DeSantis administration targets social and emotional learning in latest war on woke

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School districts in the state of Florida are phasing out social and emotional learning courses after the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) warned schools such curriculum violates state law.

In February, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz published a memo to the superintendents of Florida school districts warning them that SEL curricula from the companies Edgenuity and Imagine Learning were not permitted because they violated state law barring divisive concepts from being taught in public schools.

Diaz thanked the school board for Miami-Dade County, which was recently flipped to a majority conservative board, for informing the Florida Department of Education of content within the SEL lessons that"appears contrary to Florida law," prompting the memo.USA Todaythat the School District of Palm Beach County had scrubbed the phrase"social emotional learning" from its website and had informed the state that the classes were now called"skills for learning and life.

"Social emotional learning sounds good and can be good," Parents Defending Education's director of outreach, Erika Sanzi, told the."But it underwent a fundamental change in definition in 2020 ... that added ideology, equity and a focus on the collective — this means that a lesson on empathy can include telling young girls that their discomfort with biological boys in their changing rooms and on their sports teams lacks empathy.

 

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And thank God they are… social, and emotional learning is indoctrination and turning kids into weirdos who can’t deal with anything

By challenging American youth in their studies we will invigorate all of the talents within them,the talents whose cultivation is the source of the trust we have in our own abilities,as well as the faculties we can utilize in order to put those abilities to use across any of the

But yet he let's the woke mob take over his Capitol.

Republicans’ obsession with made up ‘woke’/culture wars and their manufactured outrages is sad to watch. The degradation of the Republican Party is obvious. Democrats are taking the American people's concerns seriously while Republicans are taking the American people for fools!

Define “woke”

He’s backed by the Bushes. Not good.

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