PUPILS IN 'SPY' SURVEY (UK)

Daily Express ^ | June 10,2007 | Hilary Douglas

[Sopater]

School-children were terrified by the surveys

HORRIFIED parents and teachers last night slammed a Big Brother-style survey that asks children as young as 10 about their home lives and how much their parents drink.

Teaching unions branded the idea “lunacy”, arguing that primary age ­children were too young to give ­reliable answers to the list of questions, drawn up by the education watchdog Ofsted.

Olive Forsyth, of the National Union of Teachers, said: “Children as young as this are not capable of answering a ­survey that requires an emotional response. The answers they get will be ­inaccurate at best, and downright dangerous at times.

“You could easily come across a situation where a child has had a telling off for doing something that morning, then translates this to being beaten up day and night when coming to answer the questionnaire.

“Not only do they not have the emotional maturity to evaluate what happy means, there is also the element of bravado to take into consideration where children give answers for effect and respect among their peers.”

[gondramB]

>>HORRIFIED parents and teachers last night slammed a Big Brother-style survey that asks children as young as 10 about their home lives and how much their parents drink.

Teaching unions branded the idea “lunacy”<<

Its nice to see teacher’s unions on the right side. For once.

To bad it doesn’t happen more in the U.S.

[edcoil]

At least the Germans had the common courtesy to have them wear brown shirts

[BenLurkin]

Bump

[Titan Magroyne]

I read the 2 versions of the survey provided in one of the comments at the link - wow. Crazy, intrusive questions. Had I been handed a paper like that at the age of 10, I think my head would have ‘sploded. Even that young, I would have felt a “wrongness” about it.