We're trying to figure out where to send Brody to school. He's super smart and gifted and we want to make sure he's being challenged and learning to think critically. So we've been looking into some different charter schools around, including some Core Knowledge options.
Core Knowledge is pitched officially as a liberal (politically speaking) idea, and it seems to have some logical thinking behind it. Why then are there so many religious schools attaching to it? And why is it when I do any kind of research on it, I tend to end up hearing rumors of religious involvement, or land in various websites of institutes whose goal is to "bring the gospel to the youth through informative instruction" or the like?
Is Core Knowledge the Intelligent Design of this decade? Or is the Intelligent Design crowd in process of hijacking a legitimate educational alternative? Or am I up too late again? Why isn't the right way to educate children obvious by now?!
Side note: Apparently this topic is keeping Sully awake at night too... ><
Remember, you're not just picking a school for your First Born, but your Spares too. What might be good for the first might not be best for the last. So think broader and what is the best fit for your family as you're going to be at the elementary school for something like 11 years. Good luck!
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