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It’s typical in our schools—and I see this at the many middle and high school campuses I visit, as well as in the schools where I taught— for adults consider a student who is earning high marks a good child and a student with failing grades a not-so-good child. What a myopic lens we’ve produced in our schools, one that dismisses the vastness of all that is a child. And as we are strive to evolve into trauma-informed schools and educators, we need to realize that the current model only allows a child to be labeled “a successful student” by how well she performs as a test taker and grade maker. This narrative can actually exacerbate any pre-existing trauma and even produce trauma in a child who previously had none.
