[tryon1ja]

I also found out that some of the surveys the students take in school are funded by the state or federal government. The schools get money to have the children complete the survey and provide the information. After Columbine shootings, our students had to fill out a couple of surveys that had to do with their behavior patterns and their access to firearms along with several other itemized information. We found this out when the child told us about the survey and we questioned the school. They said the federal government was using the surveys to profile the students to see which ones needed watching for possible traits that would be dangerous and may result in similar shootings or behaviors. Every student was rated by the survey they filled out. I am not sure if the subject was a separate survey or not but suicide was another subject they surveyed.

[Alia]

Two of mine went through this stuff, even before, Columbine. Surveys about drug-use, child-abuse, domestic violence, guns -- in the home. I learned in advance, thanks to Phyllis Schafly about these types of "surveys in the classroom". So, I sat my older children down and explained the rules this way:

You are in school to learn academic subjects. Reading, History, Writing, Math, English. If for any reason you are asked ANYTHING about your personal life, simply reply: N/A. And my children practiced writing "N/A". As a back-up, I taught my children that if they were asked to respond to ANYTHING INVOLVING THEIR HOME LIFE, THEIR PERSONAL LIVES, and the "N/A" was challenged, they were to simply tell the teacher or principle -- "to call my mom!" It worked.

I learned about all the different "surveys" and "talks" going on within pub ed between "facilitators" and "students". My two older students (then, second & 4th grade), wrote "N/A" on those surveys. Nothing ever came of it. They handed those empy forms back to the teacher. However, I learned years later that there was a paper with the note: "Do not Let Mrs Alia into the Classroom!" was in each of my children's files. Many years after that, in reviewing my children's files, that note had disappeared.

Enough was enough. I haven't even gone into the horror I found calling itself Pub Ed and how it was inflicting upon my children -- I homeschooled them, thereafter. I'd had it. They weren't getting an education -- there was no math or science. Spelling was "not being corrected". Inventive spelling was the practice, there was cooperative learning, and race-based math. I just happened to have my older children entering pub ed -- when it was at its worst.

But just as we tell our children not to talk to strangers, go with strangers.. I taught my children that they are being taught by strangers: And that they were not to do or comply with anything they felt personally uncomfortable with. And for them to request the teachers/principal call me.

I was trying to teach my children *real life* principles. And I did.