Moms for Liberty has launched a new online resource called “M4LU” that has kicked off with in-depth lessons on social emotional learning, or SEL.
Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, tells AFN the values-teaching concept is not a new one. In fact, she advises it can now be found in most classrooms which is why the parental rights group chose it as the first topic to introduce on the new M4LU website.
“It sounds very nice,” she advises. “They talk about wanting to help kids regulate their emotions, and to feel safe and valued in the classroom, but the truth is that it's a real violation of parental rights."
If a parent is serious about learning more about SEL, 30 minutes on the M4LU website could mean watching a professional lecture series, reading scholarly white papers, and reviewing school documents uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
There is also a true-or-false quiz on the topic, beginning with a question about your school’s guidance counselor.
(The correct answer is “false” on the first question).
According to Justice, there are entire schools failing children in reading and math but the teachers have been trained like they’re mental health professionals.
“Kind of a whole group therapy,” she says.
The founding of Moms for Liberty can be traced back to the COVID-10 pandemic, when parents were begging school boards to re-open but their pleas fell on deaf ears. During that early fight, Justice and Moms co-founder Tina Descovich were both school board members before stepping down to represent frustrated and determined parents.
The two women also took up the parental rights cause just in time to organize against transgender-promoting propaganda, such as choosing a new pronoun and storybook time. That movement now views disapproving parents as enemies of left-wing indoctrination.
Knowing that many of those parents have not given up, and want to take back the schools, M4LU was designed to give them more in-depth tools to learn what they’re up against.
“What we found,” Justice says, “is that moms and dads want to know and understand the different issues that they're seeing manifesting in the schools that are affecting their children's lives and quality of their education.”
