Opinion: The right and left could agree on one thing about schools
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The far-right demonization of social emotional learning (as of a piece with critical race theory and comprehensive sex education) reflects a long history of poliical conflicts about values and emotions in the classroom, says Natalia Petrzela -- but the current moment could be one that yields new common ground, she argues.
The enemy Beck and many other right-wing commentators are pointing toward is SEL, shorthand for "Social Emotional Learning," which, according to Beck, is the ideological "umbrella" for more familiar acronyms in our nation's most recent classroom wars: CRT (critical race theory) and CSE (comprehensive sexuality education).
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