Fundamentalist Christian Homeschooling
Many states in the USA have NO standard for homeschooling whatsoever.
THEREIN IS THE PROBLEM! If pseudo-science creationism can be taught as
science in such homeschools then phrenology, blood letting, astrology,
tarot
card reading, etc etc etc can ALSO be taught as science.
Professor Michelle S. Morris
Fizzix Lecturer & Fonix Tutor
Butter Homeskool Uni
C/- Kitchen Table
Home
Bible Belt USA
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HOMESKOOL MORONS USING THE CRAP BELOW TO INDOCRINATE THEIR CHILDREN IS A
FORM OF CHILD ABUSE.- Bob Jones University Press- Pensacola Christian
College (A Beka Books)- Robinson Self-Teaching Home School CurriculumSome
of
the very worst material to place anywhere near a child!
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1. BOB JONES UNIVERSITY PRESS
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BJU Accreditation Through TRACS
Bob Jones University is a member of the Transnational Association of
Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) [PO Box 328, Forest, VA 24551;
Telephone: 434.525.9539; email: i...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
having been awarded
Candidate status as a Category IV institution by the TRACS Accreditation
Commission on April 6, 2005; this status is effective for a period of five
years.
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This actually doesn't mean much. Bob Jones Uni is a fundamentalist
creationist ratbag factory. I quote from their associated site ....
http://www.itib.org/
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Testimony To An Infallable BibleThe church today is contending against an
enemy-one cloaked in the guise of truth and relevance. E***enical
alliances
sound the siren song of unity, which in itself is desirable and biblical
but
frequently sacrifices biblical fidelity to reach that end. The
emotionalism
so prevalent in modern churches produces much heat but all too often
neglects the light of God's Word. The secular world, with its seductive
refrain of "tolerance" presents itself as compatible with biblical
Christianity. The resurgence of Neo-Paganism and New Age ideologies
promises
greater peace and power, yet only echoes the age-old hollow promises Satan
made to Eve. Now, more than ever, it is time to proclaim the profound
differences between the counterfeits and the eternal truth of God's Word.
This is what the International Testimony to an Infallible Bible (or
"ITIB")
is all about.The ITIB started a number of years ago when several men were
having dinner together while attending Bible Conference at Bob Jones
University. In the course of the conversation, someone mentioned how
timely
it would be to have a congress which Fundamentalists from around the world
could attend to receive inspiration, instruction, encouragement, and
fellow****p. A committee was formed, and in June of 1976 the World Congress
of Fundamentalists was held in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was intended to be
a
one-time affair;however, those who attended were so encouraged and blessed
they requested that another such meeting be held.Since that date over
sixteen congresses (whether global or regional in scope) have been
sponsored
by the ITIB. The global or World Congresses are held about every ten
years,
while regional congresses are held every year or two in different
locations
around the globe.The ITIB is co-chaired by Dr. Ian Paisley (member of the
European Parliament; Pastor of Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church,
Belfast, Northern Ireland) and Dr. Bob Jones III (President of Bob Jones
University, Greenville, South Carolina, USA). The ITIB Committee is
comprised of both ministers and laymen who meet occasionally to help guide
the direction of the ITIB. Encouraging fidelity to the Bible is their
overriding concern forthe ITIB.It is amazing how far error, posing as
truth,
has advanced, taking control of so many churches and Christian
institutions
throughout the world. It is our prayer that the truth of biblical
separation
from all error, when understood and practiced by the pastors around the
world, will reveal the dark and dangerous situation in which the church
finds itself today.
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What ratbaggery!!!!!! There are many such "universities" in the USA and
their "degrees" have no worth in Australia whatsoever!
