State of Maine Forcing All Grade School Kids to Answer Horrific Survey
(2 Meg PDF format - if need be, right click on the link and 'save to disk' or 'save target as')
that identifies Grades 7 and 8 individuals by requiring their Zip Code
a Survey that they are Hiding from the Parents and the Public under a Copyright Law.
Smoking aside, which is categorized in with alcohol, marijuana, heroin, crack, lsd, sex, guns, knives, violence, and crime,this Survey will mentally and emotionally Traumatize regular kids in to Psychiatric 'Care'.
And the Partners For a Tobacco Free Maine is using the surveys for God knows what all...........Invasion of Privacy!
Horrific Maine School Survey
Those surveys aren't confidential even though the school might claim they are. A bunch of kids in a Boston high school took a "confidential" survey which asked questions about race, made derrogratory remarks about certain ethnic groups, and were suspended from school.
I bet no one will ever take a "confidential" survey in that school again.
New Jersey put a stop to surveys which didn't have written permission from parents. Schools like the idea of what they call "passive consent" meaning that they don't ask parents for permission but will honor an opt out if a parent doesn't want her kid taking the survey.
The survey in Ridgewood, NJ, was given to junior high kids and up. It was very intrusive -- delving in sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Most of the kids treated it as a huge joke -- usually quiet, thoughtful 13-year-olds divulging that they were rabid sex maniacs and drug users.
The school said they wanted answers from the kids so they could develop a health curriculum. Some kids were even lied to, told they had to take the survey, and it would reflect on their grades.