Conversations with my daughter, part “we already know everything”
27 06 2008“Omigawd, what are you doing?”
Startled, I answer “Looking at homeschool catalogs”
“WHY?”
“Because I like to keep up with what’s new, and lament that it wasn’t available when I needed it.”
“That’s so dumb. We’re done learning”
“Well, maybe you think that now, but I’ve learned way more as an adult than I did as a kid”
“Why, weren’t you paying attention?”
Oy.
Has anyone in my readership used this? (Math on the Level) or products from here? (Brimwood Press)
Let me know.
$300 for Math on the Level???? No, I don’t think so!!!11!1!!11!!!!!!
And it’s not the money. I pay a vocal coach every week. I send her to “homeschooling lessons” in art and art history. I spend all kinds of money. But $300 for some half-assed workbooks? The cost/value is wrong. Especially when both my wife and I are perfectly capable of teaching all K-12 math through calculus.
And the other one… I just get the feeling that they’re offering watered-down bullshit-history with pretty pictures. That crap doesn’t go over well with me. Not at all.
I haven’t tried these but this line in the history curriculum gives me pause:
“Teach worldview (world religions and philosophies) to the whole family in a few short lessons”
I’m thinking worldviews take a bit longer, but I guess it depends on which one you’re starting from.
Yes, it’s expensive. But then again, I have more than $300 invested in Saxon texts/test books/answer books/videos for K-8 level, and I found them to be an excellent math program for some students. I also purchased new Lial’s college texts (math and algebra) to the tune of $250 for the texts, answer manuals, and teacher’s books. See, I’d pay $300 for a complete math program, if it were good. The history one, I couldn’t tell from the website if it’s xtian or not - so I’m asking, before I include in my supplier’s list.
Brimwood Press is xian. Or at least, that was what I thought when I saw them at a hs convention earlier this year. If I’m recalling it correctly, the timeline stuff started at 4000BCE, which, in and of itself, may not indicate a xian slant, but it is one tip off for me. This ‘worldviews’ stuff they are talking about is presented in an ‘us’ (as in Western xians) vs. ‘them’ (everyone else on the planet) style.
They may not be as overt as some, but it turned me off. I may be more sensitive than other secular homeschoolers about having anything that even slightly smacks of xianity in my curriculum, though — YMMV.
Brimwood Press is xian. Or at least, that was what I thought when I saw them at a hs convention earlier this year. If I’m recalling it correctly, the timeline stuff started at 4000BCE, which, in and of itself, may not indicate a xian slant, but it is one tip off for me. This ‘worldviews’ stuff they are talking about is presented in an ‘us’ (as in Western xians) vs. ‘them’ (everyone else on the planet) style.
That was my feeling. Self-centered from Western-Christian standpoint.
Sort of long-time lurker here…I haven’t used these but I’m grinning to no end about the conversation with your daughter because it makes me feel so much less alone in this world. ;-D
I was intrigued by their “Color the Western World” coloring book, but wouldn’t buy it without being able to see it first. And now, several years on, my kids aren’t really interested in coloring pages any more. I’ll also admit to having on my wish list “Historical Headgear” by Jean Lockwood, which I first read about at their website. But the rest of their stuff gives me pause. Ah well…