Fire those who started that survey. If I were a kid I would trash that survey right in front of them.
It is NONE of the schools damn business, one way or another. Rationalize it all they want, its NOT THEIR BUSINESS! End of story.
The bet thing to do in this circumstance, as my colleague recommends, is to NAME them. Name this teacher!
It is AGAINST the law for the Federal Government to create and maintain a “gun registry”. This action in effect is a quasi-governmental end run around that. Further, the type and extent of questions it asks is far more injurious to the individual’s freedoms because it adds other descriptive character that could be used as a tool to deny the right to own and keep guns.
As a prime example, using a student’s answers about his/her feelings about the guns as a means to claim there is a potential child abuse/violence or other harmful situation for the child.
To me, it is a prison level offense, frankly. I want NAMES.
Maybe 15 years ago, in middle school, my kids were given a rather extensive sex 'n' drugs survey, which they were smart enough to treat as a joke. One of the questions asked about sexual experiences, to which one of their friends wrote in, "Do animals count?"
Surveys like this have the side effect of diminishing respect for authority among the more aware youth.
If someone asked me to answer something like this when I was in high school my daddy would have shown up with a shotgun at the principal’s office.