Did you know that Social Emotional Learning is tied to COVID relief funds?

Yes, the same money that also required schools to keep kids masked up and quarantined.

ESSER, an acronym for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, are federal funds designated for one-time, short-term spending to address learning recovery.

In order to receive these funds, the U.S. federal government requires schools to offer “Social Emotional Learning” programs. Every state is required to be transparent in regard to how ESSER allocations are being implemented. Parents can go to their state department of education website and find their district to take a look at how those funds are being spent.

Parents across the nation have reached out to me for assistance to determine if their school district is implementing SEL programs that propagate Critical Race Theory. What they are finding out is that they have been misled by their local education agencies. They have been told that this isn’t happening, but when parents look into it and follow the money, we discover that the programs are CASEL- (Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning) aligned and that their district has in fact accepted ESSER funds. These programs are propagating CRT.

These findings have prompted top Republicans to launch an investigation into the Department of Education for allegedly using COVID relief funds to pay for radical left programs.

“Committees on Oversight and Reform and Education and Labor Republicans are investigating the use of COVID-19 relief dollars appropriated for virus mitigation and the safe reopening of schools. Based on recent reports, the Department of Education is allowing Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and related COVID relief funds to pay for racially biased and other progressive leftist programs,” wrote the Republican lawmakers. “Specifically, Congress created the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund to enable schools to safely reopen and address learning loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those taxpayer dollars, however, are being used to indoctrinate children in core tenets of leftist ideology.”

In Tennessee, the Williamson County Schools website is linked to the American School Counselor Association.

“It is an ‘expectation, not the exception’ for school counselors to integrate multiculturalism and social justice perspectives into their work as advocates and leaders,” according to the ASCA 2021 Position Statement.

The ASCA’s recent conferences have been heavy with transgender, gender identity and racially-driven material.

So what does this really mean? Parents need to understand that there is a global agenda behind this initiative which is directly linked to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

This agenda seeks to replace the role of parents with the government, Alex Newman writes in the Freedom Project, commenting on a UNESCO report that “starts with the outrageous premise that the government—not the parents—is primarily responsible for the education of children.”

“Citing the UN’s so-called ‘Sustainable Development Goals,’ described by UN bosses as the ‘master plan for humanity,’ the report claims that ‘the State remains the duty bearer of education as a public good.’”

If you take a look at UNESCO’s website, they are very clear that their desire is to “transform education with SEL through sustainable development goals.”

Dr. Anantha Duraiappah directs UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development in Asia. In a 2019 edition of The Blue DOT, a magazine featuring “the relationship between education, peace, sustainable development and global citizenship” and other UNESCO MGIEP activities and interests, “we focus on different aspects of social and emotional learning, including the neurosciences, teacher training, frameworks such as CASEL and SEE Learning and systemic SEL, amongst others,” Duraiappah writes. “The issue includes a . . . cover story that focuses on how SEL can help to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Additionally, we feature interviews and opinions from some of the world’s most prominent SEL experts on the importance of integrating SEL in our education systems.”

The publication clearly outlines UNESCO’s relationship with CASEL.

I have read reports across the nation that outline how schools are surveying students and holding group counseling sessions without parental consent. Data collection is occurring and profiles are being created on students that will follow them throughout their school career. In Tennessee parents can opt out of these programs but I recommend, if at all possible, you opt out of government indoctrination centers altogether.

If the globalization of education and the destruction of true private education concerns you, get them out. If you believe that parents have the God-given right to educate their children as they see fit, get them out. If you believe that children belong to their parents and not the government, get them out.

As I have said many times before, this is not a new agenda. Charlotte Iserbyt sounded the alarm in the ’80s about this agenda. It is not going away. It is only going to pick up steam. As more and more parents wise up, the government is seeking to sink its tentacles in deeper by dangling the school-choice carrot. This “carrot” is an extension of this globalist agenda. They seek to destroy all forms of true private education. Will parents wake up before it’s too late?

What can parents do? Start by removing your children from government schools. Next, start contacting your elected officials and tell them that you see the writing on the wall and that you will hold them accountable for giving the green light for such programs. Politicians work for us, the people. They must not forget that.

As I like to say, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.”