Fascinating and frightening!-----SEL and the Surveillance of the American Mind

Imagine an era where Big Tech, billionaire foundations, and government bureaucrats feast on your child’s innermost thoughts from kindergarten right through college.  - Suzannah Alexander

Now read The New Face of Woke Education by Priscilla West, and discover the chilling surveillance state masquerading as Social Emotional Learning (SEL) already deeply embedded in schools near you.

• While innocuous sounding, SEL has garnered a reputation not only for robbing students of valuable time that should be spent on core subjects like reading and math, but also for smuggling ideological agendas into the classroom under the guise of emotional development...

West details how SEL was sold as a way to teach students how to manage their emotions and develop the social acumen of Machiavell...

• This development became the impetus for tech companies to develop software for tracking student behavior, relationships, and psychological safety. 
• High-powered groups like the Gates Foundation, Kellogg, Allstate, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and others turbocharged the production of SEL resources and curriculum with a firehose of funding...