Tag: social and emotional learning

Parents Take Legal Action to Demand Right to Opt Out of ‘Emotional Intelligence’ Curriculum

A group of parental rights advocates in Orange County, California, claim school policies are moving away from teaching math, reading, science, and other core subjects to teach students controversial “emotional intelligence” ideas and are trampling on their constitutional rights to direct the upbringing of their children by not allowing them to opt their children out. The…


The Secret Curriculum

Commentary School is starting, but don’t count on getting answers about what your child is being taught. School administrators commonly lie or give parents the runaround. That explains the fireworks over Jeremy Boland, a Greenwich, Connecticut, elementary school assistant principal, bragging about how the school pushes kids to think in a “progressive” way that he…


Social and Emotional Indoctrination in Schools

Commentary Social and emotional learning is the latest trend at your child’s school. SEL sounds beneficial, but that’s a disguise. In truth, it indoctrinates kids with extremist ideas many parents don’t condone. On Nov. 22, the Hartford Courant reported that West Hartford, Connecticut, elementary school parents are in an uproar. They’re complaining that teachers are…