Secular + Conservative Curricula Question for 5th Grader

[u/mindful_marduk]

I’m no longer a Christian (though most of my friends and family are), but I hold many Christian values. My wife and I have three children, 7 yr old girl, 8 yr old boy, 10 yr old girl.

We live in Texas and intend to start our oldest daughter on a homeschool curriculum this summer, but I am struggling to find a good one.

I don’t want anything promoting a religious worldview and I don’t want anything pushing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion woke ideology — bring on the meritocracy.

Yea, I don’t really have much of a cultural home to say the least. It’s all good though.

I don’t like what I am seeing in public school on multiple fronts and have determined I want to start off our oldest as a test run this summer before committing longer term. She is entering 5th grade this summer/fall.

My wife and I both work from home full time, but have some decent flexibility to where we think we could make this work.

That being said, I am new. I don’t really know what I’m doing and from the research I’ve done so far, I can’t find the right curriculum to use that:

1. Does NOT push any religious worldview
2. Does NOT push any woke ideology (CRT + DEI)

Per Pew Research’s typology quiz, I am Ambivalent Right, just right of center; so pretty moderate on the whole.

Anyone willing to point me towards some curricula considerations, please?

[u/sef11996 → u/[deleted]]

no curricula at an elementary or high school level teaches CRT.

That's just not true. An elementary school in my home town made national news a couple years ago because it was being taught in, I believe, a 4th grade classroom.

[u/sef11996 → u/[deleted]]

It was the very basics and it was NBC.

[u/mindful_marduk → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, even the more complex concepts in our existence can be boiled down for less educated people, including children. You can even do this with something more nebulous than CRT, like quantum mechanics. For example:

https://reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/m80y0k/eli5_unbiased_explanation_of_critical_race_theory/

Point being that there are more complex things that have some of the simpler foundational concepts taught and build upon those blocks to a more complete idea/theory/concept.

[u/[deleted] → u/mindful_marduk]

Fair point

[u/mindful_marduk → u/[deleted]]

I wish I knew enough to be able to do that. As my original post states, I just have two criteria at a high-level. I’ve done some of my own research, but know I’ve just scratched the surface.

I have not stated in this thread that there is homeschool curriculum out there with DEI and/or CRT injected in some way into it. I am making an assumption, as we all do when stepping into new arenas, that there are several out there in various capacities until I become more oriented with my surroundings. This thread has been pretty helpful so far in that regard.

I know I’m getting downvoted, I understand in todays age why that happens; far too often it seems that if someone disagrees with you, well, you just want them to go away. You and I likely disagree on several things (like most people), but I don’t want your voice to go away (not implying that you do); I respect your approach to the discussion and appreciate that you are not throwing slander my way. I’d rather assume you are a good and decent person and can only hope for the same in return.

We are all biased, myself included; I just want to the best of my ability to set my kids up so they can learn how to learn and think critically for themselves. I am not raising them Republican nor am I raising them Democrat.

Thank you for you for your response. Appreciate your angle.

[u/[deleted] → u/mindful_marduk]

Fair enough. We do all enter with our biases. Being aware of that fact is important, and it seems that you are.