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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting aside the uselessness of the survey itself, the results letter was incredibly dense and full of jargon.  The second sentence is 50 words long!  Although the letter sort of says it's not a "grade", the rating scale is very similar to a grade.  The entire rating scale is poorly described and the two digit decimal precision is ridiculous.  There's also no other context given - how do my kids ratings compare to the overall school average?  A friendlier format that fully explains each topic with the student's results and suggested discussion questions would have been far more useful.

There may be some value here, but the average parent either won't understand this letter or worse, completely misunderstand it.

We'll be opting out in the future.[/quote]

It is purposely dense because it is a data mining company.

FCPS has monetized your kids personal musings on a host of issues, without giving you as a parent the opportunity to give informed consent.

This SEL contract is a tremendous violation of parental rights and student privacy.

They did give parents the opportunity to consent by providing the option to opt-out and they informed parents that the “anonymous” survey would be administered through the students’ personal computers owned by the school. Unfortunately, they were not that transparent. 
Moving forward, we could use this opportunity to talk to our children about boundaries when it comes to what we are willing to share with others, especially strangers.  Also, to explain to them that just because we send them to school it doesn’t necessarily mean we are in agreement with everything they are been presented to by the adults in charge there, especially with things that have no relation to anything academic.  We can also encourage them that in the event they are giving a survey or an adult asks personal questions in class, they have the right to refuse taking part in any of these data mining activities, in particular those where strangers inquire about their sexuality and ask that they document it in these surveys.  This, if anything, should be an eye opener to them because adults have no business inquiring about sexual topics from minors, therefore we need to have a conversation to empower our kids to set boundaries by refusing to disclose that information by not participating in any activities that require them to discuss such a topic with strangers because doing the opposite would equate to normalizing such behavior.

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Excellent advice. Thank you.[/quote]

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