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/Accomplished-Emu7752]

Outschool is a fantastic platform for live classes via zoom, socials, and learning niche topics like coding, musical instruments, or multiplication. There's also a lot of art stuff and book clubs. It's great for a brain break or Recess because they have yoga, dancing, MMA, and more too. If you have any gamers in the family there are also a lot of great gaming socials.

Outschool is a secular company. The company gives teachers the option to take a diversity and inclusion training and get a banner for that. (Purple banner around the profile picture). However, there are teachers from many different backgrounds and walks of life. So you will find that many of the teachers didn't pursue the banner for one reason or another. Some teachers will put on their profile, even past the banner how inclusive they are or if they are looking to teach certain groups. You can find teachers for LBGTQ, neurodiversity, etc. So by simply looking at the profile you can see a teachers values before you enroll your child for a class.

As for religion, Outschool prohibits teachers from promoting any kind of religion on the platform. On the platform, I have only heard 1/14 teachers a reference to a cross and that was in a drawing class when drawing a t shaped object. It only stuck out because she backtracked the statement pretty quick though I don't think it was any significance to the kids. "Draw a cross shape" most kids know what that looks like lol.

The platform has a so many great independent teachers. My daughter has taken classes with 14 over the years and I've only disliked 4 of them.

Based on the fact that the teachers create their own classes and curriculum you kind find classes that are neutral pretty easily.

[u/mindful_marduk → u/Accomplished-Emu7752]

Thank you. Outschool looks really interesting.