This week is a follow up from the last post about School Based Health Centers and the movement to reduce your family autonomy and parental authority. Surveys in school have been growing much more common over the last several years. These surveys may include intrusive questions about things such as race, sex, gender identity, mental health, feelings, and even suicide plans; and are carried out in the name of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism, social emotional learning or other benign-sounding rhetoric. Even more concerning, the surveys are almost always electronic, meaning the data is stored and shared with and by the outside vendor who conducts the survey.
Do not consent to have your child take any of them (check the stack of forms you sign at the beginning of the school year). You have the right to opt out. It’s a good idea to warn your children not to take any and have them tell you when these come up at school. They are an invasion of your privacy and aim to collect information about your child and family with possible repercussions to undermine your authority as a parent.
The surveys stem from Social Emotional Learning (SEL), which is a process to indoctrinate your children in a way that "weaponizes their empathy) prepares them to erase moral frameworks and accept future propaganda. James Lindsay (co-author of Cynical Theories and Queering of the American Child and writes the New Discourses website) has this to say about SEL: “Like virtually everything in Woke Marxism, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is sold through lies and deception. The packaging is always pretty. What’s in the box is always a catastrophe… ‘It’s just about teaching kids to manage their emotions and develop the social skills necessary to succeed in the workplace of the future and to get along with people in a diverse world.’ No, it isn’t.” Listen to this podcast exposing the lies constantly used to defend and promote SEL. Jordan Peterson recently interviewed Logan Lancing, the other author of Queering of the American Child. An eye-opener for sure.
The Sonoma County Office of Education describes a form of SEL that is straight up Marxist: “Transformative SEL is a form of SEL aimed at redistributing power to promote social justice through increased engagement in school and civic life. It emphasizes the development of identity, agency, belonging, curiosity and collaborative problem-solving.” Run. Away.
Do not be confused. A pro-SEL website describes what SEL is and is not. “An important difference between SEL and character education is that some character education approaches are focused on developing morally responsible youth, and that is not the defining characteristic of SEL. It is important to make that distinction. Teaching morals and values can raise concerns about whether they can be changed, and whether instruction is the responsibility of families or schools.”
A couple months ago, I highlighted Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier as my June Book of the Month. I also highly recommend her first book, Irreversible Damage. Shrier outlines “10 Steps of Bad Therapy” which are a good start to “induce anxiety, depression, a feeling of incapacity or family estrangement…” Basically, if we wanted to wreck our children’s mental health, this would be a good plan. Surveys are a part of this plan.
The steps:
1. Teach kids to pay close attention to their feelings
2. Induce rumination
3. Make “Happiness” a goal but reward emotional suffering
4. Affirm and accommodate kids’ worries
5. Monitor, monitor, monitor
6. Dispense diagnoses liberally
7. Drug’em
8. Encourage kids to share their “trauma”
9. Encourage young adults to break contact with “toxic” family
10. Create treatment dependency
I’ll let you do more of your own research. Here are a few more sites. I’m NOT an expert on this but do want to help families be informed to make wise decisions and want to point you to where you can learn more.
Parents Defending Education https://defendinged.org/survey/
Courage is a Habit https://courageisahabit.org/ and do follow on X.
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