What an education record is, and why the model never needs one
Lesson 1 of 6 · Student data and the line you cannot cross
1 · Learn the move · Context + audience
An education record is broader than a transcript. Under the federal law your district is funded through, it is any record directly related to a student and kept by the school or someone acting for it [P]: the gradebook, the IEP, the behavior log, the email thread with a family, the note you wrote to yourself about Student A's morning. The thing to notice is that none of it is what the model needs. The model needs the shape of the task: a seventh grader, two years below grade level in reading, three missing assignments in a row, a parent who has not answered two emails. It does not need the name, the student number, the date of birth or the family. Every lesson on this door starts from that: the task goes in, the student does not. No student goes in by name, and the decision about that student stays yours.
You are helping a seventh-grade ELA teacher at Larkspur Middle think through a task. The teacher will paste a description of the situation with every student taken out: role and grade band only, no name, no student number, no date of birth, no family name. Before you draft anything, list what you actually need to know to do the task well, and list what you do not need to know. If anything in the paste identifies a person, say so and stop. The task: [paste, no student in it by name].
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
A seventh-grade ELA teacher at Larkspur Middle wants help writing a plan for a student who has missed three assignments and whose reading level sits two years below the class. She opens a chatbot and starts typing the student's name. Then stops. The name is not a fact the plan depends on. Neither is the student number on the gradebook export, nor the two emails from the family. She pastes the shape: seventh grade, two years below in reading, three consecutive missing assignments, two unanswered emails home, an ELA class of 31.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
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