Thread by @MattDrapps

One day I'm gunna do a deep dive of Accelerated Christian Education. It's nearly 3am and I'm scrolling through pages and pages of their material online and it's messed up and it's not good for my soul. But one day. I'm gunna do it.

TW. Home schooling
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Since I have them saved from last night, I'm gunna dump a bunch of pics of the workbooks, cartoons, etc here and maybe you'll can work out what's wrong with them. #exposechristianeducation #aceducation #homeschooling

TW. Victim blaming, abuse, grooming

Cult tactics of the only 'non-Christian' non insider being exaggerated 'bad'

#exposechristianeducation #ace #aceducation #homeschooling

Fatphobia, why IS there a fat character called Pudge? And what name did Ronny call him that's so offensive while everyone else (including his gran) calls him Pudge. AND why can't his brother just enjoy visiting, why's he gotta pray about it.

Propaganda, and age inappropriate sentence examples are spread throughout the workbooks.

"Jesus died for our sins"

This lovely piece of grooming:
"Who made all things"
"Who owns all things"
"Who made you?"

Implied: who owns you.

Dangers of this kind of anti body autonomy is discussed in the #churchtoo book.

#exposechristianeducation #ace #aceducation

So much of the cartoons and illustrative sentences are about submitting, obeying without question, not knowing your own mind. Not just the children, the mothers too.

#exposechristianeducation #ace

"Science"

"The Lord helped you, now thank him."

Heaven forbid you should do well in a test based on good studying. Should we actively help or friend? Nah, we'll just pray about it.

Whatever this is.

It's not the best example, but the original versions of the workbook cartoons had the characters segregated, with a black neighbourhood and a white neighbourhood, separate schools and churches.

You may have noticed each workbook had Bible verses to learn, which carried a large percentage of the score in the final tests, which honestly used to annoy me because I was great at the subject and not good at memorising.

#exposechristianeducation

The pastors were big authority figures. I don't have it here, but there are panels where they are obeyed without question. Same with supervisors at the schools.

#exposechristianeducation

TW. Violence to children
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At one point this was an illustration in their handbook on how to discipline children IN THE SCHOOLS let alone in the homes.

Anyway, that's all for now.

TW. Cult abuse

@maynard_clay sent me this one! AWFUL.