Student Sex Survey Rattles Officials
Fairfax Supervisors to Discuss Rephrasing on Wide-Ranging Form
By David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 20, 2003; Page B05How old were you when you first had sex? Did you drink alcohol beforehand? Have you ever had oral sex?
Those are some of the proposed questions on a survey to be given to thousands of Fairfax County students this spring, along with more than 100 other questions on drug use, suicide, weight loss and family relationships.
But some members of the county Board of Supervisors, which is paying for the survey, want to drop the section on sex, saying it could give teenagers ideas. Others want to rephrase those questions so they don't suggest that such behavior is all right. Continue