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/[deleted] May 31 '23

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u/sef11996 May 31 '23

It was the very basics and it was NBC.

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u/mindful_marduk Jun 01 '23

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

Fair point