Parents of Catholic school students:

Please keep up the momentum to ensure your children are receiving a truly Catholic education! Many Catholic schools use Common Core compliant textbooks for history and literature that do not reflect the Catholic worldview. Ask your principals who chooses your school’s textbooks and how they evaluate the texts in relation to Catholic standards.

For guidance in advocating at your child’s school, please bookmark the website of the Cardinal Newman Society.

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From one of their brilliant articles:

[Today America continues to struggle with the consequences of the terrible sin of slavery and the injustice of racism. With confidence in Christ, Catholic education teaches God’s will for humanity and helps students rise above hatred and injustice. But critical race theory promotes a false political ideology that aims to divide rather than heal American society.

The following are 10 ways Catholic education and critical race theory are simply incompatible, summarized from the Newman Society’s Principles of Catholic Identity, Catholic Curriculum Standards and “Background on Critical Race Theory and Critical Theory for Catholic Educators” by Dr. Denise Donohue.]

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Many times parents feel intimidated from asking questions about schools’ curriculum. They think their children will be penalized. If you were though to send to your children’s teachers links to articles from Cardinal Newman Society, with non-judgmental subject lines like, “An interesting perspective on Catholic education,” you might open their minds to a resource of which they were not aware!

We all know that the public schools are havens for teachers and staff who either don’t agree with Catholic teaching on family, or who cannot reference Catholic teaching as moral guidance. The way anti-family communists reach children in Catholic schools then, is through their Common Core approved textbooks.

If you find that your school is using Common Core texts, especially for literature, take the time to read through the texts. Google the stories presented, check out the authors, and consider the themes the publishers want discussed.

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As Catholic adults, we come in contact with non-Catholic worldviews daily, but children are not equipped to be bombarded by influencers who don’t reflect Catholic values. You choose as a parent the media your child consumes at home - help your child’s school choose literature presented and available, in classrooms and the libraries, that reflects the Catholic worldview!

This post was edited on 7/16/21 at 9:15 am