How Leftists Are Bypassing Red-State Legislatures to Corrupt Kids

American Thinker ^ | 8 Jul, 2023 | Matt Wolfson

[MtnClimber]

It's called 'Trauma-Informed Schools,' and it's infecting even one of the reddest legislatures in the country.

For conservatives, Democratic infiltrations of state agencies to swing coming elections represent an immediate threat. But another infiltration accomplishes similar ends by longer-term means: creating "Trauma-Informed Schools" for teachers to shape children's personalities by instructing them to locate past trauma in problems like racism, sexism, and even climate change — problems that only big government can solve.

Today this project is spreading through schools, pushed by nonprofits with funding from the Biden administration for "social and emotional learning" but also with the encouragement of state agencies under the gaze of Republican-dominated legislatures. Nowhere has it spread faster than Missouri — a state with two Republican U.S. senators, three fourths Republican U.S. representatives, a fully Republican Executive Branch, and Republican congressional supermajorities. Considering this political lineup, Missourians might be forgiven for thinking they'd exempted themselves from leftist educational doctrine. But they'd be wrong.

On August 26, 2020, as schools reopened in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) issued this apparently unexceptional memo from Assistant Commissioner Blaine Henningsen:

The Department ... has partnered with Alive and Well Communities to provide additional guidance documents, training sessions and engagement strategies for educators regarding social-emotional learning and development ... [as] administrators are welcoming back students and staff members who may have experienced unprecedented trauma due to the COVID-19 pandemic...

[MtnClimber]

If only conservatives could be as persistent as the communists.

[sauropod]

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[Fai Mao]

Some teachers and school administrators need to be ______________

[TimSkalaBim]

It’s not so much a matter of persistence as what we’re dealing with is a different mindset. Activists seek out ways to mess with other people. Conservatives by nature are more live and let live. As long as they are tolerated, the activists will eventually erode and corrode everything.

[Wallace T.]

On every battle in the culture wars, going back to issues like sex education, contraception, and loosening divorce laws back in the min-20th Century, the cultural Left won because they were persistent and devious. Conservatives need to be as clever and ruthless as their opponents or we will lose on the transgender issues.

[TimSkalaBim]

Except that conservatives are always in the position of being reactive. Reacting to countless provocations. Unless we win 100% of the time, we eventually lose, and that's the undeniable reality since the mid-20th century.

I think I know how the Mohicans felt.

[No name given]

Yes, if only.

[No name given]

Given one way free helicopter rides, a la Pinochet.

[popdonnelly]

Our political system is broken because leftists no longer play by the rules. The States have the power to make the law. You don’t like the law, change it, don’t subvert it.

[Salman]

War criminals. Treat them as such.

[Ford4000]

Am I alone in thinking that leftists are the last people who should be trusted to teach others about things like self-control?