Social and Emotional Learning Archives

BANFIELD: SEL- Building Psychological Profiles on Your Children in School

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 Ann Marie Banfield

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has become the latest craze in public education. Promoted as a way to help students manage emotions and build empathy, SEL is now a packaged product sold by education vendors—complete with online platforms that collect data on every child who participates in Tier 1 of the Multi Tiered System of … Read more

Seabrook’s Psychotherapy in the Classroom

April 4, 2025 Ann Marie Banfield

More examples of Social and Emotional Learning are in the school classroom now. Here is a psychological exercise given to middle school students in Seabrook by a health teacher. Normally, these kinds of exercises are given to individuals after they’ve been assessed by a mental health professional, not in Seabrook schools. They just hand mental … Read more

How Schools and the State Wastes Your Money

March 9, 2025 Ann Marie Banfield

Dear Commissioner, Legislators, Executive Councilors, and State Board of Education Members: We are seeing school budgets rising while enrollment declines. Changing the model in public schools to the Community School (CDC’s) model will certainly add to those escalating costs. Turning our schools into mental health facilities has brought a whole new set of problems, and next … Read more

What a State Take-Over of Private and Religious Schools Will Look Like

March 6, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

I’ve been warning that the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program could eventually lead to a complete government take over of private and religious education in New Hampshire. HB1610 showed us that Democrats were even willing to go a step further and attempt to take over home-school education, too.

classroom empty desks original Image by WOKANDAPIX from Pixabay

Night Cap: What’s SO Bad About Social and Emotional Learning (and the SEL Proposed Legislation in NH)?

February 8, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

PART 1: Introduction
This week, there was a hearing before the House Education Committee to prohibit SEL in our public schools. The sponsor proposed an amendment at the hearing to change that to parental consent for children to participate in SEL.

We Did Not Swap One for Another – We Have Fought for Our Freedom!

October 15, 2023 Skip

There was a discussion about an outside agency coming in to “train” students of all grades in “Social and Emotional Learning” at a particular NH-based School District. What concerned folks was its progressive word-salad mission statement (shared below).

More SEL Group Therapy in Schools: Training Kids to Keep Information Secret

October 24, 2024December 9, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is now a way for group therapy sessions to be held inside your child’s classroom. We already know that this is happening in Greenland, but what does this look like?

Complaint Filed in SAU50 Over SEL Social and Emotional Learning–Failure to Obtain Parental Consent

December 4, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

Dear Ms. Fenton;

Please review the following emails I sent to the Superintendent in SAU50 regarding the Social and Emotional Learning taking place in the district. There is a difference of opinion on what constitutes assessing and servicing the mental health of children through SEL.

Reaching Higher NH and a Lesson on CRT in Social and Emotional Learning

November 15, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

Reaching Higher NH has no track record for improving public schools in New Hampshire. Yet they try to remain relevant. Here is an email I recently sent to one of their team members on Social and Emotional Learning in the public schools.

Groomers Part 2: Power Structures

August 6, 2022 Aaron Warner

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire In part 1 of this series, we looked at the common method groomers use to ensnare their victims from identifying and personalizing to love bombing and ultimately enslaving. We discussed the main organizations and individuals who use them … Read more

Dumbing Down Your Child Through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

July 4, 2022July 4, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

Teachers have always been the emotional support for children in school, and they provide the opportunity to learn social skills too. So what’s changed? Why are schools so focused on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)?

‘Portrait of a Graduate’ Used to Push Critical Race Theory Through Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

September 8, 2022April 26, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

Parents need to know that Portrait of a Graduate is a national program created by an Ohio-based company called Battelle for Kids. Portrait of a Graduate is being used to fundamentally transform the purpose of US education.

Now That the School District Has Labeled Your Child as an Evil Racist, How Will That Be Used against Him/Her?

April 6, 2021 Ann Marie Banfield

In my last article on Critical Race Theory (CRT), I described an agenda put forward by CRT apologists to label your child as a racist and oppressor. It doesn’t stop there.

Who has your child’s data in school?

February 27, 2020 Ann Marie Banfield

After reading through an opinion piece written by William R. Harbron Ed.D, superintendent of the Dover School District in Dover: Education in Dover: What is social and emotional learning and why you should care, I noticed he left many important issues out of this new federal education policy that parents need to be aware of. Should government schools … Read more