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So many fight about guns and ignore the obvious

Social Emotional Learning as a core subject every year K 12 would transform society. Teach children to self affirm, coping skills, perspective, empathy, wellness, and safety. Teach and remind them of their resuorces and how to access them. Affirm that they are valued and loved in school every year. You don't learn it all in kindergarten, because they have different challenges at different levels. There is nothing more important to their success than learning to love themselves and each other well. This isnt about being soft. This is building resiliance

thinkwithme 7 May 27
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It’s a great idea. The Repubs in Congress will say it’s being soft and filibuster it.

In time, rational Americans will vote the Repubs out and adopt it.

You forget the Republicans, or the entire Federal Government for that matter have little to do with specific school lesson plans or subjects.

@Alienbeing That’s the theory. Calling such stuff soft, or socialistic, is a fact.

@yvilletom It is NOT a theory. The Federal Govt. does not dictate school lesson plans, not have anything to do with them.

@Alienbeing The federal government funds local programs Congress likes and does not fund local programs Congress dislikes. For instance, abstinence-only sex education versus medically accurate comprehensive sex education.

Some years ago, California enacted a law saying that school districts who want to offer a sex education program must offer a medically accurate comprehensive program. They were not allowed to offer a federally-funded abstinence program.

@yvilletom Funding and requiring are two separate things. I repeat, the Federal Gov does NOT mandate local school subjects or instruction. They may provide funds that enable local districts to offer a course or method of instruction, but that is not mandating anything. Funding does not have to be accepted.

@Alienbeing And mandating doesnt mean that a quality program is going to be the result. What people believe in affects what they invest. That includes psychological emotional wellness.

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Bye bye

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Worth a shot, as long as I'm not away the day they hand out syntax and spelling.

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That would be a major component of the changes I would make to society and the manner in which we approach it. A lot of learned things have to be unlearned or there is no chance.

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Everyone should be evaluated, but getting GOP to agree to that isn't going to happen. The GOP is the problem; for them, obstruction is the objective.

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Let's see your supporting evidence.

Yep, didn't think you had anything to support your position. To suggest that our mass murder problem is the fault of our educational system without supporting evidence is grossly irresponsible. To go on to suggest your own unsubstantiated changes to that system also without any evidence based support is ridiculously naive. Educated people have spent their lives developing bodies of research that prove what educational technuques are the most effective. You just sound like another gun nut wanting to blame anything but the guns. Shame on you.

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