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May 13, 2025

Title: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Diversity is Strength.
Topic: Woke Progressives

Discussed by Kate Bierly
with Texas Public Policy Foundation (www.TexasPolicy.com)

One day, as part of her student teaching requirement at Stanford, Kate Bierly was explaining a math lesson to a fourth-grade classroom when a boy became disruptive.

Today, Kate Bierly shares the rest of the story and why “social-emotional learning” is so dangerous. Kate Bierly is a Higher Education Policy Analyst with the Next Generation Texas Initiative, which is a division of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Click here to read Kate’s original op-ed with this story.

Click here to read Kate’s op-ed in response to her former classmates’ critique of her experience.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What happened when Kate Bierly taught a simple math problem as a student teacher? How did Kate’s supervisor respond when told of the incident?

Why did Kate leave teaching and take a position with the Texas Public Policy Foundation?

What is “social-emotional learning”? Is “social-emotional learning” saturating public education even in Texas? Kate explains that it is a spin-off of DEI – but much, much worse.

Is “social-emotional learning” similar to the George Orwell quote: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Diversity is Strength” from his book, “1984”? Kate Bierly discusses Orwell’s explanation of “double think” and gives some modern-day examples.

Why was Kate Bierly surprised recently to see fireworks erupt on the Texas House floor during a heated debate over a proposed school discipline bill? Click here for more information about House Bill 7.

How can we recapture the minds of those lost in “social-emotional learning” and double think?

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