This article completes my series on what our children are being taught. If you missed them, catch up here: https://vachristian.org/tag/what-are-our-children-being-taught/
By Sandy Szwarc
© Szwarc 2025
One of homeschooling parents’ greatest challenges is assembling the best instructional materials for their children.
Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) is a member-supported, non-profit that has supported homeschooling since 1983. It has a biblical worldview and offers a wide variety of reputable curriculum resources for parents.
Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) also offers resources on selecting homeschool curriculum that follows a Christian mission. Parents will also find sound science and Biblical homeschool curriculum from sources that aren’t strictly homeschooling providers, such as Answers in Genesis.
Homeschool curriculum requires discernment. While there are some excellent resources for Christian homeschooling parents, they all require discernment, even those offered by some homeschool 
advocacy groups and Christian sources. Globalism ideologies, UN sustainability goals, and unsound information can sneak into the best courseware resources.
I see that especially among science topics that are popularly aligned with Next Generation Science Standards, STEM and NASA.
Troubling curricula is more common among homeschool programs accredited by state education agencies. Texas Education Agency (TEA), for example, refers homeschool parents to only two homeschool resources: Texas Home School Coalition (THSC) and Texas Home Educators (THE). Both 
organizations may appear as home school advocacy organizations, but deserve special caution by parents.
Texas Home Educators, an online network of homeschoolers, offers some of the same materials as that from the state’s TEA. It mirrors public school curriculum − like NASA and its Climate Kids; NOAA’s environmental literacy with classes like “Our planet is changing as we can all help!”; and lessons by Edgenuity (an online learning platform adopted by over 500 public school districts that proved a failure for homeschool learning), such as its Environmental Science Curriculum.
THE also references Core Knowledge Foundation materials (founded by Don Hirsch, Jr. to ensure the success of Common Core State Standards). They include teaching kids that the most important people in American History are Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Sally Ride and Sonia Sotomayor; and that there are many people whose “gender understanding does not align with their reproductve system.”
Progressive activism and lobbyists for greater government oversight over homeschooling also show up in all sorts of groups that appear to be homeschool advocacy groups, as HSLDA has cautioned.
The worst homeschool curriculum I’ve found is recommended by Texas Homeschool Coalition, which is also one of the most vocal promoters of ESA legislation in Texas and laden with unsound information. THSC’s top recommendation of homeschooling curriculum, for example, is from Oak Meadow.
Oak Meadow is also one of the top homeschooling companies in the U.S., according to Business Research Insights.
Oak Meadow’s mission of “experiential education” and “holistic learning” with a “global perspective and local action” focuses on eco-education, social responsibility, sustainability, “self reflection” and empathy, and achieving connections and “genuine understanding.” Its curriculum is beyond troubling. Not only is it filled with pseudoscience and poor scientific information, and unbiblical ideologies, it is aligned with Robert Muller’s World Core Curriculum. See Appendix A.**
The homeschool market in 2023 was valued at $3.59 billion and is growing rapidly and expected to reach $8.95 billion by 2032. There’s a lot of money in homeschooling. Countless retailers are selling homeschool curriculum for core education subjects (beyond faith-based teachings from specific religious denominations). Homeschool parents will need to do their homework, practice discernment, and seek the recommendations of reputable pastors and Christian homeschooling organizations like HSLDA and HEAV that make it easier.
Appendix A
Sample homeschool curriculum from Oak Meadow includes:
“Health & Wellness” teaches the World Health Organization’s definition of health and the Global Wellness Institute’s definition of “holistic wellness” with social-emotional-environmental and other aspects of the self in “harmony.”
- The chapter, Food Ethics And Politics, is filled with false information and fears of modern agriculture and food production, based on activist’s books and movies.
- The chapter, Sexuality, Relationships and Sex, teaches various gender identities and sexual orientations and rights; what to look for in a partner; that 73% of kids 13-17 watch porn; and the spiritual practices of Yoga rooted in Hindu tradition.
- Book assignments include books on 33 voices about mental health; gut and brain connection in wellness; unlocking the power of dreams and sleep; lost art of breathing to improve your immunity and rejuvenate your internal organs; ultra-processed people and why they should eat only organic natural alternatives; fears of chemistry and food additives and how the food industry “exploits addictions;” the new science of mind-body connection in preventing mood disorders, ADHD, addiction, aging and autism; religious rituals and personal rituals to counter chaos; and how to handle natural disasters and global pandemics.
“Anatomy and Physiology” launches right into the unproven “emerging field of personalized medicine;” and that “male” and “female” do not capture the full range of human bodies and experiences when it comes to sex and gender.
“Global Climate Change in the 21st Century” teaches the complete myths of climate change from human activities, “particularly fossil fuel burning,” green house gases from meat food production, fears of droughts and rising oceans, wetlands and land use, and the global impacts on marginalized and indigenous peoples, racism, poverty and political instability. The course uses NASA’s definitions and “consensus of climate scientists.” It includes a chapter on other “ways of knowing” and indigenous groups, and readings on “this environmental catastrophe is global!” Lesson 14 ends in Activism and taking action.
“Environmental Science for a Changing World” includes 36 lessons on “the earth: our home, responsibility.” It commends environmental activist, Rachel Carson, and teaches fears of chemicals, carbon monoxide, radon, cancer clusters, toxins, overpopulation, and extinction of species. Recommended reading sources are environmental activist publications.
“U.S. History: Conflict and Compromise” is obvious from the title and portrays a negative view of American history.
“Psychology: Journey Toward Self-Knowledge” looks at questions surrounding the “mystery of our existence, our place within the universe and why we think and behave the way we do.” It teaches that human evolution gave birth to psychology and women pioneered the field to become culturally and gender diverse. It teaches diversity as adopted by the American Psychological Association, “implicit association,” tests on gender and sexuality, and the unconscious mind.
“Race and Ethnic Studies: Power and Perspective” includes chapters on race, power and privilege, whiteness, colonialism and slavery, migration, Islamophobia, inequity, Orientalism, “Red Power” and sovereign rights, Black Lives Matter, and art and protest.
“Foodways: Sustainable Food Systems” is an entire 18-week course of UN sustainable agriculture mythology, indigenous stories, anti-modern agricultural ideologies, and an extensive reading list of activist books.
“Biology: The Study of Life” teaches evolution of man from primates, bioinformatics (using computer databases of genetics to create associations of traits), genetics, and computer modeling.
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