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Don’t Buy into SEL!

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Posted By: GustoGrabber, 5/7/2022 6:33:20 AM

As a longtime teacher, I have seen firsthand that education is a fad-filled field. Culturally responsive education, inventive spelling, new math, experiential learning, balanced literacy, etc. are educational styles that have come and gone and come and gone and . . . One of the more enduring educational whims is Social Emotional Learning (SEL) which took off in the 1990s when the Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) came into being, and hosted a conference with researchers, educators, child advocates, and others in the field.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DiegoDude 5/7/2022 8:11:25 AM (No. 1148927)
Social Emotional Learning? More educational b.s. that's guaranteed to set up our kids to fail. Funny how the countries that used to UNICEF poster children, are kicking our ass in math & science.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: pearlyjo 5/7/2022 9:02:06 AM (No. 1148965)
A student is told for several hours a day that they are either superior or worthless, they are victim or aggressor, they are good or bad, and we can’t understand how these little people are screwed up? It’s time for an overhaul of all education in this country from kindergarten to graduate school. We can’t have educators tell one group they won’t succeed because they are historically oppressed and tell another group they better not succeed because they are historically privileged.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Talk2 5/7/2022 9:46:47 AM (No. 1149013)
This garbage is never going to end until so-called teachers colleges are purged of those whose indoctrination and brainwashing have taken over and any independent thought has been replaced with slogans.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: kono 5/7/2022 10:26:52 AM (No. 1149051)
CASEL seems like a typo: sounds more like Communism And Socialism Indoctrination Labs, to me.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: southerngal 5/7/2022 10:58:07 AM (No. 1149092)
Having worked so hard to gain both a masters in counseling and skills to raise students' emotional intelligence, I am so sad to hear that what started to fulfill a critical need has been hijacked to cause further trauma on kids. 😪
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Reply 6 - Posted by: SkeezerMcGee 5/7/2022 11:51:15 AM (No. 1149151)
"According to CASEL, the concept of transformative SEL is a “means to better articulate the potential of SEL to mitigate the educational, social, and economic inequities that derive from the interrelated legacies of racialized cultural oppression in the United States and globally.” This reads like a description of an (at least 2nd year) elective course in an ultra-liberal arts graduate school in a major that is of no use to any prospective employer except woke educational institutions.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 5/7/2022 12:07:22 PM (No. 1149178)
This is new to me, having no children in school, it's easy to be out of touch with the latest education scams. Sounds like another destructive scam like "Sight Reading" which we were told is "superior to outdated phonics". Sight Reading means little or no reading ability at all, where phonics means you will be a great reader. Phonics is just as outdated as breathing, which is to point out that things that are fundamentally right and necessary can never be outdated.
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