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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/sarah-jones-thoughts/

[quote]My parents are classical musicians. When it came to literature and the arts, they (my mother, really, my father had nothing to do with the teaching process) excelled. Math, science and history? That’s another story altogether. This is partially due to the fact my parents are also Christian fundamentalists and insisted on using textbooks from Bob Jones University Press and A Beka, the publishing arm of Pensacola Christian College.

I know nothing about evolutionary theory. I had to completely re-educate myself about American and European history. I learned very little—nothing, really—about Africa, or Asia, or South America.[/quote]

[quote]The worst bit, though, is the fact that my parents had the legal authority to keep me almost totally isolated from the outside world. I attended no activities that were not at our fundamentalist church. And that means I never had the chance to tell anyone safe that my father had a habit of screaming abuse, spanking us with household objects, shoving us, and throwing chairs in our direction when he was angry. The day after he shoved me face first into our couch, and left me with a permanent scar on my knee and a black and blue face, they simply kept me home from church so that nobody could see.

I was nine. I was nineteen before anyone told me the abuse wasn’t my fault.

The solution isn’t one that most homeschool advocates want to hear: Oversight.
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[quote]I learned that the Founding Fathers were born-again Christians, and that God inspired them to create the United States and establish it as a Christian country.[b] I learned that our laws were based on the Ten Commandments and that separation of church and state is a fiction.[/b] [/quote]

These are all lies, and our Founders would be angry. They built this country to make it SEPARATE from religion – they saw Catholics and Protestants kill themselves in Britain for the previous century. The Puritans fled from religious persecution.

How can we allow homeschoolers not just to hide from oversight and enable abuse, but lie to kids about America's history?[/quote]

OP - I do think that you need to do more reading of primary documents from the Colonial and Federalist periods.  I am not sure that your assumptions about religion during the founding tell the complete story.[/quote]

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