What a coincidence! I had a very similar path! My elementary mis-education was largely a fundie school using Abeka as well. Their weird religious nationalism was so crazy when I look back on it. It’s amazing they could actually publish this crap.

I wish I still had all the old books we had to get because that would make for a good laugh (and possibly an embarrassment campaign.)

Like c’mon we were kids how were we supposed to know? But also it just felt so bullshitty, like a written form of that awkward feeling you got when it was really obvious adults were lying to manipulate you and thought you were stupid.

It was in California, so eventually I had to move to the state curriculum also, around middle school, for my grades to actually count.

Honestly, that requirement saved my intellect. I went to a secular charter school where I was pushed into interacting with so many different people of different perspectives, and I would be a much crappier person without that experience.

Even today the damage isn’t gone, there’s still so much untangling and deprogramming to do.

These “curriculums” are child abuse.

After all that, I still kept my faith, not because of that upbringing, but in spite of it.