While much of the United States of American mourns for the victims of September 11 and celebrates its heroes, the Child Protection League of Minnesota is fretting about public schools hijacking children's minds.
Oh noes. On August 1, the ultra-conservative group shared an event page for its Hijacking Their Minds Fall Fundraiser with the details:
How Safe Schools and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Indoctrinate our Children: Learn to identify the dangers as our expert speakers unmask the radical, child endangering trends in education. Two agendas, the sexualizing of children and the teaching of Islam, have emerged under the pretext of "safe schools" and 'social emotional learning". You don't want to miss this important event!
A recent Mail Chimp email reminds those on the receiving end that the Early Bird Special ends today. In You don’t want to miss this compelling event! Tuesday, September 26, 2017, a link takes you to Social & Emotional Learning: Gateway to Islam & LGBT Acceptance:
The Minnesota Department of Education held its annual Safe and Supportive Schools Conference on January 25th, 2017. The conference is for Minnesota educators, school support staff, parents, student leaders and education stakeholders. The primary focus of the conference was Social Emotional Learning (SEL). SEL is the most recent, aggressively marketed educational strategy for transforming the attitudes, values and beliefs of children. It has very little to do with academics.
Every breakout workshop was linked in some way to furthering the SEL objectives which revolve around “developing positive school and classroom climates,” “intentional instruction for social emotional skill development,” and “targeted SEL interventions.” . . .
Since “safe and supportive” school policies are purportedly about stopping real bullying, it is quite troubling that under the guise of ending bullying, SEL is being used to chart students’ personal cultural values, attitudes, and beliefs, and then measure, record, and ultimately change them.
Based on the content presented at the January SEL-focused Safe and Supportive Schools Conference, Islam and LGBT are the two biggest cultural issues of the day.
The Executive Director of CAIR-MN (Council on American-Islamic Relations), Jaylani Hussein, gave a detailed presentation about Islam, its beliefs and religious practices. (A stated purpose of CAIR is to “empower American Muslims.”) Hussein expects schools to accommodate Muslim foot washing, Ramadan observance, Friday prayer days, and to provide quiet places for students to wash and pray. He wants school curriculum to be “sensitive” to Muslim students’ cultural and religious needs and practices.
In alignment with Hussein’s presentation, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has a Stop Bullying blog to “protect Muslim youth.” Remarkably, that blog encourages schools to counter bigotry against Islam by having female students wear a hijab for a day. The blog links directly to many anti-bullying resources from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a group recognized by most observers as a far-Left advocacy group. One ADL link is a resource for children’s literature, a collection of pure Islamic indoctrination. Another links to “anti-bias“ lesson plans,” with such topics as, “The Muslim Ban and the Power of Protest” and “Sanctuary Cities and Non-Violent Resistance.”
This isn’t anti-bias. It is training children to be activists and agitators and to adopt a sanitized view of Islam.
In the “Keys to Safe and Welcoming Schools” workshop, Cheryl Green, an “expert trainer” in the Welcoming Schools curriculum and coordinator for Hamline University’s Bullying Prevention Certificate Program, described how to create student “allies” for their agenda. SEL’s “showing empathy” outcome plays a critical role in developing ally behavior in students and adults, according to Green. Green teaches radical gender theory to educators—primarily elementary teachers.
A review of the Welcoming Schools bullying prevention program for elementary children is available on our website. Welcoming Schools is designed to coerce children into approving homosexual behavior and rejecting the authority of their parents—especially if their parents hold traditional views regarding human sexuality.
In the workshop “LGBTQ: Early Conversations Promote Healthy Identities and Build Allies,” we are led to believe that adults are confused if they believe that boys wearing dresses is unnatural, or that students are either biological boys or girls. Rather, students are taught that gender is fluid and can be “changed” simply based upon how they feel any given day. Additionally, anyone who thinks sexual intercourse should be reserved for a man and a woman within a committed marriage relationship is considered a bigot.
What you read above is not academic instruction. It is intense indoctrination and mind manipulation, forcing children into emotional and intellectual compliance. SEL is to be incorporated into conversations and activities throughout the school day, directing and assessing how each child “feels” and “believes.” Teachers, by the way, won’t be spared either. They will also be evaluated on their EQ – “emotional intelligence.” . . .
Leaping lesbians! We're curious how much will be raked in opposing emotional intelligence. Speakers are Karen Effrem, who opposes public pre-K programs while supporting folks like Michele Bachmann, and Stella Morabito, subject of this 2014 screed at Daily Kos.
Here's the flyer for the event:
Child Protection League Event Flyer posted by Sally Jo Sorensen on Scribd
Nice work if you can get it.
Image: Facebook invite for the fall fundraiser.
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I think teaching society to be tolerant of LGBTQ and Islamic people is a GOOD idea, no minority group should receive discrimination
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