Viliam_Bur comments on Open Thread, January 16-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 21 January 2013 02:54:00PM *  2 points [-]

It would be good to have some officially recommened (not mandatory, just offered as a standard solution) list of textbooks for homeschooling, preferably free online. So everyone who would want to know what they are missing, could just read the textbooks. Also it would be helpful for parents that avoid schools for reasons other than disagreeing with the curriculum.

Perhaps one day Khan Academy or someone similar will make it. (On the other hand, one day the fundamentalists will have their own alternative version, probably called Jesus Academy.)

Comment author: lavalamp 21 January 2013 08:54:04PM 0 points [-]

It would be good to have some officially recommened (not mandatory, just offered as a standard solution) list of textbooks for homeschooling, preferably free online.

Several fundamentalist christian groups do exactly that, except for the free online part. Makes indocrina--er, teaching easy for people. My mom mixed and matched and mostly evaded the worst stuff everywhere except science.