As a certified teacher and as a parent, I find these new social emotional learning standards disturbing. First off, from a teacher’s perspective, this is adding even more to the teacher that does not need to be added. You have already made it extremely hard for us to get creative in the classroom. We do it, but it comes at a cost to our personal time. Plus, these standards are very vague, and it could be used in a way that could divide our society more than help unite. I also can see this causing physiological issues for children and confuse them depending on how the teacher teaches some of this. We, as teachers, need more time to plan our main subjects and do it well. We do not need more standards pushed on us to take away even more time from what we really are there to teach: math, English, science, history, and the arts. 

Personally, as a teacher, I do not find this type of teaching as part of my job—this is the parents job to teach this. As a parent of three, I would not appreciate the school teaching my kids this because this part is my job as a parent. As a parent, I am concerned with how this will be taught and what viewpoint. As teachers, we have to teach religion from a educational view. Will it be that way with this or more of a push towards CRT? I read it as a push for CRT, and that is something I would prefer to not teach my children at such a young age. I believe that should be left up to the parents/guardians to decide when to teach their children that information. 

Please, as a teacher and parent, please do not move forward with these standards. This will not help us as educators or our students. If anything, it will cause more problems than it will solve.