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Barb.b
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Posted: Sept 16 2013 at 4:25pm \| IP Logged

lame! Really - dd 10th we decided to use the book the parish uses (they let us do our own thing but since its confirmation year we decided to use theirs). Anyway - this weeks we are supposed to open up by me saying . . . "close your eyes, you and God are playing hide and seek. . . . " UGH! Sorry, we couldn't stop laughing long enough to do it! The reading part is just 1 page (large type at that). Nice it won't take long so we can get to some more meaty things for faith formation! So glad our parish lets us home school and she's not stuck doing this every week!

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Posted: Sept 16 2013 at 7:50pm \| IP Logged

For confirmation year?!?! Oh, wow. My oldest, especially, has no tolerance for things that he considers juvenile or talking down to him.

There has to be a balance somewhere between that type of program and the textbook format that my kids had two years ago!

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Posted: Sept 16 2013 at 8:03pm \| IP Logged

Here everyone is a volunteer. It takes a huge number of volunteers and an awful lot of work to do a really good program that isn't just workbooks or the like.

I just put in 3 hours of my Sunday for planning out a half year for the high schoolers.. and that's just picking what classes to have.. each class then takes more volunteer hours for each class PLUS the actual class time.

If a program isn't that great, the first thing I'd look at is what sort of help they have in presenting a program. And what sort of funds they have to run it.

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Posted: Sept 16 2013 at 8:34pm \| IP Logged

Well I get that. What I am wondering is why the books themselves are so bad.

But that is why I am sooooo glad our parish lets us sign up for faith formation and then we can check a box on the form marked homeschool. They even let us pick our books - its just this year I thought I'd use theirs. Probably the last time I do that!

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Posted: Sept 16 2013 at 9:14pm \| IP Logged

Remember that the average kid preparing for his/her Confirmation doesn't really know anything. They can't have books that are too advanced for the majority of the students. A few months ago, we were at a family function and my SIL asked my nephew (3rd grade - had his FC last year) [paraphrasing] "what's that thing up at the front of the church...the table?" Now this kid is forced to attend Faith Formation every tuesday evening during the school year. He didn't know what an altar was. Even worse my SIL didn't know either. I'm sure he's pretty typical for the average kid in that program.

It really amazes me that they make these kids do service projects these days before confirming them but don't expect them to learn anything. And I've even heard of kids being denied Confirmation because they didn't do enough service hours which as I understand it, is a violation of canon law.

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