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The Dialectic of Social-Emotional Learning

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SEL Is Coded Language for Suppressing Important Emotions and Privileging Feelings That Make Others Comfortable

SEL has even been described as a quote, calm down and rewrite that angry email. For black and brown young people in particular, this messaging communicates that their rage isn't warranted. It communicates to them that they should be complicit and content with the very systems that oppress them. Emotions like righteous anger have long been used as a tool to fuel movements which propel our nation forward toward justice.

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