Loudoun County, Virginia, continues to find itself at the center of controversy.
The county’s school board is already in hot water after recent reports revealed its members had seemingly covered up a rape allegation. A boy has since been found guilty of sexually assaulting a female student in one of the school district’s girls’ restrooms. The board falsely said it had no knowledge of such a case before voting in August to allow males to use girls’ restrooms.
Concerned parents say progressive ideas have entered Loudoun County school curricula and are currently being taught to children enrolled in the district. They continue to protest at school board meetings in hopes of pressuring the district to remove the controversial teachings from classrooms.
Now, it appears that parents in Loudoun County are required to sign non-disclosure agreement-style documents in order to see exactly what their children are being taught, including a curriculum called Second Step Programs.
According to documents reportedly obtained by the Daily Caller, parents who wish to review the program must sign a form agreeing not to “broadcast, download, photograph, or record” the curriculum “in any manner whatsoever.”
Additionally, the district’s agreement with Second Step says the curriculum is “not subject to traditional Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws,” according to the Daily Caller.
The Second Step Programs utilize a teaching style known as social-emotional learning and are promoted by the left-leaning non-profit Committee for Children. According to the organization’s website, SEL is “fundamental to achieving social justice.”
Many of the controversial ideas found in critical race theory and left-wing gender theories appear central to the Committee for Children’s agenda.
Speaking with The Western Journal on Tuesday, James Lindsay — a leading expert on, and critic of, CRT and other far-left academic philosophies — broke down what exactly SEL is.
“Social-Emotional Learning started off trying to help emotionally troubled kids learn to deal with those issues so they could have better educational attainment, and it worked. It’s basically a psychological intervention that can work in the right cases and right circumstances,” Lindsay told The Western Journal via email.
However, problems with SEL began to arise when organizations like the Committee for Children started utilizing its practices “in uncontrolled, non-therapeutic environments (classrooms) by underqualified teachers without licenses to practice psychology,” Lindsay wrote.
In his view, this should be criminal.
These novel forms of SEL are referred to as “transformative SEL,” Lindsay said.
“These programs mirror the educational programs put in place by Mao in China during the Cultural Revolution and are wholly damaging to children. They’ve also adopted Marxian themes and methods, hence ‘transformative,’ and are used to groom children into Marxian views on sexuality and also Critical Race Theory,” Lindsay wrote.
Scott Mineo, leader of Loudoun County’s Parents Against Critical Theory group, told the Daily Caller he found the district’s lack of transparency about the SEL program suspicious.
“LCPS is partners with Southern Poverty Law Center, Racial Equity Tools, and Learning for Justice (SPLC), all of which have copyrighted material, however, LCPS freely provides access to these materials,” Mineo wrote in an email to Loudoun County Public Schools.
“Why is there such a double standard when parents want to review Second Step SEL material in its entirety?”
via westernjournal
Loudoun Parents Must Sign NDA-Like Docs to See Radical Curriculum Forced on Kids
I would sign the NDA, then ‘accidentally’ leave the info somewhere so that it is ‘accidentally’ found and made public
Nope it would be better if the parents was a lot smarter then that by refusing to sign it and turning around and suing them for with holding public information. You do know that most of the schools curriculum is now found online. So why the fuck would anyone sign a NDA.
Here is this schools Curriculum
Loudoun County school curricula
https://www.lcps.org/domain/14006
https://sites.google.com/lcps.org/lcps-elementary-curriculum/home
https://sites.google.com/lcps.org/lcpssecondarycurriculum/home
Yes, you are right.
if enough of the Facts are exposed, the courts will over ride the NDA. Vote for Youngkin, for Justice
Unless Virginia’s FOIA law is very weak, I doubt that an agreement between a local governmental agency and a private company can circumvent it by having those two groups simply saying it is exempt. If that is the case, it explains a lot about what is wrong in Virginia.
Sign the NDA in order to see? That is a red flag that is huge enough to cover the United States! Something needs to be done about that; I can hardly believe that amount of power in a school entity. It reeks of monkey business and no transparency.
What happened to reading, writing, arithmetic, history, biology, economics, Home Ec. & Phys. Ed.??? You remember, the courses where you learned the REAL history of America, along with other skills to make you a decent and functional adult?????? Oh, I Guess The School Board Got ‘WOKED’ Up.
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Throw you in jail for revealing what they are teaching your own children in schooL!!!!! Start of their “American Communist Dictatorship with all of us parents their American Communist SLAVES!!! What’s next, teaching directly from their “Marxist/Communist Hand Book, which they are already doing today”!!!!! They use our own American taxpayer money to support this ‘CRAP”!!!!! Stop paying your school taxes and cut off their tax money!!!Food for thought!!!!