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2. A BEKA BOOKS
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http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i29/29a04001.htm
From the issue dated March 24, 2006
A College That's Strictly Different
Secretive Pensacola Christian controls student life with tough regulations
and unwritten rules
By THOMAS BARTLETT Pensacola, Fla
.....Pensacola Christian College prides itself on being different, not
just
from secular colleges, but from fellow Christian ones, too......Lisa
Morris
was walking to class with her boyfriend last October when something
happened. At first Ms. Morris, a sophomore music major, is reluctant to
divulge the details. Eventually, however, the truth comes out: He patted
her
behind.Someone who witnessed the incident re****ted Ms. Morris and her
boyfriend. At Pensacola any physical contact between members of the
opposite
*** is forbidden. (Members of the same *** may touch, although the college
condemns homo***uality.) The forbidden contact includes shaking hands and
definitely includes patting behinds. Both students were expelled.....Even
couples who are not talking or touching can be reprimanded. Sabrina
Poirier,
a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is
known on the campus as "optical intercourse" - staring too intently into
the
eyes of a member of the opposite ***. This is also referred to as "making
eye babies." While the rule does not appear in written form, most students
interviewed for this article were familiar with the concept.
......
There are plenty of other ways to run afoul of the rules. Last spring
Timothy Dow was caught playing the video game Halo 2. Such games are
banned
by the college. Movies are also forbidden, including those rated G. Music
is
restricted to classical or approved Christian ("contem****ary Christian"
artists are deemed too worldly). Students are allowed to watch television
news at 6 o'clock, but that's it. The TVs are controlled by college
employees, who flip a switch to black out the commercials, lest students
see
anything inappropriate.In the library, books and magazines are censored.
One
student says she saw a pair of black-marker boxer shorts on a photograph
of
Michelangelo's David. Any books that students wish to read that are not in
the library must first be approved by administrators. Those containing
references to "magic," for instance, are normally rejected. The rule book
specifically prohibits"fleshly magazines and books."
.......Along with the college, Mr. Horton founded A Beka Books,
acknowledged
as the largest Christian-textbook company in the world. A Beka sells
textbooks to more than 10,000 Christian schools across the country,
offering
a complete curriculum for kindergarten through 12th grade. It has also won
a
big share of the lucrative home-school market.
The company brings in about $70-million in annual revenue and is valued at
$280-million, according to Dun & Bradstreet. A sizable chunk of that
revenue
goes to sup****t the college, which does not come close to breaking even on
its own. According to its 2003 tax filing, the university collected
$20-million in tuition and fees and $3-million from contributions. The
filing attributes $15-million in income to "royalties," presumably from A
Beka.In the mid-90s, A Beka paid nearly $50-million in back taxes after
the
Internal Revenue Service ruled that it should have been classified as a
for-profit entity. The college itself remains nonprofit.Revenue from A
Beka
helps keep costs extremely low. Students pay $6,000 a year for tuition,
room, and board. That's about a third or a quarter of what most other
Christian colleges cost. When asked what other colleges they considered,
Pensacola students often mention Bob Jones, Cedarville University,
Northland
Baptist Bible College, and Abilene Christian University. Cost is usually
cited as the deciding factor.
Just as the textbook company helps sup****t the college, the college helps
sup****t the textbook company. Many of Pensacola's students work for A
Beka,
operating binding equipment, packing books into boxes, loading those boxes
onto forklifts. Some students complain about the working conditions;
others
say it's a good deal. For women, A Beka is usually the only employment
option because they are not allowed to hold off-campus jobs. Or leave the
campus alone, for that matter.In the world of Christian colleges,
Pensacola
is an oddity. It is not a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and
Universities. It has little to do with other institutions. Several
administrators at other Christian colleges declined to discuss Pensacola
on
the record for fear of seeming critical. One said he did not know enough
to
speak knowledgeably becausePensacola keeps mostly to itself.While not
wanting to criticize Pensacola, Carl A. Ruby, vice president for student
life at Cedarville, in Ohio, emphasizes that his university doesn't take
the
"bad-kid approach" to discipline. "On major issues of Christian doctrine,
we
are probably always on the same page," he writes in an e-mail message. "In
terms of living out our faith on a daily basis, significantdifferences
emerge."....Creationism is taught in science courses.....Several
previously
unaccredited Christian colleges, like Bob Jones, have recently become
candidates for accreditation. Pensacola, however, has shown no interest in
outside approval of any kind. Nor does it advertise its unaccredited
status.
