What little ineffective virtual instruction they did receive didn’t prevent grades from plummeting from an A to a C.
Apon Traci Spiegel’s son’s return to the classroom as a high-school freshman, he became incredibly frustrated that he and his peers were asked to spend 40 minutes every Monday on so-called social-emotional learning (SEL).
Instead of spending as much time as possible making up the ground they had lost in math and other subjects, they were taught how to avoid committing microaggressions, how to properly use pronouns, and how to avoid offending people, according to Spiegel’s son. Since Conservatives at all levels of government embraced the fight against Critical Race Theory, dissenting parents nationwide are pros when recognizing and countering racially divisive curricula. Still, a broader suite of radical ideas, couched in therapeutic language, is quietly being advanced under the banner of SEL, parents whose children have been exposed to such programming, told National Review.
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In a recent Washington Post article, SEL advocates argued that the Conservative outcry is an unwarranted attack on crucial mental-health programming for kids. A review of SEL materials obtained by the nonprofit Parents Defending Education (PDE) affirms parents’ concerns that mental-health language is being co-opted to advance radical sentiments about race, gender, and sexuality. Even if some of the SEL material is innocuous, parents told NR they’d still be concerned because time spent on SEL is time not spent helping kids recover from the learning loss they suffered during two years of school closures.
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As Spiegel put it: “Where is the algebra? Where is the biology? Where is the English?” A life-long Democrat, Spiegel joined the fray over the reopening school subject. Her activism increased after her son complained about the weekly social-justice-heavy SEL lessons, curated by each teacher and administered to high-schoolers county-wide. A specific question on a quiz caught her eye: “How do you feel when you see two men kissing?” she said it read, paraphrasing. The choices were “A.) Aggressive, B.) Passive-aggressive, C.) Neutral, or D.) None of the above,” she recalled.
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Her daughter, a high-school senior, took a quiz that asked something like: “If you didn’t have a diverse makeup of friends in your friend group, is it racist to seek out another race to fill your friend group?” Spiegel noted.
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