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Podcast: Grandpa Hill's True Stories
Episode: Don and Mary Decide to Homeschool - Faith and Family Story
Description: In 1989 Grandpa (Don) and Grandma (Mary), lived in Savage
Minnesota with their four children. Three of them attended St. John the Baptist Catholic School. Don while teaching catechism is informed by his student, Sarah, that things have changed since he was a boy in catechism. Her claim: Today’s children need to decide for themselves what is right and wrong for them.
Don was surprised. He learned that Sarah was right about what the school was teaching. St. John’s was now using “values
clarification” texts for teaching morals and virtues. Students would indeed be taught in catechism, and i...