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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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5/26/21 1:53 pm

Commenter: Disadvantaged parent

Get Woke

For far to long children in the schools have seen each other just as kids, friends, peers, classmates, equals. It’s about time we started to label these privileged groups and let these children know how they are responsible for other groups disadvantages and difficulties. It’s important for some groups to hate themselves and for other groups to hate them. It’s the only way grow through showing little kids how unfair and unjust things are for all people who belong to a certain group. After all, group affiliation dictates with 100% accuracy how a group acts, how they should feel, what they are capable of, what they deserve, and things they can’t do. It’s long overdue to start segregating different groups and teaching little children how different each group is. How else will they develop the anger to take what has been kept from them. I support SEL.

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