Yes!! Parents- you CAN opt your child out of SEL, but you have to be very diligent in understanding what we are about to tell you- and be prepared to protect your child’s innocence and mental health unapologetically that some administrators are either clueless or part of the corruption that has infected our public schools.

PPRA (20 U.S.C. § 1232h, 34 CFR Part 98) affords parents of students certain rights regarding, among other things, participation in surveys, the collection and use of information for marketing purposes, and certain physical exams. Virginia DOES have an opt-out form.
One that has never been offered or linked in any documentation I have received while being a parent and no administrator I talked to even knew about. The very vague “opt-out” provision is mentioned in passing at the beginning of the school year regarding FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION specifically and the
Virginia Department of Health “Youth Survey” that goes out every two years to selected schools in your area. The districts believe this to be the legal due diligence they are required under the law because they have up until now assumed and for the most part were correct that we are ignorant to question what our children are learning or doing in schools.

So, this will serve as a wake-up call for them and for you! Social-Emotional Learning is taught IN EVERY CLASS in EVERY GRADE, K-12. Simply look at the Virginia Department of Education Social Emotional Learning website and you will see the STANDARDS OF LEARNING
and how it is implemented through a lens of equity and social justice starting in Kindergarten.

It is not a curriculum or a lesson plan- it is the fluffed up delivery system for all of the ideologies founded on Critical Race Theory-diversity, equity and inclusion, social justice, cultural competency, the transgender mandated policies our children are being forced to be a part of in every single grade- SEL is the praxis of all things CRT but is far more damaging because of how nice and pretty they make it sound when in reality is designed to slowly breakdown of a child’s identity
then reform it under one “moral code” – the government’s moral code- and is blatant psychological manipulation and every teacher who teaches it is well versed in moral ethics in education and should tell everyone what they are being made to do. 

When sending in your form through email or letter- you HAVE to be firm with your wording, that you know what SEL is, that it is in every class, every grade, and that our child WILL NOT be taking part in ANY OF IT and that an alternate assignment must be offered.
YOU HAVE TO STAY VIGILANT!

Go through your child’s CANVAS dashboard religiously, through the app any parent can get from the county, or by going through their Chromebook- which is filled with data mining software from companies like Aperture, Committee for Children, Second Step, and Center for Collaborative classroom- which are the contracts Chesterfield County currently has- I found these by going through my county government page and looking through procurement contracts. They are logging every single thing our children do through their student ID number since under PPRA they don’t list this as personally identifiable information and since they are GOOGLE chrome books, they have contracts with google to data-mine every search your child does, every answer to every question they are asked without your consent because they use Google Slides and Google Drive for everything.

Curriculum transparency is a myth and without actual textbooks and tests with grades sent home, we are blindly sending our children into a war zone every single day without realizing it. “Surveys” are not what we think of in the “traditional” check a box, yes or no, etc. way we have always known surveys to be. ANY questioning of your child regarding political affiliations or beliefs of the student or student’s parents, mental or psychological problems of the student or student’s family, illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, or demeaning behavior; and critical appraisals of others with whom respondents have close family relationships, to name a few, is a survey whether it looks like it or NOT!
File your form and turn it in TODAY! Be VERY CLEAR that you know how it is taught, where it is taught (Everywhere) and
what it does to children
.
Virginia Opt-out form – must be submitted every Fall! And can be turned in at any time.

This Toolkit from AFL will help as well!

Find any States Opt-out form here.