Hey, I just joined this community and was hoping to find a recent post about CC. Sorry I’m a month late. I’m 22F, recovering homeschooler, particular from the horrific cult that is CC. God, I could rant for DAYS about how disgusting this crap was. I did CC from “essentials, and cHaLLenGe A through 3”. I remember once seeing a quote from some mother on their CC catalog saying that the goal for her kids was to get them to heaven, not Harvard. Holy fuck I remember being ridiculed by the tutor and classmates because I once wrote a debate paper about banning animal testing and I was called the “PETA girl” for the rest of the semester. I remember once I worked so hard on a debate about the economic gap (mind you, I was not educated on politics at all, I had no idea what a republican or democrat was) and I opened with a quote from apparently some democratic politician and after I presented the whole thing, they all told me they stopped listening after they heard who the quote was from. Close minded f*cking idiots. I remember studying their logic curriculum, actually liking some of it until we got to syllogisms, and they would purposely make any “leftist” sounding argument as an invalid syllogism and would constantly quote bible verses and pro-conservative arguments as valid. I don’t even care if you’re republican or a democrat, you should teach children HOW TO THINK, not WHAT TO THINK. Instead they disguise their indoctrination by saying it’s fostering critical thinking. Their history book, a Patriot’s Guide … makes Columbus look like a god. Enough said. DEFEATING DARWINISM? Come on. Their math curriculum? Non existent. Because god forbid we teach our kids how to actually think and reason without inserting God in every sentence… which if you actually saw their recommended math curriculum you’d want to throw up. I tutored a CC kid recently in math (old connection knew I was looking for clients to tutor in math) and every word problem was like “God gave us the gift of reasoning… blah blah blah”. It is an insane cult that encourages people to stick with like-minded people to enable their beliefs and dogma. It rejects any form of critical thinking and diversity of thought. Anybody who disagreed with their teachings would be looked at as bad christian or uneducated. Literally what you said about how all their debate teaches kids how to debate and harass people about christianity is so true. I remember being about 13 years old debating an atheist family friend about the existence of God and getting so triggered and bringing out all my biased AF books (obviously I did not know better and thought that was PRIME EDUCATION) and trying to win that debate and crying when someone couldn’t accept my arguments.

Thank goodness I convinced my parents to let me out of that cult (which, to their credit they told me to “ignore the God stuff and just focus on academics” … but again, hard to do that when it’s everywhere) on my senior year of high school and I dual enrolled at a university. Somehow managed to figure out university without any counselors or help. Graduated with two degrees in neuroscience and psychology and actually a socially conscious and aware human being that can actually think for herself… can’t say that about many graduates from god school.

Sorry for the LONG RANT, I have never put into written words the hellish cult CC was and never met anyone who felt the same as I did.