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emmsie
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Posted: April 09 2008 at 2:15pm \| IP Logged

I just came across this curriculum and it looks really good. Has anybody used it.

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Posted: April 09 2008 at 4:05pm \| IP Logged

I tried it for some subjects for 3rd and 7th and 9th. It is VERY Evangelical. Also, it is very *fill in the blank* and seems not to promote thinking and mulling on ideas. DS used 9th grade Social Studies, which was an introduction to various social science areas. It went into how to choose a career, and talked about praying to know your vocation (although it didn't use the word "vocation"), and said things like, "If you think you want to work as a bartender, you are clearly not hearing that from God." We used their Math for 2nd through Algebra II with some of our dc. They do a good job with Math, but the fact that each Lifepac was separate made it hard to look back over things if you needed a refresher on some topic. It was good, though, from the perspective that you got lots of satisfaction and a sense of progress when you could finish a whole Lifepac, you know, "3 down, 7 to go".

Overall, I wasn't well impressed, but that's just one woman's take on it. I'll be interested to see what others say.

Peace,
Nancy

emmsie
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Posted: April 10 2008 at 11:51am \| IP Logged

Thanks nancy,it's good to hear other views before wasting money.
I was thinking it might be good for history as i'm not really keen on just using a childs history of the world, i wanted something a bit more concrete and planned out.

sewcrazy
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 8:34pm \| IP Logged

I use it for science in the lower grades. I buy it from Home Science Tools with the complete experiment kit.

I wouldn't use the history as it is VERY protestant.

LeeAnn

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