by Matt Wolfson, American Thinker:
For conservatives, Democratic infiltrations of state agencies to swing coming elections represent an immediate threat. But another infiltration accomplishes similar ends by longer-term means: creating “Trauma-Informed Schools” for teachers to shape children’s personalities by instructing them to locate past trauma in problems like racism, sexism, and even climate change — problems that only big government can solve.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
Today this project is spreading through schools, pushed by nonprofits with funding from the Biden administration for “social and emotional learning” but also with the encouragement of state agencies under the gaze of Republican-dominated legislatures. Nowhere has it spread faster than Missouri — a state with two Republican U.S. senators, three fourths Republican U.S. representatives, a fully Republican Executive Branch, and Republican congressional supermajorities. Considering this political lineup, Missourians might be forgiven for thinking they’d exempted themselves from leftist educational doctrine. But they’d be wrong.
On August 26, 2020, as schools reopened in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) issued this apparently unexceptional memo from Assistant Commissioner Blaine Henningsen:
The Department … has partnered with Alive and Well Communities to provide additional guidance documents, training sessions and engagement strategies for educators regarding social-emotional learning and development … [as] administrators are welcoming back students and staff members who may have experienced unprecedented trauma due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Judging by Assistant Commissioner Henningsen’s background, which includes 31 years as a teacher and superintendent in the 15,000-person city of Carthage, he’s probably not a wellspring of progressive dogma. Neither is M. Rene Yoesel, who is listed on the memo as the contact for further questions: she is the coordinator of school counseling at the Department and a former Republican candidate for the Missouri House of Representatives. But theirs is the Education Department, which partnered with Alive and Well Communities — a Missouri-based nonprofit which describes its mission as
re-orienting the trauma-informed movement…to recognize the trauma caused by racism … [since] healing is possible only when we understand and acknowledge how trauma, including the trauma of anti-Black racism and white supremacy, are holding us all back from well-being.
Theirs is also the Department that commissioned Alive and Well to deliver a report titled “The Missouri Model for Trauma-Informed Schools,” characterizing trauma off the U.S. Department of Health’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) definition as
Read More @ AmericanThinker.com
