Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is a decades-old framework embedded into the curriculum and practices of countless public schools across the country. But critics have accused schools of using it as a means to indoctrinate children with radical gender ideology or teach comprehensive sex education.
In West Hartford, public comments show the district’s social and emotional learning curriculum particularly the components that deal with gender, sexuality and identity remains a point of contention or confusion for many, months after its introduction.