Back to School: The Rush to Create
‘Trauma-Sensitive’ Classrooms
Breitbart Politics,
by
Dr. Susan Berry
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
9/1/2019 6:46:08 AM
Some parents hope their children will experience a challenging math and reading curriculum during the new academic year, but many school staff and administrators are focused on social and emotional learning, and how to create “trauma-sensitive” classrooms.
“We’re in an all-fired hurry because there’s this ‘trauma’ thing and we have to help our kids,” said Melissa Sadin, according to Education Week. Sadin is the director of the Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Initiative, a national group that trains staff and administrators in schools and districts.
“Yes, but you have to do it correctly, and nobody learns it in a day,” she added.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/1/2019 7:20:49 AM (No. 168313)
The article clearly states what's wrong with the leftist pro/regressive thinking of social and emotional learning (SEL).
FTA:
With the focus on social and emotional learning, parents could find that, at the start of their child’s classes, teachers will check in with students about how they are feeling. For young students, each feeling may be associated with a different color: for example, blue for sad; yellow for nervous; and red for angry. (Awhhhhhh...)
It’s a mindset, a cultural shift away from reacting to students in a punitive way to asking questions about what has happened, to understanding and nurturing. (Meanwhile, no teaching is really going on)
True to the historical playbook, proponents present SEL as the transformational tool that will propel students to greater academic achievement and personal fulfillment. The scientific and academic evidence for these enthusiastic claims, however, is thin to non-existent. This does not even address SEL’s significant risks to student privacy and health.
who decides which attitudes and values are the “right” ones students should adopt?
According to the Education Week Research Center, 78 percent of teachers say it is part of their job “to help students develop strong social and emotional skills,” yet many teachers do not feel equipped to handle students’ mental health issues.
SEL is actually promoted by the federal government and pushed on state and local education.
“Despite the ongoing lack of any reliable, objective, research-based method to measure or assess a student’s personality, values, and mindset, national spending in SEL in K-12 public schools already tops $30 billion annually and is likely to increase,”
Boom! boondoggle.
“[P]ublic education should turn its attention to promoting genuine academic achievement by focusing on curricula that are locally derived and controlled,” they concluded. “If we start there, the results will continue to be far better than those produced by faddish pop psychology and diluted academic content.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/1/2019 8:09:12 AM (No. 168343)
These people should have seen the Jesuit School I went to. Stress and trauma was the main purpose. Education (a good one at that) was the by product!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mobyclik 9/1/2019 8:30:30 AM (No. 168365)
They can come up with all the flowery crap they want, but I call it leftist brainwashing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/1/2019 9:19:50 AM (No. 168427)
Just imagine where we would be today if this nonsense had been practiced in schools in the 1920’s. We’d all be speaking either German or Japanese.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 9/1/2019 9:21:06 AM (No. 168429)
Beyond the reality that teachers are ill equipped at being amateur psychologists to begin with, many students learn how to and love disrupting classrooms with fake "trauma". Some are just drama queens (boy girls AND boys) and love the attention. For kids facing real problems, the teachers direct the students to professionals who can help and get on with what they are supposed to be doing, teaching.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fayebeck 9/1/2019 9:23:08 AM (No. 168431)
Anyone else notice that when "educators" create their little Marxists people agree and that's it. When a cranky old man like me says that the educator created marxist can't read, then it's the parents fault. A strange thing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
poliposter 9/1/2019 10:03:16 AM (No. 168470)
I am so glad my kids are out of primary and secondary school.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/1/2019 11:08:52 AM (No. 168551)
Sounds like to me, the educational system is going to attempt to create a classroom of sheep instead of kids who think for themselves and want to defend their lives. I suspect that thanks to the interfering schools, more families are going to get visited by children's services and maybe even the LE of their community. When is the nanny state going to stop?
How many spiteful kids are going to lie about the parents to get back at them after being thwarted about something they wanted from mom or dad? The slippery slope is getting slicker all the time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ramona 9/1/2019 11:22:45 AM (No. 168564)
There is no reason for a teacher to be cruel to children. I only had one elementary teacher who was a bit of a sadist. If she was irritated by something - and we usually didn't know what it was - she would make us put our chins on our desks with our hands clasped behind our necks for 15-20 minutes. For 7-8 year old children, that was cruel, especially if our grade mates were outside for recess, which is where we should have been.
I have spent a great deal of time in elementary schools and I have seen other cruel teachers who had no business being there. But most teachers are ordinarily kind people, and many are extraordinarily kind.
Today we expect teachers to be superhuman. We have taken most of the intellectual creativity out of their hands and replaced it with unrealistic expectations for psychological ends that are not always clearly defined, and which often violate the values of many families.
This is not a great time to be a teacher and we shouldn't wonder that most people last 3 years or less in the classroom. If it were so easy, more people would do it well. Placing unnecessary burdens on these public servants is unwise and does not serve the children well. The main purpose is for lefties to virtue signal when they can't find competence in their original mission. Sad, sad, sad.
Ramona (the Pest0
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 9/1/2019 12:11:50 PM (No. 168601)
I appreciate all the comments of posters. I, too, thought as many of you. Then, I became a teacher in a public school. Here is the number one problem in public schools - DIVORCE and ILLEGITIMACY, period.
Here is the truth of the saga of public schools - everyone knows what's best, especially politicians. There is no end of meddling and mandating that goes on in the public school. Why is that?
Everyday, our nation's parents send their children off to school. For those with the monetary resources, high priced private schools and academies are the way. For motivated parents, home schooling is a legitimate and important choice. But, for the vast majority of Americans it is the public school system.
Each year (I've been doing this for 20 years) the children sent through the doors of public schools are less and less mature. In my school over half of our student population is considered poverty level - black, white, hispanic. What I have found is that these children as well as children of non-impoverished homes are either neglected, ignored, or fawned over. Add to that the growing number children growing up in homes of addicted parents (SES does not matter here). The end result is that children lack the basic emotional skills and behavioral models that many of us grew up with.
The fact is that in order to teach those who come to us well-adjusted, capable, and willing to learn, we have to find a solution for those who are none of those things. We have to find a solution for a child who is enabled in his/her behavior by a rotten parent who helicopters in to blame everyone but their own sorry selves for the problems of her child.
I don't pretend to have all the answers to the problems. But the old-school ain't working. If you want it to work like it did in the old days, then encourage marriage. Encourage in-wedlock birth. Encourage reconciliation. Boys and girls without fathers are as lost as any stray.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 9/1/2019 12:27:45 PM (No. 168615)
The complete end of actual learning.
Keeping your children and grandchildren out of government schools should be a parent or grandparent's highest duty, with all other things less important.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/2/2019 1:25:38 AM (No. 169109)
Put in Meat Locker Freezers so the Snowflakes don't melt...Problem Solved!
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