backlash for social emotional learning

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/08/01/with-friends-like-david-brooks-social-emotional-learning-doesnt-need-any-enemies/

Some believe that social/emotional learning is not strong enough to be a new way of learning for students. That is valid. Social/emotional learning is not for everyone and thats okay.

"Promoting them as the solution to all that ails our students, their families, and our communities is at best naive and at worst horribly manipulative. At it’s very worst, it could also be called neocolonialist or educational colonialism."