What do you think it means? Science studies from Creationist viewpoint

[Anonymous]

OP, it sounds like this school cherry picks what it wants to teach and ignores everything else. I have a first grader. I can't imagine sending him somewhere that he would get such a limited view of the world. Also he is a big wild kratts fan so creationism would not work for him at all.

[Anonymous]

As the product of a small Christian elementary school I would NEVER start my kids on that road. I'm sure for first grade it seems like a pleasant environment but I would have been so much better off socially and academically if my parents had put me the public elementary school in my hometown. In 7th grade I was plopped into the public junior high and it was a terrible transition.

[Anonymous]

That your child will be brainwashed and uneducated.

[Anonymous]

OP, how long do you expect your DD to attend this school? Only for 1st grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm considering a private Christian school for DD's first grade.

I like the fact that they follow Saxon math.

But their about the Social Studies and Science it says the following:

"Our Social Studies curriculum focuses on understanding issues within a society and a culture from a Biblical perspective. Students are taught good citizenship through the development of our Christian and American heritage as defined by God’s law. Additionally, history topics are taught from a providential prospective. Our curriculum resources include Macmillan’s Communities Near and Far, Yellow Hammer’s The Alabama Journey, Glencoe McGraw-Hill’s The American Journey, Weekly Reader’s Map Skills for Today, and Scholastic News.

Our Science curriculum is taught from a Creationist viewpoint. The science curriculum resource is by Purposeful Design Publications. The curriculum helps students gain a deeper appreciation of God’s creation through scientific observation, experimentation, analysis, and age-appropriate scientific inquiry. "

What do you think it meas? What would you expect? That they wont' be teaching evolution or biology?

OP, the school is being very upfront with you. The belief underlying the social studies curriculum is that the Christian god guided society and culture. The belief underlying the science curriculum is that the Christian god created and designed life and the universe. Are you comfortable with those beliefs? If you are not, I don't think it's a good idea to send your daughter to that school, Saxon math or no Saxon math.

[Anonymous]

Catholic here. Run, do not walk away from this school they will not learn science; in fact, they will likely be taught that scientists are deceived by the devil, or worse, deceivers themselves. I grew up in a Baptist church that preached this crap and a couple of my kids' friends' families are into it. It drives me insane. I converted partly over this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, how long do you expect your DD to attend this school? Only for 1st grade?

I don't know. I was considering it long term. But I won't send her there if they won't teach real science.

I'm just curious about the religions schools... if they teach from the religious point of view (which they should, if they're truly religious), then how to they students pass SAT and ACT tests?

My boss's son got into MIT, majoring in biomedical engineering, after attending a Catholic school. How on Earth did he study sciences there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, how long do you expect your DD to attend this school? Only for 1st grade?

I don't know. I was considering it long term. But I won't send her there if they won't teach real science.

I'm just curious about the religions schools... if they teach from the religious point of view (which they should, if they're truly religious), then how to they students pass SAT and ACT tests?

My boss's son got into MIT, majoring in biomedical engineering, after attending a Catholic school. How on Earth did he study sciences there?

There are certainly Catholics who are creationists, but the Catholic Church is not creationist. There are many different varieties of Christians...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, how long do you expect your DD to attend this school? Only for 1st grade?

I don't know. I was considering it long term. But I won't send her there if they won't teach real science.

I'm just curious about the religions schools... if they teach from the religious point of view (which they should, if they're truly religious), then how to they students pass SAT and ACT tests?

My boss's son got into MIT, majoring in biomedical engineering, after attending a Catholic school. How on Earth did he study sciences there?

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, how long do you expect your DD to attend this school? Only for 1st grade?

I don't know. I was considering it long term. But I won't send her there if they won't teach real science.

I'm just curious about the religions schools... if they teach from the religious point of view (which they should, if they're truly religious), then how to they students pass SAT and ACT tests?

My boss's son got into MIT, majoring in biomedical engineering, after attending a Catholic school. How on Earth did he study sciences there?

Catholic schools do not subscribe to this rejection of science. I'm betting this school you're considering is not Catholic. There is no comparison between the Catholic tradition of education and what the new earth creationists, usually Baptists, subscribe to.
- not a Catholic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why?

I thought DD might benefit from a smaller school, they have a better math curriculum, it's inexpensive, close to where we live, they have decent ACT scores.

[Anonymous]

who cares. the big bang theory is only a best guess. never can be proven.

secondly, there's no evidence humans came from monkeys or any other animal. or dogs came from toads. nobody has ever found EVER a sort of changling skeleton or fossil that's half this half that. and we've found human skeletons supposedly millions of years old, granted different variants of human/homo. but never half animal half human.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Why?

I thought DD might benefit from a smaller school, they have a better math curriculum, it's inexpensive, close to where we live, they have decent ACT scores.

Ah. Well, I think that there are some disadvantages for you to consider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:who cares. the big bang theory is only a best guess. never can be proven.

secondly, there's no evidence humans came from monkeys or any other animal. or dogs came from toads. nobody has ever found EVER a sort of changling skeleton or fossil that's half this half that. and we've found human skeletons supposedly millions of years old, granted different variants of human/homo. but never half animal half human.

OP, the benefit of a good (i.e., science) science curriculum is that your child will be less likely to come up with beliefs like this.^^^

[Anonymous]

I went to a K-8 catholic school and they did not teach Creationism. Academics were not as rigorous as they would have been at a more elite school, and we had religion class every day (at the expense of foreign language) but religion did not overlap into the rest of the curriculum.

MOST religious schools, at least in this area, do not take the approach to science described in the blurb you posted OP. I know of one Lutheran school, in NoVa, that teaches Creationism, but have not encountered that in the curriculum descriptions for any other religious private schools that I've researched.

You should be able to find another school where this is not an issue.