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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else. [/quote]

[b]Kids should not be told they are stakeholders[/b]. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc. [/quote]

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?[/quote]

It seems logical that if you tell children that we’ve set up a system in which you have no stake and is going to control every aspect of your day for 6 hours, many if not most are going to resist and then you will need a punitive system to keep control of them. Why not have students acknowledged as stakeholders and help give input to the rules and expectations? [/quote]

There are two types of MCPS staff -

1) a staff member that listens to student concerns and respects what a student’s perspective is as a stakeholder

2) a staff member who doesn’t view students as stakeholders and punishes students when they try to self advocate

MCPS has had for decades students are stakeholders.  They should be the focus and purpose for the entire school system.  It seems like some have snoozed through the training for years.[/quote]

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