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Related: About this forum‘Virtual’ public schools draw interest of religious families
By Omar Sacirbey| Religion News Service,
Jan 08, 2013 09:53 PM EST
Worried about exposure to foul language, immodest dress, peer pressure, and other inappropriate behavior, Susan Brown didnt want her two daughters attending public schools even though shes a substitute teacher in a public school in Minnesota.
Brown initially home-schooled her daughters until a friend told her about the Minnesota Virtual Academy, an online public school that is fully accredited. She liked the curriculum, and as a single mom relying on substitute teaching income, she preferred how the school provided the supplies instead of having to buy supplies herself as a home-school parent.
You cant give your kids an effective moral and religious upbringing if you only see them a couple of hours a day, said Brown, a Catholic whose daughters, now in the 10th and 12th grade, started virtual school in the second and fourth grade. When youre at home with them, you can incorporate your beliefs into the day.
Since Florida became the first state to try them in 1996, virtual public schools have enjoyed dramatic growth, with at least some of it coming from religious families. Like home-schooling parents, parents of virtual public school students like having their children home so they can integrate religion and values into the school day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/virtual-public-schools-draw-interest-of-religious-families/2013/01/08/d39ab3cc-59dd-11e2-b8b2-0d18a64c8dfa_story.html
They think Mental Chastity Belts will keep their kids safe.
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)It keeps fairy tales passed down by superstitious bronze-age goat herders out of my daughters science class.
More power to 'em.
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(82,333 posts)Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)For one thing, there were at least nine different forms of writing in the Bronze Age. It was not an illiterate age.
The problem with recycled snark is, it can make you intellectrually lazy.
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)I've adjusted my post.
Thank you.