don't believe the A Beka books are conservative enough (in so many words). That is scary.

Although is it certainly possible that they have become more conservative over the the years, especially with the rise of the Quiverfull movement. Apparently they are still not conservative enough for some crazies though. Maybe they refer to the Civil War and not the War of Southern Independence

[basilosaurus]

Dev, it's the war of nahthern aggression.