More Garbage from Public Schools... (illegal, Massachusetts, education, states)

[maja]

One family is fighting back:

"A legal team that provides representation in cases when civil rights are being threatened is demanding answers from a Massachusetts school district where officials allegedly required children to answer questions from outside survey organizations regarding condoms, their experiences with "oral sex" and whether they ever have sniffed glue."

"The organization said the girls were required to complete the Youth Risk Behavior Survey at school, a survey which asks questions such as:"

"Have you ever tried to kill yourself?"

"With how many people have you had sexual intercourse?"

"The 7th-grade daughter was "attempting to be excused from the test and bringing the 'voluntary' nature of it to the attention of the administrators," but "was told to sit down and take the survey," the letter said."

Read more: Secret sex survey challenged as illegal Secret sex survey challenged as illegal

[Air Force]

Is there an update to this month and a half old article?

[ergohead]

Recite the parable of the wiener and the doughnut, and tell the class how police officers are born.

When is a child old enough to understand a parable?

[maja]

Originally Posted by Air Force

Is there an update to this month and a half old article?

The Rutherford Institute: Rutherford Institute Files Complaint With Dept. of Educ. Against Mass. School Over Student Sex Surveys Administered Without Parental Consent (http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/press_release.asp?article_id=920 - broken link)


Dated: 6/9/2011

Rutherford Institute Files Complaint With Dept. of Educ. Against Mass. School Over Student Sex Surveys Administered Without Parental Consent

"FITCHBURG, Mass.—With the assistance of The Rutherford Institute, the mother of two students in the public schools has filed a complaint with the United States Department of Education over a Massachusetts school district's practice of requiring students to complete surveys asking overtly intimate and sexually suggestive questions without their parents' knowledge or written consent. The complaint alleges that Memorial Middle School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, has acted in violation of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) by using a "passive" parental consent procedure rather than obtaining actual written consent as required by the federal law and asks that the practice be stopped altogether. In an effort to ensure that written parental consent is obtained before students are even asked to participate in voluntary surveys on sensitive topics, The Rutherford Institute has also submitted policy language to the Fitchburg City School Committee for its consideration."