Teaching Ks to identify values, cultural differences, and beliefs? Ks are being taught the fundamental reading skills to participate in society at large and function as a collective group as they learn socialization.

1st and 2nd graders cannot develop an awareness of groups in society! They are learning the reading skills required to build comprehension skills. Cultures and traditions again? And fairness doesn't mean you always get the same thing? Who is defining what is 'fair'?

3rd and 4th graders are going to identify multiple groups in society? That are used to create identity? Whose identity? Where is the rubric for 'creating one's own identity'? And 8-9 year olds are being asked to identify barriers based on identity? This is critical race theory and not teaching. Is the word stereotype on the spelling tests? How is an 8-9 year old going to know a stereotype? Are they being taught this? And those same children are going to develop an awareness of their 'membership in multiple groups in society'? Where is the book that outlines this for measuring the metric is achieved?

5th and 6th graders are going to be able to explain how those stereotypes they learned in 4th grade create bias? Where is the rubric to measure these achievements? You introduce the word 'injustice' WHOSE injustice? That is a broad definition with no foundation of a common definition. Curiosity about social problems? Who/what book defines 'social problem'?

7th and 8th graders are going to be asked to describe various identities? These pre-teens have enough challenges with school and making friends. Wouldn't this serve to create isolation for failure to identify only one? These children are online most of the time already picking at each other and now you want the defined difference of conscious and unconscious bias? 

9th and 10th graders are acclimating to plans post-high school and trying to fit in. THen you want to introduce intersectionality on top of and mulitiple identities? Won't this further create isolation already experienced in middle school? 

11th and 12th graders are working on post-high school planning (college and work). You want introspection on values and beliefes? To whom does this high schooler go for understanding what is acceptable or not? Or whom is judging them on what is acceptable or not? Then you want those same group of students to address their own individual biaas and unconscious bias? Where is the rubric for this self introspective exercise? 

My concern is that these are not social and emotional, these are distractions from getting the education students need to compete in a global society, not fix societal ills defined by someone else, with no rubrics for measurements, but left to judgements of others in constant conflict.

WE are educating kids not creating social justice warriors.