Just when we thought the subversive crypto-Marxist SJW indoctrination could not get any worse, you pop up and surprise us. VDOE has no business developing social engineering programs intended to cripple our children's free speech and right to think for themselves, and even less right to tie it to academic outcomes. SEL competencies have some few grains of wheat amongst the pile of chaff, but the Social Awareness category in particular is loaded with toxic rhetoric from the CRT lexicon and belies the entire program. Incredibly, the panel is recommending nothing less than state control of how our children think, what they can say, and how they must act (if they are to be good little leftist SJWs). It is not hard for a thinking person to see that much of what is in the program could easily be construed as violations of students civil rights, and I can already hear the lawyers lining up in the wings. The only part of CASEL you have a say in is A for Academics. While teachers may consult with parents on Social and Emotional issues, these areas are the domains of parents, families, and religious establishments of the children's private world. The State does not have the authority to usurp the prerogatives of parents, at least not in non-totalitarian countries.  And I do not believe the US is there...yet. 

We have seen children shamed and shunned for not parroting the corrosive dogma being spooned out to them in Virginia's classrooms, and we will not stand by as VDOE tries to implement yet another racist CRT based initiative. Mark my words, when the shaming and ostracizing begin, when children are mentally abused for not swallowing the poison and regurgitating the lies, the law suits will not be far behind.

Who asked for this program? How many parents from across the Commonwealth were canvased for their views? Do the participants who contributed to this plan represent an honest cross section of the state's population, or do they only reflect the views of numerically less significant special interest groups? How many of the participants are Democrats, Republicans, or Independents? How many are black, white, Asian, or from ethnic communities? Are there any contractors or consultants who stand to profit monetarily by these proposed requirements? Anyone retiring soon who might try to profit in the near future? Who? Does this development gestalt truly reflect Virginia equally, or is it a body that seeks to gain advantage for their partisan agenda? That last is honestly rhetorical, the aim of the document is obvious enough.

I cannot believe that the people who drafted such an invidious, divisive proposal truly reflect Virginia as a whole, or even a majority of our citizens. And the fact that so many public servants in positions of trust could craft a plan to ideologically indoctrinate young people and compel them to undo decades of progress made by the civil rights movement in the United States and replace it with a new form of racism and segregation (CRT doctrine) demonstrates the rot at the core of our public school system. VDOE has already lost credibility by burying this document where it is almost impossible to find by casual perusal of their site. This is because they do not want to hear from the public, they want to do their work in the shadows where no one can see them. But we know what is going on now, and this proposal will be brought to the attention of the national media. I suspect that airing it out under the harsh light of day for honest and open scrutiny should prove to be an interesting exercise.