Social Emotional Learning is an increasing focus of schools and school legislation. The “experts” believe that they can improve students’ academic performance, peer relationships, outlook on life — everything– by embedding social emotional learning into each day’s activities and lessons. After all, that’s what schools are for, right? To treat the “whole child?”

This is a dangerous trend. The influences at schools – peer pressure, conflicting values presented in the curricula, the selective presentation of controversial issues–already serve to distance children from their parents. Now the education elites plan to assess children’s social emotional state- sometimes through stealth assessments,  and on the basis of that data-mining they can personalize a curriculum to “help” the children’s psyches.

Please see the article from the blog Curmudgucation:

Does Social Emotional Learning Belong in School? 

We thank our friends from Truth in American Education for bringing it to our attention.