Guest belchers1 Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I am currently homeschooling two of my children using Calvert Homeschool, which was provided tuition-free, through the public school system. My children are in 4th and 1st grade. It has been brought to my attention that there may anti-Catholic teachings in some of the Social Studies material for 7th grade. Does anyone have any reference to this? Has anyone else had any concerns with Calvert being anti-Catholic? Thanks! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avila Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 (edited) I am using the geography book now. Mine is not the latest edition, but I have not found anything blatently anti-Catholic in it. It is secular, and pretty nice for a textbook. I have not seen anti-Catholic materials from Calvert. The textbooks are secular, and as such, usually skip over some pro-Catholic things that I would have included, like the lives of saints and Church history. This would be easy to remedy by buying a cheap Catholic textbook to reference. I would be especially careful around Constantine, the reformation, and colonization of the New World. But I have found most secular textbooks to be workable. Edited October 15, 2012 by Asenik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Not sure, but you may want to check to see if Calvert was "scrubbed" for use in the cyber school. I still can't picture there being anything anti-Catholic in their texts since they are generally viewed as fairly secular (regardless of background) and they are openly accepted by various charter schools (including PA Cyber). However, if you are using PA Cyber (I mention this one, because it is the one I have experience with), they do not use Calvert at the highschool level and I'm not certain if they even offer it at the jr high level, but rather they use their own "Lincoln Interactive". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 I'm guessing this depends a bit on what was meant by "anti-Catholic." Or what you would personally find to be anti-Catholic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_the_Rabbit_Hole Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 We used it for a yr and never found them to be anti-"insert a religion here" in their materials. If I remember correctly 7th is one part of World History, and at any one time in history a religion or several religions might not be shining their best and may have done something negative. But as a whole religion, no, I do not remember anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimeeM Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Considering they use the same history texts in middle school that our local Catholic school uses (A Message From Ancient Times), I doubt their history is anti Catholic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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