11/08 - Harlem Globetrotter Thursday!

[Devil_Dawg]

Morning all.

I finally watched my 13 year old completely break last night. We had meetings scheduled for parent teacher conferences and only one of her teachers showed up because the teachers were trying to stick it to the administration. They all left notes on their classroom doors saying "unfortunately I will be spending my evening with my family and not here." My daughter has been having severe testing taking anxiety due to PTSD from state mandated testing a couple of years ago and I had these meetings scheduled to work with the teachers to get her through it.

She is in therapy and this shit is pushing her over the edge. Making kids collateral damage to get your point across to your bosses just irritates me beyond words.

Sorry, rant over.

sorry about your daughter, however, I can see the other side as well. Hope it all works out

 

[Cara]

PTSD from standardized test? My father has PTSD from being at war, and I have it from being in a terrible car accident. Never heard of someone having it from taking a test. Seems to sort of trivialize PTSD...

uh dude. you don't get to decide what gives people a mental illness.

 

[Dutchy]

PTSD from standardized test? My father has PTSD from being at war, and I have it from being in a terrible car accident. Never heard of someone having it from taking a test. Seems to sort of trivialize PTSD...

I have academic PTSD as well and you sound more like you're trivializing that than anything else. It's a disorder that got its initial diagnoses from war, but trauma is trauma

 

[Jerami]

Agreed. Good filler, maybe, but only if they're not reject happy.

this was supposed to be in reply to @Jerami but I've got the dumb this morning and can't edit in quotes. Gonna go make more coffee.

"We use an automatic validation system to ensure the quality of your answer meets our expectation. If your submission is rejected and you believe it was a mistake of our validation system, please contact us via email."

 

[ChristopherASA]

Good morning. I think. Maybe

 

[FrenchToast]

I have academic PTSD as well and you sound more like you're trivializing that than anything else. It's a disorder that got its initial diagnoses from war, but trauma is trauma

Maybe a dumb question, but can you explain academic PTSD? I have been diagnosed with C-PTSD so I'm just trying to be understanding.

 

[bluedays]

I have academic PTSD as well and you sound more like you're trivializing that than anything else. It's a disorder that got its initial diagnoses from war, but trauma is trauma

Forgive me if I sound uneducated, but how exactly do you get PTSD from taking a test? I don't support standardizing testing either, but as someone who had to also do it while growing up, it gives the impression that someone is saying they have PTSD from taking a test as a way to push their own agenda or get out of testing.

 

[sofaslug]

PTSD from standardized test? My father has PTSD from being at war, and I have it from being in a terrible car accident. Never heard of someone having it from taking a test. Seems to sort of trivialize PTSD...

3 weeks of testing, 7 hours a day, in Spring of 2016 here in Michigan as the state revamped the education system. Kids were having seizures in the classrooms, puking, passing out. Ever since she seizes up and shakes when she has to take a test longer than about 30 minutes. Her classwork scores are flawless but she gets Ds and Es on tests. She is in therapy for it. The anxiety has pushed her to the point where she is suicidal. It's pretty horrible. No kid should have to deal with it.

 

[Jerami]

PTSD from standardized test? My father has PTSD from being at war, and I have it from being in a terrible car accident. Never heard of someone having it from taking a test. Seems to sort of trivialize PTSD...

PTSD is just a group of co-occurring symptoms. The only qualifying factor is that the triggering event was perceived as traumatic by the subject, regardless of standard perception of said event.

 

[savvy]

3 weeks of testing, 7 hours a day, in Spring of 2016 here in Michigan as the state revamped the education system. Kids were having seizures in the classrooms, puking, passing out. Ever since she seizes up and shakes when she has to take a test longer than about 30 minutes. Her classwork scores are flawless but she gets Ds and Es on tests. She is in therapy for it. The anxiety has pushed her to the point where she is suicidal. It's pretty horrible. No kid should have to deal with it.

Thank you for explaining. I spent a lot of my college education in psychology classes and had never heard of it. I was confused as well.

 

[chickenboneneck]

3 weeks of testing, 7 hours a day, in Spring of 2016 here in Michigan as the state revamped the education system. Kids were having seizures in the classrooms, puking, passing out. Ever since she seizes up and shakes when she has to take a test longer than about 30 minutes. Her classwork scores are flawless but she gets Ds and Es on tests. She is in therapy for it. The anxiety has pushed her to the point where she is suicidal. It's pretty horrible. No kid should have to deal with it.

That is way too long to expect kids to sit in a room and work on a singular task.

 

[sofaslug]

Forgive me if I sound uneducated, but how exactly do you get PTSD from taking a test? I don't support standardizing testing either, but as someone who had to also do it while growing up, it gives the impression that someone is saying they have PTSD from taking a test as a way to push their own agenda or get out of testing.

Dude, don't take this the wrong way but [MOD EDIT]

 

[jan]

Um,
as someone who is qualified to dx. PTSD
please. Just don't. This is an internet board.
But more than that, this is a WORK Thread. It's for work. If you want to discuss DSM criteria - go to a board that does that.
Or take it to pm.

 

[Dutchy]

Maybe a dumb question, but can you explain academic PTSD? I have been diagnosed with C-PTSD so I'm just trying to be understanding.

I kind of made up the concept on the spot there, but I was in an extremely long term traumatic experience regarding a professor's behavior towards me, the "system" changing halfway through the semester (thus failing me, which again, what the fuck, and telling me "I would never study or do anything with my life again") and then the educational system utterly failing to protect me from this professor and their solution to it being "just go back to being their student"

So what I mean by that is maybe not specifically testing, but any situation where there's a power differential like that there is opportunity for trauma.

Also, honestly, considering there are now countries that are banning standardized testing, I think it's plausible that it is causing more trauma to be done to kids than we are, as adults, prepared to admit.

 

[Despairagus]

"We use an automatic validation system to ensure the quality of your answer meets our expectation. If your submission is rejected and you believe it was a mistake of our validation system, please contact us via email."

eeewwww yeah I'm going to go ahead and remove it from my filler list. I'll keep it in mind for dire situations lol

 

[bluedays]

3 weeks of testing, 7 hours a day, in Spring of 2016 here in Michigan as the state revamped the education system. Kids were having seizures in the classrooms, puking, passing out. Ever since she seizes up and shakes when she has to take a test longer than about 30 minutes. Her classwork scores are flawless but she gets Ds and Es on tests. She is in therapy for it. The anxiety has pushed her to the point where she is suicidal. It's pretty horrible. No kid should have to deal with it.

Sounds like terrible administration that rolled from the top down. I bet the teacher's also didn't support testing like this either. I can see why they might want to avoid having conferences about this as the administration from your comments alone sound very caustic. Have you considered taking her in for a diagnoses so she can get accommodations? According to the ADA schools must provide accommodations for certain disabilities and I think some mental illness's would count.

 

[chickenboneneck]

Um,
as someone who is qualified to dx. PTSD
please. Just don't. This is an internet board.
But more than that, this is a WORK Thread. It's for work. If you want to discuss DSM criteria - go to a board that does that.
Or take it to pm.

Pls send me some of this "Work" of which you speak

 

[ChristopherASA]

Just on a ... historical note, there is a huge disparity between taking active part in armed conflict than there is anything else on earth.

 

[Jerami]

So, how 'bout those Mets?

 

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