DEI programs have not disappeared after government funding has been cut, instead they are operating in disguise as Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in public schools, reports Mission: America. Children are introduced to SEL lessons in the classroom, which are a pipeline into a school based health clinic.
Classroom will give emotional assessments, asking children questions regarding their mental health. Unlike adults, these children are unequipped to answer and are very suggestible and more likely to be influenced and manipulated.
As the article states, “They often begin to dwell on the dark and negative, inflating everyday situations into mental health concerns. The good intentions of trying to intercept suicidal actions often create angst among otherwise happy-go-lucky kids.”
Students will then go to the school based health clinics, where over diagnosing will be high in order to meet a patient quota which will be filled by the students. The result will be children pushed into self-labeling and rebellion surrounding a victim mentality. School counselors can no longer be trusted as they are indoctrinated into woke ideology, and these counselors will give children “intrusive sexuality and gender advice.”
All of this is done without parental consent, effectively taking away parental rights. The claim is that all of it will help a child improve in academic performance by having them accept people who are different. It has children go against the Judeo-Christian values their parents instilled in them to accept, for example, LGBTQ+ ideology and Islamic values, eventually turning them into hate-filled activists.
Linda Harvey, president of Mission: America, says SEL is in many schools in Ohio and around the country. She describes it as a completely upside down worldview that contradicts Judeo-Christian Values.
“SEL is actually DEI in disguise. It also incorporates what is called the whole child framework, and just think about that. They want to have influence over every aspect of your child's life," states Harvey.
She says that SEL evaluates values, beliefs, and soft or even intense mental health conditions using pernicious questionnaires.
"In other words, is your child suicidal? Is your child a threat to him or herself? Is he or she a threat to others? And so, they are able to justify an awful lot of the intrusive surveys that they introduce, with or without parental consent," says Harvey.
She states that parents are the best defense against SEL. By finding out which SEL vendors are being implemented in their schools, they can then join together in a strong stance against it.
