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Notarfrancesco: TRAILS goes beyond SEL—it’s activism wrapped in therapy language

Should teachers in Colorado K-12 classrooms be performing daily assessments on the thoughts and feelings of your children?

At the beginning of the 2024-25 school year, Pueblo D70 School District controversially implemented a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum which Superintendent Ronda Rein described in an email from September 24, 2024 as a “daily assessment of thoughts and feelings.”

SEL is promoted to parents and school administrators as the panacea for kids’ mental health concerns, and SEL advocates believe the concepts benefit students by providing important emotional training which leads to academic success, healthy relationships, and proper civic engagement.

Notarfrancesco: Pueblo D70 Schools handed kids’ emotional data to political NGOs without parental consent

Commentary, Approved, Local, Rocky Mountain Voice, Top Stories / May 12, 2025 / Curriculum Transparency, Parental Rights, Social Emotional Learning, Student Data Privacy, Tides Foundation, TRAILS Program

It is said there is no such thing as a free lunch. One small school district in Pueblo, Colorado, recently learned that a free lunch can be served with a side of community outrage.

When the Pueblo D70 Board of Education unanimously voted in March of 2024 to “accept” a significant in-kind gift of $700,000 from the organization TRAILS (Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students), did they realize what they were implementing in district classrooms?

D70 accepted a “gift” of controversial psychosocial educational content, financed and promoted by multi-million-dollar non-governmental organizations dedicated to transforming the world through social change.

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