ACE Education
Online Accelerated Christian Education. Anyone ever heard of it? It's the education system I spent my whole school career in.Here's the wiki article which is fairly informative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Christian_Education
There's one thing you have to know really
The Accelerated Christian Education statement of faith holds the following beliefs:[5]
- The plenary, verbal inspiration of the Bible, equally and in all parts and without error;
- The one God, eternally existent Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Who created man by a direct, immediate act;
- The preexistence, incarnation, virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, ascension to Heaven, and second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;
- The fall of man, the need for regeneration by the operation of the Holy Spirit through personal faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour on the basis of grace alone, and the resurrection of every person to either eternal life or eternal damnation;
- The spiritual relationship of all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, living a life of righteous works, separated from the world, and witnessing of His saving grace through the ministry of the Holy Spirit;
- The Biblical mandate of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission for all Believers to proclaim the Gospel and to disciple all nations.
Basically you have an entire preshool to graduation circuculum revloving around those tenents.Other gems of education include:
Science is defined as:'the search for the principles of God's creation based upon reproducible experiments.... We should always subject a principle to the test of the Bible"
Year 10 Biology has units on the facts of creation, and critiques of evolution, ecology, and conservation
The Bible is completely against any such theory. Evolution claims that man arose through a series of random changes. The theory leaves no room for man's responsibility or man's sin. If evolution were true, no man would be born a sinner because Adam would never have fallen and committed the original sin of disobedience to God. If evolution were true, Christ would not have needed to die for our sin
This system is completley different to conventional schools.Students work by themselves in small cubicles,set their own goals and pages for the day,score their work,and only call a teacher when in need of help our to get out their chair. Since this system seems to assume it's students are good christian children who can score their own work, it is little more than an exercise in how to cheat. Teachers constantly come up with new anti-cheating methods,which are in turn thwarted within days. There are no exams,rather you have a test at the end of every PACE(Packet of Accelerated Christian Education)which take about 3 weeks to finish. All PACE's have a specific scripture verse that must be knowwn for the test.
Activities include assembly,basically church,ie praise and worship with sermon,followed by some school announcements, multiple devotions in the week,quiet or bible study times, and prayer at least three times a day. In retrospect, it's like going to school in a cult bulilding.
Now these schools are not,as you might imagine, isolated home school efforts. I have no idea what they're like in America these days, but in SA they do quite well. They are usually small,100-150 students Gr K-12, but there are probably four within ten km of my house. That said, there is no danger of them ever becoming a rival to public schools. Still,they have their own sports association and events, and of course Student Converntion,a once a year activity where over a thousand ACE students from all over Africa compete in hundreds of events rangng anything you can think of. Those who do particularly well are nominated to go to the International Convention in America.(I was nominated 5 times for scripture memory activities.However they aren't willing to help with the 30grand required.) Going to an ACE school in SA is like a private little world,where everyone knows evryone.
As you can imagine,this system isn't for everyone.It takes a particularly brainwashed child to not go mad, and it attracts a lot of problem students that normal schools won't take. Many graduates feel it did a completley inadequate job of preparing them for university and life. I have no doubt that many ACE students completley derail when they leave the sheltered confines of their christian soceity,I have seen it many times.
I believe the entire system is little more than a joke.It's own students constantly mock most aspects of it.So,anybody heard of these?
Loc'n'Load
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
"Don't stand beside my grave and cry,
I am not there. I did not die."
Around here they're called "Private <insert_denomination_here> Schools" and they are EVERYWHERE. They seem to be predominantly catholic, but there are baptist ones and, occasionally, you'll see an episcopalian one. Luckily though, the states hold these schools to at least a basic educational standard, so they can't get away with doing nothing.
I don't think there is anything quite like ACE here in the states. I could be wrong, however.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. -- Jimi Hendrix
Know the system well - a Church I used to attend ran such a school. They even asked me to be principal. I was 16 at the time.
The pastor kept it around long enough to graduate his kids under it.
Agreed - a foolish system. The kids I knew who went through it were just barely qualified for fast food jobs. Then they went to public school to finish and improved quite a bit.
There are,it started there and the International Convention is there every year. You'll find lot's of American ACE students in Facebook groups.
Loc'n'Load
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
"Don't stand beside my grave and cry,
I am not there. I did not die."
Shows just how stupid some people are. Pay a shitload of money to make sure their kids DON'T get an education.
The trouble with born again Christians is they're even more annoying the second time around.
Anyone remember Vogon poetry from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy? That approximates my reaction to reading the original post.
Will: no gyration without funkstification.
Don't make me recite some...
Or would you rather I regale you with my interpretation of "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning"?
Epic Fail!
Me or ACE?
Don't confuse me, I'm old.
Well, actually, I sort-of find this appealing. Certainly it's no substitute for actual learning of worldly mechanisms, but there's a lot someone can learn over the course of undermining control mechanisms.
Though perhaps that isn't the best use for a schooling system.
I think some kind of 'break this program/system' and 'learn how to cheat' program should be part of a much more full curriculum. Of course, I also think homework is a stupid concept and schools presently suck in general, so take that with a grain of salt.
I think private schools are the best kind of schools. That's why hearing about all of these shitty ones upsets me.
A facility should have to meet certain basic requirements before it can actually be entitled a 'school', much in the same way a doctor needs an actual doctorate before he can claim the title.
Henchman of reason, intellect, logics, and facts
aka, 'Plant Boy'
Maybe private secualar schools. Since all my schools were private and therefore had no goverment funding,and they were really stingy,we had disticntly below standard stuff. If the school wanted anything,they would mke us organise fundraisers. We had few computers and absolutley no lab or science equipment,not a single test tube.
Loc'n'Load
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
"Don't stand beside my grave and cry,
I am not there. I did not die."
How terrible were those science classes? "Science is the work of the devil and shouldn't be studied. Read the Bible instead."
The trouble with born again Christians is they're even more annoying the second time around.
I spent a year in an ACE school. Not surprisingly, it was the year I went creationist.