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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes...is this a student run club or is it facilitated by an adult?

Agree with the PP that it wasn't well thought-out. Probably the facilitator didn't realize what the distribution of scores would look like (maybe a symptom of privilege). There are well-established ways of doing this sort of thing, but they involve making people feel very safe and letting them choose what to share.[/quote]
Both. The students were running the exercise but there were adults there.

I think I know WHY they did it. It's an affluent, predominately white school and they were probably thinking everyone would get high scores and make it into one of those "see! You have an abundance of privilege in ways you don't even realize!" forgetting that there are in fact kids at that school that have had various difficult circumstances in their lives.

It sucks, especially because this is DD's first year at the school and she already felt kind of out of place. [/quote]

I'm so sorry, OP; this must be painful for your daughter, and, of course, for you.  I would really encourage you to speak to the teachers and explain your perspective.  I'm a teacher and if this happened at our school, I would want to know about it and respond.  As far as your daughter's feeling out of place generally, can you talk to someone in the administration or  a counselor?  [/quote]

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