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Department of Education

State Board of Education

Guidance Document Change: The 2020 Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 753 directing the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) to develop guidance standards for social emotional learning (SEL) for all public students in grades Kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Social Emotional Learning Standards were developed in collaboration with an SEL Advisory Committee, composed of educators, community leaders, agency personnel, and parents. The Virginia SEL Standards are aligned with the Profile of a Virginia Graduate and centered in equity. This intentional focus allows the Standards to explicitly teach the skills needed to be “life ready” and to create more equitable learning environments.

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5/1/21 2:43 pm

Commenter: Anonymous

NO

From the document: "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."

Develop healthy identities: NOT VDOE'S JOB
Manage emotions: NOT VDOE's JOB
Achieve personal goals NOT VDOE'S JOB
Achieve collective goals WHOSE?
Feel and show empathy for others: NOT VDOE'S JOB
Establish and maintain supportive relationships NOT VDOE'S JOB
Make responsible and caring decisions NOT VDOE'S JOB

None of these have anything to do with education at all. The family unit is the place for this kind of learning. Get back to the basics. My district-wide average on the CWRA was 56% for 12 graders! And only 72% of 9th graders are reading proficiently. This is a supposed top-tier school district in the state. You should be thinking about getting these scores to 100% before devoting one minute of your time to this nonsense.

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