[Billthedrill]

There's something touchingly earnest about asking high school seniors confidental questions about their sexual habits and hoping for honest answers. "Heck yeah, I've done it with the entire Junior class, male and female, and most of their livestock and household pets as well." Me, I'd insist on anonymity if I were to offer them answers to such sensitive questions...you bet your sweet life I would...

[ladylib]

Now it's not legal anymore for a school to give a survey to students if the parents haven't signed off on it in NJ.

In Ridgewood, they gave a survey like the one in Fairfax County to junior high school students as well as grades 9-12.

Timid little twelve-year-olds were saying that they were raging sex maniacs, drug addicts, and drunks. Of course, they took the whole thing as a joke, as they should.

But don't you wonder if their answers go into some sort of database somewhere?

[Chemist_Geek]

There's something touchingly earnest about asking high school seniors confidental questions about their sexual habits and hoping for honest answers.

Yeah, that particular group wouldn't ever exaggerate or be any less that completely forthright in their answers, even if the survey is anonymous...

More seriously, I don't understand the reaction of some posters here. It seems to me that in order to fix a problem, to wit, sexual activity amongst the "yutes", one does have to know something about the extent of said problem.

Those who oppose the idea of a survey, are acting like ostriches - sticking their heads in the sand and hoping it'll go away. Now, there is certainly room for debate about how to go about finding out about the problem...

[mathurine]

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.