Posted on 09/14/2017 12:25:00 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
'It's just bizarre. I told my daughter not to turn it in'
Roy High School teacher Candace Thurgood says she has been giving the same “Know Thyself” quiz to students in her “Adult Roles and Financial Literacy” class for years without complaint, but the questionnaire first published in a 1981 Dear Abby column is not playing so well this year.
Thurgood was removed from the classroom and placed on leave from Utah’s Weber School District after parents learned of the class exercise where respondents are asked about their sexual histories and drug and alcohol abuse. The 30 questions are scored to give students points, which are added up on a scale, ranging from “A nerd – just where you should be at your age,” to “Pure as Ivory soap and maybe a fruitcake,” “Passionate but sensible,” “Normal and decent,” “Indecent,” “Headed for serious trouble,” “Already there,” and “Hopeless and condemned.”
“I was in shock. I couldn’t believe something like this was handed out to students,” parent Heather Miller, who called the survey invasive, judgmental and homophobic, told the Salt Lake Tribune.
These were some of the “shock” questions: •Ever gone out with a member of the opposite sex? •Ever been kissed against your will? •Do you smoke pot? •Have you (your girl) ever had an abortion? •Even though you are straight would you go kinky to see what it’s like? •Ever stolen money to buy drugs?
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Here is your copy of the questionnaire:
I can see the outrage from the parents.
I do not understand the point of the teacher doing this. I was a total wallflower in HS. HOWEVER, given a test like this I would have answered yes to every single shocking thing. Just because. Kids are like that.
“Miller’s daughter, Olivia, 16, told her mother responding to the quiz was required to get a grade..”
I remember two of my kids (twins) got just such a drugs/sex quiz in middle school. They treated it as a big joke. The best laugh, however, was from a friend of theirs.
When asked about sexual experience, he wrote in, “Do animals count?”
“When asked about sexual experience, he wrote in, “Do animals count?””
Funny...
If you read the questions it was a nothing burger. The people are upset because it isn’t friendly enough to LGBT folks and is judgmental
It’s an anonymous quiz.
Read the article. This was a Dear Abby quiz from the 80s. It is really very tame. Even if the poor babies didn’t want to turn it in maybe they could learn something about how to behave
Well others said it was anonymous and was not required
This was a question on the survey that makes it clear it originated in 1981. I can understand why parents were a little upset. What a waste of class time.
I am more interested in the whacko teacher than the “judgmental” test.
She has been giving that test out for SEVEN years, with no complaints, she said.
Worse, is that kids at that level of Juniors in High School are willing to have their privacy invaded.
A study in what these students were NOT taught.
Bottom line is one GODless teacher bringing along GODless students, in GODlessness. Period.
Tame?
Would you have sex with the opposite sex?
Have you done angel dust?
Tame?
The F you talking about willis?
I never even considered those things in High School. I don’t think they are tame. I don’t think they have anything to do with an education, and there’s no reason for teens to be asked these questions. None.
Tame?
Would you have sex with the opposite sex?
Have you done angel dust?
Tame?
The F you talking about willis?
I never even considered those things in High School. I don’t think they are tame. I don’t think they have anything to do with an education, and there’s no reason for teens to be asked these questions. None.
You do realize that the answers to these questions will only be the jumping off point for the teacher to address her personal views on life’s great questions, don’t you?
What academic value is there in gleaning this information. None of this could be grounds for earning a grade. It’s an invasion of privacy.
Try going up to a man in a bar and if he’s every participated in homosexual sex? When he punches your lights out, you’ll know that these questions to the kids should never have been asked.
These are private matters, and the teacher has no business asking them of her captive ‘minor’ audience.
exactly- school is supposed to be about things like history- science- math- not who you are sleeping with- what drugs you’ve tried or not- etc etc etc-
There is NOTHING tame about the agenda to sexualize and brainwash our youth with issues that have NO business being taught in schools!
I did read the article. Anyone thinking kids would be ‘serious’ about these sorts of quizes needs their head examined.
Did the stooges running public government schools ever figured out which restrooms the kiddies should be using?
Right. But it isn’t judgemental enough for liberals. They would prefer:
-Do you feel uncomfortable with a member of the opposite sex in a bathroom?
-Do you assume a person is a boy or a girl based on their looks?
-If a boy kisses you without your permission is it wrong to report it to authorities?
Guess what answer the teachers want to hear from those questions?
Ya think these are legitimate questions to put to the kiddies when the public government schools are graduating pampered failures who don’t even know basic math?
How about if I ask you:
“Even though you’re married, have you ever thought about banging the neighbor’s wife or husband?”
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