Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Education
 
Board
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  10:19 pm
Commenter: Lauri - concerned parent

NO to SEL!!
 

I am against implementing this program into Virginia schools, or any schools in our country for that matter.  Looks like Critical Race Theory with a different name.  I don't have the time to teach my children the opposing point of view to all the things that the public schools are teaching and that's what I have found myself doing the past couple of years.  Often I found that my children were not getting the full picture with various things that they were being taught.  I found myself having to teach them the "other side of the story" so that they had a more accurate understanding of the way the world is - not the picture that the public schools paint.  Last year my 5th grader could not spell, could barely write a full sentence with correct punctuation and grammar, thought that America was the only country that contributed to world pollution and was the only country that had a history of people owning slaves.  What a difference a year of private online homeschooling has made.  He wrote multiple RESEARCH PAPERS this year and learned extensive facts about American History starting from the Civil War on up through our current era.  The thought of putting my children back in public school is depressing.  Feels like I am putting them on a sinking ship.  How are they going to be taken seriously after they graduate if they can't write complete sentences and have convoluted ways of doing math?  Please get away from this Social and Emotional nonsense and get back to serious academics. 

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