SOUNDS good, but what is it, and how is it presented to children?
SEL encourages children to question their identity, and to hide discussions they have with school personnel from their parents. Many SEL concepts contradict beliefs taught by Christian, Jewish, Muslin, Hindi, Jehovah's Witness and Mormon parents. Here is an excellent summary of SEL that a parent-group put together after researching many of the resources we've linked below, plus other resources from their children's classrooms.
Some of the lesson plans on the INFOhio Educator Tools are clearly from the same California firm that provided resources to the first two schools linked on this page.
Spoiler alert! Unborn babies and un-gay men have no rights.