Very important thoughts here. Thank you. I am a retired occupational therapist and just want to say that when SEL first started in schools, at least as I practiced it, it was NOT creating victims but rather helping children have a language for their feelings. Unintended consequences of SEL are horrifying to me.
I have to disagree. Anecdotal evidence suggests that “counselors” are not infrequently damaged to begin with, and are further damaged by the “educational” process that indoctrinates them into believing in things nobody should. To let them “help” kids in a school setting is asking for trouble. It’s bad enough kids are left alone with 21st century “educators.”
If put into a larger context, the leftists who push this agenda actually hate your country because they are doing exactly the type of things that make the country weak (I mean weakening its youth). This puts the US at a huge disadvantage against competitors and adversaries.
My dad was in the administration of a prestigious school of social work. People went into it with the good thoughts knowing they would be poorly paid. Something switched in the early 2000s or maybe it was percolating below the surface since the 60s. Now is good money and grievance studies. I heard one university has a building dedicated to Michael Brown, who was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. We've inverted who should be venerated, and I must say the large problem is women. Women were force fed that we are a social construct, but Herbert Marcuse noted that such social constructs would be helpful to advance their agenda. I was reading what Engels wrote about the family and how women needed to liberated from such fate so they could have sex with multiple partners. Now I see this for what it is a misogynistic attempt to reshape women into men.
Very important thoughts here. Thank you. I am a retired occupational therapist and just want to say that when SEL first started in schools, at least as I practiced it, it was NOT creating victims but rather helping children have a language for their feelings. Unintended consequences of SEL are horrifying to me.
I have to disagree. Anecdotal evidence suggests that “counselors” are not infrequently damaged to begin with, and are further damaged by the “educational” process that indoctrinates them into believing in things nobody should. To let them “help” kids in a school setting is asking for trouble. It’s bad enough kids are left alone with 21st century “educators.”
If put into a larger context, the leftists who push this agenda actually hate your country because they are doing exactly the type of things that make the country weak (I mean weakening its youth). This puts the US at a huge disadvantage against competitors and adversaries.
My dad was in the administration of a prestigious school of social work. People went into it with the good thoughts knowing they would be poorly paid. Something switched in the early 2000s or maybe it was percolating below the surface since the 60s. Now is good money and grievance studies. I heard one university has a building dedicated to Michael Brown, who was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. We've inverted who should be venerated, and I must say the large problem is women. Women were force fed that we are a social construct, but Herbert Marcuse noted that such social constructs would be helpful to advance their agenda. I was reading what Engels wrote about the family and how women needed to liberated from such fate so they could have sex with multiple partners. Now I see this for what it is a misogynistic attempt to reshape women into men.