Missouri’s board of education will decide Tuesday whether to adopt social-emotional learning standards for K-12 students.
But though board members praised the potential guidelines during an August meeting as teaching “the basics of what it means to be human,” the proposal also inspired plenty of negative feedback among the 1,800 public comments submitted in the run up to Tuesday’s meeting in Jefferson City.
The negative comments, which made up roughly a third of those submitted, include accusations that the department is trying to raise “emotionally fragile snowflakes” and establish “critical race theory.”
