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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents should really band together and tell the administration to back off big time on the whole SEL push.

They keep making us teach lessons we're absolutely not trained to deliver. I teach STEM, not psych.

My students hate (with a big H) the SEL lessons because they want to use that period to get their homework done and to relax a bit. The lessons are canned, preachy, unconvincing and embarrassingly contrived powerpoints.

And after an entire year of delivering these once a week, our school has no soap in the boys' bathrooms because kids have broken and keep breaking all the soap holders off the walls.

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How is fcps able to get around Virginia law and use the outside contractors to provide lessons to the students without the required review processes and transparent review of all curriculum?

Virginia constitution and the Virginia code are VERY explicit that published and digital curriculum must be reviewed and adopted through a very specific process, which includes requiring the material be public and reviewable for 30 days, with public feedback and the ability to object to the material with a reveiw process for the objections.

FCPS is skirting the law by brining in these outside contractors that are not subject to FIOA requests, and then fcps giving these outside groups FERPA that is supposed to be used only and specifically for schools and educators.[/quote]

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