Originally Posted by pgardn

I hope for your kids the science classes are OK. Sometimes in these types of communities they are absolutely horrible. I will never forget when one kid we got that was home schooled from one of these areas came to our school and the parents wanted credit for Biology. We asked to see what text they used and what work she had done. The text was like a Noah's Ark coloring book explaining the Arc ta da ta da. She had of course had colored and filled in the blanks in rote... We were absolutley horrified. NOthing about cells, nothing about basic ideas of what science is and is not, nothing about fossils and life from the past, no basic biochemistry... Good God.