Catholic Social Studies / History Curriculum for K-8

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I am dissatisfied with the secular social studies curriculum being used at my children’s Catholic school. It teaches that priests helped to enslave the natives in Latin America. I am sure I would find plenty other such anti-Catholic whoppers if I had the stomach to read through it.
Could anyone recommend an alternative that I could suggest to the principal? It can’t just be one of the old TAN books such as Anne Carroll’s Lord of History as I know that my school will only use more standard textbooks that have teacher’s materials.
Please help. Thanks, Greg
 
Obviously those history books are not written by acclaimed historians. One only has to read the journals of the priests on Christopher Colombus’s voyages to understand that they highly disapproved of what went on but had no power to stop it.

There are TONS of good secular textbooks out there as well a good religious textbooks.

Perhaps, to avoid coming across as an angry, rabid parent to the principal, you might be better off locating historical inaccuracies and anti-Church remarks, citing them, and then locating sound historical/ecclesiastical resources that contradict them, and cite those.

Best of luck!!!👍:)🙂
 
The Catholic Schools Textbook Project linked above is excellent, and comes with teacher manuals. It is marketed for 5th grade and up. For the earlier grades, if your teacher is looking for something modern, it will be harder (although the textbook project is claiming to have a plan to make earlier grades eventually, but it will probably be far in the future). Seton Home Study and Catholic Heritage Curricula are the only publishers that I am aware of that publish modern Catholic early elementary social studies textbooks. These books don’t come with teacher’s manuals though. Lesson Plans can be purchased for the CHC books, which would provide the extra teaching help that you’d otherwise find in a manual, but I suspect that most traditional schools would not be likely to flex from their norms that far.
 
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