SEL: Does it free students or enslave them?

The following is a simplified explanation of what Social Emotional Learning is about.

In the interests of being an informed parent I am offering up what I have found about SEL, which you may or may not choose to receive but it’s not my child’s future at stake.

Let’s begin with the definition of Social Emotional Learning. Casel, the only SEL provider in the nation, defines social and emotional learning (SEL) as an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. Awe, that sounds lovely.

How do they do this? By putting all students in various groups to mitigate the individual abilities of the child, that’s equity in a nutshell (different topic), and these different groups, or factions, are then taught to address situations in different ways based on the abilities of the entire group. They use data mining techniques to collect information from the students in order to select which intervention group is appropriate for them to be put into. All individuality of your precious child is suppressed for the conformity of the group, it’s all for their own good. Having students put into these groups allows them to be more easily controlled. Once in the small groups it is easier to introduce them to certain ideas, like being a social justice warrior, hating their country, thinking they are LGBTQIA+ or trans, desensitizing them to sex at a young age...even Marxist beliefs such as turning their parents into the authorities for some reason.

These are just a few of the things I’ve read about SEL and this is a simplified introduction to the underbelly of the beast known as SEL. There are volumes of data on SEL available. I leave it to you whether you wish to find out more or if you’ll blindly trust the government-sponsored schools. If it were my child I’d want to know, but the choice is yours.

For Liberty!