Want to See What Your Child Said if They Took the MIddle School Mental Health Screener?

Here’s how to request your student’s records.

You can obtain student records in several ways:

• Directly through the school by contacting the school’s administration; 
• Through Special Education Records via email at spedrecords@seattleschools.org where a student is a Special Education student; 
• Through the General Counsel’s Office by contacting employee Ayrian Hastings via email at alhastings@seattleschools.org; or 
• Online at the District’s Student Archives site for students that have been out of the District for more than two years.

The easiest/quickest way would be to go through your principal. They are required to acknowledge your request within five days. That’s acknowledge, NOT fulfill. They usually give you a date; it could be a month or months. 

 

Use narrow language - “I would like to see the results from my child taking any survey/assessment/testing around student mental health through the use of SBIRT and/or the Check Yourself mental health screener from X date to X date.” 

If your principal hems and haws, then go the General Counsel route.

I want to note - you do NOT have to give any reason for wanting to see these items. Don’t let your principal try to make you tell him/her. "I'm just interested" is a fine answer.

 

I also recommend sending an email to the Board - spsdirectors@seattleschools.org - and expressing your concerns. Tell them that it doesn't matter what staff is saying; there is proof out there that student records on the Check Yourself middle school mental health screener are being accessed. 

Let me know how it goes.