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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He was saying that social emotional learning was NOT just for kids in SE, as he had heard other people say in the past. In other words, it is for all kids. He was refuting a comment that it was just for kids in SE.

I seriously don't understand why what he said was offensive.[/quote]

Silly PP. Don't you know that some people love to find offense in everything, and if they can't find it, they create it?[/quote]

The problem isn't that he's saying more kids should get social emotional learning.  It's that he said it in such a way that dismissively bracketed the kids in SE by income and race in his comment.  Saying that something is NOT just for those poor black kids, it's for all kids, is still offensive.  You can swap out [i]literally anything[/i] for social emotional learning and it's still offensive.  To wit:

"New textbooks are for all kids, not just those poor black kids in SE"

"School uniforms are for all kids, not just those poor black kids in SE"

"Extended recess is for all kids, not just those poor black kids in SE"[/quote]

WRONG!

If the prevailing belief is that it's just poor black kids who need new textbooks (cause, you know they destroy stuff), gym uniforms (cause they smell), and recess (cause they're hyper), it would NOT be offensive to state that 'We're implementing this because ALL kids benefit not just "those poor kids from SE", as some like to say.@

But keep trying to justify being a miserable, overly sensitive person who looks for reason to be offended.[/quote]

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