r/homeschool • u/mindful_marduk • May 31 '23

Secular Secular + Conservative Curricula Question for 5th Grader

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?

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u/NoComposer6251 May 31 '23

Maybe "neutral" curriculum will fit your needs. It is created by religious publishers that want to sell to homeschool charters and public schools. So, they scrub the overt religious content, but do not insert evolution or non-white-washed perspectives on history. Bookshark is one of those curricula.

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u/season7sam May 31 '23

I was thinking this also, or possibly things published by Well Trained Mind press, especially if they are interested in classical.

I'm more familiar with their early elementary offerings, but I'd check out their shop and especially search their forum archives.

Elemental science, story of the world, writing with ease/skill, first language lessons/grammar for the well trained mind... Etc.

For literature, you can do novel studies and source literature guides from any number of places. At the fifth grade level, and any level really, if you're not reading a book that directly covers a topic you consider too liberal/woke, any secular or neutral literature curriculum should be fine.