The Free Joy State wrote:Xmara wrote:
I briefly attended an ACE school. I’m a Christian, but I think ACE is a crappy curriculum and should be done away with.
I attended a (state-funded) C of E primary school. It was a good school under a later headteacher, but its attitude to other faiths when I was very small was to say "we have to teach you about these other faiths to keep our funding, but they're wrong and we're right". I'm Christian, too (of the dreaded liberal, evolution-accepting "not-a-real-Christian" - as I've been told many times - kind).
And I agree that ACE is possibly one of the worst curricula in the world. Only one of, though. Because there are others that are just as bad. I remember one - I'll try and find it - that says no-one knows how electricity works.
Found it! From a 4th Grade Creationist Science Textbook (research reveals it's Science 4 for Christian Schools from Bob Jones University Press). Excerpt:Electricity is a mystery. No-one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it... We cannot even say where electricity comes from. Some scientists think the sun may be the source of most electricity. Others think the movement of the Earth produces most of it. All we know is that electricity is everywhere...
Let me clarify something: the ACE school I briefly went to actually used a combo of Bob Jones and ACE (sorry for not specifying earlier; I was on mobile and trying to squeeze in a little NS between classes). They used Bob Jones for math and English. I attended that school for seventh grade only, and the math textbook for seventh grade consisted of material I had learned in the fourth and fifth grades at the previous Christian school I attended, which used Abeka (IDK if I spelled it right). The English textbook was the same.
But that line about electricity... Makes it sound like electricity is magic or something!