> Too true, and unfortunately all too common when
 > dealing with 'Christian education'.    It's people
 > like these (A Beka) that give the whole homeschooling
 > movement a bad name.
Oh, I don't know about that. If anything gives homeschooling a bad name, it's 
those that keep their kids home and then ignore them most of the day, in the 
name of "homeschooling", and then try to take them to school another year. 
(Don't laugh or scoff; as a teacher, I have received a "homeschooled" child 
like this. She didn't know anything. What kind of impression did that give me 
of her homeschooling? That her mother wanted to hang onto her for a couple 
more years before sending her on. The child couldn't read, barely knew her 
numbers, etc.)
The majority of textbooks available have a bias of some type. I examined a 
lot of history textbooks over the years as a teacher, and then more recently 
as a prospective homeschooler. Every book I see has a bias. It either has a 
public bias (lots of mention of women in history but giving a lot less space 
to the men in history, or leaving out the Red Scare of the 1950s, or leaving 
out quite a bit else of important history), or a religious bias. It would be 
difficult not to have any sort of bias, because we're all humans. It's part 
of human nature.
                                 -donna
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