Are Texas parents opting out of school book fairs and social-emotional lessons?
Laney Hawes would never consider banning her four children from book fairs at their local school.
Attached to the letter was a form for a parent to opt their children out of attending the fair altogether. Permission slips aren’t new. Schools sent them home for years, often asking for a parent to give the okay before a child could attend a field trip,take part in an athletic activity or even participate in lessons on sensitive topics, such as on puberty or sex education.
Some of the same conservatives who targeted how schools talk about race, gender and sexuality have increasingly mounted resistance against social-emotional learning, which aims to boost students’ mental health and help them manage emotions. They argue it is a way schools can mask teaching critical race theory or allegedly indoctrinate students.
The permission slip is just a new effort “to streamline that process in the spirit of greater parent communication and involvement,” Nieman said. Recent debates over what is appropriate has prompted conversations between Hawes and her husband over what they think is appropriate for their children, who range from first to ninth grade.
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