Reading about transformative SEL fills me with outrage and helplessness. It's outrageous that the educational elite have hijacked the K-12 curriculum and turned it into a vehicle for indoctrinating America's youth in applied critical race theory. It's a secular religion and religion has no place in public education.
Where did this begin? Was the pretext that every child deserves a "safe" learning environment? Is the Golden Rule so inadequate a means of attaining that end that teachers must see to it that their pupils are adept at “taking actions to advance policies or changes that are consistent with human rights, social justice, and equality"? When it comes to shaping kids' attitudes and behavior, transformative SEL makes the Pledge of Allegiance look like a Chinese fortune cookie insert.
What makes me feel helpless is the knowledge that there is nothing I can do to eliminate transformative SEL from the Oregon state educational system I help fund with my tax dollars. Oregon's governor is so relentlessly progressive that she makes Hillary look like Jeane Kirkpatrick. The chances that my objections would receive a sympathetic hearing from even a junior staffer are nil. The new superintendent of schools inherits an organization that is fully captured by applied critical race theory. Nothing in the reporting surrounding the announcement of the superintendent's appointment or her photo indicates that she'd be open to abandoning sociopolitical programming in favor of refocusing on the three Rs. What about the public school in my neighborhood? It's tempting to chain myself to the building, but I have better things to do with my time than appearing at my arraignment.
Is there a creative, aggressive lawyer out there who'd be willing to go after SEL and its weaponized big brother, transformative SEL, on the grounds that it constitutes constitutionally prohibited compelled speech?
Rights for All? Transformative SEL’s Divisive Worldview
Reading about transformative SEL fills me with outrage and helplessness. It's outrageous that the educational elite have hijacked the K-12 curriculum and turned it into a vehicle for indoctrinating America's youth in applied critical race theory. It's a secular religion and religion has no place in public education.
Where did this begin? Was the pretext that every child deserves a "safe" learning environment? Is the Golden Rule so inadequate a means of attaining that end that teachers must see to it that their pupils are adept at “taking actions to advance policies or changes that are consistent with human rights, social justice, and equality"? When it comes to shaping kids' attitudes and behavior, transformative SEL makes the Pledge of Allegiance look like a Chinese fortune cookie insert.
What makes me feel helpless is the knowledge that there is nothing I can do to eliminate transformative SEL from the Oregon state educational system I help fund with my tax dollars. Oregon's governor is so relentlessly progressive that she makes Hillary look like Jeane Kirkpatrick. The chances that my objections would receive a sympathetic hearing from even a junior staffer are nil. The new superintendent of schools inherits an organization that is fully captured by applied critical race theory. Nothing in the reporting surrounding the announcement of the superintendent's appointment or her photo indicates that she'd be open to abandoning sociopolitical programming in favor of refocusing on the three Rs. What about the public school in my neighborhood? It's tempting to chain myself to the building, but I have better things to do with my time than appearing at my arraignment.
Is there a creative, aggressive lawyer out there who'd be willing to go after SEL and its weaponized big brother, transformative SEL, on the grounds that it constitutes constitutionally prohibited compelled speech?