How Christian nationalism seeped into home schooling – The Washington Post
“It’s in there in theology. It’s in there in history. It’s in there in current events,” he said.
Some of the most popular home-school curriculum textbooks, produced by publishing giants Abeka, Accelerated Christian Education and Bob Jones University Press, teach that the first Europeans to arrive in Virginia and Massachusetts made a covenant with God to Christianize the land.
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These companies’ books offer students an “unproblematic and unquestionably exceptional America,” said Kathleen Wellman, a professor of history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and author of “Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters,” in a column for Religion News Service.
Source: How Christian nationalism seeped into home schooling – The Washington Post
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