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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5/6/21  10:34 am
Commenter: Anonymous

Stay out of parenting
 

It is not the school's responsibility to teach these skills to children.  It is the parent's job.  I don't send my kids to school so you can parent and raise them.  Your job is to teach them math, science, language.  Leave your social experiments out of it.  Stick to the basics.  Provide a more robust counseling department if you want to help kids are not learning or are struggling with these skills.  Don't subject all students to something that only some kids need.

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