It depends on the situation, but it's an excellent skill to have. If they are trying to nurture it in appropriate ways, I would count that as a positive.

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Anonymous wrote:How is your child’s school teaching self-advocacy? Ours’ was age-appropriate. For example, 1st graders whose parents forgot to pack a snack could let the teacher know and walk down to the office, where they could choose a snack.

This. It’s an important skill kids need to have by the time they are in college, and it can start in small doses with young kids and increase as they get into MS and HS. No, elementary students should not be having to entirely advocate for themselves without parent involvement. But schools should be guiding them toward that goal as they get older.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Our school is obsessed with student self advocacy, which I am in general in favor of, but which can feel like kids being thrown into the pit. It also feels like a cop out and how exactly is this different than public?

Your school administrators are lazy. This is their way of not wanting to deal with parent. ignore and advocate for your child when needed.

Yep, those two words —self advocacy— are over used by our ES principals. I always get the feeling that they don’t want parent emails. Then there is a paper trail of documented poor class management and bullying and harassing going on.

Anonymous wrote:How is your child’s school teaching self-advocacy? Ours’ was age-appropriate. For example, 1st graders whose parents forgot to pack a snack could let the teacher know and walk down to the office, where they could choose a snack.

This. It’s an important skill kids need to have by the time they are in college, and it can start in small doses with young kids and increase as they get into MS and HS. No, elementary students should not be having to entirely advocate for themselves without parent involvement. But schools should be guiding them toward that goal as they get older.

How is your child’s school teaching self-advocacy? Ours’ was age-appropriate. For example, 1st graders whose parents forgot to pack a snack could let the teacher know and walk down to the office, where they could choose a snack.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is obsessed with student self advocacy, which I am in general in favor of, but which can feel like kids being thrown into the pit. It also feels like a cop out and how exactly is this different than public?

Your school administrators are lazy. This is their way of not wanting to deal with parent. ignore and advocate for your child when needed.

Yeah this is my sense; teachers basically creating hurdles.

Anonymous wrote:Our school is obsessed with student self advocacy, which I am in general in favor of, but which can feel like kids being thrown into the pit. It also feels like a cop out and how exactly is this different than public?

Your school administrators are lazy. This is their way of not wanting to deal with parent. ignore and advocate for your child when needed.

Anonymous wrote:Jfc how many threads are you going to make

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What age?

DC’s schools scaffolded that very well as the kids got older, and now in HS the students are the first line of communication.

DC is particularly good at it (and it’s particularly important) because of having accommodations for dyslexia. We were able to step back in stages through MS, and DC’s MS did a great job of supporting kids to advocate for themselves. DC hasn’t needed us to do anything in HS.

Jfc how many threads are you going to make

Our school is obsessed with student self advocacy, which I am in general in favor of, but which can feel like kids being thrown into the pit. It also feels like a cop out and how exactly is this different than public?