Homeschooling Catholic
Then there's the violence (I won't even get to drugs). My daughter was so nervous at public school. You never knew who had a knife or gun. And you never knew who might punch you. In the third grade she was knocked unconscious by an angry young man who just exploded with anger at school because of problems at home. Courtney happened to be in front of him in a line when he started punching people.
One day when Courtney was in the fourth grade, I was getting out of my car in our driveway when I suddenly got a vision of her with ther skull cracked laying on a sidewalk at school. My first impulse was to drive to the school, but I decided to pray and sit by the phone instead. I never got a call and picked her up as usual after school. She had two skinned knees and explained that she had been pushed down some steps at recess, but had managed to break her fall by grabbing a rail or pole with her hands and hanging on. She said if she hadn't, she would have landed on her head. I am a believer in angels and prayer. Another little girl from our church was not so lucky that day. She was pushed down in the same place and suffered a severe concussion.
I could go on and on. I truly believe that the "conditions" in most of our public schools are worse than the "working conditions" that most adult face. And I'm not willing to continue to be a parent who says, "It's really bad, but I don't know what to do." I've been hearing that a lot lately. I think it is imperative for parents to take some responsbility for their children's safety, morals and education.
"The righteous walk in integrity - happy are the children who follow them!" (Proverbs 20:7*)
We have been using the curriculum of the Calvert School in Baltimore, Maryland, for several years and love it. But since converting to Catholicism we have been looking at Catholic curriculums. Here is what we have found on the Internet:
1. Catholic Heritage Curricula
4. < a href="http://www.suite101.com/external_link.cfm?elink=http://www.home-school-list.com/" target="_blank" >Home Schooling, not a Catholic site, but a site rich with resources including Catholic. You will find links in categories like Curriculum, Regional, Religion, Special Education and more.
A number of families have
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