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Title: a bootcamp approach to catholic homeschooling
Review: This book describes a "bootcamp approach" to Catholic home-schooling. For Clark, "It's MY way or the highway. Nobody is TRULY Catholic but us." Well, I'm sorry, but that isn't true. For one thing, Dr. Clark is NOT the pioneer that she claims to be (as a reviewer points out below, Mrs Anne Warren Carroll is the TRUE pioneer, who Clark has co-opted). For another thing, the materials she charges struggling home-schooling families so much to use are of such a poor quality; they are often tattered photocopies that have been endlessly recycled. Finally, the rigid approach to homework rushes, overwhelms and then exhausts the kids, even though they're top-students over all. So now, at the end of one more boring and frustrating semester, WE QUIT! So, go ahead and get this book, but read it carefully, and be sure to supplement it with other more balanced materials (Berquist, Hahn & Hasson, or whatever you can find).
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