You Better Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self
What sounded like a good idea for the overall well-being of our children is a quicksand of woke emotional and early sexual indoctrination. No need to hold back your shock, obviously.
You better check yo self before you wreck yo self
Cos I’m bad for your health, I come real stealth
Droppin bombs on ya moms
Fine, okay, overused song title – it’s such a cliché. Well, it’s been a while since these moms have heard Ice Cube’s Check Yo Self, and these lyrics very well could be referring to SEL – aka Social Emotional Learning.
Before we go on, first check out Parents Defending Education’s Tweet:
More on this tweet later.
SEL. “Social Emotional Learning.” Sounds good. Sounds great, in fact! We all want our children to be well adjusted human beings and not little academic robots. From every type of job (perhaps with the exception of radiologists) to friendships and romantic relationships, success in the real world relies heavily on the ability to engage with other people. Enter in SEL. Where we used to have a school psychologist to help kids whose parents were going through a divorce or who were being bullied, our schools have an ever-growing field of SEL, a cog in the DEI industrial complex.
SEL can be described in various ways. The most obvious and simple description is that SEL helps teach our children the important values of respect, empathy, and collaboration. A cursory online search details SEL as the intersection of: (1) self-awareness; (2) self-management; (3) social awareness; (4) relationship skills; and (5) responsible decision making. In the not too distant past, particularly when addressing the younger grades, our schools have used SEL to educate parents on the development of our children. Our schools would encourage us to “interview for power, not for pain” – a concept most associated with child psychologist Michael Thompson, author of books like Raising Cain. It states we should avoid writing our child’s story as one of social suffering and victimization. In practice, we should avoid asking our children leading questions that elicit our children to think and respond from a negative perspective (Why do you have a band-aid? Does your scrape hurt?) and instead take an empowering approach (Why do you have a band-aid? Did you try something new?).
However, SEL has been evolving into something broader with deceptively friendly activist descriptors like “social engagement,” “ethical responsibility,” “international mindedness,” and “global awareness” – basically the likely tag lines for Meghan and Harry’s in-production Netflix series. Worse, SEL is evolving into the exact opposite of what it was just a few years ago; it is evolving into interviewing our children for pain, to have our children see themselves not as people who should be gritty and learn to work collaboratively but instead as a myriad of identities in separate sensitive boxes. Worse still, SEL is increasingly being used to separate our children from us and our values under the guise of “mental health.” Notice as academic standards decline – AP classes being taken away, no homework, constructivist math, Covid is being used as an excuse to pivot the focus to “mental health.” The terms “mental health” and “well-being” were splattered recklessly in all of our back-to-school emails and Covid protocol plans and will continue to be emphasized in future communications and school programs to avoid accountability for decreased subject matter proficiency.
What does this mean practically? This means that our schools are increasingly taking measures to sexualize our children at younger and younger ages and to isolate our children under the umbrella of confidentiality at the direct violation of our parental rights and responsibilities. Make no mistake about it – this is child abuse.
Entirely unbeknownst to us, schools are sending out emails to our young middle schoolers asking them to come to pride clubs. Some schools are taking these actions very quietly. Other schools are proudly showcasing their attempts to sexualize our children. Take a look at this IG post from Andover – aka Phillips Andover Academy, one of our most storied national prep schools two years shy of being as old as our nation itself and home of prestigious alums like the Bushes, Kennedys, and for New Englanders, Bill Belichick:
Happy Masturbation May!! (Yes, those are vibrators.)
What always seems innocuous enough – having a healthy self-esteem and attitude about sex, inevitably starts to make us feel uneasy. The underlying question is – where does it end? How young will this go? When schools are instituting NAIS’ recommendations to segregate kindergarteners into racial affinity groups (evidence in a post forthcoming), how long before schools that are already inviting 12-year-olds to join pride clubs and to celebrate Masturbation May with cartoon vibrators in the name of inclusivity and body positivity invite 9-year-olds? Who in their right mind thinks 12-year-olds should have sexual identities and be sexualized? We haven’t even mentioned the social contagion of trans identities being encouraged in middle schoolers.
More and more, schools are sending SEL and “mental health” surveys to our children asking absurd questions. Again, without our knowledge. School surveys are inquiring whether our children feel comfortable talking about race. School surveys are inquiring how often our children are thinking about race. School surveys are inquiring whether our children are depressed. School surveys are inquiring how often our children think about suicide. These questions are the definition of interviewing for pain.
(Side note – you’re Goddamn right our children feel some understandable depression! They have been forcibly quarantined in their rooms away from their friends and sports and bands while our politicians host bacchanalian feasts of Michelin stars. They are being forced to wear masks for over eight hours a day while watching every B-list Hulu series actor go to the Emmys and Met Gala sans a care in the world and so much as a piece of fabric on their faces (minus Kim K).)
Our point is not just that this is happening, but that schools are for the most part hiding it from us. Just like schools made parents pledge merely a few weeks ago when classes started that we would not look at our children’s online class material or listen in on their Zooms. Schools claim that children need a forum free to express themselves and learn without the gaze of their parents, which we concede may be true in trustworthy circumstances, but we’re not so naïve anymore. If you have to keep secrets from a child’s parents, what you’re doing is wrong. Plain and simple.
Angry yet? Well, just wait because this takes the cake – back to Parents Defending Education’s Tweet. Our schools (public and “independent”) are collecting and selling our children’s personal and private information for the profit of the DEI industrial complex! The Fairfax County Times has reported that Fairfax County Public Schools quietly signed a five-year contract to pay an out-of-state for-profit consulting firm, Panorama Education, $1,845,600 from COVID emergency funds to collect personal and confidential data on 190,000 students on the pretense of SEL and implement “interventions.” In the fine print, this out-of-state consulting firm, has special status to “be deemed to be school officials of the School Board, and shall maintain FCPS Confidential Student Records in accordance with all federal state and local laws, rules and regulations regarding the confidentiality of such records.” A shocking but not shocking tidbit – Panorama Education is an organization funded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan (so much for that Hippocratic Oath, Dr. Chan).
Not only is this sale of children’s confidential mental health information to a for-profit, which is funded by the same technocrat who knew the dangers of social media to the mental health of children and still tried to roll out Instagram Kids, what exactly are the “interventions” they would be implementing?!? This is happening at NAIS “independent” schools around the country as well, but yesterday’s Tweet by Parents Defending Education is so outrageous we had to spotlight it immediately. The very schools with which we entrust the intellectual and emotional development of our children are selling them out.
Lest we repeat ourselves, THIS IS CHILD ABUSE!! Be forewarned – This is not the last time you will hear from us about the dangers of SEL.