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If students are individually permitted to drop out of the survey, it has no validity as a survey. You either include everyone or you randomly sample a statistically adequate number. All other issues aside, it would appear that the authorities in Fairfax have commissioned a meaningless survey.

That's why these people want "passive consent." They know if enough parents opt their kids out, the survey means nothing. However, in NJ, parents actually have to give their permission -- no "passive consent." No signing on the dotted line, no survey.

Why should it be the school's business who is boinking who and how, or who is taking drugs? It should be out of their purview -- none of their business. They claim they want to know so they can develop curricula.

If schools really taught students how to read, write, reason, and do math, half these problems would go away.

I don't trust any school administrator who says "We want to teach the whole child" because he is more interested in indoctrination rather than imparting academic knowlege.