The National Pulse: Parents Win a Victory over SEL Educrats, But the War Isn’t Finished Yet
With feet firmly planted on the ground, Dr. Karen Effrem leads the charge with encouragement!
Congratulations, but stay tuned and geared up for battle. Our children and our nation are depending on us.
The truth is schools should never be ready for that type of assessment of innocent children funded by government entities. Profiling and recording the thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and mental processes of children who are so rapidly developing and changing cannot be accurately and objectively done. There will never be good assessments because even the experts and proponents cannot agree on a definition of SEL. If one cannot agree on a definition, there can be no accurate assessments.
Parents Win a Victory over SEL Educrats, But the War Isn’t Finished Yet
The National Pulse: Congress: Dear Parents Don’t Need the Government’s Help to Raise Their Children
by: Dr. Karen Effrem
The progressives in the federal government are very good at “not letting a crisis go to waste,” especially in relation to the disastrous government-created crisis of single-parent families. After subsidizing illegitimacy since the 1960s, 40 percent of families in the U.S. are headed by single parents.
So what is the Left’s solution? Instead of reversing those catastrophic policies by promoting two-parent family formation as welfare programs are reformed, they are sending government agents into homes to tell parents how to raise their children according to government standards. And while they are at it, they are collecting all sorts of data on children and their families to see how it is all working out.
Submit Federal Education Privacy Comments by 9-20 at 11:59 PM!
Restore the longstanding, pre-2012 definitions and interpretations of an “authorized representative,” “education program,” and other terms.
Stop a state department of education or other agency that receives PII for other purposes from redisclosing that data to other entities, such as researchers, without parental consent.
Restore the audit exception so that the requirement (previously contained in 34 CFR §99.35(a)(2)) that in order for a state or local educational authority to conduct an audit, evaluation, or compliance or enforcement activity, it must demonstrate authority to do so under some federal, state, or local grant of authority.
ESSA [20 U.S.C. §6311(b)(2)(B)(iii)] requiring statewide assessments to “objectively measure academic achievement, knowledge, and skills, and be tests that do not evaluate or assess personal or family beliefs and attitudes or disclose personally identifiable information.” There is identical language in the Education Sciences Reform Act that covers the NAEP [20 USC §9622(b)(5)(A)]
PPRA [20 U.S.C. §1232h(b)(1-8)], which requires parental review and consent for surveys in federally funded education programs that ask about 8 sensitive items, including mental health, illegal or anti-social behavior; or sexual behavior or attitudes.
Don’t Miss the September 26th Child Protection League Event on SEL!
Former CIA analyst Stella Morabito and ELW president Dr. Karen Effrem will be featured speakers at the September 26th Child Protection League Event titled Highjacking Their Minds: How ‘safe schools’ and social emotional learning (SEL) indoctrinate our children. This event is important enough to be worrying the radical Southern Poverty Law Center that has developed a thoroughly discredited and bogus hate watch list.
Here is the event flyer and you may register at this link. If you are anywhere in the area please attend and bring your family and friends to hear this critical information!
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