
James Lane
Superintendent of Public Instruction
by James C. Sherlock
A new educational theory has been implemented while most were not looking.
The educational-industrial complex is all-in on Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Behold the circle of life of that complex:
- Many education schools have for a very long time been producing “studies” under government grants awarded by ed school grads that prove that SEL will solve, well, everything – including the poor outcomes of everything they researched and credited with magical powers before SEL. This is called “academic inquiry” by actual educational institutions with fewer closed loop interests and higher standards.
- The same education schools teach it.
- Virginia education policymakers and graduates of the education schools, have fully embraced it.
- Lots of ed school graduates working as consultants are available to spend all those newly minted hundreds of billions of “COVID” dollars sent to the schools.
- There are lots of new jobs in the schools for SEL staffers, ed school grads all.
- And all of that will last until the ed schools come up with a new silver bullet theory to fix the problems created by SEL. This is done by renaming and expanding it.
- Go to number 1, set the money cycle on re-wash and press start.
SEL of course, being a full-service silver bullet, requires its own bureaucracies, teacher reeducation, teacher mentors called “coaches”, curricula, classroom time, lesson plans, “data” that need to be viewed through an “equity lens” and of course money, lots of it. Continue reading