A search of the Web site turns up no mention of accreditation. It is not
mentioned in the college's viewbook either, whichdedicates four pages to
s****ts activities and two to campus facilities.....
Lack of accreditation has been a problem for Amy Brown, too. She graduated
from Pensacola in 2003 with a degree in early-childhood education. But
because the college is not accredited, she cannot teach in public schools,
she says. She had no idea what accreditation was before enrolling at
Pensacola. "I never tried to transfer," she writes in an e-mail
message,"because I had friends that did and ended up with all of their
credits as electives," meaning that they had to retake required
courses.Mr.
Ghobrial, the student from Egypt who doesn't mind the rules, wants to
attend
dental school. His first choice, West Virginia University, has already
said
it would not consider his application, because Pensacola is not
accredited.
"I'm hoping they change their minds," he says.Many Christian colleges do
accept Pensacola's credits, as do some secular institutions. Several
former
students say they have had no difficulty transferring credits or applying
for jobs. But others have. And as more states crack down on degrees from
unaccredited colleges, it may get even tougher for Pensacola
graduates.....
http://chronicle.com
Section: StudentsVolume 52, Issue 29, Page A40
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> ROBINSON SELF-TEACHING HOME SCHOOL CURRICULUM
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- TOTALLY dependent upon good literacy skills to begin with.
- Lock-step without any deviation from the program.
- 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica used - outdated and too complicated for
younger readers
- 1913 Webster's Dictionary used - outdated and too complicated for
younger
readers
- Science texts instead of hands on experimentation and disvcovery
learning.
- Original King James Version of the Bible - outdated and language too
complicated for any child of any age
-Phonics only without the addition of whole language approach, etc.
- Claims to be "self-teaching" but pupils require interaction with at
least
one other person - a teacher.
This "box:" is the lazy person's way of homeschooling and not worth the
money you will outlay for it.
Visit the utter ****e at
http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p45.htm
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Fundamentalism & homeschooling - "Little Ones To Him Belong" from"THE
FUNDAMENTALS OF EXTREMISM - The Christian Right in America"Edited by
Kimberly Blaker New Boston Books, Inc. Michigan 2003
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LITTLE ONES TO HIM BELONGby Bobbie Kirkhart
p. 48 ff
Our goal is not to make the schools better. . . . the goal is to hamper
them, so they cannot grow. . . . Our goal as God-fearing, uncompromised .
..
Christians is to shut down the public schools . . . step by step, school
by
school, district by district.
Robert Thoburne in The Children Trap.....fundamentalist responses are
largely divided into attempts to control their own children's education,
and
attempts to control all children's education.....Still, the typical home
schooling parent is white, Protestant, with above-average income and
education. When only one reason for home schooling is elicited, the most
common reason for the decision is the im****tance home schooling parents
put
in religious education. One might expect virtually all home schooling
parents include in their reasoning they believe they can provide a better
education. Interestingly, in a 1999 survey, although this was the most
popular reason cited, it was included by slightly fewer than half of the
parents. This is in spite of more than one answer being allowed. Religion
was a close second at thirty-eight percent, and undoubtedly overlapped the
fifteen percent who chose character building and the twelve percent who
objected to what the school teaches.
While home schooling parents' education is usually above the average, in
only ten states are parents required to have a high school diploma or
general equivalency diploma to home school. It has been found that almost
nineteen percent of home schooling parents did not finish high school.
There
is no question home schooled children may do well academically.
Homeschooling proponents point to the large percentage of spelling bee and
geography champions who have been home schooled. Unfettered by curriculum
mandates, those parents whose ambition for their children lies in these
subjects have a huge advantage in home schooling. It is more difficult to
make sense of the "average," however. Proponents point to relatively high
percentiles on SAT and ACT scores, and on various "norming" tests. Indeed,
they are impressive, but they reflect a selfselected minority of
home-schooled students.....Among educators and child development
specialists, the biggest concern with home schooling is the lack of social
experience, both inside and outside the classroom. Many home schoolers
form
collectives for providing enrichment activities, such as field trips, and
enter their children in such things as group dance class or group s****ts.
