ABEKA & Turning Point USA Are Not for Us

When BIPOC families step into homeschooling, we’re not just choosing schedules and textbooks we’re choosing the worldview our kids will be shaped by. That’s why it’s important to know the history behind the curriculums people hype up. Not the marketing, not the surface level “rigor,” but the real roots.

Two names that get pushed a lot in conservative and Christian circles are ABEKA and Turning Point USA. They’re often treated like harmless educational tools, but their origins tell a different story...one that matters if you're raising Black, Brown, or Indigenous kids.

ABEKA was created in the early 1970s by Pensacola Christian College, a fundamentalist evangelical institution known for promoting strict conservatism and operating segregation-era “Christian schools” that popped up after desegregation orders. ABEKA didn’t start as a high-quality education model — it started as a way to maintain control over what children learned in these spaces.

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) launched in 2012 as a political organization, not an educational one. Founded by Charlie Kirk and backed by major right wing donors, their mission has always been political influence especially on youth.

Their expansion into “curriculum” and “patriotic education” is strategic to reach kids early, shape their worldview, and build political loyalty.

ABEKA and TPUSA prioritize compliance, propaganda, and maintaining a worldview where whiteness is centered and marginalized people are erased.

For BIPOC families seeking secular, anti-racist, decolonized education, these curriculums undermine identity, history, and cultural truth. Better alternatives exist like Oh Freedom!, Blossom & Root, and Woke which offer honest history, diverse representation, and culturally affirming learning without the harm!