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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I am the OP of Columbus but not the pp. My point was that my four year old has no idea what a continent is yet. Can we start with CC discovered the continent and present the info in age appropriate manner? Not start out screaming “Columbus was a horrible and evil man?”
I know many of you are like “I’m shocked you think they’d say that in a preschool” but some of the other responses on this thread lead me to believe otherwise. These poor kids are….confused. It’s too much info for a preschooler.[/quote]

I know we're sidetracked now, but I actually don't want my child to learn the highly sanitized untrue version first. That's just disinformation that they will need to unlearn at a later age. I think there's an age appropriate way to say "This guy set out looking for a shorter way to get from here (points to map) to there (points to map) but he ran into this island first. He met a group of people there called the Taino. Let's talk about the Taino for a little bit and what they were like. Isn't that interesting? Columbus was pretty mean to the Taino, and that's why it's complicated for us to celebrate him." [/quote]

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