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Anyone know anything about this?
St. Gabriel's Catholic Academy
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No, Laura, but it does look interesting -- altho I'm not sure I'd want my littles on line so much? Hopefully someone else knows something about these folks?
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I don't know anything about them, but just skimming their first page gave me the willies! The choice of scripture from Proverbs, sent up red flags to me.
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I got the willies, too. I clicked around, particularly in the religion department and found it not to look very Catholic. There's almost NO literature in the high school English selections. Looks dicey to me.
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I agree it doesn't sit right. It looks more like a Protestant curriculum with a few Catholic quotes sprinkled here and there, but they seem to be illogically and incongruently placed.
The Statement of Faith and the Why Choose Catholic Homeschooling send out flares to me.
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Red Flags here too. I was very interested at first, when I read the name. I've been really struggling with my 8 y.o. - Gabriel, academically. I've been praying for guidance on where to go with him. The health section was the first I checked, and well, then I went along my way from there...
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This recently came up on one of my Catholic yahoo groups. It is owned by something like Learning by Grace Inc which has a bunch of these online schools under different names (all Christian, some Baptist). Basically, the founders & the schools have nothing to do with Catholicism and are deceptively flooding the Catholic yahoo boards with ads. I am sure they can justify their actions by thinking catholic with the lowercase c (meaning universal)but it sure seems highly deceptive (make that a capital D!)
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5athome wrote:
| This recently came up on one of my Catholic yahoo groups. It is owned by something like Learning by Grace Inc which has a bunch of these online schools under different names (all Christian, some Baptist). Basically, the founders & the schools have nothing to do with Catholicism and are deceptively flooding the Catholic yahoo boards with ads. I am sure they can justify their actions by thinking catholic with the lowercase c (meaning universal)but it sure seems highly deceptive (make that a capital D!) |
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Very interesting -- I was wondering if it was something like that. That's similiar to the online matchmaking services that just change the name, but it's the same service with a slightly different imprint.
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 Margaret, thanks for sharing that very useful information. It really makes all the pieces fit. The site just didn't seem organically Catholic...
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OK how weird is that 
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I am so glad to hear all your opinions on this! I found the site late last night, and it didn't seem "right" to me, either...
Thank you all!
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"The rod and reproof give wisdom; but the child that is left to his own will bring his mother to shame." Proverbs, 29:15.
Doesn't that just give you the warm fuzzies?!?
Melissa
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MommyD wrote:
"The rod and reproof give wisdom; but the child that is left to his own will bring his mother to shame." Proverbs, 29:15.
Doesn't that just give you the warm fuzzies?!?
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Its just really odd. All the descriptions of the religion courses seemed...contrived, I guess?
I was even more creeped out by some of the photos of the kids.
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"Children need a thoroughly Biblically-based Catholic home schooling education that provides a spiritual, moral, ethical, and academic foundation. We do our best to reflect Biblical truth in every page of our home school curriculum."
Did anyone get the feeling that the word "Catholic" was just dropped into this sentence? The rest of the sentence is just boilerplate Protestant curriculum sales pitch.
I found that to be true on pretty much every page. Nothing about fidelity to the Magesterium anywhere.
"Daily Devotions" are Bible memory quotes and Bible stories. Nothing about the saint of the day, today's Mass readings.
They also use the American Standard Bible in the "Electronic Library." It is a Protestant Bible, lacking the complete canon.
I would venture to say that it is not an authentically Catholic organization.
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Right. And in all of their "we believe" materials the only sacrament even mentioned is baptism.
This is obviously not a true Catholic program. It is a protestant one that has been poorly re-worded to try and catch a bit of the Catholic homeschooling market.
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