Blakely and Wong Attending National Team Camp

[RedBirdie]

Yeah, looking at her bio, she seems to have enough relevant experience to be fine, but there is just no way the kids are set up for success in a multi-grade secondary mathematics classroom. They’re likely getting very little direct instruction and probably spend the majority of their time “learning” from ed tech.

That's how the vast majority of these sports academy schools are set up. There are "teachers" but the vast majority of coursework is done entirely online.

There's one outside of DC, attached to a multi-sport facility, and the kids each have their own study carrel. They don't even pretend there's direct instruction.

 

[Lisaelaine80]

Yes. Likely Abeka curriculum.

Abeka is actually a solid curriculum, from what I’ve read and heard about from homeschool communities. I’m a teacher, and would gladly homeschool if I could.

 

[Rich]

That's how the vast majority of these sports academy schools are set up. There are "teachers" but the vast majority of coursework is done entirely online.

There's one outside of DC, attached to a multi-sport facility, and the kids each have their own study carrel. They don't even pretend there's direct instruction.

I guess they still graduate college so it is not that bad

 

[irichluck21]

Abeka is actually a solid curriculum, from what I’ve read and heard about from homeschool communities. I’m a teacher, and would gladly homeschool if I could.

Yes, but it is Christian oriented, which nothing wrong with that, I am Christian myself.
Problematic is that it is not scientifically based, and rejects evolution.
Additionally, Abeka Is conservative based and also downplays the history of slavery calling it "black immigration", the Civil Rights movement is also not portrayed accurately.

If parents want to chose this curriculum it is there right to do so. But it teaches in bubble rather than world, non-secular viewpoint.

 

[Bob]

Yes, but it is Christian oriented, which nothing wrong with that, I am Christian myself.
Problematic is that it is not scientifically based, and rejects evolution.
Additionally, Abeka Is conservative based and also downplays the history of slavery calling it "black immigration", the Civil Rights movement is also not portrayed accurately.

If parents want to chose this curriculum it is there right to do so. But it teaches in bubble rather than world, non-secular viewpoint.

that is quite scary.

 

[Passion]

Abeka also gets pretty anti-Catholics in the older grades.

 

[irichluck21]

I get the non-evolution theory, I had that taught to me when I was in catholic school growing up.

However white washing history is a no go.
"Black immigration" is absolutely disgusting and painting the Civil Rights as angry black people is horrific. Malcolm X is called a "black supremacist".
Native Americans are referred to as "less than" and "needing Christ as their savior".

 

[Amber]

The non evolution is also a no go in my opinion. To base religion above science is very silly in my book

 

[Denn]

I get the non-evolution theory, I had that taught to me when I was in catholic school growing up.

Then you had idiot teachers. Catholics have no problem with evolution.

 

[Seyonne]

Can verify. I was a catholic schoolgirl over forty years ago. I was absolutely taught evolution.

 

[xxParkerxx]

I went to catholic school for a year and a half. Hated every minute of it. But I was definitely taught evolution theory.

 

[Peridot]

I'm 99% sure under the Landis the only person they had successfully test elite, not transfer in as an elite already, was Dulcy Caylor. And Caylor spent 1 year as a level 10 there, she had already done 2 years of level 10 at Texas Dreams and successfully competed Hopes. I'm a little more fuzzy on the Amiee years.

Apparently WCC's Academy is technically a private school. The website isn't up-to-date, and it's pretty lacking in info, imo. The fact that they offer classes at the elementary level bothers me. No child that young should be in schools for just a few hours a day so they can be doing sports. But WCC is happy to charge you $7,000+ a year on top of gymnastics tuition and fees so your child can attend The Academy.

This whole business of sports clubs setting up schools ("schools") solely so kids can spend the bare minimum time on academics and remain NCAA eligible is predatory. It was predatory when IMG first started this shit decades ago, and its just as predatory today. They're springing up with alarming regularity around the country. 99% of the kids enrolled in these won't be going pro. 98% of them won't get college scholarship, and 95% of them won't even make a D3 team.

I just randomly watched a video about IMG. I did wonder how much academic school work they actually did because it didn’t seem like much!

What do they expect kids to do if sports doesn’t work out for them? It’s very precarious to start with and to limit all these kids academically too seems very unfair

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Can verify. I was a catholic schoolgirl over forty years ago. I was absolutely taught evolution.

Same. I went to Catholic school all the way through, and I did Religious studies A-level so I basically had as much of the subject as they offered. This was the 90s and 00s and we were taught there wasn't a contradiction between Catholicism and evolution. If a belief system holds that there is a creator deity, that potentially leaves a lot of room for different views on how they created.

 

[JaJa]

in the 1950s pope pius XII wrote in an Encyclical that there was no contradiction between Evolution and Church doctrine. In the 90 s Pope John Paul II in a “Message” delivered to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences said that evolution was “more than an hypothesis”. And yes, Evolution is of course officially found in the curriculum and taught in science classes in catholic schools. To the extent there is any nuance in Catholic teaching it is that the church does teach that God was the creator of the natural laws which guide evolution and while not the direct creator of man’s body, is the direct creator of the human soul. I guess there is also nuance in the fact that while Catholic Schools include evolution in their science curriculum the Catholic Catechism has no official position on evolution and/or creationism or intelligent design. So Catholics are free to believe whatever they want to believe about evolution.