Writing skills are begun as early as fourth grade, as is basic Latin. Like many classical-type homeschooling programs, CC stresses memorization of basic facts-geography, history, science and math-throughout the early years, a task easily accomplished through their catchy songs. Their easy-to-follow lesson plans fit our kids perfectly through middle school, after which we switched to a local teaching cooperative where I could teach science and math classes for my kids and their peers. After withdrawing three of our kids from public education in their early elementary years, I’m not certain I would’ve known how to even begin homeschooling without CC, even though I’d spent much of my 30s as a credentialed public-school teacher. What Is Classical Conversations?Ĭlassical Conversations is a curricula and class structure many homeschooling families use, based on the mission “To know God and make Him known.” Participating parents follow a planned curriculum from pre-K through high school that “ parents in the classical Christian teaching of their children.”Īs a homeschool parent and advocate, I often recommend the CC program for parents, especially when they’re starting out. Yet Christians threatening a church’s tax-exempt status for hosting a Christian homeschool organization is entirely new. Although her CC host church wasn’t concerned about the letter, two other local churches had closed their doors to CC groups after receiving the same letter, one immediately before the start of the school year and one at midyear.Ītheist and LGBT groups threatening churches through the Internal Revenue Service for preaching the gospel is nothing new.
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