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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do they teach real science at The Heights or Catholic science?[/quote]

https://heightsforum.org/series_title/science-education-initiative/[/quote]

[b]Wow. It’s worse than I thought. [/quote][/b]

Uh, no[/quote]

Because when an Opus Dei affiliated Catholic school claims to want to "reinvent" the way science is taught to kids, it's clearly because they want to double down on scientific rigor and objective analysis.[/quote]

Yeah, science at The Heights relies on antiquated superstitions like “biological sex” instead of “gender assigned at birth”.

What’s worse, The Heights teaches that math involves correct (and incorrect) answers—they don’t even believe that “math is racist”!

One shudders at the thought of White, Christian, hetero, cis-gendered males memorizing classic poetry and engaging in sovereign learning instead of flogging themselves for their racial guilt and waving rainbow flags.

Oh, the humanity! [/quote]
Would they ever read a poem by Toni Morrison?  or is it all "classic" white, male authors?[/quote]

For real. Why not recite Toni Morrison?  Racists. They should also recite porno scenes to be more welcoming of our LGBTQ community. My child’s school ought to recite Karl Marx[/quote]
You're equating Toni Morrison with porn?

Wow, the Heights really is racist.[/quote]

Well that was a dumb leap, PP. Do you even know that actually Toni Morrison is Catholic???[/quote]
And still, The Heights prefers to have their students read material written by "White, Christian, hetero, cis-gendered males " rather than a POC Catholic woman.[/quote]

You have no idea what they read and are just making stereotypical assumptions. They have a heavy classics focus but read modern literature too.[/quote]

https://heights.edu/parents/summer-assignments/summer-reading/[/quote]
I'm reading through the 12th grade reading list, and sure enough.. it's all white males.  Thanks for proving that point.

I think I saw one female author in 11th grade and one in 10th.[/quote]

The Summer Reading List does include several female authors on the sixth and seventh grade lists, probably reflecting the abundance of female writers of Young Adult Literature.

There is another Heights booklist, which is used for extra credit. I believe that all of Jane Austen's works are featured. Booker T. Washington is on the list. I recommend adding Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, and Sigrid Undset, who are frequently found on Catholic booklists (even though Cather was not Catholic). For the European History summer list, I recommend Princeton historians Natalie Davis and William Jordan (who received an honorary doctorate from Catholic University last year). [/quote]

Here is the Extra Credit booklist.  https://heights.edu/parents/heights-books/[/quote]

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