Education is a very faddy field. The newest fad has the clunky title of “social-emotional learning”, and it’s as dumb as you can gather from the title:
Much of what is termed “social-emotional learning” does not stem from developmental psychology, cognitive science, or neurology. The creators of these programs often lack the academic or professional background necessary to navigate this “social-emotional” space, yet they create programs that promise to address kids’ cognitive and emotional needs. They treat correlation as causation, reduce complex processes to linear constructs, and lack a developmental lens.
Most social-emotional curricula promise that kids will become little high-functioning adults—calm, organized, optimistic, and rational problem-solvers—forgetting that young people are still growing and learning (and that they are human). Yet, these expensive programs are apparently too compelling for administrators to pass up.
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Most adults are not “calm, organized, optimistic, and rational problem-solvers.” To expect children to be that way is nuts. It’s not even a desirable thing that children should be like that. Experimenters in the field of education are promising to engineer away childhood, and they’ll fail. We need to stop humoring them and tolerating their inept theorizing.
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As someone who works in education, I hate this bullshit. Young people are immature and stay that way until their early to mid-20s, which is normal. This social-emotional bullshit just gives kids excuses to bully each other since it often involves kids encouraged to talk about times they were vulnerable, other kids will use these confessions against them.
Other times kids will hear about trigger warnings and then afterwards, they’ll complain everything triggers them as an excuse to not do work and to bully other kids. This is also why anti-bullying stuff doesn’t work, it makes anti-bullying look dorky and makes being a bully cook. This is teenager logic, if adults like it and push it on them, this makes whatever they’re pushing automatically uncool. Schools should stop with this bullshit and focus on academics, it’s always poor schools that have this nonsense
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