While most of the news about the Social and Emotional Learning emphasis in public schools has been alarming, Kimberly Ells offers hope. There are a few programs that address these areas of children’s growth in ways that do not promote pluralistic thinking and do not attempt to replace parents and families as the primary sources of children’s values and beliefs.
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Many school districts have latched onto Social and Emotional Learning as a point of pride in their quest to educate “the whole student.” Little do they know that the goal of SEL is to break down the family, sexualize children, and raise students to be proper-thinking servants of the state.
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The past few weeks have vividly illustrated that parents can be more influential than they might have ever imagined when they join together to resist negative influences on their children.
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Utah teacher resignation letterSeptember 3, 2021Resignation letter from Beloved Music Teacher at Draper Park Middle School in Utah for being required to teach the Social Emotional
Continue reading →As alarm about the problems, dangers, and poor research related to social emotional learning (SEL) spreads, prominent new voices are entering the fray to speak
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A committee of the Ohio State Board of Education is going to vote on advancing a proposal to implement statewide social emotional learning (SEL) standards. This is part of a national movement to psychologize education falsely advertised as improving academic achievement and preventing violence and suicide.
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Tragically for our children’s futures and freedoms — but predictably, as we warned here and here — Congress heeded very few general principles or President Trump’s good ideas about preserving freedom and privacy, decreasing the federal footprint in education, supporting programs that work, or maintaining fiscal discipline.
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