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Anonymous wrote: Why the race questions then? Seems a bit out of place if the concern is for their mental health after a year of distance learning.

Here's why: then FCPS can say "OMG, 78% of students at (insert wealthy school) are not comfortable having discussions about race! Quick, airdrop Ibram X Kendi books into the library! Stop teaching math and instead teach race essentialism!"

They will use the results of this survey to further the implementation of CRT and race essentialism in the schools.

Anonymous wrote:I sent in opt out request forms in my kids' folders several days in a row and it looks like nobody was checking, because the forms kept coming back. Grrr.

Anonymous wrote:Is FPS using the SEL program RULER out of Yale?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Her Home Room teacher was saying she's hearing a lot of negative self talk starting already (and is fairly prevalent among middle schoolers), and this is one tool they're hoping to use to help the kids address those issues before they blow up into bigger problems.

There used to be a theory of thought that suicide was contagious--that the more it was discussed or pointed out, the worse it became. There is some substance to this theory.

If you have kids keep analyzing themselves to see if there is something "wrong with me" they may begin to believe it.

Just sayin'

This, exactly this.

Anonymous wrote:I also opted out. The data security paragraph was just odd. No way.

Anonymous wrote:

Her Home Room teacher was saying she's hearing a lot of negative self talk starting already (and is fairly prevalent among middle schoolers), and this is one tool they're hoping to use to help the kids address those issues before they blow up into bigger problems.

There used to be a theory of thought that suicide was contagious--that the more it was discussed or pointed out, the worse it became. There is some substance to this theory.

If you have kids keep analyzing themselves to see if there is something "wrong with me" they may begin to believe it.

Just sayin'

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This survey should have been tailored to different age groups, to be more helpful. I feel that my 6th grader would absolutely be able to provide thoughtful responses, whereas she would not have been able to, two years ago.

Her Home Room teacher was saying she's hearing a lot of negative self talk starting already (and is fairly prevalent among middle schoolers), and this is one tool they're hoping to use to help the kids address those issues before they blow up into bigger problems.

Do you really want Marc Zuckenberg and fcps to track your 12 year olds mental health and self esteeem 3x year over the next 5 years, and to have that information be part of her permanent school file?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This survey should have been tailored to different age groups, to be more helpful. I feel that my 6th grader would absolutely be able to provide thoughtful responses, whereas she would not have been able to, two years ago.

Her Home Room teacher was saying she's hearing a lot of negative self talk starting already (and is fairly prevalent among middle schoolers), and this is one tool they're hoping to use to help the kids address those issues before they blow up into bigger problems.

Do you really want Marc Zuckenberg and fcps to track your 12 year olds mental health and self esteeem 3x year over the next 5 years, and to have that information be part of her permanent school file?

Anonymous wrote:This survey should have been tailored to different age groups, to be more helpful. I feel that my 6th grader would absolutely be able to provide thoughtful responses, whereas she would not have been able to, two years ago.

Her Home Room teacher was saying she's hearing a lot of negative self talk starting already (and is fairly prevalent among middle schoolers), and this is one tool they're hoping to use to help the kids address those issues before they blow up into bigger problems.

Also since CRT is a floating signifier on both sides of the strange debate about it, why can't CRT be culturally responsive teaching? It's whatever the person talking wants it to mean. It's meaningless. But most people who don't like it basically are objecting to the idea that someone might teach that white people are inherently oppressors or inherently bad.[/quote]

Unfortunately, there are examples of that happening in some school systems in Virginia. That may not be what CRT is--but that is occurring.

CRT teaches that we see everyone through a racial lens and judge people based on race. Some people do--but they are telling us that ALL people do. Of course, we have eyes and can see color--but that doesn't mean we all judge by color.

I was a teacher. One day, for some reason, an administrator needed a breakdown of the races in my first grade class. It was after school. I was an elementary school teacher. I had to go get my grade book and visualize every child--which of course, I was able to do. But, I had never looked at them by race. The class was quite diverse and pretty close to the breakdown of race in the US. Also, included more multiracial kids than found in most schools.

The new "equity" standards being discussed at the retreat on Friday, are very interesting. Teacher has to think of each child and know their cultural background and teach them accordingly.
That doesn't sound like "equity" to me, and it certainly isn't equality.

My cultural background is American.