But the interaction provided is structured and controlled, lacking the
diversity the child will face in the workforce and without even the
limited
freedom of speech and association present in the high school hallway.Many
home schooling parents see this as an advantage. But if it is an
advantage,
it is not one an adult can maintain and still enjoy the full mobility,
cultural op****tunity, and freedom our society has to offer.
Educators point out peer interaction is a valuable and necessary component
of a good academic lesson plan. Class discussion, oral re****ts, and
cooperative learning assignments such as small group projects are
im****tant
segments of the modern classroom day. Most teachers consider them vital to
a
total educational experience. Some of the reasons this is true may in fact
be among fundamentalists' objections to public education. Peer interaction
increases creativity and critical thinking skills. It is a teacher's job
to
tell the students what is required, so students may meet the expectations.
But when one is trying to please fellow students, there is no clear line,
no
"this is the answer they want" to seek. In class discussion, students have
some social protection if they want to question the authority of the
teacher's statement or the instructional materials. This is a practice
good
teachers encourage, as it forces the student to look critically at the
issues and take owner****p of his or her own ideas.....Typical
fundamentalist
home schooling parents have taken their children out of school as much to
protect them from learning which they consider harmful, as to instill
religious values. This greatly decreases what the parent needs to know.
Certainly, in the field of biology, the debate is well known. Without
evolution, any real understanding of DNA is not im****tant. Teaching it in
depth might lead the child to conclude the evolutionists are right.The
typical public high school literature class includes work encouraging
students to think beyond the cliché, and to question traditional values.
This is not as much to get students to change their values, but so that
they
will know why they hold them. To the fundamentalist, all values are
prescribed in the Bible, as explained by some earthly
authority.Questioning
them is sacrilege. Neither William Shakespeare nor Toni Morrison fit in
this
scheme. Literature can go as far as oversimplified interpretations of
Milton
and Blake.
Ancient history must be shaped to conform to Biblical accounts, and
merican
history is distorted into an account of a struggle to establish and
maintain
a Christian religion. Any serious study of ancient India or of America's
Founding Fathers calls these standards into question. Indeed, many
fundamentalists claim the Founding Fathers were Christian, in spite of a
clear record that the majority of the most prominent were not.Other social
sciences have to include the concepts homo***uality is a sin, anti-social
behavior is inspired by Satan, and people who have not heard the word of
Jesus are culturally deficient. This, then, excludes much of the
traditional
teaching of the courses that might call the entire belief system into
question. Therefore, fundamentalist children are left with very primitive
concepts of biology and physics, with-if the parent can teach it-some
chemistry, though much organic chemistry is suspect.Mathematics does
present
a real problem. Though its applications are often considered sinful, it is
not philosophically excluded from the fundamentalist curriculum. New math,
where children are taught to use critical thinking skills, rather than
just
the mechanics, is typically avoided.However, at the higher levels, the
math
is beyond most parents' abilities. Health class, of course, excludes any
in-depth study of the human reproductive system and certainly of birth
control. It may also well omit common psychological issues, such as
depression.Finally, Bible study is im****tant to the fundamentalist
curriculum, but study here may be a misnomer. The fundamentalists'
assertion
they take the Bible literally, without need for interpretation, belies the
internal contradictions within the collection. So, even Bible study, in
addition to lacking any critical analysis, is inadequate in significant
detail.
Fundamentalists teach the story of Jesus' resurrection as history. Yet,
they
cannot teach the contradictory events and time lines of the various
versions
without adding explanations that defy both logic and Biblical
scholar****p.It
is no surprise fundamentalists are less likely than the general population
to obtain a college education. Sociologists Alfred Darnell and Darren
Sherkat reveal fundamentalists were found to "have significantly lower
educational attainment in 1973 and 1982" than others. They are also less
likely to take college preparatory cl***** and have lower
educationalaspirations.190Fundamentalists are also often opposed to
colleges, because they see Christians lose their faith with higher
education. By not obtaining a higher education, fundamentalists never
learn
to think critically about religion, politics, and social issues. This
leads
to mental stagnation in many areas, and therefore, such problems cannot be
resolved.
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