Lies, Damned Lies, and SEL

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 112 Like virtually everything in Woke Marxism, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is sold through lies and deception. The packaging is always pretty. What's in the box is always a catastrophe. While this rule is consistent across everything Woke, it reaches something of a staggering peak where it comes to SEL. "It's just about teaching kids to manage their emotions and develop the social skills necessary to succeed in the workplace of the future and to get along with people in a diverse world." No, it isn't. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through a recent low-quality article (https://iowastartingline.com/2023/02/13/explainer-what-sel-really-is-and-why-this-senator-wants-to-ban-it) defending Social-Emotional Learning in Iowa after state Senator Sandy Salmon introduced a bill to ban it from the state Department of Education. His purpose is to expose the lies and damned lies constantly used to defend and promote SEL in a real-world example. Join him to see how much these activists leave out of their deceptive sales pitches. Order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #newdiscourses #jameslindsay #SEL

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to the new discourses podcast.
0:24.6	I want to talk about social-emotional learning again, but this one's a little bit different.
0:29.2	I'm not going to go through a typical woke document or something like that.
0:35.2	I'm not going to talk off the cuff specifically, but it's going to be kind of barely both of those.
0:40.2	What I'm going to do actually, I want to go through and kind of riff off of a phrase, attributed to Benjamin D'Saureli,
0:48.2	which was that there are three kinds of lies, lies, damned lies, and statistics,
0:54.2	which of course, as a comment on how statistics can be manipulated in order to bolster bad arguments or stupid ideas,
1:02.2	or they can be manipulated to basically make a lot of different kinds of arguments that they don't actually support.
1:10.2	And so in this case, what's happened is that just to give you a little background of the state of Iowa,
1:18.2	in fact, a state senator there named Senator Salmon, Senator Sandy Salmon, Republican Jamesville, Iowa,
1:30.2	District has forwarded a bill to end to ban social-emotional learning.
1:38.2	In particular, the organization Castle, C-A-S-E-L, the collaborative for academic social and emotional learning from the state of Iowa,
1:47.2	was invited to testify at the kind of subcommittee hearing regarding this bill.
1:53.2	And I unequivocally said that we should be getting rid of SEL, and that I therefore support this initiative.
2:02.2	A representative from Castle wrote in and wrote a number of cute corporate boilerplate sounding distortions,
2:12.2	including something along the lines of 95% of school districts or something like this in the United States.
2:20.2	Use Castle, as though everybody jumping off of a bridge is a good justification for doing so yourself.
2:27.2	There are lots of reasons why Castle is so widely implemented.
2:33.2	That primary reason is the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was passed in 2015,
2:39.2	partly based off of lobbying that was pushed by Castle itself, or representatives from Castle.
2:49.2	Mandates the reporting of at least one non-academic competency.
2:54.2	Rather than now dealing with educating students, we have turned education in the United States, by the way,
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