Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Education
 
Board
State Board of Education
 
Guidance Document Change: The 2020 Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 753 directing the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) to develop guidance standards for social emotional learning (SEL) for all public students in grades Kindergarten through 12 in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Social Emotional Learning Standards were developed in collaboration with an SEL Advisory Committee, composed of educators, community leaders, agency personnel, and parents. The Virginia SEL Standards are aligned with the Profile of a Virginia Graduate and centered in equity. This intentional focus allows the Standards to explicitly teach the skills needed to be “life ready” and to create more equitable learning environments.
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5/20/21  9:11 am
Commenter: concerned parent

never has homeschool or private school looked better
 

Of course comments are anonymous due to the cancel culture and negativity projected to anyone with a differing opinion than the trending narrative.  The comments against SEL are no less valid.  "life ready" students emotionally healthy is a good concept.  Teach kindness, acceptance, expression.  This happens along with reading math and writing. But, the SEL standards are designed with a divisive ideology, prescribing students what is good and bad, comfortable and uncomfortable, and how they should see their prescribed status and others. This is not the role of the public school. The public schools are not even equipped to take on the basic academic curriculum.  And beyond the good sounding concept of "social emotional learning"; this is indoctrination and wrong.   

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