• dragonfly@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I homeschooled my kid k-12. When I started, I had no idea how many religious hs-ers there were. I used a secular curriculum, and never even thought about teaching anything regarding religion one way or another. Once I started looking around at all the creationist curricula out there–yikes.

    Anyhoo, long story short, my son went on to a college degree (he actually started college classes online at 15–one of the perks of hs-ing for us), and he’s an atheist. Secular homeschoolers do exist!

    ETA some links–these are a few secular homeschool curricula. There’s a lot more out there, but this is the majority of what I used through the years:

    https://www.calverthomeschool.com/

    https://www.oakmeadow.com/

    https://www.keystoneschoolonline.com/

    https://www.thinkwell.com/ (Primarily math–the professor that does most of the math instruction is wonderful.)

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      Secular homeschool graduate here. Parents homeschooled my brother and I because the public school system was drastically underfunded and we were in quite an education desert. I always hate articles like this, as folks tend to paint broad strokes about homeschoolers… But there’s a reason we never had other homeschooled friends growing up; there were a lot of crazy ones, especially in Michigan, as there is virtually no regulation.