I don't understand how to read this and i looked at the website included in the letter and it didn't help.

My 3rd grader got a 1 in "challenging feelings - How frequently I feel challenging emotions like worry or sadness." A 1 means that's a "low strength." So she's not feeling challenging emotions? Or she's feeling them too much?

Maybe it's just that it's Thursday and it's been a hard week but I can't figure this out at all. Should I be worried?

When my ES students completed it they had difficulty with questions such as: During the past 30 days, to what extent were you able to disagree with others without starting an argument?

I know some answered “never”, because in their minds they don’t disagree with others so that was the answer.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish schools would incorporate social skills and social emotional lessons into the curriculum. Those are critical life skills. Instead, they waste money on collecting this data and then nothing.

They are doing that.

They are? Can you please give some examples for elementary and middle schools because I haven't heard about them from my children or their teachers.

Anonymous wrote:I wish schools would incorporate social skills and social emotional lessons into the curriculum. Those are critical life skills. Instead, they waste money on collecting this data and then nothing.

They are doing that.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish schools would incorporate social skills and social emotional lessons into the curriculum. Those are critical life skills. Instead, they waste money on collecting this data and then nothing.

This is the parents' job.

Hearing it from parents is not enough. Our children also have a lot to learn from peers and educators.

Anonymous wrote:I wish schools would incorporate social skills and social emotional lessons into the curriculum. Those are critical life skills. Instead, they waste money on collecting this data and then nothing.

This is the parents' job.

I wish schools would incorporate social skills and social emotional lessons into the curriculum. Those are critical life skills. Instead, they waste money on collecting this data and then nothing.

Anonymous wrote:There's no available quality mental health resources IN the schools or IN the community (waitlists galore, no one takes insurance).....even if this worthless survey showed a child was in need of serious help, there is no help available. All FCPS does is test and document (hello SOLS, ireadys, etc) but never seems to spend time or money actually REMEDIATING the problems.

Sadly true. My kid have taken two rounds of I-ready,
Fall fake SOLs, a dra and spring SOLs last year and both are behind grade level. Their school says they are just fine and don’t qualify for any extra covid tutoring or help. I guess kids who fail this screener wont somehow qualify for any mental health help from FCPS either

Anonymous wrote:I got these and I'm a bit confused by one of them. One of our kids was basically 3 - 3.5 straight down the board on everything.

My other kid, who is pretty happy-go-lucky, got a 5.00 in how frequently they feel challenging emotions like worry or sadness. But scores of 4.3 - 5.0 are High Strengths. I wouldn't call feeling constantly worried or sad a high strength. Does this mean the reverse, they almost never feel bad? That's the one I don't get.

Because it’s a trash survey.

I got these and I'm a bit confused by one of them. One of our kids was basically 3 - 3.5 straight down the board on everything.

My other kid, who is pretty happy-go-lucky, got a 5.00 in how frequently they feel challenging emotions like worry or sadness. But scores of 4.3 - 5.0 are High Strengths. I wouldn't call feeling constantly worried or sad a high strength. Does this mean the reverse, they almost never feel bad? That's the one I don't get.

https://www.fcps.edu/student-tests-and-assessments/student-assessment-details/social-emotional-screener/grades-3-12

Here is a link to the questions that were asked.

Link?

There's no available quality mental health resources IN the schools or IN the community (waitlists galore, no one takes insurance).....even if this worthless survey showed a child was in need of serious help, there is no help available. All FCPS does is test and document (hello SOLS, ireadys, etc) but never seems to spend time or money actually REMEDIATING the problems.

I found it incredibly depressing. My child who had the worst experience with Covid school closures/bad teachers rated the importance of school a "1".

And what a moronic question about how much time 10 year olds spend discussing race. WTF?

Did someone secretly make a fortune off this? What the heck was the point of spending millions of dollars on this steaming pile of garbage? Its not even a scientific/data driven type questionnaire that tells us how students actually are feeling---its just a report based on how the kids answered the questions. Think of all the tutors they could have paid for instead of this pointless shite.