Schools beat: Stop Teaching Kids To Despair

Thanks to “dominant ideas of social and emotional learning (SEL) and trauma-informed pedagogy (TIP),” schools today teach children — “through countless implicit and explicit signals ” — that the “world they live in,” is ” a broken and dangerous place,” warns Robert Pondiscio at National Review. Argh!

An important “body of research led by Jeremy Clifton, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania” finds that our “primal world beliefs” (i.e., “deep, often unconscious assumptions about the nature of the world”) tend to “shape everything: our sense of well-being, our resilience, our openness to experience, even our mental health outcomes.”

Teachers must “examine what kind of world we’re portraying” to kids.

“Children need to know that t

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