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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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5/25/21 9:45 am

Commenter: raise my children with your values, no thank you

CRT is vital to label student groups, to teach them a moral ideology, emotions, and behaviors

This document will divide students not bring them together in a healthy way. There is way too much CRT hidden in this document about group identification, implicit bias, morality, good and bad feeling, justice... all these aspects have a place in development; for a child’s family to address. This is so wrong for the schools to address these factors in the ACADEMIC setting. Do academics, I will raise my children and I still the values that are important. Thank you.

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