Posted on 11/24/2021 4:27:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Social and emotional learning is the latest trend at your child's school. SEL sounds beneficial, but that's a disguise. In truth, it indoctrinates kids with extremist ideas many parents don't condone.
On Nov. 22, the Hartford Courant reported that West Hartford, Connecticut, elementary school parents are in an uproar. They're complaining that teachers are putting words such as "nonbinary" on the chalkboard and telling kids, including kindergarteners, they can live life as a gender different from what they were assigned at birth. Parents were told by school authorities that they can't opt their children out.
Most Americans think parents should have the final say on what children are taught. From Treasure Valley, Idaho, to Greenwich, Connecticut, school board candidates made SEL an issue in elections earlier this month.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita encouraged parents to speak up and cautioned that SEL programs shift "the role of teachers from educators to therapists."
Fighting SEL is an uphill battle because it's not only favored by the left-leaning educational bureaucracy; it's also big business. "The SEL ecosystem today is flush with dollars," reports Tyton Partners, SEL industry consultants.
Billions in federal COVID-relief money for schools is being used to buy SEL programs and fund SEL instructors. Advocates and companies that produce the materials lobby Congress and the federal Department of Education to ensure legislative language precisely matches what they're selling.
Nationwide, sales of SEL materials shot up 45% in a year and a half to $765 million in 2021, reports Education Week.
But parental opposition is also surging. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the FBI to look into parents protesting issues like SEL at school board meetings. His son-in-law is a co-founder of Panorama Education, a company raking in millions selling SEL materials to school districts. Conflict of interest?
And what about the billions of dollars the Democrats' Build Back Better legislation allocates to child care and pre-K? Will that money pay to indoctrinate even younger minds? Likely, "yes." At least a dozen states, including New York, have already adopted SEL standards for preschool.
As for elementary schools, gender dysphoric kids make up less than 1% of the school population. Protect them, of course, from bullying and discrimination. They need to feel safe. But don't brainwash the rest with one-sided, repeated lessons about gender issues.
West Hartford is reported to hammer away grade after grade, starting with a kindergarten-level book about a teddy bear who knows in his heart he is a girl teddy, not a boy teddy. Then, a book about Aiden, who knows the sex he was assigned at birth is "wrong." Then, a book about choosing pronouns. And another is about a girl named Jazz who changes her gender identity. Are kids reading that many books about the U.S. Constitution?
One Arkansas father objected that his fifth grader's teacher showed a video of a transgender activist's speech. Then, the teacher, wearing a "Protect Trans Lives" T-shirt, invited the class to a pride celebration: "I'll be at Pride from 1-6! I hope to see you there!"
SEL was originally sold as training children to control their emotions, manage their time and make good personal decisions. Teachers have always tried to instill these life skills. They're the same American values Benjamin Franklin proselytized in his autobiography 200 years ago.
But recently, SEL purveyors, including the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, have openly revised their goals. CASEL advocates for "transformative SEL" to promote "justice-oriented civic engagement." Translation: Make your kids into activists.
A South Bend, Indiana, school district adopted SEL two years ago to curb substance abuse and bullying. Now, parents, recognizing the radical messaging, are demanding more oversight.
Who's in charge of what your child learns? Parents need to take control. It's not an easy fight against the combined forces of educational profiteers and left-wing activists. But the stakes are too high to accept defeat.
For decades people have said get your kids out of public schools.
Another problem is the ever increasing number of single parent homes. Leaves kids very vulnerable to all kinds of bad things.
Ben Carson had some sound guidance at an early age which led to a dogged curiousity. We all know how that went. He was not bereft of good teachers, unlike so many children confined to public schools as they are today.
Bidung’s calculated giveaway of billions of tax dollars in federal COVID-relief money is a massive leftist slush fund
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Nationwide, sales of SEL materials shot up 45% in a year and a half to $765 million in 2021, reports Education Week.
But the left is angry b/c parental opposition is also surging. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the FBI to look into parents protesting issues like SEL at school board meetings, .....labeling parents “domestic terrorists.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law is a co-founder of Panorama Education, a company raking in millions selling SEL materials to school districts.
Conflict of interest?
Whatever happened to catholic schools taught by nuns? You know the ones who slapped your wrist with a ruler and taught for free. Did they all become Mary Kay Letorneau’s?
This should be called the Grievance Studies full employment act. Where else would someone with a worthless degree in black or gender studies get a job?
In the early 80’s I taught 1st grade in a Christian private school. The curriculum was very well laid out and for 1st grade it consisted of reading and math… that’s it. Other than a twice-a-week enrichment hour, which consisted of a visit to the music or art teacher, an hour for chapel each Friday, and two 30 minute outdoor recesses (morning and afternoon) each day, I barely had time to fit all the reading and math instruction in that the curriculum required.
There was no kindergarten in the school system in those days. But the private kindergartens that our students came from sent them to 1st grade knowing letters and their sounds, basic numbers and counting and how to write all the letters and numbers. I’m sure they had no time in their busy day either for all the B.S. children are taught today.
At that age they should not be burdened with the problems, hatred, and sexual deviance in the world (there will be time to learn of that later when they can better understand it).
Instead their fragile little minds should be filled all day with happy thoughts about good clean family fun, adventure that sparks the desire to learn and create, play that teaches unselfish interaction with others, encouragement that makes them know they are loved and worthy, and lots and lots of laughter.
https://rumble.com/vpl7jb-only-one-brain-cell-left.html
Because the Catholic church supports the Golden calf
https://rumble.com/vpowzz-golden-calf.html
We are battling SEL here in Indiana.
I wonder if the red areas of red states have so much of an issue with this? Or do they merely have more “parental terrorists” to oppose it?
Here’s a thought. Let’s teach kids how to read, write, and speak Standard English, compose a coherent paragraph, do basic mathematics, as well as learn the Scientific Method of problem solving.
Once 90% of the kids in your charge can do that then MAYBE we can talk about tossing this other crap into the curriculum. Maybe.
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That is an excellent point.
I hated to go there and often snug out of the gate and went home.
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