Know-Before-You-Buy: What’s Inside of ‘Whole School, Whole Child’ Models?
When someone’s trying to sell you something, listen to the words they use. What sounds really good usually comes with strings attached, extra risks, and baggage you soon wish you could get rid of—like a ‘time-share’! Remember those?
Only, in the case of these ‘new’ educational models, the unwanted baggage and risks to your future are what is done to your child’s mind--something too precious to regret damaging later.
One big tip-off that this is a sales scheme--like a time-share they hype up with all the great stuff you get--is the fact that you’re not given all the details. The reason sales people got rich dangling trips and all sorts of bennies was so you’d get taken by emotion and forget to look closely at the contract. The other similarity is that they kept changing the name of the scheme. Honestly, do they ever call them ‘time-shares’ now?... It’s all marketing. And your child is what’s for sale.
Beware of education models using these buzz words:
“Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child” (WSCC)
“Wholistic redesign” of education
“Social Emotional Learning” (SEL)
“Social, emotional health”
“Equity focused/ Critical Race Theory (CRT)
“Comprehensive Sex Education”) (CSE)
“Child (or even Employee) wellness”
“Multi-Tiered System of Support” (MTSS)
“Future-focused”
“Freedom to Learn” (used by teachers unions and leftists at school district meetings)
And one of the latest: “Learning 2025”
(I mean, who can be against these ideas, right?)
This is what’s REALLY ‘inside the contract’ of these models:
Programming Critical Race Theory and Gender Theory (everything taught through race and gender lens, causing division and anger)
Socially-engineered learning (emotional manipulation)
Social justice activism vs. academics
Early sexual suggestion/confusion (grooming and gender-transition treatments)
Conformist-based thinking vs critical-thinking
Child Data-mining using surveys through an ‘equity lens’
Child and Family Data-Tracking
Maybe we should be connecting these dots NOW?! … Thankfully, people are starting to! Please read up and share what you know with every parent, friend, grandparent, lawmaker and anyone in the grocery line!
Meet “Learning 2025”: This article reveals much of what’s behind one of the latest re-brandings of the same basic model, which like others, has ties to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). This model is already in Mesa schools.
About 120 districts across the country are adopting it. Some “critics believe it’s aimed at manipulating students' values and beliefs to replace parents as the primary moral authority in their child's lives. The School Superintendent's Association (AASA) is implementing Learning 2025, which calls for an equity-focused, "holistic redesign" of the United States' public education system by 2025, in districts across the country.”
One mom sounds the alarm on the nation-wide “Learning 2025” curriculum which she says uses children's minds 'like a playground'. Holly Terei of No Left Turn in Education attended a Learning 2025 conference so she could see firsthand what its goals are for kids.
A Learning 2025 report encourages communities to work with local governments, so schools can "transform into indispensable resources" for "the community at large…. Instead of your child being looked at as an extension of you or belonging to you, they are looked at as an extension of the government and of the government schools," Terei said.
And here’s the sales-pitch: The curriculum envisions schools as becoming "hubs of supports and resources to the greater community" which will mean "reimagining roles, responsibilities, relationships, and partnerships focused on building assets in children, families, schools, and community." How nice. Hmm, “building assets IN children”? Or making children into assets of the State? (Again, consider the words they use.)
Terei said she learned at the conference, “there's an intentionality of bypassing parental rights by not being transparent about the implementation of the program, the data collection that goes into it, the fact that it's not a proven educational program and that our children… are literally a part of a social educational experiment.”
Learning 2025 is only one of the many iterations of these ‘new’ educational models to keep away from. Many more acronyms are the same wolf in a slightly different sheep’s clothing.
In the next week or so, we will focus on the “Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child” model that has been so mis-represented, and has mis-led many well-meaning parents, teachers and administrators.
The big picture is: While we Americans are so focused on our kids’ gender and making sure everyone feels good, our test scores are rapidly declining--especially when compared to countries like China, Japan, India and others. In 10 years, American teens won’t be getting into the top universities or competing for the top jobs. But that’s okay with the education establishment--we don’t need smart, capable people, as long as everyone feels included.