Reply to "Has your city or county government specifically addressed the need for schools in the community to become trauma-informed?"

Brenda YuenMember

Elizabeth,

As you may know, the Montgomery County Public School system (serving over 150,000 children and one of the largest systems in the US) does NOT recognize the need for trauma-informed schools! Despite the widening achievement gap, despite the increase in FARMS students, despite the increase for ELL students, despite the increase in children from a wide variety of ethnicities and cultures, there is no awareness of what children here really need: take the focus off of gifted and talented, and preparing kinders to be college-ready and focus on the emotional needs of every student in such a way that creates a nurturing environment. Nope. We have a very highly educated population, but apparently not many emotionally intelligent leaders to make certain what children really need gets addressed.

Brenda Gregory Yuen

7/20/156:22 PM

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